History Characters / FinalFantasyBraveExviusSagesOfHess

* ADayInTheLimelight: Neo Lasswell's banner came with Rowen's Story Event, depicting his life as a whole.

* ColonyDrop: His CG Limit Burst on his Neo Vision unit is pretty. Sol just has a sun and a moon collide to form a black hole to hit his enemies with.

The Fire Sage of Hess, and the hailed Dragon King of the Espers. Was recruited by Yuraisha via an Esper Pact with her. Sealed inside a volcano so long as the Fire Crystal exists. He later resides in the Realm of the Dragon King [[BonusBoss in wait for someone to fight]].

* BonusBoss: Can be recruited as an Esper after clearing Season 1 in the story, but takes the most effort to get to him and actually beat him. He's also made into an incredibly hard fight in the Chamber of the Fallen.

* SpotTheThread: [[spoiler:So why would Vlad pit Raegen and Dioses against her newly-formed Sages of Hess on their own? It's because Vlad intended for both of them to die fighting them. Both Yuraisha and Dioses picked up on that pretty fast.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Lost all of his powers and memory upon being freed from the crystal.

The Wind Sage of Hess. All that remains is his heart, which remains dormant so long as the Wind Crystal functions. In actuality, the heart is Sol's original, immortal heart, which was stolen from him by Eclipsa and locked into a box. How it became part of a Sage of Hess, and how it grew so big, is not yet explained.

* BodyHorror: His body rotted away from imprisonment by the Wind Crystal.
* ContinuitySnarl: The background for Babel in the Season 2 side event "Afterglow" is much different than the "giant whose body is rotted away, leaving only the heart" story given in Season 1. Babel was Sol/Heliarc's original heart, made immortal by an operation procedure, the same used on the eight Veritas and the other Sages.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: His heart acts as the engine for the Invincible once the Wind Crystal is destroyed.

The Fire Sage of Hess, and the hailed Dragon King of the Espers. Sealed inside a volcano so long as the Fire Crystal exists. He later resides in the Realm of the Dragon King in wait for someone to fight.

** MasterOfAll: As an Esper, all of his stats aside from his HP and MP are exactly the same and comparable to even other Esper's best stats at 2*. His 2* awakening is even stronger, has stats superior to most of the 3* Espers, does even more damage on summoning and has access to multiple Killer passives, both physical and magic. Upon achieving 3*, Bahamut becomes the undisputed best Esper in the game, with access to all Killers, 50% increase in damage against broken gauge enemies and sky-high stats in every field.

* WorthyOpponent: Considered Babel one. [[spoiler:It's why he attacked the Invincible after sensing his heart.]]

* BodyHorror: The imprisonment in the Crystals ruined all of them in some manner. Fina and Rowen suffered the least, and even then they lost their memories and a large chunk of their power. [[spoiler:Minerva didn't suffer from it, however, as Gilgamesh found and freed her almost immediately.]]

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Their numbers included two immortal humans (Minerva and Rowen), an elf (Edfrit), one lion Beastman (Behemoth K), one emotionally stunted man with his body rotting away (Sol), a giant holding said stunted man's immortal heart (Babel), an Esper (Bahamut) and [[spoiler:the extension of the Will of Light (Fina)]].

!Minerva

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* BodyHorror: The imprisonment in the Crystals ruined all of them in some manner. [[spoiler:Fina]] suffered the least, and even then she lost her memories and a large chunk of her power.

* {{Foil}}: To the Eight Veritas. The Sages were a group of different individuals with different backgrounds and species, while the Veritas were humans in service to Aldore. They became the respected rulers and commanders of Hess by their own power in contrast to the Veritas being well respected and loved but in service to Aldore's emperor. The eight were sealed away and suffered side effects, destroying most mentally and physically into {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s with only two able to escape the worst collateral effects. While the now Seven Veritas chose revenge willingly before [[spoiler:two went rogue]].

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Their numbers included two immortal humans (Minerva and Rowen), an elf (Edfrit), one lion Beastman (Behemoth K), one emotionally stunted man with his body rotting away (Sol), a giant (Babel), an Esper (Bahamut) and [[spoiler:the extension of the Will of Light (Fina)]].

The Wind Sage of Hess. All that remains is his heart, which remains dormant so long as the Wind Crystal functions. [[spoiler:In actuality, the heart is Sol's original, immortal heart, which was stolen from him by Eclipsa and locked into a box. How it became part of a Sage of Hess, and how it grew so big, is not yet explained.]]

* BeatStillMyHeart: His heart still works despite his lack of body. [[spoiler:Explained by being an Immortal Heart, one made for Heliarc.]]

