Garland (Final Fantasy I)

""You impertinent fools, I, Garland, shall knock you all down!""

- -Garland

Garland is a major antagonist of the first Final Fantasy. He is a renegade knight of the Castle Corneria.

=Story=

Garland was once one of Corneria's finest knights. But Garland, for unexplored reasons, turned on the King of Corneria, kidnapping the his daughter. Garland demanded that the King give the kingdom to Garland in exchange for his daughter's life. As fate would have it, that was the day the Warriors of Light came to the kingdom, so the King sent the warriors of light to fight him, and see if they truely were who they said. The Warriors traveled to the Temple of Chaos, where Garland hid, and with all four of their powers combined they were able to defeat him. However, the power of the Fiends of Chaos sent him 2000 years into the past, where he would send the Fiends back to the future to save him before the Light Warriors could kill him, thus starting a time-loop which made him immortal. The light crystals, which mantained the balance of the world, become tainted by the evil of the Fiends, but they choose their warriors of light to restore the world. After the warriors of light defeated all the fiends, they managed to travel to the past, where Garland absorbed the the Fiend's power, turning into Chaos, the game's final boss. The heroes were able to defeat Chaos, breaking the time-loop, and erasing the event from existence.

=Dissidia: Final Fantasy=

Garland serves as a Knight who has gone through countless cycles of War, and the only person who seems to be aware of what will happen when somebody wins. Garland is the Villain of Warrior of Light.