Ramza Beoulve

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE 18 (born January 15th)

AFFILIATION Order of the Northern Sky House Beoulve Mercenary Ramza's company

ZODIAC SIGN Capricorn

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

RACE Hume

GENDER Male

Ramza Beoulve, also known as Ramza Lugria,[1] is the main protagonist in Final Fantasy Tactics. He is a member of the respected House Beoulve, a renowned military family in Ivalice. The youngest son of Barbaneth Beoulve, who led the Order of the Northern Sky in the Fifty Years' War, Ramza grew up alongside Delita Heiral as a knight apprentice. Though a hero of the War of the Lions, his name was erased from official records and his heroism unknown until the Durai Papers were found centuries later.

Initially motivated to uphold his family name due to feeling out of place next to his half-brothers, Zalbaag (commander of the Northern Sky) and Dycedarg (strategist to Duke Larg), Ramza first fought for the order against the Corpse Brigade. As the events that followed led to the War of the Lions, Ramza became disillusioned with the order and unraveled a scheme behind the war, which he led his company to end. Ramza upheld a strong moral compass and sense of justice.

Ramza's default job is a specialized version of the squire with access to a broader range of equipment and abilities, as well improved stat growth. This version evolves into his unique Gallant Knight job in The Ivalice Chronicles. As the main protagonist of Final Fantasy Tactics, he will never leave the party and is a mandatory deployment in story battles.

HISTORY

Early life

Ramza Beoulve was the third child of Barbaneth, born to the same mother as his sister, Alma Beoulve, but a different mother from his half-brothers, Dycedarg and Zalbaag. His mother was of common blood and may have been a courtesan. Ramza grew up alongside Delita and Tietra Heiral, children of commoner lineage who were accepted into House Beoulve after their parents passed away. Ramza and Delita, as childhood friends, became knight apprentices in the Royal Military Akademy at Gariland.

As his father was close with Count Cidolfus Orlandeau of the Order of the Southern Sky, Ramza knew him as a youth. When Ramza was around three or four years old, he attempted to lift Count Orlandeau's sword. Lord Barbaneth scolded him to the point of tears, but Ramza was unharmed. During his youth, his father taught him and Delita how to make a whistle from a blade of grass.

FFT IC - Barbaneth's deathbed Ramza and his brothers at Barbaneth's deathbed. Barbaneth fell ill and his health rapidly deteriorated after being secretly poisoned by Dycedarg. On his deathbed, he told Ramza that he had grown into a "fine young man" and encouraged him to take care of his sister, to be a knight worth of the Beoulve name inspiring his brothers, and spoke well of Delita, also asking him to maintain his strong friendship with the young man. After his father's death, Ramza swore to honor his last wish.

Fighting the Corpse Brigade

FFT IC - Ramza Delita and Argath reunited with Dycedarg Ramza, Delita, and Argath meet with Dycedarg to discuss the rescue of Marquis Elmdore. While still a squire in chapter 1, "The Meager", Ramza and Delita joined the Order of the Northern Sky in its conflict with the Corpse Brigade. He rescued Argath Thadalfus, a knight apprentice under Marquis Elmdore of Limberry, from a Brigade attack and befriended him. Argath urged Ramza to seek help for the kidnapped Marquis, but when Ramza appealed to Dycedarg, the latter praised Ramza's victory, yet ordered him to guard Eagrose Castle, claiming that he had already dispatched a squad. Zalbaag later returned to the castle, commended Ramza and Delita, and, suspicious of the brigade's intentions behind the kidnapping, urged them to investigate it.

Ramza, Delita, and Argath traveled to Dorter for information and learned that Elmdore was held in the Sand Rat Sietch of the Zeklaus Desert. They rescued him and, though Dycedarg was furious at Ramza's disobedience, Duke Larg praised him and ordered him to join the Northern Sky's final campaign against the Corpse Brigade.

