Luca Blight
Luca Blight is a main antagonist of the PlayStation role-playing game Suikoden II. In contrast to the ambiguous nature of its other enemies, the aptly-named Blight is unredeemably vile.
Overview
Born to King Agares and Sara Blight of the Kingdom of Highland, brother to Princess Jillia, Prince Luca's early life of luxury was shattered when the caravan he and his parents were traveling in was ambushed by bandits. Luca and his mother were captured while Agares fled. Luca was forced to watch as the bandits raped his mother, until the intervention of the Highland General, Han Cunningham. Since then, Luca harbored a great hatred towards the City State of Jowston, after learning that it was them who hired the bandits, and towards his father for fleeing and leaving him and Sarah behind. His sister Jillia was conceived in the rape. For this reason Luca is often angry with her, but he also loves her because of her resemblance to their mother.
26 years old and an unparalleled swordsman at the time of the game's events, Luca Blight is a man consumed. He finds great pleasure in killing and torturing anyone remotely involved with the City-States. Though he doesn't enjoy wasting his own men's lives as much, he has no qualms about sacrificing some to achieve greater ends. His blood lust has earned him a reputation as the Mad Prince, which is a misnomer as he's fully coherent and grounded in reality - although a reality where he is the only being with any value.
Becoming the head of the Highland Military, Luca starts a war with the neighboring states by murdering a band of children, then framing the City-States. After capturing Jowston's capital, Muse, Luca has the Beast Rune - one of the 27 True Runes that inhabit the world - feed on the souls of the people of Muse, allowing the Beast Rune to awaken.
After this, Luca and Jowy Atreides (at that point known as Jowy Blight) poison and murder King Agares, making Luca himself King. However, his position is short lived as he is ambushed by the main character's army after attempting a night raid on the Dunan Unification Army, and is killed in battle. Jowy and his strategist Leon Silverberg help the Dunan army by alerting them to the ambush, allowing the Dunan army to get the drop on Luca. Both Jowy and Leon firmly support Highland, but know that Luca's rage would eventually lead to the downfall of Highland.
Statistics
Name: Luca Blight
Age: 26
Origin: Highland
Family: Jillia Blight (Sister) Agares Blight (Father) Sara Blight (Mother - Deceased)
Quotes
- "You can round up a million maggots to try to defeat me... but you will still all just be maggots!"
- "I don't care about breeding. A sword doesn't need a fine lineage. It just needs to be sharp."
- "It took hundreds to kill me, but I killed humans by the thousands!!!! Look at me!!!! I am sublime!!!!!! I am the true face of evil!!!!"