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"*A human can only learn so much in its short lifetime. I will gain the time, the power to understand* everything.*" —*Lucia

**Lucia** is a character in *Octopath Traveler*. She is the assistant to the headmaster of the Royal Academy of Atlasdam, Yvon, and is the main antagonist and final boss of Cyrus' story.

## Profile

### Appearance

Lucia is a woman with long, dark hair and wears a black scholar’s cloak over a purple dress.

After using the blood-crystal, her body becomes hunched and disfigured, with powerful arms and a glowing heart.

### Personality

Lucia is an intelligent woman who possesses a strong ambition for acquiring new knowledge and an ability to mastermind her plans over the course of many years, but is also a self-centred sociopath. Like Yvon, she does not believe in sharing knowledge for the good of others and thinks of knowledge as something to be sought out for personal gain. She also thinks of other people as disposable pawns to be used for her own purposes, which she demonstrates by deliberately giving Yvon an imperfect blood-crystal without his knowledge after he had unlocked all the secrets within *From the Far Reaches of Hell*, intending for him to be killed in battle by Cyrus so she can use the knowledge he unlocked for herself. When her research is threatened, she even readily forsakes her own humanity, using a perfect blood-crystal on herself to turn into a deformed but powerful monstrosity.

Lucia has very good control over her emotions, never raising her voice once until her final confrontation with Cyrus in the Ruins of Eld where she becomes excited while attempting to persuade Cyrus to join her in discovering all the world's knowledge. However, Cyrus' rejection of her offer on the grounds that he wants to discover knowledge so that he can share it with others whereas Lucia wants to keep knowledge to herself so that she can feel superior, angers her enough to forsake her calm façade and reveal that, for all her intelligence, she is indeed a very selfish and arrogant woman with no tolerance for any opinions regarding knowledge that differ from her own.

In spite of her arrogance, Lucia is capable of acknowledging her own mistakes, agreeing with Cyrus that she bears responsibility for Yvon's wilful personality that hindered her plans, given that she was the one who had arranged for his accession to the position of headmaster.

Lucia feels a strong contempt for humanity, specifically for their mortality, which she considers to be a weakness. Her contempt is such that she refers to humans as a whole as "it" instead of "they", while expressing her desire to become immortal so that she can acquire all the world's knowledge for herself, though she refers to specific individuals such as Cyrus and Yvon by their proper gender pronouns.

## Story

15 years prior to the events of *Octopath Traveler*, Lucia met Lyblac, and together they plotted to install Yvon as the headmaster of the Atlasdam Royal Academy in order to gain access to the tome *From the Far Reaches of Hell.*

The two were able to convince Yvon to assassinate the former headmaster so that he might take his place and procure the tome. However, after Yvon was able to unlock the secrets of the tome, Lucia plotted in secret to dispose of him and continue the research herself.

After becoming the new headmaster, Yvon begins using dark magic and stealing knowledge from other places, killing those in his way. When Yvon reprimands Cyrus and puts him on leave due to false rumors about an affair with Princess Mary, Lucia is present.

Later, she meets the powerful mage named Gideon. Lucia and Yvon use his magic to create Blood Stones by kidnapping people and draining them of blood. She follows Cyrus to Stonegard, informing him of Yvon's scheme to use *From the Far Reaches of Hell* for evil. She leads Cyrus to the headmaster's birthplace, only to knock him out and imprison him. Before leaving Stonegard, she gives Yvon a flawed blood crystal to use against Cyrus, knowing it would render him unstable and kill him.

Lucia would later appear in Duskbarrow in the Ruins of Eld, where she hoards a myriad of priceless books to conduct her studies in secret. She is confronted by Cyrus, who deduced that she was the true mastermind behind the tome's theft and use. She boasts of her schemes and attempts to sway Cyrus into joining her, but he turns her down, distinguishing his desire to use education for good from her selfish pursuit of knowledge. Flying into a rage, Lucia uses a blood crystal, taking on a similar monstrous form as Yvon did in an attempt to kill Cyrus, which fails as he defeats her and her Blood Stone destroys her.