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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Her plan to gain the highest position possible and install her child as the Emperor of Sanbreque falls apart when it's revealed Olivier has been serving as Ultima's disposable vessel which they discarded while both her sons with Elwin turned out to be Dominants, sending her into a spiral of madness and denial.]]
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Her plan to gain the highest position possible and install her child as the Emperor of Sanbreque falls apart when it's revealed Olivier has been serving as Ultima's disposable vessel which they discarded while both her sons with Elwin turned out to be Dominants, sending her into a spiral of madness and denial.]]
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* AndThenWhat: Anabella clearly did not think about what to do after taking over Valisthea, aside from marrying Sylvestre and siring another son, Olivier. It is clear she only cared about the title, not the responsibilities.
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* AndThenWhat: Anabella clearly did not Anabella's goal can be summed up as "sell out Rosaria, [[spoiler:have a child with the Emperor of Sanbreque, and make that child the new Emperor]]". That's ''it''. All she cares for is the status this will bring her, and never once stops to think about what to do how she might [[spoiler:make Olivier a worthwhile Emperor or, hell, make her son a PuppetRuler where she calls the shots]]. This is even reflected by her handling of Rosaria after taking over Valisthea, aside from marrying Sylvestre and siring another son, Olivier. It is clear she it's annexed by Sanbreque: She doesn't rule directly, only cared about the title, not the responsibilities.getting involved whenever Bearers are mentioned, and ruthlessly cuts them down as well as any civilian who harbors them with her Black Shields, which in itself is a case of DidntThinkThisThrough since Bearers are highly valuable for being able to use magic when crystals are growing more and more scarce [[spoiler:as Clive destroys Mothercrystals one after another]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: As kind-hearted as they come, but as the Phoenix Dominant, he's capable of fire magic that ''will'' burn your ass to a crisp if you attack his family and retainers. Upon transforming fully into the Phoenix, he is both a figurative ''and'' literal ''beast'' and nigh unstoppable. Keyword: Nigh. He puts up one hell of a fight against the vicious Ifrit, but is ultimately beaten. [[spoiler:After his revival as Margrace, he shows [[TheChessmaster he's an adept political operator as well]], not to mention quite the fire mage.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: As kind-hearted as they come, but as the Phoenix Dominant, he's capable of fire magic that ''will'' burn your ass to a crisp if you attack his family and retainers. Upon transforming fully into the Phoenix, he is both a figurative ''and'' literal ''beast'' and nigh unstoppable.nigh-unstoppable. Keyword: Nigh. He puts up one hell of a fight against the vicious Ifrit, but is ultimately beaten. [[spoiler:After his revival as Margrace, he shows [[TheChessmaster he's an adept political operator as well]], not to mention quite the fire mage.]]]]
-->'''Joshua:''' ''[[[WipeTheFloorWithYou while dragging Ifrit along the bedrock]]]'' Stay away from me! Stay away from me or I'll kill you!
-->'''Joshua:''' ''[[[WipeTheFloorWithYou while dragging Ifrit along the bedrock]]]'' Stay away from me! Stay away from me or I'll kill you!
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* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: It's implied that she always hated Elwin for being the king even before Clive was born.
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* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: It's implied that she always hated She wishes for nothing but the highest social status, and is infuriated by perceived "slights" against her; Elwin for and his kind attitude toward the commonfolk and even Bearers, Clive being the king even before Clive an outstanding warrior but not Phoenix's Dominant, and Joshua being sickly and frail despite being Phoenix's Dominant. By her own admission, she thinks she was born.slandered by her fellow nobles, all of whom she considered "inferior" because of Elwin and his sons.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: She finally pays for her mariticide and years of tyranny when Clive and Jill confront her.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: She finally pays for her mariticide and years of tyranny when Clive and Jill confront her. [[spoiler:Ironically, it's not Clive who kills her, but [[DrivenToSuicide Anabella]] herself who goes through one hell of a HumiliationCogna and VillainousBreakdown.]]
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* ParentalBetrayal: [[spoiler:She sells out Rosaria to Sanbreque, getting Joshua killed and resulting in Clive losing absolutely everything after he's MadeASlave.]]
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* ParentalBetrayal: [[spoiler:She She sells out Rosaria to Sanbreque, getting Joshua killed and resulting in Clive losing absolutely everything after he's MadeASlave.]]
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%%* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:As Margrace via Phoenix's powers, though the resurrection was not without it's problems.]]
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Downplayed. By the time Clive's survival becomes public knowledge, even those closest to him confess that Elwin was a much better ruler than Anabella could ever be. Anabella does have some supporters though.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Downplayed. Suffice to say, very few in Rosaria enjoy her rule since it's blatantly clear to everyone she sold out her country in exchange for more political power. By the time Clive's survival becomes is public knowledge, even those closest to him confess that pretty much everyone says Elwin was a much far better ruler than ruler. It does not help that Anabella could ever be. Anabella does have some supporters though.rules Rosaria with a iron fist through the tyranny of her Black Shields.
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* AlwaysSecondBest: She feels that she is this to Elwin and utterly ''[[BerserkButton hates]]'' being compared to him along with Clive, Joshua and Jill favoring him over her.
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* AlwaysSecondBest: She feels that she is this to Elwin and utterly ''[[BerserkButton hates]]'' being compared to him along with Clive, Joshua Joshua, and Jill favoring him over her.
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%%* ArchEnemy: To the Valistheans in general after her time as queen of Sanbreque, but she is this especially to Clive and Elwin due to her very [[EvilMatriarch personal]] connection to them.
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* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. When Joshua was a child, it was clear he genuinely looked up to his mother and found her a bit difficult at times. After learning Anabella killed his father and turned Valisthea into a hellhole due to her ineffectual rule, Joshua has nothing but distrust for her. Averted with Clive, who, while questioning his mother's actions, also shows complete distrust over her.
* TheCaligula: She is an absolutely toxic ruler who threatens or intimidates her subjects with harsh rules.
* TheCaligula: She is an absolutely toxic ruler who threatens or intimidates her subjects with harsh rules.
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* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. When Downplayed and averted regarding Joshua was a child, it was clear he genuinely looked up to his mother and found Clive respectively. Despite all she's done, Joshua still loves her a bit difficult at times. After learning [[spoiler:and even tries to save her in the aftermath of Bahamut's rampage despite knowing full well she helped orchestrate Elwin's death and the fall of Phoenix Gate]]. Clive initially wished to prove himself to Anabella killed his father and turned Valisthea into a hellhole due to in spite of her ineffectual rule, Joshua has nothing dislike toward him, but distrust lost all respect for her. Averted with Clive, who, while questioning his mother's actions, also shows complete distrust over her.
her after the Night of Flames.
* TheCaligula: She is an absolutely toxic ruler who threatens or intimidates her subjects with harsh rules. She imposes a cold-iron rule over Rosaria through her Black Shields, mercilessly executes Bearers with little thought or reason, and [[spoiler:poisons Sylvestre with her elitist views]].
* TheCaligula: She is an absolutely toxic ruler who threatens or intimidates her subjects with harsh rules. She imposes a cold-iron rule over Rosaria through her Black Shields, mercilessly executes Bearers with little thought or reason, and [[spoiler:poisons Sylvestre with her elitist views]].
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She betrays her own family, killing her husband and trying to do the same to her stepson.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She betrays her own family, killing helped orchestrate the death of her husband and was willing to turn Joshua into a political hostage to help secure her future position in Sanbreque, all but leaving Rosaria open to be conquered by the empire after the Iron Kingdom sacked it. [[spoiler:She's not much better with Dion, whom she claims is trying to do instigate a rebellion against his father in favor of putting Olivier on the same to her stepson.throne, simply because his mother was a commoner.]]
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: She deconstructs TheCaligula. Being empress means enormous responsibilities and the possibility of a revolt if said duties are neglected. Anabella gets a ZeroPercentApprovalRating for her tyranny, including her stepson of all people, for letting Valisthea become a kingdom without mercy.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: She deconstructs TheCaligula. Being empress means enormous responsibilities As viceriene of Rosaria, she's in charge of running the place, yet employs absolutely brutal methods in doing so, [[spoiler:regularly purging villages that want to protect Bearers in any capacity]]. She even poisons Sylvestre's mind [[spoiler:with her elitist views and claiming his eldest son Dion is plotting a rebellion]]. However, she does absolutely ''nothing'' to stamp out any sort of resistance against her. [[spoiler:She does nothing to go after Clive after Hugo is killed and is content to leave him alone in favor of her immediate affairs with Olivier, and she never considered Dion a threat. In both cases, she allows both to amass power; in the possibility of a revolt if said duties are neglected. Anabella gets a ZeroPercentApprovalRating for her tyranny, including her stepson of all people, for letting Valisthea become a kingdom without mercy.latter case, she never expected, much less realized, that Dion was far more beloved by the people and his soldiers than Sylvestre or Olivier were.]]
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* DevilInPlainSight: Elwin has no idea that his wife is plotting against him, and he never realizes it.
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* DevilInPlainSight: Elwin has no idea that his wife is plotting against him, and he never realizes it.how utterly abhorrent Anabella is or how far her "sovereign's blood" mindset drives her.
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* DramaticIrony: She attempted to pawn off Joshua as the Dominant of Phoenix to Sanbreque for a bargaining chip, only for Clive as the unexpectedly-awakened Dominant of Ifrit to kill him. Neither Anabella nor Clive have any idea about the latter, and she pawns him off as a mere disposable slave; only the audience at this point realizes she just made a SpannerInTheWorks ''and'' lost a valuable individual she grossly undervalued.
** [[spoiler:She ignored Clive all of his life because of his lack of Eikon power, in this case the Phoenix. By the time they meet again, Clive commands Ifrit and 4 elements, whereas other Dominants only command one.]]
** [[spoiler:She ignored Clive all of his life because of his lack of Eikon power, in this case the Phoenix. By the time they meet again, Clive commands Ifrit and 4 elements, whereas other Dominants only command one.]]
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* DramaticIrony: DramaticIrony:
** She attempted to pawn off Joshua as the Dominant of Phoenix to Sanbreque for a bargaining chip, only forClive as the unexpectedly-awakened Dominant of Ifrit [[spoiler:(actually a berserk Clive, who awakened as Ifrit's Dominant)]] to kill him. Neither Anabella nor Clive have has any idea about the latter, and she pawns him off as a mere disposable slave; only the audience at this point realizes she just made a SpannerInTheWorks ''and'' lost a valuable individual she grossly undervalued.
** [[spoiler:She ignored Clive all of his life because of his lack of Eikon power, in thiscase case, the Phoenix. By the time they meet again, Clive commands Ifrit and 4 elements, whereas other Dominants only command one.]]
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** [[spoiler:She ignored Clive all of his life because of his lack of Eikon power, in this
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* EpicFail: Her entire tenure as empress was even more disastrous than one would’ve easily predicted, with the knights having hunted the bearers into near-extinction and the entire land now infected by the Blight she wanted to stop.
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* HateSink: Anabella provides a primary target for the audience's scorn, entirely on purpose. Anabella is thoroughly contemptuous towards Clive, even calling him "worthless" and "a man like any other" to Elwin because Clive was rejected as Phoenix's Dominant. She's extremely strict on Joshua's well-being, and continues to go on elitist ramblings even when talking to her husband, even though Elwin clearly does not agree with them. To make matters worse, [she betrays her own family to Sanbreque, orders Clive to be enslaved, sheds no tears for her dead husband, and has the knights kill her handmaidens for no readily apparent reason. The only thing Anabella appears genuinely upset about is Joshua's death, and even that's ambiguous as to whether she was upset that her favorite son died or she lost a bargaining chip. While Elwin rejected her elitist philosophy, [[spoiler:her second husband was poisoned by it, causing his WeHaveReserves mentality and allowing her to install her new son to the throne. And the reason Anabella has for all of this is because [[SocialClimber she felt she was owed a better position]], despite being the duchess of Rosaria. Yes, Anabella is, without a doubt, the most universally despised character in the entire game.]]
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* HateSink: Anabella provides a primary target for the audience's scorn, entirely on purpose. Anabella is thoroughly contemptuous towards Clive, even calling him "worthless" and "a man like any other" to Elwin because Clive was rejected as Phoenix's Dominant. She's extremely strict on Joshua's well-being, and continues to go on elitist ramblings even when talking to her husband, even though Elwin clearly does not agree with them. To make matters worse, [she betrays her own family to Sanbreque, orders Clive to be enslaved, sheds no tears for her dead husband, and has the knights kill her handmaidens for no readily apparent reason. The only thing Anabella appears genuinely upset about is Joshua's death, and even that's ambiguous as to whether she was upset that her favorite son died or she lost a bargaining chip. While Elwin rejected her elitist philosophy, [[spoiler:her second husband was poisoned by it, causing his WeHaveReserves mentality and allowing her to install her new son to the throne. And the reason Anabella has for all of this is because [[SocialClimber she felt she was owed a better position]], despite being the duchess of Rosaria. Yes, Anabella is, without a doubt, She is easily one of the most universally despised detestable characters, if not ''the'' worst character in the entire game.]]
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The duchess of Rosaria, Elwin's wife, the mother of both Clive and Joshua and perhaps the most universally despised character in the video game. Born into a noble family responsible for producing a number of offspring that inherited the power of the Phoenix, Anabella was taught from a young age that her purpose in life was to preserve the bloodline of the Phoenix. While she heavily dotes on her youngest son, Joshua, she shows little in the way of affection for her eldest son, Clive, or her and her’s husband’s ward, Jill.
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The duchess of Rosaria, Elwin's wife, wife and the mother of both Clive and Joshua and perhaps the most universally despised character in the video game.Joshua. Born into a noble family responsible for producing a number of offspring that inherited the power of the Phoenix, Anabella was taught from a young age that her purpose in life was to preserve the bloodline of the Phoenix. While she heavily dotes on her youngest son, Joshua, she shows little in the way of affection for her eldest son, Clive, or her and her’s husband’s ward, Jill.
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* ArchEnemy: To the Valistheans in general after her time as queen of Sanbreque, but she is this especially to Clive and Elwin due to her very [[EvilMatriarch personal]] connection to them.
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Clive's trusty chocobo, gifted to him by his father. Thirteen years later, she still lives in Rosaria as a wild chocobo, leading a flock and protecting travelers from bandits and the like.
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* EyeScream: During the assault at Phoenix Gate, Ambrosia protects Clive from an attack and loses an eye for her efforts.
* UndyingLoyalty: Over a decade later, Ambrosia recognizes Clive immediately and is clearly overjoyed to see him and serve him again. Even before then, she blocks an attack meant for Clive and loses an eye for it.
* WhiteStallion: Or rather, White Chocobo. Ambrosia is rare for her white plumage, and considered a beautiful and noble steed.
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!!!Ambrosia
Clive's trusty chocobo, gifted to him by his father. Thirteen years later, she still lives in Rosaria as a wild chocobo, leading a flock and protecting travelers from bandits and the like.
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* EyeScream: During the assault at Phoenix Gate, Ambrosia protects Clive from an attack and loses an eye for her efforts.
* UndyingLoyalty: Over a decade later, Ambrosia recognizes Clive immediately and is clearly overjoyed to see him and serve him again. Even before then, she blocks an attack meant for Clive and loses an eye for it.
* WhiteStallion: Or rather, White Chocobo. Ambrosia is rare for her white plumage, and considered a beautiful and noble steed.
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The duchess of Rosaria, Elwin's wife, and the mother of both Clive and Joshua. Born into a noble family responsible for producing a number of offspring that inherited the power of the Phoenix, Anabella was taught from a young age that her purpose in life was to preserve the bloodline of the Phoenix. While she heavily dotes on her youngest son, Joshua, she shows little in the way of affection for her eldest son, Clive, or her and her’s husband’s ward, Jill.
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The duchess of Rosaria, Elwin's wife, and the mother of both Clive and Joshua.Joshua and perhaps the most universally despised character in the video game. Born into a noble family responsible for producing a number of offspring that inherited the power of the Phoenix, Anabella was taught from a young age that her purpose in life was to preserve the bloodline of the Phoenix. While she heavily dotes on her youngest son, Joshua, she shows little in the way of affection for her eldest son, Clive, or her and her’s husband’s ward, Jill.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Downplayed. By the time Clive's survival becomes public knowledge, even those closest to him confess that Elwin was a much better ruler than Anabella could ever be. Anabella does have some supporters though.
* AlwaysSecondBest: She feels that she is this to Elwin and utterly ''[[BerserkButton hates]]'' being compared to him along with Clive, Joshua and Jill favoring him over her.
