Odin Ultima Version

[Suk Harian]

Anotherworldly being that Clive encountered in the inner sanctum of Drake's Head. He addressed Clive as "Mythos" before attempting to merge their consciousnesses. However, Clive was able to summon the will to resist the creature, before Joshua returned from the dead to imprison it in a cage of flame that he sealed away in his own heart.

Ultima is the main antagonist and final boss of Final Fantasy XVI. He is a mysterious, god-like being who manipulates events across Valisthea from behind the scenes, instigating conflict between the various nations of the land and pitting their Dominants against each other. Clive Rosfield and his allies confront him various times throughout their journeys as they seek to discover the truth behind him and his connections to the Mothercrystals, the Blight, and the Eikons.

Five millennia before the main events of Final Fantasy XVI, Ultima's species evolved somewhere in the world and were ruled by their king, "Ultimalius".[1] Ultima's species eventually discovered magic that allowed them to flourish.[2] Magic existed in eight elemental aspects and the ninth, "typeless" element, and Ultima's kind could use all types of magicks. Their species was almost driven to extinction, the few survivors driven from their homeland by the Blight,[3] a byproduct of their use of magic sapping the land of aether,[2] which turned their realm into a lifeless husk. Sixteen survivors of their kin were forced to discard their physical forms to travel to Valisthea in their ark, Origin.[4][5][note 1] One member of the Ultima collective retained his physical form even after traveling to Valisthea, but was eventually forced to shed it later after it decayed too much.[note 2]

The Ultima collective saw their only option was to revive their species and create a new world in place of Valisthea for them to live in. Ultimalius, who had led the exodus from the collective's homeworld to Valisthea, masterminded the plan to revive their species and recreate the world.[6] Eight of the Ultima collective formed the cores of the Mothercrystals to siphon and store the land's aether, and the collective created humans to sire a Mythos, an ideal vessel to cast the spell "Raise", which would destroy humanity and Valisthea while raising a new world for the revived Ultima species. Humanity started as tribes associated with one aspect of the Ultima collective's magic, such as Motes of Fire tribe or Motes of Earth tribe.[7] To conceal the Mothercrystals' true nature, the member of the Ultima collective who did not turn himself into crystal named them after parts of an ancient dragon.[8] Ultima also fashioned himself a shrine in the sky to observe his plan coming together.[6]

The plan was eventually for these inherent traits in mankind to lead to the awakening of Dominants and Eikons among them. Such a plan would take millennia to unfold, so Ultima joined his sleeping brethren in hibernation on Origin, the "ark" they had used to travel to Valisthea and which now lay hidden under the land.[6] The Dzemekys Mothercrystal had a direct connection to Ultima's slumbering place inside Origin, and initially allowed the people who inhabited the nearby lands to commune with their god.[9] Without Ultima's guidance, the religion that had revered Ultima as a savior god, the Circle of Malius, fractured after failing to get response from their deity. Humanity developed wills of their own, and magic-use became widespread in ways Ultima had not intended or foreseen. Humanity began to use the Mothercrystals as sources of power for their societies, leading to a series of wars that would begin and hasten the spread of the Blight across Valisthea.

The Ultima collective eventually recruited Barnabas Tharmr into aiding them, a descendant of the Dzemekys people who had emigrated from the Twins and who still revered Ultima as the savior god. Barnabas awoke as the Dominant of Odin, the Warden of Darkness, and as Ultima's champion gained supernatural powers in exchange for relinquishing his free will; he appears to have become biologically immortal, as after making his way to the Twins and taking over the continent of Ash single-handedly with the aid of his Eikon and a sword that can erase matter from existence, he has not appeared to have aged a day in the 35 years he has been in power. This ultimately resulted in his former lord commander, Cidolfus Telamon, defecting.

Ultima eventually found his Mythos, Clive Rosfield, who awakened as Ifrit's Dominant. Barnabas, under Ultima's orders, orchestrated scenarios for Clive to come into contact with other Dominants, as Mythos's inhered power was to absorb the Eikons' aether, the culmination of Ultima's plan to prepare a vessel strong enough to handle the spell the collective was going to cast. Ultima later converted the newborn[10] Olivier Lesage into a puppet body for one part of the collective to influence Sanbreque.

