Fabineau Soranus

Fabineau quo Soranus also known as Fabineau the Heedless is a non-playable character from Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. He is a member of the IVth Imperial Legion as a commander in the legions mage detachment and appears as a foe in the Zadnor plateau. He is Lofii's former commander, who ran the experiments on the monoceros and other magical beasts. 
==History==
===Early life===
A centurion of the IVth Legion's mage contingent, Fabineau was the commanding officer of Llofii pyr Potitus prior to her defection, the trigger for which was his cruel experiments on the monoceros.
While appearing to be cultured, in the name of his research, there was no depth of savagery to which he would not stoop. Devoid of empathy, he considered the lives of men and beasts alike to be worthless, and delighted in tormenting those around him without the slightest twinge upon his conscience. Results were everything to him and all else was but a means to an end. Egotistical in the extreme, he held himself in the highest regard and unerringly believed himself right.
Yet self-absorbed as he was, there was one individual capable of breaking through that shell to rankle him: Sicinius mal Vellutus. A native of Garlemald, Sicinius was an academic elite who served as a researcher under Aulus mal Asina at the Resonatorium. When Ala Mhigo fell to the rebels, he was given the choice to return to his homeland, but opted to transfer to the IVth Legion, where he won the favor of the legatus and was made senior engineer. With his peerless talents and thirst for discovery, he ushered in numerous advances in magitek, his successes cementing his authority in the IVth such that none dared to challenge his use of men as test subjects in contravention to the legion's creed.
Though Fabineau's pride would not allow him to admit it, deep down he regarded Sicinius as his foremost rival. His desire not to be outdone by the latter pushed him to immerse ever more in his magical research. This led him to conduct tests on arcane entities and beasts, such as the monoceros, with ever-escalating barbarity.
===Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers===
Fabineau appeared in the southern plateau of Zadnor with a contingent of mages attacking a group of resistance soldiers along with his former soldier, Llofii. Before he could be defeated, he told Llofii to meet another traitor, Lovro aan Slanasch, before teleporting away. He appeared in the Western Plateau with three captured resistance soldiers, and some of his soldiers. Llofii arrived and he sacrificed the resistance soldiers to summon hellhounds. They were defeated and Fabineau engaged Llofii and members of the resistance in battle. He summoned more soldiers to his aid and brought forth baby chocobos to sacrifice to empower his Hapi-ankh. His soldiers also summoned dark elementals to tether to him and protect him. Llofii was horrified to witness what her former commander had done and stated that he had no respect for any life. He declared that her magic was also born from the selfsame torture, and dared her to strike him down with her own. He was finally killed in battle, denying his defeat and stating his research had to go on before passing away.
==Characteristics==
=== Appearance ===
Fabineau is a duskwight Elezen with dark brown skin and blue eyes. He wears a Neo-Ishgardian hat of casting dyed white along with his Law's Corselet of Casting. He wears a black skirt under his armor with gold and white circles, along with black boots. He wields a Diamond Rod in battle.
=== Personality ===
Fabineau is a sadistic scientist devoted to gaining a vast amount of power through researching and sacrificing people and animals to power his, or his soldiers', magic. He does not see animals as important and considers them to be dumb and worth the sacrifice. He is not opposed to sacrificing resistance members for his research and even sacrificed baby chocobos to empower his magic. He has a rivalry with the scientist Sicinius mal Vellutus, and because of this has immersed himself deeper into his magical research. He is described as self-absorbed and prideful, being devoid of empathy, and has a egotistical personality.
==Gameplay==
Fabineau is seen on the battlefield in the southern and western plateau of , appearing in the skirmishes , and . He uses the spells Break III that will petrify any player caught within the circular AoE, and Requiem of Flame, a massive interruptible AoE that will deal large fire damage to anyone caught in it.
==Citations==
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy XIV
Category:Elezen
Category:Black Mages
Category:Garlean citizens
Category:Antagonists