Vizian Izara

**Vizian Izara**is a major character in *Final Fantasy XVI.* He is an esper researcher and the patriarch of the Ordunia Family.

## **Profile**

#### **Personality**

Before the uprising of the Edelian Empire, Vizian was a selfish and careless individual. He chose not to understand the intricacies of human feelings and emotions from others who stood in his way. He sought every obstacle as a challenge that he must overtake, especially if that had involved with his childhood lover Lidia Nibleheim.

Vizian was an uneducated individual as a child, making him irrational in terms of morals and code. He was slow to understand how human emotions work and used pent up aggression in order to assert himself. It wasn't until he became an apprentice of the Olion Council, along with his allies Kin, Lidia, and Denek that he slowly started to understand how others felt from his brash personality.

In the present, Vizian is a newly respectable man who has earned a title for himself as the patriarch of the Ordunia Family. He has many disciples who respect his intelligent and mysterious personality. He is knowledgeable in the facts of Olion and understands how others feel based on their appearance and words.

In reality, Vizian is a man with a strong and passionate sense of justice. He becomes a very kind-hearted individual who always tries to find solutions to problems that others have. When June first meets Vizian, he is extremely optimistic and enthusiastic about his work in the research field. He occasionally gives June and her friends good advice about surviving the harshness of the world and is extremely quick to pick up on several nuisances that may bother them during their journey.

However, Vizian was secretly harnessing the power of Bahamut's ability to rewrite history, implanting his own chosen memories into people of his choosing.

#### **Appearance**

Vizian is an attractive middle-aged man standing at 188cm (6'3").

## **Story**

**Spoiler warning: *Plot and/or ending details follow.***

### **Before *Final Fantasy XVI***

At a young age, Vizian was a rather popular individual in Nibleheim for his attractive looks and deep sounding voice. As a son to the royal Izara Family, Vizian was widely praised by his brothers and sisters and family relatives. He lived a rather spoiled life as a young child, receiving all the gifts and toys that he wanted to. However as a child, he would get into fights often with his younger and older siblings. When the entire Izara family was slaughtered by an unknown man of irrevocable strength and skill, Vizian exiled himself in shame for being unable to protect his family. He traveled to Corselia where he met a woman that escorted him into child services within Galacye. There, he met childhood friends Kin Ordunia, Lidia Nibleheim, and Denek Izath, however his relationship with them was unwillingly rough.

His aggressive and selfish personality pushed many children away from him, but not his three friends. His constant jealousy of Kin's natural abilities in combat and education made him push his ability to try to follow in his footsteps. However, his laziness would always catch up with him, making him the target for Denek's bullying. At a child's age, Vizian failed to understand the intricacies and basics of human emotion, making him an unlikely subject to invest time in. However, he did understand through Lidia Nibleheim that life is meant to be treasured, as it is short. From that day forward, Vizian fell in love with Lidia, but was jealous because she fancied Kin more.

Eventually, Vizian sought to join the Olion Council as an apprentice, but rejected the opportunity to go to school, making him unreasonably unintelligent. While spending more time with his other three friends, all three of them were accepted into the council but him because of his poor education. As a result, he was separated from his three friends, and lived alone with his maternal mother alone.

As time passed, Vizian sought education as the route to the Council, and studied the arts of the Espers, the gods of Olion. He would then go on to locate a forbidden tome and chalice within Galacye's underground library, finding a secret recipe to a potion that prevented aging known as the Aging Serum. After studying its ingredients, Vizian burned the book but kept the chalice with him at home. The chalice eventually started ringing and calling his name, revealing that a spirit had been residing in there named Asura. Asura communicated with Vizian and beckoned him to take her power, but Vizian refused for he sought a normal life with Lidia in the distant future.

When Vizian first joined the Olion Council as an apprentice, he began a close combative relationship against Kin and Denek, wanting to prove himself to be better than them to impress Lidia. However, an accident that resulted in the death of his maternal mother made Vizian turn insane. As he found the culprits to be late members of the Edelian Empire, Vizian swore revenge and quit the Olion Council, joining a military force in Galacye to stop the Edelian leader.

