Talk:Characters of Final Fantasy Tactics

Neutrality Dispute
Without any disrespect intended to the authors, I think this article is in serious in need of revision. There is far too much subjective opinion injected into the articles, as well as some questionable statements of fact.


 * "This reveals another side of Ramza's character, as it shifts the focus from injustice, and focuses on Ramza overcoming his past mistakes." There is no direct evidence to support this statement.  I could equally well argue (and this is, in fact my opinion), that there is never a shift in focus in Ramza's character after chapter 1. Ramza's desire to redeem himself/ atone for the mistakes made in chapter 1 are running theme in the game.  Also, I might point to Rafa's discussion with Ramza in the game as suggesting that Ramza is driven primarily by his will to do good throughout the entire game.


 * "Easily manipulated, but ultimately an idealistically honorable man (who thinks of himself as the people's "hero"), Delita holds of the unfortunate maxim that the ends justify the means." Why is Delita "easily manipulated?"  He is more easily manipulated than any other character in the game?  The opinion that Ramza manipulates Delita is more or the less the one-sided opinion of Algus.  More over, this statement is presented in very confusing contrast to the rest of his article, which presents Delita as a master manipulator himself.


 * "Delita was born to poor farmers on the Beoulve land." It is stated that Delita was a born to a common family, most likely Beoulve vassals, but the occupation of Delita's parents is never mentioned.


 * "Teta shields Delita with her body, saving him." This is only one interpretation of Delita's statement that Teta saved him.  Another school of thought suggests Delita meant this is a metaphorical or indirect sense that Teta's death gave Delita's life new focus, rather than Teta physically saved him from the explosion of Fort Zeakden (I'm with the latter. Teta by all accounts lookedlike she was dead already at the time).


 * "She's brave in the face of adversity, but her courage is offset by her weakness and people are always taking advantage of her (especially Delita, without even realizing it)" It is a little subjective to characterize Ovelia as being "brave in the face of adversity." She never does much more than weep and cry at her own troubles.


 * "The real Ovelia is the sister of King Omdolia; the current Ovelia was adopted by Omdolia... Whether the two are the same is a matter of doubt, but we'll assume they were."  The whole part written on Ovelia's background is extremely confusing.  As I understand it, this is how it was: Vormav claims (and it is important to note that this claim is made by Vormav) that the Ovelia known in the game is substitute for the real Princess Ovelia, who died a long time ago, and was the much younger step sister of King Omdolia.  King Omdolia later adopted Ovelia as his daughter, making her a royal princess.  The truth of this story is never verified.  Why does the author of this article assume that the in-game Ovelia and the "real" Ovelia referred to by Vormav are the same?


 * "Dycedarg is one of the archetypical Machiavellian anti-heros, driven by his own desires and accomplishing them through any means necessary -- devious or otherwise. In doing so, but not particularly caring, he is the only Beoulve who dishonors his family name. Cold-hearted only through his pursuit of power, he is often misjudged by many players of the game as being a complete sociopath who has a natural proclivity to kill -- but, like the real-life person he can be compared to, Richard III of England, the way he achieves his goals overshadows the real person. To that end, it his unabashed goal to become king." A) There are few people in positions of of power in FFT who aren't Machiavellian.  Associating the term solely with him is unbalanced.  B) Dycedarg is not an anti-hero.  He is clearly only a side character in the FFT Story.  (If at all applicable to any, "Machiavellian anti-hero" better describes Delita).  C) Comparing Dycedarg to the "real person" of Richard II of England!??  That's borderline historical slander at best.  Maybe Dycedarg is similar to 'Shakespeare's' Richard III, but there is a huge bias in suggesting a similarity in villainy between Dycedarg and the historical Richard III.


 * "Both a skilled magician and fencer -- earning the title of Lune Knight --" Okay, "Lune Knight" is how it's spelt in the game, but anyone who has studied Japanese will probably tell you "Lune" is most likely a mistranslation of "Rune."


 * "he is also an excellent diplomat, helping negotiate the final treaties that ended the ruinous Fifty Year War that Ivalice fought against the nation of Ordallia in the east." Really?  The treaty that ended the Fifty Year War was a disastrous agreement for Ivalice that entailed massive unilateral payments of war reparations to Ordalia.  If Dycedarg negotiated such a treaty, I think he would have been hanged and/or demoted below the floorboard (okay, I'm exaggerating little maybe about this last sentence...=) Anyway, off the top of my head, I do not think that it was ever mentioned in the game that Dycedarg negotiated the treaty ending the war.


