Thanks, I'll ask amei.

Only two of them are stupid, so to speak -- Scherazade and Viola. (The rest can kick ass with the best of them) But Viola was set up to be a political pawn-- she's one of those you have to pity, because she just wants to be a young girl in love, and instead that makes her easy to use and discard.

Scherazade...doesn't totally suck. As a support character, she makes a pretty decent mage and she totally rules as your only healer. Her movement range is incredibly small though. It's the story that drives people mad-- if Saladin wasn't so jawdroppingly cool and hunky, people would be screaming 'obssessive lover!' at him. But I have to admit Scherazade is...like Belldandy in a warzone. Inappropriate for the situation at hand-- but mind you, considering that Koreans were more into Confucianism than most, it's a miracle she can do anything offensive.