Bravely Default

Rain has blue eyes and blond, lightly disheveled hair. He wears a black shirt, a green vest adorned with military decorations and accentuated with gold trimmings, black metal pauldrons and bracers, and a red cape attached to his right pauldron. He also wears white pants, black combat boots, and a red knight insignia near his left shoulder.
As a child, Rain wore a long-sleeved red hoodie over a dark gray shirt, dark green shorts, and brown boots.

Spoiler warning : Plot and/or ending details  follow. ( Skip section ) As Hyoh of the Delta Star , he is a clad in futuristic suit of black armor and hides his face behind a leopard-shaped helmet with a red visor (a reference to his name), although strands of short blond hair are still visible. He alters his voice through artificial means. He wields the Ultima Weapon armament, a weapon capable of turning magic energy into burning gas and compressing it into a high pressure energy-blade, making it similar to a lightsaber. Hyoh's appearance, weapon of choice, and behavior are reminiscent of Darth Vader, a major antagonist in the Star Wars franchise. In his Vagrant Knight attire, he dons his knight uniform, but adds a lavender cloak that belonged to Kyanos that covers his mouth and nose. He now uses the Centurio that belonged to Crimson , a large mostly white Greatsword with a violet edge. In his Aldore King attire, he wears a more traditional black armor with red shading with his left shoulder section with additional protrusions (mirroring Lasswell's on his right shoulder), a long red cape, and a stylized small crown on his head. He now wields the more powerful True Crimson Saber. In the fourth season, his outfit resembles Cloud's Cloudy Wolf attire. He wears a sleeveless shirt, a red cloth around his waist, and wears a paludron on his left arm. Spoilers end here .

Rain is a light-hearted, affable young man who usually maintains a carefree demeanor, but can turn serious when the situation requires it. Committed to his duty as a knight of Grandshelt, he sees it as his responsibility to look after and help others within his capabilities; he is unable to ignore pleas for help and has gone out of his way to aid people ever since he was a child. He tends to get carried away and act impulsively by charging into battle heedless of the danger around him, especially when in the presence of a "pretty girl" as he is a bit of a womanizer. However, he is mildly uncomfortable towards women that go at him too strongly, like Dark Fina.
When the atmosphere grows heavy around him, Rain tries to cheer others up, even if that means speaking some nonsense. Rain has keen senses, able to detect things that others cannot, and quickly picks up skills that would take most people years to master. Rain harbors mixed feelings for his absent father due to how often Raegen left home on orders of the King without saying goodbye, as well as his mysterious disappearance and inability to explain his mother's death.

