Beauty's Wicked Wiles

"Beauty's Wicked Wiles"

"Beauty's Wicked Wiles" (美の謀略〜蛮神ラクシュミ討滅戦〜, Bi no Bōryaku ~Banshin Rakushumi Tōmetsusen~?, lit. Wiling Beauty ~Savage God Lakshmi Showdown~) is the boss theme of the primal Lakshmi from Final Fantasy XIV.

It was composed by Masayoshi Soken and arranged by Kenichi Kuroda and Soken. The lyrics were written by Michael-Christopher Koji Fox and Banri Oda, with all vocals performed by Paula Kaye Gerhold.

Lyrics[]

The official lyrics were first revealed at a PAX panel in 2017.^[1] They were released later again on Stormblood: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack.

Night.

Embrace Her worldly delights, tonight

In time you shall follow

Behold as our burdens come set with the sun

Tonight.

Step from the dark to the light, tonight

Rise high, high above our rivals

Spread our wings

Spread them wide

Let them guide

Hereby free to ever slumber

Open the door

Close our eyes

We are the dreamers

Fire.

Born of the flames of desire. This fire

Give in to the hunger

Cast off inhibition, let passion run wild

Desire.

Fuel the unquenchable fire. Desire.

Rise high, high above your rivals

Spread your wings

Spread them wide

You needn't hide

Hereby free to ever slumber

Open the door

Close your eyes

You are the dreamer

Game appearances[]

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood[]

"Beauty's Wicked Wiles" plays in the battle against Lakshmi in Emanation. It later plays again during the first phase of the fight with Lakshmi in the solo duty Return of the Bull.

It is track 38 on the Stormblood: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack.

"Beauty's Wicked Wiles (Oasis Mix)" is the original recording with Ayumi Murata as the vocalist but was left unused.

"Beauty's Wicked Wiles (Oasis Mix)" was included as track 53 on the Stormblood: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack.

Arrangement album appearances[]

Journeys: Final Fantasy XIV ~Arrangement Album~[]

A piano arrangement of "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" by Keiko appears on this album, with Keiko as the pianist and the vocals provided by Susan Calloway.

Pulse: Final Fantasy XIV Remix Album[]

A remix of "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" arranged by Daiki Ishikawa appears on this album. The vocals were provided by Ayumi Murata.

Live performances[]

The Primals: Zepp Tour 2018 - Trial By Shadow[]

"Beauty's Wicked Wiles" was performed by The Primals in a live concert.

Citations[]

↑ https://www.twitch.tv/videos/172998309?t=00h37m27s

Final Fantasy XIV music

Allusions - Artwork - Benchmark - Characters - Locations - Patch Notes - Timeline - Translations - Wallpapers

Battle themes

Artists

Composers	Masayoshi Soken - Banri Oda - Michael-Christopher Koji Fox - Tsutomu Narita - Yaeko Sato - Nobuo Uematsu
Vocalists	Susan Calloway - Paula Kaye Gerhold - Michael-Christopher Koji Fox - Akane Ikeya - Ayumi Murata - Ashelyn Summers - Sam Carter - Amanda Achen - Jason C. Miller
Groups	Eorzean Symphony - The Primals

Albums

Original Soundtracks	Before Meteor - A Realm Reborn - Before the Fall - Heavensward - EP Vol.1 - Heavensward - EP Vol.2 - Heavensward - EP Vol.3 - Heavensward - The Far Edge of Fate - Stormblood - Stormblood - EP - Shadowbringers - Shadowbringers - EP - Shadowbringers - EP 2 - Shadowbringers - EP 3 - Death Unto Dawn - Endwalker - Endwalker – EP - Endwalker – EP2 - Endwalker – EP3 - Endwalker – EP4 - Endwalker – EP5 - Growing Light - Dawntrail - EP - Dawntrail - EP2 - Dawntrail - EP3 - Dawntrail
Compilations	Field Tracks - Battle Tracks - Eorzean Frontiers Untempered: Primal Battle Themes - Time and Again: Raid Dungeon Themes - Untempered 2: Primal Battle Themes - Time and Again 2: Raid Dungeon Themes The Best Vinyl LP Box - Endwalker Vinyl LP - Vinyl LP Box Vol. 2
Rearrangements	From Astral to Umbral - Duality ~Arrangement Album~ - Journeys ~Arrangement Album~ - Pulse: Remix Album - Scions & Sinners ~Arrangement Album~ - Forge Ahead ~Arrangement Album~ Orchestral Arrangement Album - Eorzean Symphony: Orchestral Album - Orchestral Arrangement Album Vol.2 - Eorzean Symphony: Orchestral Album Vol.2 - Orchestral Arrangement Album Vol.3 - Eorzean Symphony: Orchestral Album Vol.3 Piano Collections Sanctuary's Heart: Chill Arrangement Album The Primals - The Primals: Zepp Tour 2018 - Trial By Shadow - The Primals: Out of the Shadows - The Primals: Beyond the Shadow — The Primals: Live in Japan - Beyond the Shadow
Singles	ENDWALKER 7-inch Vinyl Single - DAWNTRAIL 7-inch Vinyl Single

