White Tiger Crystal

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Final Fantasy Type-0 Opening Narration

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The White Tiger Crystal.

The White Tiger Crystal (白虎クリスタル, Byakko Kurisutaru?) is one of the four Crystals of Orience in Final Fantasy Type-0. It is controlled by the Militesi Empire and bestows the power of weapons, and lends its energy to powers imperial teknology. As a Crystal of Orience, the White Tiger Crystal has the power to brand l'Cie and give them a Focus.

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Story

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The White Tiger Crystal is one of the four Crystals of Orience and bestows its power to the Militesi Empire. Unlike the other nations of Orience, the people of Milites do not serve the White Peristylium. Rather, the White Tiger Crystal exists solely to provide energy to the populace. When Marshal Cid Aulstyne seized reins of power, one of his first orders of business was absorbing the peristylium into the imperial government. In other nations, only those chosen by their respective Crystal have access to its power. In Milites, however, scientists developed teknology to extract energy from the White Tiger Crystal and harness it to mass-produce guns, magitek armor, and other armaments. Imperial scientists discovered they can use a modified C-Engine to extract energy from the Crystal and artificially enhance a trooper's physical capabilities. These soldiers are called Supersoldiers.

Cid discovered a way to subjugate the Crystal, and thus enslave its l'Cie. The empire begins its campaign to claim the Crystals of Orience, and after annihilating Lorican Alliance and stealing the Black Tortoise Crystal, they turn their focus on the Vermilion Bird Crystal of the Dominion of Rubrum. Rumors spread the light of the White Tiger Crystal is fading and the empire wants to siphon power from the other Crystals. The empire's citizens come to believe this as well, as hail the marshal as their savior. The empire deploys Qun'mi Tru'e, a White Tiger Secundus l'Cie, to Akademeia, but she is repelled by cadets who would become known as Class Zero. The appearance of a l'Cie among Militesi ranks surprises everyone, as l'Cie are known to only take orders from the Crystal.

As the joint Rubrum and Concordia forces reclaim Togoreth from the empire, Militesi deploys Nimbus, a White Tiger Primus l'Cie. Unusually, the Vermilion Bird Crystal deploys its own Primus l'Cie to face off against Nimbus, Zhuyu Voghfau Byot. Zhuyu asks Nimbus if what he is doing is really the Focus given to him by the White Tiger Crystal, but Nimbus declines to answer. The ensuing battle between Zhuyu and Nimbus obliterates Togoreth.

Afterward Marshal Cid oversees the White Tiger Crystal in the grasp of a colossal machine built to subjugate it. The engineers give him status reports on how the plan is going, but worry over the l'Cie's involvement. Cid says that as long as they hold the Crystal hostage the l'Cie can't do anything.

When Class Zero infiltrates an imperial magitek development facility and destroys the Brionac, a prototype magitek armor developed to deploy the empire's ultimate weapon, the Ultima Bomb, Nimbus is deployed to deal with them. He does not have the full power of the Crystal behind him, implying the White Tiger Crystal resists this order. As the Secundus l'Cie of the Azure Dragon Crystal, Queen Andoria, invokes the Fabula Pact, a peace agreement wrought between the four peristylia of Orience, Nimbus ceases his attack on the cadets. Cid Aulstyne, who watches the queen's arrival from a balcony, wryly remarks her invoking the pact being "quaint," implying he believes he has the power to override the Crystals' Will if he so wishes. The pact is soon broken when the queen is assassinated.

l'Cie

• Nimbus
• Qun'mi Tru'e
• Machina Kunagiri

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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 reflects a more sinister state, calling the person's free will into question.

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