Characters exclusive from the game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius only. For the visions' tropes, see their respective games. Also, due to the nature of the game, major parties in the story have their own pages.
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- Main Charactersnote
- The Sworn Eightnote
- The Hollow Breakersnote
- Season 4 Main Partynote
- Caledfwlch First Squadnote
- Omega Slayersnote
- The Sages of Hessnote
- The Children of Hessnote
- The Ordersnote
- Morze's Soireenote
- The Hollow Keepersnote
- Shernan Kingdomnote
- Kingdom of Elmontnote
- Levonian Legendnote
- Knights of Grandsheltnote
- Lapis Alliesnote
- Paladian Alliesnote
- Season 3 Alliesnote
- Global Originals and the Precursorsnote
The Farplane
King Mog
The ruler of the Farplane, and thus the Moogles inside of it. Wants random things from other dimensions, which he exchanges for useful equipment.- Artifact Collection Agency: Enjoys collecting artifacts from across the world.
Sheratan
One of the guardians of the twelve legendary weapons. This woman was a former genius strategist, and of royal blood. Her brother, the king, who feared her genius, plotted to poison her, but she wound up discovering the plot. She later raises an army of her own, killing her brother and his wife. Fearing hurting others, she eats a cursed fruit, transforms into a tree, and seals her emotions to keep her sanity. Eventually, she is sealed away as the protector of the Holy Wand.- Eldritch Abomination: Takes the form of a tree woman, much like Exdeath.
- Hybrid Monster: Is half-human, half-tree. Her fruits are embodiments of her anger and sorrow.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The cause of her insanity, however well-deserved it may be.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: The love for her brother eventually fuels this.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Before meeting Raegen and Rain she was a believer in letting destiny take her where it pleased. She later decides to take things into her own hands with sadly tragic results.
Other Villains
Dr. Lazarov
A mad scientist the party first encounters in Kolobos Island. He had been gathering dead bodies to experiment on in order to create a deadly weapon for Veritas of the Dark.- Back from the Dead: Pulls this off twice - the first without any justification in "A World United," the second during "Unbound Offensive," somehow forcing himself back to life after he felt the raw hatred towards existence that Vlad had for all of existence.
- The Bus Came Back:
- He returns after a two-island gap in the second half of Zoldaad. He also returns in the "The Phantom Blueprint" event, which was a second-season flashback to events prior to Lid meeting with Rain and Lasswell.
- He's actually Back from the Dead in the Charlotte story event, "A World United". And apparently Charlotte sends him back to the dead.
- Yet again a couple years later during the fifth anniversary "Unbound Offensive" event, where he at least explains how he's still around. Given that, at the end, he's taken prisoner instead of executed (not that killing him sticks, as seen above), he's almost certain to come back yet again.
- Determinator: Despite being at death's door at the end of "A World United," he manages to hold on to life when he hears the echoes of Vlad's determination to destroy everything. Moog even calls him "relentless" upon this reveal.
- Evil Former Friend: Revealed near the end of "The Phantom Blueprint" to have formerly worked with Heltich in researching power that can overwhelm and destroy minds. However, Heltich directed his research towards trying to help people cope with and manage such power, while Lazarov researched towards using it for his own ends.
- Immortality Seeker: His main motivation for experimenting with the dead.
- It's All About Me: He's only with the Sworn Six to further his research, and he's more than willing to ditch them if it suits his purposes.
- Jerkass: The fact that he kills Rain's airship crew for experimentation is pretty evil, but the fact that he drags their corpses across an archipelago just to use those corpses as zombies to attack Rain shows a level of pettiness that's hard to ignore.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Similar to the above, the Sworn Six only tolerated Lazarov as long as he didn't get in their way. When his actions nearly caused the destruction of the Invincible, Heavens jumps in and kills him to prevent his escape after Rain catches up with him.
- Mad Scientist: He's got enough brains to basically invent multiple new types of monster, and he's making progress in his search for immortality. Morality, though, is completely alien to him.
- Man Behind the Man: He is the main reason that the Zoldaad Empire is the way it currently is, and why the Invincible took flight.
- Meaningful Name: It's not exactly a coincidence that a villain that's come back from the dead multiple times has a name close to "Lazarus."
- Spell My Name With An S: His name has been spelled in 3 different ways. First, as "Lasorov", a second time as "Lazorov", and the current spelling of "Lazarov".
