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The Palamecian Empire is a powerful imperialist nation and the main antagonists of Final Fantasy II.

History[]

Seeking to dominate the world, the Emperor of Palamecia made a pact with Hell and summoned a powerful army of demons with which to conquer more territories for his empire. The Palamecian Empire then promptly invaded its neighboring kingdoms of Deist and Kashuan, as well as Fynn, the home of the four main characters of the game. These four youths flee the Empire's forces, with three of them (Firion, Maria and Guy) joining up with the White Rose Rebellion opposing the Empire, while the other (Leon) is taken by the Empire's forces and Leon later became the right-hand of the Emperor as the Dark Knight.

Constructing a giant airship called the Dreadnought, the Empire manages to overpower all who stand in its way and capture Princess Hilda. However, the Dreadnought is brought down by the Rebellion, slowing the Empire's advancement. However, the real Princess Hilda was replaced by a Lamia.

With Princess Hilda still in their captivity, the Empire holds a tournament at their coliseum with Hilda as the prize in order to lure out the rebels. The rebels succeed in rescuing the princess, thwarting the Empire's plans once again.

The Emperor and many of his troops are later killed by Firion's party and the Dark Knight assumes control of the Empire. The party travel to Castle Palamecia within the namesake country of Palamecia to confront him, only for the Emperor to appear and reveal that he has conquered Hell, vowing to unleash the dark realm's wrath upon the world. The heroes escape as the Emperor is held off by Ricard Highwind, the last surviving Dragoon. The Emperor then summons the castle of Hell, Pandaemonium, to Earth, in the process turning the Palamecian Empire into his new satanic Empire.

Many or perhaps all of the dead Palamecians were sent to Hell upon their deaths and joined their new demonic Emperor in his army of the damned. Using Hell as a base, the Palamencians assisted their Emperor in his new plans of establishing Hell on the Earth.

When Firion's party enters Hell to stop the Emperor, the Palamencians try to stop them, but were defeated. With the Dark Emperor's death, Hell's castle sank back to whence it came, taking the surviving demonic Palamencians with it and ending the empire of Hell.

In later versions of the game, the Soul of Rebirth mode is added and reveals when Firion's party was traveling into hell to stop the Dark Emperor, the other half the Emperor, the Light Emperor, had invaded Heaven. Under the Light Emperor's command, the fallen souls of his old soldiers had entered the Afterlife from Hell with an army of demons. The Hellish Palamecians and their devil allies tortured many of their prior victims and the survivors in the afterlife, constructed the town of Machanon, as a sanctuary from the forces of Hell.

When Minwu and the other dead allies of Firion braved the palace of heaven, Arubboth, facing many of the Emperor's followers, they encountered the Light Emperor. Seeing past the Emperor's feigned remorse in an attempt to take their souls, Minwu and his allies destroyed the Emperor's light half just as Firion destroyed his dark half. With this, the Emperor was eradicated completely taking his empire with him, it is likely the spirits of his army either were destroyed too or remained imprisoned in Hell.

Description[]

Palamencia's society were known for being excessively cruel and militaristic. The only shown citizens besides the Emperor, were the members of their massive military. They were known to look down at all who opposed them as "rebel scum."

Many Palamencians were disfigured and monstrous in appearance, possibly a reflection of their evil within them.

Human Citizens[]

Various adherents make up the largest wing of the Empire's army. Their types are organized into Soldiers, Knights, and Wizards.

Palamecian Soldiers are armored soldiers, captains, generals and the like. They appear as stout armored military men armed with a sword and shield, their faces were a distorted visage with a fanged mouth and empty eyes. There are four known ranks of soldiers:

  • Soldiers: The standard grunts of the Empire and wear yellow bronze armor.
  • Sergeants are higher rank soldiers that do special missions and wearing blue/purple/dark blue armor.
  • Captains: Elite Soldiers that guard the precious locations of Flynn and the Dreadnought, remorselessly routing out rebel soldiers. They wear green armor.
  • FF2General

    General battle sprite in the PSP version.

