History Characters / FinalFantasyBraveExviusSwornEight

* VillainousFriendship: With Veritas of the Dark. The "Time for Revenge" event shows that this extends towards anyone whose weapons he has worked on; improving their gear is how he shows that he cares. Further shown in the "Memories from the Battlefield" event - when he goes to Veritas of the Waters in Olderion, she specifically notes that Flamelord really dislikes areas with that much water and water magic around. Flamelord outright states that he's there because he's worried about Waterlord's well-being.

* TemporalParadox: His Side Stories chapter, added as of the third anniversary, has him (and Rain) cause one, of the "Object Loop" variety. [[spoiler:Rain from the end of Season 1 is sent to an alternative dimension along with Raegen from five years before the story's start. When Raegen tells Rain where he was when he left, Rain mentions that's where they encountered each other when Raegen wore the Frostlord armor, which let Raegen know that the armor was in that area so that he could wear it when encountering Rain later.]]
* WhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Once Rain leaves Lasswell's party and reveals to be Hyoh of the Delta Star, Raegen starts having a massive conscience crisis and [[ItsAllMyFault blaming himself for causing things to get all the way there]] by [[LockedOutOfTheLoop not letting Rain in]] on ''anything'' about his previous life. Which gets ''worse'' when the two fight each other not long after, with Rain giving a MotiveRant to his own father and ''[[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping him a second time]]''.]]

!Cid, Veritas of the Heavens
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Sworn of the Wind, a FamilyMan above all else. He is the first Cid of Dirnado, revered by man and dwarf alike, and his name is granted as a title to the greatest inventor of every generation. [[spoiler:He fought the Independence War in Paladia for the sake of his family and his newborn child Mid]], but his banishment to Lapis, [[spoiler:plus the fact he's the bearer of an immortal heart (meaning he [[TheAgeless lives without aging]] while his family dies of old age)]], caused him to be extremely bitter about life and mankind, and all too willing to participate in the plan to shatter the crystals and return to Paladia.

* {{Adorkable}}: Whenever the subject of his child [[spoiler:and after Yego joins, children]] comes up, Cid becomes an effusive, blubbering fool. Moreover, he doesn't care who sees it - being a dad is his whole life, and he'll gladly act as goofy as possible if it means he shows his love and affection. [[spoiler:Both Mid and Yego are rather fond of this, and they awkwardly let him know]].
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: When he first arrived in Lapis, after fighting off some monsters, the dwarves thanked him by fixing his pocket watch. This deed, and the intellectual curiosity of the dwarves is what convinced him to teach them how to make airships.
* BladeOnAStick: He fights like a traditional ''Final Fantasy'' dragoon and thus specializes in using spears for jumping and thrusting attacks.
* BlowYouAway: His primary element in battle.
* BrokenPedestal: A major [[TheReveal reveal]] at the end of the Wind Shrine is that he's actually the original Cid, which sends Lid for a loop.
* DespairEventHorizon: After the confrontation with Rain and his party, he reveals his in Pharm. [[spoiler:He was made immortal, but his wife and daughter were not. Aldore's actions in sealing off the world meant that he would never be able to see his family again, and that his child would live and die without really knowing her father. While he tried to build a new life in Dirnado with the dwarves, the despair eventually became too much.]]
* DramaticUnmask: How his identity is revealed after fighting him at the Wind Shrine.
* {{Flight}}: Comes with having wind powers.
* GadgeteerGenius: As to be expected from someone who is invested in airship use in a ''Final Fantasy'' game, he's exceptionally good at putting devices together. As one would expect from [[LegacyCharacter a Cid in this series]].
* LegacyCharacter: His identity is that of the very first Cid in Lapis.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: During the introduction to Village of Ambel, you can see him flying out of nowhere.
* OddNameOut: He isn't directly named after his primary element like the other five. This is possibly due to the fact that he's a Dragoon, and he's as much about jumping around in the sky as the wind itself.
* OverprotectiveDad: Hinted at several times during Season 2, but confirmed in the epilogue: [[spoiler:Cid is defensive about both Mid and Yego and wants to make sure that neither will be hurt... and that includes by jerk boyfriends. Keep in mind that both managed to become elite forces all on their own]].
* PapaWolf: He's fiercely defensive of anyone he has taken in by family, including the other Veritas, and he's one of the oldest among them. [[spoiler:When he finds that his daughter is still alive in Season 2, he does everything he can to protect her, even before she makes a HeelFaceTurn. When Yego makes a proper HeelFaceTurn as well, Cid is just as quick to treat her the same]].
* PowerFloats: Not surprising, given both his element and the fact that he's a ''Final Fantasy'' dragoon, but Heavenlord spends much of his time airborne, with his battle sprites both as an enemy and as a Vision hovering over the ground.
* SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler:Cid is nothing if not effusive of his daughters, both by blood and by adoption. He spends his spare time in his travels even making little mementos for them to show how much he cares, even as he admits that he's out of touch with what young women might want from their father.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: He discusses the downsides to being made immortal to Lid and the others when confronted in Pharm. [[spoiler:He reveals that his immortality is something given to him by Aldore... while his wife and child were just normal humans. He painfully reveals his certainty that they are long since dead.]]
* WindIsGreen: Has green armor and is elementally associated with the wind.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Veritas tolerate Lazarov up until the point that [[spoiler:his actions nearly cause the destruction of the Invincible by Bahamut]], at which point Heavenslord steps in and makes sure that Lazarov isn't going to escape after Rain manages to finally confront the scientist.

