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{{quote|style=1|quote='''''A young man who has abandoned his lucrative life of crime to team up with the Luminary. He managed to sneak into Heliodor Castle and steal the Red Orb, but was eventually apprehended and thrown into the dungeons. After helping our Hero escape from his cell, he joined him on his travels...for not entirely selfless reasons.'''''|source=''XI'' loading screen|align=center|bgcolor=4da6ff}}

{{Character

|Name=Erik

|Image={{VersionTabs|DQ XI|[[Image:DQXI Camus art.png{{!}}200px]]|DQ Treasures|[[Image:DQTR Erik Art.png{{!}}200px]]|}}

|Sprite=[[File:Erik sprite walk.gif]]

|Race=Human

|Age=19

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Erik is a young man with blue eyes and slicked back, spiky cyan hair that has a single forelock. His 'blue, spiky hair' is his favorite trait about himself and he has a tendency to run his hands through his hair when he's excited. <ref>[[Dragon Quest XI Character Book]]</ref> He has a single gold hoop earring on each ear and wears purple beads around his neck. His clothes are relatively simple, wearing a hooded dark green tunic with lacing that exposes his chest, a red sash tied around his waist, dark blue trousers, fingerless gloves, and leather shoes worn with orange socks that are held up with string. He carries a scabbard with a knife on his sash, which is his prized possession.

==Appearances==

Before making their way to Cobblestone (the Hero's home village), Erik drags him on a detour to [[Downtown Heliodor]] to find the Red Orb Derk had stashed in the great garbage dump there. He is infuriated when he sees that the treasure is gone, and interrogates the innkeeper [[Ruby]] about where Derk is. She says that Derk hadn't been seen in the slums since he opened "that fancy shop" in the wealthy district, and that is enough fuel to the fire for Erik to storm over there and give Derk a piece of his mind. When Erik and the Hero reach his shop, Erik attempts to beat Derk up, knowing that Derk took the Orb back to the castle to collect the bounty and fund the shop, but Derk reasons that he only sold it to help Erik. Erik, exasperated now, gives him a chance to explain, and Derk explains that a portion of the proceeds from the shop went to bribing the prison guards into not checking up on Erik while he was in the cell. Erik notes that it was indeed strange that nobody had checked up on him in the previous few days digging his hole, and he forgives Derk. Derk tells them that the King had hidden the Orb in [[The Kingsbarrow]] and the Hero and Erik set out to retrieve it again. Note that Derk's bribery may also be the reason why Erik is not prioritised by the guards as a target of capture.

At the seaside port town [[Gondolia]], Erik and the Luminary are cornered by Jasper on the stage at the very northern part of the town. They are overwhelmed by soldiers, but are saved by Veronica and Sylvando interrupting their capture. Veronica casts multiple spells of the [[Frizz]] line everywhere, causing chaos, and Jasper turns his attention away from Erik and the Hero to order his men to fan out. Serena motions for them to escape through the western exit of the stage, dragging the Hero's hand along while Erik makes sure they aren't being followed. Jasper senses their escape and fires a ball of darkness at the Luminary, which Erik notices and jumps in front of. The magic cripples him and he falls to the ground. Erik swats away the Hero's hand when it is offered, telling him to leave with the newly-bought time. The soldiers catch up to Erik as Serena tugs the Hero along, dragging him away as Erik is taken by the guards. The party later finds Erik tied up on a pole on the stage and save him, defeating [[Jasper]], before escaping Gondolia by on the Salty Stallion (Sylvando's [[ship]]).

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| [[Pep|Pep boost]] ||colspan=3|Strength +20% (40%), Deftness +100% (150%)<br>Evasion +100% (150%)<br>Parenthesis includes bonus from pep-up power-up

Erik appears as an avatar character and is also featured in the art of several cards. With the release of the 9th card pack, Erik became a leader character and is the first representative of the Thief vocation.

Erik appears as an S-rank member of the [[Hero family]] as part of the limited ''Dragon Quest XI'' event on his own banner alongside [[Stump champ]]. He can participate in [[Krystalinda|Krystalinda's]] Battle Road as a party member.

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The children are pulled into the different world separately and are deposited far apart, with Mia and Porcus having to rescue Erik and Purrsula from a [[Heartless hunter]] at the top floor of the abandoned factory in [[The Paternoggin]]. Reunited, the pair of daggers the children possess react with an abandoned train at the zenith of the building and the two depart for [[Eggshell Island]]. From there, the quartet embark on a colossal treasure hunt spanning the entire island chain, competing with rival factions such as the villainous [[Thunderous Plunderers]] and the friendlier [[Sylphanian Expedition]]. Erik is partnered with Purrsula, who perches on his shoulder when at rest.

== Other Languages ==

In English, his name "Erik" likely comes from the Norse Viking explorer Erik the Red<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_the_Red Erik the Red]</ref>. This also may be referenced in his "Pirate King" outfit, which is red.

|de=Erik|de-meaning=Ditto.

|it=Erik|it-meaning=Ditto.

==Trivia==

*Erik relieves stress by exercising and working up a sweat.

**When he was still a slave for the Vikings, they forced him to do all the cooking for them, which is why he is so good at cooking at campfires but not so much in an actual kitchen.

*His personal motto is "tomorrow is another day".

*The thing he wants most at the moment is a treasure map left behind by a legendary pirate.

*Erik's height is 165 cm or 5' 5" and he weighs 55 kilograms (121 lbs). He is insecure of his height and chugs milk in an attempt to grow taller, seen in his [[shypox]] lines.

*Erik has the most amount of total costumes available among the male party members, due to the option of having his hair exposed or covered.

**Counting variants of a costume as the same one, Erik has the least out of any party member.

*Erik is the only party member to initially join the party for not-entirely-selfless reasons.

*Despite Veronica insisting that Erik lost the mixed martial arts fight in Octagonia against [[Jade]] and [[Rab]] due to being distracted by Jade's allure, the real reason (outside of plot relevance) is likely because Erik's skillset is more suited towards heavy set-up for immensely impressive returns. However, in an MMA competition, Jade's fast-paced consistent damage output would have had the upper hand against him.

*When Erik is afflicted by [[Sultry Dance]] in battle, he performs a lively dance, which includes a moonwalk or backslide.

==Gallery==

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File:Erik alternate pose cgi.png

File:Erik expression chart.png|Expression chart

File:Erik battle expression 1.png|Battle expression 1

File:Erik battle expression 4.png|Battle expression 4

File:Camus.png|Erik drawn by Hiro Mashima

File:Erik corsair 2.png|"The corsair"

File:Erik the corsair costume.png

File:Treasures manga Erik debut panel.png|Erik's debut in the ''Treasures'' manga, shooting [[Robbin' 'Ood]] in the 'ead

File:Treasures manga Erik beats the heartless hunter.png|Erik defeats the [[Heartless hunter]] by pinching it's power core

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