Mohs

Grand Maestro Mohs (モース) is an antagonist from Tales of the Abyss.

Information
Mohs is Grand Maestro of the Order of Lorelei, second in rank only to the Fon Master. However, due to the Order being divided among factions, there are those who favor Mohs over Ion, and this makes Mohs even more influential. Dedicated to the fulfillment of Lorelei's Score, Mohs will do absolutely anything to accomplish his goals, no matter the cost. He orchestrates a grand plot to fulfill the Score by encouraging heads of state to go to war, even going so far as to give them false information. And to Mohs, it is all for the fulfillment of the Score, so he can bring prosperity to Auldrant. It is unknown whether his primary motivation is a prosperous Auldrant, or simply the power and recognition that fulfilling the Score would bring him.

Enemy to the Party
The party first meets the Grand Maestro when they successfully return to Baticul for the first time, while he is encouraging King Ingobert VI of the kingdom of Kimlasca to wage war with the Malkuth Empire. Caught in the act and revealed to be lying, he is admonished and desists. However, Mohs resumes to his attempts to initiate war immediately after the fall of Akzeriuth. To prevent the party from convincing King Ingobert to stop the war, he reveals that Natalia is not the true princess of Kimlasca. Because of this, both she and Luke fon Fabre are marked as traitors to the kingdom, and they are sentenced to death. They managed to survive because Asch interfered, freeing them from imprisonment and enabling Natalia to reaffirm the trust of the public as they escaped.

He is seen later in Daath, conversing with Legretta of the God Generals about the recent absence of Van Grants and the war the Score foretold. Grand Maestro Mohs continues to scheme from that point on, and after the Outer Lands were lowered into the Qliphoth, Mohs is declared to be a traitor to the Order and a criminal to the world. He is shipped to Daath from his point of capture, but he is freed by Dist. He later holds the parents of Anise Tatlin hostage, forcing her to bring Ion to the Mt. Zaleho volcano to read the Plantet Score. The Planet Score contains all of the information of Auldrant's future, but since it places an enormous stress on the reader, only the Fon Master is able to interpret it. Because of this, Ion dies and Mohs escapes with an army of replicas to bring war as foretold in Yulia's Score.

Transformation
He flees to Baticul, and once more attempts to convince King Ingobert to initiate war with Malkuth. Mohs is refused, and he then attempts to escape the city using the system of ferries in Baticul's port. The party catches up to him, and they bar his escape. Dist appears, again rescuing Mohs. In desperation, Mohs requests that Dist grant him the power of the Fon Master: the control over the Seventh Fonon, in order to fulfill the Score. Dist complies, pointing out to the party that this was Mohs choice, foreshadowing what was to come. Using a technique he and Jade developed in their childhood, Dist implants Seventh Fonons into Mohs. His body proves incapable of controlling the Seventh Fonons and is forced to mutate, reducing Mohs to a grotesque monster. He then flees to the other God-Generals, not yet admitting defeat.

He is next seen in Dorian General Van Grants's replica continent, Eldrant, announcing to the world the formation of the New Order of Lorelei, and ordaining himself as Fon Master. His mind has begun to reject the Seventh Fonons, weakening his mental abilities. This causes him extend letter sounds, stutter, and even eerily cackle at odd times. The next sighting of Mohs is at the Absorption Gate, when Van Grants is resurrected. He is read the Score of the Seventh Fonstone there, and disjointedly denies the Score of Destruction held within. He does not believe, even in his horridly fractured mind, that Yulia could have foretold such a thing. He is driven away soon after, when Lorelei rampages within Van, which disturbs the Seventh Fonons which now almost entirely compose Mohs's body.

Final Battle
Mohs makes one last final stand at the Radiation Gate Sephiroth, where he calls the entire party traitors to the Score, stuttering and cackling more than ever before. They succeeds in defeating him, and the monster that was Mohs literally melts away before the party's eyes. Mohs's fonons separate, as he cries out one last time to Yulia to bring prosperity to the world.