6. Euphausia “Eupha” Etoreika

When you meet Eupha, she has the world on her shoulders despite having seen very little of it. She’s the priestess of the mustari tribe, and she, like the rest of her people, misunderstands what that means. Initially, she believes that she must be sacrificed to a dragon in order to protect her people. This is tradition on her island, and even though there’s a big world out there, this is all she really knows. Eupha spends most of Metaphor trying to figure out what a “better” world even means when she has little frame of reference for what the world is now. Having an outsider around to voice their perspective can sometimes help reveal that something is all wrong, because they might see things more clearly than someone who’s been embedded in a system their whole life. Eupha delivers that. Unlike the others, she hasn’t been taught that the injustices of Euchronia simply reflect “the way things should be,” so she’s the first person to ask questions, and those questions often force everyone else to realize how ridiculous what they believe in sounds when you hear it out loud.. Eupha leaves a home she believes to be fair and just, only to discover that isn’t the rest of the world’s MO. Trying to find your place in a world that’s both new to you and also harsher than anything else you’ve experienced isn’t easy, but Eupha takes it in stride.