Learn about Seikens

What updates are coming up?

Weekly Updates:

Mana Music Monday- New music tracks available every Monday.

In the works:

Heroes of Mana section- Kassidy is currently working on this section.

Final Fantasy Adventure section overhaul- Sheexy is going to redo this entire section.

Friends of Mana section expanding- Kassidy is currently working on this section.

Coming Up:

Merchandise section- Sheexy will finish up his reviews on various merchandise from the series.

Dawn of Mana section expanding- Kassidy is compiling info from nick912012, Duran and LegaiaRules.

Game reviews- Duran is currently preparing reviews for Legend of Mana and Sword of Mana.

Returning Sometime:

Whatever Wednesday- Random articles about the series. Returning in November

Mana Merchandise section- Explore the memorabilia of the series with Sheexy. Currently on hold until Sheexy gets his camera plugin back.

Seikens Stories- A comic about the webmasters by Sheexy.

Who are we?

Deques

Name: K. Wai Wong
Locale: Katrineholm, Sweden
Date of Birth: 12th November
Favorite Mana game: Seiken Densetsu 3
Favorite Mana character: Duran
Favorite Mana enemy: Rabites, Shape Shifter
Favorite Mana music: Where Angels Fear to Tread
Favorite Mana locale: Pureland
Saddest Mana Moment: Secret of Mana Ending
Funniest Mana Moment:Purim married to Popoie moment
Most used words: ...
Hobbies: Webdesign, play games, badminton
Site Credits: Site Layouts, scripting, Seiken Densetsu 3

Deques says:

Who Am I. Thats my name: Wai. I am one of the two original webmasters of Seikens. Me and RagNaroK started this site as network site at the beginning. I made Mana World that covered Seiken Densetsu 3. With RagNaroK's Mana Tree, that was about Secret of Mana, we created the Seikens Network.
Today I have been working lots different stuff, like installing new stuff for Seikens ie. the new gallery and Wordpress. I also made all the layouts for Seikens. Currently this is layout number 3.

In my free time, which I don't have much, I like to play video games. I am much into RPG games, but due to lack of these kind of games in Europe I also play some random action games for PS2. When I don't play games, I like to make site designs. Recently I have earned money for my efforts, which I really like.

You probably wonder why name isn't "western"-like. That's because I am not westerner, I am asian. Probably the only asian of all webmasters of Seikens. To be more exactly I am chinese. My parents moved to Sweden a few months before my birth. So I have lived in Sweden pretty much all of my life.

My first experience with the Seiken Densetsu series was when my mother rented Secret of Mana from a rent store. Me and my brother got very much into this game. It wasn't like any game we ever played then. So we tried to rent this game as much as we could. But our mother didn't allow us to do so. So in the end we finally got our own Secret of Mana. I have no idea why we sold it when we sold our SNES. I regret that very much.
Later we saw Seiken Densetsu 3 in a swedish gaming magazine. It looked like SoM, but we werent sure. This game became one of my favourites when I got this in an emulator. But by then it wasn't translated yet. So I used a walkthrough to play through the game halfways or something. When the translation finally came I was able to play this game. And it became my number one SD game. It had and still has everything.

Sheexy

Name: Weldon Z. Smith
Locale: Texas, US
Date of Birth: October 11th, 1987
Favorite Mana game: Final Fantasy Adventure
Favorite Mana character: Dead Willy, Randi
Favorite Mana enemy: Ninjas, Shadow Zero, Rabites!
Favorite Mana music: FFA Mission, SoM+, DoM The Fool's Dance and Endless Dream
Favorite Mana locale: The Pureland
Saddest Mana Moment: "SEE YOU SOMETIME, KID...."
Funniest Mana Moment: Popoi eating all the sandship's food
Most used words: Awesome, y'all, ain't, anyways, alrighty
Hobbies: My Seiken Densetsu collection, drawing, game design
Site Credits: Final Fantasy Adventure, Secret of Mana, Bestiary, Remixes, Comics, Anything broken

Sheexy says:

I'm pretty much a normal guy with way too much time to commit to the Seiken Densetsu series I guess. I go to a university and it is probably pretty fun, it involves walking more than learning which is kind of weird. I've got long hair because I've grown too used to it and because I am too lazy to go get it cut. I used to be really lazy like Deques, but I got over it. Still procrastinate though. Every Friday I don the probably magical "Friday Suit" which is actually just a ripped up, beat up, bleached up, old shirt that I have worn every Friday for like seven years. The Friday Suit is something of a legend.

