Cid of the Lufaine Cid of the Lufaine is a minor character in the " " , " 20th Anniversary " and iOS remakes of the original " Final Fantasy " . Though he does not appear in the game itself , he is mentioned by several townspeople in Lufenia as the ancient creator of the airship . " Dissidia Final Fantasy " and " Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " expand his role in the original game considerably . Cid ' s past ties him easily into the creation of Chaos and Cosmos , and he serves as an overseer to the cycles of war known to the warriors as the Great Will . His backstory and his connection to Chaos and Cosmos is told through " Dissidia ' s " Chaos and Cosmos Reports , and " Dissidia 012 ' s " Report . He also serves as the narrator . Story . " Dissidia Final Fantasy " and " Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " . Cid is revealed to be originally a great scientist of the Lufaine who studied the powers of Harmony and Discord , and discovered a way to use the Levistone ' s power to make airships . With the threat from neighboring countries who controlled summoned monsters and Omega , the government of Onrac was attempting to use crystal ore retrieved from a world through a portal to the Interdimensional Rift to make weapons . They created the first manikin s , but they were mindless automatons . Onrac had Cid use the Lufenian memory rituals to infuse a manikin with memories from ten individuals , granting it a personality and a sense of self , and its body not crystallizing as the failed manikins had done . This " perfect " manikin was named Chaos . Cid and his wife raised Chaos as their own son and grew to love him , and he returned their love . However , once he matured , he was taken by Onrac to fight as a weapon of war . When Cid and his wife saw how the fighting was twisting him , they refused to help the state control Chaos , and were imprisoned . Cid and his wife fled the prison , using the monsters in the dungeon as decoys . They returned to the laboratories where they found Chaos , gaunt and weary from war and experimentation . In his company was another perfect manikin , this one based on Cid ' s wife to placate and control Chaos , and was named " Cosmos " to signify her role to bring order . Cid ' s wife briefly explained what had happened , and convinced Chaos to flee with them . During the escape , Cid ' s wife was shot , and in his hatred , Chaos opened a portal to the Interdimensional Rift , drawing himself , Cid and Cosmos into it . The three are pulled into World B where Garland appears before them , summoned to World B by unknown means . As it happens , the dragon Shinryu visits the world at the same time . The five enter into a pact . Chaos and Cosmos would wage war using pawns summoned from other worlds , Shinryu would grant Cid the power to live without a body so he may observe the war from afar , and Garland would coax Chaos to fight Cosmos in spite of her resemblance to his mother . Each time the pawns summoned by Cosmos and Chaos grow weak , Shinryu will " purify " them , absorbing the memories and experience of the fallen warriors to grow stronger . In return , they shall be revived to fight again , and after enough cycles of war , Chaos will grow strong enough to open a portal to the Rift again , allowing them to return to World A . With his body taken from him , Cid sequesters himself in the Chasm in the Rotting Land and continues his studies . Attempting to create a perfect manikin on his own , he successfully infuses a manikin with his own memories , and though the body doesn ' t crystallize , it shows no signs of will . Cid places this manikin among the summoned warriors and observes it being taken to Cosmos and receiving her power , and developing a strong will and resolve as it is accepted into the cycles of war . This manikin came to be known as the Warrior of Light . For eleven cycles , the war went on , but at the end of the twelfth cycle , Cosmos uses her powers to protect the Warrior of Light from harm . Realizing she has come to care for them enough to risk her own life and that the summoned warriors are not mere pawns , Cid comes to grips with his misguided intentions . At the end of the thirteenth cycle , Cid breaks his neutrality and teleports the Warriors of Cosmos to safety when they destroy Chaos and end the cycle of war . Shinryu was angered over Cid betraying their agreement , and spoke to Chaos as he died . Realizing his " father " had wished for his death to end the cycles , Chaos gave up his remaining power to Shinryu and agreed for Cid to be punished . Shinryu imprisoned Cid in a nightmare world where the cycles continued until Chaos absorbed enough power to become Feral Chaos , who destroyed all summoned warriors . In this alternate world , Cid was forced to take on the physical form of a moogle and sealed Cosmos in the Chasm in the Rotting Land for her own safety . He also sealed himself within the cave ' s namesake gateway . With Cid and Cosmos beyond his reach , Feral Chaos turned his rage on Shinryu , and in his sleep , Cid ' s memories faded . The moogles of the world came to know of Cid in rumors as the " mured moogle " , but none of them could use the teleport stone to reach the gateway and investigate . Eventually , in the storyline Confessions of the Creator , five warriors are called into the nightmare world through an unknown means , and Cid calls out to them to free him . The warriors free him and are directed by Cid to the Land of Discord , his memories awakening and Cid telling them the nightmare world ' s versions of events . At the Edge of Madness , the five warriors destroy Feral Chaos , shattering the nightmare world and freeing Cid . He returns to World B where Cosmos has been revived and invites her to accompany him on a new journey , but Cosmos refuses , choosing to remain to govern World B even though it is destined to collapse . Cid asks Cosmos for forgiveness and departs ; his Museum profile states that he set out on " a journey to a new realm " . Etymology . Cid is a recurring name in the " Final Fantasy " series . Voice . In " Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " , Cid is voiced by Bunta Sugawara in Japanese and Rodger Parsons in English .