* AndThenWhat: Anabella clearly did not think about what to do after taking over Valisthea, aside from marrying Sylvestre and siring another son, Olivier. It is clear she only cared about the title, not the responsibilities.
* ArchEnemy: To the Valistheans in general after her time as queen of Sanbreque, but she is this especially to Clive and Elwin due to her very [[EvilMatriarch personal]] connection to them.
* BadBoss: Lets the malicious knights run rampant over the kingdom until even the citizens are terrified of them.
* ArchEnemy: To the Valistheans in general after her time as queen of Sanbreque, but she is this especially to Clive and Elwin due to her very [[EvilMatriarch personal]] connection to them.
* BadBoss: Lets the malicious knights run rampant over the kingdom until even the citizens are terrified of them.
* BrilliantButLazy: Sh's very talented at using cunning and manipulation to get what she wants, but she doesn't even try to be responsible once she married Sylvestre, leaving her knights to work to threaten and bully the peasants of the land.
* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. When Joshua was a child, it was clear he genuinely looked up to his mother and found her a bit difficult at times. After learning Anabella killed his father and turned Valisthea into a hellhole due to her ineffectual rule, Joshua has nothing but distrust for her. Averted with Clive, who, while questioning his mother's actions, also shows complete distrust over her.
* TheCaligula: She is an absolutely toxic ruler who threatens or intimidates her subjects with harsh rules.
* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. When Joshua was a child, it was clear he genuinely looked up to his mother and found her a bit difficult at times. After learning Anabella killed his father and turned Valisthea into a hellhole due to her ineffectual rule, Joshua has nothing but distrust for her. Averted with Clive, who, while questioning his mother's actions, also shows complete distrust over her.
* TheCaligula: She is an absolutely toxic ruler who threatens or intimidates her subjects with harsh rules.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She betrays her own family, killing her husband and trying to do the same to her stepson.
* ColorMotifs: Purple, as per the usual color of royalty.
* ColorMotifs: Purple, as per the usual color of royalty.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: She deconstructs TheCaligula. Being empress means enormous responsibilities and the possibility of a revolt if said duties are neglected. Anabella gets a ZeroPercentApprovalRating for her tyranny, including her stepson of all people, for letting Valisthea become a kingdom without mercy.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Quite happy to let Valisthea go to hell in a hand basket if that means she can be an empress. She's also pretty upfront that she wants the job for the power and refuses to even acknowledge that she's supposed to have duties to go with them. Downplayed in that she does have at least a few to look after, including her third son Olivier.
* DevilInPlainSight: Elwin has no idea that his wife is plotting against him, and he never realizes it.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Quite happy to let Valisthea go to hell in a hand basket if that means she can be an empress. She's also pretty upfront that she wants the job for the power and refuses to even acknowledge that she's supposed to have duties to go with them. Downplayed in that she does have at least a few to look after, including her third son Olivier.
* DevilInPlainSight: Elwin has no idea that his wife is plotting against him, and he never realizes it.
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* DrivenToSuicide: By the end, [[spoiler:after losing Olivier and freaking out at seeing Joshua alive, she deludes herself into thinking she's seeing a ghost (attacking him), then slits her throat to make it stop.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: By the end, [[spoiler:after losing Olivier and freaking out at seeing Joshua alive, she deludes herself into thinking she's seeing a ghost (attacking him), then slits her throat to make it stop.]] Her death is pretty anti-climatic to be honest.]]
* EpicFail: Her entire tenure as empress was even more disastrous than one would’ve easily predicted, with the knights having hunted the bearers into near-extinction and the entire land now infected by the Blight she wanted to stop.
* EtTuBrute: Her treachery towards Elwin, her husband, by ording the knights.
* EpicFail: Her entire tenure as empress was even more disastrous than one would’ve easily predicted, with the knights having hunted the bearers into near-extinction and the entire land now infected by the Blight she wanted to stop.
* EtTuBrute: Her treachery towards Elwin, her husband, by ording the knights.
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* HateSink: Anabella provides a primary target for the audience's scorn, entirely on purpose. Anabella is thoroughly contemptuous towards Clive, even calling him "worthless" and "a man like any other" to Elwin because Clive was rejected as Phoenix's Dominant. She's extremely strict on Joshua's well-being, and continues to go on elitist ramblings even when talking to her husband, even though Elwin clearly does not agree with them. To make matters worse, [she betrays her own family to Sanbreque, orders Clive to be enslaved, sheds no tears for her dead husband, and has the knights kill her handmaidens for no readily apparent reason. The only thing Anabella appears genuinely upset about is Joshua's death, and even that's ambiguous as to whether she was upset that her favorite son died or she lost a bargaining chip. While Elwin rejected her elitist philosophy, [[spoiler:her second husband was poisoned by it, causing his WeHaveReserves mentality and allowing her to install her new son to the throne. And the reason Anabella has for all of this is because [[SocialClimber she felt she was owed a better position]], despite being the duchess of Rosaria.]]
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* HateSink: Anabella provides a primary target for the audience's scorn, entirely on purpose. Anabella is thoroughly contemptuous towards Clive, even calling him "worthless" and "a man like any other" to Elwin because Clive was rejected as Phoenix's Dominant. She's extremely strict on Joshua's well-being, and continues to go on elitist ramblings even when talking to her husband, even though Elwin clearly does not agree with them. To make matters worse, [she betrays her own family to Sanbreque, orders Clive to be enslaved, sheds no tears for her dead husband, and has the knights kill her handmaidens for no readily apparent reason. The only thing Anabella appears genuinely upset about is Joshua's death, and even that's ambiguous as to whether she was upset that her favorite son died or she lost a bargaining chip. While Elwin rejected her elitist philosophy, [[spoiler:her second husband was poisoned by it, causing his WeHaveReserves mentality and allowing her to install her new son to the throne. And the reason Anabella has for all of this is because [[SocialClimber she felt she was owed a better position]], despite being the duchess of Rosaria. Yes, Anabella is, without a doubt, the most universally despised character in the entire game.]]
* IThoughtYouWereDead: The initial reaction of shock when Anabella sees Joshua alive and bleeding from the mouth, thinking him to be a ghost.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: It's implied that she always hated Elwin for being the king even before Clive was born.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: It's implied that she always hated Elwin for being the king even before Clive was born.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: She finally pays for her mariticide and years of tyranny when Clive and Jill confront her.
* LackOfEmpathy: You're looking at someone who's willing to murder her husband and firstborn son, as well as gorge herself at the expense of others without even a shred of remorse. She'll do anything ''and'' everything to maintain that all ways go her ways.
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** [[spoiler: Her betrayal of Rosaria for a higher station as empress, and attempt to do the same to Sanbreque to secure her "Sovereign blood's" rule over all the lands under one empire blows up in her face completely. Her lack of care for her people consistantly sabotages the stability of vital human resources, be they "citizens" or the branded slaves. Her ordering imperial soldiers to massacre entire villages who harbor "free branded" and then creating an entire order of knights to purge ALL branded pushes this instability further as they are still a vital resource that all kingdoms (cruelly) lean on as the foundation of every facet of their society. Additionally these acts only drive Clive further at every point of his heroic career at. Even her plans against Dion and her attempted coup destablize the capital at a key point which allows Clive and Joshua to step and intefere, not to mention her plans enable Ultima's machinations without her knowledge.]]
** [[spoiler: Sparing Clive and forcing him to be a SlaveMook to Sanbreque proves disasterous as he is not only the ''Dominant of Ifrit'', but also happens to have the potential to become the most powerful being in the world. As a result, she ends up setting the son she utterly despised on the road that would turn him into the hero that would save the world, and that path also includes destroying the better life she tried to built up. Although Clive doesn't actually get the chance to truly exact any kind of personal vengeance on his mother, Anabella's several act of cruelty on the people and branded including creating a corrupt knighthood using a twist version of his beloved Rosarian Shield's values and oaths, all end up driving her son to truly wish for her to be stopped and he does play a huge role in everything crumbling down around her, taking down the forces she built up and ultimately leaving her with no one else that would defend her. Even early on, her ordering imperial knights to cull any villages and towns which harbor free branded ends up massacring a town containing branded previously employed by Clive's father and Lady Hanna, the wife of his late mentor which ends up driving Clive to resolutely join Cid when he was about to leave with Jill to lead their own lives alone. One can even argue that if only she had realized that Clive simply has grown too powerful to be contained and pragmatically decide to screw trying to piss him off any further, she may have had a better chance of surviving]].
** [[spoiler: Sparing Clive and forcing him to be a SlaveMook to Sanbreque proves disasterous as he is not only the ''Dominant of Ifrit'', but also happens to have the potential to become the most powerful being in the world. As a result, she ends up setting the son she utterly despised on the road that would turn him into the hero that would save the world, and that path also includes destroying the better life she tried to built up. Although Clive doesn't actually get the chance to truly exact any kind of personal vengeance on his mother, Anabella's several act of cruelty on the people and branded including creating a corrupt knighthood using a twist version of his beloved Rosarian Shield's values and oaths, all end up driving her son to truly wish for her to be stopped and he does play a huge role in everything crumbling down around her, taking down the forces she built up and ultimately leaving her with no one else that would defend her. Even early on, her ordering imperial knights to cull any villages and towns which harbor free branded ends up massacring a town containing branded previously employed by Clive's father and Lady Hanna, the wife of his late mentor which ends up driving Clive to resolutely join Cid when he was about to leave with Jill to lead their own lives alone. One can even argue that if only she had realized that Clive simply has grown too powerful to be contained and pragmatically decide to screw trying to piss him off any further, she may have had a better chance of surviving]].
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** [[spoiler: Her betrayal of Rosaria for a higher station as empress, and attempt to do the same to Sanbreque to secure her "Sovereign blood's" rule over all the lands under one empire blows up in her face completely. Her lack of care for her people consistantly sabotages the stability of vital human resources, be they "citizens" or the branded slaves. Her ordering imperial soldiers to massacre entire villages who harbor "free branded" and then creating an entire order of knights to purge ALL branded pushes this instability further as they are still a vital resource that all kingdoms (cruelly) lean on as the foundation of every facet of their society. Additionally these acts only drive Clive further at every point of his heroic career at. Even her plans against Dion and her attempted coup destablize destabilize the capital at a key point which allows Clive and Joshua to step and intefere, interfere, not to mention her plans enable Ultima's machinations without her knowledge.]]
** [[spoiler: Sparing Clive and forcing him to be a SlaveMook to Sanbreque provesdisasterous disastrous as he is not only the ''Dominant of Ifrit'', but also happens to have the potential to become the most powerful being in the world. As a result, she ends up setting the son she utterly despised on the road that would turn him into the hero that would save the world, and that path also includes destroying the better life she tried to built up. Although Clive doesn't actually get the chance to truly exact any kind of personal vengeance on his mother, Anabella's several act of cruelty on the people and branded including creating a corrupt knighthood using a twist version of his beloved Rosarian Shield's values and oaths, all end up driving her son to truly wish for her to be stopped and he does play a huge role in everything crumbling down around her, taking down the forces she built up and ultimately leaving her with no one else that would defend her. Even early on, her ordering imperial knights to cull any villages and towns which harbor free branded ends up massacring a town containing branded previously employed by Clive's father and Lady Hanna, Hanner, the wife of his late mentor which ends up driving Clive to resolutely join Cid when he was about to leave with Jill to lead their own lives alone. One can even argue that if only she had realized that Clive simply has grown too powerful to be contained and pragmatically decide to screw trying to piss him off any further, she may have had a better chance of surviving]].
** [[spoiler: Sparing Clive and forcing him to be a SlaveMook to Sanbreque proves
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** [[spoiler: Sparing Clive and forcing him to be a SlaveMook to Sanbreque proves disasterous as he is not only the ''Dominant of Ifrit'', but also happens to have the potential to become the most powerful being in the world. As a result, she ends up setting the son she utterly despised on the road that would turn him into the hero that would save the world, and that path also includes destroying the better life she tried to built up. Although Clive doesn't actually get the chance to truly exact any kind of personal vengeance on his mother, Anabella's several act of cruelty on the people and branded including creating a corrupt knighthood using a twist version of his beloved Rosarian Shield's values and oaths, all end up driving her son to truly wish for her to be stopped and he does play a huge role in everything crumbling down around her, taking down the forces she built up and ultimately leaving her with no one else that would defend her. Even early on, her ordering imperial knights to cull any villages and towns which harbor free branded ends up massacring a town containing branded previously employed by Clive's father and Lady Hanner, Hanna, the wife of his late mentor which ends up driving Clive to resolutely join Cid when he was about to leave with Jill to lead their own lives alone. One can even argue that if only she had realized that Clive simply has grown too powerful to be contained and pragmatically decide to screw trying to piss him off any further, she may have had a better chance of surviving]].
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** [[spoiler: Believing that Joshua is dead and trying to move on by having Olivier without bothering to try and find if her second son truly is dead allows Joshua to preserve Rosaria in secret, slowly but surely reorganizing it's forces and eventually regaining enough influence to not only oppose her attempts to have the whole world in her grasp, but also successfully get through Dion. In the most ironic and carthatically satisfying sense, the one son she actually does love and favor from Elwin ends up being the orchestrator of the ruin of everything she had accomplished in her new life, all while he doesn't even have to directly oppose her]].
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** [[spoiler: Sparing Clive and forcing him to be a SlaveMook to Sanbreque proves disasterous as he is not only the ''Dominant of Ifrit'', but also happens to have the potential to become the most powerful being in the world. As a result, she ends up setting the son she utterly despised on the road that would turn him into the hero that would save the world, and that path also includes destroying the better life she tried to built up. Although Clive doesn't actually get the chance to truly exact any kind of personal vengeance on his mother, Anabella's several act of cruelty on the people and branded including creating a currupt knighthood using a twist version of his beloved Rosarian Shield's values and oaths, all end up driving her son to truly wish for her to be stopped and he does play a huge role in everything crumbling down around her, taking down the forces she built up and ultimately leaving her with no one else that would defend her. Even early on, her ordering imperial knights to cull any villages and towns which harbor free branded ends up massacring a town containing branded previously employed by Clive's father and Lady Hanner, the wife of his late mentor which ends up driving Clive to resolutely join Cid when he was about to leave with Jill to lead their own lives alone. One can even argue that if only she had realized that Clive simply has grown too powerful to be contained and pragmatically decide to screw trying to piss him off any further, she may have had a better chance of surviving]].
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** [[spoiler: Sparing Clive and forcing him to be a SlaveMook to Sanbreque proves disasterous as he is not only the ''Dominant of Ifrit'', but also happens to have the potential to become the most powerful being in the world. As a result, she ends up setting the son she utterly despised on the road that would turn him into the hero that would save the world, and that path also includes destroying the better life she tried to built up. Although Clive doesn't actually get the chance to truly exact any kind of personal vengeance on his mother, Anabella's several act of cruelty on the people and branded including creating a currupt corrupt knighthood using a twist version of his beloved Rosarian Shield's values and oaths, all end up driving her son to truly wish for her to be stopped and he does play a huge role in everything crumbling down around her, taking down the forces she built up and ultimately leaving her with no one else that would defend her. Even early on, her ordering imperial knights to cull any villages and towns which harbor free branded ends up massacring a town containing branded previously employed by Clive's father and Lady Hanner, the wife of his late mentor which ends up driving Clive to resolutely join Cid when he was about to leave with Jill to lead their own lives alone. One can even argue that if only she had realized that Clive simply has grown too powerful to be contained and pragmatically decide to screw trying to piss him off any further, she may have had a better chance of surviving]].
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** [[spoiler:Once Clive and Joshua quell Dion, the latter kills the possessed Olivier. An hysterical Annabella then sees that both Clive and Joshua are both alive and active Dominants, which makes her utterly lose whatever sanity she had left. With none of children on her side or alive and her kingdom in ruins, she ends up killing herself out of madness.]]
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* DirtyCoward: Rather than [[spoiler:face justice by either execution or (more likely) imprisonment at the hands of the family she betrayed, she opts to instead slit her own throat.]]
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* DirtyCoward: Rather than [[spoiler:face justice by either execution or (more likely) imprisonment at the hands of the family she betrayed, she opts to instead slit her own throat.]]
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* HumiliationConga: Has one in rapid succession midway through the game, all within a day's span.
** When she decides to [[spoiler:smugly gloat to Dion about her plans succeeding upon putting Olivier into the throne, Dion coolly informs her that if he wanted, he could perform a coup and oust her very easily with the support of the people, who adore him. She then watches as Dion accidentally kills Sylvestre in an attempt to murder Olivier, who's just a meat puppet for Ultima.]]