* ContinuitySnarl: The background for Babel in the Season 2 side event "Afterglow" is much different than the "giant whose body is rotted away, leaving only the heart" story given in Season 1. [[spoiler:Babel was Sol/Heliarc's original heart, made immortal by an operation procedure, the same used on the eight Veritas and the other Sages.]]

!Sol/[[spoiler:Heliarc]]

The Light Sage of Hess. He appears as a tall, hooded white-skinned man. [[spoiler:He was originally an Aldoran scientist who joined Hess in order to escape after he was turned into an experiment against his will, joining Yuraisha's Sages of Hess because his involvement in Aldore's experiences made him a valid target for Vlad.]] His imprisonment in the Light Crystal made him an OmnicidalManiac that hates all life and eventually [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou takes interest in ending Rain's life]].

* AlasPoorVillain: In season 2, [[spoiler: he gets a pretty heartfelt send-off by Rain, Sakura, Nichol, and the Sworn Six when he sacrifices his life to save Rain from the Emperor. This is despite the fact that he never stops talking about wanting to kill Rain and then destroying all life on the planet... notably, pretty much the same thing the Emperor was discussing doing.]]

* BodyHorror: When he finally opens up his cloak before battling Rain and friends, he shows that his "body" is a metallic casing holding his skeleton and organs in. His thoracic region is a tank, in which a spine and a rib cage can be seen floating. [[spoiler:Later story segments reveal that this is all that is left of his original human body due to his prototype crystal heart rotting the rest away.]]

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler:The magitek crystal heart that Heliarc creates is eventually revealed to feed off of his power and, once it's implanted in him, his emotions and memories. It fairly rapidly destroys all of Heliarc's mind, until the last remnants of his personality ask Heliarc's one friend, Pertira, for a new name.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Happened to his original self, [[spoiler:Heliarc]]. He was once a great scientist who was trying to develop technology to use crystals in order to give humans a monster's power. However, [[spoiler:he is betrayed by another scientist and has the incomplete technology used on him, which rots his body away and makes him slowly lose his mind, to the point where he only remembers his past as Sol and cannot understand human emotion]].

* {{Foil}}: To the Veritas of the Light. Both were major fighters during the war between Aldore and Hess, have a light-elemental theme, and can summon visions. However, while Lightlord [[spoiler:only wants revenge against Aldore and eventually gives up that revenge to help the heroes]], Sol [[spoiler:harbors a hatred for all life, commanding the Chaotic Darkness to attack both Lapis and Paladia, and serves as the main villain for the final arc of Season 1.]]

* AnIcePerson: As [[spoiler:Heliarc]], this is his main element, and it becomes his element of choice as a Neo Vision when in Brave Shift.

* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: It's mentioned that, prior to being sealed in a crystal, that Sol was a big fan of humanity and even tried to figure out how to use the powers of the crystals to help humanity. Sol has left behind any such pretenses in the present. He reveals that it was the cries of Hess's people that remained in Paladia that eventually drove him mad, as he could hear them over the past 700 years. It's also shown in his event, "Afterglow" - [[spoiler: once the crystal heart is implanted in him, he ceases to hold back on his power when attacking the people who've captured him, and he steadily grows more distant even from the people he knows cares about him and that he trusts.]]

* NamedWeapons: His Astral Rod, [[spoiler:Heliarc's old rod]], and also his Neo Vision unit's STMR.

* PreInsanityReveal: Is given a side story where his [[spoiler:background as an Aldoran scientist was revealed.]]

* ShipTease: In "Afterglow," there are several hints based on how she dotes on him that Pertira, his research assistant, is in love with [[spoiler:Heliarc]], and that the feelings could be reciprocated if [[ObliviousToLove he only realized it]]. However, after [[spoiler:the crystal heart is implanted in him]], it becomes clear very quickly that nothing will come of it.

* ThatManIsDead: Takes this stance towards [[spoiler:Heliarc]], helped by the fact that Sol doesn't have any of his memories or emotions anymore.

* ThirdPersonPerson: In the last part of "Afterglow", his season 2 event, one of the signs that he is no longer who he once was is that [[spoiler:he talks about "Heliarc" in the third person, as [[ThatManIsDead he no longer believes that's him]], due to [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul the crystal heart having taken all of the thoughts and feelings of Heliarc from him]].]]

* BadassDecay: InUniverse; one of the side effects of being trapped in a crystal so long was that he lost all his power. Prior to that, he was on par with [[spoiler:Raegen]], being roughly tied in their sparring matches. [[spoiler: In other words, he's on par with the Veritas of the Dark.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Died sometime after [[spoiler:Lasswell's birth, while he was still a newborn.]]