Wen Kinoc Wen Kinoc is a non - playable character in " Final Fantasy X " who has a cameo role in " Final Fantasy X - 2 " . He is a Maester of Yevon and friend to fellow Maester Seymour Guado . According to the " Final Fantasy X Scenario Ultimania " Kinoc is the Minister of Military Affairs , which is in charge of the general military command . Kinoc doubles as head of the Warrior Monks and oversees the Crusaders . He was once a Warrior Monk himself and good friend of Auron . Story . Following Auron ' s fall from grace within the clergy , Kinoc took the promotion for second - in - command originally meant for his friend and rose to the title of Maester within seven years . Though he gained wealth and power , Kinoc began to hunger for more while fearing of losing it . One of his exploits as Maester was the formation of an elite military force for Yevon , the Crimson Squad . Kinoc assembled the Crimson Squad under the guise of fulfilling the society ' s demand for a stronger army , but his true intention was to privatize the Crusaders by inserting his hand - reared Crimson Squad members . Feeling threatened by the newly appointed Maester Seymour who was gaining power , Kinoc set his eyes on the Vegnagun , a mysterious machina weapon of ancient times . Rumors of a vengeful presence inhabiting the Den of Woe below Mushroom Rock Road circulated with reports of people seeing the illusion of a " gigantic machina " within intrigued Kinoc and he sent the Crimson Squad aspirants into the den to collect information on the Vegnagun on the same day as the Operation Mi ' ihen he was also overseeing would take place , so any casualties would go unnoticed , as he knew the operation would be a disaster . Overseeing Operation Mi ' ihen , Kinoc is glad to see Auron who is now traveling with summoner Yuna as one of her guardians , who expresses his disbelief at Kinoc having been made a Maester . Kinoc notices Auron has changed . At some point , Kinoc learned that all but three of his candidates and their sphere recorder died in the Den of Woe , and ordered for the quartet ' s execution to conceal his failure , as it could place his position in jeopardy . Kinoc ordered the Den of Woe sealed with magic . Kinoc later oversees the wedding of Yuna and Maester Seymour in Bevelle . He orders the Al Bhed s ' airship " Fahrenheit " that is attempting to disrupt the ceremony shot down , and the airship departs . Kinoc enlists his Warrior Monks to hold off Yuna ' s guardians who are looking to save her from the ceremony . Holding the party at gun point Kinoc almost decides to kill Auron when he calls him hypocrite for using machina , banned by the temple of Yevon whose dogma Kinoc is supposed to uphold . Yuna ' s escape on Valefor allows the guardians to flee with Rikku ' s flash bomb to meet up at Bevelle Temple . After Yuna obtains the aeon Bahamut from its Chamber of the Fayth , Kinoc arrests Yuna and her guardians with the promise of a fair trial . Kinoc is ordered by Gran Maester Mika to throw Yuna and her guardians in the Via Purifico . When Seymour offers to personally ensure Yuna and her guardians are killed if they escape , Kinoc offers to accompany him out of distrust . By the time Yuna and her guardians escape , Kinoc has been unceremoniously killed by Seymour as his way of relieving the maester " of all fear . " Seymour absorbs the pyreflies from Kinoc ' s corpse to evolve into Seymour Natus to apprehend Yuna himself . After his death , Auron swears to avenge the man he once knew , vowing that Seymour will pay for Kinoc ' s death . Two years later the Crimson Sphere s detailing Kinoc ' s attempted formation of the Crimson Squad , and the attempt he made on the lives of the surviving Crimson Squad candidates — Nooj , Gippal , Baralai , and Paine — surface . While investigating the Via Infinito , Yuna , Rikku and Paine find Kinoc ' s restless spirit before he transforms into the fiend Aranea . Gameplay . Kinoc ' s fiend form , Aranea , is fought as an optional boss in Via Infinito in " Final Fantasy X - 2 " . Voice . He is voiced by Roger L . Jackson in the English version , who also voiced Gramis Gana Solidor in " Final Fantasy XII " .