and rose to become a Judge Magister, the position that he holds at the beginning of the game. During the game, at the Emperor's behest, he acts as an informant on Vayne and is selected as Larsa's protector. Gabranth loathes himself for the framing of his brother and the horrible tasks Vayne and the Empire have commanded him to do, such as killing Drace to prove his loyalty to Vayne after his rise to power. He accompanies Bergan and Zargabaath to Mt. Bur-Omisace where Larsa agrees to return with him, to avoid any trouble. Gabranth later was sent to Pharos to "test" Ashe if she would take revenge, attacking the group in rage when they refused to exact vengeance for the wrongs against them as he had; he leaves after his defeat and the arrival of Cid. At the end of the game, after a discussion and fight with Basch, Gabranth decides to make up for his wrongs by protecting Larsa and helping the Resistance kill Vayne. He is fatally injured by Vayne in the process. He dies after the battle, requesting that Basch replace him as the protector of the new Emperor Larsa. Basch agrees, and is later shown serving as "Gabranth" and Larsa's protector. Gabranth is one of the villains and the sole character representing Final Fantasy XII in Dissidia: Final Fantasy, where, as in Final Fantasy XII, he is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka in the Japanese version; in the English version of XII he was voiced by Michael E. Rodgers, but in Dissidia he is instead voiced by Keith Ferguson, the voice for his twin brother Basch in XII. An adaptation of the character named Noah van Gabranth appears in Final Fantasy XIV as a Garlean Legatus; in contrast to Final Fantasy XII, Noah is the son of Basch van Gabranth. Cid Bunansa , also referred to as Doctor Cid, is a fifty-eight-year-old Archadian Hume scientist who is the head of the Draklor Laboratory in Archades. He is one of the main antagonists of Final Fantasy XII. He is the man responsible for discovering the technology behind airships, as well as for the creation of manufacted, or artificial, nethicite. Cid is revealed during the game to be Balthier's father, whose ambitions drove Balthier away; this incident was the result of Cid going to Giruvegan to study more of the nethicite, only to return as a maniacal shell