As adults, Vizian became distraught over the fact that Lidia favored Kin over himself, and attacked Lidia as a result. Vizian managed to stop himself and apologize over the fight, but Lidia requests that he leave their friend group permanently because of their relationship tension. As a result, Vizian quits the military and lives in a secluded place on his own within Galacye's alleyways.

When months passed, Vizian received word from his comrades that Denek had been sending secret encrypted messages to the Edelian Empire, and encodes them with the help of his late friend Lizbeth. Together, they reveal that Denek had betrayed Corselia and had forged a contract with the empire for immunity and the guaranteed capture of the Asmius child, a young girl who had been the Empire's target all along. Vizian intervenes with Kin and Lidia and help locate the child, rebuilding their relationship together.

Lidia confesses to Vizian that she loves Kin but he does not say anything. Vizian tells Lidia that she is free to love whoever she wants, and that he no longer will stop her.

The trio finally locate the Asmius child, but are assaulted by the Edelian Empire. Denek, who now goes by the name Baron, stalk their trail before Kin tells Vizian and Lidia to take the child to a safe location where she may grow up to stop the Empire in the future. Vizian says nothing to Kin's intervention and stay. Vizian watches Lidia attempt to connect with Kin romantically for the last time, but because Kin knows that Vizian loves Lidia, he chooses to say nothing in return. Vizian and Lidia both take the child and depart.

Over the next few years, Vizian would live in guilt for treating Kin horribly as children. He would then reconvene with Lidia and work together with the Olion Council to become official members. Vizian began brewing Aging Serum along with Lizbeth, retaining their simple age. However, Vizian and Lidia were feared that Baron would arrive to murder them, so they lived the rest of their lives in secrecy through a closed network of government within the Olion Council. Vizian would go on to become the President of Corselia, while Lidia as the President of Nibleheim. His feelings for Lidia and the betrayal of Baron have not ceased.

### ***Final Fantasy XVI***

Prior to the events of *Final Fantasy XVI,* Vizian's stress for Kin's death and his unforgiving behavior for his attitude towards him eventually cause him to have a mental shutdown, condemning himself and shutting himself away from the universe. Much like the origins of all other esper-holders, Vizian's explosion of emotion cause one of the spirits of a lingering esper orb across Olion to track him down. During his extreme stage of grief, Vizian was visited by a weakened form of Bahamut, the king of all espers. Vizian learns of the chaos that caused all of the espers to catastrophically fade away from existence. Bahamut then merges with Vizian, which subsequently gives him godlike abilities, including the one to be able to send visions and manipulate other people's emotions in order to become free willed individuals.

In order to test this ability, Vizian uses it on June Asmius, purging her memories of Kin, Lidia, Baron, and himself from the past and implanting new memories within herself. Bahamut then informs Vizian that in order for him to reunite the universe in order to create a better world, he must acquire the lost remnants of the other espers and nurture them back to health in order to achieve a greater power. Vizian manipulates the universe after locating several esper orbs, researching them, and discovering their nurturing abilities must be implanted within human hosts who are capable of growing stronger. Vizian eventually determines the future action to save the universe; he must give June an implanted memory of saving the world by nurturing the espers, along with her to convince other friends of hers to do the same in order to acquire the esper orbs.

Eventually, in order to preserve secrecy of his abilities, Vizian became the patriarch of the Ordunia Family after witnessing a motherly figure part of the family being abused by her own husband in Galacye. Eventually, after laying low in secret, Vizian encounters a wounded and homeless Claire Terumi on the street within Rosaria during his travels, implanting the new memory of a imaginary individual named Halen Terumi, giving her a false identity of being an idol and a skilled card player. Eventually, Vizian manipulates the minds of civilians around the world with his abilities, making them view Halen as a worldwide idol in order to help support her new lifestyle.

### **Act I**

Eventually, Vizian meets June and her friends, along with Drai, after encountering the meteor that the espers created to crash land near Galacye. Vizian, knowing June was the little girl he had taken care of in the past, and the girl that he supplanted his own version of memories within, chose to lie to her throughout her journey to conceal the truth of his dark past and his abilities.