 * "The fact that Dycedarg murdered his father is clouded by alternate interpretations. Though not outrightly stated in the game, it could be that Dycedarg finished off Balbanes, his father, because he had been suffering from "the long illness" mentioned in his in-game bio -- thus being coldly merciful and self-serving at the same time. It could alternately argued, however, that "the long illness" was actually Dycedarg using Mosfungus poisoning over a long period of time (which gives symptoms similar to -- if this scenario those of a cold) is correct, Dycedarg is made to look like the cold-blooded, patricidal megalomaniac that so many players of Final Fantasy Tactics believe him to be." The argument that Dycedarg simply "finished off" his father is extremely, extremely, weak.  The idea that Dycedarg deliberately assassinated Balbanes Beoulve with mosfungus poison is repeated extensively in chapter 4, and I think ought to be given much more weight.


 * "There, Gustav is killed in a duel with Wiegraf, and the latter lets Elmdor free -- knowing full-well that Dycedarg's sacrificing of Elmdor was meant to destroy the Death Corps itself." Dycedarg's plot to get Elmdor kidnapped had nothing to do with the destruction of the Death Corps.  Elmdor was certainly not "sacrificed;" Wiegraf suggests to Ramza in their first battle that the Marquis was an inconvenient political power that Dycedarg and Prince Larg wanted removed and possibly replaced with noble friendly to their own cause.  Wiegraf released Elmdor on principle, rather to foil Dycedarg's scheme.


 * "Passing out from the Mosfungus toxin in his system, Dycedarg never leaves an explanation, much to the chagrin of the thunderstruck Zalbag." "chagrin" implies annoyance.  I would not characterize Zalbag as being "annoyed" with having his entire army poisoned, having to witness the death of liegelord, and the collapse of his brother.


 * "Prince of Gallione, and supreme leader of Hokuten Knights, Larg is only slightly more honorable than his enemy Goltana." To say that Larg is even slightly more honorable than Goltana is highly subjective. I would in fact actually would argue that Goltana was the more principled of the two.  The game, however, is fairly clear than both man are scheming and manipulative, so I think it best that any statement about the relative morality of the two be left out.


 * "However, as events prove, he's not shrewd enough." Goltana not shrewd enough, sure, but then who in FFT was?  Half the cast ends up dead.


 * "Larg's first entry into the Lion War is to commend Ramza for his work in rescuing Marquis Elmdor (even though Dycedarg, his right-hand man, set the kidnapping up)" "Entering into war" means invasion.  Maybe should be reworded as "Larg's first appearance in the story of FFT"


 * "However, they are paralyzed by an epidemic of Mosfungus, spread by Balk of the Temple Knights." Poisons do not come in "epidemics."


 * "He is not as underhanded as his enemy Larg." I think many people would question that statement. Ditto on the relative morality statements.


 * "Teta uses the last of her strength to shield Delita from the explosion, succumbing to it herself." Again, not everyone would agree that Teta physically saved Delita from the explosion.


 * "After the Nanten suffer a great defeat to the Hokuten, he begins to disagree with Goltana, and Delita uses this to his advantage." Nowhere is it mentioned that the Nanten suffer a great defeat at Hokuten hands during the Lion War. The successes of each side is hardly mentioned at all.  It seems much more likely that both sides have been locked in stalemate, from the context of the game.  It is never stated when Orlandu starts disagreeing with Goltana. Moreover, "disagreeing" might be a slightly misleading term.  Orlandu believes that Princess Ovelia is the true heir, but his "disagreement" is that he wishes for his lord, Goltana, to purse peace with Larg rather than pursue a costly war with Larg than benefits few and causes tremendous hardship for the commonfolk.


 * "Izlude is a Temple Knight of the Murond Glabados Church. He is the son of Vormav, who often times mistreats him." The summary of Izlude's mistreatment from Vormav is one slap in the entire game. That is scant evidence to say that Izlude is generally abused by his father.


 * "He is a very abusive father" What evidence is there is to support this statement?  In fact, in the battle at the Cathedral of Murond, Meliadoul (if she's in the party) addresses Vormav with respect, and Vormav also addresses Meliadoul in the same way.  That seems to suggest, in stark contrast, that Meliadoul and Izlude both held their father in high esteem; that makes much for sense, since both Izlude and Meliadioul are initially devouted to their father's plan.


 * "He then attacks Ramza to avenge Velius, but realizing that Ramza poses a serious threat, he summons Ramza's brother Zalbag from the dead to create a diversion, and flees" Now, did Vormav think of Ramza as a threat, or was he simply seeking to torture him?  A strong argument could be made for Ramza being a threat, but somehow this statement doesn't sound quite right.

