Anessa

Anessa
Dragon Quest Builders 2

Japanese name	アネッサ
Romaji	Anessa
Vocation	Warrior
Race	Human

"No act better embodies His teachings than war. No sin is more cardinal than ending the fighting—whether in victory or defeat. It is our fate to fight forever and ever."

Anessa is a character from Dragon Quest Builders 2, being an inhabitant of the besieged kingdom of Moonbrooke. She is the general of the Moonbrooke Brigade of Guards, and the kingdom's greatest tactician. She and Warwick serve as knights and advisors to the King of Moonbrooke.

Appearance and Personality

Anessa has icy blue eyes and lavender hair, masked by a helmet resembling that of a Roman galea. She wears a red tunic with maroon pants, a black belt with a large yellow-gold buckle and matching orange gloves and boots. Her chest is protected by an iron cuirass, and her character art depicts her with an iron broadsword, although she initially appears with a copper sword.

She is a very stern young woman, befitting her position in the Moonbrooke military, but she harbors a vulnerable side she shows only to those who have earned her utmost trust. She suggests the Builder build a play room on the Isle of Awakening, but she is averse to the idea of secretly enjoying cute things and stuffed animals when she is confronted directly after her request. Villagers are also known to call her a "stubborn stick-in-the-mud" as per one of her lines, and she attempts to get rid of this title with various methods such as singing tunelessly, like Haydin the bard. Anessa is distrustful of Malroth during much of the campaign, but softens up to him after fighting side-by-side.

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Anessa seems to be quite close with Warwick, serving the King together and feeling distraught when Warwick is outed as a traitor and is slain by the Moonbrooke Brigade in battle. She also talks about him occasionally on the Isle of Awakening after his passing - she comments that, despite knowing that she should not dwell on the past, she thinks he would have loved what the Builder had made.

Appearances

Dragon Quest Builders 2

The Builder and Malroth first find Anessa crippled by poison after facing "a pestilential fiend in battle". After the Builder crafts an antidotal herb for her, she is cured of the poison and heals enough to stand up, but Warwick still suggests she stay back to recover while he leads a mission to reclaim Moonbrooke's throne room.

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At first, she appears to be very loyal to the Children of Hargon and doesn’t immediately become friendly with the Builder. She is skeptical about the utility of building, but allows it due to the Builder creating incredible fortifications for the castle. Unlike the believers of Khrumbul-Dun and Furrowfield, she states that she does not have any desire to stop the building from happening. She justifies building as necessary to continue the never-ending war of Moonbrooke, just as the Children of Hargon decrees it. However, this turns out to be a facade, as she reveals later on that she was only pretending to have faith in the Children of Hargon in order to protect herself from the traitor - in fact, she had always had believed in the power of building ever since she was a child.

After joining the Builder at the Isle of Awakening, she expresses regret for partially being responsible for fracturing their relationship with Malroth, and not putting in more effort to help them make up.

'Anessa' (アネッサ, Anessa^?)
	Residents' Register Information		Room Preferences
	Gender	Female	Size	♥♥♥♥
	Description	General	Fanciness	♥♥
	Home Island	Moonbrooke	Ambience	Cute
	Wields Weapons	Yes

Abilities

Anessa can fight enemies, make use of training rooms, equip weapons in an armoury and engage in strategy meetings in war rooms. Later, she is able to build blueprints.

Origins

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It is later revealed that the world that the Builder and Malroth are exploring is nothing but an illusion created by Hargon. Anessa is one of the illusions created to populate the illusory world.

Other Languages

Language	Translation	Meaning
Español	Belisa	Uncertain origins. Widely interpreted to mean "beautiful".
Français	Athéna	French for "Athena", the Greek goddess of warfare, wisdom, strategy, and crafts.
Deutsch	Anessa	Same as English name.
Italiano	Andrea	Manly, brave
中文	阿妮莎 (Ānīshā, 阿妮莎^?)	Chinese for "Anisa". Means "kindness" or "compassion".