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released by square-enix in 2006 on the playstation2, director hiroyuki ito, who also directed final fantasy 6 and 9, with first-time directorhiroshi minagawa, who helped with the final fantasy tactics and vagrant story games, cooperateto create another installment in the ivalice universe, after the original director hadto step down during the project due to illness. set in the same universe but not world asthe final fantasy tactics trilogy and vagrant story, it is also built using the same engineas the mmo final fantasy 11, though adjusted for a single player experience. it featuresa to-scale open world with immediate freedom to nearly everywhere making it the largestand most nonlinear adventure in the main series to date, with enriching features like dynamicweather and monster spawn cycles. for characters,
per ito's style, it features a group of 6individuals with their own stories and no actual main protagonist, though it is oftentold from the perspective of vaan more often than not. each character levels up traditionallyand is customized by the player using a license board system, which is nonlinear version of10's sphere grid system. mechanically, it is the only main installment with seamlesstransition from encounter to combat, so everything is realtime. as such, the player thereforeonly actually controls one character at a time, though they can transition who theyplay as in the team, and leave everyone else to the customizable ai programming calledthe gambit system. the story only gets larger from here so lets cut it down to size witha recapitation.
set in the world of ivalice, a magic-richworld with many races, the city-state of dalmasca is celebrating the marriage of its own princessashe and prince rasler of nabradia, in dalmasca's capital city, rabanastre. unfortunately, weekslater, the much larger empire of archadia chooses to invade nabradia as part of itswar march westward. soon, nabradia's capital city of nabudis falls, and at this time, dalmasca'sking raminas chooses to aide their new allies and counterattack the invader's advance atnalbina fortress. dalmasca's captain of the knights basch mobilizes immediately, and lordrasler volunteers as well. rasler leads the army in the defense of the fortress, but thearchadian invaders prove overwhelming. as their last line of defense falls, rasler takesan arrow to the neck, and basch just manages
to disengage with him in hand. unfortunately,rasler does not survive the wound, and nabradia falls under the archadian tide. in the bigger picture, the empire of archadiais really at war with the empire of rozarria to the west, and the smaller and recentlyallied city-states of dalmasca and nabradia are just two victims on the border and inthe way of these giant nations fighting. with nabradia and most of dalmasca's forces fallingat the battle of nalbina fortress, dalmasca is now very vulnerable before archadia. knowingthis, archadia allows dalmasca to surrender peacefully, and set terms. later, dalmasca'sking raminas arrives at the fallen nalbina fortress to sign the empire's peace treaty,and a young soldier named reks is awoken by
an on-site captain basch and a small contingentof knights, including captain vossler azelas. basch and the remainder of the knights arestill picking themselves up as he helps along reks. reks believes he is helping rescue theking from the empire, but as he catches up, he sees everyone in the treaty room murdered,including king raminas. he is abruptly stabbed by basch, who calls out the king as traitorfor signing control of dalmasca over to archadia. however, as he passes out, reks witnessesbasch get captured by vayne solidor, third son of the archadian emperor, and he passesout thinking of his younger brother vaan. as these events traspire, they are recorderedby marquis ondore, friend of king raminas, who also reports princess ashe's grief-drivensuicide. in addition, captain basch was executed
on charges of high treason, sedition, andassassination. as a result, dalmasca was to surrender without terms. two years pass, as we seen vaan, orphanedyounger brother of reks, surviving on the streets of dalmasca's capital city, rabanastre.he makes a living with petty theft, as he lives alongside another war orphan friend,penelo, who urges him to get by on straight work as she does. personally, vaan has a dreamof being a sky pirate with his own airship one day. to make ends meet, he even opts totake bounties and jobs off a bill board, and during one job, he finds some galbana liliesthat he finds particularly precious. later in the day, there is a parade for a the appointmentof a new consul for rabanastre, vayne solidor,
and he quickly wins the frustrated peopleover with compassionate and inspiring words. vaan still harbors resentment for the archadianempire, and so plans that night to sneak in the castle during the banquet, and loot theirtreasure room. as vaan obtains a means in by way of the garamsythewaterways underground, there is actually another group at play, a resistance group includingformer captain azelas and another woman. and at the same time, an elite duo composed ofa distinguised human and co-pilot viera dash in the castle grounds on their jet bike. vaannavigates his way successfully to the treasure room with his acquired knowledge of the castle'ssecret passageways, and as he is looting, he accidently uncovers a large chunk of valuablenethicite. at the same time, the duo corner
him for the precise piece of nethicite he'sholding. when the sounds of a fight breaking out distracts the duo, vaan gives the duothe slip, and finds the resistance group engaging the empire's guards. as a nearby battleshipis conveniently nearby to supress the threat with its cannons, much to the rogue's suspicion,he chooses to help out vaan as they are all spotted by the alerted guards. the viera notes their hoverbike is somehowlosing power rapidly, and they crash nearby the waterways, opting to take that as theirway out. the man introduces his partner as fran the viera, a race of bunny women, andhimself as balthier the sky pirate. he takes command of the situation to ensure they allsurvive, and they form a temporary alliance.
balthier deduces the consul knew there wouldbe an attempt on his life by insurgents, and thus appeared to have a light guard aboutbut in reality had heavy backup close by, thus snuffing out hiding rebels. as they make their way out, they encounterthe woman leading the resistance and vaan chooses to help out. the woman introducesherself as amalia, and while she opts to accompany them only for their escape, vaan notes hisnethicite chunk illuminates once more. though they beat away a menacing flan monster, theysoon walk into a trap that even consul vayne is personally present for. as they are arrestedand hauled off, balthier smoothly drops a handkerchief in the hands of a protestingpenelo for safekeeping.
vaan has a flashback of his visiting his brotherreks with his favored galbana lilies, who was mentally broken and hospitalized, andbearing the stigma of being accomplise to the king's murder. vaan believes his brotherinnocent and merely tricked by captain basch, but reks died, leaving only his signet ringbehind. he wakes up to find himself, balthier, and fran tossed in dungeon of nalbina fortress.vaan quickly gets in toruble with some of the other prisoners, and a trio of seeqs,a race of horned pigmen, encroach upon him until balthier jumps in to bail him out ofa rough fight. a group of soldiers come in to escort in the headhunter ba'gamnan of thebangaa race of lizard men, hot on the trail of balthier. as fran leads them to their escaperoute, a judge now makes his entrance, and
balthier explains they are the authoritarianlaw enforcers in archadia, and elite guards of the house of solidor, which basically makesthem commanders of the imperial army. the judge is actually just passing through enroute to another prisoner, and makes his way as ba'gamnan resumes his hunt for balthier. balthier decides to reverse the situation,and take advantage of the judge's access and let him open doors for them. their payoffis immediate as they find the room with their confiscated gear, and still manage to staya few steps behind the judge. trailing the judge brings them to his quarry, which iscaptain basch, who is actually alive after all, despite the public report of his execution.the judge unmasks himself to reveal he is
basch's twin brother, and its revealed thatbasch is kept alive in the empire's dungeon as blackmail for marquis ondore's silenceand cooperation, though even the judge does not know why specifically. the judge askswho amalia's real identity is, but basch refuses to answer. as the judge leaves, balthier steps out, andfran indicates that she, sensitive to an ether called mist, senses there is a exit, if theyfollow the mist trail through here. basch beseeches them to release him, but balthierhears none of it. however, vaan takes the opportunity to vent his frustrations and blamehis brother's death and this kingdom's problems of basch. his ruckus alerts the judge andguards back their way, and fran quickly decides
to drop basch's cage, and they all ride itdown to the depths of the dungeon. always the opportunist, balthier decides thatsince basch is free he might as well be useful and lend them his sword arm, which basch firmlyagrees to, much to vaan's ire. as they get basch geared up, vaan repeats that his brothersaw basch kill the king, and basch recalls that he must mean reks. vaan accuses him ofrek's death too, but basch swears it wasn't him. as incredible as it sounds, he explainsit was his twin brother, gabranth, that committed all those deeds and framed him for it. balthierbelieves the story fits, but vaan still isn't convinced. banding together to defeat a queenmimic, they secure a way out through an old tunnel, where basch insists he is still aknight loyal to the throne of rabanastre,