!Folka, Veritas of the Waters
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Sworn of Water, a ditzy woman with a chip on her shoulder. [[spoiler:While she fought for Vlad's side on the Independence War, her distaste for violence was driving her to madness to the point she decided to use hypnosis magic to brainwash herself in order to stand the horrors of war]]. Life after banishment in Lapis did her no favors, due to Folka becoming quite the vengeful soul, [[spoiler:despite becoming the creator of the bloodline that serves the water goddess Esper, Leviathan, which results as well in the creation of Olderion, meaning she is also ancestor to Nichol, Luka and Elle]]. When she is recruited to finally put in motion the plan to shatter the crystals so the Veritas can return to Paladia, [[spoiler:she brainwashes herself as to not feel any guilt for her acts]] and hops into action.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Late in the story of Season 1, it's revealed that Veritas of the Waters inflicted this on herself as the toll of war was getting to her too much.]]
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: She's a big believer in this. [[spoiler:Perhaps the biggest SpannerInTheWorks she faces is when Luka manages to break Leviathan free of her torture-induced FaceHeelTurn.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: By far the pettiest member of the Sworn Six, and the one most willing to perform atrocity for her own sake rather than for any sort of [[KnightTemplar "higher purpose"]].
* ChekhovsGun: The item that Darklord took from the Lanzelt Ruins appears again when her plan is revealed.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Veritas of the Waters is so egotistical that she refuses to believe that anyone could pierce her plans at first, so she overlooks just what the Maiden of the Waters can do when teamed up with Rain. Even after she realizes just what a threat Rain poses, she completely overlooks what the Wardens of the Waters could do to stop her. Ties in with being a SmugSnake.
* TheDitz: Is often clueless of what's going on around her and drops her wallet frequently.
* {{Foil}}: For Nichol - both are magic-focused strategists that favor [[MakingASplash water elemental magic]], but they're on completely opposite sides at first and his humility and consideration for others contrasts sharply with her pride and disdain or later his calm observant nature contrasts with her ditzy cluelessness. [[spoiler:Them being relatives completes the set.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: Her story event, "Priestess of the Crystalline Waters", details how she chanced across a small town named Olde early in her exile in Lapis. Anyone who has cleared through enough of Season 1 knows that her story will end with [[spoiler:her having a child with one of the people of Olde, but with her abandoning the village and said child becoming the Water Priestess for the future Olderion]]. It's also very obvious early on just who will become the man that she'll have a child with.
* HarsherInHindsight: Take a close look at her victory sprite at the end of the battle when using her as a Vision. [[spoiler:She breaks down, likely due to realizing all the suffering she has caused due to being BrainwashedAndCrazy, ''especially'' the realization that she killed her own great-etc-grandson.]]
* IHatePastMe: Not terribly surprising, but she notes at several points during Season 2 that she has great regrets over what she did in Season 1, and [[spoiler:being confronted by a soulless clone of her made by Vlad in the climax of Season 2]] has her affirm both regret for Season 1 and the desire to move beyond what she was.
* IncestSubtext: For a generous definition of the prefix "sub-" at that - during season 2, Folka is openly competing with Citra for the attention of [[spoiler:Nichol, who is her distant descendant]]. Moreover, a comment she makes partway through the Gungan chapter of the story suggests that she ''is'' aware of their genetic relation, and she's ''still'' interested in him. The only reasons it counts as subtext are that Folka doesn't openly state that she's interested in romance and [[spoiler:the fact that Nichol has no interest in her]].
* MakingASplash: Her primary element.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:From way downtown after 700 years, but in killing Elle and trying to kill Luka and Nichol, she's killing her own great-great-et cetera-grandchildren.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The party notes, when confronting her in Pharm, that she's completely changed her tactics and basically approaching them dead-on without setting up traps. [[spoiler:It's because she's no longer in her self-induced BrainwashedAndCrazy state; she's [[SuicideByCop actively suicidal and wants Rain's party to stop her before she makes things worse]].]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Along with Lightlord, she makes a last stand against Behemoth to buy Rain enough time to stop Sol. While they ultimately fall in battle to Behemoth, he takes enough wounds from the two Veritas that allow Rain and crew to deliver the final blow.]]
* TheRedMage: As a Vision, she plays this way, capable of both high-level healing and attack magic. Her Trust Master Reward also benefits both white magic and black magic users, and would be at its most effective for a red mage DualWielding a staff (for white magic) and a rod (for black magic). Downplayed in her Season 2 form - while she still has some offensive water-element abilities, she's primarily a WhiteMage.
* SamusIsAGirl: Treated as a man and referred to with male pronouns in Olderion. Her battle description reveals that she is female. Not helped by her calling herself handsome at one point in the Water Shrine.
* SmugSnake: Very proud, very vain, and very loud about both of those. She's also the member of the Sworn Six with the worst success rate.
* StarCrossedLovers: Ultimately the case with Ichor, the Lapis resident that she briefly has a relationship with, which resulted in a daughter and the line of the Water Priestess in Olderion. As much as the two loved each other, she abandoned him because she feared that people would notice her immortality more and more and increase attacks on the whole family if she were present.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:When she removes her helmet after being defeated in Pharm, she looks very much like a long-haired Nichol, with a style similar to Luka's.]] When she finally removes the armor in Season 2, she also dresses very similar to [[spoiler:Luka]].
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Her non-BrainwashedAndCrazy personality is attempting this in Pharm; she's so laden with guilt that she's all but daring Rain and friends, particularly Nichol, to kill her.]]
* WhiteMage: A ''very powerful one'' at that when she's not in her Waterlord armor. Her kit also offers decent support kit, strengthening Water magic for others and providing ailment resistances, as well as damage mitigation, and she can easily provide MP for other party members. Being able to dualcast her kit is just the icing on the cake.
* YouKilledMyFather: Is this to Nichol for killing [[spoiler:Elle]].

!Ignacio, Veritas of the Flame
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-> '''Voiced By''': Creator/KentaMiyake (CG Limit burst)

Sworn of the Fire, a blacksmith by trade, and a kindred soul who will make friends with mostly anyone. [[spoiler:He joined the Veritas to honor his friend Kagane, who died in service to the Emperor, and it's implied she also was the very reason he became a blacksmith as well.]] His only reason for participating in the plan to destroy the crystals is being unwilling to take the undeserved banishment to Lapis sitting down, [[spoiler:and because after 700 years in Lapis, he feels like he has no other reason to live]]. Else, he's [[TokenGoodTeammate the most friendly of the Sworn Six]].

* AnAxeToGrind: Depicted in his sprite with a massive Axe about half his size (while already towering over Dark Veritas in armor), and comes with both a passive skill and a Trust Mastery Materia that grant large attack bonuses for wielding an Axe.
* TheBigGuy: He's rather distinctly the largest of the Veritas, and he's also the strongest in terms of raw power. It becomes even more apparent when they ditch the armor in Season 2 - while most of the unarmored Veritas are smaller and less assuming out of it, Ignacio is the same size, towering over his companions.
* TheBlacksmith: Aside from being the creator of Laswell's weapon, he fixes up most of the weapons of the rest of the Sworn Six before major battles, and is a blacksmith by trade. It becomes more prominent in his Season 2 form, in which he can work on his allies' equipment mid-battle to grant elemental resistances or imbues.
* BloodKnight: He really enjoys it when his foes give him a challenge. When Lasswell finally unlocks the potential of Purple Lightning, he's eager to see just what it can do. [[spoiler:Discussed and deconstructed after his defeat in Pharm; he threw himself into battle because he became numb to everything else.]]
* CameraAbuse: He smashes ''his head'' on the camera after executing his Limit Burst in his armorless unit version.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: [[spoiler:In the flashback to the Sworn Six joining with Lasswell and crew to go to Paladia, he's earnestly happy that Lasswell welcomes them all to join the journey.]]
* DumbMuscle: It doesn't come up much until Season 2, but he's not particularly astute or able to figure out more complicated plans; he trusts the others (particularly Darklord and Lightlord) to handle the thinking while he uses his strength.
* FieryRedhead: Reveals a red beard when he removes his armor.
* GentleGiant: Downplayed, given that he's more or less a special forces agent and general, but he's consistently the friendliest and most gregarious of the Sworn Six (and given that Frostlord in flashback was rather belligerent and Sakura was aloof when she was Boltlord, this was also true when they were the Sworn Eight), and even though [[BloodKnight he enjoys a good scrap]], he's the least interested in actually killing anyone.
* TheHeavy: His role in the villains, even more than Darklord listed above. As a summon, Darklord has multi-hit chaining moves and some utility, while Flamelord specializes in powerful single hit moves suited to ending a big chain. The same applies to Raegen and Ignacio in their Season 2 units: Raegen is an AT chainer before everything else, while Ignacio acts as a Finisher and Fire-based buffer.
* HiddenDepths:
** He's quite fond of food and cooking in general, to the point that he's the usually one who makes food for the Sworn Six.
** Late in Season 2, [[spoiler:a chance encounter with the Obliterating Star reveals much, explaining why he's both TheBlacksmith and his [[TrueCompanions utter devotion to his companions]]. When he was originally just a soldier working up through the ranks of Aldore, he was extremely close to a woman named Kagane. The two were devoted to each other, but his physical growth was pushing him towards the royal guard while she hit a wall, and she was going to retire to become a smith to make his gear. However, on their last mission together before her retirement, [[{{Retirony}} she was killed when their position was overwhelmed by monsters]]. He took up her planned profession, and it's strongly suggested that [[ReplacementGoldfish he treats all his friends with the same devotion that he had towards her]]]].
* IntimateArtistry: [[spoiler:As seen in the epilogue of Season 2, as the fighting is over, he retires to become an artist, and his main focus is to come up with a suitable memorial for his fallen friend, Kagane. He also thinks that if he makes the most perfect possible statue of her, her soul will find a way there.]]
* MultiMeleeMaster: While axes are his preferred weapon, he can equip every non-mage weapon as a summon.
* NamedWeapons: His Ignition Axe, [[spoiler:made by Kagane to fit his immense frame]].
* OddCouple: He and Folka form one, with both of them mutually supporting each other at difficult times. [[spoiler:His death in Season 1 involves [[YouShallNotPass him keeping the heroes back to try to allow Folka to escape them]]]], and when he is [[spoiler:tortured by his childhood friend Kagane's imprisonment]], Folka is the Veritas who offers him the most comfort.
* PlayingWithFire: His primary element in battle.
* SpiritedCompetitor: Thanks to the LighterAndSofter turn that all of the Veritas make in season 2, he becomes this - he's always up for a spar, but he knows and respects everyone's limits.
* SupremeChef: It's only gone into detail on [[AllThereInTheManual the unit description screen of his Season 2 form]], but he's apparently the TeamChef for the Veritas, and he's apparently extremely good at it. It's suggested that [[MundaneUtility he uses his Veritas powers to do it]].
* TokenGoodTeammate: In Season 1, he's effectively this for the Veritas, having always the friendliest demeanor to Rain's party.
* TragicKeepsake: His Ignition Axe is this, [[spoiler:as it was shoddily made by Kagane to fit his enormous frame. Ignacio has honed and improved that axe since then]].
* VillainousFriendship: With Veritas of the Dark. The "Time for Revenge" event shows that this extends towards anyone whose weapons he has worked on; improving their gear is how he shows that he cares. Further shown in the "Memories from the Battlefield" event - when he goes to Veritas of the Waters in Olderion, she specifically notes that Flamelord really dislikes areas with that much water and water magic around. Flamelord outright states that he's there because he's worried about Waterlord's well-being.
* WorthyOpponent: He demands that Rain and Lasswell grow stronger if they want to have a hope of defeating him. When they do, he's earnestly congratulatory.