There's likely other stuff that I might have missed, and doubtlessly someone will disagree with what I've written here. I invite comments on this topic.--A Visitor (3 April 2006)


 * Here are some comments to "A Visitor." Note that I don't claim authorship of those statements in the article unless I explicitly say so myself.


 * I know that the mercy-killing argument is extremely weak, which is why I previously referenced Adrammelech's confession to murdering Balbanes in a previous anonymous edit (however, I thought that I'd be going a little far to remove that theory altogether).


 * The comment about the threat most likely was due to the fact that Ramza actually defeats one of the Temple Knights, as well as having defeated at least two Zodiac braves that Vormav knows of.


 * As for Vormav being an abusive father, he slaps Izlude and calls him a "moron" (Emotional and physical abuse). Admittedly that is one incident, but that is a very telling one.
 * Or is Vormav simply angry at his son for being incompetent enough to be captured (not to pass judgement and say that Izlude is incompetent in general)? I've been slapped by my parents before, but that didn't mean they were abusive in general (even though I wouldn't have said that at the time... =) )  Another point is that Vormav at the time may have been heavily influenced by Hashmalum at the time.  In any event, maybe Vormav isn't so nice to his children, but based on one incident, I don't think so strong a statement is warranted-- A Visitor (1 May 2006)


 * By the way, what do you think about the theories regarding Ajora and Historical Jesus? There are several obvious parallels that people with cursory familiarity with the subject will pick up on, but I'm not sure if that's something you merely forgot. Carathana 00:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)Carathana
 * Yes, I agree with you Carathana, that the parallels between St. Ajora and Jesus are too obvious to be merely coincidence, and you are right, I did forget. I'm actually fairly okay with the parallels drawn in this article, since I agree with many of them.  There's likely some counter arguments to drawing parallels between Ajora and Jesus, but I'm not too familar with them... much of FFT's story seems to me to be built upon a thinly disguised criticism of Christianity's history, the Roman Catholic Church in particular.-- A Visitor (1 May 2006)
 * I agree with your assertions regarding FFT's plot as a nearly transparent critique on Church history (seems to be a common theme with other Squaresoft games at any rate). But, can we keep it objective? I think it's enough to call it a critique--in the interest of being fair and working with what the game gave us, we ought to leave judgments (e.g., warranted critique, baseless critique, etc.) out of the article(s). Aren't we supposed to keep it neutral after all? -- Another visitor (19 Aug 06)

Let me start by saying how glad I am someone wrote up about the positions and neutrality of this article.

I have a just a few comments to make on what’s written here.

1. “Delita was born to poor farmers on the Beoulve land." It is stated that Delita was a born to a common family, most likely Beoulve vassals, but the occupation of Delita's parents is never mentioned.			-While it doesn’t ever talk about Delita’s parents in his “Brave Story” character profile, it DOES talk about Teta’s. Her profile in chapter four describes her thusly: “Daughter of a farmer of a fief in the Beoulve Kingdom. Losing her parents to the Black Plague, she was taken in by the Beoulve family with her brother.” Grammatical errors and stylistic weakness aside, it clears up the issue of Delita’s parentage.

2. "he is also an excellent diplomat, helping negotiate the final treaties that ended the ruinous Fifty Year War that Ivalice fought against the nation of Ordallia in the east." Really? The treaty that ended the Fifty Year War was a disastrous agreement for Ivalice that entailed massive unilateral payments of war reparations to Ordalia. If Dycedarg negotiated such a treaty, I think he would have been hanged and/or demoted below the floorboard (okay, I'm exaggerating little maybe about this last sentence...=) Anyway, off the top of my head, I do not think that it was ever mentioned in the game that Dycedarg negotiated the treaty ending the war. - I’m not sure how much Dycedarg had to do with a treaty either, but there is a brief mention in Balbanes’s profile: “A treaty was reached because of the fear he struck into the hearts of the enemies.” Not quite Dycedarg and not quiet actually drawing up the treaty--but it sort of connects the Beoulves. :-)

3. “The argument that Dycedarg simply "finished off" his father is extremely, extremely, weak. The idea that Dycedarg deliberately assassinated Balbanes Beoulve with mosfungus poison is repeated extensively in chapter 4, and I think ought to be given much more weight.” - Agreed, the mercy-killing theory should come second to the long-term poisoning, especially considering the callousness with which he kills Larg before collapsing.

4. “Prince of Gallione, and supreme leader of Hokuten Knights, Larg is only slightly more honorable than his enemy Goltana." To say that Larg is even slightly more honorable than Goltana is highly subjective. I would in fact actually would argue that Goltana was the more principled of the two. The game, however, is fairly clear than both man are scheming and manipulative, so I think it best that any statement about the relative morality of the two be left out.			- Could honorable here mean honored? As in higher ranking? If this is so, it should be clarified and qualified with examples.