and leaves to join the resistance. balthier and fran go on their separate waytoo, and vaan decides he needs to offload his nethicite quickly. he looks for peneloto let him know he's ok, but she's nowhere to be found. next, he shows his treasure todalan, the information broker who showed him the secret passageways around the castle inthe first place, and dalan now tasks him to deliver a sword of the old knights order toazelas for him. vaan now finds himself again in the order's resistance group, where theold soldiers don't know what to think of basch's survival and claims that a judge killed theold king. basch explains to all that reks was setup as a witness to cement the claimthat basch killed the king, so reks not a
liar, which gives vaan something to thinkabout. azelas still doesn't trust basch, and nowmarquis ondore, but will let him pursue his mission to protect amalia. basch asks vaanto take him to balthier, as he needs the sky pirate to fly him somewhere, and as they talk,vaan now firmly believes it wasn't basch who killed his brother, but rather the empire.as they find balthier, they find out penelo's been taken hostage in the bhujerba mines,demanding balthier's arrival. as fran figures, an obvious trap by ba'gamnan. vaan jumps topenelo's rescue, offering the nethicite as payment to fly him to the sky-city of bhujerba.bhujerba happens to be where basch is going to, though to speak with its ruler marquisondore. so, the group reunites and moves on.
vaan is enamored with balthier's airship,the strahl, and is bounding with questions for the sky pirate. for some reason, marquisondore gained favor with the empire when princess ashe and captain bashe were purportedly killed,and basch wants to know why. as the stahl takes flight, penelo was indeedcaptured by ba'gamnan, who mistakes her for balthier's mistress. it isn't long beforethey arrive at the sky city of bhujerba, though the note directs them to the lhusu mines.they are overheard by a young boy who asks to tag along with some business of his ownin the mines, and balthier allows him along too. the boy introduces himself as lamont,and though balthier and basch groan when vaan lets slip their real names, they are bothcurious how lamont knows so much about the
imperial army and politics. as they spy on,they see another judge talking with marquis ondore, who apparantly was at the dalmascanking's surrender as the mediator, though after the murder fell in line with serving the empire,even though rumors say he still helps the resistance. as they journey further in the mines, lamontstops for the real reason he's here, and that is to observe the nethicite, the crystal orethat absorbs magick. apparantly, this mine is where draklor lab, where nethicite is beingartificially made, is coming from. balthier suddenly hard presses lamont with some directquestioning, but they are interrupted by ba'gamnan. lamont makes a run for it, and the group soonbehind, leaving the headhunters in their dust.
