| “ | Salvation. Such a curious word. I marked the path to salvation with light. However, no matter how brilliant that light grows, the darkness within the human heart grows even darker. | „ |
| ~ Balder to Bayonetta |
| “ | Humans need not be told what their will shall be. We can create our world with our own eyes! We may not see our next step, we may stumble, we may fall off the path. But we always move forward! That is the power of man! | „ |
| ~ Balder before battling Aesir |
Summary
Father Balder is the main antagonist in Bayonetta, a recurring antagonist in Bayonetta 2, and is also Bayonetta's father. He, along with his lover Rosa, were responsible for the beginning of the Clan Wars, in which he was left as the only surviving Lumen Sage. He is hinted to have been the one that started the Witch Hunts before the truth of his corruption is explained in the second game. In the present day, Balder is the CEO of the Ithavoll Group and was responsible for the death of Antonio Redgrave, Luka's father. Balder possesses the Right Eye and is an overseer of history because of it.
Powers and Stats
Tier: Low 1-C | Low 1-C | Low 1-C
Key: Base | Right Eye | Base (Bayonetta 2)
Name: Balder/Father Balder, Corrupted Lumen Sage, The Masked Lumen
Origin: Bayonetta
Gender: Male
Age: Over 600 years old (Born on October 25th 1379)
Classification: Lumen Sage, Bearer of the Right Eye of the World
Powers and Abilities:
- Lumen Sage Physiology
- Fire Manipulation (Can create balls of fire)
- Electricity Manipulation
- Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant
- Weapon Mastery (Skilled swordsman and glaive wielder, being able to keep up with Bayonetta on several occasions)
- Regeneration (Mid; Shortly recovered from a gunshot to the head)
- Mind Manipulation (Brainwashed Jeanne with his magic)
- Sealing (Was able to keep Aesir's spirit sealed within his own body)
- Afterimage Creation (Shown here and here)
- Probability Manipulation (Fairness administers miracles),
- Magma Manipulation (Capable of summoning magma at will with Fortitudo and with his own abilities)
- Weather Manipulation and Water Manipulation (With Sapientia and Temperantia)
- Ice Manipulation (With gravitas)
- Resistance to Time Manipulation and Soul Manipulation
All previous abilities plus Conceptual Manipulation (Type 2; The eyes of the world can create concepts like fear, free will, etc), Creation (With the eyes, the users were granted the power of creation), Information Analysis and Clairvoyance (Can see the past present or future of anyone he looks at), Extrasensory Perception (Can see all existences and happenings across the earth), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Aesir created a dimension where he stored his remeberances of time), Reality Warping (Aesirs eyes could see through reality, and make his visions a reality), Precognition
Attack Potency: Low Complex Multiverse level (On par with Bayonetta) | Low Complex Multiverse level (Comparable to Bayonetta with the Left Eye, who fought on par with Jubileus) | Low Complex Multiverse level (Comparable to Bayonetta, who can fight Demon Rodin and Loptr)
Speed: Infinite (Comparable to Bayonetta, far higher with Lightspeed) | Infinite | Infinite
Lifting Strength: Infinite (Is equal to Bayonetta, who can support the weight of a universal entity)
Striking Strength: Low Complex Multiverse level (Traded blows with Bayonetta) | Low Complex Multiverse level | Low Complex Multiverse level
Durability: Low Complex Multiverse level (Took hits from Bayonetta) | Low Complex Multiverse level (Comparable to Bayonetta, who took hits from Jubileus) | Low Complex Multiverse level
Stamina: Superhuman (Can fight alongside and against Bayonetta for extended periods of time)
Range: Extended Melee Range with glaive; Hundreds of Meters with feather darts; at least Hundreds of Kilometers, likely Thousands of Kilometers with Light Speed and Summons
- The Holy Glaive: The name of Balder's weapon which he uses in conjunction with powerful magic attacks. Wielded as a double bladed staff, the weapon can be split into two different blades at the user's whim. He's also shown the ability to throw it like a boomerang, returning to him should he miss his target.
- Feather Darts: Feather-like darts that Balder uses in place of a gun. They are comparable in power to Bayonetta's Love is Blue and Scarborough Fair handguns.
- Satellite: Balder has access to satellite-based weaponry orbiting the planet, commandeering them using the power of his mind and either utilizing their particle beam cannon, producing a concentrated blast of energy to shoot down unsuspecting targets, or having it fall out of orbit landing atop of them.
