Hero Party

The party brought together four very different figures drawn from the races of the world. Himmel, a human, led as the hero and swordsman; Frieren, an elf, served as its mage; Heiter, also human, filled the role of priest; and Eisen, a dwarf, stood as its warrior. Their strengths split cleanly along those classes. Frieren and Heiter struck from range with spells and the Goddess's magic, while Eisen and Himmel held the front line, the dwarf swinging a double-bladed axe as vanguard and the hero darting in with sword and blinding speed.

Frieren once summed the group up as a stand-offish elven mage, a hard-drinking priest, a faintly vain hero, and a timid dwarf. The two humans were the social glue, able to win people over with ease, while the elf and the dwarf came off awkward yet turned hotheaded in a fight, bulling straight toward any goal in sight. Their casual manners nearly cost Himmel and Eisen their heads when they spoke too freely before the King, who sent them off with a mere handful of copper coins. Over a decade together the four grew genuinely fond of one another, and that bond outlasted the adventure itself.

The band came together when Himmel and Heiter set out to honor a boyhood vow to topple the Demon King. They enlisted Eisen to spearhead the group, then went looking for Frieren, the fabled mage rumored to dwell in the central forests, before returning to the Royal Capital, where their blunt tongues almost got them executed. Sent off with ten copper coins, they spent the next decade braving one trial after another and lending a hand wherever they passed. Along the way they sealed the corruption sage Qual away inside the Größe Forest, shattered most of Aura's undead host and drove her into hiding, slew the Sages Böse and Grausam, and cleared the Thousand Mirror Tower, ending as the party credited with conquering more dungeons than any in history. Their ten years closed with the Demon King's defeat. Long after, the bonds held: Frieren nursed Heiter through his last years, and Eisen later steered her toward Flamme's notes and his own pupil so she might one day reach Himmel again in Aureole.