Frieren

Frieren ｢フリーレン, Furīren^?｣ is the main protagonist of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. She was the Mage of the Hero Party and traveled alongside Himmel the Hero, Eisen the Warrior, and Heiter the Priest in a ten-year journey to defeat the Demon King.

After Himmel's death, Frieren began journeying with Fern and Stark to visit Aureole and speak with Himmel once again.

Personality[]

Frieren has an easy-going personality, however, her aloof attitude makes her a mystery to her peers, as humans and elves tend to see things differently.^[6] As an elf that has lived for at least a millennium, she has a poor sense of time that manifests in a bad habit of being unable to get up in the morning, along with a deeper inability to comprehend how time passes for humans. This is, in part, a reason for Frieren's aloof attitude, since she sees large lengths of time as too brief for her to form meaningful connections. For instance, she thought of a ten-year journey with her comrades as short and believed she knew nothing about Himmel the Hero, even up until his passing. However, following Himmel's funeral, she made the decision to get to know humans better.

Although she is generally stoic, carefree, and often lacks tact, Frieren also has things she is emotionally sensitive to. She was embarrassed when others discovered her mana detection is interrupted for a fraction of a second when a spell is cast, a common error for apprentice mages that she has yet to overcome. She is sensitive to people calling her old and holds a grudge against Stark for doing so multiple times. When she is upset, she is capable of throwing a tantrum that can result in her crying for upwards of three days, scaring the other members of the Hero Party. It also implied that she is somewhat insecure about her body, as she occasionally shows hints of jealousy over Fern's figure.

Appearance[]

Frieren is a petite, female elf with green eyes, thick eyebrows, and long, white hair parted in the middle and tied into two high pigtails. Like all elves, she has large, pointed ears. She wears a striped black and white shirt, along with a white jacket tucked into a skirt with a black belt. The sleeves of her jacket end with large, gold cuffs. Both her jacket and skirt have gold trims along the edges. Over her jacket, she wears a short cape that matches the white and gold theme of her jacket and skirt, and the cape includes decorative, gold accents with red jewels on each shoulder and a high collar that is fastened with a red jewel. She also wears black tights, brown boots, and a pair of gold earrings with red, teardrop-shaped jewels hanging from each earring.

During her travels, Frieren carries a brown briefcase holding various magic items and personal belongings. When casting spells as a mage, she utilizes a red staff with a gold, crescent-shaped tip that holds a red jewel in its center. Her staff has gold accents and a red ribbon tied at the tip.

In the colder seasons, Frieren wears a high-collared and long-sleeved white dress with gold accents and buttons down the chest instead of her usual jacket, skirt, and cape. Additionally, she layers a beige coat with a flap collar and buttons over her dress and dons a blue scarf tied on the side.

When she was training under Flamme a thousand years prior, Frieren let her hair down to her waist and wore simple, white dresses and brown sandals. During Frieren's solitary lifestyle after Flamme's death, she tied her hair into her typical pigtails and wore a white dress with a black belt and beige cape.

Gallery[]

Abilities[]

• Immense mana output: Frieren's unrestrained mana output is incredibly high. She is shown to have considerably more mana than even Aura, a five-hundred year-old demon and one of the Seven Sages of Destruction. Frieren's overall mana output is noted to be comparable to Serie's restrained output.^[7]
• Mana concealment: Trained by her mentor, Flamme, Frieren has mastered the art of concealing her mana, and she uses it as a deception strategy against demons. Her skill in concealment is exceptional, and she has practiced limiting her mana for so long that even experienced mages, such as Aura^[8] and Falsch^[9], cannot detect instability in her mana. Only a few mages have seen through her restriction, the most notable being the Demon King, who saw through her in an instant. She can even suppress her mana enough to avoid detection by a Stille, but only while staying still.^{[10] [11]}
• Restraint and Hypnosis Magic resistance: Frieren has been shown to be resistant to most conventional binding and hypnosis spells. Methode remarked that her mental defences were attributed to an "old technique" that could possibly be bypassed only by specialists.^[12]
• Analytical ability: Frieren is highly adept at analyzing magics and countering them. This applies even to magic used by the Seven Sages of Destruction which are said to defy all intelligence and reason. She has analyzed and countered the magic used by two of the Sages of Destruction: Aura the Guillotine and Macht of the Golden Land. Along with the Hero Party, she was also able to break through the impenetrable barrier of Böse the Immortal.

Spells[]

• Offensive magic: Zoltraak: A simple spell that shoots either a large blast or multiple smaller blasts of concentrated mana. Frieren contributed to the research of this magic, modifying it from Qual's Human Killing Magic to Demon Killing Magic. Due to the novelty of the spell, Frieren is unable to react to it immediately and instinctively and thus has a slightly delayed reaction when defending against it.^[13]
• Defensive magic: Like most modern mages, Frieren is capable of casting defensive magic in the form of a hexagonal protective barriers that can defend specific locations or encircle the caster. This defense spell is mainly used against offensive magic like Zoltraak.