tailing lamont, he returns to the judge theysaw earlier, judge ghis, and his real identity as the young lord larsa comes out. penelowas captured by judge ghis in the mines right from being kidbnapped, but larsa accompaniesher to the marquis's home. balthier then specifies that he's larsa solidor, the 4th son to emperorgramis, and younger brother to consul vayne. seeing the marquis host the empire, they chooseto root out bhujerba's resistance by refuting ondore's claims of basch's death. vaan goesaround town making a clamor, and they attract the attention of this town's resistance movement.one of ondore's guardians, of the cat-man race called the rev, arranges a meeting forbasch with ondore, and when they talk, basch understands that while his very existencethreatens ondore's standing with the empire,
he still needs his help to rescue amalia.also, penelo, though in good care of larsa, was still taken back to the empire. finally,ondore chooses not to negotiate, and captures basch for the empire, though gives him tojudge ghis and not vayne who was holding basch over his head. as vayne recieves word of this,he meets with doctor cid, a renowned scientist in the empire, who also seems to be talkingto a mysterious shadow. meanwhile, the group is in chains again asthis time they are transported to the airship dreadnought leviathan. within, they find amalia,who is less than thrilled to see her father's alleged killer, and its revealed then she'sreally princess ashe. however, because she bears no royal proof of her claimed identity,she is to be executed for that. basch interjects
that the dusk shard can verify those of royalblood, and knows where it is located, so they should not kill her, but suddenly the magiciteshard on vaan glows again, and it turns out that is the dusk shard. unfortunately, heis forced to hand it over to judge ghis even though he himself does not know what it is. they defeat their guard escort, with one ofthem being captain azelas in diguise, who is never far from ashe, and he requests theirhelp to free the princess. as they all escape, they run into larsa, who returns penelo backto vaan, and says he'll help them if only to find out how this no-good plot unravels,for the sake of both their countries. he hands penelo a piece of nethicite and takes captainazelas with him to secure an escape route
for them. in the hangar however, judge ghisstands ready and blasts them all with magick, though larsa's nehticite does indeed absorbthe full effect. they fight and beat the judge, and secure a skiff to flee the leviathan,returning to bhujerba. they talk heatedly with ondore, who realizes vayne was playingthem against each other this whole time since the assassination, but cannot aide ashe aseven if they beat vayne, she won't be placed as heir without proper proof of sovreignty. thinking to obtain the dawn shard which willvalidate her royal blood, ashe moves to steal balthier's ship, but she's caught by bothvaan and the sky pirate. undeterred, she offers them the dynast-king's treasure, as the dawnshard she seeks is but one relic in king raithwall's
tomb, where they must take her. naturally,basch follows ashe, fran with balthier, and penelo with vaan, so they are banded oncemore as they head off to king raithwall's tomb. meanwhile, in the city of archades, the capitalof archadia, judge gabranth reports to the emperor himself on doctor cid and his activitieswith vayne, whom is also tied to the fall of nabudisthough there is still the issue of judge zecht that went missing there. this all mattersas the emperor is deathly ill, and a successor must be chosen soon. the senate of archadiaactually fears vayne, and the emperor himself is actually leaning more towards larsa asthe next emperor. though, to ensure larsa's
safety, he asks gabranth to keep larsa safe,especially from his older brother vayne, whom gabranth is now serving, and whom larsa innocentlyidolizes. back with the group, they fly to the edgeof the jagd, a land thick with mist and prevents airships from flying within, and thus maketheir way to the tomb on foot across the ogir-yensa sandsea, quite literally a flowing sea ofsand. as they cross westward along the abandoned oil rigs that bridge the sandsea, which arepart of the rozzarian empire, they are met by vossler as he chased them down. however,this sandsea territory here has long been claimed by the urutan-yensa, a goblin-liketribe of desert-faring raiders. crossing that and the desert beyond, they find the tombas well as defeat the guardian to it to gain
entry. ashe explains king raithwall handeddown three relics to his straight descendants. the midlight shard to house nabradia, thedusk shard to her own ancestors in dalmasca, and the dawn shard, hidden here in his tombfor any of royal blood. as they survive the beasts and traps within, they note the mistis so thick in here its even visible by eye. while it inherently garners stronger and moredangerous monsters, it also supercharges their own magicks. they encounter a unique being,the esper belias, which once was a thrall to king raithwall, and bound in servitudeto those who could defeat it. doing so, they gain the actual treasure of the dynast-king,and beyond is the dawn shard. as she claims the dawn shard, ashe suddenlysees the ghost of rasler, but somehow vaan