5. "He is a very abusive father" What evidence is there is to support this statement? In fact, in the battle at the Cathedral of Murond, Meliadoul (if she's in the party) addresses Vormav with respect, and Vormav also addresses Meliadoul in the same way. That seems to suggest, in stark contrast, that Meliadoul and Izlude both held their father in high esteem; that makes much for sense, since both Izlude and Meliadioul are initially devouted to their father's plan. - Also, the slap and Vormav’s anger toward Izlude are both (maybe this is an assumption) after he is possessed by the Lucavi. Is Vormav’s transformation in Barenten’s castle the first time he’d summoned the Lucavi in the stone? I would say no. Wiegraf had to make a deal before he could use his stone. Vormav was the leader of the group, sending stones to appropriate hosts and manipulating High Priest Funeral. And there is enough evidence (the conversation with Wiegraf after he makes his deal with Velius and before Ramza fights him) that the personalities of those possessed by the stones shift considerably towards violence, anger, and anti-social desire. Those possessed may even not be themselves at all, but the Lucavi of their stones possessing them and using their memories--although this has less evidence behind it. Calling Vormav abusive may be incorrect in the mere idea that we do not see Vormav at all before his possession.

6. "He then attacks Ramza to avenge Velius, but realizing that Ramza poses a serious threat, he summons Ramza's brother Zalbag from the dead to create a diversion, and flees" Now, did Vormav think of Ramza as a threat, or was he simply seeking to torture him? A strong argument could be made for Ramza being a threat, but somehow this statement doesn't sound quite right.

The comment about the threat most likely was due to the fact that Ramza actually defeats one of the Temple Knights, as well as having defeated at least two Zodiac braves that Vormav knows of. - Whether or not Ramza has qualified himself as a threat, there should be textual evidence to support someone’s claim that a character “realizes” it. The reasons behind Vormav’s summoning Zalbag are better left out. Let the game tell its own story--no need to narrate for it.

- Also, I took the liberty of adding a little to the Catholic comparison part of Ajora’s profile.

-ZClark

Suggestion
1)I would really, really, really recommend that the characters on this page be each given their own page, and that this list article be reduced to compilation of names. It would make much more sense, as well as be more in line with the pages for Final fantasy characters from other games.

2)If these articles are suppose to be about characters, then I think their content should be a little more specific to each character. As it stands, I think there are way too many plot details; its like reading bits of an FFT plot synopsis again and again and again... --A Visitor (3 April 2006)

To add a #3) Mustadio is a 'Minor' playable character yet does not have his own section. Which is hardly fair as he plays a critical role in the game.

I agree, this article is in need of a serious overhaul.PiccoloNamek 16:23, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I strongly advise against creating individual articles for characters on this page. It is exactly the sort of thing that the Final Fantasy WikiProject has been trying to get away from. I also doubt it would "make more sense": a straight-up list of character names is not particularly useful, and it's frankly a little difficult to justify independent articles on notability grounds. I agree with your second point, however. I think many of these entries should probably be trimmed and tightened up, the amount of plot information reduced as much as possible, and more emphasis placed on non-fictional information regarding the characters, – Seancdaug 04:45, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I think it would be better to place characters on individual pages to maintain focus, and to prevent this article from getting too long (which I think it already is). It's not just other FF characters, but for example, most of Shakespeare's characters, even the minor ones, get their own article.  Perhaps some of the characters are really too minor to justify having in their own article, but major characters such as Ramza and Delita really ought to have their own page. --A Visitor (1 May 2006)

Template Test
I have added a newly created template to Ramza's entry on this list. Comments, anyone? Does it need any changes, additions, etc.? Should we keep it? Roy Al Blue 21:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that such information belongs in this article. This article is about the characters stories and history, not statictics. We also don't include job class statistics in the main article. More detailed information belongs in Wikibooks.PiccoloNamek 21:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Comment/Question Ramza's portion of this page is getting kind of big. Will he eventually need to split off onto his own page? If so, would that affect the desirability of the template? Roy Al Blue 21:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't think the idea of a template is worth it to be honest. It seems a bit pointless and simple adds to article weight. Oh and this article is quite a lot of prose without any quality to it. Maybe I should add this to the WPFF Todo... — Cua HL e 21:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

That gives me an idea. The text on this page can be transferred to a separate page, similar to that for other major characters from Final Fantasy games such as Sephiroth. My template would be transferred with it, though the picture of Ramza would remain on this page as well. The text on this page would then be condensed into a shorter version. This would work especially well for Ramza, since he is the main protagonist. Dycedarg's section is also growing quite large, and perhaps the same could be done to him.Roy Al Blue 00:32, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I have gone ahead and done exactly this (with Ramza only). The template still exists, but has been moved to the new page. Roy Al Blue 01:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Recent NPOV & Accuracy Edits of Ramza's section
I've attempted to edit for NPOV and accuracy, using script from the game as reference. I've also played through the game 2 or 3 times. So I have personal familiarity with the story as well.