!Sieghard, Veritas of the Earth
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-> '''Voiced By''': Creator/YuichiNakamura (CG Limit Burst)

Sworn of the Earth, a noble known for his [[AgentPeacock narcissistic attitude]] as much as [[BloodKnight his taste for battle]]. Despite his attitude, he's one of the most considerate members of the Veritas, to the point he's TheHeart of the team. He joined the Veritas only so he could fight alongside or against Fina, while leaving his family behind. His desire for revenge on Aldore isn't as much as a motivation to help the Veritas destroy the crystals in Lapis as much as [[spoiler:his desire to fight Fina again is, to the point he goes out of his way to bring the real Fina back from the one that emerged from the Earth Crystal]].

* AgentPeacock: Earthlord is not shy about loving beautiful things, power, and kicking lots of ass. [[spoiler: As shown in Season 2, he also puts quite a bit of effort into his appearance.]]
* {{Bishonen}}: He's vain about his appearance, and [[spoiler: Season 2 reveals him outside of his armor, where he's dressed finely and can easily be mistaken for a beautiful woman.]]
* BloodKnight: Probably the most out of all the Veritas, as he is always looking for an opponent worthy of facing him. In the "Time for Revenge" side event, he even casually threatens both Darklord and Flamelord.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Particularly in Season 2, when he's so narcissistic that he doesn't even register when his companions are mocking him, he comes off as a completely oddball that doesn't even seem to have a reason to be accompanying the other Veritas. That said, there are some suggestions that [[ObfuscatingStupidity he's intentionally acting like a goof]] [[TheHeart to defuse tensions and help his allies stay united]], and even when everyone is caught off guard and dead-to-rights by the Orders, [[StoneWall he can still produce a defensive barrier without peer, even without his Veritas armor]]. His Story Event in Season 2 reveals that he comes from an entire family of them. [[spoiler:After defeating Shamlin, Sieghard reveals that this is ''entirely'' intentional, done to be TheHeart for the whole team. Citra, Raegen, and Folka are all floored to learn that all of it was as Sieghard planned.]]
* DiscontinuityNod: In the late Season 2 fight against Nagi [[spoiler:when Sieghard is trying to convince her to make a HeelFaceTurn and become [[BloodBrothers Blood Siblings]]]], he references the SpellMyNameWithAnS issue that he had at the beginning of Season 2 - [[spoiler:among the nicknames that he suggests Nagi use for him as an honorary sibling, he notes that some people even call him "Zeke," short for "Zekehart," the first translation used with him]].
* DishingOutDirt: His primary element.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Back during the war, he used to call Citra "sis".
* TheFaceless: He is one of the two Sworn Six members who never takes off his helmet until Season 2, when he abandons it after it's permanently damaged.
* FoeRomanceSubtext: He is given a massive helping with Dark Fina when he tells the story of how he became a Veritas. He met Dark Fina when she destroyed a gargoyle that kidnapped two children and [[LoveAtFirstSight immediately fell for her beauty and power]], demanding she become his rival. She defeated him effortlessly and told him she was going to be turned immortal and couldn't become rivals with a mortal man. He immediately decided to join the army, abandoned his family, and worked up through the ranks until he too could earn immortality so they would always be together. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything? The only thing not making it text is that neither ever says the word "love".
* FriendlyRivalry: With Fina. They would always hold sparring matches with each other until they were exhausted. The fact that they joined opposite sides of the war fit this as well.
* TheHeart: Season 2 reveals that he, of all people, functions as one for the Veritas. Whether it be by defusing arguments, being there to back up everyone when all else seems lost, and most notably, [[spoiler:being the one most incensed by Mombert's HarmfulToMinors plan]]. He's not above resorting to WarriorTherapist moments [[spoiler:as Nagi and Shamlin learn late in Season 2]], but he ultimately views his NoblesseOblige as trying to make as many people as possible happy.
* HiddenDepths: For the longest time, it seems as if there's really not too much to him other than [[AgentPeacock his vanity]], [[BloodKnight his fondness of combat]], and his loyalty to the other Veritas. However, the third part of Chapter 4 in Season 2 shows that he's more than just that. His love of beauty extends to wanting to ''protect'' any sources of it (perhaps why he's [[StoneWall the most defense-oriented of the Veritas]]), and it's rather telling that he, of all people, is the most vocally outraged by the fact that [[spoiler:Mombert's plan involves [[HarmfulToMinors sacrificing four children's lives]].]] He is also not that self-centered or clueless, particularly shown when [[spoiler:he takes both Maemae and Honor alone to give the latter a chance to confess his feeling toward the former]].
* IHatePastMe: PlayedForLaughs compared to his compatriots -- when confronted by [[spoiler:[[EvilKnockoff his soulless clone]]]] late in Season 2, he can't believe how ugly the Earthlord armor was on him.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Not so much as a fight, but rather returns Fina back to her dark form while trying to erase her light form.
* {{Irony}}: He always understood Fina by fighting her and the two shared a strong bond through their desire to fight to the death against one other, yet he could never understand why she sided with Hess until she [[VictoryIsBoring tells him]] outright.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When travelling with [[spoiler:Mombert and the Children of Hess]] he bonds quite closely to [[spoiler:Redge, asking for a crown of flowers from her sometime seeing the one she made while playing among them]]. When the truth comes out and [[spoiler:Redge sacrifices her life at the shrine forming one of the magical points to defuse the Emperor's paling]] he is most visibly upset and outraged not just at the fact it was [[spoiler:Redge]], but at the entire idea in general. The entire event is one big slip of his facade.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Has a very big shield as primary "weapon."
* MadLove: In Season 1, he cannot be convinced Dark Fina is no longer interested in him after the centuries spent apart, even when she beats him up numerous times.
* MythologyGag: In the first fight against him, he summons the recurring Demon Wall boss to fight against the party (his shield becoming the wall's face). When recruited, this summon becomes his limit burst.
* {{Narcissist}}: He shamelessly admits he's one. In flashback, it's shown that part of the reason he became a defensive specialist is because his family had a shield that was mirrored on both sides, so that he could always look at his own beautiful face even in battle.
* NoblesseOblige: Bit of a family tradition, in fact -- he comes from a family of beautiful nobles, who all believe that it's their duty to spread their nobility and beauty throughout the world via good deeds. Appropriately, it's even the name of one of his passives (giving him a boost to all his defensive stats and making him immune to charm).
* OddFriendship: He has an odd way of making his rivalries sound like passionate affairs, to the extent that the two characters that he's shown getting along best with are Dark Fina and [[spoiler:Sol]] - particularly when those characters are openly talking about killing him in combat.
* RapunzelHair: A rare male example, as his luxuriously long blond locks spill out of the back of his helmet and come to around his ankles, helping to show just how vain he is. In Season 2, once the Veritas abandon their armors, he reveals that he even beats out former Boltlord Sakura, above, in hair length. His vanity gets even more attention from the story at this point, too.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Late in Season 2, he talks about how much he misses his blood siblings, and there's a strong undercurrent that he views the other Veritas as replacements for them. [[spoiler:He explicitly offers to Nagi that they be this for each other's late siblings, and she takes him up on this after he pulls a stint as a WarriorTherapist. While he isn't as explicit with Shamlin, it's suggested that he does it with him as well.]]
* ShieldBash: His attack animation involves taking that ridiculously large shield and smacking his opponent repeatedly with it.
* SomethingAboutARose: His Season 2 unit version has this in spades. His spellcasting and victory pose have him holding one. His 7-star idle animation and limit burst CG has petals of roses scattered around him.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His real name started out as "Zekehart", but ended up changing it to "Sieghard" a couple of chapters later.
* StoneWall: Obvious pun aside, his battle sprite has him carrying a massive shield, and his playable summon version is best used as a tank. He comes with numerous abilities that block status breaks and buff the team, in addition to having a full-cover skill which absorbs every attack. He's also the one Veritas whose Trust Master Reward improves defense as well as attack.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: In his Season 2 story that flashes back to his origins, we get to meet his family. Not only do they look similar (both in terms of physique as well as style), they all tend to ''act'' the same, too.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Goes to great lengths to save Dark Fina because he wants to surpass her in combat.
* {{Tsundere}}: He can be abrasive, but deep down he does care for those he views as comrades. The version of him from Fina's psyche fights Rain and companions for opposing him trying to slay Fina, only for Veritas of the Light to reveal how worried he was for them when they disappeared.
* WalkingTheEarth: Again, obvious pun aside, [[spoiler:His fate as of the end of Season 2 -- he, Nagi, and Shamlin become traveling entertainers. Based on how things are going when Raegen and Citra check in on them, the three are apparently good at it]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: Offers Fina a chance to join the Sworn Six in revenge against Aldore. Fina refuses.
* WhipSword: Possesses one outside his armor that he uses behind his shield.
* WorthyOpponent: He always viewed Fina as this and vice versa. Though their desire to fight to the death also has some romantic undertones, with him getting jealous of Rain when she picks Rain over him.

