Final Fantasy XII : Revenant Wings Final Fantasy XII : Revenant Wings is a game in the " Ivalice Alliance " subseries , and an adventure based on " Final Fantasy XII " for the Nintendo DS . It chronicles a period of time in which Vaan and Penelo , two of the main characters from " Final Fantasy XII " , are sky pirates . As stated in the " Ultimania " guide , the game was originally planned as a title unrelated to " Final Fantasy XII " , but Square Enix executives decided to make it a " Final Fantasy XII " sequel during development . Although inheriting the " Final Fantasy XII " title , Yokoyama downplayed its link to its PlayStation 2 predecessor , saying — " It is not accurate to call this a sequel . We want people to view it as the latest FF game . This is not FFXII - 2 " . Gameplay . " Revenant Wings " features gameplay similar to its predecessor . It has a simpler gambit system , with only one gambit per character , possibly to accommodate the Nintendo DS , but also to make it easier to play . Each playable character excels in an area : Vaan can steal stats from enemies , Penelo can heal and buff the party , Filo can set traps for opponents , Kytes casts black magick , Llyud uses Dragoon skills , Fran inflicts status ailments , Balthier can disable enemies from afar and boost his own ranged attack power , Ashe knows time magick , and Basch protects the party . Each player character forms a party with of Espers . The stylus . " Revenant Wings " is played using mainly the stylus , with the optional exception of using to combine all active characters and Espers into one group , and to select and move the camera to one of the nearest Summoning Gate s . Area effect spells work by targeting an enemy , while any other enemy surrounding that target within a reasonable distance will receive the effect of the used spell . Drawing a box around two or more allies makes them a party . After setting up a party by tapping a character or drawing a box around a group , the player taps their destination to move them . Dragging the stylus does not make the units move continually . Tapping an enemy makes the party attack that enemy and the D - Pad moves the camera . Holding swaps the two screens , allowing the player to move the camera with the stylus , and cover more distance more quickly than with the D - Pad . This makes it impossible to control a party during the screen swap , however . The screens revert to normal as soon as is released . After ordering a party to do anything ( move , attack , etc . ) , they are unselected . Summons . There are 51 summons , from the Espers , to the Yarhi of Lemurés , composed primarily of enemies from " Final Fantasy XII " , and including some classic summons like Shiva and Ifrit . They incorporate six elements : Fire , Water , Thunder , Earth , Holy , and None . The summons are unlocked in the Ring of Pacts , but some of the more powerful ones need to be defeated as boss es first . From the six elements , summons are further categorized into three groups : Flying , Melee , and Ranged . Each group comes in three ranks , with higher ranks being more powerful , but being more expensive to summon as well as third ( highest ) rank being limited to only one summon at a time . Affinity determines the type and number of allied Yarhi that can be on the battlefield at one time . The blue area of Affinity bar at the top of the screen shows the amount of Affinity currently in control of the party , while the full length of the bar represents the potential Affinity that the player party can gain . Yarhi are summoned into the battle via Summoning Gate s that glow with a different color depending on who controls the gate ; parties can capture the enemy ' s Gates for their own use . Quickenings . Only Vaan and Balthier keep their original Quickenings . Quickenings are obtained by defeating a given Esper and each character has one Quickening . Some damage enemies , while some can prevent them from summoning Espers or harming the player party , or even heal . The Quickenings have a gauge similar to the Limit Break gauge in other games , and once full , the character can unleash their Quickening . The method by which the gauge fills is different for each character : Vaan ' s Quickening gauge fills when he and his Espers attacks enemies , whereas Basch ' s Quickening gauge fills when enemies attack him and his Espers . Characters . " Revenant Wings " has a large cast . The game introduces a new race , the aegyl , a race of hume - like people with wings . Setting . Though the journey starts on the Glabados Ruins , most of it is set on the Sky Continent of Lemurés . The floating continent was only recently discovered , and thus its areas are new to Vaan and his sky pirating friend . The team returns to mainland Ivalice to investigate both new and familiar locations . Story . A year after their adventure to protect Dalmasca from the Archadia n Empire , Vaan and Penelo are treasure - hunting in unknown ruins on the Sky Continent of Lemurés . They find the Cache of Glabados , which includes an airship , and a piece of auracite , a powerful magickal crystal . Upon boarding the derelict with the auracite , it takes them to the sky continent , where they meet the aegyl , Llyud . Aegyl resemble humes , but have large weathered wings . The aegyl having lived isolated on the sky continent from the rest of Ivalice , Vaan and Penelo have never met one before . Defying his race ' s traditions , Llyud accepts their help , and requests their assistance in stopping the Ivalician sky pirates from defiling Lemurés , as after the sky continent was discovered , sky pirates from all walks of life have ventured there in search of previously unknown riches . Thousands of years ago , Feolthanos was the chief of the aegyl when they still lived in Ivalice . Feolthanos took a viera wife and started a family , their descendants eventually being called " feol viera " . He revolted against the Occuria , the self - appointed gods of Ivalice , and took the aegyl to Lemurés . Feolthanos used the colossal auralith crystals to create a barrier around Lemurés to keep the Occuria out while trapping the aegyl within . The barrier was maintained until about a year prior when a massive amount of Mist from the Sun - Cryst was released upon Ivalice . Feolthanos left the Cache of Glabados , along with a book , as a gift for his family ( who did not have wings ) , in the hopes that one day they would use them to come to him in Lemurés . The cache is