Citra

Citra, also known as Veritas of the Light, is a major character in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. She is the sixth member of the Sworn Six of Paladia to appear in the story, debuting in Season One's Chapter V, and arguably the driving force behind their scheme to destroy the crystals of Lapis. Commanding the element of Light, she is Sakura's older sister.
==History==
Citra, along with her sister Sakura, lived in the world of Paladia until war broke out and the world was split into two factions: the Aldore and the Hess. Citra and her sister were loyal to Aldore and served as two of the faction's main lieutenants as part of the original Sworn Eight of Paladia. During her service she grew close to the original Veritas of the Dark and secretly held feelings for him.
After Vlad betrayed the Sworn Eight and transported the mass of the battlefield to Lapis to rid himself of any opposition, Citra long her comrades became stranded. She was feared as a monster because of her immortality that was unnatural to Lapisians. Citra, in turn, would view them with scorn and isolate herself from contact.
While investigating the new world along her comrades for a way back, they found the Magic Library which the group believed could hold a secret to return to Paladia. While inspecting a book, Citra, along Cid and Folka in their armored forms were trapped in the book until they defeated the monsters inside. They later discover that the book only had the power to record the events that happened inside the book. Citra furiously burned the book afterwards. Sakura appeared with news of a book that disclosed the Interdimensional Gate and the way to return.
As the group discussed the consequences of using the gate, Citra and most of her comrades agreed to the plan, except Raegen and Sakura discarding their suits of armor decided to abandon the idea, opting to live peacefully in Lapis. Citra in a fit of anger threatened to attack Raegen who told her she was free to do it. She could not bring herself to do it as he left.
The event left her more resentful and desperate as the remaining five were trying to come up with a way to push the plan. Citra became acquainted with the gunsmith Macmedi and his granddaughter, Lotti, who viewed Citra as a sister, although Citra warmed slowly up to her. Since Macmedi was skilled enough with the guns of her armor, Citra acknowledged his abilities and considered the idea of sparing the two of them from the potential genocide of the world travel. During one such visit, she was assaulted by bandits who took an interest on her and her armor. Citra dispatched them as they ran for their lives.
While doing more research at the Magic Library she stumbled upon a book with knowledge of visions. Following the instructions, she summoned a a vision of Raegen that would not move or speak, much to her chagrin. When the Flamelord and Earthlord appeared and saw the vision, they believed it was their true friend. Before Citra could explain anything, the Flamelord attacked the Darklord trying to test him and the Darklord returned the blow. Following the sparring match, the two armored men left happy that the Darklord remained strong. Citra kept the truth to herself for the time being but was secretly frustrated the vision would not talk.
While visiting Macmedi to see if reparations were going well, she learned that the bandits had kidnapped Macmedi and Lotti who were held hostage in exchange for her armor parts. Citra went after them and found them as the bandits gloated on their victory. In a fit of rage, Citra defeated them. Upon inspecting that both Macmedi and Lotti were dead, she donned her armor and blasted a nearby rock in despair. Having lost the only people dear to her in Lapis,, she clung to the only hope she had left, the real Raegen, and sought to make him join their ranks once more.
Citra traveled to Grandshelt where Raegen refused to join her as he had decided to live in Lapis with his family. Citra decided to force Raegen to return and fought him with Citra gaining the advantage because of her suit of armor. Sophia appeared and begged Citra to leave, revealing she was aware of everything and that they were doing no harm living peacefully. Citra enraged as Sophia pushed her. When Citra attempted to blast Raegen, Sophia intercepted the attack and was fatally wounded, which left Citra horrified. As Raegen took Sophia and departed, Citra was left emotionally broken now that she had lost her only hope.
Back at the Magic Library she tried to make the Darklord vision talk and burst out her frustrations that he would not act like Raegen. The remaining Sworn Six appeared and questioned Citra on why the Darklord did not talk. Before Citra could elaborate. the Darklord began to speak and guided them to reveal a way their plan could succeed. The Darklord claimed he had not spoken before because he preferred not to speak before having something conclusive. The other Veritas were left puzzled that it was for such a trivial matter but nonetheless they left happy. 
Citra confronted the Darklord on why he had chosen to speak now and he revealed he had been gradually acquiring awareness of their circumstances. Citra enraged and called the Darklord a fake. She donned her suit of armor and fought him but was defeated. The Darklord sympathized with Citra and swore to be her ally in their quest for revenge. Finding a new source of hope, Citra accepted the Darklord as their leader.
Veritas of the Light discussed plans with Veritas of the Earth, who asked Light if "he" could be sensed. Light affirmed, and that "they" seemed to have hidden the Crystal long ago, and that another reunion with "them" would be most unfortunate. Earth warned Light that if she got moved by "foolish emotions", he would kill her. Light claimed to have discarded her emotions except for hatred and asked if Earth could keeping his cool when it came down to Fina. The two marched towards Mysidia.