• Dispelling magic: Frieren is capable of analyzing an opponent's spell and cancel out the effects of the spell. Her staff glows golden while casting the dispelling magic. It is first seen in use against Aura's undead army, where Frieren frees corpses from Aura's Auserlese.
• Spell to produce a field of flowers: Frieren was taught her mentor's favorite magic, magic to produce a beautiful field of flowers, which holds sentimental value to her. Frieren is able to choose what flowers grow as long as she has seen the flower before. As per Flamme's last wishes, she grows a field of flowers around her master's grave with the spell and avoids using the spell due to it bringing up memories of her.^[14]
• Spell that shuts the door of a treasure vault at the risk of your life: A binding spell that is considered top-rated in folk magic, which Frieren's Spiegel clone uses to seal the entrance of the Spiegel's main body and a treasure vault. The seal only breaks upon the caster's death.
• Destructive Lightning: Judradjim: Frieren casts multiple bolts of lightning from her staff directed towards the target. She is first shown using this during the battle against her Spiegel clone.^[15][16]
• Hellfire Summoning: Vollzanbel: Frieren creates a large blast of fire in front of herself, enveloping the battlefield.^[17][16] It can melt anything such as a falling column when Frieren and her clone used it at the same time.
• Spell that creates a black hole: A spell used by Frieren's clone that creates a black hole that attracts surrounding objects in, ultimately vaporizing them.^[18]
• Unnamed shattering spell: A colorful spell that appears to cause fragments around the caster to shatter.^[18]

• "The Height of Magic": An offensive attack that Frieren's clone uses as a last resort. Mana cannot be sensed when the attack is used, and targets of the attack are unable to recognize it as a spell.^[19] It seems to create strong gravity that repels the target.^[18] The attack is so strong that it pins Fern against a wall and destroys her staff, but it also leaves the caster's guard completely down.
• Unnamed protective spell: A protective spell that Frieren developed after completing her two-month analysis on Macht's Diagoldze, which was considered a curse. It nullifies it and makes it ineffective.
• Unnamed memory transference magic: An advanced mental magic spell that transfers memories from the user to a target, or from a target to the user. Frieren uses this spell to receive Denken's memories.
• Mana Strike: After being provoked by Solitär into believing that she killed Fern and Stark, a silent but angered Frieren was easily able to cast it against an attacking Solitär and blasts her away, though she is still not yet adept at using it compared to her.

Weaknesses[]

• Mana detection interruption: Frieren lacks certain magical basics, and her mana detection is interrupted the moment she casts a spell. This leaves her open to mages that are particularly good at mana concealment and can attack her while she is occupied with casting spells. However, this is often negligible due to her other talents and is not a vulnerability that can be easily exploitable by any mage.^[20]

Manga Appearance[]

Beyond Journey's End Arc
Chapter 1: The Journey's End	Debut
Chapter 2: The Priest's Lie	Appears
Chapter 3: Blue-Moon Weed	Appears
Chapter 4: The Mage's Secret	Appears
Chapter 5: Killing Magic	Appears
Chapter 6: New Year's Festival	Appears
Chapter 7: The Land Where Souls Rest	Appears
Chapter 8: One One-Hundredth	Appears
Chapter 9: Phantoms of the Dead	Appears
Chapter 10: Solar Dragon	Appears
Chapter 11: The Hero of the Village	Appears
Chapter 12: The Northern Checkpoint	Appears
Chapter 13: Liberation Festival	Appears

Aura the Guillotine Arc
Chapter 14: Monsters That Speak	Appears
Chapter 15: Draht	Appears
Chapter 16: The Murder of a Guard	Appears
Chapter 17: Frieren the Slayer	Appears
Chapter 18: The Undead Army	Appears
Chapter 19: Raid	Appears
Chapter 20: Master's Technique	Absent
Chapter 21: Coward	Appears
Chapter 22: The Scales of Obedience	Appears
Chapter 23: A Victory and a Funeral	Appears

Travels to Äußerst Arc
Chapter 24: The Elves' Wish	Appears
Chapter 25: The Village of the Sword	Appears
Chapter 26: A Gift to a Warrior	Appears
Chapter 27: A Priest from an Ordinary Village	Appears
Chapter 28: The Priest and His Regret	Appears
Chapter 29: Ideal Adult	Appears
Chapter 30: Mirrored Lotus	Appears
Chapter 31: Chaos Flower	Appears
Chapter 32: The Orden Family	Appears
Chapter 33: Old Man Voll	Appears
Chapter 34: The Statues of Heroes	Appears
Chapter 35: A Reason to Begin the Journey	Appears
Chapter 36: Emotional Support	Appears