!Citra, Veritas of the Light
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-> '''Voiced By''': Creator/YoshinoNanjo (CG limit burst)

Sworn of the Light, [[spoiler:and the true responsible for the Veritas' plan to destroy the crystals]]. Originally a loving woman from Moraque with high magic talent, she joined the Veritas out of her desire to be with Raegen. Her joining also caused her sister Sakura, then a preteen, to inadvertently take an operation for her immortal heart in order to join the Veritas, much to Citra's chagrin. Out of the seven surviving Veritas, she became the most obsessed with the plan to destroy the crystals so they could return to Paladia and get their revenge on Aldore. Things start to not go as she expects [[spoiler:when both her sister and Raegen decide to abandon the plan, instead taking to a peaceful life in Lapis. Citra doesn't take well to this, which sours her relationship with her sister and puts her at extreme odds with Raegen. To counterbalance Raegen's absence, she manages to create a vision of him from the times of the Hess Independence War, and uses that vision to fool the other Veritas into going along with her plan. Things finally come to a head when Citra tries to get the real Raegen back by force and ends up accidentally killing his wife Sophia, causing Raegen to finally turn against her and take a stance to stop her plan to destroy Lapis]].
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:This is how Citra got Sophia killed when she and Raegen confronted each other five years prior to the events of the game. Raegen was [[CurbStompBattle losing]] the fight; Citra was ready to land the finishing shot and Sophia [[TakingTheBullet jumped in front of her as she fired]]. Citra is visibly ''wrecked'' by the outcome as this seals for good the fact that Raegen, the person she once loved, is now ''her enemy''.]]
* {{Adorkable}}: ''Actually has shades of this'', despite her general place in the story. After one particular fight with Team Rain, she manages to ''walk off a cliff'' due to being distracted, which leaves everyone rather speechless. [[MadeOfIron She's just fine, though.]] And of course, as Sakura's sister, she's pretty cute, even if her aging halted a little later than Sakura's did. And being from Sakura's family, the trope isn't as surprising. The "Piercing Light" side event emphasizes this, as Lightlord spends about 75% of the event flustered and somewhat ridiculous, particularly regarding how she treats [[spoiler:the newly summon Darklord]] when nobody else is around.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Her Limit Burst as her Season 2 unit involves every available Esper.
* ArmCannon: Her armor has cannons instead of hands.
* TheAtoner: It takes a ''long'' while, but near the end of Season 2, she admits that one of the things she wants to do after she dies [[spoiler:is to find the spirit of Sophia and apologize for all that happened. Citra even admits that she doesn't expect to be forgiven, but she wants to apologize nonetheless]].
* BigBad: Effectively ends up as this for most of the first arc of the story. [[spoiler:She's the one who really kicked things off when she summoned a Vision of ''Raegen'', and had this Vision assault the Earth Temple as Veritas of the Dark. The remaining Veritas followed from there and the plot snowballs into what it becomes. She's also got the biggest, most personal axe to grind with a party member, that being Sakura. She's also revenge-obsessed to the point of almost being irrational about it, and this includes being the one who ''really'' wants revenge against Aldore.]]
* {{BFG}}: Her armor features built-in blasters in place of hands, and several of her more powerful attacks use the same or similar animation as the powerful attacks of the various gunners that can be recruited.

