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"A land grotesque as its people. You dreamt of utopia. You saw the tribes united as one. That dream died long ago. You should have done the same. Your kingdom... will perish alongside you. By my hand."
Louis Guiabern is the main antagonist in Metaphor: ReFantazio. He is a charismatic prodigy and an army officer, supposedly of the clemar tribe.
He is one of the candidates of the upcoming election to become leader who vouches for true meritocracy, built on skill and rationality over birth and circumstance, attracting strong public support especially among radical youths.
Appearances[]
- Metaphor: ReFantazio: Major Antagonist; Final Boss
Personality[]
At first glance, Louis is a meritocrat who values rationality and appoints officers based on their capabilities rather than tribe or origin, contrary to the traditional methodology of the masses and Sanctism. He has no prejudice against tribes and will even recruit halfbloods into his elite ranks as long as they can prove their competence, even if such a person would otherwise be considered an outcast based on tribe and status. He is also shown to be a resourceful and competent tactician, as shown when he prepared for Forden's assassination with backup plans to get around the party trying to assassinate him and use the fake Drakodios the party gave him to his own advantage.
Deep in his core however, he is a broken, power-hungry and hypocritical madman who radically wishes to evolve the entire kingdom's population into humans by force. Greatly angered by the ongoing injustices of the world, which include pogroms caused by Sanctifex Forden and his being framed for the sanctifex's assassination of the prince, Louis realizes that the only way to unite all tribes and end the racism of the world is through forced evolution, creating a land of equality at the expense of culling those who cannot handle the transformation and retain their sanity. He is also hard to find trust in anyone to confide his real plans to, which limited his chances of being convinced of better alternatives to his plan, and with Cirsium Zorba likely being the only one Louis could truly rely on based on the necromancer's blind faith and half-human transformation.
He is extremely unscrupulous, enabling humans (and possibly even converting them himself) to invade and attack nearby urban settlements to rally popular support, openly talks about destroying Virga Island himself if the protagonist fails to retrieve Drakodios for him, and uses his own elda knowledge of the populations' original human origins as a tool to destroy the protagonist's strong reputation through forcefully transforming him into a human in front of the public. As a victim of Forden's lies, Louis dislikes lying and does not directly lie, although he will twist words to fit in his narratives or omit important details about himself.
In spite of his general hypocrisy, insanity and lack of trusting others, Louis seems to somewhat care about his comrades and those he felt having shared similar experiences with him. This is shown when he attempts to kill Basilio Magnus and Fidelio Magnus took his brother's place to be killed instead, Louis appears to be oddly silent despite Zorba's gloating on Fidelio's death, indicating that to some extent he was disheartened by Basilio's betrayal. He also took every chance he could get to meet with the protagonist, whether through their earlier amiable meetings or his outright challenge to their duels and face off at the Tyrant's Star. Louis viewed the protagonist as a rival and nemesis to his human utopia vision, one who he expected to understand the kingdom's injustices he faced as a fellow member of the elda tribe and a fellow reader of the same copies of the fantasy novel they both own. Louis would also offer a hand for him to join his cause for his human utopia before becoming disappointed at the protagonist's refusal.
Louis displays some personal grudge towards the Sanctist Church, especially Forden due to the santifex's pogrom that burned down his hometown and blaming him for the prince's curse that lead to his supposed death. The count would spite them at every opportunity he could during the Tournament for the Throne, such as complimenting the protagonist for openly humiliating the church by exposing the Sanctoress Joanna Calendula as an indirect serial killer that relied on a human. However, he would claim to the protagonist's faction that he would not be so petty as to solely focus his every action as revenge against the sanctifex, and that any form of grudge he has towards Sanctism and Forden is merely a cog in his overall ambition of creating an utopia of new humans.
Originally, Louis in his youth respected King Hythlodaeus V and was inspired by his ideals when the clemar visited his village, and has dreamed of himself and the elda leaving the sanctum to roam a new world where his tribe has no need of hiding. However, such ideals that Louis had perished due to the kingdom's injustice conducted under Forden's leadership and how the king failed to believe in Louis' innocence over the prince's assassination, which lead to Louis' radical approach to ending all injustice through forced evolution. Even though he had lost his dream of a better and unified world, Louis still held some form of respect for Hythlodaeus V as he kept the king's fantasy novel, provided him euthanasia when the clemar no longer desired to live, and declaring he will carry on the king's ideals and vision of a better world (albeit in Louis' own additions towards the overall idea).
