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A RealTimeStrategy sequel to the [[RunningGag thigh-bitingly popular]] {{RPG}} ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', released on, of all platforms, the Platform/NintendoDS in 2007. Once again set in VideoGame/{{Ivalice|Alliance}}, ''Revenant Wings'' is one of the few direct sequels to a mainline game in the series, and stars the same characters.

A year after the events of ''Final Fantasy XII'', Vaan and Penelo are invited by Balthier to explore the Ruins of Glabados, which is said to contain the legendary treasure of the Eternal. When they arrive at the place, they find out that the famed Cache of Glabados is actually [[MacGuffin two mysterious auracite crystals]], which Vaan and Balthier divide among each other. Taking the Cache causes the ruins to collapse, resulting in Vaan losing his newly-bought airship and being back to his old life in Rabanastre.

This was not to last, however; a few days later, [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive a huge derelict airship lands just outside Rabanastre, drawn to the crystal Vaan took with him]]. Vaan decides to raid the airship and take it for himself, dragging his younger friends Filo and Kytes with him. Between a run-in with [[NotQuiteDead Ba'Gamnan]], and Penelo eventually entering the airship with Tomaj in an attempt to stop Vaan, he manages to activate the airship with the auracite, causing it to fly away from the Royal City, and he discovers that the auracite in his hands can also summon monsters to aid him.

The airship heads for the [[LostWorld Lost Purvama of Lemurés]], a place hidden in the Mist. After doing a first reconaissance of the place, Vaan and Penelo meet Llyud, an [[WingedHumanoid Aegyl]] and local of Lemurés, which is being invaded by Sky Pirates since Ashe destroyed the Sun-Cryst in the previous game, causing the Mist barrier around the continent to fall. Deciding to help the Aegyl protect their home, Vaan and Penelo soon become embroiled in a chain of events that may end up threatening all of Ivalice...

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!!''Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings'' provides examples of:

