Vermilion Bird Crystal

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The Vermilion Bird Crystal.

The Vermilion Bird Crystal (朱雀クリスタル, Suzaku Kurisutaru?) is one of the four Crystals of Orience in Final Fantasy Type-0. It is controlled by the Dominion of Rubrum and bestows the power of magic.

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Story

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The Vermilion Bird Crystal is one of the four Crystals of Orience, and has the power of magic. It glows red and is associated with the element of fire. The Dominion of Rubrum was built to adopt the Crystal and its power of magic, and thus the dominion has become the nation known for magic and Eidolons. The Crystal usually chooses cadets from Akademeia, the magic academy of Rubrum, to become its l'Cie. The dominion denizens revere and trust in the Crystal as the nation's benefactor and view the Vermilion Bird l'Cie as heroes.

When the Militesi Empire attacks Rubrum to claim the Vermilion Bird Crystal, they deploy crystal jammers to the battlefield cutting Rubrum's magic-based forces off their Crystal, making them vulnerable. A group of cadets hand-reared by archsorceress Arecia Al-Rashia are immune to the effect due to drawing their magic power from phantoma rather than from the Vermilion Bird Crystal, and a deployed to take down the crystal jammers. They succeed, and the capital is liberated, but the empire takes hold of many areas previously occupied by Rubrum. Rubrum sets out to reclaim the lost areas and during the campaign rumors of the Vermilion Bird l'Cie Zhuyu Voghfau Byot being on the move spread, surprising many as the l'Cie don't usually care for mortal affairs.

Unusually for a Vermilion Bird Crystal l'Cie, Zhuyu joins the military campaign, although he posits he follows the Will of the Crystal and not any mortal commander. When Rubrum joins forces with the Kingdom of Concordia to reclaim Togoreth, Militesi deploys the White Tiger Crystal l'Cie Nimbus, and the Vermilion Bird Crystal deploys Zhuyu to take him on. The ensuing battle obliterates Togoreth.

l'Cie

• Zhuyu Voghfau Byot
• Caetuna
• During Tempus Finis, Rem Tokimiya or the original twelve members of Class Zero.

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Etymology

[view · edit · purge]The Four Symbols (Chinese: 四象; pinyin: Sì Xiàng) are four mythological creatures in the Chinese constellations. They are the Azure Dragon, (Qing Long) of the East, the Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que) of the South, the White Tiger (Bai Hu) of the West, and the Black Turtle (Xuan Wu) of the North. While originating from China, the Four Symbols are also widely known in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Each region have distinct names for the symbols. In Japan, the Shijin, as they are collectively known, are called Seiryū, Suzaku, Byakko and Genbu respectively.

Trivia

• The four Crystals of Orience allude to the elemental crystals from the early Final Fantasy games. This continues a core concept of the Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy series where core elements of the Final Fantasy series are re-imagined. In the early Final Fantasy games being made a Warrior of Light by a Crystal was shown in heroic light, but in the Fabula Nova Crystallis series the equivalent fate of a l'Cie is shown in more sinister light, calling the person's free will into question.

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