Good King Moggle Mog XII

Good King Moggle Mog XII is a primal in the form of a Moogle that appeared in the original Final Fantasy XIV and now appears in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==History==
===Version 1.0 & A Realm Reborn===
Moogles originated in the Churning Mists and were the gods' loyal servants. Due to a war, the Moogle king led his subjects to the realm of mortals in secret to live a peaceful life. The Moogles found the distance to the land below too great for their wings, and the journey would be made by rope, the longest ever woven. The king grasped onto one end of this lifeline as his subjects, one after the next, half clambered, half slid their way to the Promised Land, except for Good King Moggle Mog XII who had not the means to lower himself. Mourning their lost king and touched by his sacrifice, the Moogles have since abstained from naming a successor and revere his name. In truth, some moogles remained in the Churning Mists while the ones that escaped made their home in Gridania.
Ages later, at the dusk of the Sixth Astral Era and again during the Seventh Umbral, the Mogglesguard of the Twelveswood, the sworn defenders of mooglekind, grew worried about the threats to the forest and felt compelled to bring Moggle Mog to Eorzea via a ritual taught to them by the kind masked stranger who had approached them. Many noted this shouldn't be possible as Moggle Mog was believed to be a legend. What the Mogglesguard had summoned was their desire for Moggle Mog to be real, given physical form.
While Moogle legends described Moggle Mog as a kind, benevolent presence, the primal Mogglesguard had summoned was driven by the need to feast on ever-greater amounts of aether along with a large following to further solidify his being. The Warrior of Light and company defeated Moggle Mog on two separate occasions before he did irreparable damage, not just to the other citizens of the Twelveswood, but to the Moogles themselves.
Rather than recognizing their folly in summoning the king, the Mogglesguard were filled with anger and summoned him forth once more. More powerful than his previous incarnation, Moggle Mog assumed the title of Great King Moggle Mog XII. Despite his increase in power, the Warrior of Light defeated both the King and the Mogglesguard yet again.
=== Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker ===
When the party used the spaceship Ragnarok to reach Ultima Thule, the beast tribes summoned benevolent iterations of their primals using the Mothercrystal, with Good King Moggle Mog XII being one of the ten summoned. He gave his power to the Ragnarok, allowing it to achieve the propulsion needed for the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and the Warrior of Light among them to reach their destination.
==Gameplay==
Good King Moggle Mog XII is fought as a boss aide by a zealous band of moogle warriors. While most moogles in the franchise have names derived from "moogle" or "mog" (i.e. Montblanc, Mogsy, Moguel) with the exceptions of Stiltzkin and Artemicion, the Moogles fought in the Good King Moggle Mog XII battle have names derived from "Kupo", the moogles' trademark noise (i.e. Pukna Pako, Kupli Kipp, Kupti Koop). This naming convention was previously used in the SNES translation of Final Fantasy VI for the names of the Ten Moogles, with the exception of Mog.
==Musical themes==
Good King Moggle Mog XII's eponymous theme plays during the battle against him. It is a remix of the traditional "Moogle Theme", albeit more spooky in nature. The main melodic lines are drawn from "Mog's Theme" from Final Fantasy VI. It resembles "This Is Halloween", the opening theme to The Nightmare Before Christmas, written by Danny Elfman.
The lyrics to the song in Phase 2 (Post-Memento-Moogle) describe the moogles in the fight (including the king) and their personalities and specialities. Players may assume the Moogles are either introducing each other or themselves, but nothing in the lyrics confirms this. It is possible the lyrics were written as a mnemonic device for players.
==Other appearances==
===Final Fantasy Trading Card Game===
Good King Moggle Mog XII appears as an Ice-elemental card.
===Final Fantasy Portal App===
Good King Moggle Mog XII appears as a Triple Triad card.
==Non-Final Fantasy guest appearances==
===Guardian Cross===
Good King Moggle Mog XII appears as a card on the mobile card game Guardian Cross.
==Gallery==
FFXIV King Moogle Artwork.png|Artwork of Good King Moggle Mog XII.
King Moggle Mog Art.png|Artwork of Good King Moggle Mog XII.
Guardian Cross Good King Moggle Mog XII Full.png|Full version of Good King Moggle Mog XII's card in Guardian Cross.
==Notes==
Category:Moogles
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy XIV
Category:Primals in Final Fantasy XIV