Profile[]
Louis Guiabern is a royal army officer who managed to become nobility at a young age, wielding military prowess and overwhelming magic and combat abilities. He is also regarded for his capabilities as a military strategist, possessing both insight and psychological insight. However, this went so far his own allies became wary of him, dubbing him a "monster in the making." Unbeknownst to his followers with the exception of Cirsium Zorba, he is not a clemar nor is Guiabern his real name. He is actually an elda of the Charadrius family of medics and one of the few surviving victims of Sanctifex Forden's pogroms against eldan sanctuaries. Disguising himself as a clemar by wearing a pair of fake horns, Louis entered Euchronia's military in hopes of gaining enough strength to enforce equality through force, and using his family's magical lore to become one of the greatest mages known to Euchronian history.
Some of Louis' contributions include keeping the United Kingdom of Euchronia's unity in check, as he would put down both the Principality of Oceana and Montario's bursts of independence.
Twelve years ago, he was supposedly held responsible for assaulting the prince by inflicting a curse on him. The assailant had command of high-level magic and had the appearance of the child, leading to a conclusion that Louis is the perpetrator, leading him to be condemned by the palace and kicked out from the army's leadership to a position where he can't directly interfere with the church's power-grab, causing the Euchronian army's millitary prowess to be heavily weakened. Allegations could not be made against him, however, as Louis did not leave behind any evidence. In reality, the culprit was Aestivum Forden, who orchestrated a conspiracy to assassinate the prince by blackmailing Rella Melancoryphus Cygnus with the safety of her sister due to his disgust against the elda race and to take the throne for himself, only for the unwilling Rella to botch the assassination and cast a curse that would slowly kill him instead. Louis had no ill-will towards the royal family at the time, and greatly respected King Hythlodaeus V as a friend to the elda; that the king believed the manipulative Forden over himself, as a long-term friend and ally, shattered what was left of Louis' idealism. He came to believe the only way to enforce true justice and equality was to forcefully merge all tribes into one by mutating them into humans with a corrupted version of his family's healing magic, with the strongest-willed regaining their minds and humanoid forms to repopulate the world with those able to overcome their anxieties.
Seven years prior to assassinating the king, Louis began to use a corrupted version of his family's healing spell to transform random civilians into humans and send them into attacking villages and slay them himself to exploit people's desperation into support, claiming that he is one capable of ridding the continent of the monsters. The first village subject to such attacks is Halia, where he summoned a group of humans to burn it to the ground, killing Strohl's parents in the process. When the village ordered backup, Captain Klinger withheld reinforcements and let everyone in the village die to feed Louis' point. Similar attacks have occurred throughout Euchronia afterwards.
At the start of the game, the disillusioned Louis would directly assassinate Hythlodaeus, during the events of the game; while it was obvious he was behind the assassination, his popularity and lack of direct evidence left him in the clear for actual investigation, and Forden decided to cover up it was an assassination at all to preserve the status quo.
When the protagonist was created by the eldan queen, he was given false memories to assassinate the person who cursed the prince to free him, and Gallica similarly had her memories tampered to match. Most people, including the prince's supporters, thought that the supposed perpetrator is Louis, indicating that the cover story of Louis trying to assassinate the prince is already widespread knowledge among the kingdom. For most of the game, the protagonist's goal is to slay him in order to free his "childhood friend" from the curse.
Prologue[]
"Good people! Is Forden truly fit to be king!? Or, shall you cast off the shackles of blind faith!? We need not be chained to birth or tribe. In my world, we are a people equal and united! I shall be your shield from the human menace. Together, peace is within our grasp!
No future exists without the power to eliminate the human crisis! Those who stand at my side, who oppose the powers that be, my protection is yours! Or refuse my hand and perish! I will lead us over your corpses."
Shortly after he killed the king, Louis instigated one of his many false-flag stunts involving summoning humans to attack remote areas and slaying them himself, this time targeting the Northern Border Fort. He had his accomplice Klinger recruit new soldiers before the captain sacrifices the unsuspecting fresh meat to be killed by the attacking monsters. The protagonist and Strohl just happened to join the army during the preparation of this scheme, the former to infiltrate the army and get close to Grius. Despite the invading humans managing to kill most of the new recruits during the attack, the protagonist gets away slaying the largest human involved due to awakening his own Archetype to protect Strohl and ends the attack, unknowingly foiling Louis' stunt before he can complete it. After surviving the encounter, he runs into Grius, who informs him about the count and his supposed role in the prince's assassination.
