Dragon Quest:Torneko

Torneko トルネコ
File:Torneko 1 - Torneko art.png
Character's information
Location	Lakanaba
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Age	40s
Status	Alive
Family	Nina (Wife) Paolo (Son)
Occupation	Arms Merchant
Title
Background information
Earliest Mystery Dungeon appearance	Template:GameTitle (1993)
Earliest non-Mystery Dungeon appearance	Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen (1990)
Latest Mystery Dungeon appearance	Template:GameTitle (2009)
Latest non-Mystery Dungeon appearance	Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince (2023)
Created by	Yuji Horii
Designed by	Akira Toriyama

This Torneko page is about the main character of the Torneko's Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon games. For the list of available games in the series, see Dragon Quest:Dragon Quest Mystery Dungeon.

Torneko (Japanese: トルネコ), previously known as Taloon in the North America localization, is the protagonist of the Torneko's Great Adventure series. He makes his second appearance in Torneko's Great Adventure, after his introduction in the Dragon Quest franchise in Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen.

Biography

Physical Appearance

Torneko wears a loose muumuu, chosen for comfort and practicality over fashion-ability. He hefts a giant backpack of sorts at all times, which he uses to hold his wares, personal belongings and, presumably, some of the party's items. He has a mustache and huge belly, both of which help to bring out his general jolliness. He has blue hair and a blue mustache.

Personality

His personality in his own game series is similar to any silent protagonist. However, by interacting with other non-playable characters and even his own family, he is known to have the typical mindset of a family man and a merchant, although he is not greedy.

Name

Torneko and Taloon are not actual names used in the real world, being nomenclature invented by the original development staff and Enix America Corporation. For the characters cameo appearance in Dragon Quest VIII, the localization team headed by Richard Honeywood opted to make Taloon his surname instead of abandoning it outright.

History

Though he was introduced in Dragon Quest Ⅳ, the player knows about his daily job and personality for a short while in the game's entire story. It would be in his own spin-off games that the player would discover what happened to him and his family after the event of the aforementioned game.

Family

• Nina

Torneko's wife. Mentioned in numerous Dragon Quest games.

• Paolo

Torneko's son. Mentioned in numerous Dragon Quest games.

Appearances

For more about Torneko as a character in a specific game, click through their respective links.

Games

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In Other Media

Torneko is known to appear in numerous Dragon Quest main and spin-off games. Despite the Dragon Quest Mystery Dungeon titles being canon to the mainline series, there are no direct references between him and the Mystery Dungeon franchise in other media.

Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 2 - Shiren's Castle and the Oni Invasion

In Template:GameTitle, Torneko is mentioned by Dan.

Gallery

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  Torneko running away from monsters in Torneko: The Last Hope.

In Other Languages

Language		Name
English		Taloon Torneko 1 (Unreleased) Torneko
Japanese		トルネコ