** [[spoiler:After this happens, Ultima brainwashes Dion into flying into a rage and destroying Twinside, ruining the kingdom Annabella was trying so hard to rule with Olivier as her PuppetKing. She's left quivering in fear as destruction rains around her and Olivier. She tries to mouth off to Clive and Jill when they find her, only for the latter to draw her sword as a warning to shut her up.]]
** [[spoiler:Once Clive and Joshua quell Dion, the latter kills the possessed Olivier. An hysterical Annabella then sees that both Clive and Joshua are both alive and active Dominants, which makes her utterly lose whatever sanity she had left. With none of children on her side or alive and her kingdom in ruins, she ends up killing herself out of madness.]]
** When she decides to [[spoiler:smugly gloat to Dion about her plans succeeding upon putting Olivier into the throne, Dion coolly informs her that if he wanted, he could perform a coup and oust her very easily with the support of the people, who adore him. She then watches as Dion accidentally kills Sylvestre in an attempt to murder Olivier, who's just a meat puppet for Ultima.]]
** [[spoiler:After this happens, Ultima brainwashes Dion into flying into a rage and destroying Twinside, ruining the kingdom Annabella was trying so hard to rule with Olivier as her PuppetKing. She's left quivering in fear as destruction rains around her and Olivier. She tries to mouth off to Clive and Jill when they find her, only for the latter to draw her sword as a warning to shut her up.]]
** [[spoiler:Once Clive and Joshua quell Dion, the latter kills the possessed Olivier. An hysterical Annabella then sees that both Clive and Joshua are both alive and active Dominants, which makes her utterly lose whatever sanity she had left. With none of children on her side or alive and her kingdom in ruins, she ends up killing herself out of madness.]]
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* FakeDefector: He pretends to be TheQuisling for Annabella's atrocities, but it's all a front to keep the people of Port Isolde safe.
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* FakeDefector: He pretends to be TheQuisling for Annabella's atrocities, but it's all a front to keep the people of Port Isolde safe. It helps that the empire is so distant and communication technology is so poor that he doesn't actually have to put up much of a show except to the occasional visiting official - the Rosarian citizenry definitely know he's on their side.
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* UnclePennybags: Literally - he's a keen businessman and he helps fund Clive and Jill's journey, and has been supporting the Guardians of the Flame for years before that. He complains at a later point in the story that the costs of all their adventuring has been rapidly emptying his coffers, but he doesn't stop supporting their cause despite this.
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* UnclePennybags: Literally - he's a keen businessman and he helps fund Clive and Jill's journey, and has been supporting the Guardians of the Flame for years before that. He complains [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] as at a later point in the story story, he complains that the costs of all their adventuring has been rapidly emptying his coffers, [[ReconstructedTrope but he doesn't stop supporting their cause despite this.in spite of how unprofitable it is]].
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* FeelingHisAge: He takes a ''little'' more time when doing physical labor compared to the younger and spryer members of Clive's party, and he doesn't quite stick the landing when he [[OffBridgeOntoVehicle jumps onboard the]] ''[[OffBridgeOntoVehicle Enterprise]]''. His age doesn't stop him from from kicking ass, however.
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* CondescendingCompassion: One thing that Clive and the Cursebreakers tacitly acknowledge after the fall of Rosaria is that while their treatment of Bearers was much better than the Valisthean norm, it wasn't nearly good enough. They were still branded and treated as second-class citizens, just not actively abused. It's indicated to be a reason why Clive isn't all that interested in resurrecting the Grand Duchy - it would be a step backwards from the truly free, equal world he seeks.
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* MinorMajorCharacter: Clive got himself a squire! This should mean that Oscar will accompany him on his adventures, learn from him, and carry on his ideals. However, this happens in a sidequest so late in the story that it basically just amounts to Oscar standing guard outside Clive's personal chambers in the hideaway.
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* MinorMajorCharacter: Clive got himself a squire! This should mean that Oscar will accompany him on his adventures, learn from him, and carry on his ideals. However, this happens in a sidequest so late in the story that it basically just amounts to Oscar standing guard outside Clive's personal chambers in the hideaway. Given what happened to his Uncle and Aunt in the main story after their meetings with [[DoomMagnet Clive]], this is actually probably a good thing for him.
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* StillGotIt: He proclaims that despite getting on in years he can still hold his own in a fight.
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* StillGotIt: He proclaims that despite getting on in years he can still hold his own in a fight. From what we see of him in action during the game, this is entirely correct.
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ewan Bailey (English), Mitsutaka Tachikawa (Japanese)
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: He comes in guns (well, axe) blazing when he thinks that Clive and Jill are thieves. Clive quotes a drama that the two used to portray in happier times, which moves Byron to tears out of happiness that this is proof that his beloved nephew is alive and in front of him.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: He comes in guns (well, axe) blazing when he thinks that Clive and Jill are thieves. Clive quotes acts out a drama scene of a play that the two used to portray re-enact in happier times, which moves Byron to tears out of happiness that this is proof that his beloved nephew is alive and in front of him.
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* [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHideaway The Hideaway]]
* [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheDhalmekianRepublic The Dhalmekian Republic]]
* [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHolyEmpireOfSanbreque The Holy Empire of Sanbreque]]
* [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheKingdomOfWaloed The Kingdom of Waloed]]
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* [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheKingdomOfWaloed The Kingdom of Waloed]]
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The first-born son of Rosaria's ruling archduke who sought to prove himself as the First Shield of Rosaria. But after a tragic night that culminated in his brother Joshua’s brutal death at the hands of the Dark Eikon Ifrit, he abandons all he once knew to instead set off on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against all those responsible. Though initially unaware of it, Clive eventually awakens as a Dominant himself... [[YouAreWhatYouHate the Dominant of Ifrit]].
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The first-born son of Rosaria's ruling archduke who sought to prove himself as the First Shield of Rosaria. But after a tragic night that culminated in his brother Joshua’s brutal death at the hands of the Dark Eikon Ifrit, he abandons all he once knew to instead set off on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against all those responsible. Though initially unaware of it, Clive eventually awakens as a Dominant himself... [[YouAreWhatYouHate the Dominant of Ifrit]].
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The first-born son of Rosaria's ruling archduke who sought to prove himself as the First Shield of Rosaria. But after a tragic night that culminated in his brother Joshua’s brutal death at the hands of the Dark Eikon Ifrit, he abandons all he once knew to instead set off on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against all those responsible. Though initially unaware of it, Clive eventually awakens as a Dominant himself... [[YouAreWhatYouHate the Dominant of Ifrit]].
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Susannah Fielding, Charlotte [=McBurney=] [young] (English); Creator/MegumiHan (Japanese)
A ward of House Rosfield raised alongside Clive and Joshua, Jill was once a princess of the now fallen Northern Territories, taken from her homeland at a tender age in order to secure peace between the two warring nations. At twelve years of age, she has become a trusted confidant to Clive and Joshua. However, fate would tear the three apart after a great tragedy befell the Grand Duchy of Rosaria. Cast from one misfortune to the next, Jill would eventually awaken as the Dominant of Shiva.
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A ward of House Rosfield raised alongside Clive and Joshua, Jill was once a princess of the now fallen Northern Territories, taken from her homeland at a tender age in order to secure peace between the two warring nations. At twelve years of age, she has become a trusted confidant to Clive and Joshua. However, fate would tear the three apart after a great tragedy befell the Grand Duchy of Rosaria. Cast from one misfortune to the next, Jill would eventually awaken as the Dominant of Shiva.
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A ward of House Rosfield raised alongside Clive and Joshua, Jill was once a princess of the now fallen Northern Territories, taken from her homeland at a tender age in order to secure peace between the two warring nations. At twelve years of age, she has become a trusted confidant to Clive and Joshua. However, fate would tear the three apart after a great tragedy befell the Grand Duchy of Rosaria. Cast from one misfortune to the next, Jill would eventually awaken as the Dominant of Shiva.
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A wolf who, like Jill, hails from the fallen Northern Territories of Storm. Having been separated from his pack, Torgal was found by Elwin Rosfield during an expedition conducted by the latter. The Archduke brought the stranded pup home with him to Rosaria, and from that day forward Torgal was raised as a part of the Rosfield family. After surviving a great tragedy that occurred in his youth, Torgal would reunite with Clive years later, and would go on to serve as a faithful companion on his master's journey.
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->''"The legacy of the crystals has shaped our history for long enough."''\\\
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!Grand Duchy of Rosaria
[[folder:General Tropes]]
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->''"The Grand Duchy of Rosaria, bastion of tradition."''\\
Capital: Rosalith
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Formed from the union of a group of small independent provinces in western Valisthea, the Grand Duchy[[note]]simply "duchy/principality" [[DubNameChange in Japanese]] (公国, ''kōkoku'')[[/note]] of Rosaria, after years of relative prosperity, now finds itself in danger from the spread of the Blight. The aether utilised by the people of Rosaria is drawn from Drake's Breath, a Mothercrystal located on a volcanic island off the coast of the duchy. Rosaria is home to the Dominant of the Phoenix, the Eikon of Fire, whose hosts are trained to inherit the ducal throne when they come of age.
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* AnimalMotifs: Rosaria's emblem depicts a phoenix, symbolising the Eikon Phoenix, whose Dominant serves as the central protector and ruler of the duchy.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Red is the recurring colour of the Duchy of Rosaria: the Archduke and his son Joshua wear red garments, Clive has red highlights on his clothes, and even their soldiers wear leather chest armor with red stripes on the front.
* EveryoneHasStandards: The people of Rosaria, while still adhering to the FantasticRacism toward the Branded, treat the Branded as more of a work force than mere tools on legs. In the event a Bearer loses their master for whatever reason, they're put to work someplace else. As such, Rosalithians are utterly horrified by just how badly Sanbreque treats them, with some now realizing the full severity of just ''how'' badly Bearers are treated by the rest of the world.
* OutcastRefuge: Rosaria is the pretty much the only country in the Twins that respects any sort of human rights for Bearers. While they're still treated as tools, they are at least given a modicrum of respect as a work force. It's telling that, once Rosaria is annexed and made an imperial province by Sanbreque, even people who thought little of Bearers are utterly horrified. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Elwin had planned for the Duchy to begin reforms to make Bearers free men with all the same rights as everyone else, but died before he had the chance to put his plans to work.]]
* PowerCrystal: The people of Rosaria draw their aether from Drake's Breath, a Mothercrystal located on a volcanic island off the coast of the grand duchy that is also utilised by the people of the Iron Kingdom.
* RedIsHeroic: The realm of the Eikon of Fire is as enthusiastic about the colour red as one might expect, and they're also the nicest country on Valisthea. Even after their fall, Rosarian red is an iconic symbol of hope across the continent.
* SleevesAreForWimps: The standard Rosarian military uniform only gives their soldiers a sleeveless armoured vest on their upper bodies. It serves a practical purpose beyond simply showing off their well-trained musculature - they're the kingdom of the Eikon of Fire, and their battlefields tend to get a wee bit toasty.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: The most benevolent and egalitarian nation on Valisthea by a fairly wide margin. Naturally, they don't survive past the prologue.
* WarComesHome: After the disaster at the Phoenix Gate that leaves Elwin, Joshua, and the majority of Rosaria's army dead, the country subsequently gets raided and sacked by the Iron Kingdom before being occupied by the Empire of Sanbreque and annexed as an Imperial province.
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!!The Ducal Family
[[folder:Clive Rosfield]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ben Starr (English); Creator/YuyaUchida, Creator/YuumaUchida [young] (Japanese)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VA=]s]]Creator/JoseAngelTorres (Latin American Spanish); Vincent Fallow (German)[[/labelnote]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'll kill you... if it's the last thing I do."'']]
[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Clive at 15 years old]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ffxvi_clive_rosfield_illustration.png[softreturn]''"I was born to be your Shield."'']]
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->''"The legacy of the crystals has shaped our history for long enough."''\\\
The first-born son of Rosaria's ruling archduke who sought to prove himself as the First Shield of Rosaria. But after a tragic night that culminated in his brother Joshua’s brutal death at the hands of the Dark Eikon Ifrit, he abandons all he once knew to instead set off on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against all those responsible. Though initially unaware of it, Clive eventually awakens as a Dominant himself... [[YouAreWhatYouHate the Dominant of Ifrit]].
Tropes for Clive Rosfield can be found at the [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHideaway Hideaway]] page.
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[[folder:Joshua Rosfield]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Logan Hannan (English), Creator/NatsumiFujiwara (Japanese)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VA=]s]]Angelica Villa (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ffxvi_joshua_rosfield_illustration.png]]
Dominant of Phoenix and hereditary prince of Rosaria, and Clive's younger brother. He is a frail and bookish boy who treats all of his subjects with kindness and warmth.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: During the attack on Phoenix Gate in the prologue, Joshua becomes temporarily playable with only a Phoenix Blade skill and the Curaga spell. He gets tired out easily, though, and he is accompanied by Sir Wade who does much of the fighting. He is also playable during the first Eikon vs Eikon battle in the game, between Phoenix and the second Eikon of fire.
%%* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:As Margrace via Phoenix's powers, though the resurrection was not without it's problems.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As kind-hearted as they come, but as the Phoenix Dominant, he's capable of fire magic that ''will'' burn your ass to a crisp if you attack his family and retainers. Upon transforming fully into the Phoenix, he is both a figurative ''and'' literal ''beast'' and nigh unstoppable. Keyword: Nigh. He puts up one hell of a fight against the vicious Ifrit, but is ultimately beaten. [[spoiler:After his revival as Margrace, he shows [[TheChessmaster he's an adept political operator as well]], not to mention quite the fire mage.]]
* BigBrotherWorship: Towards his older brother, Clive. Joshua practically worships the ground his older brother walks upon.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: He gets sprayed with blood when first his Chocobo and then his ''father'' are slain right in front of him.
* BreakTheCutie: Witnessing his father get beheaded by a traitorous Rosarian soldier quickly breaks his composure at the ambush at Phoenix Gate. [[BloodSplatteredInnocents Getting splattered with his father's blood didn't help either.]]
* DeathOfAChild: At the end of the prologue, his Eikon form is ''stabbed in the chest and blown up'' by Ifrit. He was ''ten''. [[spoiler:He doesn't actually die; he was found and nursed back to health by the secretive Undying faction.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: Even when being torn apart by the rampaging Ifrit, the brutalized Phoenix spits in his attacker's face -- which in this case is a gout of flames.
* DelicateAndSickly: Has great magical powers, but poor physical health.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: His official bio notes that he "quails at the sight of carrots." This can be seen during the feast at Phoenix Gate, as he surgically parts the carrots on his plate.
* GlassCannon: During his brief playable segment in the prologue, he can hit rather hard with his magic, taking most enemies out in only two or three fireballs, but he has no stamina and needs to take a breather after each cast.
* HealingHands: In addition to healing with Phoenix's flames, Joshua is capable of using the Curaga spell, but it tires him out.
* HealItWithFire: With the power of the Phoenix's rejuvenating flames, he can heal wounds.
* HeroicSecondWind: As Phoenix, he can use "Flames of Rebirth" to recover after his HP is depleted. He uses this to survive Ifrit's Hellfire attack, which otherwise would be a OneHitKill.
* InadequateInheritor: Views himself as this, believing that his cooler, stronger, and braver big brother Clive would have been a much better candidate to inherit the powers of the Phoenix. [[spoiler:It becomes quite ironic when, after his "resurrection," he's turned into a politically-savvy and tactical version of his older brother.]]
* KidsHateVegetables: He does not like carrots.
* LetsGetDangerous: Despite being described as "frail and bookish", Joshua upon realizing the Phoenix Gate is under attack, goes to do what he can, even arming himself with a sword.
* NiceGuy: Incredibly sweet and friendly to just about everyone, on account of his young age.
* PlayingWithFire: Part and parcel with being Phoenix's Dominant. He's briefly playable in the Phoenix Gate prologue, able to lob fireballs, conjure small explosions or slash with a whip of flames to strike nearby enemies. He also immolates every nearby soldier when he turns into Phoenix.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: It is his untimely demise that serves as Clive's CynicismCatalyst and sparks his declaration of vengeance against Ifrit.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: He's the Phoenix and, as a result, is the most powerful member of Rosaria's forces.
* RedIsHeroic: Wears a red outfit and is one of the good guys.
* SacrificialLamb: Meets a bloody and violent end as Phoenix by the hands of Ifrit, witnessed only by a powerless Clive screaming in horror and anguish. [[spoiler:Subverted, however, in that he survives.]]
* SiblingYinYang: The official website describes Joshua as frail and bookish while his older brother Clive is a brave man who gladly throws himself into danger.