- Unexplained Recovery: Charlotte notes when he appears in "A World United" that it was reported that he was killed. He confirms this, but says he's back without explaining as to how (though his research into bioaugmentation and the undead are possible explanations).
Emperor Sozhe
The current emperor of Zoldaad, who seeks a strong militaristic expansion and curbs opposition with violent repression. It's revealed that this attitude is caused by Lazarov's brainwashing, which exacerbates the worst traits of his victims.
- Badass Family: He's a very strong and resilient ruler, and his two sons (Shera and Jake) are possible useful recruits as well.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Is being mind controlled by Lazarov.
- Dying as Yourself: When he is killed, he gets some last words with his son in hopes of making the kingdom better than he could.
- The Emperor: The supreme political and military leader of Zoldaad at the beginning of the story, which is said to be among the most powerful and aggressive nations in the world all the way back in Grandshelt.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: In his last moments, he admits that his lust for power was his desire to do well for his country at its heart, but he lost sight of that somewhere along the way.
- Playing with Fire: As a vision, he can use fire magic, can add fire elemental damage to his attacks, can lower fire resistance in his foes, and can boost fire resistance for the party. In addition, one of the effects of his Trust Master reward is to boost fire resistance.
- Posthumous Character: Was mostly killed and controlled by Dr. Lazarov for the man's experiments. He does return to his senses after he is defeated however.
- Playing with Fire: As suitable for the ruler of the nation hosting the Fire Crystal, he has several moves that do Fire damage and can drop enemy Fire resistance.
- Punny Name: Possibly not even intended, but it's there. He's always called Emperor in-game, but another word for Emperor is "Kaiser". Which would make him, y'know, Kaiser Sozhe.
- Stone Wall: While a bit more capable of dishing out damage than other Stone Walls in the game, Sozhe is at his best tanking hits for everyone.
Chaotic Darkness
The embodiment of humanity's evil. It is summoned as a vision by Sol via the Land of the Crystals, and desires the destruction of both Lapis and Paladia.- Dark Is Evil: This is the element it takes.
- Eldritch Abomination: It is humanity's natural evil, so of course it would look like this.
- Hybrid Monster: Its true form has elements of no less than eight other monsters from the game.
- Madness Mantra: "Hate ... Hate ... Hate ... Die ... Die ... Die ... Destroy ... Destroy ... Destroy"
- The Battle Didn't Count: It just changes shape from a giant skull with hands to an amalgamation of various monsters when it is first defeated.
- Walking Spoiler: Any mention of it basically spoils the ending to Season 1 of the game's story.
Original Summons
In addition to the characters above and all of the crossover characters, there are a large number of playable characters, summonable as Visions, who are completely unique to the setting of Brave Exvius, and are detailed below. While there are many directly story-relevant characters who can be summoned as well, tropes for them should go in their entries above.
Tropes associated with all of them:
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Some of the summons are characters that Rain's party will encounter, like Luka, Charlotte and Dark Fina.
- Original Generation: They are the original characters of Brave Exvius.
- Posthumous Character: Most of them are heroes/villains in the history of the world of Brave Exvius. A decent number of the later ones are still alive, though.
- Regional Bonus: As noted on the main page, some of these folks are exclusive to the Global version. Some of them even seem to have event or story hooks.
- Walking Spoiler: Zig-zagged - some of the original summons that are also part of the story do explicitly mention certain plotline details (including the deaths of the characters in question Elle in particular is a bad offender), but some such as Shera avoid revealing major plot points.
Artemios
A self-trained archer whose skill at hunting led others to hiring him as a hitman. And he became exceptionally good at it.- Cold Sniper: As he was hired for more and more jobs, he became more jaded and emotionally distant.
- Glass Cannon: He can dish out plenty of damage (in fact, when the game first launched, he was in the running for most powerful non-magic user), but he has almost no durability.
- Gone Horribly Right: Whichever nameless person who had the bright idea to start hiring Artemios for assassination jobs wanted to see if he'd be just as good at hunting people as he was hunting animals. Not only was he just as good, but he grew to like it way too much.
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: At first, taking assassination jobs was just for money, but he soon grew to love killing people and started doing it for fun.
- Serial Killer: By the end, Artemios was just hunting people for sport.
- Spam Attack: He was one of the first characters to get the Barrage attack, and still one of the easiest who learn it to acquire.
