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Niena (ニーナ) is a shopkeeper at the village of Xandria in Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand. She is worried about her adoptive father Stein, an adventurer who was looking for the ancient city of Kefin before he went missing three years ago...
History[]
Niena was found in the desert five years ago by Stein. She didn't have any memories of who she was previously or how she was lost in the desert. Stein took her in as his adopted daughter and she has been following him ever since.
It turns out that she was an alchemist from Kefin. After her parents were sacrificed in the ritual to maintain the power of the Philosopher's Stone, she was taken in by Orwell, the leader of the resistance, who taught alchemy to her. When the seal on Kefin got weakened, she went to the outside world to fix the seal. Unfortunately, the impact upon arriving the outside world caused her to lose her memories.
In Games[]
Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand[]
Adol first encounters Niena when he rescues her at the Foresta cave. She explains to Adol that she wanted to find any clue regarding her adoptive father Stein's whereabouts as he found the light crystal at the cave three years ago. She then goes back to her shop and supports Adol as he travels across Xandria to find other crystals.
Later on, she is kidnapped by Dorman and Rizze who demand Adol to hand over the crystals in exchange for her safety. Adol complies and Rizze proceeds to use the crystals to break the seal on the ancient city. Rizze then teleports to Kefin with Niena in tow. In order to rescue Niena and prevent Kefin from harming rest of the world, Adol travels to Kefin.
Upon the arrival at Kefin, Adol joins the resistance against Kefin's oppressive regime and finds that Niena is originally an alchemist from Kefin. After hearing that Niena is held captive at the southern tower of Kefin, Adol goes there. At the top of the tower, Adol finds Kefin's commander Baruq who is keeping her hostage. The Ibur gang manages to rescue her while Baruq is busy taunting Adol and Adol defeats Baruq in the ensuing battle.
Unfortunately, the Ibur gang, along with Niena, are caught by Kefin's soldiers and get locked up in prison. Niena regains her memories at this point. They are about to be sacrificed by Rizze in the ritual to maintain the power of the Philosopher's Stone but Adol comes to their rescue. After saving them, Adol defeats Jabir, the alchemist who was controlling Kefin from shadows, and destroys the Philosopher's Stone. The destruction of the Philosopher's Stone causes Kefin to disappear and Adol and his allies, along with the citizens of Kefin, manage to escape from Kefin successfully.
As Adol prepares to leave Xandria in search of a new adventure, he runs into Niena one last time. Although Niena wants him to stay in Xandria, she knows that there are many people out there who need Adol's help, just as she once did. She bids him farewell after telling him that she will look forward to the day when he visits Xandria again.
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Trivia[]
- In the original concept, Niena was a seven year old girl and thus looked much younger than she is in the main game as seen in the image above. She was also the daughter of Stein like in the game, though it is not specified if she was adopted or not. She was also able to telepathically communicate with a water god that watched over her; in the SNES version, this aspect of her character was given to a girl named Faye that lives in the Marshland Inn, but instead of the water god she communicates with Neida. Also, in the original concept, Niena gave Adol her ocarina, which is a memento from her father's childhood. Adol would later play a tune for Stein, who was in a prison cell inside Kefin, to snap him out of his daze. In the end, she, Stein and Massea would return to Stein's homeland to begin a new life.
- In the PS2 version of Ys V, Niena is a clone of the Eldeen Aisha created by Jabir as the replacement core for Kefin's Philosopher's Stone. Her ultimate fate differs depending on the ending. In the normal ending where Adol did not obtain the white emelas, Niena sacrifices herself to save her friends from Kefin's collapse. In the true ending, she and Adol are both saved by Aisha and in the epilogue she is seen living with her adoptive father, Stein, and Massea, her new mother.