Albert

“	His Royal Highness of the Duchy of Basil is a fighting king and deadly master of the javelin. He is not afraid to personally take up arms and is deeply loved by his subjects. Albert would be the king of all Serdia but a royal dispute over ascension to the thrown split the kingdom in two. His Uncle, Emperor Doel rules the Empire of Sandora.	”
-The manual

Albert
Information
Role	Hero
Hometown	Bale
Age	26
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Element	Wind
Voice Actor	David Babich (ENG) Shinichirô Miki (JP)

Albert (アルバート, Arubāto) is a playable character in The Legend of Dragoon. He is the King of Basil and the rightful heir to the throne of Serdio. He later travels with the group and lives as a Dragoon for a while, instead of immediately returning to the throne after the Serdian War ends.

Character Design

Albert as the Dragoon of the Jade Dragon.

Albert has long golden brown hair that is pulled back into a ponytail. Also he has light brown eyes. He dons a dark green cape, a silver armor with gold trimmings underneath his armor is a pale green long sleeve tunic which is hanging loose in each sides with a gold trim and a gold cross straps on front of his tunic and was tucked into a silver belt with gold round designs, dark brown gloves, dark brown boots, and light brown pants.

As an NPC at the beginning of the game and the King residing in Bale, Albert wears an elaborate royal green cape adorned with red straps, a matching royal green tunic, white pants and black boots. He also wears black gloves and carried the royal staff.

When he was captured in Hellena, he was seen shirtless and wears only his light brown pants and dark brown boots from his primary outfit and has a white belt on his waist.

Albert's Dragoon form is similar to Lavitz's Dragoon form, although it is more slender and less bulky in comparison to Lavitz.

He wears a jade green Dragoon armor with an orange gem in the center, a matching long greaves and gauntlets, black pants and a jade green knee-high Dragoon armor boots with a orange round design at the center. He also wears a jade green dragon headband on his forehead while the spear he wields becomes a Dragoon Spear in a brown motif and his Dragoon wings are pale yellow and jade green with orange outlines.

Personality

Albert is a generous, compassionate and level-headed king. He is very modest and humble, lacking any form of arrogance or entitlement despite being of royalty, and is deeply loved by his people and knights. Because of his personality, he gets along well with the rest of the group, wishing to be treated as a simple friend who travels with them, like Lavitz, and is often the calm and rational mind in the group.

Albert is also demonstrated to be a poetic and well-educated individual. He is quite smart, often referring to historical facts and his love for knowledge and reading, and is knowledgable about Dragoons, Winglies, Virages, and many other things such as statistics. In some cases, this even leads to him displaying the stereotypical behavior of a "nerd", such as during the group's first visit to Fletz, where he uses statistical data and anatomical analysis to dismiss the likelyhood of Haschel and Dart being blood related, or when overflowing with enthusiasm upon the prospect of visiting the Mille Seseau National Library.

Gameplay

Abilities and Attributes

Albert retains the attributes from his predecessor Lavitz, having high HP as well as strong physical offensive and defensive abilities, paired however with a subpar speed and the second worst magical attack and defense in the game. Albert is a hard-hitting fighter with a strong physical damage output and good survivability, as long as he is not targeted by magical attacks. His magical defense is very poor and while it is marginally better than of Kongol, he is practically just as vulnerable to magic spells if not even more, as he has slightly lower HP, giving him a hard time in some boss fights. However, he makes up for this by having some of the highest damage outputs with one attack among the cast when using Gust of Wind Dance or his final addition, Blossom Storm.

One of Albert’s most notable strengths is the extremely early availability of all his basic additions, with two of them, Rod Typhoon and Gust of Wind Dance, being particularly useful, the first one providing a good balance between damage and SP and the latter granting him among the highest possible damage output with a non-final addition among the entire cast. This excellent availability of additions theoretically allows him to get his final addition as early as in CD 1, and although this requires heavy addition grinding, it makes him overshadow any other character in physical damage output for pretty much the rest of the game.

Like Lavitz, Albert has a fairly useful Dragoon form. While his attacking spells are compromised by his low magical attack despite a base 200% stat boost, his second spell, Flower Storm, is arguably among the best Dragoon magic spells in the game, cutting any damage for the next three turns of the entire group in half, and being a great asset during boss fights.

Overall, despite having some notable weaknesses, Albert is a rewarding character with tremendous physical strength and a good Dragoon form, making him a solid choice throughout the majority of the game.

Weapons

Albert's weapon of choice is a spear. When he joins the party, he claims to have been taught by Lavitz on how to fight with it.

Weapon	Stat	Buy	Sell	Location	Effect
Spear	4	N/A	10	Initial, Hellena Prison (Second Visit), Merman
Lance	19	100	50	The Seventh Fort, Lohan
Twister Glaive	28	140	70	Kazas	Wind elemental damage
Glaive	37	250	125	Queen Fury
Spear of Terror	45	300	150	Deningrad	Chance to cause Fear
Partisan	56	400	200	Vellweb
Halberd	65	500	250	Moon, Zackwell

Additions

Main article: Additions

Albert inherits his additions from Lavitz, usually having all four basic additions unlocked at the timing he joins the party, much to his advantage. Due to his spear wielding style being more "flashy" and "dancy" compared to the more straightforward style of Lavitz, he has a different timing for his additions than his predecessor.

His final addition has the second lowest damage multiplier of all final additions at a maximum of 405%, however, his strong physical attack attribute and strong weapons make up for it. Also, it provides an amazing 202 SP on its maximum level, the highest any character is able to gain with a final addition.

Name	Lvl.	Add (#)
Harpoon	Initial	1
Addition Level	Damage	SP
Level 1	100%	35
Level 2	110%	38
Level 3	120%	42
Level 4	130%	45
Level 5	150%	50
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Name	Lvl.	Add (#)
Spinning Cane	5	2
Addition Level	Damage	SP
Level 1	100%	35
Level 2	125%	35
Level 3	150%	35
Level 4	175%	35
Level 5	200%	35
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Name	Lvl.	Add (#)
Rod Typhoon	7	4
Addition Level	Damage	SP
Level 1	150%	30
Level 2	162%	45
Level 3	174%	60
Level 4	186%	75
Level 5	202%	100
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Name	Lvl.	Add (#)
Gust of Wind Dance	11	6
Addition Level	Damage	SP
Level 1	200%	35
Level 2	240%	35
Level 3	280%	35
Level 4	320%	35
Level 5	350%	35
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Name	Lvl.	Add (#)
Flower Storm1	Master Addition	7
Addition Level	Damage	SP
Level 1	300%	60
Level 2	324%	90
Level 3	348%	120
Level 4	372%	150
Level 5	405%	202
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¹ Flower Storm is spoken by Albert as "Blossom Storm." In Japanese, this Addition is named "Cherry Blossom Blizzard" (桜の吹雪, sakura fubuki).

Battle Gallery

Harpoon

Harpoon animation

Spinning Cane

Spining Cane animation

Rod Typhoon

Rod Typhoon animation

Gust Of Wind Dance

Gust of Wind Dance animation

Flower Blossom

Blossom Storm animation

Victory animation

Dragoon

Acquiring the Dragoon Spirit

Albert's Transformation

At the end of CD 1, Albert receives the Jade Dragoon Spirit from Lavitz.

Dragoon Transformation

To transform into a Dragoon, Albert spins his spear while putting both hands in place as well as activating the Jade Dragoon Spirit at the center and was covered in a flash of light. His Dragoon form was seen being embedded in a tornado storm with green leaves and quickly makes a pose.

Dragoon Magic

Main article: Dragoon Magic

Albert has the same stats and magic as Lavitz. The Jade Dragoon is a Dragoon based mainly for attacking all enemies or assisting all allies. Rose Storm's defense can really help you, and some even consider it the best spell/skill in the game. Fitting Rose Storm into four skills means missing out on a 10 MP single target spell, so this Dragoon's lowest spell is the "all enemies" one that costs 20 MP. This Dragoon also has a stronger magic boost then normal, a 220% boost, because of the character's weaker base magic strength. This boost helps, but the game helps Albert much more than that by making a fair few bosses weak to his Wind Element and an enormous number, more than a third of the enemies in the game, are Earth Element enemies too.

Name	Dragoon Level	MP	Target	Effect
Wing Blaster	1	20	All enemies	Wind STR 25%
Rose Storm	2	20	All allies	Reduces all damage by half for 3 turns
Gaspless	3	30	Single enemy	Wind STR 75%1
Jade Dragon	5	80	All enemies	Wind STR 75%

¹ The in-game description erroneously states 100% for Albert only. It is 75%.

Story

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Before the events of the game

20 years prior to the start of the game, Albert's father King Carlo was murdered by his brother Doel, which led to the division of Serdio. Albert, who at the time was only 8 years old, was subsequently crowned the king, which Doel refused to accept, defecting and founding the Imperial Sandora in the South of the country. Serdio has since then been in a civil war for deciding about the rightful heir to the throne. The northern part of Serdio, Basil, has since then been under the rule of Albert.

Chapter 1: The Serdian War

In the middle of Disk 1, you meet King Albert, the King of Basil. He is really good friends with Lavitz. The group talks to him and Albert asks if they could defend Hoax, a fort southeast of the kingdom. Later after Shana's incident she falls sick in Lohan. After giving her treatment the heroes come back and give her the White Silver Dragoon spirit. After Dart and Haschel participate in a fighting tournament, losing to a seemingly invulnerable fighter named Lloyd, the group decides to leave Lohan. The group is about to leave Lohan when a wounded knight of Bales staggers into town; he tells Sir Lavitz that King Albert was taken to Hellena Prison by Fruegel. Lavitz runs to the town gate, determined to save him with no preparations, but he is stopped by Haschel, who makes it clear that he believes that punching your buddy in the face to stop his hysteria is the better part of valor. After Lavitz wakes up, the group decides to go save King Albert. The party infiltrate Hellena Prison; a trapdoor opens underneath them and they face the fate of so many prisoners before them: the monster Jiango, waiting in the caves beneath for its next meal. Jiango is defeated and the group finds a way out of the caverns, find Fruegel and finish him for good. As the party draws near to the captive Albert, the Hooded Man extracts the Moon Gem, one of the Divine Moon Objects, from its hidden place inside his chest. Lavitz turns into a dragoon and rushes towards the Hooded Man, who draws a weapon Rose knows to be the the Dragon Buster, a legendary ancient weapon from the Dragon Campaign. Lavitz is fatally impaled, and the man's hood comes off, revealing him to be the unbeatable Lloyd.

The new Jade Dragoon

Lavitz dies among friends, and his Dragoon Spirit chooses Albert. Dart promises to avenge his death. The group leaves Hellena Prison and returns to Seles, and they all decide to go to Kazas to end the war. Through a secret pathway in Kazas, they find the Great Commander, who is dismayed at the turn of events spiraling out of his control. He decries Fruegel torching of Seles when a simple kidnapping would have sufficed, and declares that his majesty Doel has gone mad ever since he allied with a Hooded Man. Kongol, heavily armored, guards the entrance to Emperor Doel's chamber. Kongol invokes the right of a warrior shamed by defeat to die an honorable death, but the group persuades him to seek honor, and the possible whereabouts of other Gigantos, in their company. Emperor Doel awaits the party in his chamber, and reveals himself to be the host of the Violet Dragoon Spirit Doel is fatally injured and tells them that Lloyd is heading to Tiberoa. Doel dies and the discusses their options. Haschel says he has no reason to follow them anymore, but the Violet Dragoon spirit chooses Haschel as its new master. The group sets out to Tiberoa.

Chapter 2: The Platinum Shadow

After the Death of his uncle, Emperor Doel, Albert and Dart, along with the rest of the party, journey to Tiberoa to pursue Lloyd after watching him mercilessly kill Lavitz. During this part of the game, Albert and the rest of the party meets the neighboring king of Fletz, King Zior, along with his two daughters, Princess Lisa and Princess Emillie. Albert almost instantly becomes infatuated by Princess Emilie, but is blinded by her reactions as a mean spirited person. During afterward to yet another town they have to cross a desert area where they come across bandits, not long after defeating the bandits as well as Dart losing his spirit, he aids Dart in retrieving his Red-Dragoon spirit.things get more suspicious as Dart and the rest figure out that the Princess is acting stranger than usual but of course Albert vows what he can do to save the Princess.

Gallery

Concept art of Albert.

Computer rendered image of Albert.

Albert as Dragoon, flying in the sky.

Albert and Haschel in their Dragoon forms in a cutscene

Artwork of Albert.

Trivia

• Albert's Idle poise has him folding his left arm over his waist, putting his right hand to his face and his head down as if deeply thinking.
• When defending Albert holds his spear slightly diagonally over his head.
• When dispirited Albert bend his knees and slouches as well as lazily holds his spear as if having lost the will to hold it properly.
• When in Critical Health Albert heavily slouches forward with his knees bent, he uses his spear as a support.
• In the ending cutscene, where he marries Princess Emille as his wife and queen, he wears the outfit he wore as an NPC as the residing king in Bale.
• Contrary to popular belief that Albert & Lavitz's final addition "Flower Storm" is erroneously named, this is not true; the name is meant to reflect the favorite flower of both men. When Lavitz uses Flower Storm successfully he says "Rose Storm," but Albert says "Blossom Storm." This is not present in the Japanese version, as both Lavitz and Albert call it "Cherry Blossom Blizzard" (桜の吹雪, sakura fubuki).
• In their Dragoon form, they explicitly use the favorite bloom in their magic. This is present in the Japanese version as well.