Musical themes

Before Meteor	"Prelude - Remembrance" - "Siren Song" - "Twilight over Thanalan" - "Primal Judgment" - "Nemesis" - "Good King Moggle Mog XII" - "Imperial Will" - "Fallen Angel" - "Rise of the White Raven" - "Answers"
A Realm Reborn	"Prelude - Rebirth" - "Torn from the Heavens" - "Prelude - Discoveries" - "A New Hope" - "To the Sun" - "The Land Breathes" - "Serenity" - "Under the Weight" - "Thunderer" - "Hubris" - "Tumbling Down" - "Penitus" - "Bite of the Black Wolf" - "The Maker's Ruin" - "Ultima" - "Dawn of a New Era" - "Calamity Unbound" - "Through the Maelstrom" - "Pa-Paya" - "Battle on the Big Bridge" - "Thunder Rolls" - "Now I Know the Truth" - "Out of the Labyrinth" - "Oblivion" - "Magiteknical Difficulties" - "Blind to the Dark" - "The Reach of Darkness" - "Eternal Wind"
Heavensward	"Heavensward" - "A Cold Wind" - "Solid" - "Melt" - "Ominous Prognisticks" - "Painted Foothills" - "Unbending Steel" - "The Mushroomery" - "Unbreakable" - "Imagination" - "Heroes" - "Dragonsong" - "Locus" - "Metal" - "Fiend" - "Revenge Twofold" - "Exponential Entropy" - "Moebius" - "Rise" - "Battle to the Death - Heavensward" - "Equilibrium"
Stormblood	"Storm of Blood" - "Prelude - Long March Home" - "The Measure of Our Reach" - "Triumph" - "Crimson Sunrise" - "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" - "The Worm's Tail" - "The Measure of His Reach" - "Revolutions" - "Omega²" - "Decisions" - "Final, Not Final" - "Protagonist's Theme" - "Trisection" - "Ultima's Transformation" - "Amatsu Kaze" - "A Battle Decisively" - "Dancing Mad" - "Boss Battle" - "Flash of Steel" - "Wayward Daughter" - "eScape" - "From the Heavens" - "Sunrise" - "Starlight, Starbright" - "A Man Consumed" - "Ultima's Perfection"
Shadowbringers	"Shadowbringers" - "Four-fold Knowing" - "Insatiable" - "What Angel Wakes Me" - "Civilizations" - "'Neath Dark Waters" - "Invincible" - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" - "Vamo' alla Flamenco" - "A Long Fall" - "Blue Fields" - "Force Your Way" - "Alien Manifestation (From NieR:Automata)" - "Song of the Ancients - Atonement (From NieR:Automata)" - "Bipolar Nightmare (From NieR:Automata)" - "Weight of the World - Prelude Version" - "Return to Oblivion" - "Gangos" - "Discord: Imperial (Zodiac Age Version)" - "Battle with an Esper (Zodiac Age Version)" - "Life and Death (Zodiac Age Version)" - "To the Edge" - "Don't Be Afraid (Shadowbringers)" - "The Legendary Beast (Shadowbringers)" - "Promises to Keep" - "The Extreme (Shadowbringers)" - "Ami" - "Kainé - Final Fantasy Main Theme Version" - "Weight of the World - Instrumental Version (From NieR:Automata)" - "City Ruins - Rays of Light (From NieR:Automata)" - "In the Arms of War" - "Smells Like Teenage Riot"
Endwalker	"Endwalker" - "Prelude - Tales" - "Finality" - "Endcaller" - "Your Answer" - "Close in the Distance" - "The Final Day" - "Flow" - "Hic Svnt Leones" - "In the Balance" - "Troian Beauty (Endwalker)" - "FINAL FANTASY IV: Battle 2 (Endwalker)" - "Battle with the Four Fiends (Buried Memory)" - "Scream" - "White Stone Black" - "Dedicated to Moonlight" - "Forged in Crimson" - "Athena, the Tireless One"
Dawntrail	"Dawntrail" - "Smile" - "Bee My Honey" - "Give it All"

