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This article is about a manga. For the film of the same name, see Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Eftal Valley of the Wind

Princess Nausicaä, Princess of the Valley of the Wind .
King Jihl of the Valley of the Wind
Lord Yupa (Yupamiralda), explorer and the greatest swordsman in the Periphery
Mito, sergeant-at-arms and Nausicaa's faithful retainer
Tepa, a child of the wind, who was chosen to replace Nausicaa as the village's wind-rider after she left
Gram/Matriarch, one of the wise women
Teto, Nausicaä’s fox-squirrel
Kai and Kui, Lord Yupa’s horseclaws (giant striding birds)

Pejite

Asbel, Prince of Pejite

Lastelle (Rastel), Princess of Pejite and Asbel's twin sister Torumekia

Kushana, Princess of Torumekia. A prototypical Miyazaki villainess who seems bloodthirsty & cruel at first glance, but cares deeply for the men under her command. Out of all the characters of the manga, Kushana is probably the one who was altered the most for the film version; the film Kushana wears golden armor instead of silver, her complex & violent relationship with the rest of the royal family is largely omitted & she's also become a cyborg, having lost her left arm & most of her lower body to a giant insect. Miyazaki would later use the archetype of the morally ambivalent female commander in many later works, including Princess Mononoke's Lady Eboshi, who, interestingly also loses an arm to a giant forest creature. Hideaki Anno, who worked on the film of Nausicaa had planned to do a manga side story centered around Kushana's military exploits, but Miyazaki refused him permission, believing that Anno would only use her to "play war games". Interestingly, the backstory of Asuka Langley Soryu from Anno's celebrated Evangelion series has some interesting paralels with Kushana's.

Kurotowa, Kushana’s aide and a spy for the emperor, at first. He switches allegiance to Kushana when he realizes the Emperor is probably planning to kill him. Kurotowa prides himself in being a cynical survivors, but he feels irresistibly attracted to the idealism and purity of spirit of Nausicaa.

The Emperor of Torumekia

The three Princes of Torumekia Dorok

Charuka, Priest and commander of the Dorok armies. At first Nausicaa's antagonist, he becomes her friend and ally.

Namulith or Namulis, the Dorok Emperor, or "The Emperor the Elder" in some translations. The elder of two brothers, he's charismatic and a warrior, but has none of his younger brother's psychic abilities. Namulith is over a century old, surviving by having his brain periodically transplanted into cloned bodies. Namulith captures Kushana, hoping to marry her and thus unite the two empires. However, she escapes and decapitates him, kicking his still-living head off a troop carrier. The Emperor the Elder dies without fear or regrets.

Miralupa, the Emperor’s brother, also known as "The Emperor the Younger." Co-regent with Namulith, Miralupa's connection to the ruling Dorok theocracy and his psychic powers give him an edge in the early part of the series. Although he's the younger of the two, he appears much older than his brother due to the fact that he still inhabits his original body, kept alive by painful life extension treatments. This is because he watched their father die horribly due to a botched body transplant, causing him to fear against using the same techniques on himself. After a reversal of his and his brother's fortunes, Miralupa is assassinated by Namulith. His spirit is redeemed by Nausicaa, whom he'd repeatedly tried to destroy.

Chikuku Mani tribe

Elder of the Mani tribe

Ketcha, an interpreter from the Mani tribe Forest People

Selm

Ceraine, Selm's sister Others

Ohma, a God-Warrior that the scientists in the Crypt of Shuwa create with a fully intact and functional skeleton found under Pejite. At first it's childish and violent, taking great pleasure in pain and death, loving most the incredible powers it has. However when Nausicaa gives it his missing core component (along with naming him), his intelligence skyrockets and he begins to discourse about justice and how he was gifted with the power to judge mankind.

