History Characters / FinalFantasyBraveExviusSwornEight

* FaceHeelTurn: 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, and Ignacio could be as well given he has no particular reason to help them.

* SoLastSeason: Immediately upon emerging in Lapis with [[spoiler:Minerva]], he ditches his old armor ([[spoiler:which explains how Raegen eventually finds it by itself in Gronoa]]) and goes for a new set.

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* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: [[spoiler:The people of Aldore adored them over their leaders, which is the reason Vlad has gone to such lengths to get rid of them.]]

** [[spoiler:Then Raegen has to cradle his wife Sophia in his arms five years before the events of the game, after she [[TakingTheBullet threw herself against Citra's attack]], [[WhatAnIdiot which Raegen would very likely survive]]. Sophia as a last request asks Raegen to put her memories in a crystal so she can give her final words to Rain and Lasswell.]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkioOhtsuka (CG Limit Burst)

* 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.

* 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.

* DarthVaderClone: He's clad in imposing black armor, functions as TheHeavy for the entire villain team, uses Dark magic, and even his battle sprite has a glowing sword. Oh, and [[LukeIAmYourFather he's the protagonist's father]]. [[spoiler:Or not, judging by his nature as a Vision.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink in her case. She is Sakura's sister after all.

* {{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.]]

* CombinationAttack: The 5th Anniversary in JP gave him a dual unit with Lasswell centered about this mechanic.

** Subverted with Season 2 Ignacio and Sieghard, whose Brave Shift still have them don their Flamelord and Earthlord armors.

** TheGoodKing: [[spoiler:Which doesn't matter anyways, as in the passage between Seasons 3 and 4 Rain [[AbdicatesTheThrone]] and lets Raegen hold elections for Paladia's President... which he ''wins''.]]

** Subverted with Season 2 Ignacio, whose Brave Shift still has him don his Flamelord armor.

* HeroicNeutral: Raegen just wanted to live his live with his family in peace when the Veritas of the Light showed up and demanded he join her side, killing Sophia in the process. From then on he opposes his former friends and seeks to stop them.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He saves Lightlord from Behemoth K, taking a fatal wound and his crystal shattering in the process.]]

* WakeUpCallBoss: He's pretty powerful, being able to {{poison|ousPerson}}, [[StatusBuffDispel dispel]], and [[HerdHittingAttack do a lot of damage to your entire team]] [[SpamAttack multiple times]]. The fact that he's first battled in MarathonLevel also counts. He is also this InUniverse to Rain and Lasswell as they acknowledge how powerful the Sworn Six of Paladia are compared to them.

* 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.]]

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:Cannot understand why Rain does not kill her to avenge his mother, Sophia.]]

* 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.

* KiManipulation: Once Raegen enters his Brave Shift, he's basically Awakened Raegen and pulls the same maneuvers as Rain, down to his Limit Burst being a KamehameHadouken.

* WreckedWeapon: [[spoiler: As noted under AmplifierArtifact and TinTyrant, their Veritas armors are actually potent power boosters that provide them with extra strength. Early in season 2, all of them are ruined by Hyoh, at which point they simply become inhibiting husks of metal that make more sense to just abandon.]]

* NamedWeapons: As of his duo unit with Lasswell, his two blades (which are their STMR) have a name: The "Dark-Purging Azure Crimson Swords".

* NamedWeapon: As of his duo unit with Lasswell, his two blades (which are their STMR) have a name: The "Dark-Purging Azure Crimson Swords".

* TomatoSurprise: Turns out to be a major one, revealed in the WhamEpisode at the end of Gronoa. [[spoiler:The Veritas of the Dark encountered throughout Season 1's present is a Vision that Veritas of the Light brought forth based on how Raegen was at the start of the Veritas' exile to Lapis. Among other things, this is why he doesn't recognize Rain or Lasswell at first; the Vision is a version of Raegen from well before either was born.]]

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]].

* LegacyCharacter: His identity is that of the very first Cid in Lapis.

* {{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.

* {{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]].

* ThemeNaming: "The [[AnIcePerson Azure]] [[PlayingWithFire Crimson]]", which reflects on both Rain and Lasswell's main colors (the latter even inheriting his adoptive father's main theme, elements and techniques), and permeates his techniques' names, as well as naming his two swords.

** [[spoiler:First, he arrives too late to save Rowen from a monster attack. Rowen has just enough time to admit to Raegen he remembered his past but didn't want to tell him as this would mean the end of the life he's made with Yonah and the newborn Lasswell.]]

* ThemeNaming: "[[FireIceJuxtaposition The Azure Crimson]]", which reflects on both Rain and Lasswell's main colors (the latter even inheriting his adoptive father's main theme, elements and techniques), and permeates his techniques' names, as well as naming his two swords.