* AllSwordsAreTheSame: Averted. Vaan's swords are shorter than Basch's, and the two can not use each other's swords.
* AntiGrinding: The final boss and his mooks will be at Level 99 if you do all the sidequests.
* ApatheticCitizens: The Aegyl on board the Galbana when the Sky Saloon is opened. The Sky Pirates who joined fall under this, too. [[spoiler: They get better after Chapter 8-2. They don't try to help, though. It turns out [[EmotionEater their souls have been fed off of.]] Several Aegyl go unexpectly revenge driven when emotions they've never felt suddenly overwhelm them.]]
* ArtificialStupidity: Don't expect your allies to show initiative, move forward with everyone else, or use their abilities with any intelligence. Don't expect SquishyWizard[=/=]WhiteMage Penelo to take the initiative on healing when you're actually in combat or avoid charging into melee. Do expect her to just stand there staring into space when you try to withdraw her from melee, rather than running as quickly as possible, then watching the boss fight become unwinnable because your healer died.
* AscendedExtra:
** Kytes, Filo, and Tomaj were originally bit part {{NPC}}s in VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII, while ''Revenant Wings'' promotes them to playable and/or supporting characters.
** Ba'Gamnan was also a relatively minor villain in the first game. In this game, he plays a bigger role, and even unexpectedly becomes a GuestStarPartyMember.
* AxCrazy: A lot of the Aegyl become this after [[spoiler:Velis releases their anima.]]
%%* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Penelo
* BlackMagic: [[spoiler: Auracite drains the anima of whoever uses it whenever used. The aegyl are an example of what happens when this is used too much.]]
* BigBad: The Judge of Wings [[spoiler: is shunted out of this role by [[GodIsEvil Feolthanos]], becoming TheDragon instead.]]
* BonusDungeon: Midlight's Deep. Doubles as a reference to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''.
* BossAlteringConsequence: If you reach HundredPercentCompletion before fighting the final boss, then its level will be raised to 99.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Espers usually change color depending on if they are fighting with you or are enemies.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Frequently happens in most levels; the computer can summon more Yarhi/Espers than you can produce without summon gates.
* CrutchCharacter: Ba'Gamnan has a few more levels and better equipment when he's forced to join the party. He leaves it as soon as he can, of course.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Velis.]]
* DisposableWoman: [[spoiler: The Feol Viera are an entire race of disposable women.]]
* TheDragAlong: Penelo and Tomaj at first, but they get used to it.
* EmptyShell: The [[spoiler:aegyl, thanks to Feolthanos' auracite.]]
* {{Expy}}: The Aegyl visually resemble the Vartans from ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'', which was directed by Yasumi Matsuno. Although he did not have a hand in this game.
* ForcedLevelGrinding: Becomes essential fairly quickly; luckily, there's plenty of ways to level grind your way to the recommended level.
* GlobalAirship: Obtained by the end of the first chapter; the Galbana can at first only travel on [[FloatingContinent Lemurés]], but can later travel to Ivalice and TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.
* GodIsEvil: [[spoiler:Feolthanos]].
* GoldfishPoopGang: Rinok, Bwagi and Gijuk, later joined by Ba'Gamnan.
* GreenRocks: Auracite.
* GraphicsInducedSuperDeformed: The art style is seemingly recycled from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and later used by ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'', although the cutscenes are more similar to the style of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''.
* HeroicResolve: This is how Vaan (and presumably, the rest of the party) [[spoiler: prevent the auracite from draining their anima.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Llyud.]]
* HoldYourHippogriffs: Based on the context of what the Foul-Mouthed Moogle says to Fran, people in Ivalice apparently say "fuck you and your chocobo, too" instead of "fuck you and the horse you rode on."
* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler:Feolthanos]] has kept himself alive for centuries by [[spoiler:draining the aegyl's souls.]]
* InfinityPlusOneSword: Anastasia, obtained when [[spoiler:Velis transforms into it]]. It can be powered up by completing [[BonusDungeon Midlight's Deep]] and defeating [[SuperBoss Yiazmat]], gaining ten in each stat every time you do so. One player actually managed to give the sword [[AbsurdlyHighLevelCap 1000 in each stat]]. [[BraggingRightsReward By the time you do something like that, though, why would you even need the thing?]]
* IntangibleTheft: ''Revenant Wings'' shows where all the that LevelGrinding from ''XII'' went, as Vaan can casually ''steal concepts and attributes'' from an enemy, up to and including their ''sense of time'', and make use of it himself. He steps it up by ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'', where he's essentially become the most incredible thief of Ivalice.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:The Feol Viera are the result of an aegyl/viera cross.]]
** Also, the [[UglyGuyHotWife Seeq sky pirate and his viera wife.]]
** Hinted quite strongly that Balthier and Fran are (or have been) an item. When Tomaj tries to woo Fran, she tells him Balthier's methods of wooing her were quite different.
* ItemCrafting: This is Cu Sith's entire role. It's essential to obtain the best equipment for everyone who isn't Vaan.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Vaan, Kytes and Filo do this when the Galbana crashes just outside Rabanastre.