Louis is then seen desecrating the funeral for Hythlodaeus V, where he brings attention to himself with his arrival through his flying gauntlet runner, the Skyrunner Charadius, declaring himself royalty, adorning the air with royal flowers that are considered to be taboo for anyone else to use, even publicly mocking the deceased king for his weakness. He also brings attention to the scandal he fanned the flames to: the human crisis, by directly dropping a corpse of a giant human. With that, he establishes a narrative by promising to rid the problem with his undeniable strength and wit and become the next ruler.
To everyone's surprise, however, Hythlodaeus V's election magic is triggered, declaring that the next king will be determined by the faith of the citizens. Though Louis has tremendous support, he is rivaled by Aestivum Forden who takes the lead, and criticizes Louis for his behavior. Louis himself has a step over Forden too, using his views of meritocracy over blind faith to successfully garner public support. When accused of killing the king, Louis outright admits to it, dismissing his demise as being caused by his weakness and betrayal of his responsibility as leader.
However, Louis doesn't know that there's a planned assassination on his head for his actions, as with Strohl's distraction by riling up an uproar against him, Grius is given an opening to catch Louis off-guard and kill him. His attempt is unsuccessful, as Louis is protected by the election magic thanks to his popularity, after which for Grius' defiance Louis slits his throat immediately, scaring the people into submission. After the announcement of the Tournament for the Throne ends, the Skyrunner Charadius bombards the Grand Cathedral and drops his right-hand man, Cirsium Zorba, from the sky, who announces that he and Louis will enact an attack called "Day of Calamity" at the final day of the king's mourning. He lets Zorba take over most of his operations for the rest of the Grand Trad arc.
Louis was one of the contestants of the Tournament for the Throne, where he promised a meritocracy should he win. Most people fear a scenario where he would take power and establish tyranny. In actuality, his claims of meritocracy was misleading and his true plans were worse than speculated; he only participated in the tournament to take the Royal Sceptre for his own use so he could release the immense amount of magla stored within it to transform all of humanity into humans so all would be equal and strength is truly the only thing that matters. For the first half of the competition, he also had an independent candidate known as Idaeus Glodell work in his place.
Martira Arc[]
Louis, alongside Basilio and Fidelio, drops off from the Skyrunner Charadrius to meet the protagonist after he helped Idaeus Glodell fend off Gideaux's gauntlet runner. Glodell apologizes to him, before he turns to speak to the protagonist, asking him about his identity. He then asks him the reason why he would join the competition. Regardless of which response the protagonist takes, Louis will tell them to prove their worth before he would consider letting them join him. This conversation allows the party to learn about Louis and get close to him.
According to Albus Batlin, Louis did not participate in the monster headhunting competition. Instead, he was still out there hunting and slaying humans (likely by transforming random civilians into humans, summoning them into settlements and killing them himself just like before). Despite this, his popularity is still increasing and is expected to match Forden's.
Brilehaven Arc[]
The party is approached by Louis and the Magnus brothers during the aftermath of the monster head exhibit and Sanctoress Joanna's public execution, claiming to walk by during a human hunt. He compliments the protagonist for forcing the Sanctist Church and Forden to embarrass themselves in front of the crowd before Junah asks him to leave. Junah then turns back to the protagonist, telling him that Louis will send a messenger to him tomorrow, indicating that Louis has interest in recruiting the party as they currently have a common goal in taking down the Sanctist Church. The party speculates that if Louis was the assassin, he might have the cure for the curse, and instigates a plan to infiltrate his gauntlet runner, the Skyrunner Charadrius, during his soiree.
Infiltrating the count’s private quarters, the protagonist and Gallica are spotted by Junah, who reveals herself to be the second agent alongside Grius. Glodell, who was following Junah, eavesdrops on the conversation and makes his way to report to Louis in hopes of getting recognition. Back at the soiree, Louis holds a speech decrying the Sanctist Church and Forden, and announces that he will be formally entering the tournament. The count then changes topics to a traitor within his ranks and orders an investigation on whoever's aboard the 'Charadrius'.
After the protagonist fairly defeats Glodell in a duel, Glodell attempts to underhandedly kill him but is thwarted by the king’s magic, which immobilizes and strangles him to death. Reporting back to Louis, shadowed by the Magnus brothers, the protagonist uses Glodell as a scapegoat and claims he is the rat Louis was looking for. As there were no other witnesses other than Junah, though aware that the protagonist could be lying, Louis accepts this.