- So Last Season: Perhaps poster child for this within the game. Once upon a time, he was one of the most formidable units that could be fielded. Between having a nigh-useless Trust Master Reward, the sheer number of units that manage to beat him in raw stats, abilities learned, and equipment worn all at once, and the fact that he was completely ignored by both ability awakening and the launch of six-star levels of power, Artemios would only have use in a new player's team if nothing better has been summoned yet.
Medius
A gunner who creates powerful technology to combat brute force and magic, but is seen as a threat to people.- Adaptational Badass: He can become 6 Star unit in the Global version despite being stuck as 5 Star in Japanese version.
- Critical Hit Class: Has a passive ability that increases Critical Hit chances.
- Draw Aggro: He gains the ability to Draw Attacks - but given his low hit points and defenses, it's more of a drawback than anything else.
- Dual Wielding: A zig-zagged version, it seems to be the case in his sprite, but he can't learn it naturally but then played straight by awakening his Gun Master ability.
- Experience Booster: His Trust Master reward doubles the experience of whoever has it equipped.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He creates his own weapon and is seen as a genius, but it also causes his downfall.
- Gameplay and Story Integration: See that note under Too Powerful to Live? That's why he gets Draw Aggro - he's a marked man by everyone, even monsters, because of his discovery of guns.
- Glass Cannon: His defense and HP are rather low, but he has really high attack power when equipped with a gun.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: "The Phantom Blueprint" reveals that this was Medius' fate, being shot to death by someone using one of his own guns. It's even called "The Tragedy of Medius" in the game's present day.
- Too Powerful to Live: His invention is considered way ahead of his time, so he is seen as a threat and a fugitive.
Chizuru
An honorable Samurai who has great pride and was devoted to her master. She was the mother of Hayate and Miyuki, and the wife of Jiraiya.- All There in the Manual: In the Global version, while it's easy to infer (via the unit descriptions at higher-level awakenings) that she's the mother of Hayate and Miyuki (and the wife of Jiraiya), it's only explicitly stated in the limited-time Way of the Warrior story event.
- Badass Family: She's the wife of a 5-star base summon, mother of two others powerful enough to become summons themselves, and both of her children can max out at six stars with powerful equipment as Trust Master rewards in their own right. Further, one of her distant descendants (Yuri) is another 6-star max ninja with a decent Trust Master Reward.
- Glass Cannon: Her HP and defence are low for a 6 Star Unit, but her attack is very high.
- Herd-Hitting Attack: Her ultimate move is Phantom Shadow, which not only hits every foe on screen and chains, but ignores some of the targets' defense.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Her main weapon. Her Trust Master award exaggerates it; anyone equipped with it and a katana gets a huge boost to their attack.
- Seppuku: Her 6* awakening reveals that after Miyuki was led astray, Chizuru decided to take her own life by committing seppuku. Way of the Warrior story event shows Hayate to be the one who done the final blow.
- Spam Attack: Learns Barrage, which is her strongest attack option prior to awakening to six-star status.
- Status Effects: She can paralyze foes with Blade Bash, and she's one of the exceedingly few characters that can use Stop with Dismissal - as a bonus, she's one of the very few who can do it outside of a Limit Break.
- The Stoic: She's very measured with everyone, even her own family. She's even able to discuss not only committing Seppuku, but making her own son act as her second without hesitation or much emotion.
- Undying Loyalty: She's like this to her master.
Ruggles
A dwarf who was lost from his homeland after the sundering of Lapis. He was later rescued, dying of starvation, by Lunera. He later befriended the elven couple, and began building an underground passage for them to be able to traverse the now hostile lands of Gronoa.
- Determinator: Ruggles refuses to give up on anything, fighting against even nature itself in order to help out the people he cares about. Even after both Lunera and Bran succumb to the miasma, he continues to build tunnels in miasma-free areas as well as tend a tree that breaks down miasma in their memory.
- Downer Ending: Ruggles loses two of the only people that he ever cared about, and he ended up leaving Gronoa because the memory of the two was too painful for him to dwell upon. And the other Dwarves also rejected him for cooperating with elves. Urgh.
- Due to the Dead: While not terribly elaborate or even well made, Ruggles left a tribute - in Elvish, no less - to Bran and Lunera by the tree that he cultivated to try to help them deal with the miasma.
- The Faceless: In a tradition that extends back to Final Fantasy III, the only facial features of Ruggles that can be seen are his eyes and his luxurious beard.
- I Owe You My Life: His dedication to Lunera is due to her saving him when she found him collapsed and near death.