Anyone who wants to double check the accuracy of my edits or any of the other content in this article can check this link [] to piece together the plot.

The summary of Ramza's role in the story is still summarized poorly in some places, though that is understandable given the breadth of that story. I'll keep picking at it here and there.

I have not had time to look at the rest of the character sections in detail but Delita's needs editing too. Things like, "Delita holds of the unfortunate maxim that the ends justify the means," are awkward wording.

Also, the summary that "He intends on letting his best friend, Ramza and his friends live so that they can destroy the Church's new Zodiac Braves and allow Delita to become king himself," is inaccurate, if you take Delita's own words into account: "Delita: Go back to Igros, for your own sake. It's healthier to keep your nose out of certain things like Princesses and stones." Not exactly the words of someone trying to manipulate someone to get involved in "Princesses and stones."

Again, I'll keep picking at these sections until they match up with the events in the game, not merely interpretations (sometimes fanciful ones) of those events.

(Antelope In Search Of Truth 07:53, 24 May 2006 (UTC))

Gender of St. Ajora
Is St. Ajora a man or a woman?

I know the English version of the game describes Ajora as a "he", but given FFTactics bad translation (Lune Knight anyone?) and the fact that Japanese has no pronouns, let alone masculine and feminine pronouns (correct me if I'm wrong, my Japanese is a little rusty), the English translation isn't exactly definitive. Besides, in the final battle, St. Ajora and the first form of Altima clearly appear as feminine (although this may just be because Ajora uses Alma's body as a host). Does anyone have an answer? Viltris 00:29, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

The Japanese version of the game refers to Ajora as 神の御子, which I think is what Japanese Christians use to refer to Jesus of Nazareth (you can google the phrase). "Son of God" seems the most appropriate translation, given the number of parallels between Ajora and Jesus. (And I think Japanese does have pronouns eg. kare "he", kanojo "she") -- a Visitor 3 July 2006


 * Odd. I spent 2 years in high school studying Japanese, and we never learned any pronouns other than "I" or "you" (and their many variants). 71.135.168.100 22:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

St. Ajora is very probable to be a man since women weren't accepted to be powerful nor were they heavily mentioned in history. Also, St. Ajora is basically Jesus in this game since he also had twelve apostles, etc.

Script in Japanese
By the way, for anyone who's interested, you can find the Japanese text of FFT at http://homepage1.nifty.com/wtf/2nd_data/FFT_script.html -- a Visitor 3 July 2006

This Article's Format
Someone has been changing the scope and format of this article. Specifically, someone stripped away the plot synopsis for Ramza. Is there any reason someone shouldn't but that synopsis back? Should it be moved to an article dedicated to Ramza? Or, since he *is* the viewpoint character, that is, the one the story is seen through, is the plot synopsis on the FFT page adaquate?

Whatever the case, if these changes are to be made for Ramza, this article should be consistent in it's treatment of the characters. I still think summaries of these characters should include a synopsis of their involvement in the story.

Also, the current "background" section for Ramza seems like a mistitled section. "Background" would seem to denote information that was supplied or was known about the character outside the scope of FFT's story. Specifically, background info tends to regard events happening before the story. Since the info in that section all falls under the category of "synopsis", I am going to roll those sections together.

--Antelope In Search Of Truth 08:34, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism
User profiles LuvLuv G2000 & Fatalforty were used to vandalize this page. They also likely edited without signing in, under 200.104.211.128, 172.190.31.45 & 172.197.152.90. Who knows how many, some of them might be sock puppets.

--Antelope In Search Of Truth 05:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * User profile Fatalforty was used to vandalize this page. He/She also likely edited without signing in.
 * I deleted what Fatalforty put up for Dycedarg and Zalbag as what I saw as a "Rapper's Story" While it was comical at first, it wasn't funny when someone wasn't doing anything about it at the time.


 * User profile AntelopeInSearchOfTruth was used to misinform one statement on this page.
 * AntelopeInSearchOfTruth, you better get your facts straight. Ovelia did -not- use a dagger, she -choked- him. Unless she has a third arm spring out of her stomach, her hands clearly show being around Delita's neck.