Spoiler warning : Plot and/or ending details  follow. ( Skip section ) During his time in Paladia , Rain witnesses first-hand the horrors of the Aldore dictatorship and the schism between the people of Aldore and Hess , while learning of his true ancestry. This leaves him emotionally scarred, full of guilt, sorrow, and powerlessness, and with a deep hatred of unnecessary bloodshed. He vows to change the world by taking drastic measures, honing himself to discard his previous self to become heartless. Painfully aware of his Aldore blood, he hopes to change the nation from within (just as his father had tried seven hundred years before). As Hyoh, he is stoic and taciturn, only speaking as much as is needed. Usually detached, he dislikes displaying his strength and fights only when absolutely required. Despite vowing to do the Emperor's bidding, he does not commit unnecessary murder and spares his prey's life on several occasions. Confronted by the Emperor's unimaginable power, Hyoh believes that true strength comes from discarding everything for the sake of power and is willing to do so to save Aldore. After he left the party and was watched over by Nichol , Sakura , and Sol , he came to regret his path of solitude as he realizes that his friends were always there for him and this is what makes him truly strong, returning to the old Rain he was. After becoming the King of Aldore, Rain struggles adjusting to his new position. His knightly instincts can get the best of his judgment by putting himself in harm's way for the sake of the people, contrary to the word of his advisors. As a way to unwind between busy political affairs, Rain has been refining his cooking after his comrades pointed out how bad a chef he is. Story [ ] Early life [ ] Rain was born to Sophia and Sir Raegen in Lapis, the latter secretly a member of the Aldore royal line from Paladia. Rain was raised alongside Lasswell, an orphan taken in by Raegen, and thus grew up as brothers and best friends. One day, Raegen returned from a mission covered in wounds, but Sophia explained to Rain and Lasswell that their father fought to keep people safe, including himself, as a knight of Grandshelt . This inspired Rain to strive to become one himself. One time, Rain, Lasswell, and two other children were playing together when a stranger approached them. The cultist hypnotized the boys and claimed that he would make their wishes come true if they went outside the city at night. General Loren and Captain Amy approached Rain and Lasswell to ask whether they saw a bard , but they answered that they hadn't, and returned home. Later that night, and under the cultist's spell, they snuck out. Rain and the other children were led to a cavern where they would be sacrificed to the cultists' god, but Loren's team rescued them in time. Rain's encounter with the earth crystal as a child. One day, Rain followed his father into the caverns below Grandshelt Castle and got lost. He came across a crystal and touched it, and it awakened his latent power. Raegen heard him and came to his aid, but upon seeing that Rain's dormant power had reacted to the crystal, he walked away, despite Rain's pleas. In the following weeks, the pain on his arm worsened with no apparent cure. A girl encased in crystal appeared before Rain and stored his power away until a time he could handle it. Soon afterwards, and five years before the events of the game, Sophia was killed under Raegen's watch. He brought her body to their home, where Rain was waiting for her. His father blamed himself for her death (although Rain did not want to believe the claim). Rather than explaining what had happened, Raegen walked away. Although Rain began to resent his missing father, he did not forfeit his dream of becoming a knight. During their training as squires, Rain and Lasswell became acquainted with Charlotte and Lawrence . To become full-fledged knights, the four passed a trial supervised by General Loren. Partly due to his talents and partly due to his father's reputation, Rain earned the trust of the King of Grandshelt , and by the age of 18, was given shared command of the airship fleet with Lasswell. Season One [ ] Artwork of Rain, Fina and Lasswell by Yoshitaka Amano . While on patrol aboard their airship, a girl encased in crystal, Fina, warns Rain and Lasswell of the Earth Crystal 's shattering. Unable to dismiss her plea, Rain and Lasswell enter the Earth Shrine , where they find an armor-clad man contemplating the crystal. Despite their efforts, the man destroys the crystal and leaves. Fina reappears and grants the two friends the power of visions before teleporting them away. Outside the shrine, Rain and Lasswell find their airship destroyed and their men killed by the armored man. They resolve to relay the events to the king, but when they arrive at the castle, they find it sieged and set ablaze. They rescue the king and meet with the armored man, who reveals his identity as " Veritas of the Dark " of the Sworn Six of Paladia . Before leaving, he attacks them, but Fina reappears and protects them, her crystal encasement shattering in the process. Rain resolves to prevent the Sworn Six from destroying the other crystals and Lasswell decides to accompany him. At Port City Lodin , the amnesiac Fina asks to join their party, Rain readily accepting. The trio reaches Grandport , from where they follow Darklord to the Lanzelt Ruins . He easily defeats them and takes the Sacred Ring of Paladia . Undeterred, the trio hires a ship that calls at Kolobos before continuing onto Dirnado . They meet Emma , whom they escort to the Shrine of Decay so that she can meet with her mother. At the shrine, they meet Dr. Lazarov (a researcher behind the zombie plague ravaging Kolobos and ally of the Veritas, responsible for the death of Emma's mother), but he escapes. The trio escorts Emma back to Kolobos Port and bids her farewell. Their ship is attacked by Leviathan and the trio washes up on the shores of Maranda Coast . They venture into Dilmagia to request an airship from the engineer Lid , but she refuses to ask the military. Instead, she guides them to the Wind Shrine . On the journey, the discovery of her brother Evan working on the Invincible for the Sworn Six prompts Lid to join the party. At the shrine, they defeat the Veritas of the Heavens , who still manages to destroy the Wind Crystal . Now committed to the trio's cause, Lid helps them request an airship to travel to Olderion . They meet Nichol and help him find his sister Luka . They escort the two siblings to Lake Dorr , where the Veritas of the Waters has injured Leviathan and polluted the waters, thus endangering the Aquapolis . Luka pacifies Leviathan and descends to the bottom of the lake to purify its waters and heal the esper . The next day, the Veritas of the waters floods the capital. When they confront her, Dark Fina is awakened and the Waterlord flees. They pursue her on Mercedes 's ship and best her in battle, causing the Waterlord to drop the Sacred Ring of Paladia. Rain grabs it, but in doing so, his dormant power is forcibly reawakened and the Waterlord flees again. In Amore Rain's condition worsens and Fina tells him to accept his power or it will kill him. After a night's rest, they go to the Water Shrine to restore the Aquapolis. Nichol's brother Elle , wishing to make himself useful, uses his powers to magnify the Water Crystal 's power, but the Waterlord fatally injures him and shatters the crystal. In Elle's dying moments, Dark Fina uses the crystal's remaining power, along with the Sacred Ring, to save Rain and the Aquapolis before returning to her usual persona. They return to the Aquapolis and inform Arsha of Elle's passing and Rain summons Elle's vision so that they can see each other one last time. Nichol then decides to join the party. In imperial territory, they meet the rebel leader Jake and agree to help sabotage the Zoldaad Empire 's war efforts. They find themselves opposed by the Veritas of the Flame at the Fire Shrine , where Lasswell is injured trying to protect Rain. As they confront the Flamelord, Lasswell wants to duel Rain to see who is stronger; when he collapses, he only survives due to the Darklord's intervention (who wishes to fight him now that he has awakened the sword Purple Lightning). Rain's party triumphs over the two Veritas, but they are betrayed by Jake, who shatters the Fire Crystal to undermine the empire's power. The party follows him to Downtown Zoldaad . They are imprisoned for trying to rescue Prince Shera , but escape with Amelia 's aid and confront Lazarov, Emperor Sozhe , and Evan. Sozhe passes away and Lid snaps her brother out of his brainwashing. He helps them board the Invincible with the Enterprise . In its interior, the Veritas of the Heavens appears, kills Lazarov for attempting to steal the airship, and teleports Rain and the party out. After a meeting with Emperor Shera and Evan, Jake joins the party to atone for his misdeeds. As they contemplate what to do next, Sakura presents herself and offers information on the Sworn Six if they pass a test: to escort her to Mysidia . They bring her safely to the Mysidian capital . Before she can explain, the party must face the Veritas of the Light and the Veritas of the Earth to protect the Light Crystal. They are overpowered and the Earthlord forcefully reawakens Dark Fina to fight her (thus starting to slowly erase the other Fina). Sakura teleports the party away to save them and the Veritas destroy the crystal. The party uses a book from the Magic Library to enter Fina's memories of the civil war between Aldore and Hess in another world known as Paladia. Although momentarily interrupted by the Lightlord (who reveals that the Darklord was once Rain's father, Raegen), they save Fina, but find she has split in two. After the party defeats the Light- and Earthlords, the Darklord appears and teleports them away. Rain vows to defeat him, even if it is his father behind the suit of armor. In Gronoa , the party learns the truth behind the Sworn Six's actions: the Six seek revenge against Aldore by undoing the seal upon the world of Lapis so that it may return to Paladia, likely destroying Lapis in the process. Assisted by Ilias and Fohlen , they make it to the Gronoa Shrine , where the last crystal stands. To their surprise, Dark Elf seeks to destroy the Dark Crystal as well, prompting the Lightlord to duel him to no avail. She lays defeated when the party approaches her; resigned, she asks Sakura and then Rain to kill her. When he refuses, the Lightlord reveals that she had been the one to kill Sophia, but Rain refuses again out of principle. He leaves to battle Dark Elf, whom they ultimately defeat with the Lightlord's help before she retreats. The Veritas of the Frost freezes the villagers of the nearby hamlet Duggle , but agrees to release the people if Rain's party defeats him. The Frostlord declares to fight whomever they determine (through battle) is strongest among their rank. Rain wins against Sakura and Dark Fina before losing against Lasswell. Realizing this is not what Lasswell wanted, Rain finally accepts his power and wins. The Frostlord fights the party next to the Dark Crystal. He is defeated just before the Sworn Six arrive. They ask the Frostlord to rejoin them, but he refuses and reveals his face: he is Raegen. The two groups do battle until the shrine starts collapsing due to the gate's instability. Raegen has Sakura teleport the party to Pharm , where they confront the Veritas one by one (and the Earthlord, Heavenlord and Flamelord fall in battle) due to Nichol wanting to exact his revenge on the Waterlord in spite of Rain's pleas. Ultimately, Nichol allows her to live so that she may atone for her sins, and the party catches up with Raegen. With him, they convince the Darklord (who is revealed to be a vision of Raegen) and the Lightlord not to destroy the crystal. Artwork of Rain and Lasswell facing Behemoth K by Yoshitaka Amano . Before the party can rejoice, the powerful sage Sol and his Behemoth K companion destroy the crystal and kill the Darklord. The party climbs the crystal tower to stop the two sages and close the dimensional gate . Raegen shows Rain and Lasswell a vision of Sophia.
The Waterlord and Lightlord join their efforts thanks to Nichol. The two remaining Veritas keep the Behemoth busy, while Rain and the others catch up with Sol. When he puts up a barrier, the group realizes that Fina is going to disappear. Dark Fina sacrifices herself and becomes the Earth Crystal, sealing the land once again and allowing the other Fina to carry on existing. Fina dispels Sol's barrier and the party makes it to the summit , where they defeat him. The sage summons the Chaotic Darkness , which creates the Wandering Lands . The group traverses the lands, puts Behemoth to rest, and, at the Land of Darkness , defeats Sol, who declares his hatred of Rain and disappears. Supported by the prayers of those they met during their journey and Evan on the Invincible , Rain and the others defeat the Chaotic Darkness. They close the gate and Rain (who first leaves a crystal on the ship's deck) helps his father by fully awakening to Aldore's power. They negate the magic pouring out of the gate and it collapses back in on itself. At the last moment, Sol returns to re-open the gate. Rain stops him, and, during their clash, they both disappear, and Rain's Crimson Saber falls to the deck of the airship. Season Two [ ] Dark Fina rescues Rain and teleports him to Paladia. Rain is left stranded in the town of Sacher , where he meets Mirfas and Crimson , a former aide to his father, who has been resisting Aldore's dictatorship, but the latter is fatally injured in a skirmish. Through Crimson's last words, Rain learns that he is Aldore royalty. Though Rain befriends Mirfas and vows to change Paladia with his usual self, the situation takes a turn for the worse when the survivors of Hess realize his bloodline. They blame Rain and his lineage and one of them tries to stab him; Mirfas intercepts the attack and is killed. The confrontation between the people of Aldore and Hess leads to everyone being massacred. Realizing that he could not save a single life despite his earlier promises, Rain is filled with despair. Hyoh's concept artwork. Rain infiltrates the Aldore Tower to assassinate the Aldore Emperor, even fighting off the Delta Star Demoldoa . The Emperor is impressed that Rain got this far while others were killed in such attempts. Rain is overwhelmed, but instead of killing him, the Emperor offers for him to join him, as he sees Rain's lonely soul. Vowing to change the world no matter what it takes, Rain decides to change Aldore for the better from the inside. Donning the alter-ego of Hyoh, Rain joins the Orders (the Emperor's personal elite guard) and rises to the position of Delta Star in record time. Still, during a demonstration, he is unable to even scratch the Emperor due to his paling, yet the tyrant praises Hyoh for his power. The Emperor summons Hyoh for a mission, but before he hears the details, Hyoh is challenged by Nazuu of the Orders, who thirsts for the Delta Star seat. Hyoh defeats Nazuu, who retreats. The Emperor sends Hyoh to flush out a traitor among the Aldore ranks as a test of loyalty. At Crystallis , Hyoh meets with the soldiers Domino and Shatal after their fight with the Children of Hess and promises to kill the traitor. When Shatal is under suspicion, he panics, but Hyoh orders Shatal to follow him to find the true culprit. Hyoh leaks Yuraisha 's (the "Mother of Hess") location to the rebels on the elevator computer. When the elevator is activated, Hyoh drags Shatal and they confront the true spy: Domino. After a chase, Hyoh defeats her, but Shatal defends his friend, taking Domino and fleeing. The two are struck down. Back at Aldore Tower, Nazuu (who was monitoring Hyoh) reports to the Emperor that Hyoh accomplished his mission and killed the traitors. The Emperor is pleased and expects more great things from him. As Hyoh leaves, he mutters to himself that he must become more heartless—as it is later revealed, he did not actually kill Shatal and Domino. A couple of months after Rain's disappearance from Lapis, his friends, his father, and the revived Veritas venture into Paladia in search of him. Upon learning of Paladia's state, Raegen separates from Lasswell's party and leads the Sworn Six into Aldore Tower to confront the Emperor. Hyoh is summoned alongside several high ranking Orders to stand guard and fight their predecessors. He fights Raegen (feigning to know him from books) and they injure each other, but Hyoh gains the upper hand as the remaining Sworn Six are overpowered by the other Orders members. When Hyoh approaches to deal the finishing blow, he spares Raegen's life along with the Sworn Six, deeming them not worth killing, and they are imprisoned. Hyoh is ordered to deal with Lasswell and heads to Crystallis, where he appears before the party. Sol, a sage of Hess who now travels with Lasswell, challenges him, claiming Hyoh is Rain. Hyoh overpowers Sol, but the sage rushes at him and the two fall from a cliff. When the party finds them and Hyoh fights off Lasswell, the latter admits that he can feel Rain in Hyoh. Hyoh declares he is not the Rain they know, and to prove his point, attacks Fina; unable to kill her, he incurs a wound that starts crystallizing her