Alex

Alex is a Mercury Adept and major character in the Golden Sun series. While he is largely involved in the story, he is an NPC throughout both games and does not serve any gameplay roles. In spite of this, Alex is considered one of the series' main antagonists.

=Biography=

Alex was presumably born and raised along with Mia in the wintry town of Imil in the continent Angara's northernmost region. Alex and Mia are, at least by the present age when the events of Golden Sun begins, the last known living descendants of the ancient Mercury Clan who once lived in this region to guard the nearby Elemental Lighthouse of Water, Mercury Lighthouse. As Mercury Clan members, Alex and Mia are Mercury Adepts and share the abilities of healing and the conjuring of watery and chilling Psynergy-driven spellcraft, and they are the only two individuals on Angara able to enter and exit the normally sealed-off Lighthouse at will. And as the upholders of their bloodline's decree to ensure the Mercury Lighthouse is never activated, Alex and Mia lived in Imil together to support Imil's populace year-in and year-out, taking care of the ill and battling the regular cold and flu epidemics that Imil experiences annually.

In the English version of Golden Sun, Alex is described as being Mia's apprentice. However, this is inconsistent with the Japanese version of the game, which describes Alex as having been the apprentice to Mia's unnamed father, who is presumably dead by this point. Considering how Alex is a young man who appears to be older than Mia, this is the more commonly accepted background for Alex.

At any rate, it is not known whether he was like this to begin with or if some specific past event influenced him, but Alex came to possess a strong desire and admiration for power. He studies and practices the Psynergy arts hard enough that by the present day he has mastered very advanced and powerful Psynergy abilities no other Adept is seen being able to use, including self-levitation that borders on flight, summoning powerful geysers out of the ground that can shoot objects heavy as human bodies far up and away into the sky, and the ability that can be considered his unofficial "trademark", the Warp. He can instantly disappear in a flash of light, remain in an apparently invisible state for either a moment or a while, and then reappear elsewhere in a location that may be a good distance away from his previous location, and he can warp himself along with another person accompanying him so that both individuals can disappear, travel, and reappear together.

Alex is perhaps the most powerful Adept in all of Weyard as is, having mastered all of these amazing abilities on his own. But his true desire is on a far grander scale: Those who are familiar with the legend of Alchemy know that mastery of Alchemy's quintessence, which would manifest as the Stone of Sages, will equate to mastery of the building blocks of reality and therefore the possession of supreme, unmatched power necessary to achieve dominion over the world.

Quest for Alchemy with Saturos
Within the three-year time period before the present, Alex encounters and is approached by the foreign Mars Adepts, Saturos and Menardi, who are currently conducting research on each of the four Elemental Lighthouses, and Alex learns everything from them: Saturos and Menardi aim to break Alchemy's seal and restore the force to the world, achievable by activating each of the four Elemental Lighthouses situated across Weyard using the Elemental Star of each Lighthouse's respective element. The four Stars are hidden within Sol Sanctum inside Mt.Aleph on Angara southwest of Imil, and Saturos and Menardi recently tried to raid the sanctum but failed because they triggered a trap. Currently preparing for a second, future raid of Sol Sanctum, Saturos and Menardi have now found that in order to enter each Lighthouse, they will need at least one Adept of each Lighthouse's element. Alex decides to join Saturos and Menardi's objective as the Water Adept that will allow them to enter and activate Mercury Lighthouse in the near future; as he secretly leaves Imil with Saturos' group, he effectively abandons Mia and betrays his bloodline oath. By this point he has finalized his master plot: To assist Saturos' objective in restoring Alchemy to Weyard, and then to be at the location where Alchemy's return would commence so he can gain the supreme power of Alchemy for himself.

Alex accompanies Saturos and Menardi back to Prox and apparently stays there for a while, getting to know the Venus Adept Felix in the meantime: Felix is a former resident of the town Vale at the foot of Mt.Aleph and Sol Sanctum, who Saturos and Menardi rescued from death shortly after their previous failed raid attempt of Sol Sanctum, and Felix is thus sworn to their cause as an ally and will be the Adept that helps them enter and scale the Venus Lighthouse in the future. With Saturos and Menardi themselves able to grant the group access into Mars Lighthouse, they now have the Adepts necessary to activate three of the four Lighthouses, with the exception of Jupiter Lighthouse; they will need to acquire a Jupiter Adept and an artifact named the Shaman's Rod in order to gain entry and properly scale that lighthouse in the future too. Finally, in the present day and age, Saturos, Menardi, Alex, and Felix depart Prox on Menardi's Lemurian Ship on their worldwide effort to initiate Alchemy's return.

