Luxaar

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"Don't speak to me of myths—hah! A tale to frighten children! They are the disease, not the cure! They are NOT the failsafe..."

— Luxaar

Luxaar (Japanese: ルクザール, Rukuzāru; English dub: /ˈlʌkˌsɑːr/) is the antagonist in Xenoblade Chronicles X and the leader of the Ganglion. He is also a descendant of the Great One.

Story

Luxaar is not seen until Chapter 6, where Goetia reports back to him about the Human alliance with the Ma-non. Once the party has retrieved the Vita from the Tainted, he instructs Ga Jiarg and Ga Buidhe to retrieve it from New Los Angeles. At the end of Chapter 8 he is given the Vita, and addresses it as the vehicle of "The Great One", who is never named more exactly than that.

Luxaar is contacted by Ga Jiarg when the Wrothians abandon the Ganglion, and again when Ryyz steals the Zu Pharg. He is not seen again until Chapter 12, in which he becomes a major character. He orders the attack on the Lifehold Core and when the party reaches the core decides to go down and kill them himself, piloting the Vita against the advice of another Ganglion member. He bursts through the wall of the Core and confronts the party, explaining that humans are the descendants of the Samaarians and that their DNA is what makes them so dangerous to the Ganglion, who were created artificially by the Samaarians.

When the Vita is defeated, it sinks into the pool below the Core and the party believes Luxaar dead - until he resurfaces and attempts to destroy the supercomputer, in a last attempt to destroy humanity. He is stopped abruptly by Lao, who leaps down onto him from above and literally stabs him in the back. The two fall back into the pool, along with the Vita, and Luxaar dissolves in the DNA.

The process fuses Luxaar and Lao's DNA, alongside that of many other lifeforms to create a Chimera. In this form, Luxaar's face can be seen imprinted in the left hand of the fusion.

Battle

Main article: Vita (boss)

Luxaar is fought at Level 50 in Lifehold Core. He pilots the Vita in this battle, which must be defeated in two forms.

Quotes

• "All the more reason to persist! We must retrieve it if we ever hope to escape the confines of this phenomenon."
• "Perhaps the great hero of Wroth does not enjoy taking order from the Ganglion? Perhaps he feels it...beneath him?"
• "It is "Grandmaster", damn you!"
• "Filthy cur. Yet I will suffer him gladly... if he can help lead me to you, oh Great One."
• "Ga Jiarg, you TRAITOR! I should have known those ungrateful RATS would bite the hand that feeds them!"
• "Why does everyone in this confounded organization think they can do whatever they please?!"
• "You loathsome apes... Prophecy or no prophecy, you will not be the end of our people, I swear it!"
• "Wretched humans. You'd be dead already if it wasn't for that blasted barrier!"
• "Then... perhaps I am mistaken after all. Perhaps humanity IS the failsafe of legend. But you will not find the Ganglion content to submit and resign ourselves to that fate! No. Instead I will purify this world and prepare it for the advent of the Great One!"
• "Now humans, you die!"
• "I confess... you were right about one thing. I was indeed fearful of humanity, of your threat. At the dawn of the cosmos, the Samaarians arrived from another plane. We Ganglion are forbidden from turning against them. If we ever tried, we would be destroyed. I thought that it was just a myth. And yet, here you are. The descendants of Samaar! YOU-YOU MISERABLE HUMANS! How could you be their legacy?! Such a primitive people. BARBARIC! And the stories would have us bow down before you? NEVER!"
• "Human scum... Failsafe or not, you will never see your people reborn... You will die in those puppet bodies of yours!"
• "Silence, worm! You fools. YOU are the ones who don't belong here! HUMANITY is the cancer, not us!"
• "This... is human DNA. It was true, IT WAS ALL TRUE!"

Battle Quotes

• "Cancerous wretches! With this Vita, I shall purge you from the cosmos!"
• "How dare you disturb this vessel of the Great One!"
• "You loathsome, impudent worms!"
• "How...? How can YOU can be descendants from THEM!?"
• "Vita, answer my plea! CRUSH THEM!"
• "Vita, hear my call! Destroy them! Every last one of them!"
• "I will escape these confines! Forgive me, Great One, for using your vessel!"
• "Oh... YOU are the ones destined to die out! NOT US! YOU!"
• "The threat has been purged, and legend fades into myth!"
• "Your weapons are playthings compared to the power of the Vita!"

Miran Archives

"A xenoform who opposes humanity and Grandmaster of the crime syndicate known as the Ganglion, Luxaar is driven by a roiling hatred for all humans—and an equal measure of fear."

Trivia

• In the E3 2014 trailer for Xenoblade Chronicles X, Luxaar's name was spelled as Luxzaal.
• Luxaar is the only main antagonist in Xenoblade Chronicles X that does not have a direct Enemy Index entry.
  • Goetia, Ryyz and Dagahn have entries under the Ganglion Command subcategory, there is only an entry for his personal Skell, the Vita, and an entry for his aircraft, the Luxaar's Xern Tyrant.
  • Luxaar's only shown attacks are green gravity balls, which he uses against the Lifehold Core protocols. However, Lao kills Luxaar while your team is distracted by the Chimeras.

Gallery

Artwork

Luxaar's model

Official art

Concept Art

Concept Art

Screenshots

Luxaar

Luxaar speaking to Goetia

Luxaar speaking to Goetia

Luxaar clenches his tiny, froggy fist

Luxaar accuses Elma of being responsible for everything.