Rygdea



Rygdea (リグディ, Rigudi) is a non-player character in Final Fantasy XIII, who works for the Sanctum. 180 cm tall (5' 10"), he is a captain working under the command of Cid Raines, and they both share the same view of the Sanctum. His Japanese seiyu is Yasuyuki Kase and his English voice actor is.

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Rygdea is an officer in the Wide-area Response Brigade formerly led by Cid Raines.

''Disgusted by the deception of the Sanctum, he thought to retire from the military, but instead joined Raines and the Cavalry in their efforts to bring down the government. Rygdea followed the general without question, unaware of his superior's status as a servant of the Sanctum fal'Cie.''

Barthandelus has now placed Raines in the position of Primarch, leaving Rygdea to lead the Cavalry in a charge to topple the Sanctum and destroy Orphan.

Story
Rygdea first appears with Oerba Yun Fang in Lake Bresha, where his troops apprehend Snow Villiers and take Serah Farron's crystallized form with them onto the ship. Later, he helps the l'Cie in escaping from Rosch's forces in Palumpolum and also assists them in sneaking onboard the Palamecia. Near the end of the game, he takes leadership of the Cavalry, unknowingly a tool of Galenth Dysley, and confronts the newly-made Primarch Raines as all hell breaks loose in Eden. After reluctantly killing his former leader at his request, Rygdea leads his forces against PSICOM in an all-out war in the city. He is not seen again in the game, but it is suspected that he was turned into a Cie'th by Dysley along with the rest of the Cavalry before they could reach Orphan. Otherwise, his fate remains unknown.

Development
Because Rygdea is a, his body model being that of a standard Sanctum soldier and only his head has a unique model and texture, Nao Ikeda, who designed the Final Fantasy XIII support cast, only designed a face. The Ultimania Omega reveals the development team wanted a character who couldn't cost much as far as the polygon model or animation went, so Ikeda also drew a version with short hair. However, the person in charge of modelling chose the long haired version out of enthusiasm for keeping with that design. Rygdea was designed with a sky theme in mind, with sky blue eyes and his hair colour was influenced by, a type of bird. Rygdea's profile described him as both lax and courageous, so to keep with that image Ikeda tried showing his chest and gave him stubble.

Trivia

 * His name is never spoken in game.