During this time, Vizian subsequently speaks to Halen in order to give her guidance to receive the Alexander orb from her. He organizes a scenario where he encounters June in Ylstaya as a mysterious stranger in a cafe, organizing an event where a suicide almost happens to that Halen is forced to meet June and become allies with her. Vizian, during this time, constructs a new world made from Bahamut's soul, to which he titles the Tower of Nodessa. He enables the Tower to harness the energies from the esper orbs that exist in reality to ultimately, create a weapon that will alter all of reality forever to his choosing. Vizian is able to create the Tower of Nodessa as an unconscious world; only those who dream of it shall be granted access to it.

### **Act II**

On one particular day after the Battle of Corselia, Vizian notices June arriving to the Tower of Nodessa, to where he sends her images and alternative flashbacks of Halen's life in the past in order to persuade her not to interfere with the alteration of Halen's past. June refuses however, and Vizian speaks to her through a microphone, telling her that he will change the universe and her friends in order to make the world a better place.

Afterwards, he orders Halen to stalk June and her friends on their journey to Nibleheim while he offers to go himself. During Vizian's trip to Nibleheim on the Zenalo Train Line, Vizian attempts to implant new memories within Baron, Declarus, Praan, Lidia, and June where they forget about their past; however, this technique does not work. Vizian is tossed off of the train to his death while June leaps out for him to save him.

Bahamut teleports Vizian away back into hiding to save him from death, where Vizian angrily asks why their memories were not altered. Bahamut states how June is Delia, the savior of the world, and he cannot do such a thing anymore after her commitment and power to save the universe has grown extremely strong. While June and her allies believe Vizian is dead, during this time, Vizian goes into hiding and is not mentioned again until the Final Act.

### **Final Act**

During the Final Act, Vizian returns and eventually becomes obsessed with reviving Kin in order to apologize to him. After the death of Enkidu and the revival of the espers, while harnessing the powers of the retrieved esper orbs from June and her allies, he also harnesses and steals Tenebris's soul and merges it into himself, finalizing the design of the Tower of Nodessa in the process. Vizian assembles his power above the tower and the tower eventually overloads, revealing itself to the public. During the end result, Vizian uses Nodessa to warp and alter all of reality, making it so that none of the espers had ever existed, June has a new family of her own, Nex reunites with his fiance, Mari and Killian are in love, Drai and Jill eventually marry, and Kazari and Kel'adrin eventually return to their families to live in peace. He also revives all of the deceased villains and heroes, implanting them new memories. However, Vizian forgets that June is unaffected by Nodessa, and after attempting to implant new memories within her, her most chaotic memory, which is Baron's existence, is also unaffected. Vizian also realizes that Halen is unaffected as well, causing him to try and reconfigure his powers in order to supplant them with new memories.

Eventually, June, Halen, and a young Baron eventually enters the Tower of Nodessa, confronting Vizian behind the scenes. He tells June that he wished he could have met her in a different way and reveals his intention of using the esper orbs to rewrite history. He subsequently convinces Halen, who is beginning to remember her past life as Claire, to join forces with him in order to obtain the final piece to finishing Nodessa; Alexander. Vizian implants new memories within Halen, forcing her to switch sides. He then emplores June and Baron to return to the real world to live out their lives, giving them time to submit to his demands of a changed world. He takes Halen away while they live out a week's time.

Vizian meets June and Baron again who have denied his acts of rewriting history. As a result, Vizian forces Halen to attack June and Baron with her abilities. He gives her a fraction of his power from Bahamut in order to transform her into a monster. He also witnesses June's allies arriving in Nodessa to protect them, which shocks him because his power is obsolete and cannot be altered. After Halen is defeated, she reverts back to human form and regains her memories as Claire Terumi. Vizian escapes to the top of Nodessa, asking June to meet him there in order to give her his final answer to rewrite history.

Before June wishes to give Vizian her final answer, they meet in the real world to where Vizian asks her whether what he is doing is right. Obsessed by the loss of Kin and Lidia's love, June informs Vizian that the new world will not satisfy him, nor will it make him forget. Vizian denies this, stating how he can make everything satisfy him as long as everyone is alive and happy. When June throws him a curveball question whether what he does is real or not, Vizian leaves the area, waiting for June. He then activates Nodessa one last time with the additive power of Alexander.