Intelligence: Gifted (Balder is an extremely powerful and cunning Lumen Sage, carrying centuries of experience and setting forth the plot of the first game and near perfectly manipulating events in his favor. His plot to resurrect Jubileus was near successful, having only failed due to Jeanne's unexpected survival and saving of Bayonetta. Has advanced knowledge of magic, being able to master difficult light arts techniques such as Light Speed. Possesses combat prowess proving him to be a difficult opponent for the likes of Bayonetta herself and was implied to have defeated Jeanne at some point in the past, later brainwashing her. As the CEO of the Ithovall group, oversaw the development of the group into the world's leading force in technology and energy). | Nigh-Omniscient with the right eye (Was said to be nigh omniscient, almost equal to Aesir.) | Gifted (Despite being a younger version than his Bayonetta 1 self, Balder is still centuries old and a master of the light arts. Equally matched Bayonetta on 3 different occasions. Led the witch hunts, resulting in the destruction of the Umbran Clan with Bayonetta and Jeanne being the only survivors.)
Weaknesses: The Lumen Watch is a vital object to Balder's life force and the source to his immortality and if damaged or destroyed could result in significant loss of stamina or even death.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Light Speed: A technique used by the Lumen Sages that mirrors the Umbra Witches' Witch Time. Light Speed is an ancient art used by powerful Lumen Sages to increase their speed, and slow down time to a near stop. Allowing them to bypass their opponent's defenses. Balder's mastery of this skill is so great that he catches Bayonetta off guard on numerous occasions despite the latter's skill with its dark counterpart, Witch Time.
- Beast Within: A series of transformational techniques that Balder can use to shape shift into different animals that grant him new abilities.
- Wolf Within: Balder transforms into a white wolf, granting him increased movement speed and longer jumps.
- Eagle Within: Balder transforms into a large eagle, giving him the ability to fly for a short period of time and shoot homing feathers.
- Lumen Climax: A technique that allows every attack performed to be powered up and strengthened for a short duration. During this time Balder can create giant manifestations of his Holy Glaive as finishers similar to Bayonetta's Wicked Weaves.
- Life Absorption: Using his own abilities, Balder is capable of destroying more than one of Bayonetta's Infernal Demons and using the dead demon to fully replenish his vitality.
- Climax Attacks (Summoning Angels): Balder chants a phrase and summons a Cardinal Virtue from Paradiso to finish off the enemy for good. When a sage reaches high enough level of spiritual energy, they can casually summon angels at the snap of the finger. The Auditio, also known as The Cardinal Virtues, are the third-highest angel class fought in the original Bayonetta. As physical manifestations of Divine Will, they are tasked by Father Balder to recover Bayonetta's Left Eye to revive Jubileus, The Creator. Each Audito has control of a certain element. While utilizing Lumen Climax his normal glaive finishers are replaced with him summoning the giant limbs of the Auditio to attack his opponents.
- Fortitudo: Personifying courage and fortitude, Fortitudo has been depicted as a terrifying being of sporting an enormous face and two dragon's heads. He is said to be capable of summoning magma flows at will.
- Temperantia: The true embodiment of the Cardinal Virtue of Temperance, it is often illustrated as a colossal giant. Its body rising like a castle, Temperantia possesses two massive arms; a composed figure said to illustrate the total reverence in which the Laguna are held by the faithful.
- Iustitia: The General of Father Balder and Cardinal Virtue of Justice and Giver of Life. Iustitia is known to take a particularly strange physical manifestation. A large mass covered with numerous faces, and extending outwards via countless tentacles, Iustitia could easily pass for a demon.
- Sapientia: The General of Father Balder and Cardinal Virtue of Prudence and Controller of Seas. It is also thought that Sapientia is responsible for natural phenomena such as tsunamis. The grand idea that the living seas could be nothing other than the Divine will at work is actually evidence of Sapientia's narcissism, even amongst Cardinal Virtues.
- Jubileus the Creator: The primordial, god-like being tasked with the role of the ruler of Paradiso. She is the opposite of Queen Sheba, though are both assumed to be in equal power. The true name of Jubileus, as recorded in myth, is actually constructed from unutterable syllables. This is because humans remain incapable of capturing her true glory, as she is the total embodiment of Divine Will.
- Omne: Also known as the Controller of Creation, she is a fusion of angel and demon and is the final summon used in Bayonetta 2. An omniscient being formed by a miraculous unison of the powers of Paradiso and Inferno. The past leaders of the Umbra and Lumen clans, though they were aware of Omne's existence, were unable to summon it to this realm. It took the combined power of light and darkness, united in the bond of father and daughter, to finally summon Omne successfully. Possessing the qualities of both darkness and light, it can defeat even the most dissonant of chaos.
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Discussions
| Discussion threads involving Balder (Bayonetta) |