- “For a specimen of an inferior species, you seem to have some measure of good judgement... But you fail to realize the gap between your power and mine.”
- — A Maenad, to Palom
Maenad (яп. マイナス, Mainasu?) refers collectively to a group of villains from Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. During most of the game there are only a few Maenad and their true identity is unknown. They go by the name of Mysterious Girl (яп. 謎の少女, Nazo no Shojō?) and resemble the Summoner Rydia, sharing her power to summon Eidolons.
Their power for most of the game remains unmatched until the climax. They can also use the powers of mind control to great effect, which allows them to call forth the Eidolons after turning them to stone.
Внешность и личность
CG изображение Менады в The Complete Collection.
The Maenads bear a resemblance to Rydia to some degree, and are often mistaken for the genuine article. Unlike Rydia, their hair is teal rather than green, and they often walk barefoot in a long, white dress.
The Maenads have a very detached and cold personality, and have a habit of remarking how they find things "incomprehensible". However, they can sometimes be very candid and impolite, such as telling the party to get out of their face. They also often boast about their superiority and refer to others as inferior species. Many of them show a rather robotic personality, as they are seen talking about their mission and orders. Also while most of them are hostile to the main characters, this is mostly as they obey The Creator's orders and can in fact be sympathetic shall somebody cooperate with them such as Dark Kain. Some of them are shown in The Depths and the party can talk to them without a battle showing that they do not attack unless neccesary further showing their rather robotic behaviour. Despite this they have a warmer side, mostly to themselves and The Creator whom they call their father, between the two their loyalty however remains with them as they in fact turned on The Creator when him on his madness attacked the party and Cuore with them.
Истоия
Final Fantasy IV -Interlude-
The Maenads' resemblance to Rydia is explained in Interlude. At some point before the celebration of Damcyan's reconstruction, Rydia came upon the Crystal Chamber in the Sealed Cave, and the Creator's Dark Crystal was able to obtain information on Rydia and her powers, allowing it to create the first Maenad in Rydia's image. This is supposedly how the Creator was able to summon shadows of other bosses from the Final Fantasy series by using the Crystals.
This leaves Rydia unconscious, and the event is briefly foreshadowed in a dream Cecil has. When the party arrives in the Sealed Cave to rescue her, they find the Maenad and believed her to be Rydia despite her strange behavior while gradually regaining Eidolons. The party takes her back to the airship, where they notice a strange light radiate from the Tower of Babil. When they get to the Cannon Control room, the Maenad enters it and the party is attacked the Deus Ex Machina.
After defeating it with Edge's help, the group eventually find "Rydia" with Edge confirming her to be an imposter as she attacks them and summons Bahamut. The real Rydia then enters the fight, and talks sense into Bahamut with the Imposter escaping before her true identity is revealed. Somewhere, supposedly on the True Moon, the impostor informs the Creator that "the Eidolon project is complete".
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
Менада в опенинге The After Years в Final Fantasy IV Complete Collection.
Seventeen years later, by the time of After Years, two Maenads first appear on the Red Moon before being defeated by both Golbez and Fusoya. Another is able to revive Zeromus and destroy the Crystal Palace. It then goes down to Earth and attacks Baron, defeating the Red Wings with a swarm of monsters. Using the power of Bahamut, the Maenad is able to beat King Cecil of Baron. Moving into the Feymarch, the Maenad also turns the entire Eidolon populace to stone, leaving Rydia unable to use her Summoner powers.
Moving throughout the world, the Maenads are able to gather all eight Crystals, but also unify the forces of good against them before they are confronted at Baron. It is revealed that there are multiple Maenads which flee to the True Moon. The heroes travel to the Moon to fight more Maenads. When the party finally encounters them here, one of them summons Bahamut again. Bahamut, however, comes to his senses after Leviathan and Asura reason with him. The Maenad attempts to cast Reflect, but Bahamut says she merely wastes her breath, and destroys her with Mega Flare.
Maenads continue to antagonize the group as they work their way toward The Creator, the true mastermind of all that has happened. Several Maenad later appear to battle The Creator as well, and they appear to destroy themselves and the being with a Meteor spell.
In the aftermath, one of the mass-produced Maenads, only a child, is taken in by Rydia and named Cuore.
Битва
- Основная статья: Rydia? (Boss)
- Основная статья: Mysterious Girl (Boss)
- Основная статья: Maenad (Enemy)
The Maenads are fought several times in the game under the name of the Mysterious Girl. When their true identity is revealed, they are fought in pairs as random encounters in the last floors of the True Moon. In Interlude, the Maenad that masquerades as Rydia is the final boss of the tale.
Музыка
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The Maenad's theme is called The Mysterious Girl in The Complete Collection, or Mysterious Girl ~minus~ on the Final Fantasy IV & The After Years Sounds Plus album. It is one of the few new pieces of music not from the original Final Fantasy IV. The theme plays whenever the Maenads are present, and plays in the Depths of the True Moon when the player reaches the home of the Maenads and the Creator.
The theme serves as the basis for The Eidolons Shackled or The Dispossessed Eidolons ~Minudes~, the battle theme used whenever the player fights the Maenads. The theme's tune is remixed into Master of Creation, the theme played on floors prior to the Bottommost Depths of the True Moon, and Planetary Core, the theme played when in battle against the Creator's shell.
Галерея
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Этимология
In Greek mythology, the maenads were female nymphs who followed the god Dionysus, and were known to go into frenzies from losing self-control. The name maenad has also come to be associated with women both supernatural and historical that followed him.
Интересные факты
- Maenads and "their Creator" are mentioned in a book in Final Fantasy Legends: Hikari to Yami no Senshi.
