Queen of Faeries
| Queen of Faeries | |
| Dragon Quest III Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake | |
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| Japanese name | エルフの女王 |
| Romaji | Erufu no joō |
| Race | Faerie |
| Voice actor | Naoko Nokubi |
The Queen of Faeries is a minor NPC in Dragon Quest III, and a central figure in the dreamstone sidequest. True to her name, she is the ruler of Faeriekind.
Appearance and personality[edit]
The Queen is a young woman with the green hair and pointed ears of her kind. Her vestment differs slightly between her artwork and her in-game sprites, but she is always depicted as wearing a red dress with a golden tiara and matching necklace.
As with nearly all of the fair folk she is intensely prejudiced towards humans and refuses to suffer any in her presence for longer than necessary; her disdain is so strong that she finds punishing an entire village for the actions of a single man to be perfectly reasonable. The Queen is also judgmental towards her own kind, remaining furious with her daughter for breaking a racial taboo years after the fact and calling her stupid when speaking to the Hero. Despite the intensity of her actions the Queen speaks in a rather child-like manner more fitting for a little girl than a monarch, another trait shared with her subjects.
Appearances[edit]
Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation[edit]
The Queen rules over her people in the Super Secret Faerie Village, seated on a raised throne surrounded by tree stumps. The Queen is under the false assumption that a human man had kidnapped her daughter, Aniseed, and hidden the faerie's treasured dreamstone in the Underground Lake near their forest.
Infuriated by these affronts, the Queen placed an eternal slumber curse upon the village of Norvik as revenge. The man's father was outside the village when this took place, and has spent years pleading with the bitter woman to reconsider as the people of the village had nothing to do with the young couple's elopement.
When the Hero descends to the nadir of the Underground Lake and opens the treasure chest housing the dreamstone, they also found a letter written by Aniseed. The letter is a suicide note, explaining that Aniseed is deeply in love with the man from Norvik and that they decided if the laws of their races will prevent them from being together in this world, then they will be inseparable in the next. The lovers drowned themselves in the eponymous lake, and the Hero relates the truth to the Queen.
The Queen refuses to listen until the letter is presented to her, and she recognizes her daughter's handwriting. She is mortified that her own hatred of humanity would drive her little girl to such extremes, and hands the party the wakey dust necessary to undue her curse on Norvik. Much later in the game, after the death of Baramos, the Queen will have changed her ways and is thankful to the Hero for showing her the truth of the matter. She then politely asks that the group leaves her village, lest another tragedy take place again.
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake[edit]
The Queen has been moved to a throne room inside of a giant tree and is now voiced, but her dialogue has not changed from the previous version of the game.
Gallery[edit]
HD sprites
