Anessa

Anessa
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Japanese name	アネッサ
Romaji	Anessa
Class	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 blue eyes and purple hair, masked by a helmet resembling that of a Roman galea. She wears a red dress with matching pants, a black belt with a large buckle and matching orange gloves and boots. Her chest is protected by an iron cuirass, with a steel broadsword strapped to her back.

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. Villagers are also known to call her a "Stubborn Stick-in-the-mud" as one of her lines. Anessa is also distrustful of Malroth during much of the campaign, but softens up to him after fighting side by side.

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.