Earth and Light ambushed Rain's party at the Nameless Ruins where the Crystal of Light resided. Sakura greeted them and was stricken down by Light who was more powerful than Sakura remembered. Light chastised Sakura as a traitor and proclaimed to make her pay for having abandoned her armor and rank. The party tried to help but Veritas of the Earth used a quaking attack that ejected them from the Crystal Chamber. When Veritas of the Earth confronted Rain's party, Light temporarily blinded them, giving Earth the chance to transfer a part of his powers onto Fina to revert her into Dark Fina. Sakura did not want to risk Fina being destroyed and teleported away with Rain's party, believing it better for them to survive and protect the last Crystal. Veritas of the Light did not care as she was confident they would find the last Crystal regardless and proceeded to destroy the Light Crystal.
Dark Fina's resurrection caused the other Fina to disappear into the former's mind with the risk of vanishing for good. The party entered Dark Fina's memories to find the source of what endangered Fina and save her. Delving into her memories the party learned about the war between Aldore and Hess and met the original members of the Sworn Eight. The Veritas of Earth and Light of Fina's memory world greeted Veritas of the Dark and Rain's party, the latter surprised how different they were. Dark rejoiced at finding his two comrades as they could now fight the forces of Hess. Veritas of the Earth sensed Dark Fina approaching, causing Light to worry that her sister lacked the strength to oppose her and the group marched into battle.
The party was forced to leave Fina's psyche as the Magic Library where they were in the real world was attacked by monsters summoned by Veritas of the Light. Rain tried to plead with her, saying they witnessed the events 700 years ago and that the Veritas were good at heart, and asked what made her take on so much hatred. Light recognized Rain as Raegen's son, and elaborated that he betrayed their homeworld and hurt her feelings, cursing Rain's mother Sophia as the cause. Rain tried to ask what she meant, but filled with rage, she assaulted them along with a pack of Kaiser Behemoths. The party defeated her and her suit of armor fell, revealing Light to be Sakura's sister.
Veritas of the Light was disgusted and considered no family bond with a traitor. She tried to attack but was too injured and was easily blocked by Sakura who told her enraged sister to give up. Light scoffed at her wounds as insignificant compared to the humiliation she had to endure, and summoned her suit of armor back and stood up for more fighting. Rain asked why she knew his mother, and Light revealed that his father, Raegen, was the Veritas of the Dark who betrayed their cause due to Rain's mother's influence. The revelation left the party flabbergasted, as they had met Veritas of the Dark who was loyal to the Veritases' goal, making them realize that another had taken on the moniker. Light decided they had no need to know and began to unleash the magical power she had been concentrating. Dark Fina attempted to deal with it but wa unable to use any power, so Sakura took action instead as Light unleashed a powerful magical explosion.
==Characteristics==
===Appearance===
Citra has fair skin, long pink hair, and yellow gold eyes. As Veritas of the Light, her suit of armor is white and light blue, with a dark green cape irregularly shaped in strands. Her suit has several bladed and horn-like protrusions of varying designs and a prominent bladed horn on her helmet. While wearing the suit of armor, her gauntlets can become handcannons, revealing wide brown barrels.
Under her suit of armor, Citra's color scheme is identical to Sakura's. She wears a rather revealing long white robe with frills and widened sleeves, as well as plum-colored high heels. Her clothing has several golden borders. She wears a golden headpiece, the Evoker's Horn, which is designed to look like a unicorn's horn. As of Season Two, in battle she now wields Badrosa, a unique staff with a flower bud design at the top.
Citra's clothing without the suit of armor is reminiscent to the Summoner attire. This is fitting, as she is the only character seen regularly summoning visions to aid her battle.
===Personality===
While at the service of Aldore, Citra was dedicated and kind, worrying over her sister and holding romantic feelings for the original Veritas of the Dark. After landing on Lapis she grew resentful and vengeful due being stranded on a new world where people would reject her because of her immortality (she, in turn, would view them with scorn), the departure of both Raegen and Sakura on their plot of revenge, the loss of the only people she could hold dear on Lapis, and causing Sophia's unfortunate death and her belief that she lost Raegen forever, thus having nothing to cling to.
Citra becomes filled with regret and sorrow for her actions and their consequences, trying to seek atonement, even welcoming death, although she is encouraged not to throw her life away and take the easy way out. After interacting with Nichol, Citra moves on from her vengeful quest, developing an interest on the young man that turns into affection forming a rivalry with Folka over him, although Nichol is not romantically interested in her. She begins to heal her relationship with Sakura. Despite the two being fully grown adults, Citra does in a sense still see Sakura as a child as she dreams of patting her head again and becomes flustered when Sakura does it to her.
She is affected when Rain and Lasswell show signs of conflict, wondering what Sophia would have done with their situation, and is determined to try and help them, perhaps to atone for her past.
==Gameplay==
Citra appears as a summonable vision and optional playable character, with three variants: "Veritas of the Light", "Citra", and a summer variant that she shares with Folka.
