How old is Gaius?

[CGMidlander]

Cid looks like he's in his mid 30's or early 40's, and lore says that Gaius was his adoptive father and personal friend of Cid's father, Midas.

So, late 50's Gaius?

[VargasVermillion]

My guess is somewhere in the 50s or over by the time of his death. Which would also explain why a man of his reputation seemed underwhelming by the time of ARR, he was probably getting old. His first attempt on Eorzea was 15 years prior to the events of 1.0 in which he already earned lots of fame from his military experience imply that he was in the army for a long time.

[Theodric]

My guess is somewhere in the 50s or over by the time of his death. Which would also explain why a man of his reputation seemed underwhelming by the time of ARR, he was probably getting old. His first attempt on Eorzea was 15 years prior to the events of 1.0 in which he already earned lots of fame from his military experience imply that he was in the army for a long time.

No. He was underwhelming purely because of the plot device that is Hydaelyn's blessing. Just like with every other antagonist in the game so far, really. How I long for a battle akin to Beatrix from FFIX where the WoL gets thrashed for a change.

[VargasVermillion]

No. He was underwhelming purely because of the plot device that is Hydaelyn's blessing. Just like with every other antagonist in the game so far, really. How I long for a battle akin to Beatrix from FFIX where the WoL gets thrashed for a change.

You sure about that? gaius hasn't had a successful campaign ever since the agrius crashed and was once the most respected commander in the empire but ended up losing the emperor's favor to a theatrical madman. He was exiled from garlemald for disobeying a retreat order and tried to retake eorzea as a last desperate attempt to obtain his glory back. By the time of his death he was an old washed up commander who'd even get an acsians help to complete his mission, I'm sure gaius 15 years ago wouldn't of even considered that. I also don't think we even got hydaelyns blessing until the ultima segments, against gaius himself it was just us and the other 7 (mercenaries?) we brought with us.

[CGMidlander]

My guess is somewhere in the 50s or over by the time of his death. Which would also explain why a man of his reputation seemed underwhelming by the time of ARR, he was probably getting old. His first attempt on Eorzea was 15 years prior to the events of 1.0 in which he already earned lots of fame from his military experience imply that he was in the army for a long time.

If it wasn't for Hydaelyn, we would have actually lost to Gaius in the Ultima Weapon. On the elevator, we can barely scratch the thing until Hydaelyn used her One Ilm Punch to remove the buffs on it. She also shielded us from the Ultima cast going off.

[Dualblade]

By all means we should have actually lost to the Ultima Weapon. On the elevator, we can barely scratch the thing until Hydaelyn used her One Ilm Punch to remove the buffs on it. She also shielded us from the Ultima cast going off.

Thats Ultima Weapon though, he's probably talking about the actual fight against Gauis.

Which to be fair to Gauis, even if he was starting to lose his touch it was 8v1.

[CGMidlander]

Thats Ultima Weapon though, he's probably talking about the actual fight against Gauis.

Which to be fair to Gauis, even if he was starting to lose his touch it was 8v1.

We don't know if he is supposed to be faceroll easy lore-wise, or if it's just because he's tuned for MSQ difficulty.

[Dualblade]

We don't know if he is supposed to be faceroll easy lore-wise, or if it's just because he's tuned for MSQ difficulty.

Probably not faceroll easy (honestly not sure what his difficulty is at ilvl-50.) As well, I'd also say if Kaiser is right and he does come back he will be much harder as far as levels go, with justification that we didn't fight him full out (don't even take down his life bar all the way.)

[Dualblade]

One thing to note: FFX's Auron was in is 30s. Unless they look like a grandparent don't automatically try to match their looks to their age.

[VargasVermillion]

One thing to note: FFX's Auron was in is 30s. Unless they look like a grandparent don't automatically try to match their looks to their age.

Well we can't base it of looks anyway, that'd give use a better lead. My guess is just relative to his reputation and that he invaded 15 years prior. you could make a pretty rough guess based on that. If he was in his 30s by the time of his death it would imply that he would of been very young through most of his career or a achieved a lot in a very short amount of time.