“ | Besides... having some Eidolons along can't hurt, can it? | „ |
~ Rydia about to join the party permanently |
Summary
Rydia is a summoner in the village of Mist and one of the main protagonists of Final Fantasy IV. During a delivery mission from Cecil and Kain, the delivery turned out to be a bunch of monster bombs that destroyed Rydia's village, traumatized by the event, Rydia refused to use Fire magic until she was forced to make a decision to aid others by burning down an ice barrier to prevent any more catastrophic events like her home. After a brief scuffle with the Eidolon King Leviathan, she was sent to the Feymarch to learn the ins and outs of summoning, and aged drastically in that realm due to the flow of time being different in the Realm of the Ediolons. Joining Cecil as he was pinned down by Golbez, she aids his cause to stop Golbez from taking all the crystals from the planet to gain the ultimate power from the moon.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 4-A, far higher with Augments | At least 4-A, likely 2-C, far higher with Augments | 2-A, far higher with Augments
Key: Final Fantasy IV | The After Years | Dissidia
Name: Rydia
Origin: Final Fantasy IV
Gender: Female
Age: 7 at the beginning of the story, biologically in her late teens by the end of the story | 27 Years Old Chronologically
Classification: Summoner
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Is skilled in Rods, Daggers, Bows and Arrows), Self-Sustenance (Type 1; He can breathe on the moon with no issues), Blessed (Is blessed by The Crystal, which grants him the abilities of the Crystal), Telepathy (Is comparable to Palom as a mage, who can communicate with Porom through his mind[1]), Invulnerability and Attack Reflection (Can nullify any physical attacks and reflect magical attacks via the Lunar Curtain), Regeneration Negation (Mid-Godly) and Immortality Negation (Types 3, 4, 6, 7, and 9; Is capable of killing undeads and beings who resurrect in Mount Ordeals. Additionally, destroyed Scarmiglione whose true power manifests by coming back as an undead after death. Is even capable of permanently killing the Leshy creature, which can live on via possessing another corpse.[2] Is also capable of killing beings who are blessed with the Crystals, who grant these immortalities and regeneration abilities), Magic, Subjective Reality (Magic,[3] in its basest form,[4] is projecting one's inner[5] mind onto reality[6], and is powered by intelligence and mental strength[3]), Non-Physical Interaction (Magic as a whole is shown to affect a wide variety of different beings, from intangible/immaterial beings to non corporeal beings, to abstract concepts like Chronodia, who's the flow of time itself[7], to Nonexistent beings like Exdeath and Cloud of Darkness), Law Manipulation (Magic is stated to rewrite[3] the natural order of things[8]), Limited Durability Negation, Forcefield Negation, and Intangibility (Magic negates conventional physical durability, barriers, and armor, requiring specific defense against magic which is powered by the Mind and Spirit), Power Modification (Including Duplication, Fusionism, Statistics Amplification, Size Manipulation, Homing Attack, Danmaku, Aura, Breath Attack, and Energy Manipulation; Magic users across the games have consistently shown the ability to manipulate the shape and properties of their own magical abilities, with even higher tiers of spells simply being considered stronger versions of the same basic ability[9]), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 2), and Space-Time Manipulation (Magic is shown in the novels to remove concepts and warp space and time itself,[8] like the Devil's road, which the concept of time was lost,[10] and time and space were twisted to the point[11] the past, present and future[12] existed as one[13]), Resistance Negation (Can bypass the enemies innate resistance to status ailments and being analyzed via the Bestiary item[14] and the numerous Lunar summons, which can affect Zeromus[14] despite him being resistant to these effects[14]), Extrasensory Perception (Can sense beings from far away[15]), Soul Manipulation (can utilize Ifrit's hellfire, which is stated to burn the soul away[16]), Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation and Matter Manipulation (Sub-Atomic; Can use different levels of Fire and Ice magic. Both Fire and Ice related abilities are stated to affect the target's electrons[2], being able to even negate durability in the process[2]), Electricity Manipulation and Pain Manipulation (via Thunder spells, which are capable of attacking the nerves[17]), Sleep Manipulation and Biological Manipulation (via Sleep, which can affect the target's cerebral cortex[2]), Poison Manipulation, Disease Manipulation, and Corrosion Inducement (Can inflict Poison with Poison and Bio, the former is stated to corrode the target,[2] and the latter inflicts the target with a disease), Transmutation (via Pig and Toad), Time Stop (via Stop), Earth Manipulation (via Quake), Absorption (via Osmose and Drain), BFR (The teleport/Warp spells are