three shards of auracite , which each serve as a beacon to call the " Galbana " , an airship built by Feolthanos , which picks up the one who finds the cache and brings them to Lemurés . Vaan and his friends take command of the " Galbana " and use it to explore Lemurés , where Llyud tells them of the mass of sky pirates invading the Purvama in search of treasure . At the site of a beautiful auralith at the Fane of Tehp Qul , Vaan ' s party comes face - to - face with the Judge of Wings , a woman completely clad in armor in the same manner as the Archadian Judges , who seeks to destroy the auraliths . The auraliths are the force that sustains Lemurés , and destroying them would cause the sky continent to fall apart . Though the Judge is temporarily defeated , she shatters the great Skystone and absconds with its power , and Vaan and his friends set out to stop her . After fruitless leads from the sky pirate Rikken , Vaan ' s profiteering friend Tomaj locates the Judge at the Yapih Caverns . She has begun a ritual at the caves ' fiery Skystone . Vaan ' s party encounters Ba ' Gamnan ' s henchmen in the caverns — a group of bangaa headhunters — but a berserked Ba ' Gamnan knocks them out , and the party defeats him . Ba ' Gamnan kidnaps Vaan ' s friend Filo , but with the help of Rikken , they defeat Ba ' Gamnan and free his captive . They confront the Judge , only to flee when she summons Bahamut , who breaks the Muruc Cahuac Skysea into pieces . Bahamut ' s wrath sends the " Galbana " into a crash - landing at Tswarra , Isle of the Lost . Stranded , the group finds a wounded man by the name of Velis . After nursing him back to health , Penelo discovers Velis is Mydia ' s dead lover , the feol viera behind the Judge of Wings ' s faceless helm . The Judge herself appears on the deserted island , changes Velis into a terrible Yarhi , and orders him to attack Vaan ' s party . Though Penelo refuses to hurt her friend , the rest of the crew fight . Though the Judge again escapes , Llyud deals the finishing blow to " Velis " , revealed to be but his anima taken form as a Yarhi , ending his warped life . The " Galbana " repaired , Vaan and company meet up with their old friend Fran at Arda , Heaven ' s Pillar , after rescuing her from the tireless Ba ' Gamnan . She leads them to the Ymir Qul Underground , where Balthier and the Judge of Wings await next to the second auralith . The Judge and her cohort , the Esper Mateus , are defeated and leave the area , but Balthier intends to destroy the auralith . Despite Vaan ' s efforts , Balthier and Fran succeed , and the release of energy from the Skystone sends Vaan , Penelo , Llyud , Filo , and Kytes to Lesrekta , Isle of Illusions . Lesrekta serves as a test for Vaan ' s true feelings towards his friends . After being separated from one another throughout the misty island , the five reunite after Penelo expresses her wish for Vaan to return . A voice calls them to Illusion ' s Home , where Velis ' s spirit lingers . He begs them to send him onto the next life properly , and explains Mydia ' s true existence as Feolthanos ' s puppet . Mydia is a normally kind feol viera who has been corrupted by her ancestor ' s spirit . After his defeat , Velis pleads with Vaan to save Mydia from Feolthanos ' s clutches , and turns himself into the godblade Anastasia . Velis ' s passing prompts Vaan and his friends ' return to the real world , upon the " Galbana " . After Balthier explains he destroyed the auralith to protect the aegyl souls within from Feolthanos , he and Fran join the party . Feolthanos uses the auraliths to drain the aegyls ' anima reducing them to cold and emotionless beings who feel neither hatred nor happiness . The stolen anima is locked in the auraliths and can manifest as Yarhi . The auraliths sustain an alternate dimension where the Yarhi live , and pieces of auracite can be used to summon the Yarhi to the world of living , but doing so gradually drains the summoner ' s anima . After Feolthanos stole Mydia ' s anima , he turned her into the Judge of Wings and ordered her to drain the auraliths ' power and use the power to destroy Ivalice . The party meets up with Queen Ashe and Basch on the new Dreadnought " Leviathan " . Descending to Ivalice , Vaan and company follow several leads on the Judge , until they meet her at the Feol Warren , the secluded home of the feol viera . Mydia kills the penultimate members of her own race , with the intent to give them , in death , escape from Feolthanos ' s will . Vaan ' s party defeats Mydia for the final time , and as she dies , she tells them of her loss of Velis and the attempt to bring him back to life , which led only to the giving of herself to Feolthanos in the false hope he would resurrect her fallen love . Mydia ' s spirit leads the " Galbana " to Eternity ' s March , the gateway to the Feolthanos ' s fortress , the Keep of Forgotten Time . Here , the party learns the history of the aegyl and their unending struggle against the Yarhi , who were created from their ancestors ' departed souls to fuel Feolthanos ' s need for anima . The aegyl god is the final auralith , a leech that drained his people ' s souls and continues the perpetual cycle of aegyl suffering . Feolthanos had been forced to commit this act by the Occuria , in vengeance for leading his people to the skies of Lemurés . After Feolthanos ' s defeat , he is freed and dies , and the auraliths ' power dies with him . The Purvama of Lemurés , no longer supported by the anima of its countless aegyl inhabitants , falls from the sky , and Llyud bids farewell to his friends to lead his race to a new home . The " Galbana " flies off of its own accord above the disintegrating islands of Lemurés , as its former commanders return to Ivalice aboard the " Strahl " , Balthier ' s airship . Release . Square Enix released a limited edition sky pirates edition package that comes with the game and a limited edition DS Lite . The special edition was only released in Japan . It comes with the " Final Fantasy XII : Revenant Wings " logo and a few of the main characters emblazoned on the front . Etymology . The name " Revenant Wings " may refer to the plight of the winged aegyl race , whose emotions have been removed , making them emotionally " undead " . The game ' s final mission against Feolthanos Exultant is called " Revenant Wings " . In it , multiple ghostly beings called Wing Wraith s are summoned , and the final boss is an immortal being who bears black , undying wings .