Argent Heinkel

Argent Heinkel is an antagonist of Bravely Default.

Appearance and Personality
Heinkel is a 42-year-old man from Hartschild (Eisenberg Region). He holds the knight asterisk, boasting a full plate armor, a chainmail hood, a white cape, a heavy shield and a great sword. He also has white hair flowing out in three directions from his hood, and light facial hair at the corners of his mouth.

Heinkel is a wily commander, shown in both his tactics and his fighting style. He favors blitz attacks and is not afraid to go to the front lines himself. Both ferocious and meticulous with detail, he shows great prowess as a tactician and is a skilled fighter.

Story
Heinkel is dispatched with the Eternian Sky Knights to the Kingdom of Caldisla with orders to intercept Agnès Oblige, the Wind Vestale. With the use of airships, the Sky Knights have a huge advantage over the Caldisla defences, and it is a one-sided conflict, until the party starts taking action against them. While the party is fighting with the black mage Ominas Crowe, Heinkel launches a blitz attack on the capital, taking down the entire royal guard along with Owen, the captain of the guards, by himself. He then leaves with the king as a hostage. When the party comes back, one of the dying guards states Heinkel's strength is too strong and not human, and Owen remarks his sword couldn't even scratch him.

Heinkel then retreats at the Lontano Villa, the Sky knights headquarters in Caldisla. The party goes after him in order to save the king. Once they confront him, Heinkel retreats to his airship, a strange attitude as noted by Ringabel, from a man strong enough to best Owen. Once they board the airship, Heinkel reveals he planned to lure them aboard and capture them, chosing this location so even if the party defeated him, the airship would crash and kill them. After a tough fight, Heinkel meets his end, and Ringabel manages to stop the airship from crashing.

Later in the game, the party learns Heinkel holded the grand marshal's trust and once served as captain of his personal guard. Tails of his feats go back before the duchy's founding. He competed with Swordmaster Nobutusna Kamiizumi for glory on the field since the duchy war 15 years ago, and was considered a hero. During the duchy war, Heinkel was the commander of the Assault troops for the Orthodoxy's head temple, with orders to halt all of the institution's functions and seize all of its forbidden tomes and assets.

Other worlds :

In the second world, Heinkel states he will teach Edea the resolve of a knight the hard way, before falling in battle once more.

In the third world, Heinkel reads orders from headquarters to the party saying the vestal must be found and kept safe, and that his objective was to protect her from the Orthodoxy's corruption, not to harm her.

In the fourth world he fights the party with the monk Barras and the black mage Ominas.

In the fifth world, he is first fought with the other sky knights officials at the Lontano Villa before retreating to the Central Command of Eternia where he fights again with the Swordmaster Kamiizumi, the white mage Holly and the ninja Konoe.

Etymology
Argent means Silver in French.

Heinkel Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. This fits with Heinkel leading the airships faction of the Eternian army.