does too. however, as soon as they leave,judge ghis and the leviathan are waiting outside for them. he demands the nethicite, but notthe artificial one larsa gave to penelo, and they learn vossler has sold them all out.in exchange for the dawn shard, ashe will be permitted to reclaim the throne and thekingdom of dalmasca will be restored, though still under the empire's rule. he holds hercompanions at sword point to hurry the decision, and ashe submits. judge ghis says this deifactednethicite will be going to doctor cid, and he has it tested for authenticity immediately. the rapid release of mist during testing drivesfran feral, and during the distraction they overwhelm the guards though vossler seeksto stand in their way. as they overpower him
and make their escape the dawn shard beginsdraining all of the power of the leviathan, and then crushing the entire ship under itspower. as the dreadnought explodes, the manifested mist destroys the entire fleet at once, andthe party only barely escapes. after things calm down, the dawn shard is seen still hoveringin the middle of it, so they circle around and claim it. in the wake of the calamity, marquis ondoresteps down from his position and begins work on unifiying the scattered anti-imperial forcesacross the kingdom. in addition, the rozarria empire has noticed and begun stirring, whichmakes the archadian senate nervous and eager to pin it on vayne for being reckless withthe fleet. as they seek to pit larsa against
vayne, they call back vayne to archades forpunishment. meanwhile, basch says he's seen the same destructive power once before, atnabudis, in which a single division of imperials entered the city, then there was a devastatingexplosion not unlike what they just saw. given how the midlight shard was in nabradia itslikely something similiar happened then, too. ashe decides to use the dawn shard to fightthe empire, but vaan points out she doesn't know how to properly use it, and fran suggestconsulting a race of poeple called the garif, who live by ancient customs and know muchmagicite lore. doing so, they learn they cannot wield the nethicite partly because no oneactually knows how to, including them, but mostly because the stone is devoid of power,and needs to be recharged. they are soon met
by larsa, who urges her to take the stoneand go to the gran kiltias, get ordained as queen, and stop ondore and the anti-empirereistance, before rozarria uses it as a pretext for war and dalmasca becomes the site foryet another tragedy. after thinking about, she agrees, and their next stop is mt. bur-omisace. at the same time, the remaining judges, bergan,zargabath, and drace are divided on what party they are loyal to for the coming succession,as bergan is loyal to vayne, drace supports larsa, zargabath supports the empire as awhole regardless of who's in charge, and gabranth is loyal to the current emperor which putshim in larsa's corner. back with the group, their route through golmorejungle is barred as fran is denied passage
through the jungle. what this means is a detourthrough fran's home village in the same wood. there her older sister jote says thier youngersister mjrn has disappeared among soldiers in a nearby mine. larsa knows nearby thereare the henne mines, so they move there where they find the dead bodies of imperial soldiersand researchers from draklor laboratory on their arrival. mjrn is spotted within, actingstrange and erratic, and after they defeat a powerful dragon within the mines, they seemjrn with some sort of being possessing her. it leaves as soon as the artificial nethiciteshard breaks, and she comes to her senses. mjrn explains she was captured by the soldierswhen she got too curious following them into the mine, and was possessed as they poisonedher with nethicite. afterwards, larsa thinks
to take back the shard he gave penelo, theyreturn mjrn to the village, and gain an item to allow them past the wards in the jungle.meanwhile, vayne asserts that the senate hates house solidor in general, not just him, andthey should silence the dissenters. as the group reaches the peak of mt. bur-omisace,they are about to ask the blessing of the gran kiltias on recognizing ashe's right torule, when they are suddenly interrupted by a suave man of the ruling house margrace ofthe rozarrian empire, al-cid. the gran kiltias acknowledges larsa and al-cid's vision ofa unified ivalice and joining of the two largest, formerly rival, empires. however, al-cid reportsthat circumstances have just changed and archadia cannot wage peace because emperor gramis wasjust killed. over in archadia, vayne is present
as he claims the head of the senate committeda murder-suicide of the emperor and conspired with many other senators who are all beingarrested. as such, he lays claim to emergency autocracy of archadia, and once more the judgesare split on this. gabranth is silent on this, drace outright accuses vayne of fabricatingall of this, bergan sides with vayne, and zargabath stands with vayne only because archadianeeds a leader on this eve to war. the situation escalates where drace clashes with bergan,though he overpowers her with noticeably inhuman strength. zargabath is now charged with retrieving larsa,relieving gabranth as vayne knew gabranth was just spying on him while he served theemperor. he orders gabranth to prove his loyalty