 * Furthermore, I do not appreciate being accused, and then not given a chance to defend myself. Everyone has a right to edit stuff so misinformation does not leak out. Got it?


 * --LuvLuv G 6:40PM, August 4th, 2006 (UTC)


 * lol.
 * LuvLuv, I apologize. I took another look at the history and saw that what I thought was vandalization was actually you trying to fix a royally gi-normously messed up vandal-edit.


 * However, I suggest you watch the end FFT again. She very clearly lunges at him with a dagger, after which, he stabs her.


 * Furthermore, here is a 2nd opinion: [| GameFAQs.com: go to the Game Script listed under the "In-Depth FAQs" section.]
 * and a 3rd opinion: [| FF Compendium, under both Delita and Ovalia's entries.]


 * For the sake of argument, I am curious if there are any sources you can find which back up the version you are recalling, because that's not what I remember and I have found no one that agrees with the choking version. IN fact, the (original) edit I restored is in line with this: Ovalia lunges at him with a dagger, and is stabbed in return.  Delita is not suffering from emotional shock, but has one hand to his side where he was stabbed, as the scene ends.


 * Hence I am restoring again the "dagger" version..... Can anyone find a video of the ending of this game?    That's an easy resolution to this.
 * --Antelope In Search Of Truth 03:44, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Furthermore, it is not right to distort what has been posted here. I do not edit the discussion you have submitted.  Let it stand and we discuss what was said.....  etc..  We do not edit out what we don't like.


 * It's hypocritical to go on about misinformation when you're changing what I posted on this Talk Page.


 * --Antelope In Search Of Truth 03:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Will do. Damn, lol you've shown me proof, so I shall not complain anymore. Thank you. :) LuvLuv G2000 16:07, August 5, 2006

Yea, obviously a stabbing, since he is walking away holding his stomach. Also you hear the FFT traditional stabbing noise. Maybe the artists made a mistake and put her arms around his neck. [the previous unsigned comment by: 24.5.182.219 03:59, August 29, 2006 (UTC) ]

Teta's Death
Though Teta is very obviously seriously wounded by a crossbow bolt and loses consciousness soon after being shot, Delita's comment that "she saved him" makes it unclear as to whether she was actually dead until the explosion.

We cannot say that she WAS dead but we can't say she WASN'T dead *before* the explosion, until we know what is meant by "Teta saved me back then". Unless you can cite the creator of the game or the game itself, we cannot say one way or another that she died immediately after being shot.

--Antelope In Search Of Truth 02:26, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Olan Durai's Parents
Just because it is not explained how his parents died, does not mean we can depict the theory that they died during the 50 years war, even though it is possible. The fact remains that it is not expressly shown or stated in the game, that I know of.

If it has been shown or stated in the game, great. Cite it and put it in there. Otherwise it is not the place to show off pet theories, to be quite blunt.

--Antelope In Search Of Truth 02:26, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Boco
Why doesn't Boco have a section?--Capibara 23:40, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Isn't he a chocobo? I think that this article was originally focusing on the human characters that impacted the plot. And demon ones, I suppose. But I don't see any reason why the chocobo who made an appearance (when he was saved by Ramza and the others, couldn't be briefly covered.

Emphasis on briefly, as he doesn't play any role in the story after being saved. What do other editors think about this, I wonder? Feel free to add your thoughts.

--Antelope In Search Of Truth 19:46, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I think it would be good idea to include Boco, for completeness' sake. Possibly with only one line, but maybe he deserves mention. But if Boco deserves mention, so does Lavian and Alicia, the two knights commanded by Agrias, and Rad, the mercenary in Gafgarion's company. This article is far from complete. For example, there's no section on Grand Duke Barinten, Minister Gelwan, Baron Grims, Baron Blansh, other nobles, various members of the Atkascha Royal Family (Omdolia, Ruvelia, Orinas, etc.), Balmafula, etc. It would be really cool if we could compile a more extensive list of characters, but this article would become massive. I was hoping to see invidual character pages for this reason, but it was earlier mentioned that the FF wikiproject is not using this approach. -- Visitor 13 Aug 2006

Orlan Durai's relationship to Orlandu (and the spelling of his name...)
In the Japanese text, Orlan refers to Orlandu as 義父 "gifu". According to the Japanese wikipedia, this means one's father in a legal sense or in spirit. It can mean foster father, stepfather, or father-in-law. I guess this explains the incongruity of translation in the english text. However, googling オーラン・デュライ (Orlan Durai spelt in Japanese) at least two sources (http://owb.cool.ne.jp/ivalice/jinmei/50/agyou/o/oran.htm and www.carbuncle.jp/fft/4zeltennia-2.html) indicate that Orlan uses 義父 in the sense of foster father. According to these sites, Orlan's real father was one of Orlandu's comrade-in-arms who died during the end of the Fifty Years' War. (I'll concede that these might not be independent sources, however, since they share much of the same text.