* SkywardScream: After witnessing his father's murder and slowly being surrounding by his killers, his composure is shattered and Phoenix manifests after he screams into the sky.
* SquishyWizard: When he is playable in the Phoenix Gate portion of the game, he is shown easily tiring himself out after attacks due to only having a child's stamina and his poor physical health.
* TragicHero: His destiny as the Phoenix leads to his downfall.
* UncertainDoom: Despite being mauled to death by Ifrit, there are no remains of Joshua found after the event, which coupled with Phoenix's resurrective capabilities leaves his ultimate fate vague. [[spoiler:He turns out to have been revived by Phoenix - for his adult identity, see Margrace's folder.]]
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[[folder:Elwin Rosfield]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' John Hopkins (English), Hiroyuki Kinoshita (Japanese)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VA=]s]]Creator/OctavioRojas (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
->''"Every day we delay brings us closer to disaster. We must move now."''\\\
The archduke of the Grand Duchy of Rosaria, and Clive and Joshua's father. A respected ruler excelling in both literary and military arts, who is said to have made great achievements in pacifying the Northern Territories.
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* ArrangedMarriage: With Anabella, who comes from a prominent Rosarian family known for a bloodline of birthing Dominants. Her bio mentions their families have [[RoyalInbreeding intermarried quite often]], [[TangledFamilyTree making them relatives many times over]].
* BodyguardBetrayal: In the prologue, some of his own men sell him out while camped at Phoenix Gate, causing their garrison to be ransacked, and these traitors manage to cut off his escape and eventually kill him.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: He's a very warm-hearted and loving father, who happens to die in the prologue.
* DisappearedDad: Becomes this in the prologue, because his head gets cut off, albeit just barely off-screen.
* AFatherToHisMen: Elwin mingles with the soldiers under his rule and refers to them as his friends, even joining in the soldiers singing during the feast at the Phoenix Gate.
* TheGoodKing: It's telling that all of Rosaria bow before his presence. The subjects are happy, respect him, and he respects them back.
* GoodParents: One of the best fathers in ''Final Fantasy''. He loves his sons Joshua and Clive very much, and he would do anything to save their lives.
* HumbleHero: In contrast to his wife, who's thoroughly elitist thanks to Joshua inheriting Phoenix's power, and looks down on Clive for not inheriting that gift, Elwin genuinely loves both his children because of his humility. Part of this is because he only inherited his title thanks to his father's untimely death and not because of being a Dominant and considers Joshua to be the true "chosen" ruler. This also makes him more personable around his soldiers and even his servants. [[spoiler:This turns out to be why his wife betrayed him. She believed that his personable relationship with the common people made her look bad to the other nobility.]]
* InadequateInheritor: Views himself as this, noting that he only got the throne because his father died before his time, and that he's basically just "keeping the seat warm" until Joshua comes of age and takes his rightful place as ruler.
* KissingCousins: Elwin's wife, Anabella, is also one of his kinswomen, like real-world royalty.
* NiceGuy: One of the friendliest and most easygoing characters in the game. He truly cares about maintaining the kingdom and speaks to Clive about the important matters with a casual, but still formal, air.
* OffWithHisHead: He gets decapitated by a treacherous underling right in front of Joshua.
* ShutUpHannibal: Fed up with hearing Anabella badmouthing Clive, Elwin [[NotDistractedByTheSexy pushes her off of him]] while she tries to reiterate the importance of their noble blood.
-->'''Elwin:''' If not for men like Clive, your precious noble blood would have long since graced the gutter.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Everything shown about him makes him look like the ideal ruler and a kind father to boot. It shouldn't be surprising that he's the first on-screen ruler to bite it.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He doesn't make it out of the prologue alive. He gets decapitated during the battle at the Phoenix Gate, and [[BloodSplatteredInnocents with his blood covering Joshua, at that]].
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[[folder:Anabella Rosfield]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Christina Cole (English), Yurika Hino (Japanese)
->''"Our household has no place for such a failure. [Clive] is worthless. A man like any other."''\\\
The duchess of Rosaria, Elwin's wife, and the mother of both Clive and Joshua. Born into a noble family responsible for producing a number of offspring that inherited the power of the Phoenix, Anabella was taught from a young age that her purpose in life was to preserve the bloodline of the Phoenix. While she heavily dotes on her youngest son, Joshua, she shows little in the way of affection for her eldest son, Clive, or her and her’s husband’s ward, Jill.
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* AbusiveParents: Of the emotional variety. She is very mean and strict about Joshua's well-being, and Clive gets nothing more than a DeathGlare. Anabella later says to Elwin that she wants Joshua to be safe (albeit more as a bargaining chip than anything else), and calls Clive "worthless" because he was rejected by Phoenix as the Dominant.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Her plan to gain the highest position possible and install her child as the Emperor of Sanbreque falls apart when it's revealed Olivier has been serving as Ultima's disposable vessel which they discarded while both her sons with Elwin turned out to be Dominants, sending her into a spiral of madness and denial.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:While never truly showing regret or remorse over betraying Rosaria, by the end of her life, she ultimately exposes who she truly is: A pathetic woman who sold out her own country, partially out of disdain over being slandered for the difference in her children's abilities and growth, only to end up being manipulated and used as truly just a mere pawn in Ultima's plans until she lost everything she betrayed Rosaria for. She even dies a pitiful death by killing herself as she could no longer cope with the reality that everything that befell her was caused by her pettiness and misguided beliefs. It's pretty telling that Joshua wants to ''save her'', and Clive and Jill does not even protest in the slightest. While Joshua being pretty despondent when she refuses him and kills herself can be attributed to him still remembering that his mother did raise him with some genuine love and affection, even ''Clive'' closes his eyes in sadness and lament despite all that his mother put him through, while both Jill or Torgal are left shaking his head and staring at Anabella's corpse melancholically]].
* BigBadWannabe: She'd have a genuine shot at being the BigBad if the game really was the medieval fantasy political story it appears to be on the surface, as both her actions and character are set up to be perfect for the role. [[spoiler:Ultima taking Olivier as a puppet is all it takes to ruin her, and she spirals into suicidal insanity when her plans come crashing down as a result.]]
* ClassicVillain: Pride and Greed, with a dash of Wrath, seeing as she essentially forces her eldest son into the army.
* TheCorruptor: [[spoiler:To the Emperor of Sanbreque. While Sylvestre is a genuinely good king beloved by his people, he still went ahead with the plan to launch a coup against Rosaria with Annabella's assistance. Their marriage ruins his good qualities as Annabella's elitist views wind up poisoning him to the point he wants to take over the entirety of Valisthea, no matter how big a mountain of corpses he has to make to succeed.]]
* TheCoup: Assists the imperial soldiers of the Empire of Sanbreque in a coup against her own husband in order to boost her status in the world the Emperor of Sanbreque desires to create.
* CruelMercy: When some Sanbreque soldiers apprehend Clive in the aftermath of the sacking of Phoenix Gate, they leave his fate up to her. Anabella demonstrates her utter contempt for Clive by ordering his death, but relents... so that she can spite her late husband one last time by conscripting Clive as a SlaveMook, as he always ''had'' praised Clive as an admirable soldier. [[spoiler:Ironically, this act of "kindness" is one of the many reasons why her plans come back to bite her in the ass.]]
* DamnedByFaintPraise: [[spoiler:When she sees Clive again as a grown man in his thirties, she remains the same old terrible mother who absolutely despises him but by then she reluctantly sees an accomplished man whom she begrudgingly wished was the one who was blessed by The Phoenix after all, but of course only for her life to be rid of all the shame she went through after Clive wasn’t the chosen one she wanted]].
* DeathGlare: Her signature expression towards Clive, demonstrating how he's TheUnfavorite to her.
* DidntSeeThatComing: She treats Clive as TheUnfavorite because he didn't inherit the Phoenix where Joshua did, and [[MadeASlave gives him off to Sanbreque]] as a CruelMercy thinking he'll be a disposable pawn. No one, much less even Clive himself, could've foreseen that he'd somehow become the Dominant for ''Ifrit'' in an unheard-of circumstance, [[spoiler:which means sparing Clive helped set off [[CreateYourOwnHero a long-term series of vengeful consequences he had now the power to enact.]]]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: When your oldest son is not given any Phoenix powers and your youngest is ill and frail, you know very well that that shit does NOT fly for the Duchy of Rosaria.
* DramaticIrony: She attempted to pawn off Joshua as the Dominant of Phoenix to Sanbreque for a bargaining chip, only for Clive as the unexpectedly-awakened Dominant of Ifrit to kill him. Neither Anabella nor Clive have any idea about the latter, and she pawns him off as a mere disposable slave; only the audience at this point realizes she just made a SpannerInTheWorks ''and'' lost a valuable individual she grossly undervalued.
** [[spoiler:She ignored Clive all of his life because of his lack of Eikon power, in this case the Phoenix. By the time they meet again, Clive commands Ifrit and 4 elements, whereas other Dominants only command one.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: By the end, [[spoiler:after losing Olivier and freaking out at seeing Joshua alive, she deludes herself into thinking she's seeing a ghost (attacking him), then slits her throat to make it stop.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She's openly contemptuous of Clive from the get-go. But she is at least upset that Joshua was killed during the sacking of Phoenix Gate. Granted, it's possible that she's more upset over the loss of the Dominant of Phoenix than the loss of her youngest son, seeing as how Anabella also had no qualms about throwing her husband to the wolves to advance her own standing with the Emperor of Sanbreque.
** Played far more straight with her ''newest'' son, [[spoiler:as she genuinely freaks out when he's killed. Or rather, when the undead thing that used to be her son is killed.]]
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Downplayed, but despite all that she's done, [[spoiler:Joshua at the very least seems to still care for her just enough that he is willing to take her to safety and is saddened when she commits suicide. Even Clive closes his eyes at the sight, although whether it's out of residual familial affection or some sympathy at seeing the utterly miserable and pitiful way with which she died is unclear.]]
* EvilIsPetty: The only reason she spares Clive is to deliver one last insult to her late husband, as he had always pushed back against her contempt for Clive by insisting that he was a great soldier. Therefore, Clive can be a great soldier once more, by being enslaved to the very Empire that destroyed everything he loved.
* EvilMatriarch: A cruel, ruthless noblewoman whose high blood serves the plot-central purpose of spawning Dominants. Her eldest's failure to inherit the proper power makes him the target of her ire, and Anabella's dark designs go far beyond the scope of parental abuse.
* ExactWords: She says early on to her handmaidens that if anything were to ever happen to Joshua, she'd have their heads for it. After her betrayal and Joshua's unintended demise in the aftermath, her handmaidens continue working with her as if expecting to survive -- only for two Sanbreque knights to rush up and dig their blades into the women's necks for messy and immediate deaths the moment they turn their backs, [[YouHaveFailedMe as Anabella walks off without a care.]]
* FantasyForbiddingMother: Implied to be the "no fun allowed" type, depending on how much she tries to keep Joshua indoors at all times. Granted, Joshua was ill at the time the prologue starts, but her attitude towards everyone else implies such behavior isn't out of the ordinary for her.
* GlorySeeker: She really wants a higher place in life with the Emperor of Sanbreque due to the frustrations in her life that she has no control over.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Without a doubt, Anabella is not in the running for Mother of the Year. Not only does she treat Clive like an afterthought, but it's because of her that he's MadeASlave after the prologue. And her betrayal to the Empire of Sanbreque seems to be because she wants a higher position in life, even willing to sell out her family and her kingdom to get it. It doesn't get any better [[spoiler:when she marries Sylvestre]]; in fact, she gets ''worse'' and orchestrates purges across imperial lands against villages who harbor "free Branded", [[spoiler:like Eastpool]]. Clive is ''outraged'' when he sees this. [[spoiler:The purges only grow worse during his time as "Cid".]]
* HatedByAll: Downplayed. Though her handmaidens seem fairly loyal, even the common citizens have no issue criticising Anabella's treatment of her eldest son behind her back.
* HateSink: Anabella provides a primary target for the audience's scorn, entirely on purpose. Anabella is thoroughly contemptuous towards Clive, even calling him "worthless" and "a man like any other" to Elwin because Clive was rejected as Phoenix's Dominant. She's extremely strict on Joshua's well-being, and continues to go on elitist ramblings even when talking to her husband, even though Elwin clearly does not agree with them. To make matters worse, [she betrays her own family to Sanbreque, orders Clive to be enslaved, sheds no tears for her dead husband, and has the knights kill her handmaidens for no readily apparent reason. The only thing Anabella appears genuinely upset about is Joshua's death, and even that's ambiguous as to whether she was upset that her favorite son died or she lost a bargaining chip. While Elwin rejected her elitist philosophy, [[spoiler:her second husband was poisoned by it, causing his WeHaveReserves mentality and allowing her to install her new son to the throne. And the reason Anabella has for all of this is because [[SocialClimber she felt she was owed a better position]], despite being the duchess of Rosaria.]]
* HeyYou: To drive the point home of how much she sees [[spoiler:Clive, her firstborn, as a complete nuisance Anabella never addresses him as her son in any shape or form, she consistently addresses him as “you” and other completely unpersonal pronouns]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Refers to Clive as a "failure" and "just another man" because he didn't become Phoenix's Dominant. Her husband notes that those exact same descriptors could apply to him as a member of the Ducal Family who also failed to become Phoenix's Dominant, and only became Archduke because his father died early. She disagrees with him, saying that he's in his "rightful place".
* IHaveNoSon: She despises Clive with a burning passion in two fronts: 1) For not being by blessed by The Phoenix which in turn sparked rumors about Elwin actually having Clive with some concubine other than his rightful wife, thus tarnishing Anabella with gossip from people she consider as inferiors; 2) For Clive actually being a successful warrior in his own right despite not being Phoenix’s Dominant, which inadvertently made him look more promising than Joshua, the one who Phoenix had chosen. Anabella hates the fact her unwanted child can look better than her precious second one in any way.
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Taking SocialClimber to phenominal extremes, her ultimate goal is to be mother of a powerful king -- not for any specific son's sake, but because it's the highest possible position for a woman in Valisthea. To this end she sold out Rosaria to the Holy Empire, getting enough into the Emperor's graces to marry him and produce an heir to both kingdoms who could eventually rule everything. During her MotiveRant she admits she hated that Clive failed to awaken as the Phoenix and that Joshua was sickly because it reflected on ''her'' social standing, that she felt she had "nothing" in Rosaria because both of her sons disappointed her and the nobles mocked her, and that she sold out Elwin because she believed it was his duty to protect his ''sovereignty'' (and in turn, their position of power) rather than his ''people''; in her view, having "sovereign blood" meant the people and kingdom were entirely disposable so they could have just started a new kingdom elsewhere. The Empire gave her an opportunity to start over with a new son who could inherit far more than a duchy, at which point she becomes a WarHawk in an attempt to make her new son an emperor over ''all'' known lands.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Her interactions throughout the prologue very quickly establish her as a cruel, power-hungry, selfish, vindictive, petty and just plain unpleasant human being. This only escalates to new heights through the game.
* KickTheDog: One of her nastiest moments is the ''murder of her handmaidens'', who were still loyal to her even after her betrayal, because she promised to kill them if something bad happened to Joshua, which ''they'' had no control over.
* LadyMacbeth: [[spoiler:Played this role to her second husband, Sylvestre Lesage, pushing him towards conquest all so that Olivier would have an all-encompassing empire to rule over.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Literally everything that leads to her downfall was all her own doing, and boy, does she deserve every bit of the irony that befalls her and completely spits on her beliefs:
** [[spoiler: Her betrayal of Rosaria for a higher station as empress, and attempt to do the same to Sanbreque to secure her "Sovereign blood's" rule over all the lands under one empire blows up in her face completely. Her lack of care for her people consistantly sabotages the stability of vital human resources, be they "citizens" or the branded slaves. Her ordering imperial soldiers to massacre entire villages who harbor "free branded" and then creating an entire order of knights to purge ALL branded pushes this instability further as they are still a vital resource that all kingdoms (cruelly) lean on as the foundation of every facet of their society. Additionally these acts only drive Clive further at every point of his heroic career at. Even her plans against Dion and her attempted coup destablize the capital at a key point which allows Clive and Joshua to step and intefere, not to mention her plans enable Ultima's machinations without her knowledge.]]