Master of the Garden

Kest, an Ibex, assistant to the Master of the Garden

Factions

Periphery Kingdoms (formerly Eftal): A small cluster of city-states located in the Eftal Desert to the northwest of Torumekia. They are the remnant of the once mighty kingdom of Eftal, which was destroyed 300 years ago by a sudden spread of the Sea of Corruption. These states are tributaries of Torumekia, who, in return for allowing the states to remain autonomous, demanded that they must aid Torumekia during war.

Torumekia: A feudal, militaristic empire south of the Periphery, ruled by an Imperial family and aristocracy; the capital city is Tolas.

Dorok: A theocratic empire ruled by a Holy Emperor and a council of priests; composed of a loose union of 51 tribal principalities. The capital city is Shuwa, which is where the Crypt is located. The scientists of the Crypt have given the Doroks many lost technologies, especially those concerning the manipulation of life.

Wormhandlers: Tribes of scavenger/hunter people living on the fringes of the Sea of Corruption. They survive by taming slug-worms, which they use like scent-dogs, and hiring themselves out as mercenaries to both warring sides. The Wormhandlers are almost universally reviled, considered "untouchables" by all others.

Forest People: A small band of nomadic people who have abandoned all uses of fire, metal, and ceramics. They dwell entirely within the Sea of Corruption, and they're at peace with the creatures in it. They are held in great respect by the Wormhandlers, and the two cultures appear to have common roots.

Fictional species

Fox-squirrels: small, catlike animals, generally found feral and considered impossible to domesticate. Nausicaä, however, manages to tame one, and the little omnivore is a valuable companion to her on her journey. These creatures also make a brief cameo appearance in .

God Warriors: gargantuan biomechanical beings considered largely responsible for the Seven Days of Fire. While the metal/ceramic skeletons of God Warriors are a common sight across the landscape, the creatures are believed extinct at the beginning of the story. They have the ability to fly by "twisting space", and can fire devastating energy beams. These abilities are fueled by atomic energy, and contact with them is known to cause radiation poisoning, which suggests that the Seven Days of Fire may have been at least partially a Nuclear holocaust. The characters of the manga refer to the radiation emitted by the God Warriors as "Poisonous Light".

Hamushi

Hebikera

Heedra: powerful, biologically-engineered warriors (possibly with mechanical additions) from before the Seven Days of Fire. While not capable of destruction on as vast a scale as the God Warriors, they're far more numerous and easier to maintain. Heedra are extremely strong and difficult to kill; they can only be killed by destroying their "core", apparently located in the head just behind the uppermost of their three eyes, or blasting a Heedra into pieces. The cloned bodies of the Dorok Holy Emperor and the Master of the Garden are also referred to as Heedra, suggesting the name may in fact be a catch-all term for genetically engineered humanoids.

Horseclaws: large, flightless birds genetically-engineered as replacements for horses, which are now entirely extinct. They are commonly used as beasts-of-burden and as riding animals. Kai and Kui, a mated pair, are the story's most prominent horseclaws.

Ohmu

Pipe Worms

Royal Yanma

Slug Worms: slugs the size of small dogs, adept at tracking by scent. The Wormhandler people derive their name from their practice of domesticating and using these creatures. While they appear harmless, they're considered unclean creatures by many non-Wormhandlers.

Wing Worms

Publications

These are ISBNs for the current "Editor's Choice" edition of the English translation from VIZ Media, the first to be printed with the right-to-left order and dark brown (rather than black) ink of the original Japanese tankōbon.

Volume 1, ISBN 1-59116-408-7 (136 pages)

Volume 2, ISBN 1-59116-350-1 (136 pages)

Volume 3, ISBN 1-59116-410-9 (200 pages)

Volume 4, ISBN 1-59116-352-8 (200 pages)

Volume 5, ISBN 1-59116-412-5 (160 pages)

Volume 6, ISBN 1-59116-487-7 (200 pages)

Volume 7, ISBN 1-59116-355-2 (232 pages) Older, now out of print English editions include a 7 volume "Graphic Novel" series and a 4 volume Perfect Collection (both printed in 'flopped' left-to-right format).

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