Heart of Stone (Final Fantasy XVI)

"Heart of Stone" is a boss theme in Final Fantasy XVI. It was composed by Masayoshi Soken and arranged by Yoshitaka Suzuki, with lyrics written by Michael-Christopher Koji Fox.
The track has the leitmotif that is associated with the Eikon Titan and its Dominant Hugo Kupka, and is a recurring theme in a number of other tracks in the game.
==Lyrics==
The official lyrics for "Titan Lost" were first released via Square Enix Music's Twitter account.https://twitter.com/sem_sep/status/1679396694713339904 The official lyrics for both "Heart of Stone" and "Titan Lost" were released on the Final Fantasy XVI Original Soundtrack.
===Heart of Stone===
:Come one, claim the throne
:Heart of stone!
:An anvil from the heavens cast
:Oh, rumbling hard and tumbling fast
:Round granite neck pours out threefold
:A darkness begot in ages old
:And with its fall the earth she was rent
:Asunder torn, the land, yes, she wept
:Now in its wake yawned lightless abyss
:Yon gaping maw his circumfix
:A sickle forged of adamant
:To sever man from his hooded past
:No more a slave to sorrow's gloom
:In onychine eyes burn chthonic doom
:Vile choler coursing quick through his veins
:His spirit adust does he bow to the pain
:His madness swallowed 'neath ochre sands
:Of pride long bereaved, forsaken he stands
:Wrought from rock immortal
:Marble, granite, opal
:Gorging e'er on hatred
:Ne'er his hunger sated
:Fury and rage
:Now the gods below, shall know thy name
:Suffer this fate
:From the crumbling walls no one can escape!
:Sky black with rain
:Still against its weight his shoulders strain
:Rise, crownless king
:For a reckoning soon shall begin
:Soul flayed, spirit flown
:Heart of stone!
:Come one, claim the throne
:Heart of stone!
:Sins foul, unatoned
:Heart of stone!
:Eyes down, vengeance sown
:Heart of stone!
===Titan Lost===
:An anvil from the heavens cast
:Tumbling hard and tumbling fast
:Round granite neck pours out threefold
:A darkness begot in ages old
:Sky black with rain
:E'er against its weight do his shoulders strain
:Rise, crownless king
:Of a reckoning, the muses sing
:A sickle forged of adamant
:To sever the man from his hooded past
:No more a slave to sorrow's gloom
:In onychine eyes burn chthonic doom
:Fury and rage
:For the gods below we invoke by name
:Buried in lies
:From madness white the mountains rise
:Soul flayed, spirit flown
:Heart of stone!
:Come one, claim the throne
:Heart of stone!
:Sins foul, unatoned
:Heart of stone!
:Eyes down, vengeance sown
:Heart of stone!
==Game appearances==
===Final Fantasy XVI===
"Heart of Stone" plays during the second and final boss battle with Titan after Titan Lost. It is track 6 of disc 5 on the Final Fantasy XVI Original Soundtrack.
"Titan Lost" is an arrangement by Masayoshi Soken with lyrics written by Michael-Christopher Koji Fox. The vocals were performed by Soken and Koji. It is the theme that plays during the second half of the Eikon battle between Ifrit and Titan Lost, after "Do or Die". It is track 5 of disc 5 on the original soundtrack.
The theme of "Heart of Stone" appears in a number of other tracks which play in cutscenes.
"Shattered" is the track that plays at the Battle of Nysa when Titan and Shiva appear and confront each other. It was arranged by TomoLow contains both the theme of Titan and the theme of Shiva, "My Star". It is track 4 of disc 1 on the original soundtrack.
"The Se7enth Sin" is an arrangement by Saya Yasaki that plays in the scene when Hugo learns of Benedikta Harman's death and is delivered her severed head. It is track 18 of disc 3 on the original soundtrack.
"The Host" is an arrangement by Yasaki that plays in the scene where Hugo tells Clive Rosfield to face him in the throne room in Rosalith. It is track 25 of disc 4 on the original soundtrack.
"King of the World" is an arrangement by Daiki Ishikawa that plays in the scene where Hugo learns that Clive is Benedikta's murderer, before the boss battle. It is track 26 of disc 4 on the original soundtrack.
===Theatrhythm Final Bar Line===
"Titan Lost" appears as a Battle Music Stage in the Final Fantasy XVI DLC pack, released on November 1st, 2023.https://www.jp.square-enix.com/t_fbl/news/2023/016629.html It features a difficulty level of 2, 4, 9, and 13 for its Basic, Expert, Ultimate, and Supreme Scores, respectively.
The stage's visuals are modeled after the arena in the second phase of Clive's battle against Titan Lost.
==Etymology==
Onychine is a Latin word and is the vocative masculine singular form of onychinus which means "onyx marble" (relational) or "onyx-marble-colored". Onychinus is borrowed from the Ancient Greek word ὀνύχινος (onúkhinos) which means "made of onyx" or "of the color of onyx". 
==Citations==
Category:Battle themes from Final Fantasy XVI