** [[spoiler: Sparing Clive and forcing him to be a SlaveMook to Sanbreque proves disasterous as he is not only the ''Dominant of Ifrit'', but also happens to have the potential to become the most powerful being in the world. As a result, she ends up setting the son she utterly despised on the road that would turn him into the hero that would save the world, and that path also includes destroying the better life she tried to built up. Although Clive doesn't actually get the chance to truly exact any kind of personal vengeance on his mother, Anabella's several act of cruelty on the people and branded including creating a currupt knighthood using a twist version of his beloved Rosarian Shield's values and oaths, all end up driving her son to truly wish for her to be stopped and he does play a huge role in everything crumbling down around her, taking down the forces she built up and ultimately leaving her with no one else that would defend her. Even early on, her ordering imperial knights to cull any villages and towns which harbor free branded ends up massacring a town containing branded previously employed by Clive's father and Lady Hanner, the wife of his late mentor which ends up driving Clive to resolutely join Cid when he was about to leave with Jill to lead their own lives alone. One can even argue that if only she had realized that Clive simply has grown too powerful to be contained and pragmatically decide to screw trying to piss him off any further, she may have had a better chance of surviving]].
** [[spoiler: Believing that Joshua is dead and trying to move on by having Olivier without bothering to try and find if her second son truly is dead allows Joshua to preserve Rosaria in secret, slowly but surely reorganizing it's forces and eventually regaining enough influence to not only oppose her attempts to have the whole world in her grasp, but also successfully get through Dion. In the most ironic and carthatically satisfying sense, the one son she actually does love and favor from Elwin ends up being the orchestrator of the ruin of everything she had accomplished in her new life, all while he doesn't even have to directly oppose her]].
** [[spoiler: Although not as pronounced as her treatment of her sons leading to her downfall, her callous and condescending treatment towards Dion and even straight-up gloating about her success in making Olivier the heir of the throne ends up being the last straw for Dion. The man who she mocked as the "son of a whore" proves to be a much more well-liked leader than she and her new husband is and easily turns more than enough of Sanbreque against her, which eventually culminates in Dion being the one who delivers the finishing blow that crushes any and all of her hopes and dreams, first (albeit accidentally) killing the Emperor, which would have already deprived her of most of the support she had on the Imperial Court (though she was planning to dispose of him eventually), before he then kills Olivier straight in front of her (who was a shell of Ultima, discarded once it had fulfilled its goals), having the last laugh while all she could do is scream and sob in despair, utterly defeated by someone she never saw truly as a threat]].
* MyBelovedSmother: The strict and controlling type towards Joshua. Anabella wants to keep Joshua safe at all costs, even making sure that he can't do anything without her approval. Clive, on the other hand, she couldn't give two shits about. Years later, [[spoiler:she is even more smothering to her third son, Olivier, who spends most of his screentime draped across her lap while she strokes his hair]].
* {{Narcissist}}: Her affections are conditional on how well someone boosts her social standing and how perfectly they suit what she wants in regards to this: she despises Clive for being "a man like any other", completely ignores her husband's ward, tries to flatter Elwin (a Grand Duke) [[spoiler:until she decides she can [[SocialClimber do better by marrying the Emperor]]]], and dotes on Joshua (the Phoenix Dominant and heir to the Duchy) as her "true" son -- the latter of which is ambiguous in its authenticity, as she is crushingly over-controlling with him and [[spoiler:treats the report of his death as a disappointment over anything else. After the time skip, she completely dismisses her stepson Dion just like she did Clive (despite him being LovedByAll before she came into the picture and literally having songs praising him around Valisthea, Dion didn't come from ''her'' so he doesn't boost her standing), and is just as doting on her third son as she was to Joshua, completely ignoring his TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior since she installed him as heir to the Holy Empire over his far more beloved and powerful half-brother.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: She decides to have Clive spared and MadeASlave to fight for the Empire instead of killing him, ensuring that there's a loose end out there. [[spoiler:This ends up leading to the defeat of Sanbreque, the fall of each and every Mothercrystal in the world, and her own VillainousBreakdown.]]
* NotWorthKilling: [[spoiler:Despite everything she's done that leads to Rosaria becoming as messed up as it is, Clive forced to serve Sanbreque, and Joshua being separated from Clive for years, by the time Clive and Joshua catch up to Anabella, she's pretty much already got all the misery she forced on them paid back twice-fold: The social and political power she pettily threw Rosaria away for are now lost as Sanbreque is now in ruins, and she has zero hope of recovering it with the Emperor who supports her ideals dead due to her own machinations and her only other claim and hold on the throne of Sanbreque disapeared into vapor. As such, Clive shows no inclinations to personally get revenge on his mother, and Joshua even tries to ''save her'' without Clive doing anything to stop him, with the indication that it's less about the two of them still having sentiment for her and more that they just pity her enough that they don't see any point in killing her.]]
* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Being a matriarch who is disappointed with both of her sons' flaws and who makes no attempt to disguise her elitist attitudes makes her one by default. Thankfully, Elwin calls her out on this and puts little stock in her opinions. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the Emperor comes to agree with her.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: At the very beginning of the game, she straight up tells Elwin to his face that Clive is a failure, that Joshua should be an indoor boy and is bitter towards Clive. And then there's Anabella's relationship with Elwin itself, where it's fairly obvious that the marriage wasn't a love match.
* OlderThanSheLooks: When [[spoiler:Clive meets her again for the last time after so many years, Anabella still looks exactly as she did eighteen years before, and not for any supernatural reasons]].
* ParentalBetrayal: [[spoiler:She sells out Rosaria to Sanbreque, getting Joshua killed and resulting in Clive losing absolutely everything after he's MadeASlave.]]
* ParentalFavoritism: She dotes on Joshua while being nakedly emotionally abusive towards Clive, calling him a failure to her husband's face. After her betrayal, she comes this close to ordering him executed before deciding to have him enslaved instead, with nary a hint of remorse.
* {{Pride}}: Her pridefulness prevents her from acknowledging that she's ill-suited to rule a kingdom or accepting responsibility. Even worse, she believes she deserves a higher position in life, which she gets after betraying her duchy and [[spoiler:marrying the Emperor of Sanbreque]].
* TheResenter: Anabella hates her family for varying reasons; she despises her husband for his "weakness" towards the commonfolk since it reflects badly for her social standing, she despises Clive because he wasn't Phoenix's Dominant but proved an excellent warrior in comparison to Joshua, who she also hated to a lesser degreee because while he became Phoenix's Dominant, Joshua was frail and sickly.
* RichBitch: Has a rude and snobby attitude towards everyone. It seems to come from [[SocialClimber wanting a better social position]], even though she's already the Duchess of one of the world's biggest superpowers.
* SatanicArchetype: She turns Valisthea into Hell after killing her husband, gorges herself at the expense of others, and her personality embodies most of the SevenDeadlySins.
* SocialClimber: Her main goal is to be granted [[spoiler:a higher position in the emperor's good graces. She's even willing to sell out all of Rosaria to do that]].
* TheSociopath: She cares more about social standing than the lives of her own family, to the point that she throws in her lot with Sanbreque and doesn't have the slightest bit of compassion for Clive when he's apprehended by Sanbreque soldiers. Even her more doting treatment of Joshua is implied to be linked to his status as the Dominant of Phoenix, rather than any genuine maternal affections.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: A closer look at her face shows where an adolescent Clive gets his looks from.
* TilMurderDoUsPart: She betrays Rosaria and causes the sacking that gets her husband beheaded.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler:Once she ultimately marries Sylvestre and takes over Valisthea. Her reign proved to be disastrous due to [[WhileRomeBurns her apathy]], and [[ItsAllAboutMe she's too proud to acknowledge]] that she isn't "ten times the ruler" Elwin ever was. Even the citizens grumble about her under their breath.]]
* UngratefulBitch: Shows nothing but utter contempt for Clive, despite his attempts to prove himself and serve Rosaria to the best of his abilities, just because he was not given any Phoenix powers. Also doubles as DisproportionateRetribution.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After losing Olivier and freaking out at seeing Joshua alive, Anabella deludes herself into thinking she's seeing a ghost. She pulls out a dagger and flails wildly at Joshua in a panic, not even coming close to hitting him. She then screams "You will not take me, shadow! You will not take me!" and [[DrivenToSuicide slits her own throat]]. It's also presented as Anabella undergoing SanitySlippage, since she not only lost Olivier with the reveal that he was never anything but an undead puppet of Ultima, but her betrayal of Rosaria and belief that Joshua was dead had [[AllForNothing all been rendered worthless]].]]
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Anabella would rather see her sons being perfect (Clive with Phoenix powers and Joshua not being frail and sickly).
* WickedStepmother: Has all the trappings of one -- her cruel and haughty manner, scheming and treacherous nature, blatant ParentalFavouritism, and cold contempt for the unfavourite child -- but in an interesting aversion, the firstborn she tyrannises is ''her own'' issue. [[spoiler:She later becomes this to her actual stepson, Dion, whom she calls a "mongrel" and tries to install her son with the Emperor as the heir to the throne.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: She's utterly blind to the story being anything more than medieval politics. [[spoiler:All her planning is destroyed as mere collateral damage by Ultima, and it mentally breaks her as a result.]]
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: [[spoiler:When she's reunited with Clive, she laments that Joshua isn't standing in his place. He asks if she's [[HighAltitudeBattle looked out the window]] lately.]]
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[[folder:Byron Rosfield]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ewan Bailey (English), Mitsutaka Tachikawa (Japanese)
Clive and Joshua's uncle, Elwin’s younger brother, and warden of Port Isolde following Rosaria’s annexation by the Empire of Sanbreque. Though he now lives as a recluse inside his manor, and appears to be content with appeasing the duchy’s imperial overlords, the flames of his loyalty to the Grand Duchy of Rosaria may not have truly burned out.
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* BadassNormal: While a lot of his allies are Bearers and Dominants, he doesn't hide behind their back and engages in action himself, even becoming a NPC party member during the journey into Dhalmekia (where he proves himself to be entirely up to the challenge), and he even holds his own against [[spoiler:the Sleipnir clones and hordes of Akashic]].
* BigFun: Has a bit of a gut, and is nothing but a delightful man and dutiful uncle.
* BoisterousBruiser: He's not afraid to get into the thick of it when the chips are down, and shouts challenges to his enemies while bragging about his own abilities.
* CoolUncle: Clive has nothing but good words about him, clearly indicating that Byron is beloved by his brother's children.
* FakeDefector: He pretends to be TheQuisling for Annabella's atrocities, but it's all a front to keep the people of Port Isolde safe.
* GoodParents: He loves Clive, Jill, and Joshua, and is the closest thing to a decent parental figure they have as of the current day.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: In a more medieval sense - he's got more money than he knows what to do with but he's a good man who wants to do right.
* ICallItVera: Played for laughs. He claims in a BadassBoast that his axe is named Earthshaker, and then later calls it Ogrekiller, and finally calls it Executioner.
-->'''Gav:''' ...didn't you call it Ogrekiller just a minute ago?!
* IntrepidMerchant: Famous for carrying over his family's warrior spirit into the field of commerce. He's got a long history of adventure and derring-do across Valisthea, and is still a good enough fighter to pull his weight as an ARPG party companion.
* LargeHam: Byron is loud and boisterous, and always has loud and joyful exclamations.
* NamedWeapons: He boastfully refers to his axe as Earthshaker, but not even minutes later he calls it Ogre Killer.
* SoProudOfYou: He thinks that Clive being the one and only Outlaw Cid as nothing but a badge of honour.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: He comes in guns (well, axe) blazing when he thinks that Clive and Jill are thieves. Clive quotes a drama that the two used to portray in happier times, which moves Byron to tears out of happiness that this is proof that his beloved nephew is alive and in front of him.
* TheSoCalledCoward: He calls himself cowardly more than once, but he is the only one who believes it. He is actually a very brave man and only plays the coward role when he has no other choice.
* StillGotIt: He proclaims that despite getting on in years he can still hold his own in a fight.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Mid is particularly informal with him, prompting him to retort that he's ''Lord'' Byron.
* UnclePennybags: Literally - he's a keen businessman and he helps fund Clive and Jill's journey, and has been supporting the Guardians of the Flame for years before that.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Eugen Havel, former chief strategist of the Republic. They'll deny being friends and bicker whenever they share a scene together, but they have a relationship like old war buddies, and come to the support of each other without hesitation. Along with Quinten, they even [[spoiler:forge a "Triunity" in the hopes of bringing peace to the realm between their three countries]].
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!!Others
[[folder:Jill Warrick]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Susannah Fielding, Charlotte [=McBurney=] [young] (English); Creator/MegumiHan (Japanese)
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[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Jill at 12 years old]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ffxvi_jill_warrick_illustration.png]][[/labelnote]]
->''"What makes them think they have the right to use us? To leave us to die when our bodies are spent."''\\\
A ward of House Rosfield raised alongside Clive and Joshua, Jill was once a princess of the now fallen Northern Territories, taken from her homeland at a tender age in order to secure peace between the two warring nations. At twelve years of age, she has become a trusted confidant to Clive and Joshua. However, fate would tear the three apart after a great tragedy befell the Grand Duchy of Rosaria. Cast from one misfortune to the next, Jill would eventually awaken as the Dominant of Shiva.
Tropes for Jill Warrick can be found at the [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHideaway Hideaway]] page.
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[[folder:Torgal]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ffxvi_older_torgal.png]]
[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:As a puppy]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_torgal_2.png]]
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A wolf who, like Jill, hails from the fallen Northern Territories of Storm. Having been separated from his pack, Torgal was found by Elwin Rosfield during an expedition conducted by the latter. The Archduke brought the stranded pup home with him to Rosaria, and from that day forward Torgal was raised as a part of the Rosfield family. After surviving a great tragedy that occurred in his youth, Torgal would reunite with Clive years later, and would go on to serve as a faithful companion on his master's journey.
Tropes for Clive Rosfield can be found at the [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHideaway Hideaway]] page.
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[[folder:Rodney Murdoch]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Keir Charles (English), Creator/YojiUeda (Japanese)
Lord Commander of Rosaria's military and right-hand man to Archduke Elwin. A calm and enthusiastic man relatively well-liked by his troops, he is also responsible for training Clive in the art of swordsmanship.
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* GuestStarPartyMember: He accompanies Clive during the attack on Phoenix Gate, [[spoiler:and is killed off at the end of the segment]].
* NotEnoughToBury: [[spoiler:When Ifrit manifests at the Phoenix Gate, he's close enough to it to get completely incinerated, with his last words expressing disbelief at the presence of a second Eikon of fire]].
* NumberTwo: As Lord Commander of Rosaria's armies, he's also Archduke Elwin's right hand man and trusted confidant.
* SternTeacher: Murdoch doesn't hold back on the young Clive. The flashback prologue opens with Clive regaining consciousness from being ''knocked out'' by Murdoch during a sparring session.
* ThisCannotBe: His reaction to the appearance of a second Eikon of Fire. [[spoiler: Said Eikon's power obliterates him not three seconds later.]]
* WarmUpBoss: He's the opponent of the combat tutorial.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Is first introduced in the prologue's flashback and dies at the end from [[KillItWithFire being burned]] when Ifrit appears at Phoenix Gate.]]
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[[folder:Sir Tyler and Sir Wade]]
!!!'''Tyler voiced by:''' John Heffernan (English), Creator/TsuguoMogami (Japanese)
!!!'''Wade voiced by:''' Harry Hepple (English), Toru Sakurai (Japanese)
A pair of knights sent to accompany Clive on his way into Stillwind to deal with goblins, they later get embroiled in the conspiracy at Phoenix Gate. Tyler is an experienced soldier born into a family of knights and second-in-command to Murdoch, while Wade is a novice and a rookie who joined up after Joshua saved his life.
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* EtTuBrute: Wade doesn't take it well when [[spoiler:the Archduke's bodyguards betray them and murder Elwin]].
* GuestStarPartyMember: Both Tyler and Wade accompany Clive into Stillwind to fight goblins and the morbol. Wade later escorts Joshua to his father and brother at the Phoenix Gate when [[spoiler:it is under attack by Sanbreque]].
* LaResistance: Post-TimeSkip. [[spoiler:Wade becomes the leader of the Guardians of the Flame, comprised of Shields still loyal to Rosaria who strive to protect the duchy's remaining Bearers from the Black Shields who serve Annabella.]]
* NumberTwo: Tyler's bio describes him as the right hand to Lord Commander Murdoch.
* RedOniBlueOni: Tyler's bio describes him as a level-headed soldier who was assigned to Clive's company to balance out the more hot-headed Wade.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Tyler and Wade appear together most of the time. [[spoiler: Wade's solo appearance at the end of the prologue is a subtle but early sign that something has gone horribly wrong.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Wade, [[spoiler: when it is discovered that he has survived the fall of Phoenix Gate and leads a rebel group called the Guardians of the Flame against the vicereine Anabella's tyrannical reign over Rosaria]].
