Bartz Klauser

Bartz Klauser, also known as Butz Klauser, is the main protagonist of Final Fantasy V. He is the son of Dorgann, one of the original Warriors of Dawn, and a woman named Stella. His mother died when he was young, and his father died three years before the game begins. On advice from his father, Bartz decided to wander the world.

Story
He was born in the little town of Lix, with his mother Stella and his father Dorgann. Bartz's mother died while he was still young, and his father fell ill and died three years prior to the game's storyline. Bartz has a fear of heights, which dates back to when he was playing "Hide-and-go-seek" as a child and almost fell down from the roof of a two-story house.



On advice from his late father, Bartz decided to go out and travel the world. Along the way, he found a chocobo named Boco separated from the rest of its flock. Boco became Bartz's steadfast companion, and they continued to travel together. Three years after Dorgann's death, Bartz was in the Tycoon area when he found a young woman, Lenna, being attacked by goblins. He helped her out, and they found an old man with amnesia in the wreckage of a meteor. The man, Galuf, and Lenna decided to go together to the Wind Shrine. Initially, Bartz chose to continue his wanderings, but Boco convinced him to help Galuf and Lenna through the goblin-infested area. He joins the party permanently at that point, deciding that his father would have wanted him to find out what was happening to the Crystals.



To get to the Wind Shrine, Bartz (on Galuf's advice) tried to commandeer a Pirate ship, owned by a group of pirates led by Faris. Although they were caught in the act and captured, she let them take the ship to the Wind Crystal anyway. When they got to the Wind Shrine, they saw King Tycoon, just before the Crystal shattered into pieces. Tycoon entrusted the four of them with a quest to save the Crystals from ExDeath, a 1000-year-old warlock. Tycoon named Bartz, Lenna, Galuf, and Faris the Warriors of Light and they began their journey.

When the party traveled to the second world, Kelger Vlondett tested Bartz, forcing him to repel his Lupine Attack. Bartz succeeded, and Kelger informed Bartz that his father Dorgann was one of the original Warriors of Dawn. Dorgann had made Stella promise not to tell Bartz what Dorgann had done to protect the Crystals, but Bartz followed in his footsteps anyway as would his direct decendant Linaly in Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals.

Dissidia -Final Fantasy-
Chaos has summoned a combined force of Final Fantasy's ultimate masters of evil. Cosmos, in an attempt to protect the Crystals, has summoned 10 warriors to thwart their plans. Bartz is one of these warriors. He stands as the hero opposing Exdeath. Unlike the rest of the Dissidia cast which are modeled after their original artwork and not their in-game appearances, Bartz seems to be a fusion between his sprite and his artwork, as he has light brown hair instead of white and is wearing pale blue. The overall design is similar to his artwork, just with different colors. His portrait in the Advance version was a similar fusion.

Bartz is seen allied with Zidane Tribal in the TGS trailer, and battles Exdeath at the Dimension Castle. In the CG sequences he is seen having problems fighting Golbez, and is trapped hanging on the cliff of one of the floating islands where the heroes and villains fight each other. Bartz has the ability to use the moves of the other heroes, making him somewhat of a Mime, a job that made its debut in Final Fantasy V. In one screenshot, he is seen using Onion Knight's Flare spell. He has also been shown using Squall's Gunblade, as well as Zidane's Mage Mashers and Cloud's Buster Sword, and can apparently dual-wield as well, as he uses both the Buster Sword and the Gunblade at once. Exactly how this ability will work is unknown. In his EX Mode, "Brave Blade", three yellow stars, a sign of Job Mastery in Final Fantasy V, appear above his head, and he also gains the red cape from the Mime job class in said game. In his EX Burst, "Rapid Fire Dual-Wield Spell Blades", he combines all nine weapons of his allies into one for a powerful attack. The attack name is a reference to one of the most popular strategies of Final Fantasy V - using Rapid Fire with Dual Wield and Spellblade to launch eight extra-strong attacks.

Bartz's voice will be provided by Soichiro Hoshi in the Japanese version.

Trivia

 * Though originally envisioned to be romanized as Butz, his name has never been romanized as such in any official localization of Final Fantasy V. This is probably because Butz is a homophone of "butts" (not to mention his birthplace is Lix, a homophone of "licks"); it was changed to Bartz to avoid this issue and make the game more marketable to its anglophone target demographics.
 * Bartz is the only party member who is not royalty.
 * Bartz's last name Klauser is a common German family name of Bavarian origin.