And by the way, has no one ever considered that "Orlan" might be the correct translation of his name, not "Olan"? Considering how badly translated the text is, it seems much more reasonable to assume the CG movie at the end of the game actually got the spelling correct, since the english text at the end of the game is present in the Japanese game too. -- A Visitor 22 Aug 2006

Removal of NPOV tag
Hello everyone, I have been posting over the last few months under the pseudonym of "A Visitor", but given how much I've tampered with the format and content of this page (a good number of the anonymous edits were penned by me; I've rewritten a great number of the articles to date), I finally figured I might as well get myself a Wikipedia account...

Anyway, I think this article has come a long way since I first posted my complaint. I'm satisfied now that the articles are reasonably balanced in presenting their point of view, and that the facts presented are mostly correct (though the are articles are still far from perfect), so I'm removing the NPOV dispute tag. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to patching up this article.

This page is far from a complete listing of the characters in FFT. I hope people will continue to contribute entries for characters not listed here! (or of course, you might decide that its not worth your time writing so much about a videogame...)

Finally, I would like to give a summary of the conventions and other things I used in writing or rewriting articles, just so that we're all on the same page about editing...

1. Stories are usually summarized in the present tense, and this is the tense I adopt when I write about events in chapter 2, 3, and 4 ("Ramza kills Draclau"). However, I consider chapter 1 to be a sort of "pre-story" to the main story of FFT, so I write about chapter 1 events in the past tense ("Algus killed Teeta").

2. The guideline I used when writing: Every article I tried to begin with a sentence describing the character's family affiliation, or their social status (eg. Lord of Gallione), followed by a sentence describing their storyline significance, and then a listing of their family ties or relationships to other characters. This was followed by a synopsis of their storyline involvement. For some characters, I ended their article with some thoughts on their character development in the story, where I felt it appropriate (eg. Delita's article). Finally, I noted in parentheses any (possible) translation errors in the game.

I really insist on the first, but the second is just I guideline I used...

And other things:

3. The game does refer to Elmdor as Marquis Elmdor, but Marquis is French word, and there is a perfectly valid English equivalent: Marquess. I've used this up to recently, but everyone seems to keep editing it to Marquis... oh well.

4. I prefer "Orlan" over "Olan", (but now I'm getting pedantic; I've been using Olan to remain consistent with everything else)

5. I have been lazy about referencing. This will be fixed.

-Snowsand 08:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)Snowsand 07:56, 31 August 2006 (UTC)


 * A lot of people will insist on referencing first, at least when it is contentious new content..... or they delete it.  Just a heads-up.  On the other hand, we don't need a reference for every sentence.


 * --Antelope In Search Of Truth 15:58, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Ramza Glyde Beoulve? Delita Samuel Beoulve?
Does anyone know what's the deal with with Ramza and Delita having middle names? I don't remember having ever heard about this. I can find only a few scattered webpages among English sites on the internet supporting this claim, and no webpages at all among Japanese sites. To whomever inserted Glyde and Samuel, could you please cite your sources for this information? Tsogtsaihan Baatar's transcript of the game doesn't mention Glyde or Samuel anywhere. Snowsand 06:07, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * That's just our resident vandals checking in. It's a guy, a couple of guys, or a guy with sock-puppets, who enjoys to add he and his buddy's name into this article.  (Or something like that.)


 * Only now they're labeling their edits, "vandalism revert". How very nice.  :|


 * --Antelope In Search Of Truth 15:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Ramza Glyde and Delita Samuel were notable pre-production names that were presented in both Japanese and English gaming magazines, one of which included EGM. The final game did not mention the name at all, however in press reports following the release of the game in Japan, they continued to mentioned the names Glyde and Samuel.  Not sure whether the names are mentioned in the Japanese version but people have obviously been lead to believe that they were.
 * 71.11.91.207 04:13, September 22, 2006 (UTC)

Well then, if this is the case, I would retract my statement as to the vandalism. However, as those names are not a part of the final game, they might be noted in the main article or MAYbe at the end of each character's section (with a citation being needed to support this). Because those were not their names in the American version, which this article is about.

So notation of their name history would be more appropriately mentioned in the main article, but we should not be changing their names here. And we need a source before we can make that notation, no matter where it is.