After the sanctist church announced to the tournament contestants that their next set of challenges will be plundering pagan relics and delivering them to the church, Louis decides to take advantage of the contest to take Drakodios, a magical lance said to be able to bypass the king's magic, which he plans on using to assassinate Forden. He tasks the party with taking the relic, and requests the Magnus brothers and Junah keep an eye on the party.
Altabury Arc[]
After retrieving Drakodios, the party plans to kill Louis on Saint’s Day during Junah’s performance at the Montario Opera House. Right after departing from Virga Island to Altabury Heights, the party presents to him the fake Drakodios. Louis congratulates the party for obtaining it without shedding a drop of blood, adding that if they couldn’t have, he would have been forced to destroy the island to find it. Eupha is appalled but he merely rebukes that had a situation like that happened, it would be a small sacrifice to save many.
During the night prior to the festival, Louis had a private meeting with a man in a sanctist hood, and seemingly catches up to the lance being a fake and that the protagonist was trying to assassinate him and save the prince, but reassures the man that he will have a plan to get around the assassination.
During the festival, the protagonist and Eupha infiltrate the opera house to reach the chandelier and throw Drakodios into Louis' direction. Though the lance finds its mark and Louis collapses, Eupha cannot recall the lance. After retreating to the rooftop, the count arrives, bloody but alive. The protagonist challenges him to a duel and Louis ends up with the upper hand, holding him at swordpoint. With Louis distracted, Eupha telepathically launches Drakodios. Louis sidesteps it but is surprised when the protagonist stabs him from behind, impaling the lance through his chest. Louis tells them they’ve achieved nothing, indicating he’s not the killer, before he crashes through the opera’s skylight. When they go down to take credit and claim the lance as theirs, Forden congratulates the party on killing the traitor.
The party seemingly assassinated the perpetrator of the prince's curse, but it did not lift, making them realize that someone else other than Louis was responsible for it. Hulkenberg deducts that Forden must have been involved, as she had never told anyone about trying to stop the assassin out of shame while Forden complimented her over it, meaning that only the assassin or their employer would know anything about it.
Despite his supposed death, Louis’ plan to slay the power-hungry sanctifex still succeeded as intended. On the second day of the festival, Forden, confident that he has no more legitimate opposition in his road to a power-grab, announces his imminent victory. The party arrives on stage and confronts him over his treachery, but are interrupted by Louis, posing as a hooded sanctist. Forden tries to kill Louis with Drakodios, only to be restrained by the king's magic; Louis reveals he holds the true lance and uses it to slay Forden.
The party, baffled that Louis is still alive, points out that one of Forden’s own men examined his corpse. Louis’ right-hand man Zorba then reveals himself, having ordered the undead to retrieve his body and presumably revive him after the events at the Regalith Grand Cathedral. Posing as a sanctist to infiltrate Forden's ranks, Zorba stitched Louis back together with magical healing—a feat easily accomplished as the lance left Louis’ heart intact—and swapped the real Drakodios with the fake one.
Louis demands to know where the prince is, realizing that if they were to assassinate him knowing that the prince's curse can only be cured by killing the caster, the prince must be alive. When he knows he isn't getting an answer, he fires a beam in front of a family of innocent sanctists just to force them to speak up, only for the protagonist and the Magnus brothers to try blocking the attack. Fidelio sacrifices himself to save Basilio, and the paripus man leaves Louis for the protagonist in disgust of his complete lack of empathy. Louis appears to be upset by the decision, but decides to not interfere further and leaves.
After Forden's death, Rella holds a speech at the Altabury Heights' plaza to announce that she will be taking the seat of the sanctifex. In the meantime, Louis drops out from the Skyrunner Charadrius to confront Rella and mock the sanctist church in front of the audience. Unsatisfied that only he can kill other candidates, Louis then convinces the king to remove his election magic which would render all candidates to be vulnerable regardless of their popularity, something that the king agreed to.
Seeing no point in keeping Drakodios with the election magic lifted from all candidates, Louis tosses it. He then tells the protagonist that if he still opposes Louis even after learning he wasn't behind the prince's assassination, he must be seeking the throne, and offers a chance to challenge him to one final battle in the royal capital before leaving. After the protagonist defeats Sogne the Icebound, Rella commits suicide and exposes Forden's crimes, rendering the sanctist church politically impotent and leaving only the protagonist and Louis as the sole competitors of the tournament. Having caught wind of Rella's death, Louis sends a letter to a crier for him to read out loud, challenging the protagonist to a duel in Grand Trad.