Ultima made his existence known to Clive when he and Cid freed a fragment of the collective upon destroying Drake's Head. The offshoot used Typhon as a puppet to test Clive before attempting to take his body, mortally wounding Cid in his Ramuh form in the process. Cid, recognizing Ultima and his intentions from his earlier corruption of Barnabas, impaled Ultima's hand just as he attempted to possess Clive, making clear he had no intention of letting Ultima have him. Clive finished Ultima off with Cid's blade, causing Ultima to dissipate into aether, although not before expressing shock that Clive would refuse his fate and purpose. Ultima shortly afterward used a shockwave on Clive, Jill, and Torgal to "have [Clive] learn [his] place in [Ultima's] grand scheme", although Margrace interfered and dispelled the shockwave. Margrace, whose true identity was Clive's brother and the Dominant of the Phoenix, Joshua Rosfield, then confronted Ultima, accusing him for separating him from his elder brother, and demanding he leave Clive alone. Joshua used the power of his Eikon to seal this Ultima's spirit within his body, where it lodged and appeared as a dark crystal embedded on his chest. While Joshua departed to continue his own quest to unveil Ultima's true goals, Clive continued to absorb the other Dominants' Eikons. His group proceeded to destroy the other Mothercrystals, unaware that Ultima was being rejoined with his offshoots while absorbing and concentrating the aether they had collected over the centuries, despite mankind having also harvested aether from the Mothercrystals in the form of crystal shards.

Ultima, under Olivier Lesage's guise, manipulated the Dominant of Bahamut, Dion Lesage, into an uncontrollable prime and attacking Twinside and the Mothercrystal therein. Clive and Joshua discovered their power to merge their Eikons and subdued him, after which Clive absorbed Bahamut from Dion, and Olivier revealed his true form as a puppet of Ultima, dispersing into dark dust particles when killed. Ultima rose to the skies of Valisthea and cast the spell Primogenesis that began to sap aether from the land and direct it to Origin via the Obelisk constructs that dotted the land, to collect the aether needed for the final phase of their plan. The aetherfloods this brought forth turned people and wildlife into Akashic, aether-filled beings consumed in primordial aggression, which began to wreak havoc on the realm.

Barnabas eventually explained Ultima's mission to Clive and his role as the "Mythos" to be the god's new body. Barnabas was still under the belief that Ultima was a savior god whose spell would create a paradise, and so felt no agitation over his machinations ravaging the land or getting people killed. Joshua and the secret society known as the Undying, meanwhile, uncovered some fragments of the ancient Circle of Malius faith and learned of the Eikons' role as Ultima's "heavenly servants" whose prophesied appearance would herald the god's return; however, the Eikon of Water had since been lost to the ages and no longer awakened in modern people. After absorbing Odin from a defeated Barnabas, who scattered into dust like Olivier had, Clive held seven of the nine Eikons, Leviathan considered unrecoverable.

Clive and Joshua made way to the final Mothercrystal on the Twins, Drake's Spine in Stonhyrr. The Ultima that was the true form of the Spine's core pulled them into the Interdimensional Rift, where Clive and Joshua glimpsed this Ultima's discarded body, which resembled a decaying version of Clive and Joshua's Ifrit Risen form without the Phoenix's wings.[11] Ultima explained he had created mankind to one day birth Mythos, but the people forming free will was not a part of their plan and this anomaly should thus be removed to turn people into mindless Akashic at the mercy of the Ultima collective. Clive rejected the notion of becoming a mindless vessel for Ultima's spell, and defeated this part of Ultima with Joshua when the deity took control of his former body once more. After the body was destroyed, the again bodyless Ultima conceded that Clive became stronger through his struggles, yet was still consumed with sin, and implied he would forgive him if he sacrificed his free will. Although he came close to taking control of Clive, Joshua brought him back via his feather talisman. The brothers combined their strength into Ifrit Risen and Ultima was obliterated, although not before deducing not only Joshua's imprinting onto Mythos, but also that Clive was going to become Logos. The act of obliterating this shard of Ultima shattered the Mothercrystal. Ultima then warped Clive and Joshua out of the rift, after condemning Clive for choosing the path of Logos and hinting at his intention of raising Origin.

Ultima raised Origin from underneath Twinside into the sky, where it appeared as a giant flying black Mothercrystal. After Barnabas's death, the orcs who had previously joined forces with Waloed became Ultima's followers[12] and continued to wreak havoc, alongside the echoes and Ultima's thralls that had reanimated during Primogenesis. Clive, Joshua, and Dion made their way to Origin but Ultima had anticipated their arrival, also implying that he raised Origin as a backup plan in the event that Clive didn't arrive, and assumed his Ultima Prime state against the three's respective Eikon forms, giving them a significant enough challenge that Dion sacrificed himself for a final attack that seemingly obliterated Ultima Prime. Clive and Joshua, the latter heavily wounded, partly due to the Ultima shard he sealed within himself growing stronger, were the only ones to make it to the inner sanctum. They learned of the bodies of Ultima sleeping there since time immemorial, and how some of them had been the hearts of Mothercrystals, and destroying the hearts had only released them.

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