Final Fantasy : The 4 Heroes of Light Final Fantasy : The 4 Heroes of Light is a " " or " spin - off " game of the main " Final Fantasy " series . It was released for the Nintendo DS console in Japan and was released in North America on October 5 , 2010 . The game is the second to be released with the Final Fantasy Gaiden subtitle in Japan , after " Seiken Densetsu ~ Final Fantasy Gaiden ~ " ( which had been released as " Final Fantasy Adventure " in North America ) , though the two games have no relations to each other . Character design is done by Akihiko Yoshida , and the development team of " Final Fantasy IV DS " all returned to work on the title . While the four Heroes of Light have their default names , the player can name them at the beginning of the game , similar to " Final Fantasy II " . A sequel to the game was considered by the development team , and eventually evolved into " Bravely Default " , a spiritual sequel with related concepts . Gameplay . Gameplay follows normal RPG fare , though Magic Points are replaced by Action Points . Random encounter s return , and the Battle system is turn - based , reminiscent of the first three " Final Fantasy " games on the Famicom . Changing equipment changes the characters ' appearance . Crowns . The game uses a new variation of the job system called the Crown System , where jobs are linked to hats , known as . Each crown contains four skills and various bonus attributes , but magic spells can be used by all crowns . There are twenty - eight crowns available in the game . Unlike past versions of the job system , where Jobs determined a character ' s entire appearance , crowns are only signified by what is worn on a character ' s head , and equipment provides the aesthetic changes for a character ' s appearance . Battles . Battles take place in a turn - based format , with several twists from the rest of the series . Instead of MP , the game uses Action Points ( AP ) . Each turn the players regenerate one AP , to a maximum of five . And also unlike other games in the series , the player cannot choose the targets of their attacks and abilities . Monsters choose the target of their attacks and abilities with an Enmity system . The player has four choices of action each turn ; attack with the character ' s weapon , use an item , use one of the character ' s abilities or spells , or Boost , which will generate extra AP and make the character crouch and increase defense against damage from physical attacks . Another factor affecting the battle is enthusiasm . When the heroes are Psyched Up they become surrounded by a yellow aura and get a stat boost . When the heroes are feeling down they become surrounded by a blue aura and get a corresponding decrease in stats . When a battle is finished , surviving characters receive all the Experience Points gained . If any items are dropped they are distributed among characters with space to hold them . And , finally , any Gems found are added to the party ' s total . Multiplayer . There is also a wireless co - op mode , where up to four players can play . Characters . There are four playable characters who form the eponymous Heroes of Light , along with four characters who join the party temporarily . Players are allowed to choose names for the four Heroes at the start of the game . Setting . The world in " The 4 Heroes Of Light " is not named . It is a single continent divided by mountain ranges and has extensive oceans . It is mostly temperate in climate , although not entirely . There are seven nations : Horne , the hometown of the main characters , Guera , Liberte , Arbor , Urbeth , Spelvia , and Invidia . The world is inhabited by humans , fairies , elves , and Dragoniers . Story . The story begins on the morning of Brandt ' s fourteenth birthday , the time when it is custom for males of Horne to present themselves to the king to become men . On his way there , Brandt finds King Horne distraught and is told to go find Princess Aire and save her from Louhi , the Witch of the North . Once Brandt makes it to the North Caves , he is attacked by a minotaur , but is saved by Jusqua . Jusqua joins Brandt and they continue on their quest eventually coming up to the Witch ' s Mansion , and find the princess ' s bodyguard , Yunita , who offers to join them . They are able to rescue Princess Aire , but when they return to town , everyone has been turned to stone . A team of inspectors from Liberte are in the town looking for the cause of the curse . The head inspector offers to take the party to their city as refugees , but Brandt and Yunita say they need to try and save Horne , and Jusqua decides to just give up and go , so Yunita orders him to take