Skybound Avatar arc[]
Before the duel, Louis and Zorba planned to use the duel to discredit the protagonist and assassinate the prince. He orders Zorba to go to the Ancient Eldan Sanctum to attack the village and slay the prince while he goes to duel the protagonist. In case things go awry, Louis planned to use his human transformation spell to turn the protagonist into a human.
From that point on, things go exactly as Louis expected; the party departures from Altabury to Grand Trad and duels him. When they come close to defeating him a second time, he uses his human transformation spell on the protagonist, turning the traveling boy into a massive human resembling a shadow form of himself with purple lines around his body while deceiving the audience with a half truth claiming that "the elda and humans are one and the same." Despite the protagonist quickly snapping himself out out the spell, his reputation is already destroyed and a mob is incited to go after the party, forcing them to take Neuras' skyrunner to escape all the way to the eldan sanctuary. With the traveling boy being essentially out of the competition, Louis' victory in the royal tournament is near-guaranteed and he is now able to approach and use the Royal Sceptre. In the meantime, under Louis' orders, Zorba managed to assassinate the prince around the same time the duel between the party and the count occurred. The party also learns from Gruidae that Louis is a former eldan resident of the sanctum, his true plan to turn all of mankind into humans, and the reasons behind his insane plan.
If the protagonist does not respond to the eldan queen’s questions properly or accept the offer to fuse with the prince, he will desert his journey, causing an automatic game over where Louis takes over the crown and presumably devastates the entire world and overruns it with humans.
After Zorba manages to escape the party's pursuit and returns to the Skyrunner Charadrius, he reports to his boss that the prince has re-awakened in the protagonist's body. Louis hears the report and tells Zorba that he is interested about the worthy opponent he's waiting for. He orders his quartermaster to land on the Skybound Avatar, where he will be taking over the royal castle.
On his way to the throne room, Louis initiates one final conversation with the king. He asks the king to hand him over the Royal Sceptre, outright mocking him for his ideals. This summons the King's soul, who makes a last-ditch, fruitless attempt to plead with him. Louis rebukes him that he already threw away his ideals to become a broken, old man while he will not. The king tells him that the sceptre is out of reach and can only be used by the royal family, but the count tells him the royal magic's true secret, shocking him and causing him to demand the count how he knew. Louis then discards his fake horns and reveals himself to be an elda, implying that he had generational knowledge about how the royal magic works. He gives one final remark to the king about his enabling of Forden's atrocities before going straight to take the sceptre. He then turns all of his remaining crew into humans, with only Zorba spared from being transformed into a rampaging monster and instead evolved into a half-human mutant courtesy of his loyalty to Louis.
When the party returns to the capital, they find out that something has gone completely amiss. With a few exceptions, the public had turned insane courtesy of the scheme Louis pulled on the protagonist prior; accusations of people being monsters in disguise and violent incidents are not uncommon, rendering them even more vulnerable to the eventual forced evolution of mankind into humans. The sky is also painted blood-red by magla worldwide due to the festering hatred and anxiety of the general populace, and retains so for the remaining free days of the game. To make matters worse, human attacks have drastically increased in scale because of the heavy concentration of magla, and the creatures are getting increasingly closer to the Grand Trad. The party has one month left to prepare and stop Louis from turning every person in the world into rampaging monsters.
Inside the former royal palace, Louis remains seated in the throne room, and would taunt the party while throwing melancholia blockades to obstruct them. The blockades are held by a group of Hythlodaeus-era relics turned into melancholia containers, which upon their destruction, would wake the public from their insanity bit-by-bit. Once the party reaches him, they confront him for his insanity, but he merely rationalizes his actions as a well-justified punishment for the kingdom, and explains that the Royal Sceptre draws magla out from its people, and drains them of their anxiety while converting it into royal magic.
Even then, there was a limit; once it reaches that limit, people overflow with anxiety and show their true nature. However, he omits that he was the one who incited their insanity through the stunt he pulled on the protagonist during their previous duel. He then announces his plans to release all of the Royal Sceptre's stagnant magla into the world, which would induce a forced evolution upon all of humanity, causing those who had conquered their anxieties to ascend into "new humans" while the rest become rampaging monsters.
Finally, considering him a worthy person and seeing their common goal in wiping the world's injustice and hatred, Louis tries to convince the protagonist into joining him into creating and ruling over a world overrun with humans, confident that he and the party will retain their minds and evolve into superior forms.
All decisions in this event is considered final.
