Claudio Rico

Claudio is portrayed as a poised young man of Aerugo with blue eyes, carrying himself with the bearing of the royalty he claims. He fights using both a sword and alchemy. The genuine Claudio Rico Aerugo, by contrast, is shown as a frail old man whom the impostor abducted and kept hidden away.

Behind the princely poise lies a hardened operative driven by hatred of Amestris. Orphaned when border fighting claimed his parents, he swore to ruin the nation that destroyed his family and clawed his way up through Aerugo's criminal underworld to become a feared mobster. He is calculating and merciless, willing to deceive even his devoted sister Elena and spend her life to power his weapon, yet the ending exposes a buried thread of remorse.

Introduced through bonus manga prologues that set up each game, the false prince arrives in Central under a ceasefire to negotiate peace while hiding his real aim. Across Prince of the Dawn he repeatedly crosses Edward Elric, and an explosion near his seat is staged to frame Roy Mustang, landing both Mustang and Ed in prison before allies free them; the arc closes as Ed shields the prince from an assassination ordered through Bradley.

In Daughter of the Dusk, Mustang uncovers the deception: this Claudio is a terrorist who caged the true ruler and took his place to gut Central City from the inside. He tricks Elena and channels her soul through a symbol marked on her chest to power a giant mecha built by his ally Petr Hildebrand. Edward battles him while the others cripple the machine, and Ed pulls Elena free, but her soul is left trapped in the Gate. In a final act of atonement, Claudio opens the Gate with his own body and soul to reclaim hers, and the Truth takes him as payment, leaving him to wish his sister well as he disappears.