Sveta (ステラ Stella) is a playable character of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Sveta is a Jupiter Adept and is the first playable demi-human in the Golden Sun series. It is unknown whether she has any relation with the only known demi-humans in the GBA games, the werewolves of Garoh, but she is described as a member of a beastman race that mutated after the rising of the Golden Sun. She is part of the Czamaral clan, royal family of Morgal. She is King Volechek's younger sister. Her senses are enhanced, and she is able to detect special smells; more impressively, she also possesses the ability to read minds and can perceive Psynergy in a special way.
In battle, Sveta fights with her hands and feet. Her weapons are a series of claws and knuckles that can only be equipped by her and are the only weapons she can use. She has the unique ability to transform into a beast form that boosts her statistics (specifically Attack, Defense and maximum HP, though maximum PP is lowered) and changes the options available to her in battle. For instance, she becomes able to physically attack more than one target and defend for more than one Adept, but her Psynergy set changes and she becomes unable to unleash Djinn. Furthermore, for each turn that she remains transformed, one of her Djinni is set to Recovery when she reverts.
She also has a brother who acts as a reluctant antagonist. He is the King of Belinsk. When he is fused with Chalis and Blados and is defeated, he sacrifices his life to save the world from darkness. This makes Sveta the Queen of Belinsk.
As a playable character
Sveta is unique in battle. She is capable of transforming into a powerful beast form that has the following effects:
- Increased Statistics
- New Psynergy (which are also accessible through her Scrapper class, which is her alternative to the Seer (Jupiter) classes)
- Ability to attack more than one enemy at once
- One Djinn is set to Recovery for each turn she spends in this form.
- She cannot unleash Djinn in this form.
The transformation uses up one turn for Sveta.
Without transforming, Sveta has more or less average statuses with a slightly lacking PP pool, high attack and agility statuses, possibly beaten by Himi, Karis and Matthew in agility.
Sveta's Spirit Sense Psynergy is different from Ivan and Sheba's Mind Read in the sense that she can also communicate with the dead by either their bodies or their headstones. One old couple can only be put to rest using Spirit Sense.
Sveta is the only character who can equip the required Umbra Gear, and has the honor of being the only team member in all three games who can be seen visibly walking around with the leader on screen outside of cutscenes during the events of the Apollo Sanctum.
Sveta joins the group in Te Rya Village at Level 22 before leaving for some time. She later rejoins in Belinsk at a higher level; her level when she rejoins seems to vary depending on how much Exp was gained while she was absent.
Trivia
- Sveta is the first playable Adept who does not equip and use conventional weapons, and the first physically-oriented female character in the series. She is also the first physically-oriented Jupiter Adept.
- Sveta is similar to Laguz units in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, in that she is typically in a human-like form with some features of the animal she represents, but fights with natural physical strength by transforming into a full-bodied form of that animal.
- "Stella" is the Latin and Italian word for "star," while "Sveta" is short for "Svetlana," a Slavic name derived from the Russian word "svet," meaning "light." It is also similar to the Polish "świetlana" (same pronunciation as "svetlana"), which means "girl filled with light."
In Fan Circles
Since the release of Dark Dawn, fan-fictions depict Sveta as Matthew's love interest, called Spiritshipping. It is largely due to the fact that she uses Spirit Sense on him the most. If not with Sveta, Matthew is paired with Karis.
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