Skybound Avatar, Throne room
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| Louis: "It is not a solution without cruelty. But surely the fairness it would restore to our lives is worth any sacrifice. Come with me, and we can realise this dream. What say you?" | |
| That's false fairness. | Good ending; game proceeds |
| You're absolutely right. | Bad Ending |
Accepting the offer results in a bad ending where the protagonist and Louis rule over the new world infested by rampaging human monsters. If he refuses, he will be disappointed at the rejection, but nonetheless vanishes into the Tyrant's Star waiting for the final confrontation, adding that he will at least consider the party a worthy opponent. The party is forced back to the Grand Trad for one last chance to prepare, so they could put an end to the mad elda's plans once and for all.
Finally reaching the Tyrant's Star, they might defeat six mid-bosses, all of them former human bosses with their "Homo" prefix replaced with a "Diablous" prefix and recolored in a sinister purple. They might choose not to take on these bosses at all, but doing so results in Louis' final form having eight press turn icons and gaining the moves of these bosses. Once they reach Louis for a final confrontation, he explains the reason why he would be driven into his insane plan and his motives, which the protagonist rejects.
Seeing that all attempts at negotiation have failed, Louis uses the Royal Sceptre's power to transform into a stabilized human form known as the "Archdemon Louis Charadrius" and battles the party. The party defeats him, and he reverts to normal, but decides that he will not give up yet. Louis summons the Skyrunner Charadrius one last time and tries to board it and escape, while summoning a legion of humans to fight off the party. The protagonist and Neuras go to chase Louis, while the rest of the party seemingly perishes trying to fend off the seemingly endless swarm of humans.
The protagonist tries to confront Louis alone atop of the Skyrunner Charadrius, but finds himself severely outmatched when Louis transforms into his Archdemon Louis Charadrius form again and blasts the protagonist with another human transformation spell from the Royal Sceptre. The protagonist instantly collapses, but seemingly commits suicide by destroying his resonant vessel, only to be saved and whisked to Akademeia by More.
Inside Akademia, More tries to convince the protagonist to give up and offers him to stay inside an illusionary version of Shibuya. The protagonist might opt to stay; if he does so, he will remain in the illusion forever. If he rejects the illusion, More will battle him. Once the protagonist defeats More, he then can exit Akademia for the real, final battle.
Once he ends up outside Akademia, the protagonist finds himself lying on the same spot as prior, with all of his teammates revealed to have survived the human attack. Seeing his ideals must be kept at all costs, Louis further mutates and fuses with the Skyrunner Charadrius, transforming into a massive, demonic human with three masks known as "Destroyer Charadrius." Once all three masks are broken, the human reveals his true face, a version of Louis' own face with a bloodied visage and a gaping smile. Louis also finds his own sanity slowly deteriorating during his transformation despite his powerful will, and the party makes their final resolve to put the madman out of his misery.
After a long, difficult fight, the party manages to take out Louis, seemingly killing him and dropping him down the air. With Louis' seeming death, the sky clears and people are restored fully back to their sanity, only for him to come back up one final time and trap the gauntlet runner in a beam of purple melancholia. However, he was confronted by the protagonist, who now wields the True King Archetype and slays him, shattering him, the Royal Sceptre and the Skyrunner Charadrius he's fused with into pieces.
With the protagonist declared the winner of the tournament and the new king, Gideaux promises to fend off any remaining defiant Louis supporters. The rubble left from the final battle is now a tourist destination.
Stats[]
Opera House[]
- Starts the battle at 50% HP.
- Louis has a tendency to attack the protagonist, even if a taunt skill such as Knight's Proclamation is in effect.
| Louis Guiabern | |||||||||
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| Type | Level | HP | Turn icons | ||||||
| Person | 55 | 7,000 |
1 | ||||||
| Affinities | |||||||||
| Slash | Pierce | Strike | Fire | Ice | Elec | Wind | Light | Dark | Almi |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Normal Drop | Rare Drop | ||||||||
| --- | --- | ||||||||
| Skills | |||||||||
| Royal Slash | Deals heavy physical Slash damage to one enemy twice. | ||||||||
| Royal Coercion | Decrease one enemy's Attack/Defence for 3 turns. | ||||||||
| Soul Cry | Adds two Turn Icons. | ||||||||
Regalith Grand Cathedral[]
- Battle ends automatically after HP is dropped to 90% or below.
- Uses his first press turn to cast Soul Cry. Uses Soul Scream instead if HP is reduced to below half.
