Cyrus Albright

* **Octopath Traveler**
* Champions of the Continent

**Game Sub-Pages:**

Ophilia

Cyrus

Tressa

Olberic

Primrose

Alfyn

Therion

H'aanit

> *"A world of knowledge awaits."*
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> — Cyrus, when selected from the main screen.
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**Cyrus Albright** is one of eight playable characters in *Octopath Traveler*. He is a professor at the Royal Academy located in Atlasdam, found in the Flatlands. Cyrus is known for caring greatly about knowledge and his passion for teaching.

## Profile

### Appearance

Cyrus has long black hair tied into a ponytail. His hair is combed back, with two locks of his hair framing both sides of his face. Cyrus wears a white button-up shirt with puffed sleeves tied at the wrist, along with a cravat. He also wears a black hooded coat with a caplet, accented with gold filigree and held together by a black gemstone. He also wears a brown vest with filigree embroidery over his white shirt, black breeches with black socks, and black leather shoes with golden buckles. In his sprites, the inside of his coat is a dark purple. Primrose states that Cyrus has "a face that girls and boys are likely to fancy".

### Personality

As a scholar, Cyrus puts knowledge before everything else. He believes that knowledge is something that must be shared with other people, in contrast with the belief of Headmaster Yvon that knowledge is an extension of one's personal power and should be obtained only for oneself. Though it is blatant that Cyrus opposes his beliefs, he keeps quiet only because saying anything might cost him his job as a scholar. He is always eloquent and respectful towards others, happy to share his knowledge whenever possible.

Cyrus, with his overflowing knowledge, has excellent deduction skills. He is also rather pragmatic, taking advantage of the sabbatical to search for the missing tome, *From the Far Reaches of Hell.* Though, despite his intelligence, he is rather oblivious to the feelings of women who fall for him. He even mistakes the actions of envy made by his enamored student, Therese, as feelings of isolation and lack of attentiveness from her tutor. Cyrus even goes so far as to say it is his fault for not providing enough time for Therese in terms of her studying, proving that he cares for the wellbeing of his students. Ironically, Cyrus is anything but oblivious to the feelings of women for other men, which unnerves Primrose when she meets Simeon for the first time in ten years and Cyrus is quick to notice the way she looks at him.

Cyrus often provides academic knowledge when talking with his fellow travelers, with mixed results. While Ophilia and Alfyn rejoice on his vast wisdom, others, such as Therion and Tressa, find it boring. Nevertheless, Cyrus always shows concern to his companions' problems, and tries to give advice whenever possible to ease their minds. His analytical mind and thirst for knowledge also has him showing interest for the other travelers' own wisdom as well.

## History

> *"Your name is Cyrus, and you are a scholar. You teach at the Royal Academy in Atlasdam, and though you have numerous admirers, your only true passion is the pursuit of knowledge. "There is so much more I would learn!" One day, you realize that an invaluable tome has vanished from the Royal Library, piquing your insatiable curiosity..."*
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> — Cyrus' description when selecting him.
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### **Chapter 1**

Cyrus is a professor to Therese and Princess Mary at the Royal Academy in Atlasdam. He is disapproved of by Headmaster Yvon for his willingness to share the knowledge contained in the tomes of the Royal Archive. While attempting to read a book in the Archive, he discovers it is missing. Choosing to investigate, Cyrus discovers that a colleague of his, Russell, has been stealing and selling valuable tomes in order to pay off his debts. He then learns that there is still one book missing that vanished before Russell's thievery began. In the wake of a troubling rumor, Cyrus leaves the Academy in pursuit of the tome that vanished from the archives some 15 years ago: *From the Far Reaches of Hell*.

### **Chapter 2**

Cyrus arrives in Quarrycrest to seek the help of an old friend, Odette. She asks him to investigate incidents of missing persons, which leads to his discovery that a kidnapper has been abducting victims near the inn. He enters the sewers in pursuit of the kidnapper before stumbling upon a room where human sacrifices were being used in rituals to create blood-crystals. Gideon, the kidnapper responsible for the rituals, confronts Cyrus, but is defeated.

