History Characters / FinalFantasyXIVAntagonists

* MythologyGag: He is basically the same character from ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre''

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even after she's gone off the deep end, Edda clearly respects the Warrior of Light as an adventurer and sees them as inspiration. While this isn't enough to stop her from trying to kill them, her general demeanor is noticeably different around them. [[spoiler:Nybeth disdainfully notes that it's her admiration for the Warrior that is making her resist his efforts to be resurrected a mindlessly loyal undead servant. He then tries to sicc her on them in hopes that she'll kill the Warrior and stop resisting his plans for her, only for the Warrior to grant her the MercyKill she desires.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Edda was once just one of the many young adventurers fresh in her career who happened to get in over her head. After the party's disbandment following Avere's death, she vows to start anew as an adventurer only to be corrupted by Nybeth.
* GraveRobbing: Before her "wedding", Edda digs up [[spoiler:Liavinne]] and raises the corpse as a zombie to attend the event (and serve as the first boss of Tam-Tara HM).

** Thematically, a person who meant well and did their best to help others, only to be turned towards evil by a cruel world and believing mass murder is geniunely a better fate than living, was already played with back in ARR with Edda Pureheart/Blackheart's (knowing and unknowing) party ignoring her at best and abusing her at worst only resulting in her turning to Voidsent insanity to murder as many people as she could.
** Also thematically, it's not a coincidence that Fanadiel is a violently insane nihilist who wanted to destroy everything back in his previous appearances.

* ExistentialHorror: With a dash of CosmicHorror: They ''were'' supposed to make contact with other civilizations on other planets. All they found were dead worlds, or worlds in the process of dying because of war, greed, xenophobia, despair, all the sins that plague real life. All their attempts to help only resulted in hastening the worlds they ''did'' find to destroy themselves faster.

** Formerly helpful lab experiment going nihilistically nuts due to CosmicHorror causing an [[ExistientalHorror existential crisis of massive proportions]] echoes [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth.]]
* ExistientalHorror: With a dash of CosmicHorror: They ''were'' supposed to make contact with other civilizations on other planets. All they found were dead worlds, or worlds in the process of dying because of war, greed, xenophobia, despair, all the sins that plague real life. All their attempts to help only resulted in hastening the worlds they ''did'' find to destroy themselves faster.

* AFateWorseThanDeath: Transforming into a blasphemy seems to capture your very soul from TheLifestream. It's considered a fate terrible enough that dying before transforming is a consolation. the ending of the Healer Role Quest does show that something is left in the aftermath of a blasphemy's death, but Meteion captures most, if not all of their soul in a dead sun, preventing them from being reincarnated until her defeat.

* BluebirdOfHappiness: A literal one. Her StartOfDarkness is marked by her blue feathers turning black from despair. After being defeated and feeling the Warrior of Light's hope, she regains her original blue coloration.

* CessationOfExistence: Her endgame plan after destroying Etheirys is to use her manipulation of Dynamis to speed up the Heat Death of the Universe, to stop the cycle of reincarnation and prevent anyone from being born again.

* EldritchAbomination: Went from a swarm of (admittedly already exotic) familiars powered by an esoteric energy source to the ''physical incarnation of countless dead worlds' suicidal despair''.

* TheEmpath: To a cosmically catastrophic degree. Meteion lacks either the experience, maturity or the ability to control her empathic powers, unable to make a distinction between her emotions and other peoples, thus taking on others' emotions and preferences as though they were her own. This leads to her FaceHeelTurn.
* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: The Endsinger is unable to understand why anyone would resist her "gift."

* {{Expy}}: Borrows heavily from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV's'' Zemus and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX's'' own Zemus expy, Necron. Like Zemus and Necron, she supplants the previously established BigBad and company near the very end of the story, after they fail in a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum, to become the true FinalBoss. Similarly, like Necron and Zeromus, she is an AnthropomorphicPersonification of hate and despair that concludes [[StrawNihilist all life seeks death]] and tries [[OmnicidalManiac to destroy life itself]]. The battle against the Endsinger also echoes the events of the battle with Zeromus, with you having to travel through space to reach her and the prayer's of the hero's friends giving them a second wind when all hope seems lost. Her planet attacks meanwhile are highly reminiscent of Necron's signature move Grand Cross.

* WhoAreYou: When confronting her at Ultimate Horizon at the core of Ultima Thule, the Warrior of Light cannot yet use the crystal of Azem's power to resummon the Scions, because their souls are busy holding back the despair of the lost civilizations behind them. So instead the Warrior of Light summons, of all people, Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus. Meteion, bewildered, asks of the newcomers, "What are you?" (Emet-Selch, in characteristically sardonic fashion, replies, "Half-faded souls of the dead. Isn't it painfully obvious?)

* EatTheDog: [[spoiler:The reason why Enkidu is missing in ''Stormblood''. Gilgamesh couldn't make ends meet when it comes to food, and resorted to eating his pet. Though, Enkidu mysteriously shows up again at the end of the ''Stormblood'' questline, to Gilgamesh's surprise. Strangely enough Gilgamesh does remember eating a chicken but is now no longer sure who he ate.]]

* FlawedPrototype: Averted. Meteion is exactly what Hermes hoped she would be: empathic, TheNeedless, able to travel great distances and communicate across it. Unfortunately, these qualities matched with his deep seated personal issues and growing psychosis over being the only one to perceive a flaw in his society's ideals, were key to her involuntary FaceHeelTurn, with universally apocalyptic consequences.