- Has a tendency to attack targets affected by Royal Coercion.
| Louis Guiabern | |||||||||
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| Type | Level | HP | Turn icons | ||||||
| Person | 60 | 12,000 | 1 | ||||||
| Affinities | |||||||||
| Slash | Pierce | Strike | Fire | Ice | Elec | Wind | Light | Dark | Almi |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Normal Drop | Rare Drop | ||||||||
| --- | --- | ||||||||
| Skills | |||||||||
| Royal Slash | Deals heavy physical Slash damage to one enemy twice. | ||||||||
| Spatial Slice | Deals heavy physical Slash damage to all enemies. | ||||||||
| Gale Royal Slash | Deals heavy physical Wind damage to one enemy twice. | ||||||||
| Gale Spatial Slice | Deals heavy physical Wind damage to all enemies. | ||||||||
| Voltaic Royal Slash | Deals heavy physical Electric damage to one enemy twice. | ||||||||
| Voltaic Spacial Slice | Deals heavy physical Electric damage to all enemies. | ||||||||
| Royal Coercion | Decrease one enemy's Attack/Defence for 3 turns. | ||||||||
| Treasure Sword: Unlock Affinity | Changes weapon affinity. | ||||||||
| Soul Cry | Adds two Turn Icons. | ||||||||
| Soul Scream | Adds four Turn Icons. | ||||||||
Tyrant's Star[]
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- Defeating the full power version of Destroyer Charadrius' final form unlocks the "Star Shatterer" achievement/trophy.
Followers[]
Much like with the protagonist and Forden, Louis has a band of followers who are deeply loyal to his cause. All of them were either killed in combat, defected or turned into humans by him by the end of the game.
- Cirsium Zorba - Louis' right-hand man and necromancer
- Idaeus Glodell - an independent contestant who infiltrated Louis' ranks to sate his ego
- Basilio Magnus - defected under disgust for Fidelio's death
- Fidelio Magnus - sacrificed himself to protect Basilio from being killed by Louis
- Juani Cygnus - spy of the resistance; defected
- Captain Klinger - willingly allowed humans to destroy settlements under Louis' orders
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
The three-headed Lucifer from the Divine Comedy presumed to be the inspiration of Destroyer Charadrius' design.
- Louis has a tendency to speak or walk with his arms crossed and sit slouching with his right hand on his head and his legs crossed.
- Louis is one of the bearers of a copy of the fantasy novel.
- Louis' depiction within the game bears resemblance to traditional depictions of Lucifer.
- His first name is shared with Louis Cypher, a name often used by Lucifer when in human form, and are arrogant, meritocratic and bent on rebellion against the powers that be. However, while Lucifer's incarnations in the series usually had genuine well-intentions and firm convictions, Louis turned against his own beliefs and ultimately lost himself to his hatred against Forden.
- His long hair is blond, like in Lucifer's Louis Cypher form and his Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne forms. As an elda, he also lacks any physical mutations and he is almost always seen clad in ornate gold and white armor, making him stick out in front of other characters. This ties to the biblical Lucifer being known as the most beautiful of all angels prior to his fall.
- His angelic descent at King Hythlodaeus V's funeral, as well as killing said king for his ambitions and making a blatant desecration of the funeral bears symbolic connections to Lucifer's identity as a fallen angel who strongly desires a world of freedom and chaos while attempting to overthrow God. His control over the humans, many of which have designs based on the legions of hell as depicted by the artist Hieronymus Bosch, might also be interpreted as an allegory to Lucifer commanding armies of fallen angels and demons to plague and destroy mankind.
- His human form is based on the devil (Dis) from The Divine Comedy. However, his characterization as a somewhat tragic and complex character with completely unjustified motives bears resemblance to the Paradise Lost iteration of Lucifer, which is portrayed in a similar manner.
- Louis is also inspired by the mythical Caladrius, also known as Charadrius, which is his true last name that he also gave to his runner, the Skyrunner Charadrius.
- The Caladrius has been speculated to be based on the Plover, of which one genus is called Charadrius.
- His outfit being nearly completely white to invoke the near white feathers of the mythical Caladrius.
- Louis origins as a child of healers, relating to Caladrius' role as a healer that can cure some, while leaving others to die, and his ability to use his healing magic to instead turn people into humans.
- Louis never refers to himself as a clemar anywhere in the story. He only wears a pair of fake horns and expected people to assume he is one.
- Louis is one of the very few major Atlus antagonists and final bosses that remain as the main antagonistic force throughout the course of the entire game rather than hiding or downplaying their involvement in some form or way. Uniquely, the protagonist's motivation for going after him also changes over the story; first to release the prince from his curse; when the curse was revealed be the result of a Sanctist Church conspiracy, to win the Royal Tournament; and when his past and his true plan of transforming all of humanity into humans was exposed, to put an end to his insanity.