* UncertainDoom: The two of them are standing next to Joshua when he hits his RageBreakingPoint and transforms fully into Phoenix, resulting in a violent massive explosion as he morphs into the fire beast. However, they're not seen visibly burned to ashes by his fires, and it's left unclear whether they actually died until after the TimeSkip. [[spoiler:Wade survived and formed the Guardians of the Flame. Tyler, unfortunately, died at Phoenix Gate.]]
* UniformityException: Wade carries a big axe, which sets him apart from the majority of the Rosarian armies, who use swords.
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[[folder:Martha]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Heather Dutton (English), Rin Namino (Japanese)
The landlady of the Golden Stable inn and tavern at the town called Martha's Rest. A longtime ally of Cid and the hideaway, she helps keep them supplied while also spiriting away Bearers who are suffering in the last stages of their stone curse, helping them to die in peace and dignity.
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* {{Egopolis}}: Heroic example, and it's likely Martha herself didn't name the town, but Martha's Rest is the name for the town with her tavern as a centerpiece.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the midst of her RousingSpeech to Eastpool, one of the Guardians of the Flame surreptitiously hands her a frying pan, perhaps only to lend weight to her words and evoke the image of a FryingPanOfDoom.
* GoodSamaritan: She's been helping Bearers and the general downtrodden long before she met Cid. She buys those who are coming to the end of their lives, usually due to the stone curse, and spirits them away to Glaidemond Abbey to live out the rest of their days in as little pain as possible, perhaps to be shown some kind of love for the first time in their lives.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Martha has blonde hair and is one of the kindest characters in the story.
* LovedByAll: Martha is adored by just about everyone in the town for all that she has done to keep them safe. She even has the ear of the Bloodaxe Mercenaries, sellswords she hired to protect the town in place of their imperial masters. There are some whispers from those who think she loves Bearers too much, but they are by far in the minority.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Late in the game, Martha explains that her activism comes from the elderly Bearer that her household had when she was a child, who played with her and had a mutual affection with the girl. As the Bearer was dying, she told Martha how glad she was that she wasn't a Bearer - it turns out that this Bearer was her own grandmother, who was treated like a pet by her children and (unwittingly) her granddaughter. Martha vowed then and there to fight against Bearer prejudice so such a thing could never happen again.]]
* RousingSpeech: She gives one to the despondent Bearers who have been relocated to Eastpool, urging them to [[spoiler:fight and protect their new home from the raving hordes of Akashic]]. It succeeds.
* TheTeamBenefactor: She is one of the biggest donors for Cid's cause, funneling them money and victuals even when she is already doing all she can to keep the people of Martha's Rest fed.
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[[folder:Hanna Murdoch]]
!!!'''Voiced by:'''
Wife of the Lord Commander Rodney Murdoch, who lives at their manor in Eastpool.
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* BearerOfBadNews: Hanna is the one who informs Clive and Jill of [[spoiler:her husband Rodney's fate at Phoenix Gate. For the past thirteen years neither of them knew what became of him]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Hanna dies with all the rest of the villagers of Eastpool when Anabella's Black Shields fall on them for supporting Bearers]].
* TearsOfJoy: She recognizes Clive as soon as he walks into town, and is overjoyed to learn that he and Jill have survived all these long years.
* UnexpectedInheritance: Hanna gives Clive his regular outfit, which she had in her home for years as it once belonged to his father Elwin.
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[[folder:Oscar Murdoch]]
!!!'''Voiced by:'''
A young member of the Guardians of the Flame, nephew to Rodney and Hanna Murdoch. He always wished to squire to a scion of the Rosfields like his uncle before him.
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* MinorMajorCharacter: Clive got himself a squire! This should mean that Oscar will accompany him on his adventures, learn from him, and carry on his ideals. However, this happens in a sidequest so late in the story that it basically just amounts to Oscar standing guard outside Clive's personal chambers in the hideaway.
* TheSquire: [[spoiler:Wade]] requests Clive to take Oscar as his squire, so he can serve a Rosfield just as his uncle once did. Clive accepts, and Oscar moves to the hideaway.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks just like a young Rodney, which shocks Clive because he never knew Rodney and Hanna had a child. Oscar corrects him and says he is their nephew instead.
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* [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHideaway The Hideaway]]
* [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheDhalmekianRepublic The Dhalmekian Republic]]
* [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHolyEmpireOfSanbreque The Holy Empire of Sanbreque]]
* [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheKingdomOfWaloed The Kingdom of Waloed]]
* [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVIEikonsAndNotableBeings Eikons and Notable Creatures/Beings]]
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!Grand Duchy of Rosaria
[[folder:General Tropes]]
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->''"The Grand Duchy of Rosaria, bastion of tradition."''\\
Capital: Rosalith
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Formed from the union of a group of small independent provinces in western Valisthea, the Grand Duchy[[note]]simply "duchy/principality" [[DubNameChange in Japanese]] (公国, ''kōkoku'')[[/note]] of Rosaria, after years of relative prosperity, now finds itself in danger from the spread of the Blight. The aether utilised by the people of Rosaria is drawn from Drake's Breath, a Mothercrystal located on a volcanic island off the coast of the duchy. Rosaria is home to the Dominant of the Phoenix, the Eikon of Fire, whose hosts are trained to inherit the ducal throne when they come of age.
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* AnimalMotifs: Rosaria's emblem depicts a phoenix, symbolising the Eikon Phoenix, whose Dominant serves as the central protector and ruler of the duchy.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Red is the recurring colour of the Duchy of Rosaria: the Archduke and his son Joshua wear red garments, Clive has red highlights on his clothes, and even their soldiers wear leather chest armor with red stripes on the front.
* EveryoneHasStandards: The people of Rosaria, while still adhering to the FantasticRacism toward the Branded, treat the Branded as more of a work force than mere tools on legs. In the event a Bearer loses their master for whatever reason, they're put to work someplace else. As such, Rosalithians are utterly horrified by just how badly Sanbreque treats them, with some now realizing the full severity of just ''how'' badly Bearers are treated by the rest of the world.
* OutcastRefuge: Rosaria is the pretty much the only country in the Twins that respects any sort of human rights for Bearers. While they're still treated as tools, they are at least given a modicrum of respect as a work force. It's telling that, once Rosaria is annexed and made an imperial province by Sanbreque, even people who thought little of Bearers are utterly horrified. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Elwin had planned for the Duchy to begin reforms to make Bearers free men with all the same rights as everyone else, but died before he had the chance to put his plans to work.]]
* PowerCrystal: The people of Rosaria draw their aether from Drake's Breath, a Mothercrystal located on a volcanic island off the coast of the grand duchy that is also utilised by the people of the Iron Kingdom.
* RedIsHeroic: The realm of the Eikon of Fire is as enthusiastic about the colour red as one might expect, and they're also the nicest country on Valisthea. Even after their fall, Rosarian red is an iconic symbol of hope across the continent.
* SleevesAreForWimps: The standard Rosarian military uniform only gives their soldiers a sleeveless armoured vest on their upper bodies. It serves a practical purpose beyond simply showing off their well-trained musculature - they're the kingdom of the Eikon of Fire, and their battlefields tend to get a wee bit toasty.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: The most benevolent and egalitarian nation on Valisthea by a fairly wide margin. Naturally, they don't survive past the prologue.
* WarComesHome: After the disaster at the Phoenix Gate that leaves Elwin, Joshua, and the majority of Rosaria's army dead, the country subsequently gets raided and sacked by the Iron Kingdom before being occupied by the Empire of Sanbreque and annexed as an Imperial province.
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!!The Ducal Family
[[folder:Clive Rosfield]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ben Starr (English); Creator/YuyaUchida, Creator/YuumaUchida [young] (Japanese)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VA=]s]]Creator/JoseAngelTorres (Latin American Spanish); Vincent Fallow (German)[[/labelnote]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'll kill you... if it's the last thing I do."'']]
[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Clive at 15 years old]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ffxvi_clive_rosfield_illustration.png[softreturn]''"I was born to be your Shield."'']]
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->''"The legacy of the crystals has shaped our history for long enough."''\\\
The first-born son of Rosaria's ruling archduke who sought to prove himself as the First Shield of Rosaria. But after a tragic night that culminated in his brother Joshua’s brutal death at the hands of the Dark Eikon Ifrit, he abandons all he once knew to instead set off on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against all those responsible. Though initially unaware of it, Clive eventually awakens as a Dominant himself... [[YouAreWhatYouHate the Dominant of Ifrit]].
Tropes for Clive Rosfield can be found at the [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHideaway Hideaway]] page.
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[[folder:Joshua Rosfield]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Logan Hannan (English), Creator/NatsumiFujiwara (Japanese)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VA=]s]]Angelica Villa (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ffxvi_joshua_rosfield_illustration.png]]
Dominant of Phoenix and hereditary prince of Rosaria, and Clive's younger brother. He is a frail and bookish boy who treats all of his subjects with kindness and warmth.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: During the attack on Phoenix Gate in the prologue, Joshua becomes temporarily playable with only a Phoenix Blade skill and the Curaga spell. He gets tired out easily, though, and he is accompanied by Sir Wade who does much of the fighting. He is also playable during the first Eikon vs Eikon battle in the game, between Phoenix and the second Eikon of fire.
%%* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:As Margrace via Phoenix's powers, though the resurrection was not without it's problems.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As kind-hearted as they come, but as the Phoenix Dominant, he's capable of fire magic that ''will'' burn your ass to a crisp if you attack his family and retainers. Upon transforming fully into the Phoenix, he is both a figurative ''and'' literal ''beast'' and nigh unstoppable. Keyword: Nigh. He puts up one hell of a fight against the vicious Ifrit, but is ultimately beaten. [[spoiler:After his revival as Margrace, he shows [[TheChessmaster he's an adept political operator as well]], not to mention quite the fire mage.]]
* BigBrotherWorship: Towards his older brother, Clive. Joshua practically worships the ground his older brother walks upon.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: He gets sprayed with blood when first his Chocobo and then his ''father'' are slain right in front of him.
* BreakTheCutie: Witnessing his father get beheaded by a traitorous Rosarian soldier quickly breaks his composure at the ambush at Phoenix Gate. [[BloodSplatteredInnocents Getting splattered with his father's blood didn't help either.]]
* DeathOfAChild: At the end of the prologue, his Eikon form is ''stabbed in the chest and blown up'' by Ifrit. He was ''ten''. [[spoiler:He doesn't actually die; he was found and nursed back to health by the secretive Undying faction.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: Even when being torn apart by the rampaging Ifrit, the brutalized Phoenix spits in his attacker's face -- which in this case is a gout of flames.
* DelicateAndSickly: Has great magical powers, but poor physical health.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: His official bio notes that he "quails at the sight of carrots." This can be seen during the feast at Phoenix Gate, as he surgically parts the carrots on his plate.
* GlassCannon: During his brief playable segment in the prologue, he can hit rather hard with his magic, taking most enemies out in only two or three fireballs, but he has no stamina and needs to take a breather after each cast.
* HealingHands: In addition to healing with Phoenix's flames, Joshua is capable of using the Curaga spell, but it tires him out.
* HealItWithFire: With the power of the Phoenix's rejuvenating flames, he can heal wounds.
* HeroicSecondWind: As Phoenix, he can use "Flames of Rebirth" to recover after his HP is depleted. He uses this to survive Ifrit's Hellfire attack, which otherwise would be a OneHitKill.
* InadequateInheritor: Views himself as this, believing that his cooler, stronger, and braver big brother Clive would have been a much better candidate to inherit the powers of the Phoenix. [[spoiler:It becomes quite ironic when, after his "resurrection," he's turned into a politically-savvy and tactical version of his older brother.]]
* KidsHateVegetables: He does not like carrots.
* LetsGetDangerous: Despite being described as "frail and bookish", Joshua upon realizing the Phoenix Gate is under attack, goes to do what he can, even arming himself with a sword.
* NiceGuy: Incredibly sweet and friendly to just about everyone, on account of his young age.
* PlayingWithFire: Part and parcel with being Phoenix's Dominant. He's briefly playable in the Phoenix Gate prologue, able to lob fireballs, conjure small explosions or slash with a whip of flames to strike nearby enemies. He also immolates every nearby soldier when he turns into Phoenix.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: It is his untimely demise that serves as Clive's CynicismCatalyst and sparks his declaration of vengeance against Ifrit.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: He's the Phoenix and, as a result, is the most powerful member of Rosaria's forces.
* RedIsHeroic: Wears a red outfit and is one of the good guys.
* SacrificialLamb: Meets a bloody and violent end as Phoenix by the hands of Ifrit, witnessed only by a powerless Clive screaming in horror and anguish. [[spoiler:Subverted, however, in that he survives.]]
* SiblingYinYang: The official website describes Joshua as frail and bookish while his older brother Clive is a brave man who gladly throws himself into danger.
* SkywardScream: After witnessing his father's murder and slowly being surrounding by his killers, his composure is shattered and Phoenix manifests after he screams into the sky.
* SquishyWizard: When he is playable in the Phoenix Gate portion of the game, he is shown easily tiring himself out after attacks due to only having a child's stamina and his poor physical health.
* TragicHero: His destiny as the Phoenix leads to his downfall.
* UncertainDoom: Despite being mauled to death by Ifrit, there are no remains of Joshua found after the event, which coupled with Phoenix's resurrective capabilities leaves his ultimate fate vague. [[spoiler:He turns out to have been revived by Phoenix - for his adult identity, see Margrace's folder.]]
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[[folder:Elwin Rosfield]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' John Hopkins (English), Hiroyuki Kinoshita (Japanese)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VA=]s]]Creator/OctavioRojas (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]
->''"Every day we delay brings us closer to disaster. We must move now."''\\\
The archduke of the Grand Duchy of Rosaria, and Clive and Joshua's father. A respected ruler excelling in both literary and military arts, who is said to have made great achievements in pacifying the Northern Territories.
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* ArrangedMarriage: With Anabella, who comes from a prominent Rosarian family known for a bloodline of birthing Dominants. Her bio mentions their families have [[RoyalInbreeding intermarried quite often]], [[TangledFamilyTree making them relatives many times over]].
* BodyguardBetrayal: In the prologue, some of his own men sell him out while camped at Phoenix Gate, causing their garrison to be ransacked, and these traitors manage to cut off his escape and eventually kill him.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: He's a very warm-hearted and loving father, who happens to die in the prologue.
* DisappearedDad: Becomes this in the prologue, because his head gets cut off, albeit just barely off-screen.
* AFatherToHisMen: Elwin mingles with the soldiers under his rule and refers to them as his friends, even joining in the soldiers singing during the feast at the Phoenix Gate.
* TheGoodKing: It's telling that all of Rosaria bow before his presence. The subjects are happy, respect him, and he respects them back.
* GoodParents: One of the best fathers in ''Final Fantasy''. He loves his sons Joshua and Clive very much, and he would do anything to save their lives.
* HumbleHero: In contrast to his wife, who's thoroughly elitist thanks to Joshua inheriting Phoenix's power, and looks down on Clive for not inheriting that gift, Elwin genuinely loves both his children because of his humility. Part of this is because he only inherited his title thanks to his father's untimely death and not because of being a Dominant and considers Joshua to be the true "chosen" ruler. This also makes him more personable around his soldiers and even his servants. [[spoiler:This turns out to be why his wife betrayed him. She believed that his personable relationship with the common people made her look bad to the other nobility.]]
* InadequateInheritor: Views himself as this, noting that he only got the throne because his father died before his time, and that he's basically just "keeping the seat warm" until Joshua comes of age and takes his rightful place as ruler.
* KissingCousins: Elwin's wife, Anabella, is also one of his kinswomen, like real-world royalty.
* NiceGuy: One of the friendliest and most easygoing characters in the game. He truly cares about maintaining the kingdom and speaks to Clive about the important matters with a casual, but still formal, air.
* OffWithHisHead: He gets decapitated by a treacherous underling right in front of Joshua.
* ShutUpHannibal: Fed up with hearing Anabella badmouthing Clive, Elwin [[NotDistractedByTheSexy pushes her off of him]] while she tries to reiterate the importance of their noble blood.
-->'''Elwin:''' If not for men like Clive, your precious noble blood would have long since graced the gutter.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Everything shown about him makes him look like the ideal ruler and a kind father to boot. It shouldn't be surprising that he's the first on-screen ruler to bite it.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He doesn't make it out of the prologue alive. He gets decapitated during the battle at the Phoenix Gate, and [[BloodSplatteredInnocents with his blood covering Joshua, at that]].