* DespairEventHorizon: It's revealed in her Story Event that Citra came ''very close'' to giving up on revenge against Aldore when she met a grandfather and his daughter in Dirnado. Her involvement in matters, however, caused a group of bandits to kidnap and kill that family, causing Citra to ditch whatever faith in mankind she had and resume her path full force. The worst part? That family was in Dirnado ''because Sakura banished the little girl from Mysidia for being inept at magic, and her grandfather went along as to not leave her alone''. Now do you ''really'' think this is not [[ItsPersonal personal]] between Citra and Sakura by the time Season 1 rolls? [[note]]Sakura never gets to know what happened to Macmedi and Lotti, however. Would surely have driven her [[WhatHaveIDone into serious regret]].[[/note]]
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: She has such a strong dedication to revenge because it's the only thing left she has to give her life meaning [[spoiler:after sacrificing everything else. When Nichol rigs the coin toss to make her give up revenge and protect Lapis she goes for it, seeing it as an out to look for a new purpose in her life]].
* DiscardAndDraw: A downplayed example. While both her Season 1 and Season 2 versions can DualWield, each can only do so with two particular weapon types (guns and thrown weapons for the former, staves and rods for the latter).
* DramaticUnmask: Early in Mysidia it's revealed that she's Sakura's sister.
* DrivenToSuicide: Discusses [[spoiler:killing the Vision of Raegen that she summoned and then herself during the ''Piercing Light'' event, which finally prompts the Vision to speak and take up the Darklord's mantle.]]
* DualWielding: Her sprite has [[ArmCannon cannons on each arm]]. Not surprisingly, the vision of her can do this with both guns and thrown weapons innately.
* EmbarrassingNickname: She doesn't like being called "sis" by Sieghard.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:Cannot understand why Rain does not kill her to avenge his mother, Sophia.]]
* FailedASpotCheck: Again, she ''walked off a cliff'' because she wasn't paying attention to where she was going. And it's not like the steep fall was an unknown, given that she knew she was climbing a mountain at the time.
* {{Fanservice}}: Her Season 2 outfits are not leaving much to the imagination, and she's not adverse to being TheVamp, even if not to the same level of Dark Fina. PlayedForLaughs in the victory pose for her summertime version - she's leaning over clearly to give onlookers an eyeful of her cleavage, and she's apparently successful in getting Folka to do the same... briefly, until the latter gets embarrassed and covers herself up.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Levnato, after taking the Provenance Drug to get far stronger than in the previous fight, forces Citra to promptly lend strength to Raegen, and eventually ''[[CastFromHitPoints her own life energy]]'', to allow him to overpower Levnato. She would have surely died after that, had Yego not recovered a leftover of the Provenance Drug from the defeated Levnato to heal her.]]
** [[spoiler:Citra then learns from Elmaul that when he meant "everything is returned to its original state", ''he meant it''; the drug only healed Citra because she was dying at that point. Had she taken the drug while healthy like Levnato did, ''her immortal heart would revert to a mortal one'', as the operation she took ''is not the original state her heart was in''. By telling this to Sieghard, who just took hefty amounts of the drug from Vlad's stock, they decide to take it in order to power up and make them able to face the {{Evil Knockoff}}s Vlad sent at the party, losing their immortality in the proccess. They leave Sakura and Raegen out of this, however, telling them to go ahead and finish the job with Rain and Lasswell.]]
* HornedHumanoid: Has a horn in the middle of her head, like many Summoners in Final Fantasy. It's revealed to be part of her headpiece when it becomes obtainable in the "Piercing Light" event. It's also a feature (perhaps the most prominent one) of her Veritas armor, and even [[TheNicknamer Akstar]] gave her the nickname of "Unicorn Lady" for it.
* IHatePastMe: By the end of Season 2, being reminded of how she was in Season 1 elicits extreme distaste for how she was. [[spoiler:When she has to fight her soulless clone in the climax of the season, it becomes most apparent.]]
* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Sister]]: Completely denies being Sakura's sibling in the present, despite claims otherwise. [[ItsPersonal That's because she has an enormous beef with Sakura]].
* ItsPersonal: As noted under DespairEventHorizon, Sakura deserting the Veritas is not the only reason Citra has to go for her head in Season 1.
* KnightTemplar: As Sakura notes, Lightlord is a pure and simple girl primarily motivated by what she loves and cares about. The problem is, she has no limits as to what she'll do for them, such as risk all of Lapis.
* LadyAndKnight: The Dark Lady to Darklord's Black Knight.
* LightEmUp: Her primary element.
* LighterAndSofter: Obvious pun aside, her behavior in Season 2 definitely comes across as this, showing some of her character development after [[spoiler:Nichol's brinksmanship]] near the end of Season 1. She also comically falls into a VitriolicBestBuds dynamic with Folka, with the two arguing over [[spoiler:who should get to woo Nichol... and she's more than willing to include Sieghard in those discussions]].
* LightIsNotGood: While having light powers, she is clearly a villain in Season 1.
* MadeOfIron: At one point, after a confrontation with Rain's crew, she [[IdiotBall stops paying attention to where she's walking]] and falls off of a mountain. Sakura specifically notes that such a fall would only temporarily incapacitate the Lightlord, and that Rain and company need to hurry to their next objective before the Veritas can get there.
* MageMarksman: She's the most magically adept of the Veritas with only her sister able to compete, and those {{Arm Cannon}}s on her armor are not for show. Her specific weapon, obtainable in an event, is a magic-improving gun. She's also quite capable of using thrown weapons as well.
* MeaningfulRename: Not quite a rename so much as no longer using the Veritas title, but the signal that the struggle against the Veritas is over is when Raegen uses her real name, Citra, and she stops using the title of Veritas of the Light.
* MoralityPet: While she tried to deny it, she grew increasingly attached to Macmedi, the man who helped maintain the Lightlord armor's guns, and his granddaughter Lotti, and said growing fondness has her consider just how far she should go for revenge against Aldore. Their death by a random thug causes her to [[TheUnfettered commit to her revenge against Adlore]] and [[ItsPersonal added a new reason for her to rail against Sakura]] should the two meet again.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: She was in love with Reagen [[spoiler:and ended up killing Sophia, Raegen's wife and Rain's mother, by accident during her confrontation with the Darklord. Played with in that while she threatened to kill Sophia, she ultimately only did it by accident when Sophia [[TakingTheBullet jumped in front of Reagen to protect him]], and was horrified by her mistake]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: "Piercing Light" shows the aftermath of [[spoiler:her murder of Sophia]], where she's panicking and saddened over what she just did. Played with in that her concern isn't [[spoiler:a cold-blooded murder]], but that [[spoiler:she realizes that it guarantees that Raegen will ''go for her head'' next they meet]].
** MyGreatestFailure: Season 2 all but shows that [[spoiler:Citra considers this moment her absolute lowest. When Raegen is having a serious HeroicBSOD due to Rain fighting him as Hyoh a second time and giving him a MotiveRant, she wonders what Sophia would to do pick Raegen up from that state. Later, when she attempts a HeroicSacrifice by giving Raegen enough strength to overpower Levnato, she says to Raegen she wants to personally apologize to Sophia for all the damage she's done, as she lies in his arms waiting for her end]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: In the race for the final crystal, she fights with Dark Elf because she insists that she be the one to destroy the Crystal of Darkness so that she can have her revenge on Aldore. She also makes sure that Rain isn't killed by Dark Elf because she's insistent on being the one to kill him.
* PureIsNotGood: Sakura describes her as pure in heart, which is why she becomes so fixated on the things she cares about.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Along with Waterlord, she makes a LastStand against Behemoth to buy Rain enough time to stop Sol. While they ultimately fall in battle to Behemoth, he takes enough wounds from the two Veritas that allow Rain and crew to deliver the final blow.]]
* {{Revenge}}: Whether it involves Aldore, or being abandoned by two of her companions, or losing people she cared about to random mooks, or even [[spoiler:asking why Rain does not indulge in getting revenge against ''her'' for killing his mother]], she is obsessed with this. Citra's arc in Season 2 is her developing out of her obsession and mindset.
* SamusIsAGirl: Her armor does a good job at hiding her gender, which isn't revealed until she's removed from it.
* SiblingRivalry: She despises Sakura in the present despite showing she deeply cared for Sakura in the past, saying that she never had a sister.
* StalkerWithACrush: The "Memories from the Battlefield" event focuses on what the Veritas did just after the Veritas were banished to Lapis, and Lightlord spends pretty much the whole thing trying to stick with Darklord, hoping to finally get his undivided attention. [[ForegoneConclusion As this took place several centuries ago, it's obvious that she's going to consistently fail]]. While she tones it down, she's still obviously obsessed with Raegen in Season 2. She also shows a growing fascination with Nichol. Which evolves to the point when talking with Sakura, [[ButtMonkey she throws her to into a wall face first]] to move her out of her way to stop Folka talking with him alone.
* SummonMagic: She's ''also'' capable of summoning Visions, as she demonstrates in her second boss fight. She is also the party's Summoner, sporting the series' usual Summoner's horn both in her armor and outside of it.
* TheUnfettered: As it gets shown as time goes on, Veritas of the Light is willing to go to any length to get her revenge on Aldore. [[spoiler:She even summons a Vision of Raegen from 700 years ago because the present-day one won't go along with her. She starts to move away from this after Nichol dissuades her from her path with a bet.]]
* ThirdPersonSeductress: Her CG movie focuses first on her hips, and then on her chest, before finally reaching her face and then going on to display the attack animation. No other character's movie is this overtly sexualized until that of her Season 2 summer form, which focuses on ''three'' characters' cleavage at the end (hers, Folka's, and Dark Fina's).
* WhamEpisode: The final battle against Rain and company in Mysidia, where she reveals that Rain isn't the only one capable of using visions -- this becomes even more significant as the plot progresses.
* {{Yandere}}: She's heavily obsessed with Raegen to the point where she [[spoiler:summons a vision of him from the war]]. [[spoiler:[[MurderTheHypotenuse Killing his wife]] doesn't count, however, [[AccidentalMurder as it was by total accident]] due to Sophia deciding to TakeTheBullet for her husband.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink in her case. She is Sakura's sister after all.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:She tries to invoke this with Rain when she reveals to him that she was the one who killed his mother, Sophia. Rain at this point is so past what happened that he allows Citra to live.]]