- Louis appears to be a popular target for assassination attempts. Aside from Grius and the protagonist, Basilio mentions that he has captured over ten assassins and used them for magical experiments.
- Before one can join Louis' ranks, they must cut their finger with a heart statue made of magic silver with spikes on top of it to prove their loyalty.
- The text on his campaign poster reads: "Kolektiu sub lastandardo depotenco: Louis Guiabern - U preta por an i la mondon," roughly translating to "Gather under the banner of power: Louis Guiabern -- are you ready to change the world?."
Metaphor: ReFantazio Monsters
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| Humans | |
| Enemies | Homo Tenta - Homo Oppo - Homo Fios - Homo Orelon - Homo Frostine - Homo Fizic - Homo Stormmu - Homo Pento - Homo Luano - Homo Casco |
| Bosses | Homo Gorleo - Homo Fulquilo - Homo Avades - Greatworm Homo Butera - Homo Jaluzo - Sea Horror Homo Sabara - Homo Flaemo - Homo Margo & Malvirta Drako Eht - Homo Sondro - Melancholia Zorba - Archdemon Louis Charadrius - Destroyer Charadius |
| Other Enemies | |
| Demi-humans | Goborn - Manhunter Goborn - Hexer Goborn - Archer Goborn - Goborn Esto - Manhunter Goborn Esto - Hexer Goborn Esto - Archer Goborn Esto - Kapcerto - Goborn Ligo - Kapcerto Sondro - Archer Goborn Ligo - Hexer Goborn Ligo - Manhunter Goborn Ligo - Kaprasarto |
| Birds | Wild Corvo - Raptor Corvo - Kokasadors - Kokasados - Leogryph |
| Insectoids | Nocross - Vesp - Papyros - Nocpur |
| Plants | Canibaflo - Gangaflo - Mageleaf Alento - Tropic Alento - Ostolfo |
| Beasts | Feral Hundo - Watchdog Hundo - Hyeno - Vicious Hundo - Mad Watchdog Hundo - War Wulhas - Hellhound Diabundo - Maneater Manjula - Chimenza - Manjula - Crag Manjula - Lava Manjula |
| Undead | Bow Malmorta - Spear Malmorta - Sword Malmorta - Civilian Morneto - Soldier Morneto - Noble Morneto - Monk Morneto - Bow Captain Malmorta - Sword Captain Malmorta - Spear Captain Malmorta - Cursewight Magileto - Bow Slave Malmorta - Spear Slave Malmorta - Sword Slave Malmorta - Spekto - Bow Soldier Malmorta - Sword Soldier Malmorta - Spear Soldier Malmorta - Bow Noble Malmorta - Sword Noble Malmorta - Spear Noble Malmorta - Kadablich - Spekto of Lament - Summon Knight Skeleto - Faithwight Magileto - Spekto of Fury - Spellwight Magileto |
| Mollusks | Gelatinos - Serpetia - Vampiric Gelatinos - Aquatic Shuper - Colossal Gelatinos - Colossal Vampire Gelatinos - Terrestrial Shuper - Benepetia |
| Mimics | Sandworm Valmo - Lifewrought Gargoz - Juvenile Rockworm Valmo - Pyrite Imitec - Alpha Rockworm Valmo - Potolpo - Trove Imitec - Waterworm Valmo - Spellwrought Gargosta - Potolpo Verda - Showworm Valmo - Potolpo Brua - Wrathwrought Gargosta - Bloodcoin Imitec |
| Spirits | Blue Elmenta - Red Elmenta - Green Elmenta - Gold Elmenta |
| Giant | Guptauros - Orgo - Psyocro - Guptauron |
| Personnel | State Army Soldier - Mage Soldier - Louisian Captain - Sanctist Monk - Bandit (Slim) - Bandit (Large) |
| Bosses | Captain Klinger - Fire Dragon Mauna - Cirsium Zorba - Undead Grius - Monk Captain Gideaux - Heismay - Glodell & Hector - Louis Guiabern - Sogne the Icebound - More - Redscale Apocalypse Dragon - Devourer of Stars - Devourer of Nations - Devourer of Flames - Elegy of the Soul |
| Tournament Candidates | Milo the Adonis - Loveless the Hedonist - Rudolf the Roussiante Lion - Catherina the Bounty Queen - Lina the Machinist - Demo Man Goddard - Jin the Charlatan - Roger the Libertarian |