Rief

Rief (クラウン Kuraun) is a playable character of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Rief is a Mercury Adept who is described as a very knowledgeable researcher traveling with Kraden, a scholar of Alchemy who acts as Rief's mentor. Rief joins the party of Matthew, Tyrell, and Karis at some point after the initial party is formed.

Existence of a party member named "Crown" had been indicated ever since the release of on the day of the E3 2010 trailer and floor demo, but Crown was first shown in playable form in a trailer released on the the Japanese Wii Trailer Channel on August 18th, 2010. This was presumed to be his name for all versions of Dark Dawn until a trailer posted on an Amazon.com product page for the North American version of the game showed his US name to be Rief.

Rief's gender was not clear to fans even after later trailers were posted because, in addition to an androgynous appearance and masculine name, Rief's Golden Sun-style "squeak-voice" in cutscenes is a high-pitched one normally reserved for female characters and NPCs, including Dark Dawn's own Heart. It should be noted that in the same trailer, Karis' "squeak voice" had an even higher pitch, and in past games, a similar voice was used on certain young boy NPCs, such as Justin.

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