    Generals: The elite of Palamencian soldiers that guard the Emperor in his cyclone tower. They wear wearing gray/blue/purple armor and are well known for spouting the phrase, "rebel curs".
  • Death Knight: Exclusive to later remakes, Death Knights are the damned souls of Generals invading Heaven to torment their old victims.

Palamecian Wizards: are grotesque floating magic users with a corpselike face that frequently accompany knights and soldiers:

  • Magicians: Purple robed wizards found daily in Flynn Castle. They are the weakest of Palamecia's magic forces.
  • Sorcerers: Red Robed wizards found on the Dreadnought.
  • FF2Wizard

    Wizard battle sprite in the PSP version.

    Wizards: These purple robed wizards are the best of Palamecia's wizards.
  • Dark Magician: Exclusive to the Soul of Rebirth section of the remakes, these spirits of fallen wizards have escaped Hell and invaded the afterlife under the Light Emperor.

Palamencian Knights are knights wearing ghastly armor with a horned helmet that covers their face. They are equipped with a giant double ended Lance and a wild horse. They are the famous and iconic members of the Palamencian army:

  • Black Knights: The most elite and famous of the Palamencian army, these black armored knights are unmatched by other military forces. An group of four Dark Knights defeat and nearly kill Firion's party in the game's beginning.
  • FF2Royalguard

    Royal Guard battle sprite in the PSP version.

    Royal Guards: Specialized Black Knights wearing green armor that serve as the Emperor's personal guard. Their Lances are poisoned and the Emperor is accompanied by two Royal guards when he is fought.
  • Death Riders: The demonic incarnations of the spirits of the Emperor's forces on a suitably demonic horse and the Dark Emperor's main troops. They wield a deadly arsenal of spells and life draining lances. Due to their demonic nature, they are healed by death magic.
  • Chaos Riders: Exclusive to the Soul of Rebirth, these are invading Death Riders that guard the occupied castle of Heaven for the Light Emperor.

Summoned Monsters[]

Under Mateus, the Palamecia Empire made heavy use of monsters summoned from Hell. Several of them such as the Lamia and Gottos serving as commanders in their own right.

Territories[]

During the course of the game, the Palamecian Empire commands the entire southern portion of the continent. The Empire was merciless to anyone who opposed them and ruthlessly conquered all they could, even murdering entire populations for resisting.

The Imperial capital is Castle Palamecia, located at an impregnable mountain range, with a Colosseum in close proximity and surrounded by forests and deserts. The town of Bafsk, was used as the place to build the Dreadnought. The Empire ruthlessly destroys the towns of Gatrea, Altair, Poft, and Paloom with the Cyclone , while the Dragoons at Deist were wiped out when the Empire poisoned the water source on the island and then slaughters all survivors, with Ricard Highwing being the last survivor.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • The Palamecian Empire seems to seem take a lot of inspiration from the Galactic Empire (also known as "The Empire) from Star Wars.
    • The phrase "you rebel curs" is very similar to the phrase "you rebel scum" used by Galactic Empire officers.
    • Leon was initially an ally to the players until he ended up captured and brainwashed into becoming a dark-armored enforcer for the Empire and capable of controlling people via magic, and was also a blood relative to one of the protagonists (in this case, the brother of Maria), and eventually defects to their side and takes down the Emperor, similar to Darth Vader turning his back on Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious in the end.
    • The Dreadnought's obliterating towns is similar to the Death Star, while the Cyclone is similar to the Death Star II from Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
    • In the remakes, the cutscene where the party observes the Dreadnought pursuing and ultimately capturing Cid's Airship with Princess Hilda onboard resembles the opening scene for Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.
    • The Palamecian Empire causing Firion, Maria, and Guy to join the Wild Rose Rebellion is similar to the Galactic Empire causing hardships for Ezra Bridger, Caleb Dume/Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla, Zeb, and Sabine Wren, the protagonists of Star Wars: Rebels, to join what would eventually become the Rebellion.
  • The evil nature of Palamecian was explained in the novel as being the result of the city having the Stone of Iludia which contained the spirit of Satan, which molded the people of Palamencia into a cruel race of beings.
  • The PSP sprite for the Palamencian captains resembles the Uruk-hai from the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films.

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