Brahne Raza Alexandros XVI Queen Brahne Raza Alexandros XVI is Alexandria ' s ruler and mother of Princess Garnet in " Final Fantasy IX " . Though she ends up causing much death and destruction , Garnet testifies she had once been a kind and well - liked monarch and not the power - hungry villain she became after the King passed away , and the mysterious Kuja started to show his face within Alexandria Castle . Profile . Appearance . Queen Brahne is a large , 39 - year - old woman with pale , blue skin , large lips , and a bulbous , purple nose . Kuja calls her an " elephant - woman " and Baku , the leader of Tantalus Theater Troupe , refers to her as " fat - ass , butt - ugly Queen Brahne " . Brahne wears a fair amount of makeup , including blush and lipstick , and her face is covered in freckles . Her eyes are blacked out under a large domed golden helmet from which two blonde , bristly ponytails protrude from either side . She dresses extravagantly , wearing a long red coat with a feathered trim , a striped blouse , a long skirt with a golden sash , and a lot of jewelry . She often carries a fan . Personality . Although once kind and benevolent , when Brahne ' s husband died , she became cruel and bitter . A mysterious man named Kuja convinced her to wage war on the other nations of the Mist Continent , leading to Brahne ' s insatiable greed and subsequent lack of value for innocent lives . Brahne becomes blinded by her desire to rule and even puts her daughter ' s safety at risk . Story . Brahne was born in October of 1760 and ruled Alexandria peacefully for many years . She and the King had a daughter who passed away due to illness . Soon after , a small adrift boat was discovered with a 6 - year - old girl who had a horn on her forehead . The King ordered the girl ' s horn removed and for her to become the " replacement " Princess , seeing she resembled the recently deceased Princess Garnet . The girl was told her name was Garnet and that the King and Queen were her parents . Having lost most of her memories , the girl accepted this as truth . In the year that followed the King ' s death , Garnet noticed changes in Brahne ' s behavior . A man named Kuja had convinced her to conquer the neighboring countries of Lindblum and Burmecia , using an army of black mages created from the mist that covers the continent . Kuja told Brahne that Garnet possessed the power to summon eidolons , magical beasts of legend of unimaginable power , fueling her greed . However , the eidolons could not be harnessed until she would be sixteen , Garnet remaining oblivious of her heritage as a summoner . The kingdom ' s heirloom , a valuable crystal shard , was but a piece of a summoning jewel that , according to Kuja , could call forth a formidable eidolon . The jewel had been divided long ago with the shards distributed among the continent ' s kingdoms , and thus Brahne plots to steal all the shards for herself . Under utmost secrecy a manufacturing plant is set up in Dali to produce living black mage dolls , soulless automatons who can wield powerful black magic , to create a magical army that would blindly follow the Queen ' s command . On Garnet ' s 16th birthday , Tantalus Theater Troupe arrives in Alexandria to perform Garnet ' s favorite play , " I Want to Be Your Canary " . Despite the festivities she appears gloomy , but Brahne fully enjoys the show , at least until it is revealed the actors conspire to kidnap Garnet , who is whisked away on the theater ship while wearing the royal pendant holding Alexander ' s piece of the valuable summoning jewel . Enraged , Brahne orders the Black Waltz es , powerful black mage variants with a need to complete a given objective no matter the cost , to bring back both Garnet and the pendant . The mages fail at their task and are vanquished by Garnet and her new friends , who join in on her quest to find out what is happening with her kingdom . Alexandria and its army of black mages invades Burmecia , whose King and survivors escape to Cleyra , a colossal tree protected by a sandstorm . Visiting the ruins with Kuja and the Alexandrian General Beatrix , Brahne marvels at the site of destruction , but fail to find the crystal shard they were looking for . Hearing of the massacre , Garnet returns to the castle to confront her mother , but Brahne has a sleeping spell cast on her and orders her court jesters and mystics , Zorn and Thorn , to extract the eidolons from Garnet for her own use . Once this is done , Brahne decides Garnet is no longer of any use to her , and orders her executed . Brahne tests the power of one of the extracted eidolons , Odin , on Cleyra , and the entire tree is obliterated after Beatrix steals the Burmecian s ' crystal shard . Beatrix begins to doubt the Queen ' s motives , and when she hears Garnet is to be executed she helps her escape Alexandria with her new friends . Her daughter on the loose again , still in possession with the royal pendant , Brahne hires two bounty hunters , Lani and Amarant , to retrieve the pendant and kill a rogue black mage traveling with Garnet . The Alexandrian army advances on Lindblum , which is greatly damaged by her black mage army and the eidolon Atomos she summons upon the city . Lindblum is occupied by Alexandria , and Lindblum ' s piece of the summoning jewel falls into her hands . Now controlling all of Mist Continent , Brahne ' s lust for power only grows . The black mages defect , and , deeming them useless and no longer needing Kuja , Brahne sets out to hunt him down , which turns out to be her undoing . Brahne guides her navy to the coast of the Outer Continent , where Kuja is said to be hiding , and summons Bahamut to attack him . He enslaves the eidolon with the " Invincible " and unleashes Mega Flare to destroy Brahne ' s fleet . Garnet watches the events unfold from the shore , unable to help . Brahne ' s battered escape pod washes ashore on a nearby beach where Garnet finds her . With her dying breath , Brahne asks for forgiveness for the things she did and says that she ' s relieved to be finally free from her terrible greed . She passes away in her adopted daughter ' s arms . Despite Brahne ' s campaign for power , the people still remember her fondly , and a tomb is constructed for her alongside Alexandria Castle to honor her . Garnet later visits this place to reaffirm her conviction to keep fighting Kuja . Kuja later claims that it was Queen Brahne ' s soul , trapped in the " Invincible " filled with greed , that let him enter Trance . Other appearances . " Final Fantasy Trading Card Game " . Brahne appears in with her Yoshitaka Amano artwork . Etymology . Brahne ' s first name may be taken from the Greek word " brachnos " , meaning " hoarse " . Raza means " race " in spanish .