body. He is confronted by Akstar , Lasswell's new mentor in swordsmanship, to buy time for Sakura to use a teleportation spell. Hyoh is joined by Nagi of the Iota Star on the Emperor's orders. She is interested in Hyoh and when she wonders how he became so strong, he advises her to discard everything she cares for. At the Energy Extraction Station , Nagi fails to defeat Lasswell's party, so Hyoh takes it upon himself. Lasswell and Hyoh duel, convincing Lasswell that Hyoh is indeed Rain. Lasswell unleashes the Absolute Mirror of Equity sword technique and overpowers Hyoh. Lasswell asks Hyoh to admit to his identity, but Hyoh escapes with Nagi. While Hyoh is wounded, a projection of the Emperor appears to chastise him for his failure. In a fit of rage, Hyoh unleashes a power that pleases the Emperor, and after tending to his wounds, Hyoh asks a favor from Nagi. She disguises herself as Hyoh (using performance enhancing drugs to complete the deception) and ambushes Lasswell's party while the real Hyoh returns to his Rain persona and attire to intercept her, seemingly destroying "Hyoh". Rain rejoins the party and suggests they partake in the Order of Aldore to win the rank of Alpha Star, the one closest to the Emperor. Though Sol notices that Rain has changed, he in time comes to believe Rain is not worth destroying for he is no longer his exact opposite. The party heads to Visectrum to participate in the qualifying rounds and befriends some competitors: Pris , Atole , and the Magus Sisters . They also meet Demoldoa of the Epsilon Star, who, at one point, uses his rank to allow them to pass so that he may destroy them himself. Sol tests Rain by summoning the Chaotic Darkness to ravage both Lapis and Paladia. The party beats the monster, as it was a weaker incarnation than the one they saw before. Sol departs on his own, vowing to return, pleased that deep down, Rain still carries his just and noble self that disgusts the sage. Later, Akstar likewise departs, as he wants to face Lasswell in the competition. While en route to the second stage, the party is attacked by participants who want to defeat them to earn a spot. Jake takes a beating defending Lid, while Sakura tries to teleport them to safety. Demoldoa appears and intends to crush them, but the Magus Sisters buy them time to teleport Lid and Jake to safety at Gungan , although the sisters are fatally wounded. Lasswell duels and kills Demoldoa. The party arrives at the Visectrum capital and takes the train to the Colosseum. They are assaulted by assassins, but the attack is foiled. They meet Krowa and Regina , fellow participants whom they befriend. Rain "learns" from Sakura that Lasswell's ancestry is linked to Hess, as his is linked to Aldore, making them enemies by nature, although he feigns indifference. They continue to advance in the competition in spite of a second assassination attempt that Krowa and Regina foil and earn a spot in the final rounds. Rain watches from afar as Lasswell bests Akstar one-on-one and publicly challenges the Emperor, vowing to end his tyranny. The Emperor overwhelms the party until the Sworn Six appear and dispel his powerful magic aura (with Rain finally openly meeting his father). The Emperor summons Levnato of the Alpha Star and Zeno of the Beta Star as backup, the latter turning out to be none other than Akstar himself. The revelation shocks Lasswell, but after some hesitation, he joins the battle. Lasswell and Rain decide to awaken to their blood to face Zeno, but their natures repel each other. The party is saved by the Children of Hess, who bombard the arena from airships, and the party retreats. On board the Yuraisha Rain voices his disgust for Hess' methods that endangered civilians. Lasswell, as Hess' heir, while disagreeing with their methods, deems victims inevitable with the open declaration of war and vows to rein Hess in, to which Rain reluctantly agrees. The Hess group moves to Magistellus to disable Aldore's biggest military facilities while their attention is still in Visectrum. The party disables the four facilities that protect the central station, but Rain's change of demeanor becomes increasingly apparent. In one of the facilities, the party comes across the eccentric Physalis of the Pi Star, in whom Lasswell senses honor as she did not kill any Children of Hess after defeating them. When Lasswell tells her his side of the story, she vows to learn the truth for herself and leaves. Lasswell wonders if there are good people in Aldore after all, something that resonates with Rain. En route to the main facility , Rain asks Lasswell to spar with him; the fight escalates as the two activate their blood and once more repel one another. It turns into a fistfight as Rain declares they can no longer remain friends for they stand opposite as heirs of Aldore and Hess. Lasswell protests, saying their relationship doesn't have to change just because their bloods clash. After the facility's destruction, Rain leaves the Yuraisha , threatening to destroy it if they do not leave instantly. He reveals that he was Hyoh all along, that the impostor they fought was Nagi, and that he injured Fina and crystallized her wound to spare her, making it clear that from that point onwards he fights for the sake of Aldore to change it from the inside. Rain dons his suit of armor as Hyoh and leaves. The revelation emotionally crushes Lasswell and Fina, but Rain is confident they will pull through. The Emperor summons Hyoh and the remaining Orders, with Hyoh revealing his awareness of being Aldore royalty. As the Emperor bestows him the rank of Gamma Star following Yego 's defection, Hyoh renews his pledge to serve him faithfully. Along his peers, he is deployed to retaliate against the Children of Hess' attacks. When the factions of Aldore and Hess wage war for control of the Weapon, Hyoh is separated from the rest of the Orders and becomes surrounded by crystallized monsters. Sol saves Hyoh and proposes they join forces to destroy the Aldore Emperor and settle their score after Hyoh becomes Aldore's new leader. Hyoh refuses, but Sol nonetheless accompanies him. The two witness the Weapon's activation and are assaulted by monsters. Sol is forced to stand back to restore his magical power, while Hyoh is left fending them off. They end up saving one another, which causes Sol to experience warmer emotions and remember his time with the Sages of Hess. A grateful Sol heals a surprised Hyoh. The two rest as Hyoh cooks. Sol is amused that Hyoh would cook for him, but finds the soup an utter disaster. Sol believes the hardly edible ingredients are partially to blame, but nonetheless decides to finish it. They are met by Sakura and Nichol, Lasswell's friends who deserted the Orders after learning of the Emperor's true ambitions: eternal sovereignty as the only existence in the world. Sol proposes they form a party to defeat the Emperor. Hyoh refuses, as he claims it is his fight alone as the true heir to Aldore, the throne having been usurped from his bloodline 700 years ago. Sol proclaims that they will follow him on their own volition and, to celebrate the "party's formation," Sol offers a sample of Hyoh's soup, deeming it fantastic. Sakura is thrilled, but soon pukes in repulsion. Hyoh is annoyed. The party saves Raegen's party from the Emperor and the Exostars under his command. Hyoh and Sol act in perfect sync, leaving everyone amazed. Sol pretends to summon the Chaotic Darkness and the Emperor retreats after using all of his power. Hyoh and Sol catch up with the weakened Emperor, who summons more Exostars, all of whom are easily destroyed. The Emperor uses the power he had stored to control the Weapon, but Sol keeps his magic at bay. Sol and Hyoh defeat the Emperor, but before Hyoh can finish him, Levnato, the Alpha Star of the Orders, interferes and unleashes a powerful magic attack. Sol takes the blow for Hyoh and Levnato teleports away with the Emperor. Hyoh fruitlessly tries to heal Sol, who accepts death, saying he has destroyed the one thing he hated the most: his own self devoid of emotion, as he has finally been able to feel something. He tells Hyoh to not lose his way and passes away, making him the last of the Sages of Hess to perish. In the original timeline, Lasswell and Rain's group failed to defeat Vlad , the true mastermind behind Paladia, leaving Rain the only, albeit scarred, survivor, missing his left arm and leg. Seeing that Rain was still willing to end the dictatorship, Zeno healed him and took him away. For many years, Rain continued to try and assassinate Vlad with new comrades, but all attempts ended in failure (by this time, it is presumed Zeno/Akstar has long passed away). As Rain collapsed from his injuries, now missing his left eye as well, he was about to be executed by Aldore Soldiers, but Dark Fina saved him. She nursed him back to health and revealed she has been building power to travel through time . They could go into the past when their comrades were alive to the precise point they could make a difference. The two realized the two great factors that had led to their defeat. The first was the Exostars on Aldore Tower performing advanced versions of the Mirror of Equity technique that were unknown to the party, thus inflicting injuries that deprived them of their strength. The second, and most fatal factor, was Lasswell's kindness getting the better of him in a critical moment, giving Vlad the opening needed to win. Rain and Dark Fina devised a plan where the future Rain would pose as Akstar, a wandering swordsman, and teach Lasswell the three Mirrors of Equity, and then, at a critical moment, reveal himself as Zeno of the Beta Star, his "enemy," to steel Lasswell's heart and guide away from his emotions. The two traveled to the past using the lion's share of Dark Fina's powers and found the present day Akstar. They revealed to him the events as they were about to unfold through visions and requested for his help in executing their plan. Rain explained that by posing as Akstar, he would not reveal his origins, thus sparing his younger self, Hyoh, from destruction at the hands of the Aldore Emperor, and thus render their plan null (as it would kill the future Rain by proxy). They requested Akstar to be sealed in crystal until their mission was done, allowing Rain to use Transformation Magic to pose as him, taking Zeno's suit of armor and attributing the loss of his limbs to an illness. The real Akstar agreed to the plan and was sealed in crystal. The future Rain and Dark Fina executed their plan with the Emperor not realizing the truth. Now when the parties are their way to the top of the Aldore Tower again, "Akstar" gives Rain a special power that will aid them against the Emperor, although it strains him. After the party defeats the Emperor, Levnato of the Alpha Star appears and absorbs the Emperor's life and power into himself. He reveals himself to be none other than Vlad, the first Aldore Emperor and originator of the 700-year-long dictatorship. Vlad casts his strongest spell on the party, which Rain blocks using the power Akstar had gifted him. The party readies to fight their true enemy. Vlad blasts them with powerful spells, which Rain blocks. Seeing himself at a disadvantage, Vlad uses a magic blast to escape to his personal sky fortress, Grandore, as he seeks to use his magic powers to lay waste to the world. The party pursues him and are sent into the Transfer Space. The last of the Exostars appear, whose attacks render the space unstable, transporting Lasswell, Physalis, and the Sworn Six into a different location. Filled with Crystals carrying memory visions, Lasswell's party comes to learn of Akstar's origins as the future Rain. Akstar is in Rain's party and shows signs of weakening, but reaffirms his conviction at continuing. He nicknames Rain as "The Tongue Tormenting Soup Man," leaving Rain flabbergasted that he is aware of his disastrous soup episode (Rain is still unaware "Akstar" is his future self). Rain's party catches up to Vlad, who launches barrages of spells. Rain cannot keep up, but Akstar and Dark Fina attack Vlad, who blocks them. This gives enough time for Lasswell's party to arrive. Vlad reveals to Raegen that he killed his parents because he hated the royalty's hereditary system that would never allow him to be ruler by his own hand, and that he developed the Mirrors of Equity as a testament of his superiority. The party rejects his claims of being a fit ruler and the party puts him at a disadvantage. He wonders whether the royal bloodline was always so powerful and the party points out only three of them are royals as proof that the strength of their bonds overcomes his commitment to absolute solitude. Vlad is tired of their preach and dons a monstrous wizard form much stronger than before, but is soon defeated. As the party celebrates their victory, Akstar leaves with Lasswell following. Lasswell reveals he knows of Akstar's true identity, with the latter relieved that everything went smoothly. Lasswell protests at the thought of losing him, but Akstar reassures that it is for the best as they have altered the future and that Lasswell still has the Rain of his current timeline; he is nothing more than "Akstar." Lasswell vows to build an era of peace with him and bids farewell to his master in a bow of respect. Akstar is grateful and disappears along with his timeline's Dark Fina, now in his true form, embracing her as the future changes. Vlad's original soul still survives and manifests in his true body, a massive three-headed ogre that towers over mountains. The crystal on Vlad's forehead houses his original soul, and so the party sets to climb his body. On their way, they encounter copies of the Sworn Eight of Paladia, which resurrect after being defeated. The Sworn Six, minus Raegen, use the strength enhancing drug to destroy their impostors, but lose their immortality and are left exhausted. As the rest of the party climbs, they find segments of Vlad's body crumbling, revealing crystals, which the party take for themselves. At the top, the party destroys Vlad's soul, but a remnant traps them in a different realm. Still clinging to his ambitions, Vlad summons smaller copies of his ogre form, but the crystals the party had picked up summon a vision of Sol, who reminds Rain that he will always be there for him as the "Sun and Moon", followed by visions of Crimson, Mirfas, Kyanos, Pris, Atole, Krowa, Regina, the Magus Sisters, Yuraisha, Rowen, Mombert, Hess' Four Sages, and Sophia, who all restore the party to full strength and aid them in destroying the ogres. The visions disappear, with Sol stating he will always be with Rain. The party then defeats the hysterically ranting soul remnant, ending Vlad's tyranny once and for all, freeing Paladia from his mad grip. Rain becomes the king of Aldore, with Nichol and Sakura as his close advisors. To repair the damage from Vlad's foul legacy, Rain drastically reduces the military and dismantles several facilities, while heading diplomatic relationships with Gungan and Hess to gain trust over the world. His attempts at peace are still met with resistance from large parts of the Aldore military, who remain loyal to the former Emperor. One day, Raegen and Citra visit Rain, who is left wondering why Fina hasn't become his queen. Rain has taken up cooking as a way to unwind from his political duties and due to the lambasting over his disastrous soup, taking advice from the military's head chef and visiting many restaurants famous for their soup. While his cooking has improved, Sakura refuses to consume his soup again, still traumatized from the earlier episode. Rain later visits Lapis on vacation to travel with Fina and Lasswell again as the trio had promised. Fina cries in relief when they arrive, as she had feared the two would be unable to come due to their duties. Running Through Daybreak [ ] Upon returning from his journey, Rain learns that rebel factions loyal to Vlad still cling to their power and run the nefarious Labor Camp. The crown suffers from staff shortage to handle all the tasks needed to undo all of Vlad's deeds. Rain offers to go to the Labor Camp himself, but his advisers refuse, as he is most needed on the throne, reminding him that he is a king now. Rain's knightly instincts compel him to secretly leave the Aldore Tower to investigate on his own. While in the slums, Rain is found by Diezell, a young woman who had been framed for a crime, and her partner Maisie. The two women are fugitives and run away, Rain deciding to investigate the murder they were framed for. Maisie escapes, but Diezell is captured. Maisie recognizes Rain as the new king and requests his help in saving Diezell. Rain appears at the Labor Camp with an army of soldiers, ready to battle the rebel branch and aid in Diezell's orchestrated prison revolt, defeating their power hungry warden. Rain decrees the Labor Camp to be dismantled and sets all the prisoners free, earning him the approval of all the inmates. Upon returning to the Aldore Tower, Sakura is initially furious at Rain for his recklessness, but softens since he had solved things. Nichol believes harsher measures are needed to rein Rain in and proposes that Diezell and Maisie be hired as his watchdogs. Rain approves since he gets to spend time with two lovely ladies, leaving everyone wondering if he is indeed a king. Spoilers end here .