!Gilgamesh, Veritas of the Frost
A member of the original Sworn Eight of Paladia that fought in the war between Aldore and Hess. He was thought to be dead after the war, but traveled 50 years into the future to the War of the Visions timeline. [[spoiler: His armor was taken over by Sir Raegen to counter the current Sworn Six.]]

* [[SixthRanger Eighth Ranger]]: By the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Land of the Crystals/Wandering Lands]] arc, Raegen is effectively an eighth party member on Rain's team, and from this he becomes the {{Deuteragonist}} of Season 2.

-> '''Voiced By''': Creator/YoshinoNanj (CG limit burst)

* IaijutsuPracticioner: Being the creator of the Mirror of Equity is just not enough; he has to deliver those skills [[FlashStep as fast as he can]] and ''multiple times'' in order to dice his targets. No wonder his Esper Unit bonds him to [[SingleStrokeBattle Odin]].

* IHatePastMe: By the end of Season 2, being reminded of how she was in Season 1 elicits extreme distaste for how she was. When she has to fight her soulless clone in the climax of the season, it becomes most apparent.

* MageMarksman: She's the most magically adept of the Veritas with only her sister able to compete, and those [[{{BFG}} BFGs]] on her armor's arms are not for show. Her specific weapon, obtainable in an event, is a magic-improving gun. She's also quite capable of using thrown weapons as well.

* MoralityPet: While she tried to deny it, she grew increasingly attached to Macmedi, the man who helped maintain the Lightlord armor's guns, and his granddaughter Lotti, and said growing fondness has her consider just how far she should go for revenge against Aldore. [[spoiler: Their death by a random thug causes Lightlord to [[TheUnfettered commit to her revenge against Adlore]].]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:She was in love with Reagen and ended up killing Sophia, Raegen's wife and Rain's mother, out of jealousy. Played with in that while she threatened to kill Sophia, she ultimately only did it by accident when Sophia jumped in front of Reagen to protect him, and was horrified by her mistake.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: "Piercing Light" shows the aftermath of [[spoiler: her murder of Sophia]], where she's panicking and saddened over what she just did. Played with in that her concern isn't [[spoiler: a cold-blooded murder]], but that [[spoiler: she realizes that it guarantees that Raegen won't join her cause]].

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Along with Waterlord, she makes a last stand against Behemoth to buy Rain enough time to stop Sol. While they ultimately fall in battle to Behemoth, he takes enough wounds from the two Veritas that allow Rain and crew to deliver the final blow.]]
* {{Revenge}}: Whether it involves Aldore, or being abandoned by two of her companions, or even [[spoiler:asking why Rain does not indulge in getting revenge against ''her'' for killing his mother]], she is obsessed with this.

* SiblingRivalry: [[spoiler:Despises Sakura in the present despite showing she deeply cared for Sakura in the past, saying that she never had a sister.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: The "Memories from the Battlefield" event focuses on what the Veritas did just after Paladia sealed the world of Lapis away, and Lightlord spends pretty much the whole thing trying to stick with Darklord, hoping to finally get his undivided attention. [[ForegoneConclusion As this took place several centuries ago, it's obvious that she's going to consistently fail.]] [[spoiler: While she tones it down, she's still obviously obsessed with Raegen in Season 2. She also shows a growing fascination with Nichol.]] Which evolves to the point when talking with Sakura, she throws her to into a wall face first to move her out of her way to stop Folka talking with him alone.
* SummonMagic: [[spoiler:She's ''also'' capable of summoning Visions, as she demonstrates in her second boss fight.]] She is also the party's summoner, sporting the series' usual summoner's horn both in her armour and outside of it.
* TheUnfettered: As it gets shown as time goes on, Veritas of the Light is willing to go to any length to get her revenge on Aldore. [[spoiler: She even summons a Vision of Raegen from 700 years ago because the present-day one won't go along with her.]] [[spoiler: She moves away from this after Nichol dissuades her from her path with a bet.]]
* ThirdPersonSeductress: One of the game's latest features is that second-season versions of plot-relevant characters get a brief pre-rendered {{Cut Scene}}, typically 10 seconds or less, for their Limit Bursts. This character's CG movie focuses first on her hips, and then on her chest, before finally reaching her face and then going on to display the attack animation. No other character's movie is this overtly sexualized until that of her season 2 summer form, which focuses on ''three'' characters' cleavage at the end (hers, Folka's, and Dark Fina's).
* WhamEpisode: The final battle against Rain and company in Mysidia, where she reveals [[spoiler: that Rain isn't the only one capable of using visions -- this becomes even more significant as the plot progresses.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Psychotically obsessed with Raegen to the point where she [[spoiler: summons a vision of him from the war]] and [[spoiler: kills his wife]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: [[spoiler:Pink in her case. She is Sakura's sister after all.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Tries to invoke this with Rain when she reveals to him that she was the one who killed his mother, Sophia.]]

The main antagonists of Season 1. They initially seek to destroy the world's crystals for an unknown reason. Come Season 2, their unarmored versions are PromotedToPlayable and Raegen becomes a {{Deuteragonist}} to Lasswell.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:They were working with Aldore during the war, but they are antagonists in Season 1, and want revenge on Aldore for their exile, not caring if Lapis would be destroyed in the process. Sakura and Raegen are no longer with them because they disagree with this stance.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: ''Actually has shades of this'', despite her general place in the story. After one particular fight with Team Rain, she manages to ''walk off a cliff'' due to being distracted, which leaves everyone rather speechless. [[MadeOfIron She's just fine, though.]] [[spoiler:And of course, as Sakura's sister, she's pretty cute, even if her aging halted a little later than Sakura's did. And being from Sakura's family, the trope isn't as surprising.]] The "Piercing Light" side event emphasizes this, as Lightlord spends about 75% of the event flustered and somewhat ridiculous, particularly regarding how she treats [[spoiler: the newly summon Darklord]] when nobody else is around.
* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:Her Limit Burst as summoner units involves every available Espers.]]

* TheAtoner: It takes a ''long'' while, but near the end of season 2, she admits that one of the things she wants to do [[spoiler: after she dies is to find the spirit of Sophia and apologize for all that happened. Citra even admits that she doesn't expect to be forgiven, but she wants to apologize nonetheless.]]

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: She has such a strong dedication to revenge because it's the only thing left she has to give her life meaning. [[spoiler:When Nichol rigs the coin toss to make her give up revenge and protect Lapis she goes for it, seeing it as an out to look for a new purpose in her life.]]

* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Is actually Sakura's older sister.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Discusses [[spoiler: killing the Vision of Raegen that she summoned and then herself during the ''Piercing Light'' event, which finally prompts the Vision to speak and take up the Darklord's mantle.]]

* EmbarrassingNickname: [[spoiler:She doesn't like being called "sis" by Earth.]]

* {{Fanservice}}: Her season 2 outfits are not leaving much to the imagination, and she's not adverse to being TheVamp, even if not to the same level of Dark Fina. PlayedForLaughs in the victory pose for her summertime version - she's leaning over clearly to give onlookers an eyeful of her cleavage, and she's apparently successful in getting Folka to do the same... briefly, until the latter gets embarrassed and covers herself up.
* HornedHumanoid: Has a horn in the middle of her head, like many summoners in Final Fantasy. It's revealed to be part of her headpiece when it becomes obtainable in the "Piercing Light" event. It's also a feature (perhaps the most prominent one) of her Veritas armor.

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Sister]]: Completely denies [[spoiler:being Sakura's sibling]] in the present, despite claims otherwise.