--Antelope In Search Of Truth 19:30, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

No one's added Beowulf or Reis... IronCrow 23:30, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

There are three empty names at the bottom of the "Playable minor characters" article. Requesting someone edit that one. White Mage Cid 08:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I have this issue of EGM and it is true. Glyde and Samuel were pre-production names for Ramza and Delita. Should I scan the interview? This should be edited into a trivia section. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)
 * Of course. This will be very helpful in the character Development section. Please upload into one of the many image hosting websites so we all can have a peek at it. &mdash; Blue. 09:37, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Ending
It needs to be noted, Ovelia is never CONFIRMED to be killed by Delita, one might assume Delita was alos killed, for he was stabbed as well. --198.254.16.201 16:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The ending (and arguably, the entire game) is a poorly translated mess. I don't think this issue will be resolved one way or another until the game's re-release on PSP. Cheers, Lanky ○ Yell ○ 14:26, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Merger
Since it was discussed at the FFT page, the discussion should be reflected here too. Characters that deserve mention in the mainpage would be Ramza, Delita and Ovelia. Other characters will be mentioned in one simple paragraph, and a link should point to a Characters of FFT page to explain about the other characters. In fact, decrufting the FFT character List is prudent. It should flow like FFXII's mainpage and its characters page, with in-game reference and the like. &mdash; Bluerです. なにか? 02:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Ages
I'm conflicted, here. I think the ages in the article should be purged. Ramza was 18 and Agrias was 23 by the time I got to Chapter 2, thanks to extensive levelling on my part in my first runthrough of the game. It doesn't really add much to the descriptions, so perhaps it's best to leave out ages entirely except as it relates to age differences between certain characters?

EG: Alma Beoulve, a year younger than her brother Ramza, etc.

Cheers, Lanky ○ Yell ○ 14:32, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Delita.gif
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Layout of the article
I've changed the layout of the article a bit to try to make it clearer (hopefully) and less long. The new sections are: There is no section for minor non-playable characters because I believe it's not necessary. Balbanes for instance should be mentioned briefly in Ramza's section and that should be enough. Miluda's mention in Wiegraf should similarly be enough; Funeral in Vormav; Celia and Lede in Elmdor; etc. The "Other characters" section should be heavily trimmed into one (or a few) small paragraph(s). Finally, I've put Delita in "Main PCs" because I've heard he has a lot of playable sequences in the PSP version, but if it's not the case we can move him to "Major NPCs". Thoughts? Kariteh 18:13, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Main playable characters: for PCs that you can recruit in the normal storyline
 * Major non-playable characters: for NPCs that you see in the normal storyline
 * Other characters: for all PCs obtained in subquests like Beowulf or Luso

Missing
I don't know if i've just missed it or not, but i havn't seen Algus mentioned. He played an important part in the story (if i remember correctly, havn't played in a long time) so shoulnd't he have a spot on the list?--71.126.70.230 04:45, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ahh, I can't believe he was forgotten. Yeah, he should probably be added, especially considering his slightly expanded role in the PSP version. I've added a stub section in the article; feel free to write something in it. Kariteh 08:25, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

New Translantion Names
The title names should be edited, in my opinion to reflect whatever Square Enix used in the re-translation in War of the Lions; because the a) it's a well known fact the original translation was not particularly good, and b) because the new translated names reflect what Square currently wants the names to be in English. Therefore, my suggestion is that the titles reflect WOTL names but include the original names as used in the original English translation, rather than the other way around. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mooshimanx (talk • contribs) 17:19, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes. It should follow the new translation, but still have the old names. &mdash; Blue. 02:13, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

English localization
Please also state who is responsible for English localization, and hence why there is a difference in PS1 and PSP version.

Copyedit & Article issues
The article has been tagged as needing a copyedit since October 2007, and I've finally summoned the courage to have a look at it. Having read the whole thing, it looks to me that it's actually fine from a copyediting point of view, and I'm going to remove the tag. However I would argue that this article is vastly, vastly too long and over-detailed for what is, after all, the subsidiary page from a main page about a 13-year-old computer game. Yes, it's popular, and yes, the complex plotting deserves to be reflected, but I think this page may just have stepped over the line into what some might term "fancruft". Brickie (talk) 13:09, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh my
There are serious issues here. Is there enough real-world information (development info, reception, etc.) to justify explaining their roles in the plot in such detail? At the very least, the synopses need to be trimmed. &mdash; Deckiller 17:24, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Four years later, looks like the answer is still no. -- Pres N  20:25, 2 November 2014 (UTC)