Editing Odin

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[[File:Odin FF12RW artwork.jpg|thumb|200px|Artwork for ''Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings'']]
'''Odin''' is a powerful [[summon]] in the ''[[Final Fantasy (franchise)|Final Fantasy]]'' franchise. He makes his first appearance in ''[[Final Fantasy III]]''. Odin is based on the {{wp|Odin|Norse God of the same name}}, and is usually seen riding a six-legged horse. Odin wears steel armor and a helmet that obscures his face and has horns protruding from it. Odin sometimes wears a cape, and he carries both a round shield and a [[scimitar]], although in some games, Odin can also use a lance-type weapon named [[Gungnir]]. The color of Odin's horse varies between appearances, although it usually has red eyes.

In many games, Odin's ability is [[Zantetsuken (ability)|Zantetsuken]], in which he slices through enemies with his sword, cleaving them in two and inflicting [[Instant Death]] upon them. Otherwise, if the enemy is invulnerable to Instant Death, Odin deals regular damage to them.

==History==
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===''Final Fantasy IV''===
In ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', the [[King of Baron]] becomes Odin after he is killed by [[Caignazzo]]. Odin is fought as a boss in the basement of [[Baron Castle]] after the [[party]] visits [[Feymarch]] and defeats both [[Leviathan]] and [[Asura]]. By defeating Odin, the party obtains him as a summon.

During a battle, [[Rydia]] can use 45 [[magic point|MP]] to summon Odin. When summoned, there is a chance that Odin might instantly defeat every enemy.

According to a book in the [[Eidolon Library]], Odin was victorious and undefeated until he raised his sword in the air and got struck by lightning. This explains why Odin is weak to [[Lightning]] in his boss battle.

===''Final Fantasy V''===
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In ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'', Odin is fought in the basement of [[Bal Castle]]. During the battle, the party has only one minute to defeat Odin or else he uses Zantetskuen to kill all of them. Once defeated, the party obtains Odin as a summon. Like other summons, Odin can be summoned by the [[Summoner]] class.

Summoning Odin costs 48 MP, slightly higher than in ''Final Fantasy IV''. If summoned, Odin uses Zantetsuken to instantly kill every enemy, although if they are immune to Insant Death, Odin instead uses [[Gungnir (ability)|Gungnir]], in which he throws a large [[Gungnir (weapon)|Gungnir]] at every enemy.
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===''Final Fantasy VI''===
In ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', the Odin [[magicite]] is found in the [[Ancient Castle]] in the [[World of Ruin]]. He was the guardian of the Ancient Castle during the [[War of the Magi]], which took place 1,000 years prior to the game's events. The Ancient Castle also has a petrified statue of its [[Queen (Ancient Castle)|Queen]], who had been in love with Odin since the War of the Magi. When the party examines the Queen's statue, she sheds a tear on the Odin magicite, transforming it into the [[Raiden]] magicite. This is the first game in which Odin is not fought as a boss.

Once the Odin magicite is equipped by a character, it costs them 70 MP to summon Odin once per battle. Like in ''Final Fantasy V'', when Odin is summoned, he uses Zantetsuken to immediately kill every enemy. Odin teaches [[Meteor]] at an x1 rate and grants a +2 Agility bonus per level-up to the character who has him equipped.

===''Final Fantasy VII''===
In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', Odin [[materia]] is found within the [[Shinra Mansion]] at [[Nibelheim]]. Whenever Odin is summoned, there are two attacks that he can use. His standard one is the [[Zantetsuken|Steel Bladed Sword]], in which he slashes regular enemies in half while riding by. For strong enemies and bosses that are invulnerable to [[Death]], Odin instead uses [[Gugnir|Gunge Lance]], in which it throws his Gungnir skyward, followed by non-elemental damage to the enemy.

===''Final Fantasy VIII''===
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In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', Odin is a non-controllable [[Guardian Force]]. Sometimes, when a battle is started, Odin may perform a [[preemptive strike]] on enemies with his Zantetsuken, instantly killing the enemies by slicing them in half. If acquired before the end of disc 3, Odin will appear in a battle with [[Seifer Almasy]], the only time he appears in a boss battle. However, Seifer somehow manages to reverse the Zantetsuken and bisects Odin with his [[gunblade]]. The Zantetsuken is knocked from Odin's hand, and a mysterious hand reaches out of a portal to catch the blade. This is revealed to be [[Gilgamesh]], who replaces Odin for the remainder of the game.

===''Final Fantasy IX''===
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[[File:FF9odin.jpg|thumb|200px|Odin in a CG rendered cutscene in ''Final Fantasy IX''.]]
In ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', Odin is one of the Eidolons. He is used by [[Queen Brahne]] after she extracts [[Princess Garnet]]'s eidolons from her to destroy [[Cleyra Settlement]]. Garnet can gain the ability to summon Odin through the item [[Dark Matter]]. As a summon, Odin performs his Zantetsuken in the same way he had in previous games, destroying enemies outright. However, if Garnet has the [[Odin's Sword]] ability equipped, the Zantetsuken damages enemies that it does not defeat outright.

===''Final Fantasy XVI''===
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In ''[[Final Fantasy XVI]]'', Odin is an [[Eikon]] whose [[Dominant]] is [[Barnabas Tharmr]]. Odin is the Eikon of Darkness. Barnabas used Odin to conquer [[Ash]], establishing the [[Kingdom of Waloed]]. Years later, Barnabas primed Odin against the forces of the [[Holy Empire of Sanbreque]] at the [[Battle of Belenus Tor]] on his bid to encroach upon the continent of [[Storm]]. He was challenged by Sanbreque's Eikon, [[Bahamut]], which ended in a stalemate.

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