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===Garnet/Dagger=== {{nihongo|'''Garnet Til Alexandros XVII'''|ガーネット・ティル・アレクサンドロス17世|Gānetto tiru Arekusandorosu Jūnanasei}}, is the [[heroine]] of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]''. Garnet is the Princess of [[List of Final Fantasy IX locations|Alexandria]]—one of three major nations located on [[List of Final Fantasy IX locations|Gaia's]] [[List of Final Fantasy IX locations|Mist Continent]]. She is the only heir to the royal throne. A beautiful young woman, Garnet is well spoken and highly educated, but also possessed of a strong will and a stubborn streak. However, due to her sheltered upbringing she is also shy and quite naive. In battle, she can cast white magic and summon eidolons. Princess Garnet (Named Sarah at the time) was born in [[List of Final Fantasy IX locations|Madain Sari]], the "Village of the Summoners" located on [[List of Final Fantasy IX locations|Outer Continent]]. Madain Sari was attacked and destroyed by Garland with the Invincible before Garnet had reached her sixth birthday; the Invincible appeared to her as an "eyeball" in the sky. She and her mother fled from the village by a small boat and traveled to Mist Continent. Her mother did not survive and died at some unknown point before the boat wrecked in [[List of Final Fantasy IX locations|Alexandria Harbor]] where they were found by [[List of Final Fantasy IX characters|Doctor Tot]]. Coincidentally, the little girl looked almost identical to [[List of Final Fantasy IX locations|Alexandria's]] former Princess Garnet, who had died shortly beforehand due to illness. However, the child had a horn. As an alternative to publicly announcing the death of Alexandria's beloved Princess, the King of Alexandria ordered the child's horn be removed and the little girl assumed Princess Garnet's identity. Garnet has repressed her memories of her former life in Madain Sari; the only remaining memories she has of her former life are a recurring nightmare involving her escape from the village's destruction and "[[Melodies of Life]]", a song that only she and Eiko know. The King of Alexandria died some time before the beginning of the game, leaving [[List of Final Fantasy IX characters|Queen Brahne]] in complete control of Alexandria and Garnet as the sole heir to the throne. At her 15th birthday, a year before the beginning of the game, a suspicious man known as [[List of Final Fantasy IX characters|Kuja]] appeared in the Castle; ever since [[List of Final Fantasy IX characters|Kuja's]] initial arrival at [[List of Final Fantasy IX locations|Alexandria Castle]], Queen Brahne's behavior had become more hostile. Upon hearing that the theater troupe Tantalus would be performing Garnet's favorite play (Lord Avon's "I Want to be Your Canary") in Alexandria on Garnet's sixteenth birthday, Garnet resolved to stowaway on board the Prima Vista, Tantalus' theater ship, as it returned to its home port in [[List of Final Fantasy IX locations|Lindblum]] where she could consult with her father's long time friend [[List of Final Fantasy IX characters|Regent Cid Fabool IX]] about her adoptive mother's radical behavior. After their escape, Garnet assumes the alias of '''Dagger''' to try and keep a low profile among the commoners, a name she continues to employ for the majority of the game. The robe that Garnet wears to conceal her identity during her escape is white trimmed with red triangles, which is the design of Final Fantasy's typical [[Final Fantasy character classes#White Mage|White Mage]]s' robe. Despite this visual cue, Garnet's role in battle is more suited towards Summoning with White Magic as a supplement, which directly contrasts to Eiko whom is best suited towards White Magic with Summoning as a supplement. After the forceful extraction of her eidolons by the twins Zorn and Thorn later in the game, Garnet admits that she had been afraid of her summoning powers. After hearing about what had happened in Cleyra with Odin and the orders to execute Garnet after the eidolons were extracted from her, Garnet resolves to utilize her special powers to help cure her mother of her endless greed. Soon after, the party encounters the thunder god Ramuh, who helps Garnet decide to release her true powers in order to summon her eidolons. After this point in the story, Garnet can learn to summon every eidolon extracted from her, and even some that she gains during the story, such as the water dragon god Leviathan. After Queen Brahne's death, Garnet is crowned Queen. During her coronation, Kuja attacks with Bahamut, drawing out the legendary eidolon Alexander, who is summoned by the joint effort of Garnet and Eiko. Alexander destroys Bahamut, but Garland takes control of the Invincible and uses it to eliminate Alexander, destroying much of Alexandria with it. Succumbing to the recent traumatic stress, Garnet becomes mute in her depression until she can finally come to terms with her emotions late in the game. In this psychological state, she often has difficulty concentrating during battle, resulting in the occasional failure to perform actions such as White Magic and Summoning.<ref>'''Battle Message''': "Command failed, Dagger can't concentrate!" (''Final Fantasy IX'')</ref> After the events in Kuja’s palace, the party returns to Lindblum only to find that Queen Garnet has gone missing. Zidane knows full well where she is, and rushes off to Alexandria Kingdom. There he finds Garnet at her mother’s grave, contemplating her path in life. After an impassioned speech to Zidane, Garnet snatches his dagger (the same one that helped her with her last great decision; when Zidane first met Princess Garnet and they traveled under the nose of Queene Brahne, Garnet assumed the name Dagger—a name that could be changed by the player—after Zidane explained to her that was the name of the weapon he used) and slices off most of her hair, symbolising the severing of ties to her former weak self. Garnet's true name is "Sarah". It is written on the Eidolon Wall in Madain Sari.
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