What is Balthier?

What is Balthier?

Balthier is a character from Final Fantasy XII. He plays the role of a sky pirate, and flys an airship. He also plays with guns and has a rabbit woman as a partner.

He will also be in FFXII: Revenant Wings and FFT: The Lion War (as stated above).

He is in my avatar.

-Omi

It looks like he'll actually serve a bigger role than just a hidden character. Wonder if they'll leave Cloud in and have two references.

This one actually makes sense though...but makes me wonder just when FFXII takes place when comparred to FFT.

This one actually makes sense though...but makes me wonder just when FFXII takes place when comparred to FFT.

Well with all the connections and references to Tactics in FFXII, FFT is approximately 800 years before FFXII.

The biggest link is that of Saint Ajora. In FF12, the Clan Primer mentions that Saint Ajora started a spinoff of the Light of Kiltia religion, the Glabados Church, approximately two thousand years earlier. In FFT, Saint Ajora's life is placed as 1200 years before the events of the game. This would seem to place FF12 800 years after FFT. If this were the case, the "Holy Empire Yudora" in power at the time of Ajora's life would predate King Raithwall's Galtean Alliance by 900 years, and the "Fara Church" would be FFT's name for the Light of Kiltia (Faram being the name of the ultimate deity in both). However, there are some problems with this: in FFT, the Glabados Church is the primary religion of the time, whereas the original Light of Kiltia is dominant in FF12. Arguably, though, this could have happened once Saint Ajora was exposed as a fraud in the events of FFT. Another obvious problem is the total lack of non-hume races in FFT - again, one would have to say that the races immigrated to Ivalice or were discovered by humes in the ensuing 800 years. Though a bit of a stretch, given that humes are the dominant species in Ivalice in FF12, it's not impossible.

Dunno how Vagrant Story and FFTA fit in the timeline.

However could be those silly connections that mean nothing.

-Omi

Yuh know Omi, obsession is a bad thing.

Yuh know Omi, obsession is a bad thing.

Not an obsession. A hobby.

It would be an obsession if I went to school dressed as him.

-Omi

Not in Omi's case.

Ok maybe Omi is too obsessed. We could literally ask him about anything and he would know it.

Is it just me or does Balthier look younger.

Kohaku

Is it just me or does Balthier look younger.

Well, you take 800 years off a guy and he's bound to lose a FEW wrinkles.

Yuh know Omi, obsession is a bad thing.

Not an obsession. A hobby.

 

It would be an obsession if I went to school dressed as him.

 

-Omi

Acually playing the game one day straight.

-CK

Yuh know Omi, obsession is a bad thing.

Not an obsession. A hobby.

 

It would be an obsession if I went to school dressed as him.

 

-Omi

Acually playing the game one day straight.

 

-CK

Wait, that means that I'm...noooooooo!