Luca Blight is the main antagonist of Suikoden II. He is the Prince of Highland and the son of King Agares who seeks to instigate a war between his own country and the City States of Jowston, so he may slaughter Jowston people in revenge for what was done to his mother.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- He abuses his position as supreme commander of Highland's Army and orders a group of his soldiers to disguise themselves as Jowston soldiers and attack and massacre the Unicorn Youth Brigade which consists of youths serving Highland as soldiers. Only two of the teenagers, Riou and Jowy, survive the massacre and they are declared as traitors.
- He frames the City-States of Jowston for the brutal massacre and uses it to reignite a bloody war between them and his own country.
- He launches a campaign against Jowston where he massacres whole villages with his army. By his own admission, he has killed thousands of people.
- When one woman from a village he was slaughtering asks for mercy, Luca promises he would spare her life if she acts like a pig. The woman acts like a pig and Luca laughs and kills her anyway with the words "Die pig!".
- He orders general Solon Jhee to be beheaded due to his incompetence when fighting against the enemy.
- After taking over a mercenary fortress, he kills a teenage boy named Pohl for fun.
- He then attempts to kill a young girl named Pilika who is saved in time by heroes. She is rendered mute for awhile because of the trauma she has experienced which includes both her parents being killed by Luca Blight's soldiers, witnessing Pohl's death in front of her and barely surviving the attempt on her life by Luca Blight.
- He poisons his own father, Agares, and takes his place as King of Highland.
- He wants to continue his atrocities until the whole world has been cleansed by people he deems to be "unclean".
- He rounds up 2/3 of the population of Muse City and has them sacrificed to the Beast Rune to acquire more power with only 1/3 of the original population surviving.
- The atrocities he commits are so horrible that eventually even his fellow Highlanders turn against him.
- He proclaims himself "the true face of evil" and boasts about how many people he has killed moments before he dies without showing any remorse. He even brags about how the war he has created will continue even after his death and there wouldn't be any peace and laughs about.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He is slightly tragic because as a child, he and his mother, Sara, were captured by men hired by the town of Muse from the Jowston City-States while his father ran away and he had to witness how his mother was repeatedly raped while he was unable to help her. Even after they escape, Luca's mother dies in childbirth, giving birth to his sister Jillia. These events cause Luca to hate both the nation of Jowston as well as his father and explains his unhinged personality. All these were not masterminded by him but by the Mayor of Muse, Darrell, for very petty and personal reasons, thus making Luca's downfall to evil a very tragic one as he used to be a very normal child.
- He loves his mother, Sara, as he is traumatized as a child by the sight of her being raped by their captors which causes him to commit brutal crimes as an adult in revenge for what happened to her. While his father, Agares, dies by being poisoned by Luca and is horrified that Luca would kill him despite being his father, Luca tells him he has no right to call himself a father when he couldn't protect his own wife and made peace with the country responsible for her death. When Agares mentions Sara's name, Luca tells him he has no right to utter her name.
External Links[]
- Luca Blight on the Villains Wiki
- Luca Blight on the Suikoden Wiki