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Most high-ranking people associated with Niflheim dress in white, most prominently the emperor. Iedolas is an elderly man with silver hair and blue eyes. He wears decorative, gold armor over a white dress shirt, and a black robe lined with silver buttons that has a goldenrod trim at the bottom. Over this he wears a white robe that has a large collar and red trim. He wears black boots, black fingerless gloves and silver forearm armor.

Spoiler warning : Plot and/or ending details  follow. ( Skip section ) When severely infected by the Starscourge , miasma exudes from the emperor's body. When he fully turns, he becomes a type of daemon known as foras . His facsimile in the Citadel throne room prior to the final battle has black liquid leaking from his eyes . Spoilers end here .

Iedolas is a ruthless supremacist dedicated to expanding his territory, although he is semi-retired from frontline politics. [1] Having conquered every other nation besides Lucis, he seeks to steal Insomnia 's Crystal to increase his power even further. Iedolas employs flattery and feigns benevolence to help accomplish his goals, and uses this tactic to manipulate his adversaries. Despite this, the emperor was, for a long time, a benevolent ruler and loved by the masses. [2] Even after his corruption he displays some humane traits, namely genuinely loving his illegitimate granddaughter Solara Aldercapt Antiquum .

Spoiler warning : Plot and/or ending details  follow. ( Skip section ) But the Crystal is mine... I am the one True King! Iedolas Aldercapt Iedolas wants the power of the Ring of the Lucii , and is even prepared to kill the last remaining Oracle to obtain it. Iedolas is himself manipulated by his chancellor, Ardyn Izunia . With his dying breath, Iedolas expresses his intention to rule the world and see his empire flourish. He seems to believe he could be the fabled True King spoken of in prophecy had he both the Crystal and the ring, [note 1] but the Chosen's true role was never to rule the world. To prove his supremacy, Iedolas even wishes to slay the Astrals . To what extent his megalomania was driven by Ardyn is unknown, but Aranea Highwind describes Iedolas a "husk of his former self". The Final Fantasy XV Official Works book reveals that Iedolas'a change in behavior was also influenced by his contracting of Starscourge 30 years before the events of the main story. [3] In Final Fantasy XV -The Dawn of the Future- the emperor is depicted as yearning to rule forever, with his wife's death being a primary motivating factor in his desire for immortality. He is obsessed with bringing back the might of Solheim , an ancient civilization whose footsteps Niflheim has been following as led by the Aldercapt dynasty. Story [ ] Iedolas is a member of the Aldercapt dynasty that seeks to recreate the glory of the ancient civilization of Solheim. [4] At least three of the four nations of Eos —Niflheim, Lucis and Tenebrae —have been ruled by the same family since their inception: the Aldercapt dynasty in Niflheim, the Lucis Caelum dynasty in Lucis, and House Fleuret—the Oracles—in Tenebrae. In M.E. 358 the Aldercapt dynasty initiated its policy of expansion, crowned themselves as emperors of Niflheim, and began the prosecution of war against neighboring countries to annex them. Iedolas is said to have been a benevolent and beloved ruler for a long time: composed, rational and focused on advancing his nation for the good of the populace. [5] According to Aranea Highwind and Camelia Claustra , the empire has changed for the worse in the last ten years, Aranea positing that Ardyn Izunia, the chancellor of Niflheim, ushered the emperor to pursue Lucis's Crystal. [6] The desire for the Crystal has consumed Iedolas. Though the Aldercapts had always pushed to recreate Solheim's glory, Iedolas had put even more focus in magitek research than his predecessors. [5] As told in Final Fantasy XV -The Dawn of the Future- , the emperor had a wife who died less then a year after giving birth to their son around the time Ardyn was first released from Angelgard , [5] [7] and the populace attributes his changed demeanor since then to the grief of losing his spouse. However, Aranea believes it to be Izunia's influence. The son later died in battle. [8] Ardyn gained influence over Iedolas with his promises of using the Scourge to grant the emperor immortality, as the loss of his spouse had made Iedolas susceptible to such manipulation. [5] Ardyn himself proved immortal, the emperor never doubted his claims that research into Starscourge-based weaponry could reveal the secret behind eternal life, and invested national funding into the research. [9] While Ardyn was made chancellor and gained more power and freedom, Iedolas came to finance Verstael Besithia 's magitek projects to create an unstoppable army for the empire , and Verstael reports of his progress directly to the emperor. April 8th M.E 756 , Verstael informs the emperor that the " Diamond Weapon " is ready for deployment, and asks him to come view it at the production facility. Three weeks later, the emperor travels to Lucis under the pretense of signing a peace treaty with the kingdom's reigning monarch, Regis Lucis Caelum . As told in Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV , he is welcomed with a grand procession and tours the city of Insomnia, also attending a party at the roof of the Caelum Via hotel to celebrate the next day's treaty-signing. As the treaty is to be signed the imperials open fire at the Lucians and Aldercapt and Izunia steal Insomnia's Crystal. The two return to Niflheim while their forces raze the Crown City. The Emperor meets his forces at Zegnautus Keep. So glorious...my Crystal... Iedolas Aldercapt among the leadership of Niflheim. Admiring his stolen Crystal, Iedolas meets with his military commanders— Ravus Nox Fleuret , Aranea Highwind, Caligo Ulldor , and Verstael Besithia—to discuss the Oracle, Lunafreya . Lunafreya now holds the Ring of the Lucii that lets one wield the powers of the old kings and command the Crystal. Iedolas orders Ravus to terminate her, but Verstael asks him to reconsider. The reason the empire has taken the Crystal is not publicized, but Aranea later says she heard the empire believes the Crystal poses a threat to daemons , monsters of the dark that the empire has begun to employ in its warfare. She also says the Crystal was stolen "for the good of the people". [10] As Ardyn prepares to bring about the Starscourge, Iedolas thirsts for the Crystal's power, useless as it is without the ring. The Crystal is locked away in Zegnautus Keep , and Iedolas never gets close to it. While the emperor is dying of the Starscourge and in the midst of transforming, Ravus accosts him in his throne room in the Keep. Iedolas demands to know where the Ring of the Lucii is, Ravus replying it is with Noctis Lucis Caelum , its rightful bearer, who will use it and the Crystal to purge Eos from darkness and daemons. The emperor is outraged, claiming that the Crystal belongs to him and that he is the one True King. Aldercapt summons daemons that attack Ravus, who is thrown out of the room by several blasts of daemonic energy emanating from Iedolas. This event, as well as Ravus's death, are recorded in the Keep's security system, and are the only recordings that remain on it, as it is implied Ardyn had everything else erased. As told in Final Fantasy XV -The Dawn of the Future- , Ardyn takes over the empire and unleashes a Diamond Weapon, daemons and rogue magitek troopers on Gralea . [11] He addresses the populace through the public speaker system from the Keep to declare the day the death of the empire as the emperor is dying without an heir, [12] mocking his fruitless pursuit of immortality, saying he has used magic on the emperor with "unfortunate results". [13] Iedolas's final delirious words are broadcast for everyone to hear: delusions of grandeur for the rise of Solheim. [14] When Aranea infiltrates Zegnautus Keep on her way to the Diamond Weapon, she finds the now hideously deformed emperor dead on the throne. [15] She later runs into Brigadier General Loqi Tummelt transporting an eight-year-girl on special orders from Iedolas himself. Foras. Aldercapt transforms into a powerful daemon, foras . As told in Final Fantasy XV Chapter 13 Verse 2, he attacks Noctis's friends Gladiolus Amicitia and Ignis Scientia in the Crystal's control room, though they fight him off and he disappears. As depicted in the main game, he attacks Noctis in his pursuit of the Ring of the Lucii, but is defeated and killed when Noctis reunites with his allies. The empire shall span... all the lands... By the Crystal's light... we shall flourish... I shall arise... as ruler... of the world! Iedolas as Foras With his dying breath, the emperor longs for the ring to rule over Eos unopposed. In the throne room in Zegnautus Keep, Noctis can observe the late emperor's regalia slumped on the seat, a result of his transformation. The girl the emperor had ordered evacuated whom Aranea had taken under her care, turns out to be the secret daughter of the emperor's deceased son. Aranea raises her alongside Biggs and Wedge in a world overtaken by darkness . Ten years later, Ardyn creates an illusory version of Iedolas's corpse and hangs it in chains from the ceiling of the Citadel 's throne room to intimidate Noctis before their final battle. Gameplay [ ] An unsightly daemon that appeared the moment the seal on the kingdom's Crystal Room was breached. Now said to haunt the halls of Zegnautus Keep, this creature can understand and communicate in mankind's common tongue, expressing an abnormal obsession with the Crystal. Bestiary Main article: Foras Iedolas is fought as a foras in the Zegnautus Keep in Chapter 13. It is one of the few daemons witnessed speaking, and it stalks Noctis to claim the Ring of the Lucii. Spoilers end here .


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Like the other Astrals, Ifrit is based on a recurring summon in the Final Fantasy series . Unlike his more leonine appearances since Final Fantasy VIII , Ifrit in Final Fantasy XV appears as a demonic humanoid, and after patch 1.21, appears more like a daemon as his coloration was darkened. In Final Fantasy XV: Comrades his "infection" doesn't seem to have progressed as far yet as in the main game, and his appearance is slightly different. He has long brown hair, orange eyes and no eyebrows. Pre patch 1.21 he had bronze skin, which was changed to gray. His pre-patch design is used in the Episode Ardyn boss battle.

Ifrit's original model.

