Scarmiglione (Final Fantasy XIV)

Scarmiglione is a voidsent who serves as a boss and antagonist in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker patch 6.2. Formerly a miqo'te living in the Thirteenth reflection of the Source before the Flood of Darkness twisted him into an aether-starved creature, Scarmiglione served under Golbez as one of his archfiends.
==History==
===Before Final Fantasy XIV===
====Contramemoria====
The man who would come to be named "Scarmiglione" was initially a commander of a garrison during the Contramemoria, a war in which eidolons were summoned and rampaged through the land, with gifted people called memoriates being able to seal away these eidolons in memoria crystals. One day, the man's garrison was attacked by an eidolon. Rather than face the creature with his men, the man hid in rubble, using the eidolon's dim wit to escape the massacre while waiting for the memoriate that would assist the fort.
Upon the memoriate's arrival and subsequent sealing of the eidolon, the memoriate and his attendants found the fort commander hidden in the rubble and none worse for the wear. When questioned, the commander justified his actions by claiming that his death would not serve his nation. The memoriate, furious at the commander's cowardice, quickly attacked him and rendered him unconscious and buried him alive alongside his troops, leaving his survival to fate.
As the funeral rites were being held, the man rose from the grave, exclaiming that he could not die, with those observing thinking him a demon. As the man wandered from the site, the people named him "Scarmiglione" for his grim visage.
====Denizen of the void====
After the Flood of Darkness took the world, twisting the inhabitants of the world into voidsent, Scarmiglione was one of few non-memoriate to grow into a powerful being. Scarmiglione as a voidsent preyed only on weak beings who could not fight back, running from stronger voidsent.
Once, while hunted by flying voidsent, Scarmiglione encountered Golbez, who questioned why he ran from his opponent. Claiming he would not run if he were stronger, Scarmiglione was astonished as Golbez gave of his aether to him. Scarmiglione dispatched his hunter, and questioned what Golbez did to him. Golbez clarified that he shared but a sliver of aether, and the strength that allowed Scarmiglione to claim victory was one that he had acquired on his own by preying only on the weak. Realizing that his fear had blinded him to his power, he joined Golbez at the promise of even more power.
While in the service of Golbez, Scarmiglione was offered a portion of the aether of the captured great wyrm Azdaja, which transformed him into the archfiend of earth.
===Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker===
As the Warrior of Light entered the Thirteenth, Scarmiglione ambushed their party, killing the domain's ruler in the process. However, he underestimated them and was seemingly killed. Due to the natural ability of voidsent to reincarnate, Scarmiglione's soul lived on and stalked the party. He again attempted to ambush the party, as well as repeatedly reviving other voidsent. This attempt failed as the voidsent Zero sealed Scarmiglione away in crystal. Scarmiglione, in utter shock and disbelief that a Memoria user was still alive, cursed his fate and Golbez for sending him to it.
==Characteristics==
===Appearance===
Before the flood of darkness, Scarmiglione was a male miqo'te standing at 68 ilms, with slicked back hair, white hair and fur, red eyes, and a scar over his right eye. As a garrison commander, he wore a , with and Nightsteel Gauntlets and Greaves of Maiming.
As a voidsent, before absorbing aether from the great wyrm Azdaja, Scarmiglione was a brown-scaled bipedal creature with multiple pairs of tusks.
After absorbing the aether of Azdaja, Scarmiglione became a large purple humanoid with lanky limbs and scaled appendages, with four huge tusks growing out of his body and silver and red lines running through his body. His eyes glow white with two red lines running over his eyes and a red crystal in his forehead. Scarmiglione wears a tattered brown cloak and loincloth.
===Personality===
As a mortal, Scarmiglione was a coward but was determined to live, having a strong desire to survive. He even stated that his death wouldn't serve the nation he served, uncaring of the lives lost under his command, leading a disgusted memoriate to strike him down and bury him alive, allowing fate to determine his end. 
As a voidsent, Scarmiglione was initially cowardly and fearful but after receiving the power of Azdaja, he became confident in his abilities and boastful of his power. Scarmiglione has also shown a cowardly sense of opportunism, waiting for the right moment to strike and claim the aether he desires rather than attack head-on, such as his ambush on Beatrice after she had been weakened by the Scions and later the Scions themselves as they were distracted.
=== Abilities ===
As a voidsent, Scarmiglione can devour free floating aether and reconstitute himself in the case of "death". As the Archfiend of Earth, Scarmiglione possess powerful earth-based attacks, from creating powerful shockwaves akin to tremors and summoning columns of stone to crush his foes. Additionally, Scarmiglione can use multiple poisonous attacks as well as his sword to create large sweeping attacks.
Most notably, Scarmiglione was prodigious in his ability to reconstitute quickly, making him a fearsome opponent to face as he would quickly return from defeat. This ability also extends to his minions, allowing him to constantly bring them back to exhaust and overwhelm his enemies. However, Golbez would state that while Scarmiglione's ability of resurrection was without peer, he was the weakest of his four archfiends.
==Gameplay==
Scarmiglione appears as the final boss of the duty.
Scarmiglione also appears in a solo instance battle for the quest .
==Musical themes==
When encountered within The Fell Court of Troia, the theme "Battle 2 (Endwalker)" will play.
==Behind the scenes==
Scarmiglione is based on Scarmiglione from Final Fantasy IV, being the archfiend of earth serving under Golbez, as well as the first of the group to die at the hands of the party. Like in the original game, Scarmiglione if fought twice, returning from the death after the first time he is defeated.
==Etymology==
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy XIV
Category:Antagonists
Category:Voidsents