** Profane Fafnir spreads despair to those who dedicated their lives to the church of Ishgard, only to become alienated after King Thordan's betrayal was revealed to the public. Charlet, similarly, turns Ala Mhigans that were family to the Crania Lupi/Skulls who fought in service of the Garlean Empire, only to remain unforgiven and despised in death by their countrymen.

* AllYourPowersCombined: The Extreme version of the Endsinger fight has her use attacks from all of the bosses of the Dead Ends dungeon: the Grebuloff's plague attacks, the Peacekeeper's [[MacrossMissileMassacre No Future]] and Ra-la's [[LightEmUp Benevolence]].

''Class and Job Questlines'': [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVDisciplesOfWar Disciples of War]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVDisciplesOfMagic Disciples of Magic]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVDisciplesOfTheHand Disciples of the Hand]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVDisciplesOfTheLand Disciples of the Land]]\\

[[folder:Master Akebono]]

''Antagonists'': [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVAscians Ascians]] ([[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVEmetSelch Emet-Selch]]) | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVGarleanEmpire Garlean Empire]] ([[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVZenosYaeGalvus Zenos yae Galvus]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVBozjanGarleans Bozjan Garleans]]) \\

Another rich business mogul, this one staying in Rads-at-Han. He works with the cyborg Dr. Lugae to obtain great power.

* PhysicalGod: Within her domain of Ultima Thule/Ultimatum, she can shape reality as she wishes, unmake any Aether-based living being with a thought, and the only thing that prevents her from causing a TotalPartyKill is ''multiple'' HeroicSacrifices, not to mention her immensely powerful Endsinger form. Even outside of Ultima Thule, her power to manipulate dynamis allows her to affect things on a ''universal'' scale, such as corrupting distant planets and even speeding up the ''heat death of the universe''. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that while in her domain, she is amongst the most powerful beings to ever exist in the franchise.

* IronicEcho: As spelled out by Hythlodeus, the Ascians' culture hold that "it is beautiful" for those who have lived their lives to their fullest to [[NeverSayDie return to the star]] with only Hermes objecting that this is only so for mankind and that the deaths of the creatures they euthanize are anything but. During her MotiveRant prior to leaving Elpis, Meteion reveals how her exposure to these perspectives has shaped her perception of the omnicidal extinction she intends on visiting upon the rest of creation by describing the "peace" and "serenity" she will bring with the words that "it will be beautiful."

* OrcusOnHisThrone: As the Endsinger, she doesn't directly interact with the heroes or show herself untill the Warrior of Light and the Scions bring the fight to her nest. [[JustifiedTrope Completely justified]] as she has no need to appear directly to advance her plan and bring about the Final Days, and her hideout at the edges of the universe is the safest place she could possibly be to enact it. Were it not for a tracking spell cast by Venat at the last minute, she would have ''never'' been found.

* FlawedPrototype: Averted. Meteion is exactly what Hermes hoped she would be: empathic, TheNeedless, able to travel great distances and communicate across it. Unfortunately, these qualities matched with his deep seated personal issues and growing psychosis over being the only one to percieve a flaw in his society's ideals, were key to her involuntary FaceHeelTurn, with universally apocalyptic consequences.

*** She is also shown to assimilate the emotions of others as her own due to her empathic abilities, gaining an appreciation for candied apples due to Hermes' like of them and never understanding that these emotions aren't her own. This caused the Meteia HiveMind to internalize the oppressive despair of the dying worlds and left them incapable of rebelling against it, considering it objectively or percieving anything beyond it.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Near the end of ''Endwalker'' Urianger comes to the conclusion that while most of the civilizations she found weren't in good shape before her sisters found them and she probably didn't cause EVERY extinction, Meteion's ability to share both her pain and others created a feedback loop that caused entire races to hit the DespairEventHorizon in the first place, making her a harbinger of doom for those races. In essence, she herself inadvertently caused a large amount of the suffering and extinctions that drove her to conclude that life should not exist. Notes found in the Dead Ends dungeon back up his claim.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Meteion originaly created copies of several of the extinct peoples she'd discovered at their nadir, so that their despair could amplify her own dynamis manipulation. These same peoples would go on to [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming show signs of awareness beyond simply echoing their past failures]], leading to her inadvertently saving several species from extinction.

* ThisCannotBe: Her FinishingMove is an attack meant to "seal the fate of the universe". The Warrior of Light using the power of Dynamis (read: a Tank's Level 3 LimitBreak) to barely survive the first hit. So [[NoNonsenseNemesis she rewinds time and uses the same attack]]. This time, the prayers of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn cause the attack to do nothing at all. The Endsinger then enters a full VillainousBreakdown with "What is this defiance?!" while desperately flailing at the party, trying in vain to convince the Warrior to stand down, simply because Meteion cannot believe what she's seeing.
* ThisWasHerTrueForm: Despite her CuteMonsterGirl appearance, her ''actual'' shape is that of... a simple blue bird. She was merely manipulating her appearance so it would be something easier for people to interact with - and in one case, reverted back to "bird" to escape Venat's grip.

* SelfDuplication: At the end of 6.45, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he has Pu-Pu's friend and is using his own cloning machine to create clones of himself]].