Ifrit is smaller than most Astrals, but bigger than a normal human, able to hold a person in the grasp of his hand. Whether he was always this size is unknown, as he is depicted as being proportional to Shiva —presumably still in her giantess form—in the story she tells to Noctis aboard the Magna Fortia .
Ifrit wears golden wrist and ankle bracers, and a golden crown adorned with red jewels. He has long twisted horns and claw-like nails. He is topless and radiates heat, the air around him aflame. He sits on an elaborate throne made out of bones. He wields a sword whose hilt is encrusted with red and white jewels, and has a gold and purple scarf wrapped around it, held in place by a gemstone bracelet and a metal chain. The sword's blade is worn, and Ifrit's body is scarred. In his original model his left arm and leg were gray, as if petrified. In his updated model these parts of his body are black, reminiscent of Ravus Nox Fleuret 's boss form .

Cosmogony describes Ifrit as "fickle" and "wicked", and Ardyn Izunia says Ifrit has no compassion toward mankind. However, according to Shiva, during the Old Calendar Era Ifrit was different, admiring humans and granting them his blessing of fire. Ifrit's compassion is said to have "melted Shiva's heart." After perceiving that mankind has betrayed the gods, Ifrit has become hateful, and wakes up enraged in Episode Ardyn .


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Igeyohrm dresses similar to her black-robed brethren, albeit with a different design on her red mask.
She has the same hairstyle as Lightning from the Final Fantasy XIII series.

Much like Lahabrea, Igeyorhm is confident and cold, and like her fellow Ascians, she is devoted to her god, Zodiark . She is arrogant, refusing to accept or believe in defeat.


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Veritas of the Flame is a hulking figure heighting almost 10 ft. tall, towering above most people including his own comrades. Flame is fully encased in silver armor adorned with red clothing. His helmet features two curved horns, and he wields a massive flaming axe in combat.
Under his armor he shows a bulky and muscular physique. His abdomen and left arm are unrevealed but wears a glove. He wears shoulder protectors and helmet both of which are horned, black pants and boots and golden strands across his waist. His right arm is under armored gloves and his chest has armored plates that partially reveal his midsection and sports white fur. His equipment is coloured black with red lines and bright reddish tips, resembling magma.

Ignacio, unlike his comrades, doesn't exhibit (at least openly) the same levels of hatred and desire for destruction, despite sharing the same goals. He is a warrior through and through, and seeks to fight strong opponents to enjoy a good battle. He otherwise seems casual and carefree, addressing the likes of Veritas of the Dark in a friendly manner, this also extends to a degree to his enemies depending on the case.
He holds friendship in high regard and prefers to spend time with them rather than with women, despite the fact that his personality makes him fairly popular. He is noted to be great at cooking and even better at eating. His sense of comradeship was such that while being aware of the circumstances behind Folka's self-hypnosis, he did everything he could to protect and support her.
Both Rain and Lasswell are quick to address that even in combat they feel no hatred from him, rather he lives to find a fight that makes him feel alive again. Ignacio is at heart a warming, straightforward, caring and simple-minded individual.


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Ignasse is a Wildwood Elezen with blond hair, a short beard, and hazel eyes. He wears Ward Knight's attire, which is a form of pure white Adamantite armor with dark blue trimmings and bears his order's crest. In battle he wields the spear Hordebane, a silver horned spear with gold and blue accents.

Ser Ignasse shows a deep respect and love for the history of Ishgard, as seen by his emotional desire to restore the damage statue of Saint Valeroyant within Foundation . He is a devout believer in Halone, studying scripture and stories outside of his duties as a knight. He values family, and is close to his cousin Millie.


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Ilberd is a male highlander with tanned skin and blond hair. He has a small scar above his right eye. When first seen in Revenant's Toll, he's a sellsword wearing scalemail armor. After being appointed Captain of the Crystal Braves, he wears an ultramarine uniform signifying rank.
When he assumes the alias of " the Griffin " Ilberd wears white-and-blue scale armor with a white/purple cape and white hood. His distinctive white mask conceals his facial features and the cape features the flag of Ala Mhigo .

Ilberd plays the part of a diligent officer and acts friendly when investigating the spy network of the Ivy. Underneath that facade he is a bitter man consumed by betrayal and grief over the fall of Ala Mhigo. He begrudges other refugees, like Raubahn, who found a new life in Ul'dah , and resents the other city-states for not trying to liberate Ala Mhigo from imperial occupation.

Spoiler warning : Plot and/or ending details  follow. ( Skip section ) This motivates Ilberd to backstab Alphinaud, Raubahn, and the Scions of the Seventh Dawn by colluding with Monetarists. Even Lolorito Nanarito states that not a day goes by that Ilberd doesn't think about liberating his homeland and finds his rants tiresome, thus releasing him from his services. After being forced underground as "The Griffin" and starting the Masks, Ilberd maintains a tight level of secrecy—even mail correspondents to and from its members are checked—and had a body-double act as his public spokesman. To other refugees he appears as an inspirational firebrand, but in truth he is a terrorist mastermind plotting to force the Eorzean Alliance into hostilities with the Garlean Empire by plotting a false flag operation. He plans to use the Eyes of Nidhogg to summon a primal at Baelsar's Wall, even sacrificing himself and his soldiers. He scorns the Ala Mhigan Resistance for succumbing to despair and wants to use the sacrifices to "liberate the homeland they no longer deserve." Ilberd is disgusted that both the resistance and the Eorzean Alliance speak of freeing Ala Mhigo but are not willing to spill the blood necessary to do it. Elidibus considered him the most worthy candidate of inheriting Nidhogg's eyes, describing him as "a man of boundless rage and bottomless despair." Spoilers end here .


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Illua is a young woman with mid-length blue hair and blue eyes. She wears blue lipstick, eyeshadow, long blue fingernails, white pearl-like earrings, and a thick black choker. She dresses in a long white top with silver designs on the bottom and gold designs on the sleeves, a black undershirt, black arm warmers, and maroon shoulder pads. She wears dark purple shorts with two brown belts, a thin red belt and long purple and red ribbons hanging from the back. She has knee-high heeled black boots with red ribbon-like designs and gold bottoms.

Illua is a cold and merciless woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her goals. As the leader of Khamja, she is embroiled in a variety of criminal acts and never shows remorse. She is as manipulative as she is cruel, brainwashing Adelle by manipulating the latter's fears of abandonment and loneliness as one of the Gifted. She views herself as the hero, deriding Clan Gully by calling them a mere chorus, showing a flair for the dramatic and attachment to theater. Even in defeat she never laments about her actions, merely gloating that her organization is so embedded in Jylland 's infrastructure that her influence will never truly fade.


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The Impresario looks like a male Elezen dressed with an elegant black suit, and hides his face with a Ripened Pumpkin Head. However, this appearance is actually a glamour.
In reality, the Impresario is an Imp .

Back in the 2013 edition of the game, he shows a sinister and tricky personality due to him being an Imp, but he doesn't want to do anything bad to people. He assures his only goal is to bring back the All Saints' Wake event as a great festivity for everyone to enjoy, since people stopped to celebrate it after the Calamity.
However, from the 2014 edition onwards, the Impresario has shown a more darker side. He uses the All Saints' Wake festivity to make reality the fabled "Night of Devilry", trying to turn people into voidsent through fear.


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Imreann wears long robes adorned with fur trim and elaborate jewelry of silver medallions and beads. He wears a headgear that covers his hair entirely.

A cruel, sadistic fanatic and zealot, Imreann believes his acts are holy in the name of the Mothercrystals, no matter how atrocious they may be, such as sacrificing Bearers on a daily basis. Imreann refuses to see his actions as unjust and views all the other nations and their peoples are either heretics or need to be forcibly converted to the Ironblood's faith. Imreann could still be considered a pragmatist, as despite the orthodoxy denouncing Dominants as abominations, he sees their value in aiding the kingdom's Iron Crusade on the battlefield. He kept Jill Warrick alive after she awakened as Shiva's Dominant, but enslaved her to be the kingdom's weapon. This could also prove him as a hypocrite to his faith, using religion as a means for power.
Imreann treated Jill cruelly during her captivity, forcing her to commit whatever act he desired under the threat of murdering those she befriended as he acknowledged Jill would not comply to threats to her own welfare. Imreann took every opportunity to demean Jill as a weak girl and an unholy abomination. After promising Jill that if she fought for the Iron Kingdom, the girls she cared about would not be harmed, yet after she held up her end, Imreann killed them anyway, displaying no remorse. He felt a sense of satisfaction in breaking his word to Jill, viewing it as a method to break Jill herself, further showcasing his depraved and fiendish nature.
His fanaticism leads to a heightened sense of confidence and arrogance, believing that nothing can stop the Iron Kingdom's campaign. His confidence would be shaken after Clive and Jill defeated his warriors and the Flame Liquid beast. Imreann is left distraught and hysterical after Clive destroys Drake's Breath, something the high priest could not fathom as possible.


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Ines is a 22 year old blonde-haired woman who wears glasses. She is seen in the manga wearing a lab coat over a shirt and skirt. She is also shown in a military uniform while on the field.

Ines is a talented scientist confident in her abilities. While shown in the manga to display a subpar degree of formality toward her superior, Qator Bashtar , she has profound admiration for and devotion to Qun'mi Tru'e . She is emotionally volatile, and displays bloodthirsty rage toward Class Zero.


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Ser Janlenoux is a Wildwood Elezen with long light purple hair. His right eye is a dark blue, while his left is a light gray with a scar cut down his eyelid. He wears Ward Knight's attire, which is a form of pure white Adamantite armor with dark blue trimmings and bears his order's crest. In battle he wields the sword Ultimum, a steel square cleaver with ornate engravings and gold & blue hilt accents.

Though he does not wield his weapon with the same flair as Ser Adelphel, Ser Janlenoux of the Steel Oath is just as deadly with a blade. He is also skilled with a chef's knife as a devoted student of the culinary arts, often preparing scrumptious meals for his comrades at home and at camp. When not on duty, he can often be found in a small corner of the Vault's kitchens where he practices his second craft. His friends agree that if he had not elected to become a knight, he could have made a name for himself as a culinarian . [1]


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Janremi is a Wildwood Elezen with gray hair, dressing in a light brown cotton shirt and green tights. He uses the lance Plundered Guisarme as his weapon, and has dark brown paint across his face that looks like claw marks.


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"Jecht's Theme" ( ジェクトのテーマ , Jekuto no Tēma ? ) is a laid-back melody with steel-stringed guitar solos following Western style, performed by Tsuyoshi Sekito. It appears in the original soundtrack as the second track of Disc 3.
The music that plays during the final confrontation against Braska's Final Aeon within Sin is " Otherworld ", a heavy metal style song with English lyrics that was uncommon for a Final Fantasy game. The only other time the song plays is during Sin's attack on dream Zanarkand in the opening FMV .