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[[folder:Anabella Rosfield]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Christina Cole (English), Yurika Hino (Japanese)
->''"Our household has no place for such a failure. [Clive] is worthless. A man like any other."''\\\
The duchess of Rosaria, Elwin's wife, and the mother of both Clive and Joshua. Born into a noble family responsible for producing a number of offspring that inherited the power of the Phoenix, Anabella was taught from a young age that her purpose in life was to preserve the bloodline of the Phoenix. While she heavily dotes on her youngest son, Joshua, she shows little in the way of affection for her eldest son, Clive, or her and her’s husband’s ward, Jill.
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* AbusiveParents: Of the emotional variety. She is very mean and strict about Joshua's well-being, and Clive gets nothing more than a DeathGlare. Anabella later says to Elwin that she wants Joshua to be safe (albeit more as a bargaining chip than anything else), and calls Clive "worthless" because he was rejected by Phoenix as the Dominant.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Her plan to gain the highest position possible and install her child as the Emperor of Sanbreque falls apart when it's revealed Olivier has been serving as Ultima's disposable vessel which they discarded while both her sons with Elwin turned out to be Dominants, sending her into a spiral of madness and denial.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:While never truly showing regret or remorse over betraying Rosaria, by the end of her life, she ultimately exposes who she truly is: A pathetic woman who sold out her own country, partially out of disdain over being slandered for the difference in her children's abilities and growth, only to end up being manipulated and used as truly just a mere pawn in Ultima's plans until she lost everything she betrayed Rosaria for. She even dies a pitiful death by killing herself as she could no longer cope with the reality that everything that befell her was caused by her pettiness and misguided beliefs. It's pretty telling that Joshua wants to ''save her'', and Clive and Jill does not even protest in the slightest. While Joshua being pretty despondent when she refuses him and kills herself can be attributed to him still remembering that his mother did raise him with some genuine love and affection, even ''Clive'' closes his eyes in sadness and lament despite all that his mother put him through, while both Jill or Torgal are left shaking his head and staring at Anabella's corpse melancholically]].
* BigBadWannabe: She'd have a genuine shot at being the BigBad if the game really was the medieval fantasy political story it appears to be on the surface, as both her actions and character are set up to be perfect for the role. [[spoiler:Ultima taking Olivier as a puppet is all it takes to ruin her, and she spirals into suicidal insanity when her plans come crashing down as a result.]]
* ClassicVillain: Pride and Greed, with a dash of Wrath, seeing as she essentially forces her eldest son into the army.
* TheCorruptor: [[spoiler:To the Emperor of Sanbreque. While Sylvestre is a genuinely good king beloved by his people, he still went ahead with the plan to launch a coup against Rosaria with Annabella's assistance. Their marriage ruins his good qualities as Annabella's elitist views wind up poisoning him to the point he wants to take over the entirety of Valisthea, no matter how big a mountain of corpses he has to make to succeed.]]
* TheCoup: Assists the imperial soldiers of the Empire of Sanbreque in a coup against her own husband in order to boost her status in the world the Emperor of Sanbreque desires to create.
* CruelMercy: When some Sanbreque soldiers apprehend Clive in the aftermath of the sacking of Phoenix Gate, they leave his fate up to her. Anabella demonstrates her utter contempt for Clive by ordering his death, but relents... so that she can spite her late husband one last time by conscripting Clive as a SlaveMook, as he always ''had'' praised Clive as an admirable soldier. [[spoiler:Ironically, this act of "kindness" is one of the many reasons why her plans come back to bite her in the ass.]]
* DamnedByFaintPraise: [[spoiler:When she sees Clive again as a grown man in his thirties, she remains the same old terrible mother who absolutely despises him but by then she reluctantly sees an accomplished man whom she begrudgingly wished was the one who was blessed by The Phoenix after all, but of course only for her life to be rid of all the shame she went through after Clive wasn’t the chosen one she wanted]].
* DeathGlare: Her signature expression towards Clive, demonstrating how he's TheUnfavorite to her.
* DidntSeeThatComing: She treats Clive as TheUnfavorite because he didn't inherit the Phoenix where Joshua did, and [[MadeASlave gives him off to Sanbreque]] as a CruelMercy thinking he'll be a disposable pawn. No one, much less even Clive himself, could've foreseen that he'd somehow become the Dominant for ''Ifrit'' in an unheard-of circumstance, [[spoiler:which means sparing Clive helped set off [[CreateYourOwnHero a long-term series of vengeful consequences he had now the power to enact.]]]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: When your oldest son is not given any Phoenix powers and your youngest is ill and frail, you know very well that that shit does NOT fly for the Duchy of Rosaria.
* DramaticIrony: She attempted to pawn off Joshua as the Dominant of Phoenix to Sanbreque for a bargaining chip, only for Clive as the unexpectedly-awakened Dominant of Ifrit to kill him. Neither Anabella nor Clive have any idea about the latter, and she pawns him off as a mere disposable slave; only the audience at this point realizes she just made a SpannerInTheWorks ''and'' lost a valuable individual she grossly undervalued.
** [[spoiler:She ignored Clive all of his life because of his lack of Eikon power, in this case the Phoenix. By the time they meet again, Clive commands Ifrit and 4 elements, whereas other Dominants only command one.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: By the end, [[spoiler:after losing Olivier and freaking out at seeing Joshua alive, she deludes herself into thinking she's seeing a ghost (attacking him), then slits her throat to make it stop.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She's openly contemptuous of Clive from the get-go. But she is at least upset that Joshua was killed during the sacking of Phoenix Gate. Granted, it's possible that she's more upset over the loss of the Dominant of Phoenix than the loss of her youngest son, seeing as how Anabella also had no qualms about throwing her husband to the wolves to advance her own standing with the Emperor of Sanbreque.
** Played far more straight with her ''newest'' son, [[spoiler:as she genuinely freaks out when he's killed. Or rather, when the undead thing that used to be her son is killed.]]
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Downplayed, but despite all that she's done, [[spoiler:Joshua at the very least seems to still care for her just enough that he is willing to take her to safety and is saddened when she commits suicide. Even Clive closes his eyes at the sight, although whether it's out of residual familial affection or some sympathy at seeing the utterly miserable and pitiful way with which she died is unclear.]]
* EvilIsPetty: The only reason she spares Clive is to deliver one last insult to her late husband, as he had always pushed back against her contempt for Clive by insisting that he was a great soldier. Therefore, Clive can be a great soldier once more, by being enslaved to the very Empire that destroyed everything he loved.
* EvilMatriarch: A cruel, ruthless noblewoman whose high blood serves the plot-central purpose of spawning Dominants. Her eldest's failure to inherit the proper power makes him the target of her ire, and Anabella's dark designs go far beyond the scope of parental abuse.
* ExactWords: She says early on to her handmaidens that if anything were to ever happen to Joshua, she'd have their heads for it. After her betrayal and Joshua's unintended demise in the aftermath, her handmaidens continue working with her as if expecting to survive -- only for two Sanbreque knights to rush up and dig their blades into the women's necks for messy and immediate deaths the moment they turn their backs, [[YouHaveFailedMe as Anabella walks off without a care.]]
* FantasyForbiddingMother: Implied to be the "no fun allowed" type, depending on how much she tries to keep Joshua indoors at all times. Granted, Joshua was ill at the time the prologue starts, but her attitude towards everyone else implies such behavior isn't out of the ordinary for her.
* GlorySeeker: She really wants a higher place in life with the Emperor of Sanbreque due to the frustrations in her life that she has no control over.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Without a doubt, Anabella is not in the running for Mother of the Year. Not only does she treat Clive like an afterthought, but it's because of her that he's MadeASlave after the prologue. And her betrayal to the Empire of Sanbreque seems to be because she wants a higher position in life, even willing to sell out her family and her kingdom to get it. It doesn't get any better [[spoiler:when she marries Sylvestre]]; in fact, she gets ''worse'' and orchestrates purges across imperial lands against villages who harbor "free Branded", [[spoiler:like Eastpool]]. Clive is ''outraged'' when he sees this. [[spoiler:The purges only grow worse during his time as "Cid".]]
* HatedByAll: Downplayed. Though her handmaidens seem fairly loyal, even the common citizens have no issue criticising Anabella's treatment of her eldest son behind her back.
* HateSink: Anabella provides a primary target for the audience's scorn, entirely on purpose. Anabella is thoroughly contemptuous towards Clive, even calling him "worthless" and "a man like any other" to Elwin because Clive was rejected as Phoenix's Dominant. She's extremely strict on Joshua's well-being, and continues to go on elitist ramblings even when talking to her husband, even though Elwin clearly does not agree with them. To make matters worse, [she betrays her own family to Sanbreque, orders Clive to be enslaved, sheds no tears for her dead husband, and has the knights kill her handmaidens for no readily apparent reason. The only thing Anabella appears genuinely upset about is Joshua's death, and even that's ambiguous as to whether she was upset that her favorite son died or she lost a bargaining chip. While Elwin rejected her elitist philosophy, [[spoiler:her second husband was poisoned by it, causing his WeHaveReserves mentality and allowing her to install her new son to the throne. And the reason Anabella has for all of this is because [[SocialClimber she felt she was owed a better position]], despite being the duchess of Rosaria.]]
* HeyYou: To drive the point home of how much she sees [[spoiler:Clive, her firstborn, as a complete nuisance Anabella never addresses him as her son in any shape or form, she consistently addresses him as “you” and other completely unpersonal pronouns]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Refers to Clive as a "failure" and "just another man" because he didn't become Phoenix's Dominant. Her husband notes that those exact same descriptors could apply to him as a member of the Ducal Family who also failed to become Phoenix's Dominant, and only became Archduke because his father died early. She disagrees with him, saying that he's in his "rightful place".
* IHaveNoSon: She despises Clive with a burning passion in two fronts: 1) For not being by blessed by The Phoenix which in turn sparked rumors about Elwin actually having Clive with some concubine other than his rightful wife, thus tarnishing Anabella with gossip from people she consider as inferiors; 2) For Clive actually being a successful warrior in his own right despite not being Phoenix’s Dominant, which inadvertently made him look more promising than Joshua, the one who Phoenix had chosen. Anabella hates the fact her unwanted child can look better than her precious second one in any way.
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Taking SocialClimber to phenominal extremes, her ultimate goal is to be mother of a powerful king -- not for any specific son's sake, but because it's the highest possible position for a woman in Valisthea. To this end she sold out Rosaria to the Holy Empire, getting enough into the Emperor's graces to marry him and produce an heir to both kingdoms who could eventually rule everything. During her MotiveRant she admits she hated that Clive failed to awaken as the Phoenix and that Joshua was sickly because it reflected on ''her'' social standing, that she felt she had "nothing" in Rosaria because both of her sons disappointed her and the nobles mocked her, and that she sold out Elwin because she believed it was his duty to protect his ''sovereignty'' (and in turn, their position of power) rather than his ''people''; in her view, having "sovereign blood" meant the people and kingdom were entirely disposable so they could have just started a new kingdom elsewhere. The Empire gave her an opportunity to start over with a new son who could inherit far more than a duchy, at which point she becomes a WarHawk in an attempt to make her new son an emperor over ''all'' known lands.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Her interactions throughout the prologue very quickly establish her as a cruel, power-hungry, selfish, vindictive, petty and just plain unpleasant human being. This only escalates to new heights through the game.
* KickTheDog: One of her nastiest moments is the ''murder of her handmaidens'', who were still loyal to her even after her betrayal, because she promised to kill them if something bad happened to Joshua, which ''they'' had no control over.
* LadyMacbeth: [[spoiler:Played this role to her second husband, Sylvestre Lesage, pushing him towards conquest all so that Olivier would have an all-encompassing empire to rule over.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Literally everything that leads to her downfall was all her own doing, and boy, does she deserve every bit of the irony that befalls her and completely spits on her beliefs:
** [[spoiler: Her betrayal of Rosaria for a higher station as empress, and attempt to do the same to Sanbreque to secure her "Sovereign blood's" rule over all the lands under one empire blows up in her face completely. Her lack of care for her people consistantly sabotages the stability of vital human resources, be they "citizens" or the branded slaves. Her ordering imperial soldiers to massacre entire villages who harbor "free branded" and then creating an entire order of knights to purge ALL branded pushes this instability further as they are still a vital resource that all kingdoms (cruelly) lean on as the foundation of every facet of their society. Additionally these acts only drive Clive further at every point of his heroic career at. Even her plans against Dion and her attempted coup destablize the capital at a key point which allows Clive and Joshua to step and intefere, not to mention her plans enable Ultima's machinations without her knowledge.]]
** [[spoiler: Sparing Clive and forcing him to be a SlaveMook to Sanbreque proves disasterous as he is not only the ''Dominant of Ifrit'', but also happens to have the potential to become the most powerful being in the world. As a result, she ends up setting the son she utterly despised on the road that would turn him into the hero that would save the world, and that path also includes destroying the better life she tried to built up. Although Clive doesn't actually get the chance to truly exact any kind of personal vengeance on his mother, Anabella's several act of cruelty on the people and branded including creating a currupt knighthood using a twist version of his beloved Rosarian Shield's values and oaths, all end up driving her son to truly wish for her to be stopped and he does play a huge role in everything crumbling down around her, taking down the forces she built up and ultimately leaving her with no one else that would defend her. Even early on, her ordering imperial knights to cull any villages and towns which harbor free branded ends up massacring a town containing branded previously employed by Clive's father and Lady Hanner, the wife of his late mentor which ends up driving Clive to resolutely join Cid when he was about to leave with Jill to lead their own lives alone. One can even argue that if only she had realized that Clive simply has grown too powerful to be contained and pragmatically decide to screw trying to piss him off any further, she may have had a better chance of surviving]].
** [[spoiler: Believing that Joshua is dead and trying to move on by having Olivier without bothering to try and find if her second son truly is dead allows Joshua to preserve Rosaria in secret, slowly but surely reorganizing it's forces and eventually regaining enough influence to not only oppose her attempts to have the whole world in her grasp, but also successfully get through Dion. In the most ironic and carthatically satisfying sense, the one son she actually does love and favor from Elwin ends up being the orchestrator of the ruin of everything she had accomplished in her new life, all while he doesn't even have to directly oppose her]].
** [[spoiler: Although not as pronounced as her treatment of her sons leading to her downfall, her callous and condescending treatment towards Dion and even straight-up gloating about her success in making Olivier the heir of the throne ends up being the last straw for Dion. The man who she mocked as the "son of a whore" proves to be a much more well-liked leader than she and her new husband is and easily turns more than enough of Sanbreque against her, which eventually culminates in Dion being the one who delivers the finishing blow that crushes any and all of her hopes and dreams, first (albeit accidentally) killing the Emperor, which would have already deprived her of most of the support she had on the Imperial Court (though she was planning to dispose of him eventually), before he then kills Olivier straight in front of her (who was a shell of Ultima, discarded once it had fulfilled its goals), having the last laugh while all she could do is scream and sob in despair, utterly defeated by someone she never saw truly as a threat]].
* MyBelovedSmother: The strict and controlling type towards Joshua. Anabella wants to keep Joshua safe at all costs, even making sure that he can't do anything without her approval. Clive, on the other hand, she couldn't give two shits about. Years later, [[spoiler:she is even more smothering to her third son, Olivier, who spends most of his screentime draped across her lap while she strokes his hair]].
* {{Narcissist}}: Her affections are conditional on how well someone boosts her social standing and how perfectly they suit what she wants in regards to this: she despises Clive for being "a man like any other", completely ignores her husband's ward, tries to flatter Elwin (a Grand Duke) [[spoiler:until she decides she can [[SocialClimber do better by marrying the Emperor]]]], and dotes on Joshua (the Phoenix Dominant and heir to the Duchy) as her "true" son -- the latter of which is ambiguous in its authenticity, as she is crushingly over-controlling with him and [[spoiler:treats the report of his death as a disappointment over anything else. After the time skip, she completely dismisses her stepson Dion just like she did Clive (despite him being LovedByAll before she came into the picture and literally having songs praising him around Valisthea, Dion didn't come from ''her'' so he doesn't boost her standing), and is just as doting on her third son as she was to Joshua, completely ignoring his TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior since she installed him as heir to the Holy Empire over his far more beloved and powerful half-brother.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: She decides to have Clive spared and MadeASlave to fight for the Empire instead of killing him, ensuring that there's a loose end out there. [[spoiler:This ends up leading to the defeat of Sanbreque, the fall of each and every Mothercrystal in the world, and her own VillainousBreakdown.]]