* KidSidekick: Filo and Kytes.
* KidWithTheLeash: Anyone who uses Yarhi/Espers becomes this, as roaming Yarhi/Espers wander around, attacking randomly.
** Also Tomaj when he hooks Ba'Gamnan up to a device that allows him to be manipulated with a remote control.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: At one point there's a huge text dump explaining who the [[spoiler:Occuria]] are. They were a major plot point in ''XII'', and while they're not directly involved in ''Revenant Wings'', [[spoiler:they're very strongly related to Feolthanos' motivation.]]
* LethalChef: Penelo. Yes, who is unfortunately also the TeamChef, though she improves.
* LethalLavaLand: Roda Volcano/[[spoiler:The Feol Warren.]]
* LifeEnergy: Anima.
* LimitBreak: The Quickenings, gained by doing optional side missions. You gain them mostly by having you and your Espers take damage, so throw Vaan into the middle of a cluster of enemies, and [[HilarityEnsues watch him decimate them all with Pyroclasm]].
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler:Mydia. Due to her own actions, at that.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Mydia]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Feolthanos was behind the Judge of Wings.]]
* MeleeATrois: Happens at the end of chapter 6 with Vaan and co. vs. Ba'Gamnan vs [[spoiler:Balthier and Fran.]] It's actually possible to lure one enemy toward another, let them duke it out and take out whoever remains.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Llyud, who is regarded among the Aegyl as 'a curiosity'.
* NoHeroDiscount: Tomaj creates the Sky Saloon on the [[GlobalAirship Galbana]] around a third of the way through the game; it is justified, however - the weapons/material shops are the only way he has to make money, which he uses to buy more weapons and materials.
** And even then, he's taking a loss. Chatting with one of the [=NPCs=] in the Sky Saloon reveals this, and that evidently the stuff he's selling/[[ItemCrafting you're making]] would make the people at Draklor Labratory jealous.
* OneWingedAngel: It wouldn't be a Final Fantasy game without the final boss pulling one of these.
* OutOfFocus: Ashe and Basch are nowhere to be seen [[spoiler: until near the end, where they unexpectedly join your party]].
* PostFinalBoss: Once the party beats [[spoiler:Feolthanos']] OneWingedAngel form, they have to fight his human form with [[DuelBoss Vaan alone]]. Naturally, he is [[TacticalRockPaperScissors outmatched]], but shortly into the fight every other playable character rushes in, averting ArbitraryHeadcountLimit for once. [[spoiler:Feolthanos]] doesn't last much longer after that.
* PrettyInMink: The Shiva summon has a fur boa.
* ProudWarriorRace: The Aegyl, when the Sky Pirates invade Lemurés and [[spoiler: when they discover they can travel to Ivalice after their anima is released.]]
* RegeneratingMana: Spell uses restore over time.
* RequiredPartyMember: You are forced to use certain characters in the missions in which they obtain their [[LimitBreak Quickenings]]. Also sometimes done for story purposes, occasionally.
* RespawningEnemies: Happens frequently. In missions such as the fight against Zalera, the enemies spawn faster than they can be killed with a normal level party. They could be seen as useful for level grinding, but the amount of experience each battle gives is fixed and can't be increased by killing enemies, instead making maps that are quick to complete better for that purpose.
* SideQuest: There are as many optional missions form Tomaj's board as there are in-game missions. They tend to be quite a bit harder, but give much better rewards and the optional Espers. Doing them is required to keep up with the escalating levels of the enemies.
* TheStoic: Aegyl in general. [[spoiler:Justified, due to Feolthanos taking their anima. They also become less stoic as his grip on them loosens.]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Unlike the original game, Penelo's outfit is now one, followed with Fran and Ashe as usual. Averted with Filo.
* SummonMagic: A fundamental part of the game; all of your minions have to be summoned, and you can forge pacts with the high-level Espers by completing optional missions.
* TacticalSuperweaponUnit: The tier 3 Espers. Very powerful, and each can easily obliterate armies of tier 1 and 2 Espers by itself. However, you can only summon one of each at a time, and you need to unlock them from various sidequests first.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Melee beats Range, Range beats Flyer, Flyer beats Melee.
* TookALevelInBadass: Vaan, who [[spoiler: even gets a god blade forged from Odin's soul and goes a few rounds one on one with Ivalice's (arguably) most powerful being. He loses, but still, you got to give him points for trying.]]
* VaporWear: Penelo, whose new outfit does not seem to involve underwear at all.
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: If a [[spoiler: gigantic temple floating in outer space]] doesn't give you that impression, few other things will. Bonus points for being the first view of [[spoiler: space]] in an Ivalice series game and having a kickass view to the [[spoiler: planet below]].
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: The game finally shows Vaan and Penelo kissing each other... in the secret ending.
* WhereItAllBegan: You can return to Ivalice in the latter half of the game - you can go to the Cache of Glabados, too.
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