Secret of Mana was my first experience with the Seiken Densetsu series back when I was six. I was hooked on the game the first time I played it. I even made my friends play a pretend Secret of Mana out in the school yard during recess. Oh the adventures Randi, Popoi and Watts had. We had to use Watts because none of my friends wanted to be a girl. After that I found Final Fantasy Adventure and its deep storyline for such a limited game really amazed me. Currently I think the entire series is going downhill and it is really sad, but I'll stick through it, it's going to get better! Personally I blame Willy not dying in Sword of Mana for the problems the series is having.

My history with Seikens started when I became friends with RagNaroK. He and Deques ended up making Seikens, and I got my own little page there with some Seiken Densetsu fan games. A few years later, and blammo, all the sudden I am a webmaster because Dekky got lazy and someone needed to pay for the site. Cut to three years later, I finally finished something for the site, haha. Now I'm up to updating the thing almost non stop!

So that's me. Sheexy. You read about me. Alrighty then.

Kassidy

Name: Kassidy M. Kearey
Locale: London, UK
Date of Birth: Aug/22/15:00
Favorite Mana game: Secret of Mana
Favorite Mana character: Mr. Moti, Thanatos
Favorite Mana enemy: Rabites, Puchiguranshie, Dark Lich (Heavy... METAL!)
Favorite Mana music: SoM Danger, SD3 Sacrifice III, CoM Tower
Favorite Mana locale: SoM's Turtle Island
Saddest Mana Moment: Goodbye Popoie, Riesz leaves Rolante, Elena dies
Funniest Mana Moment: Angela being woken while sleeping in Jadd
Most used words: Cuppa Tea, smeg, ook, various permutations of grunt.
Hobbies: Guitar, creating videos, reading, writing, anime, gaming
Site Credits: Children of Mana, Soundtracks, Remixes, Heroes of Mana, Friends of Mana, Game Overviews, Staff Rolls

Kassidy says:

There was a general concensus round the beginning of the thirteenth century that there were far too many sane people in this world, and it was as a consequence that he came into existance. Not quite in the impresive cinematographic way that requires a very large budget in special effects, but more in the manner of a simple blip on the universal radar of existance, waiting to be homed in on.

Born in a hospital bed somewhere round three in the afternoon, KMK is a 6'2" skinny brit that only brandishes black clothes, generally wears sunglasses due to his hypersensitivity to light, has long black hair and debatable eyes (though it has been confirmed that at least there are two), and at the moment of writing this, he has the kind of beard that can only be described as "in dire requirement of maintenance". He is often accused of being eccentric and incoherent, and prone to talking backwards and in third person (as is evident by your current reading material). It's suspected that his addiction to cheese may have something to do with this.

I was introduced to Secret of Mana by a friend in Spain, and was immediately hooked. A group of us kept borrowing it off him time and time again. I later found a second-hand copy in England and bought it on a trip over there (this was before the days of the internet being wide-spread). After that I constantly researched SD3 with the hope it would be released, and remained an avid fan of the series since.

I came across Seikens in one of its previous incarnations while researching for a fan fiction I was working on called "Return of Mana", and lurked for some time before participating on the board. When I started contributing more was with the news coverage of the World of Mana revival, in particular Children of Mana, which lead to me joining the news team for the site, and more recently the webmaster team, allowing me to directly contribute material wherever I can to the site.

And all of this pales to utter insignificance in light of the fact that my teacup is once again empty. Savvy?

Who helped out on the site?

Seikens has had tons of help over the years, here we'll give out a thanks to those who have kept us moving.

RagNaroK

Also known as Raggy, this dude is another one of the founders of Seikens. He created the Secret of Mana section.

Alact, Faalstar, Krayola, Kyatto, Riesz

These people have served as guardians of the forum. Today it is Faal and Kyatto who continue to slave for us.

Craig Erskine

I don't know this guy, but he did one insane job on his solarLoM page which he kindly let us add to the network.

Ailise

Ailise created our awesome shoutbox! Thank you Ailise!

Duran

We probably owe half of the credit for the images in the gallery to this guy. Contributed the Dawn of Mana Game Review. He has eaten many of the people on the forum too.