As Veritas of the Light (5-7★), her job is listed as Veritas and her role in combat is that of Hybrid Damage. She can equip swords, rods, throwing weapons, guns, as well as helms, light armor, and heavy armor, and accessories. While her abilities are locked to the Light element, she excels at targeting multiple enemies with her attacks and greatly decreasing their resistance to that element.
In her Season Two variant, Citra starkly changes her skillset to resemble that of a Summoner's, and expands her weapon and armor selection. Her job is listed as Sworn Eight, and her roles are Healing and Support. Like the other so-called CG units, Citra's Limit Burst ("Gleam of Reverie") is a special CG movie and has a powerful effect: it deals high evoke damage to all enemies, and decreases their resistance to all elements for three turns. She appeared as a guest unit in her own introduction quest as well as several stages from Piercing Light.
==== Boss ====
Veritas of the Light commands the element of Light, using attacks such as Banishga, Divine Shot, Holy, and Ultima. She removes any debuffs placed on her with Negation before attacking and can use Blowback to strike the entire party. She can kill the party if not prepared with the proper equips or buffs to bolster defenses, especially if she uses Divine Punishment to increase her damage output.
For the second battle she is faced twice in a row without rest. She must be weakened to critical values to trigger a scene where Light will fully restore her HP and summon two Aldore Soldiers who can be dispatched easily through group-damaging attacks, but who can inflict Stat Breaks.
Since Light protection is rare, the party should use regular buffs like Shellga, Protectga, or those provided by Rain's Leadership. Veritas of the Light is weak to Dark, so mages with Bioga or stronger Dark-elemental attacks can inflict good damage against her. Since she is fought after another boss (a Kaiser Behemoth in the first encounter, and herself in the second), which can leave the party depleted of HP or MP before finishing Light, items are recommended, preferably a supply of Elixirs or MP-restorative items for healers and buffers.
A good strategy is to inflict Stat Breaks (preferably at the beginning of every turn to maximize damage in case of defensive breaks), even if they will be dispelled by Negation so Veritas of the Light wastes a move, giving the party more room for survival as it will prevent Light from buffing herself or attacking thrice. Sakura has defensive buffs for this battle, but even those do not a guarantee survival.
Veritas of the Light can be inflicted with Blind, Poison, and Paralysis. Blind is not too important since she mostly uses magic, but Poison and Paralysis are useful. The former will eat through 10% of Light's HP and the latter will give the player some breathing room. Poison can be inflicted through Bioga, a Dark-elemental spell, which doubles as a weakness for her.
She is the only Veritas not to be fought as a boss while empowered.
==Other appearances==
===War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius===
Citra appears as Veritas of the Light.
File:Veritas of the Light from WotV.png|Artwork.
File:Veritas of the Light from WotV portrait.png|Portrait.
File:Veritas of the Light from WotV render.png|Render.
File:Veritas of the Light from WotV render 2.png|Render.
File:Veritas of the Light from WotV render 3.png|Render.
=== Final Fantasy Trading Card Game ===
Citra appears as a card.
Citra from FFTCG Opus X card.png|10-127H Citra.
==Gallery==
;Artwork
File:FFBE Sworn Six Concept Art.png|Sworn Eight of Paladia artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.
File:Season 2 from FFBE artwork 1.png|Citra in Season Two key art by Yoshitaka Amano.
;Renders
File:Citra from FFBE render 3.png|Render from Final Fantasy Brave Exvius.
File:Citra from FFBE render.png|Render from Final Fantasy Brave Exvius.
File:Citra from FFBE render 2.png|Render from Final Fantasy Brave Exvius.
;Sprites
File:FFBE 600 Veritas of the Light.png|No. 600 Veritas of the Light (5★).
File:FFBE 601 Veritas of the Light.png|No. 601 Veritas of the Light (6★).
File:FFBE 1032 Veritas of the Light.png|No. 1032 Veritas of the Light (7★).
File:FFBE 1086 Citra.png|No. 1086 Citra (5★).
File:FFBE 1087 Citra.png|No. 1087 Citra (6★).
File:FFBE 1088 Citra.png|No. 1088 Citra (7★).
File:FFBE 1392 Folka & Citra.png|No. 1392 Folka & Citra (5★).
File:FFBE 1393 Folka & Citra.png|No. 1393 Folka & Citra (6★).
File:FFBE 1394 Folka & Citra.png|No. 1394 Folka & Citra (7★).
File:FFBE Veritas of the Light Sprite.png|Enemy sprite.
;Screenshots
File:FFBE Citra Render 2.jpg|Citra's Limit Burst screenshot.
File:FFBE Citra Render 3.jpg|Citra's Limit Burst screenshot.
File:Citra & Dark Fina from FFBE screenshot 1.png|CG limit burst screenshot.
File:FFBE Veritas of the Light armorless.png|Veritas of the Light's armor is shattered.
File:FFBE Veritas of the Light armorless2.png|Veritas of the Light unconscious.
File:FFBE Dawn of Judgment.gif|Dawn of Judgment limit burst.
File:Citra from FFBE CG limit burst.gif|CG limit burst.
==Etymology==
==Citations==
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
Category:Antagonists
Category:Summoners