Galian

Galian
Japanese	ガリアン
Rōmaji	Garian
Gender	Male
Status	Alive
Homeland	Luberia
Team	Chess Pieces
Class	Knight
ÄRMs	Magic Rope Electric Feather Electric Saucer Hiraiken Torpedine Memory Eraser
Seiyū (Japanese)	Yasunori Matsumoto
Voice Actor (English)	Patrick Seitz

Galian (ガリアン, Garian) is a member of the Chess Pieces and the 8th strongest Knight (9th strongest after Rapunzel's death), Galian is also the former leader of the notorious thief guild Luberia, founding it as a sanctuary for the lowest of the world.

History

First Great MÄR-Heaven War

6 years prior to the 2nd war, ambitious as he was, the throne of Luberia's chief thief couldn't be satisfying enough to Galian, or rather, not as much as the power promised for him inside the Chess Pieces.

Six-Year Interlude

One day, Galian found man in a canyon near his fortress, after the latter regained consciousness. Galian used a Holy ÄRM to heal his stomach wound and brought him to the Luberia Fortress. The man comments how impressive Galian's Holy ÄRM was, still not understanding what an ÄRM was. He revealed he couldn't remember his past or his own name and Galian gave him a new name, "Nanashi", meaning "nameless".

Nanashi, still adjusting to his new life at the fortress, awoke from a nap days later to the ruckus upstairs of a gorilla-like monster rampaging into the fort. Mock tried to warn Nanashi to stay away from the danger, which the bandits struggled to contain with Galian being absent at the time. As the monster swung a punch at Nanashi, he stopped it with one hand, displaying impressive Earthly physical strength that shocked the bandits. Nanashi proceeds to push the monster back with his hand and toss it away effortlessly. Unbeknownst to all of them, Galian himself had purposely sent the monster to the fort, seeking to test Nanashi's potential.

Nanashi and Galian would become best of friends, getting along the best out of all of Luberia's members. Galian, however, in a craving of power, would betray Luberia and Nanashi and joined the Chess Pieces, installing Nanashi as the new leader and wiping him of any memories Nanashi had of Galian.

Galian was present at Phantom's revival.

Second Great MÄR-Heaven War

War Games

After the third round, Galian is seen with the Knights. During Nanashi's battle with Aqua in the fourth round, Phantom speaks with Galian. When Candice and Ash are talking before the fifth round, Galian gets involved in the conversation.

Round 5

After Pozun declares Ginta the winner of the fourth match, a dark portal forms in the air above, and through it Galian arrives on the battlefield, surprised that Ash lost his fighting spirit. He greets Nanashi casually, but after a few moments to study him, Nanashi asks who he is. The rest of Team MÄR holler at him for not knowing who this new person is, but Galian explains that he had erased any memory of himself from Nanashi's mind concerning him in their last meeting and that Nanashi should remember shortly after their reunion. As the Pozun names the competitors in the match and signals the start, Nanashi realizes he recognizes Galian's name and thus does know him, but doesn't have much time to dwell on it as Galian activates the Weapon ÄRM, Magic Rope. A huge urn appears and from it slither out several strands of rope with little skulls at the ends of them. They lunge towards Nanashi who equips his Weapon ÄRM, Griffin Lance, and cuts the ends off of several of the pieces of rope but still manages to get tied up by a large number of the ropes. Nanashi notices that all the ropes come from the urn and uses Electric Eye to destroy the urn. Nanashi once more has another memory flash of the same silhouette, finally coming into form as Galian. Galian tells Nanashi that he saved Nanashi's life in the past and now he's trying to take that very life.

He uses his Nature ÄRM, Electric Frisbee. The ÄRM activates and causes a chain of lighting to flow between each of the frisbees and attacking Nanashi. As he's being zapped, he faintly recalls another memory of Galian's voice, telling him he nearly died and giving him the name "Nanashi". Hearing his teammates call out to him snaps him out of his daze, and he uses his Weapon ÄRM, Thousand Needles, to cause numerous long spikes to emerge from the ground and impale the frisbees, destroying them and stopping the lightning. Nanashi fires a burst of lighting from Electric Eye towards Galian but Galian intercepts it with his Nature ÄRM, Hiraiken, which not only absorbs the lightning but allows it to be fired back at Nanashi. As it strikes Nanashi, all of his memories regarding Galian return. Nanashi confirms to his team that Galian did save his life, gave him his name, and identified him as the previous chief of Luberia.

As the two continue to clash with their weapons, Nanashi angrily asks Galian why he betrayed the thieves' guild and joined the Chess. Galian replied that the power the Chess had enticed him more that the bonds of family. Nanashi tells Galian what he did is unforgivable. He abandoned everyone just for power and that it's Nanashi's duty to defeat him. Galian questions if Nanashi can defeat him while he activates the Weapon ÄRM, Electric Feather. Nanashi is surrounded by feathers that then electrocute Nanashi. Galian explains that from the day he met Nanashi, he saw the latter's high potential and might be someone who would oppose the Chess. Given that Galian always wanted a true battle against Nanashi, he believes it to be fate that the two of them would now fight. Nanashi and Galian then have a clash with Griffin Lance and Hiraiken. The two exchange blows back and forth. Ginta calls out to Nanashi reminding him not to get lost in his emotions and that he still has to avenge Luberia.