capable of banishing targets to the Void, which inflicts the following abilities on the victim: Existence Erasure/Void Manipulation, Mind Manipulation (which includes Madness Manipulation (Type 3), and Perception Manipulation), Space-Time Manipulation, Time Stop, and Corruption (Type 2)), Petrification (via Break), Death Manipulation and Blood Manipulation (via Death, which can solidify the target's blood[2]), Air Manipulation (via Tornado), Telekinesis (via Meteor), Explosion Manipulation (via Flare), Healing, Paralysis Inducement and Biological Manipulation (via Hold, which is stated to[2] affect the brain's fundamental functions), Resurrection (via Raise), Purification (Type 3; via Esuna), Madness Manipulation (Type 2) and Morality Manipulation (Can inflict targets with the Confuse status ailment, driving the target insane and attack anyone, even their allies), Self-Destruction (via Bomb),Absolute Zero (via Shiva), Radiation Manipulation (via Megaflare, which is stated[18] numerous times to be a nuclear power[19]), Pocket Reality Manipulation (via Lunar Bahamut[14] and Lunar Ramuh[14] since they made their own pocket dimensions in their dungeons), Mind Manipulation and Age Manipulation (via Lunar Mist Dragon[14]), Statistics Amplification (via Asura), Shapeshifting and Power Mimicry (Lunar Bahamut was able to shapeshift into Kain and copy his abilities[14])
Resistant to the Following: Subjective Reality, Magic, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 2), and Space-Time Manipulation (Characters are capable of surviving and resisting magical abilities, Which is[3] shown to[4] project one's inner[5] mind onto reality[6], and as shown with the creation of the Devil's road[8], remove entire concepts[10] and warp space and time[11] to where the past, present, and future[12] exists as one[13]), Law Manipulation (Resists magic, which can rewrite[3] the natural order of things[8]), Gravity Manipulation (Unaffected by the gravitational pull of the True Moon, which even the Lunar Whale couldn't escape from[6]), Disease Manipulation (Can remain in the Impact Crater for extended periods of time despite its presence rotting the land[20] and making it diseased[6]), Spatial Manipulation, Deconstruction, and BFR (Can withstand the attacks of Atomos, who manipulates space[6], crush enemies down to a molecular level[21], and can warp them into another dimension[21]), Life Manipulation, Absorption (Can cross the Devil's Road without their life force being drained[14]), Extreme Heat (Can fight for extended periods in the lava-filled chasms of the underworld), Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations (Can fight and survive on the moon), Absolute Zero (Can survive Lunar Shiva's ice attacks[14], including Diamond Dust), Hellfire Manipulation (Can survive the heat and flames of Ifrit's hellfire), Resistance Negation (Can resist the status ailments from the Lunar Summons, which can affect Zeromus[14] despite him being resistant to these effects[14]), Soul Manipulation (Is capable of resisting the ability of the Trap Door to being absorbed down to his very soul,[2] on top of surviving the Devil's Road[22] which can rip apart one's soul[11], and can withstand Ifrit's Hellfire, which is stated to burn the soul away[16]), Possession and Necromancy (Is able to resist the effects of the Leshy's possession ability[2] regardless if she's dead), Empathic Manipulation, and Madness Manipulation (Type 3; Resistant to the effects of the True Moon, which is capable of affecting the hearts and minds of all living beings on the planet[6]), Curse Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, Time Stop, Statistics Reduction, and Corruption (Type 2; Is shown to withstand the effects of the Darkness from[6] Final Fantasy III more than once[6], which is shown to have these abilities), Regeneration Negation (High-Godly) and Immortality Negation (Type 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8; Is capable of withstanding hits from numerous foes blessed by the crystals and is still capable of healing from his wounds and not lose his immortality), Darkness Manipulation and Perception Manipulation (Can resist the darkness status ailment via various equipment, which would render the target blind[23]), Power Nullification (Can resist the Silence status, which would render the target's ability to use magic null), Electricity Manipulation and Pain Manipulation (Is able to resist the Lightning spells, which is capable of attacking the nerves[24]), Petrification (Can resist the petrification status effect), Death Manipulation and Blood Manipulation (Can resist the Death spell, which is even stated to solidify the victim's blood[2]), Attack Reflection (The Piercing Magic Augment allows the user to bypass reflect spells as a whole), Madness Manipulation (Type 2) and Morality Manipulation (Can resist the Confuse status ailment, which can drive the target to attack anyone, even their allies), Sleep Manipulation (Can resist the Sleep status effect), Paralysis Inducement (Can resist the Paralyze status effect), Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, and Matter Manipulation (Sub-Atomic; Is capable of resisting the Fire and Ice spell, which is capable of affecting the[2] target's electrons[2]), Poison Manipulation and Corrosion Inducement (Can resist the Poison status effect, which is also stated to corrode the target[2]), Transmutation (can resist the Toad and Pig spell), Size Manipulation (Is able to resist the Mini spell)
