Baralai Jaitly

**Baralai Jaitly** is the current Praetor of New Yevon. As their newly elected official, he is deeply respected by the other party members and the citizens of Spira. New Yevon takes a conservative approach, their motto being "One thing at a time". However with him joining summoner Yuna as her guardian and shirking his duties as Praetor, he has earned a general lack of trust by his people.

## Profile

### Personality

Baralai is calm, cool, collected, and introverted, all while maintaining an aura of fearlessness. Baralai is very compassionate for the well-being of those around him, and always makes sure that his companions are safe in and outside of battle. He is an honorable warrior, who maintains his own set of morals and disciplines, he despises fighting dirty and cheap tactics. Baralai is portrayed as eager to take on the role of Praetor of New Yevon but is quick to leave his role to become a guardian to Yuna.

It is later revealed that Baralai is known to have a darker side. He can be manipulative and willing to use anybody to achieve his objectives.

### Appearance

Baralai is a dark-skinned man with brown eyes and short black hair, held back with a blue headband. He wears clothing typical of a Yevon priest but with obvious alterations; rather than a robe he wears a yellow trimmed green coat with orange panels and glyphs on the chest and black-and-white panels bearing glyphs on the lower portion of the coat. The collar of the coat comes up to Baralai's chin and has a red rope running through silver eyelets, and he wears brown bands on the sleeves. An elaborate black and white strip extends down his back. Underneath the coat he wears a khaki wrap shirt, brown codpiece, khaki trousers, and brown boots.

## Weapons and Abilities

Baralai is an agile fighter attacking quickly and relentlessly. In all fights, he uses Drill Shot (a Blue Bullet ability) which in most cases will kill a fiend and severely wound a human opponent. Baralai is able enhance his Strength and Magic. He can drain MP and inflict Silence on the party.

Baralai relies heavily on his Staff which is made out of Vibranium. Vibranium is a metal that is extremely rare, it was deposited on the planet by a meteorite. Vibranium absorbs soundwaves and is able to absorb the forces of even the greatest explosions.

The Vibranium staff is at least five feet tall, the tip is extremely sharp and can puncture a hole in even the strongest metal. The top of the staff is formed into a circle that has five sharp points all around. In the middle of the circle is a floating star, no one knows how it floats in the middle.

## Relationships

### Yuna

From their first meeting, Baralai claims to have had an instant attraction to Yuna. He had fallen in love with her mind, body and soul and found it hard to forget her. Even when meeting for their second time, years later, Baralai eagerly left his position as Praetor of New Yevon to become her guardian. Baralai has a desire to protect Yuna, surpassing feelings that normal guardians should have for their summoners.

## Trivia

* Despite being of Yevonite origin and stating in a Crimson Report that he is unwilling to use machina, he seems to have no qualms against keeping a handgun.
* He was 20 at the beginning of Yuna's Pilgrimage.

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