The Elemental Archfiends are a quartet of immensely powerful elemental fiends who serve Golbez in the video game Final Fantasy IV. They are all killed during the course of the story, but Zemus resurrects them to fight the heroes once again. They are resurrected once again in the sequel Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, only to be destroyed for the final time.
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Much like the Fiends of Chaos from Final Fantasy I, of which they are likely inspired, each Archfiend controls one of the four classical elements: Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire. They are all named after a demon from Dante Allighieri's famous Inferno poem, one of the Malebranch guarding the demon Malebolge from the Eight Circle of Hell.
Each one of them is more powerful than the previous, with Rubicante being almost as powerful as Golbez himself. This and the fact that Zemus resurrects them to stop the heroes strongly hints that they are in fact under manipulation by Zemus just as their other master Golbez, and as such obey him by their own will. It might even have been Zemus who send them to the sorcerer. Still, they have immense respect and loyalty to Golbez, who in turn is quite close to them, and still empathizes with them even after being freed from Zemus' control.
They are implied to be in fact Forces of Natures and personifications of the elements, corrupted and turned into their current demonic self by Zemus, much in the same way as Golbez himself.
Scarmiglione[]
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Scarmiglione (artwork from Final Fantasy Dimensions II)
The Archfiend of Earth, who goes by the title of the Blighted Despot. He first appears as a crouched, hunchbacked humanoid in a hooded robe, but is true form, which he can only assume after "dying" appears as a twisted, half-rotting undead with four huge, tusk-like protruding bones. He makes hissing sounds and speaks with a hissing voice, and appears to be quite scorned by his fellow Archfiends.
Golbez sends him to Mount Ordeals to kill Cecil, who went to the mountain to become a paladin. Cecil, who was along with Palom, Porom, and Tellah, is intercepted by Scarmiglione in the peak of the mountain. Cecil fights him and his undead minions, but easily defeats him. However, Scarmiglione lost to him on purpose, because he could only use his true power after being killed, being an undead himself.
Resurrected, he attacks Cecil from behind with all of his power, but is defeated again and he falls off the bridge to his death.
Cagnazzo[]
See Cagnazzo
Barbariccia[]
See Barbariccia
Rubicante[]
See Rubicante
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