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61歳。エレゼン族。旧ランディス共和国マントヴァ出身。
ガレマール帝国第IV軍団「術士大隊」所属の上級百人隊長。
Race: Elezen
Age: 61
Birthplace: Mannatheihwo, Landis
ボズヤ侵攻を果たした第IV軍団は初代ソル帝の命に従い、次なる目標である旧ダルマスカ王国へ侵攻するために準備を進めていた。当時の軍団長バッシュ・ヴァン・ガブラスにとってダルマスカの魔術士隊が脅威であった。毒をもって毒を制する……ではないが、ガブラスは似たような魔術士隊を第IV軍団内に構築することで対抗しようと計画した。まず目を付けたのが、旧ランディス共和国で唯一、魔術を武器とする魔術騎士団を有していた都市マントヴァである。帝国はその支配を受け入れた国家の騎士団を解体し帝国軍に組み直すという手法を採っていたが、それは旧ランディス共和国も同じであった。だが、魔術を脅威として認識していた帝国は魔術騎士団を弾圧。所属していた魔術士たちは死を恐れて各地へ逃れた。ガブラスはそうしたマントヴァの魔術士たちを探したのである。
サルトヴォアールもそのひとりであった。マントヴァ近くの小さな農村でその正体を隠して小さな学問所を営んでいたが、第IV軍団に見つかってしまう。サルトヴォアールはオファーを拒否したが、帝国と似て非なるガブラスの思想を知り興味を抱くようになる。長期間をかけてしつこく、だが丁寧に第IV軍団はサルトヴォアールを口説いた。ある日、学問所に見知らぬ武人がいた。帯剣もせず、護衛もいない初老の武人……だが、サルトヴォアールはその魔術をもってしても倒すことはできないとすぐに悟った。その武人こそバッシュ・ヴァン・ガブラスであった。ガブラス本人と直接言葉を交わす機会を得たサルトヴォアールはその価値観や思想に深く感銘し、忠誠を誓った。
あれから三十余年、妖術士アルビレオの参加により第IV軍団の魔術はより高みへと引き上げられたが、その基礎はマントヴァの魔術士たちである。サルトヴォアールはそれを誇りとしつつ柔軟にアルビレオから魔術を学んだ。そして、ノア・ヴァン・ガブラス現軍団長と共に亡きバッシュの遺志を実現しようとしている……。
An influential centurion of the IVth Imperial Legion, Sartauvoir quo Soranus does not originally hail from the Empire. After the successful invasion of Bozja, the IVth was ordered by Emperor Solus to proceed to their next target, the Kingdom of Dalmasca. Legatus Basch van Gabranth secretly feared Dalmasca's war mages and─seeking to fight fire with fire, as it were─hatched a plan to form his own contingent of powerful sorcerers. To accomplish this, he set his eyes on the subjugated former Republic of Landis─in particular, Mannatheihwo, the only city in the republic to boast its own company of mage-knights. Though it was common practice for the Garleans to disband the knight companies of the nations it conquered and absorb them into the imperial army, their hatred of all things magical compelled them to quash the mage-knights of Mannatheihwo entirely. Fearing for their lives, these sorcerers had fled their homes and scattered across once-proud Landis. Knowing this, Legatus Gabranth set out in search of them.
One such mage was Sartauvoir, who had taken up residence in a small farming hamlet a stone's throw from the city where he concealed his identity, posing as a local tutor and academic. Discovered and approached by the IVth, the proud mage initially rebuffed their advances, but began to take an interest in their offer upon hearing of Legatus Gabranth's vision, similar and yet fundamentally different from that of the Empire he so despised. Realizing what Sartauvoir could offer them, the IVth─patiently, yet persistently─reached out to him on multiple occasions, trusting the mage would have a change of heart. One day, Sartauvoir was greeted at his place of learning by a soldier unfamiliar to him. Though the soldier stood alone, was advanced in years, and carried not even a dagger in his hand, Sartauvoir knew in an instant that even his most potent incantations would be no match for this man. So it was that he exchanged words face-to-face for the first time with Basch van Gabranth, and so it was that the mage─struck to his very core by the legatus's words─did swear to him his undying loyalty.
In the nigh thirty years since, Sartauvoir has served the IVth well and true. Though he has honed his already-potent skills to greater heights of power under the tutelage of Sadr rem Albeleo, his pride as a mage-knight of Mannatheihwo still burns within him as fierce as the blazing infernos he wreaks upon his foes. And yet he wields his magicks not in the name of wanton destruction, but rather in the hope of realizing the long-held dream of Noah van Gabranth─the same dream once held by his father...