FFTiOS Delita Ramza Grass whistle CG Ramza and Delita whistle on a blade of grass. During the campaign, Ramza fought Milleuda Folles and came to sympathize with her stories of poverty and abandonment after the Fifty Years' War, causing him and Delita to question their country's justice. Ramza spared her life, angering Argath and causing a rift. Returning to Eagrose, Ramza learned that Delita's sister, Tietra, had been kidnapped during an attempt on Dycedarg's life. Dycedarg ordered a retaliatory strike while vowing to protect Tietra, but privately, Delita and Ramza resolved to rescue her. Argath, contemptuous of Tietra's low birth, insulted Delita and insisted that Dycedarg would and should not spare time to rescue a low-born girl, leading Ramza to cast him out in disgust.

Ramza and Delita tried to save Tietra, but in the process, killed Milleuda and enraged her brother, Wiegraf Folles, the leader of the Brigade. Wiegraf accused Dycedarg of orchestrating Elmdore's kidnapping and, predicting the coming power struggle that would lead to the War of the Lions, claimed that Dycedarg and Zalbaag would scheme for more power in the struggle. Ramza refused to entertain any questions of his brothers' deeds, defeated Wiegraf in battle, and forced him to flee.

FFT IC (cutscene) - Ramza in the snow after the destruction of Ziekden Fortress Ramza deserts the nobility after the Ziekden Fortress' destruction. At Ziekden Fortress, a squadron of the Northern Sky cornered Gragoroth Levigne, who used Tietra as a hostage. Acting on Zalbaag's orders, Argath shot and killed her to deny Gragoroth leverage, then killed Gragoroth. Argath then declared commoners like Tietra worthless, prompting Ramza—horrified by his brothers' and Argath's cruelty—to kill him in a fit of rage. Delita, consumed with grief, also blamed Ramza for Tietra's death and refused his help. As the fortress exploded, Ramza fled, deserting the Order and his family and believing that Delita had died in the blast.

ADVERTISEMENT Ovelia kidnapping and Lucavi plot

FFT IC (cutscene) - Ramza see Delita kidnapping Ovelia Ramza sees Delita kidnapping Ovelia. Ramza adopted the alias Lugria and became a sellsword in the company of the Fell Knight Goffard Gaffgarion. Lord Dycedarg of the Order of the Northern Sky hired their band to assist Agrias Oaks and her Lionsguard in escorting Princess Ovelia to Eagrose. In chapter 2, "The Manipulative & the Subservient", when Delita kidnapped Ovelia, Gaffgarion refused to pursue, but Ramza insisted, determined to confirm if Delita was truly behind the abduction.

Ramza and Agrias protecting Ovelia Ramza and Agrias protecting Ovelia. At Zeirchele Falls, Ramza, Agrias, and Gaffgarion found Delita and Ovelia, after which Gaffgarion betrayed them. He revealed that the Northern Sky had hired him to kill the princess, urging Ramza to side with him. Refusing to let Ovelia become another sacrifice like Tietra, Ramza fought alongside Agrias and Delita to defeat him. When pressed on his betrayal, Gaffgarion argued that a mercenary's duty was to follow coin, not conscience, forcing Ramza to question his own path as a sellsword. Afterward, Delita hinted that Ovelia's kidnapping was part of Duke Larg's scheme for the throne. Though believing that she was safer in his custody, he ultimately left Ovelia in Ramza and Agrias' care.

Ovelia explains the Zodiac Braves legend from FFT TIC Ramza listen about the legend of Lucavi. At Agrias' suggestion, Ramza brought Princess Ovelia to Cardinal Delacroix in Lionel, believing the Church of Glabados to be an impartial sanctuary. On the way, he and Agrias rescued Mustadio Bunansa, a machinist of Clockwork City of Goug who was being pursued by mercenaries of the Baert Trading Company for the auracite that he carried. At Lionel Castle, Delacroix welcomed them, offering refuge while claiming that the auracite were relics of the Zodiac Braves—heroes who once saved Ivalice from the Lucavi—and held great power. Ramza left Ovelia and Agrias in Lionel to escort Mustadio to Goug.