by executing drace, and he reluctantly doesso. back with the group, ashe is still firm to fight for dalmasca as queen, and is toldin order to do so would require the other relic king raithwall left, the sword of kings,which can cut through nethicite. as they leave a shocked larsa in the careof al-cid and the gran kiltias, their journey takes them next to the stilshrine of miriam.after meeting and defeating a fiery warden of the shrine, they then encounter the esperof water mateus, and defeat her to gain her servitude as a summon. as they make theirway to the legendary blade, ashe claims the heavy sword of kings, and vaan suggests testingits effect on the defunct dawn shard. while she makes a last second decision not to splitthe stone, fran notes the stone seems more
docile now. as they leave the shrine, they note anotherimperial fleet, headed by judge zargabath, flies away from the direction of a smokingmt. bur-omisace peak. their fears confirmed, when they arrive, they find the place in ruins,and judge bergan there having just slain the gran kiltias. behind him, they see berganis also possessed by a phantasm through a piece of manufactured nethicite, like mjrnwas before. as they clash with the judge fervently loyal to vayne solidor, they win, and thenethicite he implanted all along his body ruptures and breaks down. after the fightal-cid limps in, explaining that all three judges all came here to tear things up, andit was gabranth that went off with larsa.
he asks ashe to come back with him to rozarriato convince their leaders not to respond to all this provocation with war. ashe has torefuse him, as she still needs to end the dusk shard vayne has first, and balthier believeshe knows where the stone truly is, in draklor laboratories in archedes, the capital of archadia.as archadia's navy and air force are mobilizing for war, the group chooses to sneak into thecity on foot. as they get closer, balthier questions asheis she will really destroy the dusk shard, or return it to dalmasca and use its power.he further elaborates that she reminds him of his father, who once suddenly became obsessedwith the power of nethicite, and so he researched it, mumbled constantly about someone calledvenat, invented airships that can fly in the
jagd, gained noteriety, and even made hima minor judge. balthier didnt want that life, and left it, and his power-hungry father,dr. cid of draklor laboratories. he reveals all this to give her a warning not to walkthe same path. as they enter through old archades, the poorand destitute corner of the city, they make their way up to the imperial city proper.even vaan, with his hatred of the empire, is impressed by the grandeur of it all. usingbalthier's underworld connections to get into draklor labs, they make their way to cid'soffice, and find they are not the first intruders on the scene. taking advantage of the confusion,they find cid, and are nearly attacked by his attacker, but they sort it out and gostraight for the doctor together. cid recognizes
the princess and they see him talking to someunseen precense as he attacks them with his latest nethicite weaponry. during the fight,they see cid is protected by another phantasm, the one he calls venat, and he taunts themby showing them the dawn shard and midlight shard in his grasp while leaving and goesto giruvegan where he claims another stone lies. their newfound ally is reddas, another sky-pirateand leader of the anti-empire resistance, and as they leave archades, ondore leads afully funded resistance army to engage the empire. reddas reveals ondore seeks the midlightshard and wants to use it to defeat the empire, but will request rozarrian aide if they cannotsecure it. basch objects and asserts that
if ondore has both the resistance and rozarriaon the field at once, then vyane, who does have weaponized nethicite, will crush bothat once. balthier points out cid has the weaponized stone, not vayne, and if they stop cid, theystop vayne's decisive advantage. the group decides to go for cid, and reddas choosesto investigate another lead, and he too warns ashe not to induce another nabudis disasterwith her nethicite. as they make it to the ancient city of giruvegan,ashe continues to see the ghost of rasler, though vaan no longer can. as they descendthe depths of the city, they find an impossibly colossal piece of nethicite, which even ashefinds herself wondering the amount of sheer power it contains. beyond, they battle andcapture the esper shemhazai, and ashe finds
herself spirited away to speak with the occuria,the most-powerful beings that exist in ivalice, and they direct her to the sun-cryst, themother of nethicite from which king raithwall's treasures are actually just small chips scrapedfrom it. they entreat her to save ivalice, and grant her a new sword, the treaty-bladewhich deigns ashe as their new chosen one to destroy venat, a rogue occurian they wantkilled for disobeying their rules of selective enlightenment, as well as archadia, whom hepatrons. though she takes the sword, she is still unsureof commiting to the task of revenge. the group wonders why cid still isn't here yet, andbalthier realizes they've taken his bait. after all, cid had no way into giruvegan likethey did, so he used them to obtain the treaty-blade.
