Luxaar

Luxaar () is the primary antagonist of Xenoblade Chronicles X and the leader of the Ganglion. According to himself, he is a descendant of the Great One. He pilots the Vita.
==Appearance and personality==
Luxaar is a humanoid three-toed slug-like alien with a tail. He wears an armored black robe with red trims and orange lights.
Luxaar is religiously devoted to the Great One as he claims he descended from him. He greatly fear and detests humanity seeing them as a plague. This motivates him to lead the Ganglion in their genocidal campaign against humanity to ensure their own survival.
==Story arc==
===Chapter 6===
Luxaar is first seen at the beginning of , speaking with Goetia and supervising the Ganglion assault on the tainteds to retrieve the Vita. He is seen again at the end of the same Chapter ordering Ga Jiarg and Ga Buidhe to retrieve the Vita from NLA.
===Chapter 8===
Luxaar is seen at the end of , when he is given the Vita. He calls it "The Great One's divine vessel" and directly talks to the Skell, asking for guidance.
===Chapter 9=== 
He is seen again shortly at the end of , receiving a communication from Ga Jiarg informing him that the Wrothians are no longer part of the Ganglion and are now a independent mercenary force, with the hope that they will eventually fight each other again in the future. Luxaar is angered by this decision. 
===Chapter 10 and 11===
When Ryyz takes control of the Zu Pharg in , Luxaar briefly appears when being informed of the giant Skell departure, complaining about Ganglion members doing what they want.
Although not appearing in , he is mentioned by Lao when he explains why he betrayed humanity in the Ganglion Weapons Hangar. This is actually the first time the party ever hear of the Ganglion's Grandmaster.
===Chapter 12===
Luxaar's role becomes prominent in . After hearing how the Ganglion forces struggle against the Lifehold Core, he eagerly questions how a primitive species such as humankind could have access to technologies such as Skells or the Trion barrier protecting the Lifehold. When the party enters it, he decides to pilot the Vita and confront them himself, against the warning of one of his subordinate who claims that only the Great One can control it. He breaches through the barrier and enters the interior of the Lifehold Core, revealing himself to Elma and her team. She guesses that Luxaar is afraid of humankind, seeing how he chased them through space and decided to use the Vita although it is missing a piece. Luxaar then theorizes whether she is the one responsible for humanity's sudden technological advance, before attacking.
After the first phase of the fight, Luxaar confesses that he was in fact afraid of humanity and explains that the Ganglion were forbidden from attacking the Samaarians, and that humans are the descendants of Samaar, before transforming the Vita while stating that he refuses to bow down to humans, and engages the second phase of the fight. 
When the Vita is defeated, Luxaar ruminates about how sickening it is that "apes" were able to destroy the Vita and states that it would like to see the Great One one last time before the Skell explodes, seemingly killing Luxaar with it. However, he reappears after Elma finished to explain the functioning of the Lifehold core. Refusing to admit defeat, he tries to destroy the supercomputer in a last ditch effort to destroy humanity. The internal defensive measures then summon chimeras in response, but the system malfunctions and they start to attack the party, much to Luxaar's amusement, before being literally stabbed in the back by Lao, who explains how the Ganglion Grandmaster is the real reason why his wife and daughter are dead. They then both fall in the protoplasmic fluid, killing Luxaar upon touching the human DNA. He then merges into Lao along with the rest of earthlike DNA, creating a Chimera-Lao that posses Luxaar's face in its hand. Lao, having gained Luxaar's memories, explains how the original Ganglion were artificial lifeforms created by Samaarians to serve them and that is why the Ganglion feared humans, their descendants. What remains of Luxaar then dies with the Chimera's death by the hand of the party.
==Lore==
Much of Luxaar's backstory prior to the game remains a mystery, as it is never explained. The only clue is Ga Jiarg calling him "councilor", maybe implying that it was his former title in the Samaar Federation. He is the Grandmaster of the Ganglion, and claims to be the descendant of the Great One, a mysterious entity that he (and by extension probably all of the Ganglion) seems to worship.
==As a boss==
Luxaar, piloting Vita is the penultimate boss of the game. He is fought in two phases.
* Vita (part 1)
* Vita (part 2)
==Trivia==
* Luxaar seems to have some sort of ether power, as he is capable of using energy orbs when trying to destroy the Lifehold Core.
* Luxaar's Xern can be found in Sylvalum, although Luxaar isn't present himself.
==In other languages==
==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
====Original====
Luxaar on Vitas palm.png|Luxaar on top of the Vita's palm
Luxaar inside the vita.png|Luxaar inside of the Vita's cockpit.
Luxaar charges energy balls.png|Luxaar charges up energy balls.
Luxaar impaled by Lao.png|Lao impales Luxaar.
Luxaar disintegrates.png|Luxaar's body disintegrates inside the protoplasmic fluid.
====Definitive Edition====
Category:Characters (XCX)