Vayne shares many attributes with Seymour both commit acts of patricide, both project an image of being highly respectable, likeable men in positions of enormous power. If anything though, Vayne is the more compelling of the two because there are times when you're unsure of his villainy. There are times when you genuinely believe in this guy, believe in his rhetoric and his integrity. He's an expert politician and diplomat. And, instead of just being a power-crazed maniac, he genuinely believes that what he's doing is what's best for the world. A master manipulator, Vayne plans an entire scenario where a wounded soldier is witness to Basch seemingly murdering his own king, thereby diverting the blame of the murder of the royal family onto Rabanastre itself. Of course, this elaborate set up is nothing more than theatre, but the deception passes and the public buy it, allowing Vayne to establish himself as Consul and effectively making himself Rabanastre's new ruler, and all the while he claims to be sheltering his innocent younger brother Larsa from the harsh realities of ruling by taking the role of Emperor for himself. Final Fantasy has rarely seen a villain as cunning, intelligent and difficult to read as Vayne, and overlooked by many, he well deserves his position in this list.