Concept artwork for Final Fantasy XIV.
Titan (ティターン, Titān?), also known as Phlegethon or Acheron, is a recurring enemy in the Final Fantasy series. He is depicted as a sword-wielding giant.
Not to be confused with the Earth-elemental summoned monster of the same name that also sometimes is fought as a boss.
Appearances[]
Final Fantasy III[]
Titan is a boss guarding the Earth Crystal in the Ancients' Maze. He will mostly use physical attacks that can deal severe damage. He can cast Quake to damage the whole party at once. The party's best chances of surviving are to have a party of Dragoons and a White Mage to heal. Once Titan is defeated, the party receives the last batch of Jobs: Summoner, Magus, Devout, Black Belt (3D version only), Sage (3D version only), and Ninja (3D version only).
Final Fantasy XIV[]
Phlegethon, formerly known as Acheron, is the final boss of 
The Labyrinth of the Ancients. Phlegethon was a legendary hero of the commonfolk who once led a revolt against he Allagan Empire. Captured by the Empire, he was among the many revolutionaries used as test subjects by the technologist Amon, chimerically augmenting them in an attempt to achieve immortality for the Allagans. The experiments forcibly warped Phlegethon's body, turning him into a golden-skinned giant, but also broke his mind, and led to him being conditioned to serve the Empire unquestioningly.
Inserted as a reference to the Titan of the Ancients' Maze in Final Fantasy III, and named as such in the Japanese localization, Phlegethon was originally named Acheron in the English localization, after a palette swap of Titan, as the name Titan was already in use by the primal Titan. Once the developers began work on Syrcus Tower, they realized they wanted the Acheron name for enemies encountered there instead. The boss Acheron was thus renamed Phlegethon in the English localization. The change was acknowledged in-game as historians having a case of mistaken identity, mistaking the legendary hero Phlegethon as a different hero named Acheron.
The Final Fantasy Legend[]
Titan is an enemy and also a possible monster that the party's monster units can transform into. It can be found on the first floor of the Tower.
Final Fantasy Dimensions II[]
Phlegethon is an earth-elemental Eidolon. He can be obtained as a signet for Wrieg to equip by completing his twelfth character episode, "An Ideal Future".
Final Fantasy Record Keeper[]
Titan appears as a boss in both the Classic and Elite versions of the Ancients' Maze realm dungeon. He has access to powerful physical attacks and can use powerful spells such as Quake and Flare. He is immune to earth-elemental attacks and has no weaknesses to exploit. In addition, Titan has also appeared as an event boss multiple times.
Final Fantasy Trading Card Game[]
Final Fantasy XIV's Phlegethon appears as an earth-elemental card.
Etymology[]
The Titans (οἱ Τῑτᾶνες, hoi Tītânes) were members of the second order of divine beings in Greek mythology. They were descendants of the primordial deities born from the Chaos, and they preceded the gods of Olympus, who went on to overthrow them.
In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon or Pyriphlegethon was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld.
In ancient Greek mythology, Acheron was known as the river of woe, and was one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld.