Couroughis family

The Couroughis family is a notable family in Talon. They claim to have very deep roots in Talon, claiming to be descendants of a yeoman bearing the same surname as them, the yeoman who led the effort to rebuild Talon two years after the Long Raid.

The 2012 game
The Couroughis family first appeared in the 2012 game, albeit much of the story it received in the game is considered non-canon by now. According to the family's matriarch Ghinerva Couroughis, at one point, there was a housefire which claimed her husband Carolus Couroughis, as well as his brothers Adelbaldus and Aedwin, and their wives, leaving her to raise the four children: Edgar, Aelfwin, Maria and Alisia.



In the game, Maria and Alisia Couroughis (spelled Alicia in the game) were clearly based on Marisa Kirisame and Alice Margatroid from the Touhou Project, while the family name Couroughis itself was inspired by Suzaku Kururugi from Code Geass - Edgar could have been a reference to Final Fantasy VI. Ladislaus Dominus had a crush on Maria Couroughis, as his teammates said that "he had fallen in love with a blond girl from Talon". It is never revealed if Ladislaus' love for Maria was requited or not - albeit, given how Maria later visits the team's mansion, it is implied that it was requited.

In the beginning of the game, Maria Couroughis asks the five heroes (Stephánus Tavilrond, Gnarog Dougfrál, Nemezish, Morthen Orden'Áth Ildor, Ladislaus Dominus) to rescue her sister Alisia, who was missing. By the time the intro rolls and the protagonist completes his/her first mission, Alisia has been already rescued and is completely fine. After the protagonist defeats a vampire lord and claims his mansion for the team, Maria later attends one of their meetings.

As an additional trivia, Ghinerva Couroughis and Alicia Couroughis were voiced by the same voice actress, sadly uncredited. Maria Couroughis was voiced by Sierraphantom.

Canonity
Zsolt Tóth decided to make the Couroughis family itself canon - which doesn't ammount to much, other than recognizing that yes, a family with such a name does in fact canonically exist -, but he is still on the fence whether to make the aforementioned characters canon or not. The aforementioned characters did not make an appearence in the 2013 game, albeit their omission could be attributed to the early cessation of the gamge's development, rather than a deliberate decision to remove them from the canon. Nevertheless, the characters of Ghinerva, Carolus, Adebaldus, Aedwin, Edgar, Aelfwin, Maria and Alisia Couroughis will likely be considered non-canon and replaced by other, more original characters.