- The Stoic: While Ruggles does clearly react to what's going on around him, he doesn't emote very much - he's much more of one to let his actions convey his feelings. His idea of making a tribute to the people who saved him is to literally carve out large tunnels that can house multiple towns, plus nurture a tree that ends up surviving for centuries.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: He later develops into this dynamic with Bran, mostly because Lunera's last wish was for the two to get along.
Lunera
One of the last elves in Gronoa, who finds the near-death Ruggles when out on a walk. Her husband, Bran, was the other survivor. In the present day, the ruins of her manor still stand, and serve as the site of several battles held on the orders of Veritas of the Frost, as well as the temple for the Esper Lakshmi.- Friend to All Living Things: Bran's reactions suggest that Lunera was just a kind soul that loved to support and befriend any creature that wasn't hostile to her. We see it in action with how quickly she takes to Ruggles.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: In contrast with her husband, she wields a bow and is a very potent magic-user, meaning she shoots both physical and magical projectiles at foes.
- Last of Their Kind: She and Bran are the last elves on Gronoa, and it's clear that their time is nearly over. She dies about halfway through her plot event.
- More Dakka: As a vision, she has access to perhaps the most hits - 20 - in a single strike.
Bran
Lunera's partner and one of the last living elves in Gronoa. He is rather vindictive of other people, especially dwarves — which causes him to initially be at high odds with Ruggles. Once Lunera dies from the effects of Gronoa's miasma, however, he starts to develop a genuine friendship with Ruggles in her stead.- Can't Argue with Elves: Bran is a big elf supremacist, insistent that the elven way of life is better and that the works of other races just make things worse. He stands out because, of the five characters of elven descent who have appeared so far (himself, Lunera, Madam Edel, Amber, and Fryevia), he's the only one who acts this way.
- Elves Versus Dwarves: Due to his cultural posturing, he clashes a lot with Ruggles about which way of life is better.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: In contrast with his wife, he primarily wields swords and performs melee attacks.
- Hypocrite: Among his complaints about Ruggles wasting his time was that Ruggles was trying to nurture a tree that could break down the miasma safely. In other words, that Ruggles was trying to use a bit of nature to combat the effects of a man-made disaster. He says this in his study, filled with books that were presumably made from felled trees.
- Last of His Kind: He and Lunera are the last elves in Gronoa, and he in particular has little hope that they'll be around much longer. Sadly, he's right - truly becoming the last elf when Lunera dies halfway through their event, and himself succumbing to the miasma near the end.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: He later develops this with Ruggles, partly due to Lunera's final wishes, and partly because he's finally able to come to terms with the flaws in his fatalist philosophy.
- You Can't Fight Fate: A strong believer that one must simply accept what nature has in store. Among other things, he resents humanity and dwarves for trying to build things to fight against the natural order, believing that it's the root cause of the miasma. Near the end, he admits that his stubbornness on this point may have contributed to his people's decline.
Jiraiya
A ninja who served Queen Kaede in times prior to Pharm's founding. He is the father of Hayate and Miyuki, and the husband of Chizuru.- All There in the Manual: In the Global version, while it's easy to infer (via the unit descriptions at higher-level awakenings) that he's the father of Hayate and Miyuki (and the husband of Chizuru), it's never explicitly stated anywhere outside of the limited-time Way of the Warrior story event.
- Badass Family: He's the husband of a 4-star base, father of two others powerful enough to become summons themselves, and both of his children can max out at six stars with powerful equipment as Trust Master rewards in their own right. His distant descendant is also in the summon pool, also with a solid Trust Master Reward
- Dual Wield: His Trust Master Reward is a limited version, which provides a large attack buff along with the ability to use two katanas at once.
- Glass Cannon: His HP and defence are low for a 6-Star Unit, but his attack and magic is very high.
- Herd-Hitting Attack: As a ninja, he has a plethora of scrolls that can hit multiple foes along with causing status ailments.
- Katanas Are Just Better: His main weapon, although he's outright encouraged to use Dual Wield. His version of Blade Mastery also gives 50% MAG.
- The Stoic: He doesn't emote at all, even worse in this regard than his wife Chizuru. This leads to festering resentment that an enemy ninja was able to exploit in order to bring down Kaede's fiefdom.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Jiraya is very similar in appearance to Hayate, down to having similar stances.
- Undying Loyalty: He's like this to his master, Kaede. To the point that he sacrifices himself to stop his daughter Miyuki, then under mind control, from killing Kaede.