at the same time, cid indeed is still in archades,with vayne and larsa, and larsa is still sueing for peace. vayne insists ashe will wage warherself, and they both ask gabranth to seek out ashe and ascertain what her motives are.venat makes its appearance to praise both cid and vayne, and in the meanwhile, the partythinks to ask reddas what his lead was as they search for the sun-cryst. when they return, they wonder that if theyfind the sun-cryst, whether they should break it and end the power of nethicite, or cuta new shard for themselves to wield. vaan asks about a clue the occuria said as to wherethe sun-cryst is, and reddas recognizes is as the lead he was following, but it turnsout to be beyond a jagd. he tosses them a
skystone taken from cid's lab that the empire'sships use to fly in jagds, and offers to come along as they trek to the sun-cryst. whenquestioned why, he answers its because of the nabudis tragedy, and so the group usesthe new stone in the strahl to fly to the pharos lighthouse. as they move inward, balthier forebodinglytells vaan that should something happen to him, vaan can have the strahl, just in casebalthier should end up doing something dramatic. as they ascend the incredibly high tower,they defeat three guardian beasts within, and afterwards, fight and gain the servitudeof the esper hashmal. as they pass all trials, they make their way to the legendary sun-crystand the time has come for a decision. in one
hand she has the blade once used to carvepower from the sun-cryst, but she chooses to hold up her new treaty-blade and approachthe crystal. judge gabranth steps out, and urges her to use the crystal for revenge,and confesses it really was him who posed as basch and killed king raminas years ago.his approach is blocked by reddas who reminds gabranth that once judge magister zecht tookthe midlight shard in nabudis, and used it, accidently destroying nalbradia's capitalcity. this was also an order of cid to learn the power of the nethicite, and since thenhe, once judge zecht, swore never to see nethicite used that way again. ashe chooses to let go of her past, rasler,and mass murder for the sake of revenge, and
cuts down the ghost of rasler, who turns outwas just a fabrication of the occuria to string her along. she vows to break the sun-cryst,and basch now faces down his brother, fighting and matching his strength. at this moment,cid comes out and reminds gabranth, he was to observe the princess and not overstep thosebounds, and thus dismisses him. he attempts to strike cid, but venat's power flings himaway effortlessly. cid agrees with ashe's move to ignore the occurians, but urges hernot to destroy the sun-cryst in the name of human progress. balthier stands forward tostop his father, but cid even calls him out by his real name, ffamran, to express hisdisappointment. discharging his newest weaponry, cid sets to power up the mighty sky fortress,bahamut, and even calls forth his own esper,
famfrit, and continues the artillery assault.winning the esper from him, they defeat the doctor, and as he dissolves into mist, cidhas no regrets of his 6 year partnership with venat, as it too takes its leave. the sun-cryst now surges out of control, andas ashe struggles to get close to destroy it. reddas takes the old sword of the kingfrom her and charges ahead as the party escapes, atoning for his crime in nabudis by destroyingthe sun-cryst and blowing up with it. the effects are felt around the world, and al-cidcomes in to unfortunately tell them he was unsucessful in preventing war, and severalof his countries general ignored him and joined ondore's fleet to attack the arcadian empireover old nabradia and dalmasca. though rozarria
plans to use this intentional incident, anduse ondore's resources before their own, vayne will still crush them despite losing the duskshard. reason being, cid did succeed in powering up bahamut, though thankfully the destructionof the sun-cryst prevented it from gaining much power. he moves to delay rozarria's involvementfor as long as he can, and the group moves for a partially powered bahamut. regardless, the power is plenty strong enough,as vayne himself is in the fortress, with venat at his side, and larsa still there begginghis brother to make peace. a single shot from the fortress is enough to destroy an entirebattleship, and vayne has no intentions of taking prisoners, rationalizing any rebellionmust be put out ruthlessly and definitively.