Musical themes

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy - Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call - Theatrhythm Final Fantasy All-Star Carnival - Theatrhythm Final Bar Line

Recurring themes	Airship theme - "Battle at the Big Bridge" - List of battle themes (Battle theme · Boss theme · Final boss theme) - "Chocobo Theme" - Dungeon theme - Ending theme - "Final Fantasy" - "Good Night" - Main theme - "Moogle Theme" - "Prelude" - Town theme - Victory Fanfare

Game specific themes

Final Fantasy	"Main Theme" - "Battle" - "Chaos Shrine" - "Matoya's Cave" - "Mt. Gulg"
Final Fantasy II	"Battle Theme 1" - "The Rebel Army" - "Main Theme" - "Battle Theme 2" - "Tower of the Magi" - "Finale"
Final Fantasy III	"The Altar Cave" - "Battle 1" - "Eternal Wind" - "Tozus" - "Battle 2" - "The Boundless Ocean" - "Priestess Aria" - "Doga and Unei" - "The Crystal Tower" - "The Dark Crystals" - "Last Battle"
Final Fantasy IV	"The Red Wings" - "Theme of Love" - "Main Theme of FINAL FANTASY IV" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Rydia" - "Edward's Harp" - "Mystic Mysidia" - "Battle With the Four Fiends" - "Troian Beauty" - "Dancing Calbrena" - "The Final Battle"
Final Fantasy V	"Main Theme of Final Fantasy V" - "Lenna's Theme" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Mambo de Chocobo" - "Sorrows of Parting" - "Home, Sweet Home" - "Music Box" - "The Evil Lord X-Death" - "Legend of the Deep Forest" - "A New World" - "The Final Battle" - "Dear Friends" - "Ending Theme"
Final Fantasy VI	"Battle" - "The Decisive Battle" - "Terra's Theme" - "Celes's Theme" - "Kefka" - "The Phantom Forest" - "Kids Run Through the City" - "Aria di Mezzo Carattere" - "Relm's Theme" - "Battle to the Death" - "Searching for Friends" - "Dancing Mad"
Final Fantasy VII series	Final Fantasy VII	"Opening - Bombing Mission" - "Anxiety" - "Tifa's Theme" - "Let the Battles Begin!" - "Turks' Theme" - "Fight On!" - "Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII" - "Farm Boy" - "JENOVA" - "Cosmo Canyon" - "Descendant of Shinobi" - "Aerith's Theme" - "Birth of a God" - "One-Winged Angel"
	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children	"The Promised Land" - "Divinity I" - "Divinity II" - "CALLING" - "Safe and Sound"
	Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-	"Redemption" - "Longing"
	Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-	"Theme of Elfe"
	Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-	"CRISIS CORE Theme" - "The Price of Freedom" - "Why"
	Final Fantasy VII Remake	"RUN RUN RUN" - "Stand Up" - "Scarlet's Theme" - "Hollow" - "Stamp" - "The Midgar Blues" - "The Happy Turtle Fight Song" - "The Happy Turtle Jingle" - "Why Can't I Be a Turtle?" - "Turtle Doo-wop" - "Give In to the Riptide" - "You, Me (Sun, Surf, and Beach)" - "Technologic Terrapin"
	Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier	"The Soldiers From The Start"
	Final Fantasy VII Rebirth	"Rufus's Welcoming Ceremony" - "Ballad of the Bald - Shine Bright, My Sun" - "Bare Your Soul" - "The Gus Funk" - "Straight Outta Corneoland" - "No Promises to Keep" - "Me and My Chocobo" - "Crazy Chocobo - Rebirth" - "Crazy Motorcycle - The Night Chase" - "New Merc in Town" - "Midgar Blues del Amor" - "Gotta Walk On" - "Golden Sparks" - "Shape of My Love" - "Stamp"
Final Fantasy VIII	"Liberi Fatali" - "Balamb GARDEN" - "Blue Fields" - "Don't Be Afraid" - "Force Your Way" - "The Man with the Machine Gun" - "Premonition" - "Fisherman's Horizon" - "The Oath" - "Eyes On Me" - "Ride On" - "The Castle" - "The Legendary Beast" - "Maybe I'm a Lion" - "The Extreme"
Final Fantasy IX	"A Place to Call Home" - "Vamo'alla flamenco" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Festival of the Hunt" - "Kuja's Theme" - "Roses of May" - "Unrequited Love" - "Not Alone" - "The Final Battle" - "Melodies Of Life"
