26 Facts About Sylvando

Sylvando, known in Japan as Silvia, is a fictional character from Square Enix's Dragon Quest XI and Dragon Quest XI S role-playing video games.

Sylvando first appears in the 2017 video game Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age as a companion of its protagonist, the Luminary.

Sylvando is voiced by Shai Matheson in English, and Masaya Onosaka in Japanese.

Sylvando's personality is intended to be a mixture of masculine and feminine traits, which remained unchanged during the development period of Dragon Quest XI.

Sylvando was conceived as a character who has both masculine and feminine qualities: the former is represented by his chivalry, while his attentiveness and caring nature represents the latter.

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Director Takeshi Uchikawa noted that unlike the Luminary's other companions, Sylvando is the only character who has no connection to the Luminary or is destined to travel with him, but rather a character who simply cross paths with the party and joins them out of his own volition.

Sylvando is voiced by Shai Matheson in English, and by Masaya Onosaka in Japanese.

Role he auditioned for through his agent, Matheson was under the impression that Sylvando was a fun “long shot” as he had auditioned for the Prince Faris character, which was a part he believed he would more likely get.

Sylvando's efforts was well received and he was eventually given the part.

Matheson said Sylvando is his biggest video game role to date, as well as the most “over the top” character he has ever played.

Sylvando noted that "as an actor, there was some extra work in maintaining a consistent accent and tone, finding light and shade".

Sylvando is first seen as a circus showman in Gallopolis, a desert kingdom situated in the southern regions of the world of Dragon Quest XI, who will go to any length to entertain his audience.

Sylvando is depicted as a character who knows more than he lets on; even though he is presented as a performer and jester, he is familiar with the Knight's Code.

Sylvando later participates in a horse race where he becomes acquainted with the Luminary, who acted as a substitute for Gallopolis' Prince Faris in return for a favor from the prince, and is aware that he is not the prince.

When Sylvando discovers that the Luminary's goal is to defeat a mighty enemy who threatens the world, he insists on joining the Luminary's party, offering the use of his ship, the Salty Stallion, in the nearby port city of Gondolia and leaves behind his beloved horse Margarita in Gallopolis.

Sylvando is later separated from the Luminary after Yggdrasil's power is consumed by Mordegon and cast down onto the world; when the Luminary encounters Sylvando next, he is revealed to be the leader of a group of men dressed in colourful outfits which he dubbed the "Soldiers of Smile".

Sylvando reveals that he was raised to follow his father's footsteps as a knight, but eventually decided that he wanted to be an entertainer instead after being impressed by a circus troupe who arrived in Puerto Valor one day.

Players assume the role of Sylvando, who is accompanied by his ship captain Dave, a pirate who wears a pink mask.

An action figure of Sylvando is bundled as a set along with an action figure of Rab, another companion character from Dragon Quest XI, as well as accessories like Sylvando's sword, flute, and a liquid metal slime.

Shive observed that Sylvando quickly proves himself as a character who is initially presented as one with unclear motives to one of the nicest and most entertaining characters in the game, and that his "charismatic flamboyancy" is infectious regardless of the gravity of the situation.

Rogers thought of Sylvando as an unusual character who is not bound by the usual conventions and tropes found in JRPG's: for example, Rogers noted that he is very competent at dealing direct damage to enemies in combat, but players can use his turn to elevate a weaker party member up to his physical level which in Rogers' view is a self-sacrificing move.

Rogers noted that Sylvando is a character who can use a "manly" sword as well as a whip, a stereotypically "girly" weapon according to JRPG tropes.

Shive highlighted a particularly memorable scene for him in the game's second act, where Sylvando saves a non-player character after making a big spectacle of his reappearance as the leader of a parade of revelers, which ends with Sylvando bestowing the Luminary a feathered frock called a "Mardi Garb" to wear.

Kunzelman found Sylvando to be the pivotal difference between certain scenes being watchable or otherwise, and his characterization is one of the game's rough patches that "at least gives it some heart".

Jeremy Signor from Gaymingmag said a fundamental flaw with Sylvando is that he is never explicitly confirmed to be a gay man in-universe.

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Nevertheless, Signor conceded that Sylvando is at the very least, allowed to be a hero who is competent at something "other than making heterosexual people uncomfortable", a feature few other video games have attempted with their gay characters.