Instinctive Reaction (Auto-Potion causes the user to automatically use potions when in danger, and Counter automatically counters physical attacks when hit), Statistics Amplification (Item Lore doubles the effectiveness of healing and damaging items, including weaponry. Fast Talker doubles the rate at which one can cast magic, Bluff can increase one's intelligence, etc.), Curse Manipulation, Reactive Power Level (Last Stand doubles defense when the user is at low health, and Adrenaline does the same with offenses), Statistics Reduction (The Curse augment allows the user to curse others and halve their strength and defense. The Cry augment further halves enemies' defenses), Water Manipulation, Death Manipulation (Tsunami emits a massive wave of water that inflicts instant death), Fusionism (The Twincast augment allows the user to cast different spells with those they share a strong bond with), Sound Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, Transmutation, Regeneration (Mid-Low, possibly High-Mid), Time Manipulation and Empathic Manipulation (Bardsong allows the user to cast magic through singing, including turning enemies into pigs, granting regeneration, casting haste, and increasing all stats. The bard's powers can also drain the target's will to fight[2]), Stealth Mastery (Hide allows the user to take cover, using ranged attacks such as aim and throw while hidden), Magic (Including Statistics Amplification, Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, and Transmutation. Recall allows the user to cast random magic spells, including Toad, Bubble, Bravery, Faith, and the three Elemental tiers), Air Manipulation (Whirlwind surrounds the target with a tornado and renders them weak to fire magic), Perception Manipulation (Eye Gouge allows the user to blind enemies), Information Analysis and Clairvoyance (Analyze allows the user to study enemies to see their stats, and is stated to Clairvoyance[2]), Power Modification (Upgrade allows the user to use items to enchant their weapons with different elements), Fire Manipulation (Inferno coats the battlefield in an eruption of fire), Darkness Manipulation, Life Manipulation (The Darkness augment allows the user to sacrifice their life in the form of greater attack power), Martial Arts (Focus, Kick, and Brace are all various different martial arts techniques), Accelerated Development (Level Lust increases the rate at which the user gains experience. All augments increase the stats of the user as they gain experience), Energy Manipulation and Restoration (Omnicasting allows the user to vastly increase the area of effect of their spells, even normally single-target ones. Bless gradually restores the MP of one's allies), Resurrection (When the user is slain with the Phoenix augment, they resurrect all of their allies), Awakened Power (Limit Break allows the user to shatter their previous limits)
All previous abilities enhanced, possible Immortality (Type 8,reliant on his Crystal which let Cosmos' group return from fading from existence after Cosmos' death) & Regeneration (Low-Godly), Self-Sustenance (Type 2, has no need to eat or drink[25]), Summoning (Can summon various Eidolons from Summonstones and the World of Illusions), Willpower Manipulation (a person's will is power there and enables them to do a multitude of things the stronger their will[25]), Reactive Power Level (the greater someone's will, the greater their power[25]), Law Manipulation (Beings with strong wills can overwrite the laws of the world and bend them to their will[25]), Creation (With a powerful enough will, once can create various things such as phone lines, airships and even entire countries and worlds[25]), Sealing (Can seal off large areas and people with her will, such as Cecil sealing himself in Castle Baron or the cast sealing Kefka inside a Torsion[25]), Dimensional Travel (Characters can open Torsions, rifts in space-time to travel various dimensions[25]), and Immortality (Type 2) (Due to the crystal core of darkness's influence in the hands of Ardyn, warriors will not die no matter how injured they are)
Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (Via Zalera, the Death Serpah, who was going to absorb the souls of every living being on the planet), Corruption & Body Puppetry (Due to their light, Warriors of Materia can dispel attempts to control them), Empathic Manipulation, and Madness Manipulation (Type 3; Resistant to the effects of the True Moon, which is capable of affecting the hearts and minds of all living beings on the planet[6]), Gravity Manipulation (Unaffected by the gravitational pull of the True Moon, which even the Lunar Whale couldn't escape from[6]), Spatial Manipulation, Deconstruction, and BFR (Can withstand the attacks of Atomos, who manipulates space[6], crush enemies down to a molecular level[21], and can warp them into another dimension[21]), Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiations (Can fight and survive on the moon), Absolute Zero (Can survive Shiva's ice attacks[26], including Diamond Dust), Memory Manipulation & Dream Manipulation (Diabolos can enter dreams and alter memory[27])