Jecht is surly, arrogant, and a bully. He frequently refers to himself as "The Great Jecht" ( Jecht-sama in the Japanese releases, giving himself a respectful, in this case arrogant, honorific), and is known to Spira as "Sir Jecht" for being a famous guardian. Jecht considers himself the best blitzball player there is and loves fame, asking Braska several times if there will be celebratory events on their pilgrimage. Jecht's career hit a slump when he began drinking, and it was rumored he was going to retire, though he was quick to deny this and claimed he could quit drinking if he chose. Jecht used to be emotionally abusive to Tidus, calling him "crybaby", and otherwise brushing him off or berating him.
Despite his numerous flaws, Jecht is a good man at heart. He criticizes Tidus in the hope of encouraging him to try harder and disprove him. Jecht does love Tidus, but struggles expressing it: a sentimental message to Tidus on a sphere is cut off with Jecht mumbling, "Remember, you're my son. And... well, uh... never mind. I'm no good at these things." Jecht told Braska and Auron his dream was to train Tidus into a star blitzball player much like himself.
Jecht enjoys the " Hymn of the Fayth ", and is well-loved by his fans to the extent that a blitzball tournament in dream Zanarkand is named in his honor. When the party learns about the Chocobo Eater , and Tidus says they must help because "it's the right thing to do", Auron laughs and reminisces Jecht used to say the same thing, which ended up causing problems for the group.
" Jecht's Real Story " from Final Fantasy X Ultimania Omega elaborates on his personality. He had been criticized as hating practice, yet he made frequent training trips out to sea. Jecht may have been concealing how hard he trained, preferring to appear "naturally talented". He also may have bragged so much to cover up his insecurities. The memory of Tidus in Jecht's mind remains as that of a seven-year-old boy. Jecht cherished that image of a son who needed protection and dreamed of him growing up. Fragments of Jecht's feelings appear in the illusions that occur whenever Tidus comes into contact with Sin 's toxin.


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A dormant Jenova appears as a gray-skinned woman (shown as blue-skinned in Final Fantasy VII , or only appearing blue through its container in the mako reactor on Mt. Nibel in other games). Although Jenova appears feminine, its gender is ambiguous, being an extra-terrestrial lifeform. Jenova is known as the "calamity from the skies" in the legends, and in Final Fantasy VII Ifalna refers to Jenova as either "it" or "he" depending on the version of the game .
Jenova is bare (other than what appears to be an external biological system), with something resembling a heart at its feet. Connected to the heart-like organ are a number of tubes that reach to different parts of the body, the largest of which, pinker in color and similar to an umbilical cord, inserts into its abdomen (or in Final Fantasy VII , an apparently empty space in its abdomen). On its back Jenova has appendages along with what resembles a wing protruding from its left, and a stub of a wing from its right.
Jenova has long silver hair parted through the center. Its left eye glows red and it has no right eye, often being covered by hair. Jenova's headgear links to her container and has an inscription that has had a different message between different depictions of the scene. Above the headgear, an exposed brain lies within Jenova's cranium.
As Jenova bears female anatomy, the body has two breasts. In the original depiction the right breast has what appears to be a nipple resembling an eyeball, but in the remake this is missing. The pubic area is obscured by the tube from the abdomen.

The plaque on Jenova's head.

The inscription on Jenova's head can be read in a number of its appearances:

In Final Fantasy VII , it reads: MADE IN HONG KONG ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1996 SQUER COMPANY LIMITED In Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children it reads: |µ|-Era 19591010 Hakken |µ|-Era 19670702 Fuuin In Last Order -Final Fantasy VII- , it reads: STRICT SECRECY SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY SECTION SHIN-RA COMPANY LIMITED


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Jihl has blonde hair that reaches to her mid-thigh and olive green eyes. In Final Fantasy XIII-2 , Nabaat's hair is more silvery. She wields a baton primarily used for fencing. Nabaat's glasses, which she normally wears unless in a fight, are thin-framed and have her initials in Cocoon script engraved in the arm. As confirmed in the Final Fantasy XIII Ultimania Omega , Jihl only wears the glasses to appear kind and trustworthy before crushing them on the Palamecia , a representation of her discarding her guise and fully assuming her true personality. [2]

Nabaat has both political and personal motivations for opposing Lightning's group. She graduated first in her class and advanced in the military ranks to the position she holds as a lieutenant colonel. She is in charge of daily policy and takes strategic command of the PSICOM soldiers.
Nabaat is described as cruel and heartless, and she sees all l'Cie , regardless of whether they are from Pulse or Cocoon, as subhuman. She is a cold and calculating sadist who sees herself superior to ordinary humans, whom she views as flawed objects she can use in her agenda despite any loyalty they may possess towards her. As a result, Nabaat easily loses patience when things go wrong, projecting blame on her subordinates and giving desperate orders to regain control. Despite this, Nabaat is loyal to Primarch Galenth Dysley .
In Final Fantasy XIII-2 , Nabaat is intrigued by human nature because at one moment, they fight each other to the death and the next, they form "shaky alliances", making themselves unsolvable contradictions.


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The jongleurs appear to be identical twins. They are Humes in early adulthood, with blonde hair and eyes that match their respective colors. Both girls sport jester hats with bells, masquerade masks and garish coats of blue and red respectively. Their blue and red corsets are worn over a silver top that exposes part of their skin and cleavage. Below their corsets, they wear short ruffled skirts, black fishnet tights, and black pumps decorated with bows.

Befitting their discipline, the Jongleurs assumed very theatrical personalities and spoke dramatically before the citizens of Eulmore and Gatetown, often finishing each other's thoughts with rhymes and wisecracks. Even in combat the duo made witticisms relating to their roles, such as "This one's a real side-splitter!" and "I'll break yer funny bone!"
As far as their true personalities went, the girls were virtually identical in their wickedness. They were a pair of sycophants willing to do anything in their power to maintain their posh way of life under Vauthry's rule, even murder, should it come down to that. They also displayed a sadistic streak as they merrily invited the people of Eulmore to come watch Kai-Shirr be flung to his death, which epitomized their callous disregard for the lives of the people of Gatetown.
Their arrogant and selfish nature was finally put on full display during their final encounter with Alphinaud and the Warrior of Darkness, during which they showed no remorse for using the people of Gatetown as human shields against the Scions. If anything, they acted glad to have the opportunity to kill the very same Scions who insulted their Lord during their prior visit to Eulmore. Judging by the girl's confidence, level of skill, and cavalier attitude towards killing the Scions, this certainly wasn't their first time spilling blood at Vauthry's behest─though it wound up being their last.


Bravely Default

Gabranth is a tall man with short blond hair and hazel eyes, and as Basch's identical twin brother the two share facial features. Gabranth's biography in Dissidia Final Fantasy reveals he is the younger twin. The Japanese release of Final Fantasy XII had always stated their birth order, but mentions of it were removed from the English translation. Compared to Basch, Gabranth has shorter hair, a different hairline, no facial hair, a different eye color and lacks Basch's scar over the eye.
Gabranth wears the armor of a Judge Magister, a full suit of plate mail with a horned helmet and a long black cape with the symbol of the Empire in red. Gabranth wields two swords in battle, the longer Chaos Blade and the shorter Highway Star, which can connect at the handles into a dual-bladed weapon .

Gabranth demonstrates a ruthless and cruel demeanor, imprisoning his brother and keeping him alive to inform him of every failure his former knights suffer after the Archadian occupation. Yet Gabranth remains a respectful follower to Emperor Gramis to the point the Emperor appoints him bodyguard to his son Larsa .
Though he acts as a faithful Imperial, Gabranth's motivations relate to his hatred toward his believed dishonorable failure at protecting his homeland of Landis , and in turn he directs his hatred toward Basch for abandoning him and their mother to fight for Dalmasca .


Bravely Default

As the Judge of Wings, she wears a full suit of ornate silver armor with a pair of large wings on her back.