Galian tells Nanashi that he will be defeated to prove that the path of strength that Galian chose is the right one and activates his final weapon, the Guardian ÄRM, Torpedine. A huge ray appears with a mouth on its back, the mouth opens up and unleashes a giant blast of lightning that strikes Nanashi. Instead of trying to dodge of defend, Nanashi stays in place and takes the hit head on, utilizing his endurance to draw out magic as the amount of magic he can channel is at its highest. Nanashi activates his new Guardian ÄRM, Gymnote. Gymnote encircles Galian's Guardian and then tightens its coils until it crushes Torpedine. Gymnote then opens its maw and fires a blast of electricity at Galian. Galian comments that he can't be electrified and uses Hiraiken to absorb the lightning but it overwhelms the sword, causing it to crack and shatter. Galian takes the full force of the lightning blast and collapses on the ground.

Galian can't understand why he lost and Nanashi informs him that a person uses their power for their friends and since Galian threw away his friends, he has no real power. Galian acknowledges Nanashi to be a great leader for Luberia, and admits that he was partially envious of him. Nanashi gives Galian a thumbs up, saying he would keep the name and life he had given him. Pozun then declares Nanashi the winner.

Aftermath

After the fifth round, the Knights are called into Phantom's room for a meeting. Phantom then specified that the only Knight who needed to be punished was Rapunzel, for her senseless murder spree of Chess teammates during the fourth round. Phantom offered her a chance to save herself by dueling against a Rook named Ian.

Galian and his fellow Knights go outside to the surface below where the castle floated to observe the duel between Rapunzel and Ian. Ian effortlessly brushes off Rapunzel's attacks and immediately kills her with one attack. Phantom promotes Ian to the Knight class, taking Rapunzel's position, and hands him the Knight pierce. Ian turns to the other Knights and announces his intentions as a new Knight to kill whichever one of them hurt his beloved.

Round 7

The night before Nanashi's match against Peta, Galian ambushes Nanashi outside and chases him to a rope bridge, in an attempt to stop him from fighting Peta the next day. Nanashi catches him off guard by destroying the bridge they stood on, both of them falling in to the river below. Before swimming back up to the surface, Nanashi sees Pirun's ÄRM on the riverbed glowing red, prompting him to grab it. The other bandits help Nanashi up from climbing back up the cliff. Galian climbs back up behind them, calling out to Nanashi that he'll die tomorrow if he goes through with fighting Peta. Nanashi says nothing, continuing back to the cemetery. Alviss and Dorothy conclude to the others that Galian came to intervene because he knew Nanashi was prepared to die in his match against Peta, as it was the only way he could stand a chance against him. The other bandits try to talk him out of it, but Nanashi tells them not to worry, before warping back to Reginlief Castle alone.

The match begins the next day, and Galian silently observes from the back behind a pillar. Nanashi finds much difficulty in the battle, being unable to harm Peta with physical attacks and having any lightning-based attack reflected back at him thanks to his Blood Body and Dark Reflector ÄRMs. However, thanks to the Legendary Holy ÄRM - Aegis, Nanashi is able to quickly turn the battle in his favor. Nanashi enacts his revenge against Peta, incapacitating him using a combination of his Electric Eye followed by a single deep slash with his Griffin Lance, killing Peta instantly. The crowd speechless, Nanashi puts away his lance as Pozun rushes up to Peta's body to inspect. With Peta's corpse dissolving, Pozun declares Nanashi the winner. Everyone cheers, and Galian, who watched from the back, smiled before walking away.

After the War Games

At the end of the anime, he and Nanashi lead the Thieves Guild together. In the manga, they are just seen sitting together having a drink.

MÄR Ω

Galian appears once in the background, talking to Nanashi when they arrive at a temple-like place to retrieve a Magic Stone.

ÄRMs

Like Nanashi, he fights with lightning-themed ÄRMs:

• Magic Rope: Weapon ÄRM, an urn containing ropes which tie the opponent. These ropes can keep coming after their target even after being cut and the only way to stop them is to destroy the urn. It is shown in the anime that he must possess at least two of these.
• Electric Feather: A ring Weapon ÄRM that creates feathers which emit electricity.
• Electric Frisbee: Weapon ÄRM, consisting of electrified frisbees that Galian uses for circumdate his opponent. This ÄRM has an electric power that attacks and inhibits the opponent.
• Hiraiken (Lightning Rod Sword): A Nature ÄRM sword which absorbs lightning. If enough is stored, it will emit electricity.
• Memory Eraser: A Unique ÄRM which suppresses memories.
• Torpedine: A ring Guardian ÄRM, summons a giant stingray with a mouth on its back that fires bolts of incredibly-high voltage lightning at Galian's foes.

Trivia

• Nobuyuki Anzai originally planned for Raiha to fill the role of Galian's character, but decided against it as Raiha "would never serve anyone except Kurei".

Gallery

Galian attacks Peta with Electric Eye.

Galian watches the War Games of the first war.

Galian discovering and healing Joker.

Galian erases Nanashi's memories of him.