* LighterAndSofter: Obvious pun aside, her behavior in season 2 definitely comes across as this, showing some of her character development after [[spoiler: Nichol's brinksmanship]] near the end of season 1. She also comically falls into a VitriolicBestBuds dynamic with [[spoiler: Folka]], with the two arguing over [[spoiler: who should get to woo Nichol... and she's more than willing to include Sieghart in those discussions.]]
* LightIsNotGood: While having light powers, she is clearly a villain in season 1.

* MageMarksman: She's the most magically adept of the Veritas [[spoiler: with only her sister, formerly of the Veritas, able to compete]], and those [[{{BFG}} BFGs]] on her armor's arms are not for show. Her specific weapon, obtainable in an event, is a magic-improving gun. She's also quite capable of using thrown weapons as well.
* MeaningfulRename: Not quite a rename so much as no longer using the Veritas title, [[spoiler: but the signal that the struggle against the Veritas is over is when Raegen uses her real name, Citra, and she stops using the title of Veritas of the Light.]]

Sworn of the Light, [[spoiler:and the true responsible for the Veritas' plan to destroy the crystals]]. Originally a loving woman from Moraque with high magic talent, she joined the Veritas out of her desire to be with Raegen. Her joining also caused sister Sakura, then a preteen, to inadvertently take an operation for her immortal heart in order to join the Veritas, much to Citra's chagrin. Out of the seven surviving Veritas, she became the most obsessed with the plan to destroy the crystals so they could return to Paladia and get their revenge on Aldore. Things start to not go as she expects [[spoiler:when both her sister and Raegen decide to abandon the plan, instead taking to a peaceful life in Lapis. Citra doesn't take well to this, which sours her relationship with her sister and puts her at extreme odds with Raegen. To counterbalance Raegen's absence, she manages to create a vision of him from the times of the Hess Independence War, and uses that vision to fool the other Veritas into going along with her plan. Things finally come to a head when Citra tries to get the real Raegen back by force and ends up accidentally killing his wife Sophia, causing Raegen to finally turn against her and take a stance to stop her plan to destroy Lapis]].

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The final of the Sworn Six of Paladia. She joins Earth with the task of destroying the light crystal in Mysidia.

* HiddenDepths: For the longest time, it seems as if there's really not too much to him other than [[AgentPeacock his vanity]], [[BloodKnight his fondness of combat]], and his loyalty to the other Veritas. However, the third part of Chapter 4 in Season 2 shows that he's more than just that. His love of beauty extends to wanting to ''protect'' any sources of it (perhaps why he's [[StoneWall the most defense-oriented of the Veritas]]), and it's rather telling that he, of all people, is the most vocally outraged by the fact that [[spoiler: Momhart's plan involves [[HarmfulToMinors sacrificing four children's lives]].]] He is also not that self-centered or clueless, particularly shown when he takes both Maemae and Honor alone to give the latter a chance to confess his feeling toward the former.
* IHatePastMe: PlayedForLaughs compared to his compatriots -- when confronted by his soulless clone late in Season 2, he can't believe how ugly the Earthlord armor was on him.

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The fifth of the Sworn Six of Paladia. He joins Light with the task of the destroying the [[spoiler: light]] crystal in Mysidia.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Particularly in season 2, when he's so narcissistic that he doesn't even register when his companions are mocking him, he comes off as a completely oddball that doesn't even seem to have a reason to be accompanying the other Veritas. That said, there are some suggestions that [[ObfuscatingStupidity he's intentionally acting like a goof]] [[TheHeart to defuse tensions and help his allies stay united]], and even when everyone is caught off guard and dead-to-rights by the Orders, [[StoneWall he can still produce a defensive barrier without peer, even without his Veritas armor]]. His side story event in season 2 reveals that he comes from an entire family of them. [[spoiler: After defeating Shamlin, Sieghard reveals that this is ''entirely'' intentional, done to be TheHeart for the whole team. Citra, Raegen, and Folka are all floored to learn that all of it was as Sieghard planned.]]
* DiscontinuityNod: In the late Season 2 fight against Nagi [[spoiler: when Sieghard is trying to convince her to make a HeelFaceTurn and become [[BloodBrothers Blood Siblings]]]], he references the SpellMyNameWithAnS issue that he had at the beginning of season 2 - [[spoiler: among the nicknames that he suggests Nagi use for him as an honorary sibling, he notes that some people even call him "Zeke," short for "Zekehart," the first translation used with him]].

* EmbarrassingNickname: [[spoiler:Back during the war, he used to call Light "sis".]]
* TheFaceless: He is one of the two Sworn Six members who never takes off his helmet [[spoiler: until Season 2, when he abandons it after it's permanently damaged]].
* FoeRomanceSubtext: Is given a massive helping with [[spoiler: Dark Fina]] when he tells the story of how he became a Veritas. He met [[spoiler: Dark Fina]] when she destroyed a gargoyle that kidnapped two children and [[LoveAtFirstSight immediately fell for her beauty and power,]] demanding she become his rival. She defeated him effortlessly and [[spoiler: told him she was going to be turned immortal]] and couldn't become rivals with [[spoiler: a mortal man.]] He immediately decided to join the army, abandoned his family, and worked up through the ranks until he too could earn immortality so they would always be together. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything. The only thing not making it text is that neither ever says the word "love".
* FriendlyRivalry: [[spoiler:With Fina. They would always hold sparring matches with each other until they were exhausted. The fact that they joined opposite sides of the war fit this as well.]]
* TheHeart: Season 2 reveals that he, of all people, functions as one for the Veritas. Whether it be by defusing arguments, being there to back up everyone when all else seems lost, and most notably, [[spoiler: being the one most incensed by Mombert's HarmfulToMinors plan]]. He's not above resorting to WarriorTherapist moments [[spoiler: as Nagi and Shamlin learn late in season 2]], but he ultimately views his NoblesseOblige as trying to make as many people as possible happy.

* IHatePastMe: PlayedForLaughs compared to his compatriots - when confronted by his soulless clone late in Season 2, he can't believe how ugly the Veritas of the Earth armor was on him.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Not so much as a fight, but rather returns Fina back to her dark form while erasing her light form.]]
* {{Irony}}: He always understood Fina by fighting her and the two shared a strong bond through their desire to fight to the death against one other, yet he could never understand why she sided with Hess until she tells him outright.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When travelling with [[spoiler:Momhart and the Children of Hess]] he bonds quite closely to [[spoiler:Redge, asking for a crown of flowers from her sometime seeing the one she made while playing among them]]. When the truth comes out and [[spoiler:Redge sacrifices her life at the shrine forming one of the magical points to create a field against the emperor]] he is most visibly upset and outraged not just at the fact it was [[spoiler:Redge]] but at the entire idea in general. The entire event is one [[spoiler:big slip of his facade.]]

* {{Narcissist}}: Admits he's one. In flashback, it's shown that part of the reason he became a defensive specialist is because his family had a shield that was mirrored on both sides, so that he could always look at his own beautiful face even in battle.
* NoblesseOblige: Bit of a family tradition, in fact - he comes from a family of beautiful nobles, who all believe that it's their duty to spread their nobility and beauty throughout the world via good deeds. Appropriately, it's even the name of one of his passives (giving him a boost to all his defensive stats and making him immune to charm).
* OddFriendship: He has an odd way of making his rivalries sound like passionate affairs, to the extent that the two characters that he's shown getting along best with are [[spoiler: Dark Fina and Sol]] - particularly when those characters are openly talking about killing him in combat.
* RapunzelHair: A rare male example, as his luxuriously long blond locks spill out of the back of his helmet and come to around his ankles, helping to show just how vain he is. [[spoiler: In Season 2, once the Veritas abandon their armors, he reveals that he even beats out former Veritas of the Bolt Sakura, above, in hair length. His vanity gets even more attention from the story at this point, too.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: Late in Season 2, he talks about how much he misses his blood siblings, and there's a strong undercurrent that he views the other Veritas as replacements for them. [[spoiler: He explicitly offers to Nagi that they be this for each other's late siblings, and she takes him up on this after he pulls a stint as a WarriorTherapist. While he isn't as explicit with Shamlin, it's suggested that he does it with him as well.]]