FFT IC - Ramza kills Gaffgarion Ramza kills Gaffgarion during the attack on Lionel Castle. They learned that the Baert Company served the cardinal himself, who sought the stones. Realizing that Ovelia and Agrias were in danger, Ramza rushed back using an alternate route, ignoring Delita's warning to abandon the matter. Reuniting with Agrias, Ramza learned of Delacroix's alliance with Duke Larg and clashed again with Gaffgarion, whose taunts revealed Ramza's Beoulve lineage to Agrias. Though surprised, she affirmed her trust in him. Ramza and Agrias confronted Gaffgarion, and Ramza tried once again to dissuade Gaffgarion from fighting, thanking him for taking him under his wing, but Gaffgarion referred to him as "pompous" and was determined to prove he was Ramza's better in battle. When Ramza felled him, Gaffgarion admitted that Ramza was a "fool" but that he could never bring himself to dislike him.

FFT IC - Ramza party kills Cúchulainn Ramza and his party kills Delacroix - transformed into Cúchulainn. Ramza and Agrias then confronted Delacroix inside his castle, only to discover that the auracite were actually connected to the Lucavi. In order to show them the true capabilities of the relic, the cardinal used it to transformed into Cúchulainn, revealing himself to have become a true god and to not actually believe in the divinity he professed as a cardinal of the Church of Glabados. Ramza scolded him for deceiving the people and abandoning his faith as a former hero of the Fifty Years' War and slew him after a hard battle.

Heretic of the church

Ramza FMV Ramza Beoulve, the heretic. In chapter 3, "The Valiant", the War of the Lions erupted. On his way to Lesalia, Ramza rescued Orran Durai, stepson of Count Orlandeau. Ramza tried to persuade Zalbaag to stop the war, but Zalbaag dismissed him, insulted at Ramza's accusations that Dycedarg had plotted it, and declared Ramza had been stained by his mother's common blood. Alma, however, believed Ramza's warnings and wished to join him, though he initially refused. When Zalmour Lucianada branded Ramza a heretic for Cardinal Delacroix's death—covered up by the church as murder rather than possession by a Lucavi—Alma aided Ramza's escape, becoming a heretic herself. When Alma forced Ramza's hand by revealing only she could get him into the Orbonne Monastery in search of more auracite, Ramza reluctantly took her with him.

FFT IC - Ramza witnesses Isilud kidnapping Alma Ramza witnesses Isilud kidnapping Alma. Alma brought Ramza to Orbonne for the Virgo Stone, but the Knights Templar had already arrived. A wounded Elder Simon revealed that High Confessor Marcel sought the auracite to restore the church's power and believed that Ramza, who was much like his father, could stop them. Ramza had Alma hide with the Stone and pursued Isilud Tengille, declaring that being a Beoulve meant standing for justice and against the war that the church brought. In the clash that followed, Wiegraf—now with the Knights Templar—was possessed by the Lucavi Belias, Simon entrusted Ramza with the Scriptures of Germonique (papers with evidence of the church's misdeeds), and Isilud captured Alma, fleeing with her to Riovanes Castle.

FFT IC - Ramza vows to rescue Alma Ramza vows to rescue Alma from Folmarv. En route to Riovanes, Ramza aided Rapha Galthena, a Skyseer serving Grand Duke Barrington, in escaping from his service. As Rapha warned that opposing the church would win him no gratitude, Ramza replied that he fought only for justice and the honor of his name. At Riovanes, Ramza defeated Belias, but Alma was taken by Folmarv Tengille, leader of the Knights Templar, leaving Ramza determined to rescue her.

Waning days of War of the Lions

FFT IC (cutscene) - Ramza is shocked to discover Delita's plans Ramza's shocked to discover that Delita plans to become the new king of Ivalice. In chapter 4, "In the Name of Love", Ramza went to Zeltennia Castle to seek Delita and Count Orlandeau. Delita revealed that the high confessor had ordered assassinations to force peace on the church's terms, but admitted that he did not truly serve the church—only their shared vision of ending the war—so though he would have no qualms killing Ramza, Ramza was not his enemy. When Confessor Zalmour confronted them and declared Delita a traitor, Ramza urged diplomacy, believing that Zalmour was unaware of the high confessor's plot, which Delita dismissed. Ramza then turned to Orlandeau, hoping to convince him to stop the fighting at Fort Besselat, and parted ways with Delita on respectful terms.