Cyrus rescues the surviving prisoners and obtains a translated copy of *From the Far Reaches of Hell* from Gideon. Upon some inspection alongside Odette, they trace the production of the book back to Stonegard.

### **Chapter 3**

In Stonegard, Cyrus learns that the tome had been translated by Dominic, who refuses to let Cyrus enter his home. Cyrus later discovers that Dominic translated the tome so he could purchase medicine for his daughter, but she passed away. The translation was commissioned by Yvon.

Cyrus soon notices he is being followed by Lucia. She lies that she also had suspicions of Yvon and offers to take him to his birthplace to investigate further. As he enters the building, she renders him unconscious and throws him into a dungeon, where he is taunted by Yvon.

Therese, who had also followed Cyrus, arrives to rescue him, but is soon taken hostage by Yvon. Cyrus pursues and confronts Yvon, who uses a blood-crystal to gain supernatural powers, but he is defeated nonetheless. While recovering, Therese tells Cyrus that Yvon had intended on going to Duskbarrow.

### **Chapter 4**

Cyrus spots Lucia entering the Ruins of Eld in Duskbarrow and follows her. There, he discovers an ancient mural and a collection of tomes thought to be lost from the world. When he confronts Lucia, she asks him to join her in her research, but he refuses. She uses what she calls a "perfect blood-crystal" and tries to kill Cyrus, but is defeated.

Upon further inspection of the ruins and tomes, he concludes that the mural had been left as a warning of a destructive force that lay in wait should humanity be tempted by the secrets of life and death. He resolves to further study this information and use the knowledge for the better of mankind.

## Relationships

### **Therese**

She is a student of Cyrus and the one who spread the false rumor about his illicit relationship with Princess Mary of Atlasdam. It is noted that she has strong romantic feelings for her professor, which is the reason she attempted to strain the relationship between him and the princess. Despite her best attempts to show her feelings to him, Cyrus is oblivious and assumes that her actions are due to his negligence as her mentor for always paying more attention to Princess Mary's questions.

### **Princess Mary**

The princess of Atlasdam and one of Cyrus's students, Mary is incredibly studious and has high expectations for herself, always eager to ask the professor questions. Due to the scholar's tendencies to overshare when it comes to his knowledge about certain things, their conversations tend to drag on.

### **Odette**

A close colleague of Cyrus, Odette left the academy 10 years ago and moved to Quarrycrest. Odette always teased Cyrus for always catching the hearts of woman without even trying, scolding him to be more alert of such feelings. Despite the remarks she has made towards the scholar, Odette cares deeply for Cyrus, always warning him and wishing him the best. She willingly helps him in his search for the missing tome.

## Battle

Cyrus is a Scholar, and thus has several spells that can target the magical weaknesses of enemies on a large scale. He can initially only equip staves and has very poor physical damage output, but more than makes up for it with his three elemental damage types and outstanding elemental attack. Although he is physically vulnerable with low health, physical defense, and evasion, he has high elemental defense and can weather magical attacks.

Cyrus' Talent is **Study Foe**, which reveals one weakness for each enemy at the start of battle. His native job's Analyze is a learned ability, and so this talent is useful for discovering weaknesses from missable early game foes, especially if Cyrus is chosen as the protagonist.

* Cyrus can use the Cleric subjob at its full potential as it augments his elemental stats along with increasing his SP. This allows him to dish out more spells in battle while also providing support to his allies. In addition, this subjob provides Cyrus with Light-based spells, granting him more versatility in combat. The main flaw in this combination is that it may make Cyrus' focus too broad, preventing him from making optimal use of either his healing abilities or his offensive magic. It also does not grant access to any additional weapon types.

* Merchant is another powerful subjob due to its native Wind-based spells, which completes the four most common magical weaknesses when combined with Scholar. Along with providing two additional weapon types, Merchant constitutes the most significant increase to Cyrus's ability to break enemy defenses, giving him coverage of seven different weaknesses (Polearms, Bows, Staves, Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Wind). Merchant also allows Cyrus to recover his own SP via the Rest ability, relieving his dependency on items. The SP Saver support skill also comes in handy, as this means he can cast more skills once SP cost has been lowered.
	+ This matches well with the Dancer support skill, Second Wind, as it lets him regenerate his SP every turn.