First-Class Mage Exam Arc
Chapter 37: The First-Class Exam	Appears
Chapter 38: Stille—Meteoric Iron Bird	Appears
Chapter 39: Commence Capture Strategy	Appears
Chapter 40: A Spell to Capture a Bird	Appears
Chapter 41: Time for Resolve	Appears
Chapter 42: A Reason to Fight	Appears
Chapter 43: Privilege	Appears
Chapter 44: Recapture the Stille	Appears
Chapter 45: Water-Manipulation Magic	Appears
Chapter 46: An Even-Better Flavor	Appears
Chapter 47: Fern and Her Baked Sweets	Appears
Chapter 48: The Ruin's of the King's Tomb	Appears
Chapter 49: Dungeons and Magical Items	Appears Clone
Chapter 50: Spiegel—A Water-Mirror Demon	Appears Clone
Chapter 51: Dungeon Battle	Appears Clone
Chapter 52: Strategy Meeting	Appears Clone
Chapter 53: An Era of Humans	Appears Clone
Chapter 54: A Spell that Slashes Almost Anything	Appears Clone
Chapter 55: The Second Exam Ends	Appears Clone
Chapter 56: Fern's Staff	Appears
Chapter 57: The Third Exam	Appears
Chapter 58: Serie's Intuition	Flashback
Chapter 59: With a Little Help	Appears
Chapter 60: Departure and Farewell	Appears

Continued Northern Travels Arc
Chapter 61: Magic-Nullifying Crystal	Appears
Chapter 62: Why I Set Out on This Journey	Appears
Chapter 63: The Hero of the South	Appears
Chapter 64: The Demon with a Sword	Appears
Chapter 65: The Secret Hot Spring of the Etwas Mountains	Appears
Chapter 66: The Places She Would Like	Appears
Chapter 67: Peaceful Time	Appears
Chapter 68: Northern Plateau	Appears
Chapter 69: Boshaft-The Emperor's Spirit	Appears
Chapter 70: The Norm Company	Appears

Divine Revolte Arc
Chapter 71: Subjugation Request	Appears
Chapter 72: The General	Appears
Chapter 73: Encounter Battle	Appears
Chapter 74: Divine Revolte	Absent
Chapter 75: Erilfrachte-The Spell to Dispel Fog	Appears
Chapter 76: Settling	Appears

The Golden Land Arc
Chapter 77: A Thunder of Dragons	Appears
Chapter 78: Lake Korridor	Appears
Chapter 79: The Great Tor Canyon	Appears
Chapter 80: Holy Snow Crystals	Appears
Chapter 81: The Golden Land	Appears
Chapter 82: Diagoldze—The Spell to Transmute All Creation into Gold	Appears
Chapter 83: The Stone Bracelet of Servitude	Appears
Chapter 84: Daredevil	Absent
Chapter 85: Malice	Appears
Chapter 86: Discussions	Appears
Chapter 87: Affection	Appears
Chapter 88: Solitär	Absent
Chapter 89: Guilt	Absent
Chapter 90: Glück	Absent
Chapter 91: Onstage	Absent
Chapter 92: The End of Weise	Absent
Chapter 93: The Great Barrier	Appears
Chapter 94: Analysis	Appears
Chapter 95: Nameless Great Demon	Appears
Chapter 96: Master and Apprentice	Appears
Chapter 97: Observation	Appears
Chapter 98: Retribution	Appears
Chapter 99: Offense and Defense	Appears
Chapter 100: The Fundamentals of Mages	Appears
Chapter 101: Breakthrough	Appears
Chapter 102: A Tie	Appears
Chapter 103: Time for Retribution	Absent
Chapter 104: A Visit to Her Grave	Appears

Goddess's Monument Arc
Chapter 105: Golem	Appears
Chapter 106: Sky-Mountain Dragon	Appears
Chapter 107: The Monument of the Goddess	Appears
Chapter 108: Reunion	Appears
Chapter 109: Zart the Remnant	Appears
Chapter 110: The Party of Heroes	Appears
Chapter 111: Escort Mission	Appears
Chapter 112: Faith	Appears
Chapter 113: Abyssal Dragon	Appears
Chapter 114: The Sword of the Hero	Appears
Chapter 115: Best Friend	Appears
Chapter 116: Spell to Return	Appears
Chapter 117: Miraculous Illusion	Appears
Chapter 118: Vialathor	Appears
Chapter 119: Memories	Appears

Imperial Territory Travels Arc
Chapter 120: False Image of a Hero	Appears
Chapter 121: Monsters on the Road	Appears
Chapter 122: The Titan Fortress Ruins	Appears
Chapter 123: Proof of Perseverance	Appears
Chapter 124: Shadow Warrior	Appears
Chapter 125: Family	Appears

Foundation Festival Arc
Chapter 126: A New Mission	Appears
Chapter 127: Retrieval Mission	Appears
Chapter 128: Magic Special Forces	Absent
Chapter 129: Shadow of the Empire	Appears
Chapter 130: Beneath the Water's Surface	Appears

Trivia[]

• Frieren means "being cold" or "to be freezing" in German.
• Frieren states that her favorite winter flower is the icicle cherry blossom.^[21]
• Frieren hates onions.^[22]
• Throughout her lifetime, Frieren has lost eleven times to mages who have less mana than her. Four of those were demons, with Qual and Macht among them; one was an elf, and the remaining six were humans.
• Frieren ranked the following in the official popularity polls:
  • 2nd in the first popularity contest with 11820565 points.
  • 5th in the second popularity contest with 816279 votes, where multiple votes per character were counted.
    • In this same contest, Frieren ranked 1st when counting only unique votes (one vote per character per person).

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