Aire with him . Brandt and Yunita head out to Guera to seek a cure for the curse and meet Krinjh . The group goes to the Moonlight Tower where they get the world map . After this , the group make their way to the town of Guera , where they meet the king , who decides to help them figure out the curse if they help him get rid of a monster problem in the desert . The party goes to the Quicksand Castle , where they defeat the Sand Devil , who is later revealed to be Ariadne . Ariadne and Krinjh then disappear . While Brandt and Yunita explored Guera , Jusqua and Aire have their own happenings in the port town of Liberte . Aire explores the town and finds out that a young boy , named Apollo , had his parents kidnapped . She relays this news to Jusqua and they set off to the Pirate Hideout to set them free . After going through the Pirate Hideout , they realize that their leader , Captain Drake is , in fact , a Trollud in disguise and they defeat the monster freeing Apollo ' s parents and the real Captain Drake himself . Going further into the dungeon , Aire discovers an Arbor fairy only she can see , and the fairy decides to join their party after being freed from the vase it was captured in . Soon after arriving into town , Aire hears of a treasure hidden inside a whirlpool during night , which piques her curiosity . She forces Jusqua along the trip and the two make their way through the maze . After finding the treasure guarded by a Seadevil , Jusqua goes into an outrage because of Aire ' s selfishness and leaves her . With only Lilibelle , the fairy , left in her companion , Aire opens the treasure chest , which transforms her into a cat and she is ejected out of the dungeon . Seeing that Jusqua at Liberte cannot help her in her current situation , Aire and Lilibelle decide to go to Guera and learn of a way to lift the hex . Along the way , they encounter an a Ogre Bear , who fatally wounds Aire , forcing Lillibelle to sacrifice herself to save her friend . At the same moment , Brandt decides that he would go find a way to break Horne out of the witch ' s contract himself , and leaves Yunita sleeping at the inn . He meets Aire the cat without knowing it is her , and they travel towards Arbor together . Once they arrive at Arbor , Brandt is immediately transformed into a plant due to the Queen ' s distrust of humans , making him unable progress inside the great tree . The story returns back to Jusqua who meets another cat back at Liberte believing it to be Aire . Feeling responsible , he travels to the city of Urbeth to find a way to lift the animal hex on the cat . He finds a Sorcerer who claims to be able to help the cat , but for a price of 10 , 000 gil . Jusqua proceeds to deliver specific requests for the four merchant lords of Urbeth ; Thauzand , Trylion , Bylion and Mylion . On the way , he finds Yunita , who somehow managed to get here from Guera and lost all her savings in the process , and is now living with the poverty stricken part of the community . She joins the party and helps Jusqua collect the money unbeknownst of the hex Aire is affected with . Once given the fee , the Sorcerer asks Jusqua to return by tomorrow as lifting the curse will take some time . The next day the town is attacked by monsters that spawn from dolls the Sorcerer had created . Once the two defeat the monsters the Sorcerer has already made his escape towards Invidia by boat . Thauzand helps Jusqua by lending him his boat and he leaves Yunita for a second time back at the inn as he makes his way to his next destination . Meanwhile , Aire the cat struggles to cure Brandt ' s vegetative petrification and soon meets a mouse named Torte . Torte helps her obtain the Animal Staff hidden deep within Great Tree Roots , but when used upon Brandt , he morphs into a dog . With both members being animals , they seek the Queen of Arbor for help , but in exchange they must calm down the rampaging Arbaroc , Guardian of Arbor who is a griffin who normally makes his nest atop the giant tree or Arbor , and bring him back to his senses . Arbaroc ' s uncontrollable rage forces the party to defeat him in combat and the Queen of Arbor thanks them by making the Animal Staff into the Transformation Staff , which allows any party member to shift between animal or human form at will . The floating city of Spelvia appears just above Arbor and Brandt and Aire decide it to be their next destination . However , only Aire makes it across while Brandt plummets back into Arbor . Following the Queen ' s advice , he travels further north to the western ice caverns looking for another way to Spelvia . At the same time Jusqua enters through the eastern ice cavern and the two