Ramza reached Fort Besselat and saw Knight Templar Barich Fendsor disperse mossfungus poison among the Northern Sky order as part of a plan, disgusting Ramza, who slew him. Ramza opened the Besselat sluice to prevent a large-scale battle at the fort and rescued Count Orlandeau, who praised him and likened him to Barbaneth, suggesting that they travel to Limberry Castle, hoping to expose the Church's corruption.

FFT IC - Ramza vows to kill Adrammelech Ramza vows to kill Dycedarg - transformed into Adrammelech - because of his role as instigator of the War of the Lions. At Limberry, Ramza and his allies found Zalera, a Lucavi that possessed Elmdore. Meliadoul Tengille, a Knight Templar previously unaware of the Lucavi, defected to Ramza's side and helped defeat Zalera, after which she revealed that the Capricorn Stone had been given by her father, Folmarv, to Dycedarg. Ramza raced home to discover Zalbaag fighting Dycedarg. Dycedarg urged Ramza and Zalbaag to join him in taking over Ivalice for House Beoulve, but both rejected and defeated him. Dycedarg was possessed by Adrammelech and killed Zalbaag, but was defeated by Ramza.

Ramza journeyed to Mullonde Cathedral and found Folmarv, who demanded that Ramza hand over the Scriptures of Germonique and all of his auracite or he would kill Alma. Ramza forfeited the scriptures, which provided Folmarv the incantation that he needed, and Folmarv forced Ramza to fight an undead Zalbaag, who apologized to Ramza for mistrusting him and urged him to save Alma before being destroyed. Ramza learned from a dying High Confessor Marcel—who had been betrayed by Folmarv—that Folmarv took Alma to the Necrohol of Mullonde to use her body as a vessel to resurrect Ultima, the High Seraph, the leader of the Lucavi.

Intercepting Folmarv at the Airship Graveyard, Ramza confronted the Knight Templar and defeated him after he transformed into Hashmal. Unfortunately, before he could be killed, Lucavi sacrificed himself to revive Ultima in Alma's body, but she resisted it and reappeared in her body. Ultima then recognized Ramza as a descendant of the man who had defeated him and sealed the Lucavi in the past. Ramza defeated Ultima, who caused a huge explosion that destroyed the airship.

FFTiOS Ramza Alma Ending Ramza and Alma leave Ivalice. In The Ivalice Chronicles, Ramza and Alma survived the exploded airship by using the holy prayer of the auracites that Ramza had collected to teleport them back to Ivalice. The siblings then discussed where to go next, with Ramza deciding to move on to another road. After Orran spotted them during Alma's "funeral", the siblings chose different paths since Ramza believed that it was time for them to have a new beginning, to forge friendships, to have a new family of their own, and one day, when they have children, they would share their tale.

Legacy

FFT IC - Ramza and Alma go to Ordalia Ramza and Alma go to Ordalia. Depicted in Lord of Vermilion III, a few years after the ending of Final Fantasy Tactics, Ramza was still with his comrades in Ordallia, helping out a resistance movement that opposed the country's oppressive regime. In this setting, there were rumors that, as king of Ivalice, Delita considered sending troops to Ordallia to help quash this resistance and Ramza was prepared to oppose Delita once again to protect his friends, both new and old.

Orran, having found Ramza and Alma alive, spent five years writing the Durai Papers, chronicling Ramza's struggle during the war, as well the true nature of the Zodiac Stones and their connection with the Lucavi, all culminating in the truth behind the War of the Lions. He presented them before the Church of Glabados' Clemensian Council during the selection of a new high confessor, hoping to preserve Ramza's legacy. However, fearing exposure of their corruption under Marcel, the church branded Orran a heretic and executed him, erasing Ramza's name from official records. The Durai Papers remained hidden for centuries, forgotten even by the church, until Orran's descendant, Arazlam Jenomis Durai, rediscovered them and revealed Ramza's true story to the world.

Characteristics

Appearance

CG Render of Ramza from The War of the Lions. CG Render of Ramza from The War of the Lions. Ramza has long blond hair tied in a low ponytail with a full fringe and a distinctive single bang on his head. He has brown eyes. As an Order of the Northern Sky squire, he wears a set of armor over a blue long-sleeved tunic meant to signify his nobility as a Beoulve and a white cape (though this is not shown on his in-game sprite).