Spoiler warning : Plot and/or ending details  follow. ( Skip section ) As Mydia, she is a light-skinned viera with short rabbit-like ears, long blonde hair and light brown eyes. She wears a high-collared pink corset top with a thin, pink cloth that hangs down in the front reaching her mid-thighs and white bikini-like bottoms. She has pink wristlets and armbands on her upper arms. She wears black stiletto heels with thigh-high black and pink tights. Personality [ ] The Judge of Wings is filled with vengeance that drives her every action, causing her to desire the total destruction of Ivalice. Unbeknownst to her, she is being driven by Feolthanos 's anima ; her personality before being influenced by Feolthanos is kindhearted and compassionate. Story [ ] As Mydia [ ] The Judge of Wings is a feol viera by the name of "Mydia" ( ミディア , Midia ? ) . Like all feol viera, she was born and raised in the Feol Warren , isolated from the rest of the world. Mydia was a recalcitrant young woman and would often argue with her mother about her people's cruel fate. One day, her mother gave her a tome explaining the feol viera would eventually reach the skies and be free. When Mydia came of age she left the volcano to explore Ivalice, ignoring her elders' wishes. In Rabanastre she encountered the hume Velis . They befriended and romantic feelings developed between the two. Velis, being a soldier of Nalbina , was called away to the war. Promising to return, Mydia waited, but after several weeks of waiting she knew she'd never see him again. Remembering the stories from her youth about the Eternal, a source of eternal life she thought could revive Velis, Mydia wandered Ivalice collecting clues about the islands of legend. She found the Cache of Glabados where she acquired a piece of auracite and the Galbana . Using the airship, she departed to Lemurés. When she arrived Feolthanos detected her fresh anima and knew she would be easy to control: she was descended from his viera wife, held a piece of auracite—which contained part of his anima—and she was feeling a burning anger from losing Velis. Using his new puppet, Feolthanos embarked on his quest to get revenge on Ivalice. To ensure he had complete control, he robbed Mydia of her anima by tricking her with a means to revive Velis, but only created a Yarhi in his image. Mydia gave up her will and became the Judge of Wings, a puppet to her master. Collecting the Auraliths [ ] May destruction rain upon this land. The power of the auraliths will soon be mine. And Ivalice awaits... Judge of Wings Vaan 's party first encounters the Judge on Tormelados, Isle of the Megalith . She is at the auralith's Cradle in the Fane of Tehp Qul , draining the auralith of its power. The Judge uses her powers to distort the feelings within the party's minds, rendering most of them unconscious and shows them a flashback of her counter with Balthier in the same Fane. Balthier had attempted to stop the Judge, but she had already dispatched Fran . Balthier destroyed his own auracite and told the Judge that chasing eternal life was a foolish fantasy, then turned his gun on the Judge. The judicier summoned Shiva , who knocked Balthier out with a Diamond Dust spell. Returning back to the present, the Judge fights the party before vanishing and leaving her dirty work to Shiva. When the Empress of Ice is defeated, the Judge returns and uses a pair of machines to destroy the auralith, absorbing its powers into her shard of auracite before disappearing again. The party searches for the Judge and finds her in the Yapih Caverns , standing over a Summoning Gate before a crystal of fiery auracite. After using Belias as a distraction, the Judge summons Bahamut , who shatters the Skysea into several pieces. Velis [ ] What end could be more fitting for one who is but an illusion? The Judge, about Velis The party is stranded on a deserted island, Tswarra , where they encounter Velis who explains he is looking for a feol viera called Mydia. When the Judge attacks the party later on at Tomaj's Camp , Velis's reaction to her makes the party realize she must be Mydia. The Judge shows the party another flashback. She was at the Yapih Caverns to summon Velis back from the dead using Feolthanos's power, but the form she brought back was unresponsive and Velis was spirited away, landing on Tswarra. Back at Tomaj's Camp, the Judge captures Velis and transforms him into the Yarhi Odin . She concludes the Velis she has resurrected is not the Velis she loved, and so leaves the island, and the party is forced to defeat and kill him. On mainland Ivalice, the party encounters the Judge in the Paramina Rift . She tries to crush them and Basch challenges her. The Judge teleports away and the party journeys around Ivalice looking for clues Feolthanos had left behind to discover where Mydia would strike next. It leads them to the Roda Volcano, where they find the Feol Warren village. Death [ ] I will not suffer  to use others as Feolthanos used me. In death my people are free. They will not know the sorrows I have. The Judge's dying words Vaan's party finds the home of the feol viera, but the Judge is already there, slaughtering the viera claiming it is the only way to end their suffering. The party tries to stop her, but she summons Chaos . When Chaos is defeated, the Judge fights the party herself, and throws her auracite into the lava, summoning an army of Wyvern, but the party still defeats her. When they gather round the Judge's armor disappears, revealing the viera underneath. Mydia had been possessed by Feolthanos, who had used her to start his invasion of Ivalice. Her hatred of the people who shunned her people, the loss of her love, Velis, and the fact her auracite contained part of Feolthanos's anima made her easily possessed. She asks the party to defeat Feolthanos and free him from the magick granting him perpetual life. Mydia's spirit leaves her as she dies, and reveals Eternity's March , the pathway to the Keep of Forgotten Time . When the party reaches Feolthanos's Keep they encounter the Judge, having been created by Feolthanos to halt them. She is defeated, but when the party reaches the final auralith, another Judge is summoned using Mydia's anima. This one is defeated too, and the party never sees her again. Spoilers end here .


Bravely Default

Like the other embodiments of Sephiroth's will, Kadaj resembles Sephiroth , Vincent Valentine describing him as a "larval" form of Sephiroth. He has shoulder-length silver hair that partially covers his face and green cat-like eyes. Being the youngest-looking remnant, Kadaj has slender, wiry frame and is the shortest of the three.
Kadaj wears black leather clothing that consist of a long coat, boots, and trousers. Kadaj's coat is zipped up to his upper sternum while keeping the lower half open and coattails are strapped to his legs. The image of a single wing is sewn on the back of his coat as an allusion to Sephiroth. He wears black leather gloves and shoulder guards with the straps crossed over his chest. Kadaj's weapon is the Souba , a katana with two parallel blades, which he carries in a sheath on his lower back.

Kadaj embodies Sephiroth's cruelty and insanity. Nomura describes Kadaj as "insane" whose speech pattern conveys his unstable mind and volatile mood, intermittently talking quickly and then slowly, or breaking into laughter for no apparent reason. [1] Despite his emotional instability, Kadaj has a cunning and deceptive mind, be it using his ability to disguise himself to manipulate others or using brainwashed children as a shield against Cloud Strife . Kadaj is arrogant and mocks Rufus Shinra and the Turks , and enjoys intimidating the former during their interactions.
Kadaj thinks of Cloud as his "brother" through Jenova, but considers him a traitor to their cause and treats him with murderous contempt. Vicious and sadistic, Kadaj takes pleasure in tormenting others, particularly Cloud, and in the mayhem that he and his brothers cause during their search for Jenova. He is devoted to Jenova and dedicated to finding her, but is unaware of Sephiroth's influence over Jenova. Knowing he is simply a remnant of Jenova's legacy and not "whole", Kadaj is brittle about who he is and his purpose in life, and insecure over Jenova "choosing" Sephiroth over him. Though he does not fully understand who Sephiroth is, he tells Rufus he can sense his presence, giving insight to the source of his insanity and motivations. When driven to anger, Kadaj attacks with fury, such as when he attacks Cloud when he calls Kadaj Sephiroth's pawn.
He views all of humanity as "shallow little fools" who cannot go more than a few moments without repeating the mistakes of the recent past before gilding it while pushing forward. Kadaj admires how Jenova traveled across the eons just to erase fools like Shinra and those who follow them from the face of existence. Finding himself questioning why others bother to oppose him when their misguided actions make the endeavor fruitless, displaying both a nihilistic view as well as the same hatred for mankind as his progenitor.


Bravely Default

Kefka has long blonde hair tied into a ponytail, worn with a feathered headdress. His face is painted white with red around his eyes and his lips are variably bright red or purple. He wears a large, ruffled collar that is primarily yellow with red stripes. His eyes are green.
In his original concept art , which has been used as the basis for his spin-off appearances, Kefka wears robes with an erratic mix of colors and patterns. The torso of his robes is a mash-up of white with pink polka-dots, black with yellow stripes, and plain purple. He wears a long red cloak with a yellow lining and red triangle trim along the interior and yellow and red tassels along the edge. Emerging from above his left shoulder is a mass of material in different patterns. The largest is white with red triangle trim, and with it are three more swatches of material; yellow with blue crown-like patterns, blue with red and white stripes and red trim, and the last is a solid green.
His left sleeve is red with an elbow-length yellow glove that fades to white at the wrist and has green accents along the fingers. His right sleeve is a puffed purple pattern with red polka-dots, and ends above the elbow at a yellow material. His glove is orange with a large cuff and white fingers and red claws, and white swirl patterns like flames emerge from under the cuff and run up his sleeve. His leggings are red, his left leg runs down to his boot, which is two-toned black with pink and gold lining, and the right leg has the red end above his knee over a single blue tight, and his boot is white with a black triangle trim and pink lining. Both his boots are pointed and curled. Finally, he has a yellow skirt wrapped around his waist and a red sash dangling over his right leg, which bears a pattern of black triangles with red lining and half-black, half-white spots.
Alternate concept arts depict Kefka in differently colored robes with different patterns. One such art was used for the basis of Kefka's sprite as a boss in Final Fantasy VI and has influenced his design in some spin-off appearances; the primary differences between his usual appearance and this variant is his clothing features more white and pink, his leggings have white and black stripes, and his collar ruffle is white with alternating red and blue triangles instead of yellow with red stripes. Another concept art that served as the basis for Kefka's field sprite in the Super NES release of Final Fantasy VI gives him robes in various shades of green and yellow with red on his right leg. The Super NES field sprite also depicts him as having slightly gray hair similar to Locke Cole . His field sprite in the 2014 iOS and Steam releases is redesigned to bear a stronger resemblance to his concept art and battle sprites, giving him red and orange robes with a green belt, purple boots, and his cape has green spots along the edge and a larger green pattern along the back of his neck that resembles leaves. He also has a more vibrant shade of blonde hair. His Pixel Remaster sprite is refined to bear an even closer resemblance to his concept art. Kefka wears red robes with a green collar, a yellow and green belt, a red sash on his waist, one blue legging, purple boots, and a green and red cape. He also has a lighter skin tone than other characters to give the impression of his white make-up.

Concept art of Kefka's god form for Final Fantasy XIV .

As the god of magic, the only remaining traits of Kefka's previous human form are his blond ponytail and feathered headdress. His skin is violet and he is bare save for a purple loincloth wrapped around his waist; the exact shade of his skin and loincloth vary between depictions. He is more muscular and in some depictions has a golden crest of swirls running along the center of his torso. Kefka has six wings in this form; the upper two pairs are feathered wings in a pale purple color, and the lower pair is a set of leather wings, black with a gradient purple lining. The central pair of feathered wings are much longer than the other two, and in some depictions Kefka's upper pair of wings merge with the middle pair.

Kefka cares nothing about anyone or anything but himself and he finds no greater joy in life than in inflicting suffering and death unto others. He has no long-reaching goal for his destructive actions, destruction itself is the goal. He manipulates the emotions of others and will readily lie without hesitation, but his purpose for doing this is again usually nothing but his own amusement in tormenting them. Kefka's need to inflict suffering drives him to continuously greater heights to satiate his urges, culminating with the ruination of the entire world and the deaths of countless creatures.
Confronted by the party at the end of the game, Kefka reveals the ultimate revelation he has achieved—that life is meaningless . All things that live will die, everything people care about will be destroyed, and everything they achieved will be forgotten. Thus Kefka declares that struggling to continue living in the face of death is pointless and stupid, and people should accept their fates and surrender themselves to destruction at his hands. When the party refutes his claims with their personal reasons for living, Kefka flies into a rage and declares that he will destroy those reasons, and the concepts of love and hope are worthless and he will destroy them as well.
Dissidia Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy grant a more tragic insight into this mindset: Kefka is so insane and twisted by Magitek experimentation that he is incapable of understanding love and hope and only feels joy when destroying, and his actions are born out of a continuously escalating need to satisfy destructive urges that are never fully sated. He eventually resorts to destroying himself to see if that will finally be enough, self-destructing in a mournful cackle.
Kefka is flamboyant and childish. He is shorttempered and flies into rages at the slightest provocation and has no self-control or restraint. He cracks dark jokes about the atrocities he commits and frequently breaks into hysterical laughter. He is a narcissist who enjoys crossdressing and admiring his own appearance in mirrors. His Ultimania profiles state he enjoys playing with dolls and hates General Leo , who is a morally upstanding soldier. [note 1] Though he enjoys hurting others, Kefka cannot stand to be hurt himself and the sight of his own blood sends him into a violent rage. [3]
In the Japanese versions of Final Fantasy VI , Kefka's dialogue places greater emphasis on his childish nature, while western releases emphasize his hateful and cruel side. In the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VI , he refers to himself with the first-person pronoun boku-chin , a pronoun usually reserved for young boys. His more childish depiction was eventually shown to an extent in overseas releases with the Dissidia games, most notably his comments to Terra during their fight in Destiny Odyssey.