eventually meet up to fight the Sorcerer and save the black cat he had captured . Jusqua laments on his false identification of the cat as Aire , which he almost risked his life to rescue . With Brandt and Jusqua arriving at Invidia , they meet a young girl named Rekoteh and a city of Dragoniers , the race that sealed the Dark Lord many years ago . Rekoteh ' s father willingly assists the party by letting them have the newborn dragon after they acquire the Dragon ' s Harp to awaken it . While all three of them race towards Spelvia , Yunita is still at Urbeth and seeing that her only party member left her yet again , she decides that she must save Horne and the Princess by herself . Spelvia is hovering above Urbeth and Yunita chooses to climb the Tower to the Sky and cross a rainbow to reach Spelvia through the Spelvia Dungeons . She soon meets Aire and is grateful to see her well , but when they arrive into town , they discover it in utter turmoil . Rolan , their ruler , has locked himself away in solitude thinking that humans are selfish and forces him to do all the work . These negative thoughts purged and influenced the Golems ' thoughts living around Spelvia and the Golems would attack any human being they see , so Yunita and Aire travel into Rolan ' s Soul with the help of the Witch of the Sky . They destroy the monsters controlling Rolan , but this causes him to unleash the darkness locked away inside him and to warp reality itself . When returning to Spelvia , Aire and Yunita are reunited with Brandt and Jusqua . The party arrives in Rolan ' s chamber and is forced to defeat him in battle . After defeating Rolan , Rekoteh arrives and holds onto her brother . The party have now been shot back decades into the past , and must acquire Weapons of Light once wielded by the genuine hero , Rolan ( from whom their Rolan is descended and after whom he is named ) , in order to seal the Dark Lord . The party returns to Arbor and meet up with a young Torte in his human form . They follow Torte into the Great Tree Roots , they meet Torte inside and they agree to help him find the legendary White Magic , Lux . At the bottom of the dungeon , they find the chest containing Lux and Torte recommends that he opens it . After Torte opens the chest , he accidentally releases Belphegor . After being released , Belphegor travels to Mount Gulg and plans to set off the volcano . The party returns to Arbor and Torte is changed into a mouse as punishment for releasing Belphegor . The party travels to Mount Gulg and witnesses Belphegor attempting to possess Arbaroc ' s body . Torte arrives and tries to prevent this , but he is knocked out by Belphegor . The party battles Belphegor and they defeat him . With Belphegor destroyed , the city of Arbor is finally at peace . Before they leave , Queen Arbor allows Torte to live in Arbor and explains that she aims to make peace with humans and gives the party the Lux spell . When party arrives in Urbeth , they discover Urbeth was once the city of faith and the people are under a plague sent by Beelzebub . They also discover Thauzand ' s daughter is infected with the plague and try to buy a Hi - Elixir from the Apothecary , but the Apothecary charges a very high price for cure . The party follows the Apothecary throughout the Hunting Caves , at the bottom floor they discover that the Apothecary was a monster serving Beelzebub . After defeating the monster , it drops a Hi - Elixir and the party takes it . The party returns to Urbeth and heal Thauzand ' s daughter and they learn that everyone in town has headed to the Tower to the Sky . The party goes to the Tower of the Sky and reveals to the civilians that Beelzebub has been fooling everyone in the town . After the party defeats Beelzebub and restore the city , the people of the town give the heroes the Cape of Light . When the party passes through the Animal Burrow , Lilibelle will be trapped in a spider web but when freed it joins the party towards Liberte . If the party enters Pione ' s house , Pione will remark on how the fairy inspires him to work on his next masterpiece for the Glassworks Fair , but disaster strikes as Captain Drake and his pirates loot Liberte of their artworks including the kidnapping of Pione and Lilibelle . At the end of the Pirates ' Hideout , Captain Drake is being controlled by a Seadevil and nearly kills Lilibelle until the party interrupts him . Captain Drake and Lilibelle are set free from the demon ' s control and the Captain gives them an old compass , which allows access to Cetus , one of the Weapons of Light , which serves as a water transport . The whale is used to combat against Leviathan in the northern shores of Liberte , which the party successfully defeats . The party goes Invidia and meets up with a younger Rekoteh , depressed about the fact she cannot see her brother in Spelvia . The party helps her by obtaining the Dragon ' s Mark in the Invidia Underground and brings it to her father . The Chief of Invidia tells Rekoteh to wait for Rolan to build his empire and this makes Rekoteh angry . Outside , Rekoteh explains to the party that the ice queen , Mammon froze Invidia into the frozen town it is now . The party travels to the Sun Temple and fight Mammon and manage to defeat it and lift the curse on Invidia . After the party defeats Mammon and restores Invidia , the Chief tells Rekoteh they are going to see Rolan in Spelvia . After these events , Rekoteh gives the heroes the Armor of Light . When the party returns to Spelvia , the Witch of the Sky opens the path into Rolan ' s Soul and allows the party to enter . When inside Rolan ' s Soul , the party fights Lucifer and they manage to stop him from corrupting Rolan . After defeating Lucifer , Rolan gives the party the Sword of Light . When the party first reaches Guera , they notice Krinjh and Ariadne are still alive and have brought a seedling from the Great Tree to Guera in order for the country to prosper , but this caused Ariadne ' s exile from Arbor . When the party decides to follow Krinjh to the Moonlit Tower , home of the Moon Folk race , they realize that several monsters were sent to murder him and so they travel to Quicksand Castle prior to his advice to help stop the outbreak . Upon reaching the top , they discover King Guera secretly manipulating Ariadne ' s thoughts about Krinjh and used the powers of the seedling for evil . Krinjh arrives and shines moonlight on the King who takes on the form of the demon , Asmodeus . When successfully defeated , Krinjh gives the party the Shield of Light . He and Ariadne become rulers of Guera leading the nation to prosperity . The party finally returns to Horne and arrive on the day Aire was born . They witness Queen Horne who is about to give birth to Aire . The party follows King Horne into the Magic Laboratory and witness King Horne making a deal with Louhi for the ultimate Black Magic , Desolator , in exchange for Aire ' s soul . The party is shocked and finally find the answers to the questions they have been asking since the beginning of the journey : their eventual defiance of this deal by killing Louhi is what sparked the curse . The party goes to Louhi ' s Mansion in an attempt to stop the deal from happening . Louhi transforms into Greaps but she is defeated . The witch attempts to fight the heroes again , but is stopped by Rolan . Rolan and Louhi reveal to the party that King Horne was turned into a parrot by the demon Satan and the demon is assuming his form . The two instruct the heroes to find the Lamp of Truth to reveal Satan ' s true form so they can defeat him . The party returns to the Magic Laboratory and meets with Satan , Brandt and the others use the Lamp of Truth on him and reveal his true form . The party manages to defeat Satan and return King Horne into his true form . With the real King returned to Queen Horne ' s side once more , she is able to recover from giving birth and didn ' t die . Once the kingdom is returned normal , the King gives the party the Desolator Tome . After fixing all the mistakes of the past , Chaos reveals the Star Chamber and attempts to fully cover the world in darkness . Brandt and the others head to the Star Chamber with Cetus ' s help . When they enter the dungeon , Chaos reveals to the party that he has sealed all their crowns and they must defeat all of his minions again to obtain them . After defeating Chaos ' s minions and obtaining their crowns , the party goes into the bottom levels of the Star Chamber to meet Chaos himself . After he is defeated twice , Chaos arises once more and he destroys the crystal that ' s been assisting the party , weakening them , and almost causes the group to give up , but their allies encourage them to not give up and give them the power to stand again . The party battles Chaos one more time and defeats him . After Chaos ' s death , the Star Chamber begins to collapse , but the party manages to escape on the dragon , and find themselves back in their own time line . The party flies around the world and return all the Light Equipment to their owners . After returning all the equipment to their owners , the heroes return to Horne Castle . After speaking with King Horne , Brandt and the others hear the dragon ' s cry and know they still have work to do . The group leaves , knowing that they are the Warriors of Light and they are destined to help the world .