each side is primed and ready to go underthis precursor to war, and as they release their fighters and engage, marquis ondorecannot compete with firepower of the magnitude of the bahamut. in the midst of this, thestrahl flies in low and under to behind enemy lines and into the bahamut. docking in thesky fortress, they make for the command center, and gun straight for vayne. they are met by gabranth, who did really survivethe blow dealt to him by venat, and as basch beats him once more, he urges him to forsakebeing a judge and go back to being his brother noah again. the group then encounters larsaand vayne, and larsa takes this time to finally give up trying to convince his brother withwords, and stand against him despite their
difference in power. they clash, and thoughvayne by himself is a force to be reckoned with, the party still prevails against theiron fist of the dictator. larsa rushes to his brother's side but is knocked aside, forvayne is not alone, as venat possesses him to a monstrous degree now, empowered by themanufacted nethicite within him. at this time, a wounded gabranth limps in, and vayne stillcares for his younger brother so he orders the judge to defend larsa. however, gabranthagrees and complies with the order by directing his sword to vayne. the nethicite-fueled vayne wields immensepower, and during another bout of combat, gabranth lays a strong blow against vayne,which is firmly countered. vaan then lands
a blow that sends vayne reeling, but now venatinterjects, allowing vayne to retreat. vayne apologizes to venat for failing, but venatcorrects him, stating he wanted the sun-cryst sundered, and close the age of stones andthe grip the occuria had over man. venat now completely merges with vayne, whose very whispsof power can tear ships from the sky. pieces of the the fortress meld onto him, channelingan armor to turn this vayne into an mist-fueled, mechanically-winged monster. the party doesnot back down from this living apocalypse, and together the group of outcasts, vaan andpenelo, the war torn orphans, basch, the disgraced knight, ashe, the princess of a fallen kingdom,balthier the disowned sky pirate, and fran, the forsaken viera, defeat the despot demi-god.
however, their victory does not end the war.their clash has damaged the bahamut to such a degree it begins to fall from the sky, butthe strahl won't start up. balthier and fran set vaan and penelo to pilot the ship as theygo to fix the engines below. they succeed, and the strahl is off, where a dying gabranth,larsa, and ashe quickly work together to convince the warring sides to stop the attack. theirwords work, but unfortunately the bahamut is about to crash and destroy the city ofrabanastre below. acting quickly, judge zargabath orders everyone to fire on the bahamut assoon as his warship, the alexander, rams it off-course. however, just in time they thenget word from balthier, who stole away onto the falling fortress, to quick-fix the bahamutand drift it away from the city. he succeeds
in restoring power enough, carries out aninjured fran, and reminds vaan to watch his ship until he comes back as the sky fortresscrashes safely outside rabanastre. as the game concludes, its been one year sincethe party split. ashe is coronated queen of dalmasca, and basch has taken up his departedbrother's role as judge magistrate and protector for larsa in archades to futher the relationsbetween their two nations. balthier and fran return to take back the strahl, with balthierreturning ashe's ring he took, and invite vaan and penelo over to visit them. as thegame ends, vaan is finally a true a sky pirate with his own airship, and with penelo as hispartner, they head off to visit with their friends and seek the next adenture.
final fantasy 12 has enjoyed the success ofselling over 6 million copies worldwide.
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