* Apothecary is also a viable choice for Cyrus. His high Elemental Defense makes him a strong user of First Aid, and then adding a status-blocking skill, a massive HP bonus, and a revival skill. Unfortunately, Cyrus' low physical attack is a detriment to Amputation and Last Stand, Icicle is outclassed by Icewind and Blizzard, and the job itself has low magical stats, only 1.5% increases. However, its main advantage is access to the Battle-tested Axe, which empowers his ice and lightning spells. Along with the Absolute Zero Staff, he can massively increase his ice attacks. This combination is great even in the late game, which means Starseer and Sorcerer could be given to other travelers instead.

Once the player has access to the secret jobs late into the game, changing him to the Sorcerer class provides him with a massive boost in his elemental attack and defense. The Sorcerer class grants him access to all elements, as well as bows. His physical damage output will still be poor, but grants him access to the Primeval Bow of Storms, which augments his wind attacks. The main drawback of this combination is that it makes Cyrus's Scholar skills (with the exceptions of Analyze and Alephan's Enlightenment) redundant.

Cyrus also makes a fantastic Starseer, which allows greater elemental diversity among the party. As a Starseer, Cyrus can deal huge damage with Shooting Stars, which also grants him access to the elements not found in the Scholar class. Classing him to Starseer also allows another magically inclined character, such as Primrose or Ophilia, to have full elemental access as a Sorcerer. As the Starseer cannot equip staves natively, Cyrus is one of only two characters, the other being Ophilia who can power up all three hits of Shooting Stars.

Additionally, Cyrus' high elemental attack allows him to be an effective Runelord, capable of performing potent rune follow-ups and devastating Balogar's Blade attacks, augmented by up to 4 elemental upgrades with the Absolute Zero/Bishop's Staff, Harald's Sword, and the Battle-Tested Axe. Also, no matter what magical job he uses in the end, the Elemental Edge support skill learned from the Runelord job will be very useful.

Recommended support skills for Cyrus include: Inner Strength (early-game), Saving Grace, Elemental Augmentation (early-game), SP Saver, Surpassing Power (late-game), Second Wind, BP Eater, Stronger Strikes, Augmented Elements, and Elemental Edge.

Due to the flexibility of subjobs, any character can fill any role with the right equipment and skills with proper planning, any of the travelers can perform decently on any subjob.

### **Support Skills**

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### **Subjobs:**

Below are the sprites and appearance changes for Cyrus with each Subjobs:

Each time a subjob is selected, the appearance of the character will also change. The first sprite is the appearance with no Subjob equipped.

## Quotes

"*And so I have taken it upon myself to investigate this suspicious scholar. Interested in coming along, are you? It seems you have quite the curious streak yourself. But of course mysteries exist only to be solved. After all, it is of utmost importance to remember that. Ah, but here I go again! Don't let me talk your ear off— But I will be glad for your help. Let's get right to business. No doubt we'll find Russell in his laboratory down below.*" —*Joined the Party*
"*Should you again have need of a discerning mind, I would be happy to offer my talents.*" —*Tavern Dialogue*
"*Now the true lesson begins!*" —*Max Boost*
"*My focus is unparalleled!*" —*Max Boost*
"*My friends... I am sorry.*" —*Defeated*
"*But I still have... so much to learn.*" —*Defeated*
"*Alephan, lord of learning!*" —*Using Alephan's Enlightenment*
"*Thus ends your lesson.*" —*After battle*
"*Not bad, a passing grade.*" —*After battle*
"*You should've studied harder.*" —*After battle*

## Gallery

* Official Art
* Promotional Art
* Concept Art
* Sprites

Official artwork of Cyrus.Artwork of the eight travelers.Artwork of the eight travelers.Cover artwork for the Octopath Traveler Original Soundtrack.Artwork of Cyrus and Tressa for *Octopath Traveler: The Four Paths of Eight Travelers*.

