Sveta

Sveta (ステラ Stella) is a playable character of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Sveta is a Jupiter Adept and is the first playable demi-human in the Golden Sun series. It is unknown whether she has any relation with the only known demi-humans in the GBA games, the werewolves of Garoh, but she is described as a member of a man-beast race that mutated after the rising of the Golden Sun. Her senses are enhanced, and she is able to detect special smells; more impressively, she also possesses the ability to read minds and can perceive Psynergy in a special way.

In battle, Sveta fights with her hands and feet. Her weapons are a series of claws and knuckles that can only be equipped by her and are the only weapons she can use. She has the unique ability to transform into a beast form that boosts her statistics (specifically Attack, Defense and maximum HP, though maximum PP is lowered) and changes the options available to her in battle. For instance, she becomes able to physically attack more than one target and defend for more than one Adept, but her Psynergy set changes and she becomes unable to unleash Djinn. Furthermore, for each turn that she remains transformed, one of her Djinni is set to Recovery when she reverts.

Her brother, Volechek, acts as a reluctant antagonist.

As a playable character
Sveta is unique in battle. She is capable of transforming into a powerful beast form that has the following effects:
 * Increased Statistics
 * New Psynergy
 * Ability to attack more than one enemy at once
 * One Djinn is set to Recovery for each turn she spends in this form.
 * She cannot unleash Djinn in this form.

Trivia

 * Sveta is the first playable Adept who does not equip and use conventional weapons, and the first physically-oriented female character in the series.
 * Sveta is similar to Laguz units in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, in that she is typically in a humanlike form with some features of the animal she represents, but fights with natural physical strength by transforming into a full-bodied form of that animal.
 * "Stella" is the Latin and Italian word for "star," while "Sveta" is short for "Svetlana," a Slavic name derived from the Russian word "svet," meaning "light." It is also similar to the Polish "świetlana" (same pronunciation as "svetlana"), which means "girl filled with light."