Final Fantasy X series	Final Fantasy X	"Zanarkand" - "Tidus's Theme" - "Otherworld" - "Battle Theme" - "Hymn of the Fayth" - "Thunder Plains" - "Assault" - "Via Purifico" - "SUTEKI DA NE (Isn't It Wonderful?)" - "Fight With Seymour" - "A Contest Of Aeons" - "Final Battle"
Final Fantasy X series	Final Fantasy X-2	"KUON: Memories of Waves and Light" - "real Emotion" - "Yuna's Ballad" - "1000 Words" - "Their Resting Place"
Final Fantasy XI	"Memoro de la Ŝtono" - "Vana'diel March" - "Ronfaure" - "Battle Theme" - "Gustaberg" - "Rolanberry Fields" - "Voyager" - "Selbina" - "The Grand Duchy of Jeuno" - "Battle in the Dungeon #2" - "Mog House" - "Awakening" - "The Sanctuary of Zi'Tah" - "Fighters of the Crystal" - "Faded Memories - Promyvion" - "Distant Worlds" - "Griffons Never Die" - "Wings of the Goddess" - "Ragnarok" - "Forever Today" - "Rhapsodies of Vana'diel"
Final Fantasy XII	"Opening Movie (FFXII Theme)" - "Boss Battle" - "Streets of Rabanastre" - "The Dalmasca Estersand" - "Giza Plains" - "Flash of Steel" - "The Archadian Empire" - "Battle with an Esper" - "Life and Death" - "Eruyt Village" - "To Walk Amongst Gods" - "Struggle for Freedom" - "Kiss Me Good-Bye"
Lightning Saga	Final Fantasy XIII	"FINAL FANTASY XIII - The Promise" - "Saber's Edge" - "Ragnarok" - "Eternal Love" - "Blinded By Light" - "March of the Dreadnoughts" - "The Gapra Whitewood" - "Fighting Fate" - "Will to Fight" - "Fang's Theme" - "Sulyya Springs" - "Dust to Dust" - "Born Anew" - "Nascent Requiem" - "Kimi ga Irukara" - "My Hands"
	Final Fantasy XIII-2	"FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 - Wishes -" - "Etro's Champion" - "Paradox" - "Noel's Theme" - "New Bodhum" - "Historia Crux" - "Worlds Collide" - "Unseen Intruder" - "The Last Hunter" - "Eclipse" - "Village and Void" - "Caius's Theme" - "Limit Break!" - "Starting Over" - "Plains of Eternity" - "Yeul's Theme" - "New World"
	Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	"Crimson Blitz" - "The Savior's Words" - "Noel's Theme - The Shadow Hunter -" - "Noel and Yeul - The Promise -" - "Desert Lullaby" - "Fang's Theme - The Boss -" - "Savior of Souls" - "Divine Love" - "Almighty Bhunivelze"
Final Fantasy XIV	Before Meteor	"Twilight over Thanalan" - "Siren Song" - "Primal Judgment" - "Nemesis" - "Good King Moggle Mog XII" - "Imperial Will" - "Fallen Angel" - "Rise of the White Raven" - "Answers"
	A Realm Reborn	"Torn from the Heavens" - "A New Hope" - "To the Sun" - "The Land Breathes" - "Serenity" - "Under the Weight" - "Thunderer" - "Penitus" - "Bite of the Black Wolf" - "The Maker's Ruin" - "Ultima" - "Dawn of a New Era" - "Calamity Unbound" - "Through the Maelstrom" - "Pa-Paya" - "Thunder Rolls" - "Oblivion"
	Heavensward	"Heavensward" - "Solid" - "Melt" - "Ominous Prognisticks" - "Painted Foothills" - "Unbending Steel" - "Unbreakable" - "Imagination" - "Heroes" - "Dragonsong" - "Locus" - "Metal" - "Fiend" - "Revenge Twofold" - "Exponential Entropy" - "Moebius" - "Rise" - "Equilibrium"
	Stormblood	"Storm of Blood" - "The Measure of Our Reach" - "Triumph" - "Crimson Sunrise" - "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" - "The Worm's Tail" - "The Measure of His Reach" - "Revolutions" - "Amatsu Kaze" - "Wayward Daughter" - "eScape" - "From the Heavens" - "Sunrise" - "Starlight, Starbright"
	Shadowbringers	"Shadowbringers" - "Insatiable" - "What Angel Wakes Me" - "Civilizations" - "'Neath Dark Waters" - "Invincible" - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" - "A Long Fall" - "Alien Manifestation (From NieR:Automata)" - "Song of the Ancients - Atonement (From NieR:Automata)" - "Bipolar Nightmare (From NieR:Automata)" - "Weight of the World - Prelude Version" - "Return to Oblivion" - "Gangos" - "To the Edge" - "Promises to Keep" - "Kainé - Final Fantasy Main Theme Version" - "Weight of the World - Instrumental Version (From NieR:Automata)" - "City Ruins - Rays of Light (From NieR:Automata)" - "In the Arms of War" - "Smells Like Teenage Riot"
