| Primrose Azelhart | |
|---|---|
 Primrose, as she appears in Octopath Traveler | |
| First game | Octopath Traveler (2018) |
| Voiced by | EN: Laura Post[1] JA: Houko Kuwashima[1] |
Primrose Azelhart (Japanese: プリムロゼ・エゼルアート, Hepburn: Purimuroze Ezeruāto) is a fictional character in the 2018 video game Octopath Traveler, where she serves as one of its eight protagonists. She was designed by character designer Naoki Ikushima, and is a dancer seeking information about the murder of her father and the fall of House Azelhart, a quest that takes her to various locations across the world.
Primrose was one of the first characters introduced, alongside Olberic, in Octopath Traveler's demo, and was intended to have a more heavy and adult story, with her writer, Kakunoshin Futsuzawa, using Game of Thrones as a basis. A character in Octopath Traveler II, Agnea Bristaru, was designed to be a dancer whose disposition is "cheerful and sunny" to contrast Primrose.
Primrose has been criticized for her role in Octopath, with criticism pointed at the conflicting nature of her as a seductress and the sexism and misogyny that her plot is built around. She was also criticized for how her story is used to depict the world as being terrible for women.
- ^ a b "Primrose Azelhart Voice - Octopath Traveler (Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Archived from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2019.