After becoming a mercenary, he cuts his hair and wears a dark purple heavy armor plating on his torso, elbows, and shoulders, with two spikes on each shoulder protector. Underneath, he wears a black turtleneck that covers the wrists of his leather gloves over white gauntlets. He wears white plated long boots with two spikes on each knee protector over leather trousers. In the CGI cel-shaded scenes, he is depicted based on his official art.

Chapter 4 Ramza as gallant knight. In the final chapter, Ramza's shoulders, elbows, forearms, hands, legs, and feet are plated in a cyan armor. The shoulder protectors have an oval hole on the inside of a thick black fabric. His elbow protectors are worn outside of the black garment, along with his arm and hand protectors worn over leather gloves. The black fabric has an appliqué of a white bull's head on the chest. The legs are supported by a leather strapped girdle with a gold buckle holding groin and thigh suspenders, worn over white leather pants. The lower leg and feet protectors are worn over brown boots. This outfit is not seen in the CGI cel-shaded cutscenes of the War of the Lions remaster, where he retains his mercenary outfit from chapters 2 and 3. In The Ivalice Chronicles version, Ramza's gallant knight outfit appears in the CGI cutscenes.

Ramza is said by others to physically resemble his late father, Lord Barbaneth, in his youth.

Personality

The Beoulve name stands for truth and justice! It is not a tool to be used for selfish gain! My lord father devoted his life to the defense of our people in the Fifty Years' War. Countless soldiers took to battle beneath our banner and made the ultimate sacrifice for the kingdom. We fought for justice them. Righteousness was on our side. House Beoulve cannot now turn on its purpose and fight for the interests of a corrupt Crown and self-serving aristocracy! RAMZA BEOULVE

Ramza is compassionate, idealistic, virtuous, and stubborn. He is steadfast and uncompromising in his beliefs, even when they isolate him and win him no gratitude or fortune. Ramza abhors classism, ruthless ambition, and political manipulation that define his peers, preferring to fight for justice and stand for the common man. He believes that true freedom comes from dignity and self-respect, rather than from submission, wealth, or empty promises of power. Ramza shows empathy for commoners, heretics, and former enemies, being quick to forgive and preferring dialogue over battle. Ramza endeavors to do good but remains humble, never thinking of himself as a hero.

Ramza is motivated to honor his name as a Beoulve, but what that means to him changes over time. At first, it meant loyalty to his brothers and striving to be the best knight for the order, hoping to overcome his sense of inferiority to his brothers. Seeing the Corpse Brigade's plight led him to be disillusioned, and a breaking point came with Tietra's callous murder on Zalbaag's orders, but when finding that the amorality of being a mercenary did not suit his idealism either, he took back the Beoulve name with pride, to uphold it as standing for truth and justice, and to him, this meant going against his brothers and the Church.

Many have observed that Ramza takes these traits of justice and stubbornness from his father, Barbaneth, who, in his dying breath, urged Ramza to uphold justice and stray not from the true path of the Beoulve. This differed from his brothers, who initially shared mutual respect for him until they clashed; despite this, Dycedarg was willing to kill Ramza for opposing him, but still preferred his young brother to join his cause.

Ramza was closest to his younger sister, Alma, who always trusted him and shared his ideals, and who he strove to protect. Though his path often parted from childhood friend, Delita, they still maintained trust in one another. Ramza's kindness, pacifism, ideals for justice, and good nature earned him the trust of other people and provided him with many allies, including Agrias Oaks, a holy knight of the Lionsguard, and Mustadio Bunansa, a Machinist from the Clockwork City of Goug who dug an auracite with his father. Even Count Cidolfus Orlandeau, who was Duke Goltanna's most trusted ally, abandoned his former lord and swore allegiance to Ramza's cause.

The point of Ramza's character is to show the true reasons behind virtue; people who do "good" by manipulation of others are not really virtuous and the true "good", expressed through justice, is shown by Ramza; false "good", which is expressed through manipulation with good intentions, is expressed by his childhood friend, Delita. True heroic actions are rarely recognized, but are necessary, regardless of the lack of rewards.

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