Dominants Explained: What are Dominants?

In Final Fantasy XVI (FF16), the stories revolve around the Dominants: humans born with the ability to call upon the power of Eikons. Read on to find out more about what Dominants are, and the list of all known Dominants!

What are Dominants?

Humans That Can Summon Eikons

The Eikons are the most powerful and deadly creatures in Valisthea. Each resides within a Dominant—a single man or woman who is blessed with the ability to call upon their dread power. In some nations these Dominants are treated as royalty in admiration of this strength—in others they are bound in fear of it, and forced to serve as weapons of war. Those who are born as Dominants cannot escape their fate, however cruel it may be.
Source: Official Site

Dominants are humans that host powerful beings called Eikons within their bodies. These Dominants can harness their Eikons' elemental abilities in combat, or even transform into them.

Eikons Guide: All Eikons and How to Use

List of All Dominants

All Currently Known Dominants
Clive	Joshua	Jill	Benedikta
Hugo	Dion	Barnabas	Cidolfus

Clive Rosfield

Dominant: Clive	Eikon: Ifrit

The firstborn son of the Archduke of Rosaria. Though all expected him to inherit the Phoenix's flames and awaken as its Dominant, destiny instead chose his younger brother Joshua to bear this burden. In search of a role of his own, Clive dedicated himself to mastering the blade.
Clive Rosfield: Main Character Profile and Voice Actor

Joshua Rosfield

Dominant: Joshua	Eikon: Phoenix

The second son of the Archduke of Rosaria and Clive's younger brother by five years. Joshua awoke as the Dominant of the Phoenix soon after his birth. Despite his noble upbringing, Joshua treats all his father's subjects with warmth and affection—none more so than Clive, whom he deeply admires.
Joshua Rosfield Profile and Voice Actor

Jill Warrick

Dominant: Jill	Eikon: Shiva

Born in the fallen Northern Territories, Jill was taken from her homeland at a tender age to become a ward of Rosaria. The Archduke insisted that she be raised alongside his sons, and she became as much a part of the Rosfield household as Clive and Joshua.
Jill Warrick Profile and Voice Actor

Benedikta Harman

Dominant: Benedikta	Eikon: Garuda

Having emerged from the storm of youth coldhearted and ruthless, Benedikta Harman—Dominant of the Eikon Garuda, Warden of the Wind—turned her talent for swordplay and subterfuge into a command of Waloed's elite intelligencers.
Benedikta Harman Profile and Voice Actor

Hugo Kupka

Dominant: Hugo	Eikon: Titan

Permanent Economic Adviser Hugo Kupka's meteoric rise to prominence was sudden, if not unexpected. Once a nameless foot soldier in the Republican Army, his awakening as Dominant of the Eikon Titan thrust him to the forefront of Dhalmekian politics.
Hugo Kupka Profile and Voice Actor

Dion Lesage

Dominant: Dion	Eikon: Bahamut

Crown prince of the Holy Empire of Sanbreque and leader of its noblest and most feared order of knights—the dragoons. Indeed, songs of the heroism of the warrior prince and his Eikon Bahamut, King of Dragons, are never far from the lips and lutes of Sanbrequois bards.
Dion Lesage Profile and Voice Actor

Barnabas Tharmr

Dominant: Barnabas	Eikon: Odin

Arriving on the shores of Ash as a landless and titleless wanderer, it was Barnabas's skill with a blade that won him a kingdom. And though the local beastmen were to rise in revolt against his rule, Barnabas called on the power of his Eikon, Odin, to quell their rebellions nigh single-handedly, bringing the entirety of the eastern continent under the Waloeder banner.
Barnabas Tharmr Profile and Voice Actor

Cidolfus Telamon

Dominant: Cidolfus	Eikon: Ramuh

Known to his friends as Cid, this soldier turned outlaw strives to build a place where persecuted Bearers and exploited Dominants can die on their own terms. Cid is also a Dominant—the power of the Eikon Ramuh having awoken within him shortly after he landed on Valisthean shores.
Cidolfus Telamon Profile and Voice Actor

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