Before he is able to, he stopped by June and the party after ascending the maze. Vizian transforms into an obsessive scholar who attacks June, telling her that she apologizes for keeping the secret of her past, but did so in order to restore his own privately. He then praises the universe will be happy when he controls it. When June and her allies deny it once more, Vizian summons a mutated version of Bahamut, mutated by the overusage of his power; they begin attacking June and her friends above the Tower of Nodessa. They are both defeated, but hethen fuses with Tenebris's core to become Neo-Vizian and Bahamut. June and her friends assault Neo-Vizian, striking him down and causing the Tower of Nodessa to collapse.

However, Vizian does not lose his power, as he has become one with the espers. He attacks June and the party in his new Dragoon form, defeating them. Vizian is about to transform the universe with his powers until June realizes that she is also able to control Nodessa herself after she merges with Bahamut through her mind. Together, with the help of her allies, June is able to cancel out Bahamut's powers and destroy them.

Neo-Vizian reverts back to Vizian and loses his power as Tenebris's soul dissolves in thin air. June's also loses her Darkfire power as Tenebris's soul fades, merging together and disappearing. June is grounded with Vizian while Nodessa is collapsing. He informs June that he can never withstand the guilt of seeing Lidia and thinking of Kin, and June tells him that she has no family and he is lucky to have close friends like them. Vizian surrenders, but wishes to take his own life in the process. The two fight in close quarters combat, which Vizian is defeated and surrenders, leaving himself in the collapse of Nodessa hanging off of a cliff. He tells June that he understands what he did was wrong and unforgivable, and he did not deserve to hold the power of reality alteration as June reminds him of Kin. He then releases June's hand, seemingly falling to his death while the world is restored to reality.

In the ending, Vizian is seen to have survived the fall and has entered into a relationship with Lidia. He fixes June's airship and takes her across the universe, having rehabilitated himself.

## Quotes

### **Battle**

#### **Phase 1**

*"Face my reality!"*

*"I kneel before no one who attempts to defile my truth!"*

*"Bahamut! Lend me your strength!"*

*"Flames of terror!"*

*"Dancing blades!"*

*"You can never ascend to my superior strength!"*

*"Hmm hmm hmm... ha ha ha!"*

*"Not bad!"*

*"I raised you like a daughter of my own, Asmius. Please. Listen to your guardian just this once and I promise you that I'll handle things from now on."*

*"Think about your past love, Nex. Give your life to me and I swear I'll have you two reunited the moment you come home."*

*"I know you're tired of being nobody, Mari. I can give you the strength to be somebody. Just lend me your strength!*

*"You've missed the entire feeling of having a family, Drai. After raising you, I know what it's like. I can change it all for you if you'll just let me!"*

*"I know you regret leaving the Thralls, Killian. If you just let me take control just this one, I promise you that you'll have a wonderful life ahead of you."*

*"The feeling of family is something that you may never experience, Kazari. Using my powers, I can bring them back! I can give you a new sense of purpose!"*

*"Your pride clouds you, Kel'adrin. I know that you want revenge for your family's death, but I know what can be even better. I can bring them back for you!"*

*"Claire, listen to me. This isn't you! I created you from the start! I protected you and I made you a superior! I can improve and do better!"*

#### **Phase 2**

*"Now you shall face the full power of Bahamut! Let's finish this!*

*"Flames! Rain down!"*

*"Mega Flare!"*

*"Enough of this! Exo Flare!"*

*"Ultima Blade!"*

*"Nodessa shall see its rebirth!"*

#### **Phase 3**

*"Lidia. Kin. Asmius. I promised that I would seek the path to peace for Olion, and I shall. Using the full extent of my abilities, I will make you all proud. That... I can promise!"*

*"This is the power no greater being can ascend towards!"*

*"Accept my fate!"*

*"Bahamut!"*

*"Asmius!"*

*"I'll save the last of humanity with this!"*

*"The gap of reality shall be sealed!"*

*"Witness truth!"*

#### **Phase 4**

*"If you're going to shut me down... you'll have to do better than that, young Asmius. The child you were... meant everything to me! Don't toss it away now!*

*"Lidia... my love... why? I could have given you everything! Why do you stop me from giving happiness?"*

*"A world where... all the children of man can live and prosper..."*

*"I... lost...?"*