Hellfire Manipulation (Via Ifrit, Phoenix, Rubicante, and Marilith), Intangibility (Ifrit can become smoke or flame[28]), Ice Manipulation and Absolute Zero and Duplication (Via Shiva who's Ice and aura are stated to reach Absolute Zero including her Diamond Dust, Shiva can duplicate herself[26]), Water Manipulation (via Kraken, Cagnazzo, and Leviathan), Necromancy (Via Lich), Spatial Manipulation, Deconstruction, and BFR (via Atomos, who manipulates space[6], crush enemies down to a molecular level[21], and can warp them into another dimension[21]), Death Manipulation and Space-Time Manipulation (Via Odin, who's Zantetsuken instantly kills an enemy and opens a rift in space time to take their remains[28]), Matter Manipulation and Radiation Manipulation (via Megaflare, which is stated[29] numerous times to be a nuclear power[30]), Attack Reflection (via Carbuncle), Poison Manipulation and Corrosion Inducement (The Poison status effect, which is also stated to corrode the target[2]), Darkness Manipulation and Perception Manipulation (The darkness status ailment via various equipment, which would render the target blind[31]), Power Nullification (The Silence status, which would render the target's ability to use magic null), and Petrification (Via Malboro's Bad Breath), Resurrection (Phoenix can revive fallen party members), Light Manipulation and Holy Manipulation (Via Alexander), Explosion Manipulation and Self-Destruction (Via Bomb), Healing (Via Sylph and Asura), Earth Manipulation (Via Titan), BFR (via Typhon), Soul Manipulation (Via Zalera, the Death Seraph, who was going to abosrb all souls on the planet[32]),Memory Manipulation & Dream Manipulation (Diabolos can enter dreams and alter memory[27])
Attack Potency: Multi-Solar System Level (Is capable of defeating Bahamut and Dark Bahamut, the former is capable of creating a pocket dimension[14] with stars with its summon[14], and is comparable to Kain, who's able to defeat Lunar Bahamut by himself, who's also capable of doing the same feat[14] and said dimension vanishing when Lunar Bahamut loses[14] and is capable of summoning Lunar Bahamut, and it's stated in the lore that In order for anyone to summon, they must be stronger than the summon in order to control them.[2] Is also capable of taking on Zeromus, who's stated to be capable of destroying[14] all in its wake,[14] which would include the entire moon of FF4, which is shown in the novels[33] and the actual game[14] to have a starry sky in the background), far higher with Augments | At least Multi-Solar System level (Is able to take on and harm the Creator, The Creator merely duplicating himself was enough to destroy his entire moon vessel,[34] which is shown to have numerous[15] stars,[15] nebulaes,[15] and black holes[15]), likely Low Multiverse level (The Creator was vastly superior to the Four creatures of darkness from FF3, which could each fight the endgame Warriors of Light in a 1v4, can also take on Gilgamesh and win), far higher with Augments | Multiverse Level+ (Borrows powers from the gods of the cycle. Contributed to the defeat of the Planesgorgers and Shinryu), far higher with Augments. Can negate conventional durability in a wide variety of ways.
Speed: Speed of Light (Can keep up with Yang) | Massively FTL+ (Can keep up with Gilgamesh) | Massively FTL+ (Can keep up with Shinryu)
Lifting Strength: Class Y (Is capable of contending with Bahamut, who's able to move numerous planets through his summon[14]) | Multi-Stellar (Is comparable to the Creator, who's able to carry his entire moon on his own, which is shown to have numerous star clusters inside[14]) | Multi-Stellar (Should be comparable to her previous self) | Immeasurable (Is superior to Neo Exdeath and Enuo)
Striking Strength: Multi-Solar System level, far higher with Augments | At least Multi-Solar System level, likely Low Multiverse level, far higher with Augments | Multiverse level+, far higher with Augments
Durability: Multi-Solar System level (Has tanked attacks from Zeromus, who is the manifested hatred of Zemus, far surpassing Lunarians like Golbez and Fusoya), far higher with Augments | At least Multi-Solar System level, likely Low Multiverse level (Tanked attacks from The Creator and Gilgamesh), far higher with Augments | Multiverse Level+ (took hits from Shinryu), far higher with Augments
Stamina: Superhuman. She can fight through entire gauntlets of monsters without tiring, even against the likes of powerful beings like Zeromus. She has also faced the God of Eidolons, Bahamut, his Dark Counterpart, as well as an even more powerful version of Zeromus named Zeromus EG.
