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Adelbert Steiner

Age:	33
Occupation:	Knight
Skills:	Sword Art, Sword Magic
Weapon:	Sword

"Having sworn fealty, must I spend my life in servitude?"

Steiner is the clumsy, well-meaning Captain of the Knights of Pluto, a ragtag group in the service of the Princess Garnet. Steiner himself is the Princess's bodyguard. He's very uptight and snobbish when first you meet him, but gradually he gets better. Steiner is able to master special Sword Arts--including some of General Beatrix's frightening Seiken skills--and, when Vivi is in the party, is able to combine skills with the black mage to produce Sword Magic.

Sword Arts
Skill	MP Cost	Effect	Learned From	AP
Darkside	0	Sacrifice part of Steiner's HP to deal Shadow-elemental damage to the enemy	Blood Sword	30
Minus Strike	8	Deals an amount of damage to the enemy equal to the difference between Steiner's current HP and max HP	Iron Sword, Excalibur II, Rubber Helm	35
Iai Strike	16	KO's target	Rune Blade	40
Power Break	8	Reduces target's physical attack power	Diamond Sword	40
Armor Break	4	Reduces enemy's physical defense	Mythril Sword	30
Mental Break	8	Reduces enemy's magic defense	Ice Brand, Gold Helm	45
Magic Break	4	Reduces enemy's magic attack power	Flame Saber	25
Charge!	10	Causes near-death party members to attack	Coral Sword, Aegis Gloves	30
Thunder Slash	24	Thunder-elemental damage to an enemy	Defender, Ragnarok	30
Stock Break	26	Non-elemental damage to all enemies	Ultima Sword, Excalibur II	35
Climhazzard	32	Non-elemental damage to all enemies	Excalibur, Excalibur II	70
Shock	46	Physical damage to an enemy	Ragnarok	60

Steiner's Magic Sword is dependent on two things: Vivi must be in the party (and not KO'd) and he must know the spell you wish to use. Sword Magic uses Steiner's MP, not Vivi's.

Sword Magic
Spell	MP Cost	Effect
Fire Sword	6	Weak fire-elemental attack
Fira Sword	12	Moderate fire-elemental attack
Firaga Sword	30	Powerful fire-elemental attack
Blizzard Sword	6	Weak ice-elemental attack
Blizzara Sword	12	Moderate ice-elemental attack
Blizzaga Sword	30	Powerful ice-elemental attack
Thunder Sword	6	Weak thunder-elemental attack
Thundara Sword	12	Moderate thunder-elemental attack
Thundaga Sword	30	Powerful thunder-elemental attack
Bio Sword	20	Poisons target and inflicts non-elemental damage
Water Sword	26	Moderate Water-elemental attack
Flare Sword	60	Powerful non-elemental damage
Doomsday Sword	50	Powerful Shadow-elemental damage to all enemies.

Trance
Steiner's Trance doesn't gift him with any special powers, but it does double his already impressive physical attack power, so it's a power worth having.

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