	Endwalker	"Endwalker" - "Finality" - "Endcaller" - "Close in the Distance" - "The Final Day" - "Flow" - "Hic Svnt Leones" - "In the Balance" - "Scream" - "White Stone Black" - "Dedicated to Moonlight" - "Athena, the Tireless One"
	Final Fantasy XIV battle themes
Final Fantasy XV Universe	Final Fantasy XV	"Somnus" - "Stand Your Ground" - "Veiled in Black" - "Valse di Fantastica" - "The Fight Is On!" - "APOCALYPSIS NOCTIS" - "OMNIS LACRIMA" - "NOCTIS" - "Starlit Waltz" - "LUNA" - "Hellfire" - "Magna Insomnia" - "Stand By Me" - "Too Much Is Never Enough" - "I Will Be" - "Choosing Hope" - "Conditioned to Hate" - "Prayer of the Oracle"
Final Fantasy XV Universe	Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV	"Calling for Rain"
Final Fantasy XVI	"Land of Eikons" - "Sixteen Bells" - "On the Wind Borne – The Rosarian Ducal Anthem" - "Away" - Control" - "Find the Flame" - "To Sail Forbidden Seas" - "Do or Die" - "Titan Lost" - "Ascension" - "The Riddle" - "Bow" - "Hymn of the Penitent" - "My Star" - "Tsuki Wo Miteita - Moongazing"
Final Fantasy Tactics	"Trisection" - "Protagonist's Theme" - "Ultima's Transformation" - "Ultima's Perfection"
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance series	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance	"Main Theme" - "Teach Me, Montblanc" - "Shiroi Hana"
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance series	Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift	"Summer Vacation"
Vagrant Story	"A Man Consumed"
Type series	Final Fantasy Type-0	"The Beginning of the End" - "Tempus Finis" - "Vermilion Fire" - "Colorful - Falling in Love" - "Zero" - "Utakata"
Type series	Final Fantasy Agito	"FINAL FANTASY AGITO: The Beginning of the End" - "FINAL FANTASY AGITO" - "Forbidden Fruit" - "My Diamond"
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles	"Sound of the Wind" - "Moonless Starry Night"
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers	"Kuule tää unelmain"
Dissidia series	Dissidia Final Fantasy	"DISSIDIA" - "The Messenger" - "Cosmos" - "Chaos"
Dissidia series	Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy	"Cantata Mortis & God in Fire"
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call	"THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY CURTAIN CALL Special Arrangement Medley"
Chocobo series	Chocobo Racing	"Diamonds in My Heart"
	Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon	"Door Crawl"
	Chocobo GP	"Choco-race" - "Breakneck Cactuar!" - "Change"
Final Fantasy Dimensions II	"Timeless Tomorrow"
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius	"DUEL!!" - "Touch It - FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS Remix" - "Immortal Flame"
World of Final Fantasy	"Innocent²" - "World of Nine Wood Hills" - "Silent World" - "World Parade"
Mobius Final Fantasy	"Always There" - "Capricious Cait Sith"
Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin	"Jack's Theme" - "Shadows Rising"

Beauty's Wicked Wiles

Contents

Lyrics[]

Game appearances[]

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood[]

Arrangement album appearances[]

Journeys: Final Fantasy XIV ~Arrangement Album~[]

Pulse: Final Fantasy XIV Remix Album[]

Live performances[]

The Primals: Zepp Tour 2018 - Trial By Shadow[]

Compilation album appearances[]

Untempered: Final Fantasy XIV Primal Battle Themes[]

Final Fantasy XIV - The Best[]

Untempered 2: Final Fantasy XIV Primal Battle Themes[]

Final Fantasy XIV Vinyl LP Box[]

Citations[]

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