Who is Valens in Final Fantasy XIV? Answered

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Final Fantasy XIV has a lot of compelling characters that have come and gone throughout its lifetime. Aside from the main narrative, the game also has a lot of side content that offers rich storylines full of well-written villains and heroes. With so many different people in the game, it can be hard to sometimes keep them all in line. During the Shadowbringers trial side quest saga Sorrow of Werlyt, players are reintroduced with a familiar face, Gaius van Baelsar, who becomes an ally instead of foe. The Warrior of Light is forced to help him content with a Garlean military leader named Valens. Here is all you need to know about this dastardly villain.

Valens van Varro was originally upstaged by Gaius van Baelsar to lead the XIVth Imperial Legion in the Garlean Army. Not one to take things lying down, Valen managed to earn a position as an assistant to the engineer Nero tol Scaeva. After Gaius’s defeat, Valens managed to gain power as the leader of the VIIIth Imperial Army. This is where he was commissioned into the Weapons Project.

The Weapons Project was a top secret military operation by the Garleans to create superior mechanical constructs able to destroy anything in their way. Valens, being the completely awful person that he was, allowed his soldiers to kidnap orphans in order to use them as test subjects in his experiments for the Weapons. Some of these orphans actually were brainwashed into believing in his cause, though his ultimate goal was to become the emperor of Garlemald with his research.

During the Sorrow of Werlyt storyline, the Warrior of Light comes to find out that Gaius’s adoptive orphan children have