Balthier

Born in 684 Old Valendian Balthier as Ffamran mied Bunansa is the third son of Cidolfus Demen Bunansa a scientist in employ of the Archadian Empire. Ffamran showed such promise at a young age referred to as the quotprodigal Bunansa sonquot on the streets that he was made an Archadian Judge at only sixteen years old. In 700 six years prior to Final Fantasy XII039s storyline after his father returned from Giruvegan he noticed Cid039s sanity was fading as he was constantly talking to someone who wasn039t there raving on about quotbringing the reins of history back to the hands of manquot. This strained their relationship and eventually Ffamran couldn039t stand the sight of his father. This combined with the way Archadia was moving made him decide leaving his post as Judge and run away stealing the new prototype fighter ship as a means of escape from Archades. Since then having gone into hiding he has heavily updated the ship so much so that it no longer resembles the original design and named it the Strahl. Ffamran took on the name Balthier as an alias to help cast aside his ties with Archades. Partnering with his Viera companion Fran he flew the skies of Ivalice searching for treasures gaining notoriety as a Sky Pirate and also an increasing bounty on his head. Balthier is a charming and dashing man with a sharp and cunning wit and is also rather cynical. Balthier comes across as cocky and selfcentered at times but his trust in Fran is complete and at times assures Vaan of his abilities. While the story is told from Vaan039s perspective Balthier certainly seems to think it is his story going so far as to repeatedly refer to himself as quotthe leading man.quot Despite this he is far from selfish proving himself to be completely selfless in the events aboard the Sky Fortress Bahamut. Balthier is a tall man standing at six feet with short dark blond hair and sharply styled sideburns. He wears an embroidered golden vest over a highcollared shirt and tight black leather trousers with leather shin pads and steel openbacked sandals on his feet. Around his waist sits two crossed goldbuckled belts on which he has two pouches attached to either side. He wears a collection of brightly coloured rings and bracelets on his left hand and has a set of earrings in both ears.