Artwork from Square Enix Café.Artwork from Square Enix Café.A sketch of the eight travelers by Naoki Ikushima.Artwork of Cyrus by Morimoto (pixel artist).Promotional artwork celebrating release.Promotional artwork by Masayoshi Nishimura.Promotional crossover artwork with *Bravely Default.**Octopath Traveler* artwork from Famitsu.Promotional artwork celebrating 1 million sales.Promotional artwork celebrating White Day.Promotional artwork celebrating White Day.Promotional artwork for *Octopath Traveler Break and Boost.*Promotional artwork for *Octopath Traveler Break, Boost and Beyond.*Promotional artwork for *Octopath Traveler Break and Boost -Extend-.*Promotional artwork celebrating the Steam release of *Octopath Traveler.*Promotional artwork celebrating *Octopath Traveler'*s Korean translation.Promotional artwork celebrating 2.5 million downloads of *Octopath Traveler*.Promotional artwork for *Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent* x *Bravley Default 2*.Promotional artwork celebrating *Octopath Traveler'*s 3rd anniversary.

Concept art of the eight travelers.Concept art of Cyrus.Cyrus as a Dancer.Cyrus as a Warrior.Cyrus as a Thief.
## Etymology

**Cyrus** is a Persian name that means 'sun' or 'throne'. His surname, **Albright**, likely dervies from 'all bright'.

## Trivia

* In early concept art, Cyrus had shorter hair and bangs falling over the front of his face, while also looking older than his current design.
* During the *Chapter 2: Primrose & Cyrus* travel banter, Cyrus complimented Primrose on her inspiring dancing before admitting that he was a poor dancer despite loving dance.
	+ Cyrus has skipped out on faculty balls in Atlasdam out of fear of tripping over a girl and embarrassing them both.
	+ Cyrus once again eagerly mentions the honor of being taught to dance by Primrose during the "Shall We Dance?" travel banter.
	+ Primrose says that Cyrus's dancing is like "watching despair in motion."
* During the *Chapter 3: Primrose & Cyrus* travel banter, Cyrus reveals he's not too clueless to love as the others believed. Just as long as he is not involved in it, as he was able to catch on Primrose's feelings for Simeon, much to her surprise.
* During the *Fear and Aversions* travel banter, it is revealed to Tressa and Olberic that Cyrus is also a poor singer.
* In travel banter with Tressa, Cyrus demonstrates his unparalleled focus through this anecdote: "There was a time when I was so engrossed in a book, I failed to notice that my neighbor's house was on fire."
* During the *A Drinking Contest* travel banter with all four of the male travelers, Cyrus mentions how he prefers to take his drinks at his own pace and savor them.
* In the *Heart of a Maiden* travel banter, Primrose teases Cyrus for his naïvety towards women's feelings, referring to his obliviousness to Therese's feelings for him. She points out that his eloquent manners can often give women the wrong idea and false hope.
* The final chapter in Cyrus's story is unique to all of his other chapters as well as the other characters as it is the only one that has the boss fight first prior to completing the chapter's objectives.
* Cyrus is one of the few people known to have drunk enough to have pushed Olberic to his tipping point, the others being Alfyn and Erhardt.
* Cyrus has been shown to play the piano in multiple offical artworks, such as the cover art for Octopath Traveler's OST and the promotional artworks for *Octopath Traveler Break and Boost Beyond* and *Octopath Traveler Break and Boost -Extend-.* In the former, Cyrus can be seen teaching Ophilia how to play.
* In his travel banter with Ophilia during her Chapter 2, Cyrus reveals his excitement to witness the historic ritual of the Kindling.
* During Therion's Chapter 3, Cyrus declares that he disapproves of black markets.
* In his banter during Cyrus's Chapter 3, Olberic addresses Cyrus as "Scholar," a curiously reductive title that none of the other protagonists use.
* Cyrus's Chapter 3 (along with Ophilia's Chapter 4) is one of the two story chapters that involves temporary imprisonment in a jail cell.
* In the *Fears and Aversions* banter, Cyrus says he has a sneaking suspicion that singing is his weakness. He says, "Whenever I give voice to a song, people look at me with the queerest expressions... Also, they say things like, 'Good things you're a scholar, sir, and not a bard.'" In spite of such comments, Cyrus states that he still enjoys a good ballad.