* SomethingAboutARose: His armorless unit version has this in spades. His spellcasting and victory pose have him holding one. His 7-star idle animation and limit burst CG has petals of roses scattered around him.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: [[spoiler:His real name started out as "Zekehart", but ended up changing it to "Sieghard" a couple of chapters later.]]

* StrongFamilyResemblance: In his season 2 story that flashes back to his origins, we get to meet his family. Not only do they look similar (both in terms of physique as well as style), they all tend to ''act'' the same, too.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Goes to great lengths to save [[spoiler: Dark Fina]] because he wants to surpass her in combat.

* WalkingTheEarth: Again, obvious pun aside, [[spoiler: His fate as of the end of Season 2 - he, Nagi, and Shamlin become traveling entertainers. Based on how things are going when Raegen and Citra check in on them, the three are apparently good at it.]]

* WhipSword: Possesses one outside his armour that he uses behind his shield.

* BadassBack: Once he connects his [[LimitBreak Limit Burst]],

* TokenGoodTeammaete: In Season 1, he's effectively this for the Veritas, having always the friendliest demeanor to Rain's party.

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The fourth of the Sworn Six of Paladia.

* TheBigGuy: He's rather distinctly the largest of the Veritas, and he's also the strongest in terms of raw power. [[spoiler: It becomes even more apparent when they ditch the armor in Season 2 - while most of the unarmored Veritas are smaller and less assuming out of it, Ignacio is the same size, towering over his companions.]]
* TheBlacksmith: Aside from being the creator of Laswell's weapon, he fixes up most of the weapons of the rest of the Sworn Six before major battles, and is a blacksmith by trade. It becomes more prominent in his season 2 form, in which he can work on his allies' equipment mid-battle to grant elemental resistances or imbues.
* BloodKnight: He really enjoys it when his foes give him a challenge. When Lasswell finally unlocks the potential of Purple Lightning, he's eager to see just what it can do. [[spoiler: Discussed and deconstructed after his defeat in Pharm; he threw himself into battle because he became numb to everything else.]]
* CameraAbuse: [[spoiler: He smashes ''his head'' on the camera after executing his Limit Burst in his armorless unit version.]]
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: [[spoiler: In the flashback to the Sworn Six joining with Lasswell and crew to go to Paladia, he's earnestly happy that Lasswell welcomes them all to join the journey.]]

* TheFaceless: He's one of the two Sworn Six members who never takes off his helmet [[spoiler: until Season 2, when he abandons it after it's permanently damaged]].
* FieryRedhead: Reveals a red beard when he removes his armour.

* TheHeavy: His role in the villains, even more than Dark listed above. As a summon, Dark has multi-hit chaining moves and some utility, while Fire specializes in powerful single hit moves suited to ending a big chain.
* HiddenDepths: Later in Season 2, a chance encounter with the Obliterating Star reveals much, explaining why he's both TheBlacksmith and his [[TrueCompanions utter devotion to his companions]]. When he was originally just a soldier working up through the ranks of Aldore, he was extremely close to a woman named Kagane. The two were devoted to each other, but his physical growth was pushing him towards the royal guard while she hit a wall, and she was going to retire to become a smith to make his gear. However, on their last mission together before her retirement, [[{{Retirony}} she was killed when their position was overwhelmed by monsters]]. He took up her planned profession, and it's strongly suggested that [[ReplacementGoldfish he treats all his friends with the same devotion that he had towards her]].
* IntimateArtistry: [[spoiler: As seen in the epilogue of Season 2, as the fighting is over, he retires to become an artist, and his main focus is to come up with a suitable memorial for his fallen friend, Kagane.]]

* OddCouple: He and Folka form one, with both of them mutually supporting each other at difficult times. His initial [[spoiler: death]] involves [[YouShallNotPass him keeping the heroes back to try to allow Folka to escape them]] and when he is tortured by his childhood friend Kagane's imprisonment, Folka is the Veritas who offers him the most comfort.
* PlayingWithFire: his primary element in battle.

* SupremeChef: It's only gone into detail on [[AllThereInTheManual the unit description screen of his season 2 form]], but he's apparently the TeamChef for the Veritas, and he's apparently extremely good at it. It's suggested that [[MundaneUtility he uses his Veritas powers to do it]].

The third of the Sworn Six of Paladia. She first appears on the bridge of the Invincible, hinting of her plans to Evan, Dark, and Heavens. She's a very proud strategist, sure that her plans will succeed. She was the [[spoiler:first Water Priestess and is the ancestor of Nichol, Luka and Elle.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: By far the most petty member of the Sworn Six, and the one most willing to perform atrocity for its own sake rather than for any sort of [[KnightTemplar "higher purpose"]].
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The item that Dark took from the Lanzelt Ruins appears again when her plan is revealed.]]

* {{Foil}}: For Nichol - both are magic-focused strategists that favor [[MakingASplash water elemental magic]], but they're on completely opposite sides and his humility and consideration for others contrasts sharply with her pride and disdain [[spoiler: or later his calm observant nature contrasts with her ditzy cluelessness. Them being relatives completes the set.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: Her story event, Priestess of the Crystalline Waters, details how she chanced across a small town named Olde early in her exile in Lapis. Anyone who has cleared through enough of Season 1 knows that her story will end with [[spoiler: her having a child with one of the people of Olde, but with her abandoning the village and said child becoming the Water Priestess for the future Olderion.]] It's also very obvious early on just who will become the man that she'll have a child with.
* HarsherInHindsight: Take a close look at her victory sprite at the end of the battle when using her as a Vision. [[spoiler: She breaks down, likely due to realizing all the suffering she has caused due to being BrainwashedAndCrazy, ''especially'' the realization that she killed her own great-etc-grandson.]]
* IHatePastMe: Not terribly surprising, but she notes at several points during Season 2 that she has great regrets over what she did in Season 1, and [[spoiler: being confronted by a soulless clone of her made by Vlad in the climax of Season 2]] has her affirm both regret for Season 1 and the desire to move beyond what she was.
* IncestSubtext: For a generous definition of the prefix "sub-" at that - during season 2, [[spoiler: Folka is openly competing with Citra for the attention of Nichol, who is her distant descendant. Moreover, a comment she makes partway through the Gungan chapter of the story suggests that she ''is'' aware of their genetic relation, and she's ''still'' interested in him. The only reasons it counts as subtext are that Folka doesn't openly state that she's interested in romance and the fact that Nichol [[ObliviousToLove apparently hasn't noticed it]].]]

* MeaningfulRename: Folka is revealed to be her true name.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The party notes, when confronting her in Pharm, that she's completely changed her tactics and basically approaching them dead-on without setting up traps. [[spoiler: It's because she's no longer in her self-induced BrainwashedAndCrazy state; she's [[SuicideByCop actively suicidal and wants Rain's party to stop her before she makes things worse]].]]
* PoisonousPerson: Is able to cast Biora magic in battle.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Along with Lightlord, she makes a last stand against Behemoth to buy Rain enough time to stop Sol. While they ultimately fall in battle to Behemoth, he takes enough wounds from the two Veritas that allow Rain and crew to deliver the final blow.]]
* TheRedMage: As a Vision, she plays this way, capable of both high-level healing and attack magic. Her Trust Master Reward also benefits both white magic and black magic users, and would be at its most effective for a red mage DualWielding a staff (for white magic) and a rod (for black magic). Downplayed in her Season 2 form - while she still has some offensive water-element abilities, she's primarily a healer.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler: When she removes her helmet after being defeated in Pharm, she looks very much like a long-haired Nichol, with a style similar to Luka's. When she finally removes the armor in Season 2, she also dresses very similar to Luka.]]
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: Her non-BrainwashedAndCrazy personality is attempting this in Pharm; she's so laden with guilt that she's all but daring Rain and friends, particularly Nichol, to kill her.]]