Elise was a woman of the Mana Clan. When she was little she left for travels with a swordsman. She was tasked with raising Heroine (Sword of Mana) as her daughter in the Mana Village and prepared her for her own travels. The day when the girl was about to leave with Sir Bogard, the Dark Lord with Julius came to the village. Chief Kaseem told her to take the girl and run away. As they ran she fell down and Julius overtook them. She cast a spell on Julius to allow the Girl to escape and revealed that she is not her real mother. Bogard came and she tasked him with protecting the girl and teleported them to Castle Town.
In the Hero's story, in Ishe, Cibba answers some questions for the quest, among them, the Hero learns that the Mana Pendant, the key to the sanctuary, is passed to the Mana Women as guardians and that the last one before the Heroine was Elise.
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Elise was also the name of a character in the cancelled Seiken Densetsu: The Emergence of Excalibur.