* NotWorthKilling: [[spoiler:Despite everything she's done that leads to Rosaria becoming as messed up as it is, Clive forced to serve Sanbreque, and Joshua being separated from Clive for years, by the time Clive and Joshua catch up to Anabella, she's pretty much already got all the misery she forced on them paid back twice-fold: The social and political power she pettily threw Rosaria away for are now lost as Sanbreque is now in ruins, and she has zero hope of recovering it with the Emperor who supports her ideals dead due to her own machinations and her only other claim and hold on the throne of Sanbreque disapeared into vapor. As such, Clive shows no inclinations to personally get revenge on his mother, and Joshua even tries to ''save her'' without Clive doing anything to stop him, with the indication that it's less about the two of them still having sentiment for her and more that they just pity her enough that they don't see any point in killing her.]]
* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Being a matriarch who is disappointed with both of her sons' flaws and who makes no attempt to disguise her elitist attitudes makes her one by default. Thankfully, Elwin calls her out on this and puts little stock in her opinions. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the Emperor comes to agree with her.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: At the very beginning of the game, she straight up tells Elwin to his face that Clive is a failure, that Joshua should be an indoor boy and is bitter towards Clive. And then there's Anabella's relationship with Elwin itself, where it's fairly obvious that the marriage wasn't a love match.
* OlderThanSheLooks: When [[spoiler:Clive meets her again for the last time after so many years, Anabella still looks exactly as she did eighteen years before, and not for any supernatural reasons]].
* ParentalBetrayal: [[spoiler:She sells out Rosaria to Sanbreque, getting Joshua killed and resulting in Clive losing absolutely everything after he's MadeASlave.]]
* ParentalFavoritism: She dotes on Joshua while being nakedly emotionally abusive towards Clive, calling him a failure to her husband's face. After her betrayal, she comes this close to ordering him executed before deciding to have him enslaved instead, with nary a hint of remorse.
* {{Pride}}: Her pridefulness prevents her from acknowledging that she's ill-suited to rule a kingdom or accepting responsibility. Even worse, she believes she deserves a higher position in life, which she gets after betraying her duchy and [[spoiler:marrying the Emperor of Sanbreque]].
* TheResenter: Anabella hates her family for varying reasons; she despises her husband for his "weakness" towards the commonfolk since it reflects badly for her social standing, she despises Clive because he wasn't Phoenix's Dominant but proved an excellent warrior in comparison to Joshua, who she also hated to a lesser degreee because while he became Phoenix's Dominant, Joshua was frail and sickly.
* RichBitch: Has a rude and snobby attitude towards everyone. It seems to come from [[SocialClimber wanting a better social position]], even though she's already the Duchess of one of the world's biggest superpowers.
* SatanicArchetype: She turns Valisthea into Hell after killing her husband, gorges herself at the expense of others, and her personality embodies most of the SevenDeadlySins.
* SocialClimber: Her main goal is to be granted [[spoiler:a higher position in the emperor's good graces. She's even willing to sell out all of Rosaria to do that]].
* TheSociopath: She cares more about social standing than the lives of her own family, to the point that she throws in her lot with Sanbreque and doesn't have the slightest bit of compassion for Clive when he's apprehended by Sanbreque soldiers. Even her more doting treatment of Joshua is implied to be linked to his status as the Dominant of Phoenix, rather than any genuine maternal affections.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: A closer look at her face shows where an adolescent Clive gets his looks from.
* TilMurderDoUsPart: She betrays Rosaria and causes the sacking that gets her husband beheaded.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler:Once she ultimately marries Sylvestre and takes over Valisthea. Her reign proved to be disastrous due to [[WhileRomeBurns her apathy]], and [[ItsAllAboutMe she's too proud to acknowledge]] that she isn't "ten times the ruler" Elwin ever was. Even the citizens grumble about her under their breath.]]
* UngratefulBitch: Shows nothing but utter contempt for Clive, despite his attempts to prove himself and serve Rosaria to the best of his abilities, just because he was not given any Phoenix powers. Also doubles as DisproportionateRetribution.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After losing Olivier and freaking out at seeing Joshua alive, Anabella deludes herself into thinking she's seeing a ghost. She pulls out a dagger and flails wildly at Joshua in a panic, not even coming close to hitting him. She then screams "You will not take me, shadow! You will not take me!" and [[DrivenToSuicide slits her own throat]]. It's also presented as Anabella undergoing SanitySlippage, since she not only lost Olivier with the reveal that he was never anything but an undead puppet of Ultima, but her betrayal of Rosaria and belief that Joshua was dead had [[AllForNothing all been rendered worthless]].]]
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Anabella would rather see her sons being perfect (Clive with Phoenix powers and Joshua not being frail and sickly).
* WickedStepmother: Has all the trappings of one -- her cruel and haughty manner, scheming and treacherous nature, blatant ParentalFavouritism, and cold contempt for the unfavourite child -- but in an interesting aversion, the firstborn she tyrannises is ''her own'' issue. [[spoiler:She later becomes this to her actual stepson, Dion, whom she calls a "mongrel" and tries to install her son with the Emperor as the heir to the throne.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: She's utterly blind to the story being anything more than medieval politics. [[spoiler:All her planning is destroyed as mere collateral damage by Ultima, and it mentally breaks her as a result.]]
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: [[spoiler:When she's reunited with Clive, she laments that Joshua isn't standing in his place. He asks if she's [[HighAltitudeBattle looked out the window]] lately.]]
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[[folder:Byron Rosfield]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ewan Bailey (English), Mitsutaka Tachikawa (Japanese)
Clive and Joshua's uncle, Elwin’s younger brother, and warden of Port Isolde following Rosaria’s annexation by the Empire of Sanbreque. Though he now lives as a recluse inside his manor, and appears to be content with appeasing the duchy’s imperial overlords, the flames of his loyalty to the Grand Duchy of Rosaria may not have truly burned out.
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* BadassNormal: While a lot of his allies are Bearers and Dominants, he doesn't hide behind their back and engages in action himself, even becoming a NPC party member during the journey into Dhalmekia (where he proves himself to be entirely up to the challenge), and he even holds his own against [[spoiler:the Sleipnir clones and hordes of Akashic]].
* BigFun: Has a bit of a gut, and is nothing but a delightful man and dutiful uncle.
* BoisterousBruiser: He's not afraid to get into the thick of it when the chips are down, and shouts challenges to his enemies while bragging about his own abilities.
* CoolUncle: Clive has nothing but good words about him, clearly indicating that Byron is beloved by his brother's children.
* FakeDefector: He pretends to be TheQuisling for Annabella's atrocities, but it's all a front to keep the people of Port Isolde safe.
* GoodParents: He loves Clive, Jill, and Joshua, and is the closest thing to a decent parental figure they have as of the current day.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: In a more medieval sense - he's got more money than he knows what to do with but he's a good man who wants to do right.
* ICallItVera: Played for laughs. He claims in a BadassBoast that his axe is named Earthshaker, and then later calls it Ogrekiller, and finally calls it Executioner.
-->'''Gav:''' ...didn't you call it Ogrekiller just a minute ago?!
* IntrepidMerchant: Famous for carrying over his family's warrior spirit into the field of commerce. He's got a long history of adventure and derring-do across Valisthea, and is still a good enough fighter to pull his weight as an ARPG party companion.
* LargeHam: Byron is loud and boisterous, and always has loud and joyful exclamations.
* NamedWeapons: He boastfully refers to his axe as Earthshaker, but not even minutes later he calls it Ogre Killer.
* SoProudOfYou: He thinks that Clive being the one and only Outlaw Cid as nothing but a badge of honour.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: He comes in guns (well, axe) blazing when he thinks that Clive and Jill are thieves. Clive quotes a drama that the two used to portray in happier times, which moves Byron to tears out of happiness that this is proof that his beloved nephew is alive and in front of him.
* TheSoCalledCoward: He calls himself cowardly more than once, but he is the only one who believes it. He is actually a very brave man and only plays the coward role when he has no other choice.
* StillGotIt: He proclaims that despite getting on in years he can still hold his own in a fight.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Mid is particularly informal with him, prompting him to retort that he's ''Lord'' Byron.
* UnclePennybags: Literally - he's a keen businessman and he helps fund Clive and Jill's journey, and has been supporting the Guardians of the Flame for years before that.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Eugen Havel, former chief strategist of the Republic. They'll deny being friends and bicker whenever they share a scene together, but they have a relationship like old war buddies, and come to the support of each other without hesitation. Along with Quinten, they even [[spoiler:forge a "Triunity" in the hopes of bringing peace to the realm between their three countries]].
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!!Others
[[folder:Jill Warrick]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Susannah Fielding, Charlotte [=McBurney=] [young] (English); Creator/MegumiHan (Japanese)
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->''"What makes them think they have the right to use us? To leave us to die when our bodies are spent."''\\\
A ward of House Rosfield raised alongside Clive and Joshua, Jill was once a princess of the now fallen Northern Territories, taken from her homeland at a tender age in order to secure peace between the two warring nations. At twelve years of age, she has become a trusted confidant to Clive and Joshua. However, fate would tear the three apart after a great tragedy befell the Grand Duchy of Rosaria. Cast from one misfortune to the next, Jill would eventually awaken as the Dominant of Shiva.
Tropes for Jill Warrick can be found at the [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHideaway Hideaway]] page.
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[[folder:Torgal]]
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A wolf who, like Jill, hails from the fallen Northern Territories of Storm. Having been separated from his pack, Torgal was found by Elwin Rosfield during an expedition conducted by the latter. The Archduke brought the stranded pup home with him to Rosaria, and from that day forward Torgal was raised as a part of the Rosfield family. After surviving a great tragedy that occurred in his youth, Torgal would reunite with Clive years later, and would go on to serve as a faithful companion on his master's journey.
Tropes for Clive Rosfield can be found at the [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHideaway Hideaway]] page.
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[[folder:Rodney Murdoch]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Keir Charles (English), Creator/YojiUeda (Japanese)
Lord Commander of Rosaria's military and right-hand man to Archduke Elwin. A calm and enthusiastic man relatively well-liked by his troops, he is also responsible for training Clive in the art of swordsmanship.
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* GuestStarPartyMember: He accompanies Clive during the attack on Phoenix Gate, [[spoiler:and is killed off at the end of the segment]].
* NotEnoughToBury: [[spoiler:When Ifrit manifests at the Phoenix Gate, he's close enough to it to get completely incinerated, with his last words expressing disbelief at the presence of a second Eikon of fire]].
* NumberTwo: As Lord Commander of Rosaria's armies, he's also Archduke Elwin's right hand man and trusted confidant.
* SternTeacher: Murdoch doesn't hold back on the young Clive. The flashback prologue opens with Clive regaining consciousness from being ''knocked out'' by Murdoch during a sparring session.
* ThisCannotBe: His reaction to the appearance of a second Eikon of Fire. [[spoiler: Said Eikon's power obliterates him not three seconds later.]]
* WarmUpBoss: He's the opponent of the combat tutorial.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Is first introduced in the prologue's flashback and dies at the end from [[KillItWithFire being burned]] when Ifrit appears at Phoenix Gate.]]
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[[folder:Sir Tyler and Sir Wade]]
!!!'''Tyler voiced by:''' John Heffernan (English), Creator/TsuguoMogami (Japanese)
!!!'''Wade voiced by:''' Harry Hepple (English), Toru Sakurai (Japanese)
A pair of knights sent to accompany Clive on his way into Stillwind to deal with goblins, they later get embroiled in the conspiracy at Phoenix Gate. Tyler is an experienced soldier born into a family of knights and second-in-command to Murdoch, while Wade is a novice and a rookie who joined up after Joshua saved his life.
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* EtTuBrute: Wade doesn't take it well when [[spoiler:the Archduke's bodyguards betray them and murder Elwin]].
* GuestStarPartyMember: Both Tyler and Wade accompany Clive into Stillwind to fight goblins and the morbol. Wade later escorts Joshua to his father and brother at the Phoenix Gate when [[spoiler:it is under attack by Sanbreque]].
* LaResistance: Post-TimeSkip. [[spoiler:Wade becomes the leader of the Guardians of the Flame, comprised of Shields still loyal to Rosaria who strive to protect the duchy's remaining Bearers from the Black Shields who serve Annabella.]]
* NumberTwo: Tyler's bio describes him as the right hand to Lord Commander Murdoch.
* RedOniBlueOni: Tyler's bio describes him as a level-headed soldier who was assigned to Clive's company to balance out the more hot-headed Wade.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Tyler and Wade appear together most of the time. [[spoiler: Wade's solo appearance at the end of the prologue is a subtle but early sign that something has gone horribly wrong.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Wade, [[spoiler: when it is discovered that he has survived the fall of Phoenix Gate and leads a rebel group called the Guardians of the Flame against the vicereine Anabella's tyrannical reign over Rosaria]].
* UncertainDoom: The two of them are standing next to Joshua when he hits his RageBreakingPoint and transforms fully into Phoenix, resulting in a violent massive explosion as he morphs into the fire beast. However, they're not seen visibly burned to ashes by his fires, and it's left unclear whether they actually died until after the TimeSkip. [[spoiler:Wade survived and formed the Guardians of the Flame. Tyler, unfortunately, died at Phoenix Gate.]]
* UniformityException: Wade carries a big axe, which sets him apart from the majority of the Rosarian armies, who use swords.
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[[folder:Martha]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Heather Dutton (English), Rin Namino (Japanese)
The landlady of the Golden Stable inn and tavern at the town called Martha's Rest. A longtime ally of Cid and the hideaway, she helps keep them supplied while also spiriting away Bearers who are suffering in the last stages of their stone curse, helping them to die in peace and dignity.
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* {{Egopolis}}: Heroic example, and it's likely Martha herself didn't name the town, but Martha's Rest is the name for the town with her tavern as a centerpiece.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the midst of her RousingSpeech to Eastpool, one of the Guardians of the Flame surreptitiously hands her a frying pan, perhaps only to lend weight to her words and evoke the image of a FryingPanOfDoom.
* GoodSamaritan: She's been helping Bearers and the general downtrodden long before she met Cid. She buys those who are coming to the end of their lives, usually due to the stone curse, and spirits them away to Glaidemond Abbey to live out the rest of their days in as little pain as possible, perhaps to be shown some kind of love for the first time in their lives.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Martha has blonde hair and is one of the kindest characters in the story.
* LovedByAll: Martha is adored by just about everyone in the town for all that she has done to keep them safe. She even has the ear of the Bloodaxe Mercenaries, sellswords she hired to protect the town in place of their imperial masters. There are some whispers from those who think she loves Bearers too much, but they are by far in the minority.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Late in the game, Martha explains that her activism comes from the elderly Bearer that her household had when she was a child, who played with her and had a mutual affection with the girl. As the Bearer was dying, she told Martha how glad she was that she wasn't a Bearer - it turns out that this Bearer was her own grandmother, who was treated like a pet by her children and (unwittingly) her granddaughter. Martha vowed then and there to fight against Bearer prejudice so such a thing could never happen again.]]
* RousingSpeech: She gives one to the despondent Bearers who have been relocated to Eastpool, urging them to [[spoiler:fight and protect their new home from the raving hordes of Akashic]]. It succeeds.
* TheTeamBenefactor: She is one of the biggest donors for Cid's cause, funneling them money and victuals even when she is already doing all she can to keep the people of Martha's Rest fed.
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[[folder:Hanna Murdoch]]
!!!'''Voiced by:'''
Wife of the Lord Commander Rodney Murdoch, who lives at their manor in Eastpool.
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* BearerOfBadNews: Hanna is the one who informs Clive and Jill of [[spoiler:her husband Rodney's fate at Phoenix Gate. For the past thirteen years neither of them knew what became of him]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Hanna dies with all the rest of the villagers of Eastpool when Anabella's Black Shields fall on them for supporting Bearers]].
* TearsOfJoy: She recognizes Clive as soon as he walks into town, and is overjoyed to learn that he and Jill have survived all these long years.
* UnexpectedInheritance: Hanna gives Clive his regular outfit, which she had in her home for years as it once belonged to his father Elwin.
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[[folder:Oscar Murdoch]]
!!!'''Voiced by:'''
A young member of the Guardians of the Flame, nephew to Rodney and Hanna Murdoch. He always wished to squire to a scion of the Rosfields like his uncle before him.
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* MinorMajorCharacter: Clive got himself a squire! This should mean that Oscar will accompany him on his adventures, learn from him, and carry on his ideals. However, this happens in a sidequest so late in the story that it basically just amounts to Oscar standing guard outside Clive's personal chambers in the hideaway.
* TheSquire: [[spoiler:Wade]] requests Clive to take Oscar as his squire, so he can serve a Rosfield just as his uncle once did. Clive accepts, and Oscar moves to the hideaway.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks just like a young Rodney, which shocks Clive because he never knew Rodney and Hanna had a child. Oscar corrects him and says he is their nephew instead.
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