Range: Tens of Metres with her bow. Multiversal+ with magic (Magic as a whole is shown to affect omnipresent beings such as Exdeath when he's become one with the Void itself, which spans across the entire Final Fantasy Multiverse, can even banish foes into the Void with the Teleport ability)
Standard Equipment: A wide variety of Bows and Arrows, Staves, and daggers with a wide variety of innate abilities; a vast array of different armors and equipment that grants enhanced resistances to elemental attacks and status ailments; and a wide collection of items that can boost the user, recover their abilities in a wide variety of ways, and inflict numerous status ailments on their targets. A Crystal
Intelligence: Gifted. As one of the last remaining summoners, Rydia has mastered the art during her time in Feymarch, being able to call upon even the mightiest Eidolons, such as Leviathan and Bahamut to aid her in combat. She is also extremely skilled in Black Magic, learning every spell in the game short of Twin Meteor and even demonstrates some proficiency in White Magic. She is also somewhat proficient with knives, daggers, whips, and bows, though she heavily prefers to use magic. Is at least comparable to Cecil and Kain, who are superior in combat experience than the Baron knights, who are trained to analyze their targets in a few seconds to determine their weaknesses to take them down.[2]
Weaknesses: None notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Fire/Fira/Firaga: Rydia casts a Fire spell to deal damage to his foes.
- Blizzard/Blizzara/Blizzaga: Rydia casts an Ice spell to deal damage to his foes.
- Thunder/Thundara/Thundaga: Rydia casts a Lightning Spell to deal damage to his foes.
- Sleep: Rydia casts a spell that puts his targets to sleep.
- Poison: Rydia casts a spell that inflicts the target with Poison.
- Pig: Rydia casts a spell that turns the target into a Pig.
- Stop:Rydia halt the flow of time on his foes to freeze them in place.
- Bio: Rydia casts a spell that infects the target with a disease.
- Toad: Rydia casts a spell that turns the target into a Toad.
- Drain: Rydia drains the target of their heath to replenish his own.
- Warp: Rydia warps himself to a different locations or teleports his targets into the Rift.
- Break: Rydia casts a spell to petrify his target.
- Osmose:Rydia drains the target of their magic to replenish his own.
- Death: Rydia casts a spell to instantly kill his target.
- Tornado:Rydia casts a spell that summons a tornado to bring the enemy down to the brink of death.
- Meteor: Rydia summons meteors from the deep reaches of space to attack his foes.
- Flare: Rydia causes a fusion reaction to generate a devastating explosion to attack his foes.
- Cure/Cura: Rydia casts a healing spell to heal her wounds.
- Hold: Rydia casts a paralysis spell to stop her foes on their tracks.
- Sight: Rydia gains a massive view of the entire world to find locations..
- Esuna: Rydia casts a spell to cure herself of any status ailments.
- Raise: Rydia resurrects a fallen ally.
- Confuse: Rydia casts a spell that drives the target insane and attacks anyone around them, including their allies.
Others
Notable Victories:
Notable Losses:
Inconclusive Matches:
References
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 5, page 234
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 Final Fantasy IV Settings Guidebook
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Final Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 1, page 29
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Final Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 3, page 107
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 2, page 109
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
- ↑ Final Fantasy I
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Final Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 5, page 198
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 2 page 114
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Final Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 5, page 199
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 1, page 67
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 1, page 73
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 3, page 147
- ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 14.11 14.12 14.13 14.14 14.15 14.16 14.17 14.18 14.19 Final Fantasy IV
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 3, page 160
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV Volume 2 Novel, chapter 7, page 54
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 5, page 270
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 5, page 271
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 2, page 83
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 Dissidia Final Fantasy
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV Novel 1, chapter 4, page 195
- ↑ Final Fantasy V GBA Manual
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV Volume 2 Novel, chapter 7, page 54
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 25.5 25.6 Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Dissidia Final Fantasy NT
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 World Of Final Fantasy
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 5, page 270
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, chapter 5, page 271
- ↑ Final Fantasy V GBA Manual
- ↑ Final Fantasy XII
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV Volume 2 Novel, chapter 11, page 243
- ↑ Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Novel, epilogue, pg292