FFXIV Villains

[Kuurei]

Just thought I should remind everyone of Folques from the Lancer questline....he's pretty crazy. And that final fight only served to make him worse lol.

[AdamuKun322]

I'll go out on a limb and say that the Ascians are probably the largest manipulators in the game and probably the game's true villains.

[HakuroDK]

If Varis Zos Galvus turns into a Luca Blight-type villain, that would be quite impressive.

Someone who is a crazy, warmongering type, but is also smart enough to put trust in his generals.

[Arkenne]

Crazy villains can be pretty cool, but they are also kinda... flameable... like Ifrit and the other primals (except Ramuh).
They all go "I'LL TAKE OVER THE WORLD BECAUSE I WANT TO!" and die right there and then. Most of the story related to them is about how important it is needed to spank them down... and they are never ever to be seen again... (except they are your typical G Gundam char that doesnt actually die when they die even if they die).

I can see why Schemers works so well on the FFXIV universe... damned lalas...

On that note, Shiva might be your favorite villain so far.

[Virevolte]

I'm kinda more a fan of having multiples encounters with a really strong opponent. Not for him to trash us all the time though. It'll be nice to have a rival, someone who's on par with you, and sometimes lose, sometimes wins.
I like it the best when they're slighly weaker, but wins anyway 'cause of a smart move or a well-devised tactic.

I'm not fond of schemers though! I kinda think we're missing a "loveable villain" in this game. Somewhat iconic and appealing, for whatever reason. Fighting faceless/masked entities is not as fun as having a identified ennemy who's going to give you hell.

Buuut... that's a plot-wise decision that I respect!
(I do think we're not focusing enough on each villain. They're dying a bit fast.)

[AlexionSkylark]

Revolver Ocelot is anything BUT crazy. Actually, he's the top smartass of the WHOLE lot there.

Unless you count the thing about him being "possessed" by liquid snake after grafting his hand in MGS2...

[Sigiria]

Well there's a crazy villain. Garuda is batsh*t crazy, but that's exactly what ruined an otherwise interesting background.
She actually fought the snake king while he tried to enslave every species. She won but was severly wounded and ate the flesh of the Snake to survive. It drove her to madness and she turned into an hungry psychopathe.
That started with a pretty badass story and ended with a pathetic power hungry primal.

Really hope we'll get to see her before or purged of the madness at some point.

[Firepower]

Most truly insane villain's don't turn insane until the later stages of the games (or least it isn't revealed to you until then)

I would say FFXIV is too early in the story to start introducing the maniac type villain, people like Caius (FFXIII) Seymour (FFX) Kuja (FFIX) and Sephiroph (FFVII) was they weren't exactly completely insane, they all had well laid plans to benefit themselves.

Sephiroph was a very well respected person until he found out he was just some biological experiment from jenova and from then just decided he wanted to follow his mother's footsteps and become a god. The plan of merging in the lifestream and absorb all its essence when meteor kills the world was pretty well calculated.

Kuja was another biological creation from Garland, he never experienced childhood so really never grew up, most of the time he is just following orders from Garland, he was always meant to be inferior to Zidane so essentially when he found this out this and the fact his lifespan was temporary he wanted to just end everything "if nothing ever exists I can't really die"

Seymour was born to a Guado and Human, so a half breed and designed to patch relations between them both considering his father was the leader of the Guado. It did the opposite and he had to live in exile from Guado for being a "filthy halfbreed" and this made him hate both races, his mother died when he was 10 against Sin, he spent most of his childhood in isolation in a temple. All of this made him long to become sin itself and destroy Spira to end the suffering and sacrifice.

Caius is a very long and complex story but essentially he was given immortality so that he could watch over Yeul (who he loves dearly) who can see the future, seeing the future causes great strain so she always dies very young and is then subsequently reborn again, distressed by millennia of his friend dying over and over, he wanted to end the cycle once and for all.

[Gralna]

Most truly insane villain's don't turn insane until the later stages of the games (or least it isn't revealed to you until then)

I would say FFXIV is too early in the story to start introducing the maniac type villain, people like Caius (FFXIII) Seymour (FFX) Kuja (FFIX) and Sephiroph (FFVII) was they weren't exactly completely insane, they all had well laid plans to benefit themselves.

I guess Kefka falls outside of that "most" category.

[Firepower]

I guess Kefka falls outside of that "most" category.

Yes, he is truly absolutely insane!