Bravely Default

Khury is a middle-aged man of white skin and silvered hair with some traces of facial hair. He wears a golden adornment on his head, a suit of armor with several layers of winter clothing befitting the cold nature of Wezette, coupled with clothed pants. He has a small chained belt with a golden medal featuring a humanoid figure, although it is not fully discernible.
The left side of his arm carries a massive blue floor-length layered mantle. On top of them a golden patch featuring the symbol of Wezette, white fur on his shoulder, and some golden strands tied to a golden shoulder plate. His right shoulder has a more modest protector, although it is mostly noticeable for the upper half of his signature Glacier Bow, a blueish and highly decorated bow he typically wears on his back.
Khury has ambiguous laterality, as he is depicted as left-handed in his in-game sprite, typical of most Ranger characters, while shown as right-handed in some artwork. In some story cutscenes, however he adopts a left-handed posture outside of his Ranger pose. This suggests that Khury is ambidextrous, leaning more towards his left.

Khury is a power-hungry despot who oppresses his people, many living in fear and disgust of him. Khury is an intelligent tactician and cold schemer who is always planning ahead and thinking how and where his enemies will move next, a philosophy he extends to his archery; he has a notoriously deadly accuracy as he always aims where he predicts his foes will be.
For all his cunning, Khury trusts in no one, paranoid of even everyone close to him. Even the alliances he makes are purely self-serving and he has no qualms about breaking them if he deems it convenient. Ruthless and elitist, Khury tried to force Glaciela to kill her family as a requisite to succeed the throne as he wanted to cover her being the daughter of a concubine to avoid being censored politically. He has no love for anybody, as he let his successors to the throne kill one another. He even ordered the massacre of several innocent civilians purely because they were in some way affiliated with the rebels trying to usurp him.
Typical of a despot, Khury values obedience over loyalty, and dislikes opposition of any kind. He has been known to kill his advisors, even his closest ones, in fits of anger over being contraried, even when he ultimately pursued the same advised actions. Disobeying Khury despite not being under his direct command, can warrant fatal reprisal, as he once almost killed Ranell when she wouldn't obey him due to obeying Melnia.
Khury is extremelly powerhungry and obsessed over his authority and position. When cornered and betrayed, he lashes out irrationally believing his enemies to be after his throne, while defiantly stating he won't ever allow anybody to claim it, much to the disgust of his foes who are left baffled at Khury's narrowminded and heavily self-centered view of reality who cannot comprehend how he cannot think outside matters of political power.
It is hinted throughout the story, that Khury did also undergo an equally cruel sucession process like the one he made Glaciela endure, which may explain his attachment to his throne as he had to fight both for his life and to prove his worthiness, effectivelly continuing what is insinuated to be a bloody history of betrayal and scheming that has tainted the kingdom for generation. His attempts at forcing Glaciela's hand at familicide, are thus, likely a means to mold her character into a cruel, merciless and resolute one that he believed to be the desired traits of a ruler. Ultimately following his defeat, Khury seemingly made peace with Glaciela as he was left baffled with her rejection of the throne while vowing to help her nation not as a regent, leaving Khury expectant of the new era she would bring for Wezette.


Bravely Default

The King of Concordia dresses in a similar manner to other high-ranking Concordians, in a blue kimono-like outfit, except that his kimono sports a collar of black feathers. He wears chest armor, gauntlets, and a construction attached at the waist similar to a dragon's wing. His avian-shaped headdress covers his head and the top half of his face. As a Concordian, he is diminutive in stature in comparison to the citizens of other Crystal-States.

Despite claiming to work for the good of his country, the King of Concordia is a proud and selfish man, putting his own agenda ahead of the well-being of his country. He speaks with a condescending or insulting tone, and when alarmed his voice becomes high-pitched and hysterical.


Bravely Default

Kinoc is a bald middle-aged man with soft features and round cheeks. As a maester of Yevon he wears a floor-length pale yellow robe with white sleeves and an elaborate front, decorated with the symbol of Yevon. He wears a skullcap held with a diadem.

Kinoc puts forth the front of a benevolent helper of Spira , but in truth he joined Yevon to gain power and enjoys being in a position of authority. He wants Spirans to believe Yevon is the only salvation available against the threat of Sin . Fear of losing his position and thus the influence he gains from it is what makes him paranoid and callous. In charge of the Yevon armed forces, Kinoc acts as something of a military tactician. Though Yevon's teachings forbid machina use, Kinoc's forces wield them for weapons; Kinoc is unbothered by the hypocrisy, saying that exceptions to the rule exist.


Bravely Default

Edea is refined and ladylike, traits particularly evident during her possession when Ultimecia uses Edea's sophistication and physical beauty to beguile her enemies. She has long black hair and green eyes that are golden yellow when possessed by Ultimecia.
Normally she wears a modest black dress with little jewelry, but while possessed, Edea wears a purple skin-tight dress with a plunging neckline and feathers around the collar, a headpiece adorned with jewels and a metallic half-circle frame on her back with two long strips of sheer fabric hanging down each side. The metallic half-circle holding Edea's cape is similar to the one worn by Wrexsoul in Final Fantasy VI . It only appears during FMV scenes and battles, and is not present in her field model.
Before revealing her face at the parade, Edea wears a red mask to conceal her identity. Her long hair is magically shortened or hidden under her headgear as seen during the cutscene. During close-ups of her face during FMVs , white lines can be observed extending from the corner of her eye and cheek.

When first introduced, Edea is possessed by Ultimecia, a sorceress from the future, and is thus portrayed as a vain, power-hungry and remorseless sadist. All traces of her once kind and loving personality are purged from under Ultimecia's possession to be replaced by an all-consuming desire for world domination.
In actuality, Edea is benign and gentle. Although she has been under the stigma of being a sorceress ever since the age of five, she doesn't resent the world for the prejudice it must have shown her. She devotes her life to helping others, focusing upon the children she cares for in her orphanage . Those raised by her are reluctant to accept the deeds performed by a possessed Edea are those committed by their beloved matron.


Bravely Default

Kuja has silver hair that falls halfway down his back. At 24 years old, Kuja is the youngest main antagonist in the Final Fantasy series. He wears a large feather in his hair, has light-blue eyes and pale complexion, and is of medium height and light build. He wears white sleeves with a violet mantle around his shoulders. A white robe covers the back of his legs down to his ankles held up by four straps that act as a codpiece. He wears armored, dark purple boots, with golden buckles.
When in Trance , Kuja becomes covered in red fur and his clothes, which turn white, become tattered. He has a long furred tail in this form.
A concept art of Kuja as a nobleman exists , but he never dons this attire in-game. It appears as an alternate outfit in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT , however.

"Kuja's Theme" is a sinister piano theme accompanied by a heavy beat which plays during many of his appearances, most prominently during his first appearance in Burmecia.
"Dark Messenger" plays during the fight against Trance Kuja in the Crystal World. It starts with the organ like the original Kuja theme, but turns into synthesized electric guitar accompanying the original theme.


Bravely Default

Lahabrea dresses in the standard uniform of an Ascian Overlord. He wears a black leather hooded coat with purple markings and adornments and a red half mask over the top portion of his face. At times, a glowing red emblem appears in front of his face.
In his original Amaroutine form, Lahabrea was an elderly man with dark skin and short red-tipped graying hair. He wore a custom version of the Ancients' robes featuring a collared shirt underneath. Like the rest of the Convocation, he wore his personal red mask on his robes. In his younger years, his hair was longer, wilder, and reddish.

Lahabrea is condescending and hostile, not hesitating to use dark magick to trap the Warrior of Light during confrontations. He at times breaks into malevolent laughter. He has a low opinion of his associates in Eorzea , at one point even dismissing the Garleans as "fools". He cares little about his fellow Ascians. Elidibus demonstrates a cordial relationship with his fellow Paragon, and while Emet-Selch seems to speak ill of him to the Crystal Exarch , a hint of melancholy is visible in both his words and mien. According to Emet-Selch, Lahabrea habitually discarded host bodies when they were no longer useful, weakening himself and allowing King Thordan to absorb his essence. His shortsightedness had contributed to his demise, as he did not anticipate Thordan's betrayal. Despite being an unsundered Ascian, his colleagues do not view him favorably.
Lahabrea was greatly respected in the ancient world. As a master of creating Concepts, Lahabrea was responsible for the creation of Phoinix, Ifrita, Bombs, and several other fire-aspected Concepts. Writings in Akadaemia Anyder near Phantomology indicate a research hoping to impress Lahabrea, and in the recreation of Amaurot, the Akademia Researcher envies Lahabrea for his creation abilities, "and a renowned orator". The nearby Akadaemia Academic states that "esteemed Lahabrea" would help the scholars take control of facility after someone set the beasts within free. Lahabrea took pride in being a member of the Convocation and would not do anything to sully its image, such as using another member's born name rather than title. Lahabrea defers to the judgment of Elidibus even when disagreeing with the ruling, as it is Elidibus's duty to resolve disputes involving the Convocation. Likewise, Lahabrea is mature enough to acknowledge the successes of methods that he otherwise disagrees with or thought implausible.
Following the death of his wife Athena, having separated the part of himself that loved her, Lahabrea became emotionally detached. He came off uncaring to Erichthonios as he left his son's education to the Words of Lahabrea after instructing him in the use of aetherial shackles. Lahabrea's emotional detachment extends even to his work and subordinates, Erichthonios having described Lahabrea invent a seemingly immortal life form and instructing his staff to contain the beast and continue working rather than take a moment to celebrate. Lahabrea's emotional detachment was also driven by a desire to protect his son. Lahabrea would rather have Erichthonios hate his father than live with the knowledge his beloved mother saw him as no more than an experimental subject, as Lahabrea believed this would let Erichthonios live free from his parents' shadows. He would later absorb Hephaistos, regaining much of his original personality while resolute in his ideas to safeguard his world.
The sundering and the many millennia of the Ascians' work to restore their world took a toll on Lahabrea's mental state, which is influenced by the Heart of Sabik, his demeanor having turned from emotionally detached to the manically driven man he became prior to the Seventh Umbral Calamity.


Bravely Default

Lambard is a midlander Hyur with blonde hair and lavender eyes. He wears the Duelist's Attire dyed grape purple and wields the Verdun rapier.

Lambard is a traitor to the crimson duelists and did so for power. Devoted to learning how to earn more power he was always reading unfavorable books. When fighting Arya and the Warrior of Light , he boasts of his strength, and will gloat when his enemies think they have won.