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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4990910" data-attributes="member: 35909">Name: Luca Blight (Suikoden II), Prince of Highland1) Track record: Blames his father for the kidnap and rape of his mother, which produced his sister, Jillia, claiming he was weak and pathetic.  Thanks to his bloodline, didn't need to earn his position.  However, by the events of the game he is a fearsome warrior in his own right, leading his own elite band of soldiers to many victories.2) Success Rate: Fairly high.  Successfully orchestrates a false flag operation on the Unicorn Brigade, Highland's own group of youth soldiers, massacring all but the two protagonists (who escape) and pointing the blame towards the Jowston City-states, the populist anger giving him an excuse to start a war.  He immediately meets total success, crushing any resistance, slaughtering every living creature in his path regardless of civilian/military status, and burning towns to the ground.  Simultaneously, he employs the 2nd protagonist well, using him (still presumed a "good guy") to sneak in and assassinate the capital city's mayor (greatly helping it's downfall), as well as assisting in a plot to kill his father, the King, whilst hiding his involvement.  Thus, for the small gift of his sister's hand in marriage to the other protagonist, he assumes the crown himself.3) How close to winning he gets: Very close.  He captures the capital of the enemy and nearly all of the other major cities, and corners the resistance movement to a single fortification before the tide turns.  Even then, the protagonist is only able to defeat his generals.  When Luca leads his army personally against the hero's, he easily forces their retreat.  It is only after the other protagonist, in his own power grab, betrays Luca by informing the good guys of Luca's plan for a surprise night raid that his ambitions end.4) Style: So memorable that most would consider him the main villain of S2, even though he dies 2/3 of the way through the game.  It takes a special level of psychopath to not only kill innocent people, but to make them crawl round acting like pigs and other forms of humiliation on the promise of letting them live if they do so...only to kill them anyway after getting a good laugh.  Luca had no illusions of being misunderstood.  He knew he was pure evil and relished it to the fullest.  He even went out with style, getting ambushed by a far larger army, assaulted by no less than three strike teams specially formed just to hunt him down, shot up several times with hails of flaming arrows, only to finally fall dead after dueling the hero with barely any life left in him."It took hundreds to kill me, but I killed humans by the thousands!"<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD_55fb_Rsc" target="_blank">YouTube - Suikoden II - (Part 81) Luca Blight's End</a></blockquote>

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