Rody

Artwork by Ishikawa Fumi

Physical Information

Race

Human

Gender

Male

Birth Date

461

Age

15 (S3)

Height

165cm (5'5") (S3)

Biographical Information

Star

Chimou Star²

Meta Information

Appearances

Suikoden III

Rody (ロディ, Rodi) is a supporting character in Suikoden III. Rody is the talented, but naive, apprentice of the magician Estella.

History

Estella's apprentice who is training to be a magician. He follows a brutal training routine, faithfully believing in his mentor.

— Rody's profile

Rody is a young boy training hard under Estella with the aim of becoming a skilled magician. He has a pure and somber personality and holds a great deal of respect and confidence in Estella as his teacher. He is already a talented mage in his own right, but it is unknown whether Estella notices this.

This confidence and pureness of heart means that Rody almost always takes Estella's lies at face value, leading him into absurd situations, such as trying to increase his earth magic prowess by burying himself up to his neck in the ground or running around with his belly button out to increase his lightning magic. He also believed in Estella's claim of a male counterpart to the Alma Kinan Village and after leading the Fire Bringer on a wild goose chase investigating it, joining the group with Estella. Anytime she lied to him, he would take whatever she said as gospel and eagerly hop to it without question, no matter how ridiculous, making him quite probably the most gullible sod in all of Grassland.

Following the War of the Champions, he continues to train under Estella, striving towards his dream of flying on a broomstick. A goal that is all but impossible to accomplish, sadly.

Game info

Recruiting

Recruitment

After plot events at Alma Kinan Village, speak to Estella at Alma Kinan's inn and agree to help her. Speak to a girl at Alma Kinan's altar, then speak to Estella again.

Genso Suikoden Card Stories TCG

Card #	Name	Type	Release
523	Rody	Free	Booster Pack Vol.4
CS2-091	Rody	Free	CS2 Booster Pack Vol.1

Gallery

Suikoden III artwork by Ishikawa Fumi
Genso Suikoden Card Stories TCG artwork by TOKAI

Trivia

Rody's weapon upgrades as Fly Rod, Bird Rod, Air Rod.
Rody participates in an absolutely useless Wizard Attack unite with Estella that burns up his level 1 and 2 MPs to deal 100 damage to all foes.
Rody learns the unique skills Precision, Blinking Magic and Magic Rationing, with a possible S level in the latter. Unsurprisingly, he has great results with most any type of magic skill but relatively dismal results in melee.
One look at his runes at it is plainly obvious Estella was using him as a human shield. Both Firefly and Wall Runes equipped make Rody a hopeless damage sponge without any player intervention.

References

Genso Suikoden Kiwami Encyclopedia, page 379