Myria is a powerful god-like enity, who is the main antagonist of the Breath of Fire video game series, and she is both the cause of the main conflicts in the first three games and the final boss in the first and third. In some English translations, she is also known as Tyr or Maria, and she is alternatively referred to as both the Goddess of Desire and the Goddess of Destruction. Myria is also part of a race of immortal people with supernatural magic called the Endless.
Biography[]
Breath of Fire[]
At first Myria is a distant, mythical figure sealed away in the Tower by a prior generation of heroes. She taunts, tempts, and deceives the world from her prison, where she was sealed away five hundred years ago, sending those she has beguiled, the Dark Dragon Clan forth to conquer the world and loose the bonds of her prison. Their rule is short, but they were never intended to
When Ryu and co defeat Jade and Sarah, Myria appears in the form of a girl and offers to grant wishes, even healing Ryu's party to full and allowing them to return to the save point. After a brief "fight" where she does nothing but cry, Myria offers to be Ryu's friend, but is interrupted by the ghost of Sarah, who tells Ryu to not be fooled by Myria's innocent looks and to use Agni to reveal her true form.
If the player uses Agni, Myria's true form is revealed and she is defeated and the Monolith collapses along with the Tower of Scande.
Bad End[]
If the player does not use Agni, Myria, seemingly defeated, impersonates the apparition of Sarah and congratulates the party for defeating her before disappearing. When the party is gone Myria reappears her regular guise and mocks the heroes, saying "Don't hurt me, I haven't done anything wrong." before looking into the perspective and threatening to destroy the player.
Breath of Fire Manga[]
Instead of being sealed in a tower Myria is sealed in stone. She mind controls Sarah, Ryu's sister, and Jade, general and leader of the Dark Dragon Clan. She is defeated by refusing to hate and trusting in Ladon.
Breath of Fire 3[]
In this incarnation, Myria serves as the supreme and predominant goddess who rules over all of the planet. She professes a desire to save humanity from the dangers of machines and dragons (named the Brood). However, she goes on a merciless crusade against dragons. The dragons lived peacefully at this time and so they did their best to avoid fighting. Myria's sister is a goddess named Deis who opposed Myria alongside the sacred Yggdrasil, but both lost their powers and were made incapable of standing before the ruling goddess.
The brood went extinct under Myria's siege. Even worse, a history was written that placed the dragons as the vicious enemies of the human race while Deis was written off as a murderous and traitorous witch. Even worse, machines became widespread despite Myria's proclaimed opposition to them. Stating that the humans would not be able to live without machines, Myria masters the machines and insists that humans would end up destroying themselves with advancing technology under their control. Her sole root of this belief is from one city's civil war amongst those who once wielded robots and the desert that created. Following this logic, Myria destroyed the Brood to remove the inherent danger of their great power's existence in perceiving a loss of their control as overwhelmingly threatening to the small remainder of life.
Myria appears to be a representation of cautious bureaucracy that forces people to be restricted from experiences that require effort and strength to survive through. She created a world full of dangers that kept people in their place rather than directly harming them and she values the preservation of life above everything.
Gallery[]
Myria, sealed in stone.