Judge of Wings The Judge of Wings is a major antagonist in " " . She aims to invade Ivalice from the floating continent of Lemurés and start a war between the aegyl and humes . Sky pirates call her the Judge of Wings due to her resemblance to the Archadian Judges . Profile . Appearance . As the Judge of Wings , she wears a full suit of ornate armor with a pair of large wings on her back . As Mydia , she is a light - skinned viera with short rabbit - like ears , long blonde hair and brown eyes . Story . As Mydia . The Judge of Wings is a by the name of " Mydia " . Like all feol viera , she was born and raised in the Feol Warren , isolated from the rest of the world . Mydia was a recalcitrant young woman and would often argue with her mother about her people ' s cruel fate . One day , her mother gave her a tome explaining the feol viera would eventually reach the skies and be free . When Mydia came of age she left the volcano to explore Ivalice , ignoring her elders ' wishes . In Rabanastre she encountered the hume Velis . They befriended and romantic feelings developed between the two . Velis , being a soldier of Nalbina , was called away to the war . Promising to return , Mydia waited , but after several weeks of waiting she knew she ' d never see him again . Remembering the stories from her youth about the Eternal , a source of eternal life she thought could revive Velis , Mydia wandered Ivalice collecting clues about the islands of legend . She found the Cache of Glabados where she acquired a piece of auracite and the " Galbana " . Using the airship , she departed to Lemurés . When she arrived Feolthanos detected her fresh anima and knew she would be easy to control : she was descended from his viera wife , held a piece of auracite — which contained part of his anima — and she was feeling a burning anger from losing Velis . Using his new puppet , Feolthanos embarked on his quest to get revenge on Ivalice . To ensure he had complete control , he robbed Mydia of her anima by tricking her with a means to revive Velis , but only created a Yarhi in his image . Mydia gave up her will and became the Judge of Wings , a puppet to her master . Collecting the Auraliths . Vaan ' s party first encounters the Judge on Tormelados , Isle of the Megalith . She is at the auralith ' s Cradle in the Fane of Tehp Qul , draining the auralith of its power . The Judge uses her powers to distort the feelings within the party ' s minds , rendering most of them unconscious and shows them a flashback of her counter with Balthier in the same Fane . Balthier had attempted to stop the Judge , but she had already dispatched Fran . Balthier destroyed his own auracite and told the Judge that chasing eternal life was a foolish fantasy , then turned his gun on the Judge . The judicier summoned Shiva , who knocked Balthier out with a Diamond Dust spell . Returning back to the present , the Judge fights the party before vanishing and leaving her dirty work to Shiva . When the Empress of Ice is defeated , the Judge returns and uses a pair of machines to destroy the auralith , absorbing its powers into her shard of auracite before disappearing again . The party searches for the Judge and finds her in the Yapih Caverns , standing over a Summoning Gate before a crystal of fiery auracite . After using Belias as a distraction , the Judge summons , who shatters the Skysea into several pieces . Velis . The party is stranded on a deserted island , Tswarra , where they encounter Velis who explains he is looking for a feol viera called Mydia . When the Judge attacks the party later on at Tomaj ' s Camp , Velis ' s reaction to her makes the party realize she must be Mydia . The Judge shows the party another flashback . She was at the Yapih Caverns to summon Velis back from the dead using Feolthanos ' s power , but the form she brought back was unresponsive and Velis was spirited away , landing on Tswarra . Back at Tomaj ' s Camp , the Judge captures Velis and transforms him into the Yarhi . She concludes the Velis she has resurrected is not the Velis she loved , and so leaves the island , and the party is forced to defeat and kill him . On mainland Ivalice , the party encounters the Judge in the Paramina Rift . She tries to crush them and Basch challenges her . The Judge teleports away and the party journeys around Ivalice looking for clues Feolthanos had left behind to discover where Mydia would strike next . It leads them to the Roda Volcano , where they find the Feol Warren village . Death . Vaan ' s party finds the home of the feol viera , but the Judge is already there , slaughtering the viera claiming it is the only way to end their suffering . The party tries to stop her , but she summons Chaos . When Chaos is defeated , the Judge fights the party herself , and throws her auracite into the lava , summoning an army of Wyvern , but the party still defeats her . When they gather round the Judge ' s armor disappears , revealing the viera underneath . Mydia had been possessed by Feolthanos , who had used her to start his invasion of Ivalice . Her hatred of the people who shunned her people , the loss of her love , Velis , and the fact her auracite contained part of Feolthanos ' s anima made her easily possessed . She asks the party to defeat Feolthanos and free him from the magick granting him perpetual life . Mydia ' s spirit leaves her as she dies , and reveals Eternity ' s March , the pathway to the Keep of Forgotten Time . When the party reaches Feolthanos ' s Keep they encounter the Judge , having been created by Feolthanos to halt them . She is defeated , but when the party reaches the final auralith , another Judge is summoned using Mydia ' s anima . This one is defeated too , and the party never sees her again . Gameplay . The Judge of Wings is fought as a boss several times during the course of the game under both names . Other appearances . " Final Fantasy Trading Card Game " . Judge of Wings appears with her promotional render with an ice - elemental card .