Amarant Coral

Amarant Coral is a playable character from Final Fantasy IX. He is also known as Salamander and as The Flaming Amarant.

Story
Amarant was a guard in Treno. One day, Zidane stole something from his post. Amarant tried to stop him, but Zidane successfully framed him. This made Amarant bitter towards Zidane.

Amarant is first seen as a guest to Queen Brahne. Brahne hires him, as well as a woman named Lani, to steal Princess Garnet's pendant and kill Vivi. Amarant asks if he can kill Zidane as well, and Brahne says he can after he deals with her requests. He is next seen in Madain Sari, where Lani is holding Eiko hostage in return for Garnet's pendant. Amarant stops her, as he does not approve of hostage taking. He then challenges Zidane to a fight and loses. He feels disgraced, and is curious about what makes Zidane so powerful and starts following him around. Zidane eventually accepts his help in accompanying him. They have plenty of disputes as they travel to the Iifa Tree and watch the battle between Kuja and Queen Brahne. Amarant accompanies Zidane down the roots of the tree to the shore, and returns to Alexandria with him.

In Alexandria, Amarant meets up with Freya, and challenges her to a fight. The guards break them up, and Zidane takes the blame for the fight. He accompanies Zidane, Freya, and Vivi to the castle where they meet up with Eiko and meet Garnet, now a queen. Amarant then returns to Treno, and does some things that embarass him. However, Alexandria was under attack by Kuja and Bahamut, and Zidane and Eiko had to round up Freya, Vivi, and Amarant and return to Alexandria on the Hilda Garde 2 with Cid Fabool IX and Erin. On the way, Eiko received a mysterious distress call and jumped from the airship and summoned Alexander with Garnet, killing Bahamut. Amarant then accompanied Zidane and his friends to the rooftop where Garnet and Eiko were waiting. They were just in time to see the Invincible destroy Alexandria, and to save Garnet and Eiko.

The party then travelled to Lindblum to recouperate, and Amarant accompanied Zidane wherever he went for the rest of the journey. Steiner, Quina, and Garnet rejoined the party there, and they travelled on the Blue Narciss to the Black Mage Village, where they learned that the Black Mages were in the service of Kuja. Black Mage No. 288 directed them to the Desert Palace where Kuja had his headquarters. However, the party was held prisoner in exchange for the Gulug Stone. Zidane went to get it for Kuja in Oeilvert on the Forgotten Continent. However, Kuja decided to set up a trap and kill Zidane's friends anyway, but Eiko managed to save them. During the reunion, Eiko was captured by Zorn and Thorn and was taken to Mt. Gulug. Zidane's group followed and rescued Hilda and her. After this, Hilda told the team that Kuja was really from the world of Terra, and in order to get there, they had to find a clue at Ipsen's Castle. By this point, Cid finished building the Hilda Garde 3, and the party was able to take it to Ipsen's Castle. When they got there, Amarant decided to attempt to find the clue by himself and prove that working alone is better than teamwork. He beat Zidane to the clue, which turned out to be mirrors. However, he got stuck on the way out, forcing Zidane to save him. Amarant then decided to accept Zidane. He then went to the Fire Shrine with Freya (which annoyed him) to help break the seal on Terra. He accompanied Zidane to Terra and defeated Garland there, forcing Kuja into a trance which gave him massive power. Amarant then accompanied Zidane to Memoria, where Kuja and Necron were finally defeated.

Equipment and Stats
Amarants's job (or class) seems to be a combination of Monk and Ninja, since he uses close combat skills like monks, but utilizes the throw ability like ninjas.

Abilities
Amarant has Flair and can Throw various items.

In Trance, Flair becomes Elan and affects all targets.