The four travelers sail to Idejima on the continent Gondowan and anchor their ship there, and travel far north to Angara to reach Vale and Sol Sanctum. Before they enter Vale itself to stay at the inn for a short period of time, Felix forces Alex and Saturos to promise him not to let any of the people of Vale, particularly his former childhood friends Isaac and Garet and especially his younger sister Jenna, get involved in what they're trying to do. When the four commence their secretive raid of Sol Sanctum, by coincidence they find that these very three people, along with the scholar Kraden, are conducting an investigation of their own within the sanctum's Elemental Star chamber, and quickly seize the situation and hold Jenna and Kraden hostage while forcing Isaac and Garet to retrieve the Elemental Stars for them. Isaac and Garet hand Alex the three Stars they currently collected and go to retrieve the fourth, the Mars Star, for them.

When Isaac removes the Mars Star from its pedestal, the mountain begins to erupt as a volcano and the star chamber begins to collapse, and everyone watches as the almighty entity and protector of Alchemy's seal, known as the Wise One, emerges into view. Saturos' group realizes that they cannot get the Mars Star without very likely dying, so they must flee with their own lives as they leave Isaac and Garet and the Mars Star behind. It would obviously be truly terrible if the Mars Star was lost with the two boys, but before they flee Alex proposes to take Jenna and Kraden who are with them as hostages to accompany their group on their soon-to-begin global trek; if Isaac and Garet survive, they will pursue Saturos' group to try to free Jenna and Kraden from their grasp in the near future, at which point they can relieve Isaac of the Mars Star by force. Felix lashes out at Alex for breaking their promise, but Alex states that the circumstances have obviously changed since then and that Jenna would probably die if they didn't take her with them. With this decided, Saturos' group reluctantly flees the erupting mountain; Alex is the last one to leave, as he looks at the scene and resigns that it's possible his aim for power will be forever lost along with the Mars Star his group is leaving behind.

The Mercury Lighthouse
Alex and Saturos' group have already begun to change the world with their setting off the eruption of Mt.Aleph and taking three of the Elemental Stars. And now, they aim to enter the nearest Lighthouse, which is Alex's own Mercury Lighthouse. In their trek to Mercury Lighthouse, the now-six-member group first passes through the town of Vault, briefly staying there, and then they travel through Goma Range. Whether or not they then pass through or stay in the town of Bilibin is unmentioned, but the party then travels up north through Bilibin Cave to reach the continent's snow-capped region, where Imil and the Mercury Lighthouse are located. Alex intentionally avoids his hometown and Mia, on his way to the Lighthouse even as the rest of his associates pass through the town, and once they gather at the Lighthouse's entrance Alex admits them entry into the tower using his Mercury Psynergy Ply; doing this causes the lighthouse to glow briefly, which Alex knows Mia would notice and therefore she would want to investigate and possibly impede their efforts. As such, as they proceed to climb up through the lighthouse which is now filling up with monsters from the outside world, they set up obstacles that would block Mia from following them. Arriving at the tower's top, Saturos and Alex cast the Mercury Star into the well of the Mercury Lighthouse to light the Mercury Beacon.

As soon as the lighthouse beacon is activated, fate plays a hand as a group of four travelers and Adepts are suddenly transported to the aerie via the Lighthouse's enchanted transportation system, and they are none other than Mia, a young boy named Ivan, and Isaac and Garet, who survived the Mt.Aleph incident and have indeed come to stop Saturos' quest and take back Jenna and Kraden. Alex and Saturos immediately hide behind the now-active beacon to discuss what this means and what they will do while the others call out to Isaac's party, and Saturos soon presents himself to Isaac's party and declares he will defeat them all. Alex secretly watches as a four-against-one brawl ensues and does not help fight Isaac because he is certain Saturos will win, but is personally surprised when Isaac's group actually beats Saturos.

Alex decides to make himself known after Isaac's victory, and he and Mia see each other for the first time in a long while. Mia is horrified by Alex's betrayal of her and their shared former duties, but Alex, stalling for time while Saturos recovers, explains how the activated Mercury Lighthouse was the cause for their victory; the Mercury element suppressed Saturos' Mars powers while supplying Mia with Mercury Psynergy reserves. He also tries to subtly convince Mia that power such as that held within each Lighthouse is not something that should be kept sealed away, and he confirms that Isaac has the Mars Star. Alex, with his final statement to Mia being "I can't stay the same Alex you knew forever...", then Warps away with Saturos to leave the Lighthouse. The two rejoin the other four and immediately resume their journey to activate the Elemental Lighthouses.

The Venus Lighthouse and Idejima
In the extended period of time to come, Saturos and Alex's group travels all across Angara, along the way either directly or indirectly causing problems for the various towns they go through, such as causing an avalanche at Alpine Crossing, to impede the progress of Isaac's pursuing party. They eventually take a ferry service across the Karagol Sea to the continent Gondowan, where the next lighthouse, the Venus Lighthouse, is located. After they stop in Tolbi, they travel through the Suhalla Desert in the Lighthouse's direction, where they happen upon the young girl Sheba lost in the desert. They see she is in fact a Jupiter Adept, and therefore the one they've been looking for, so they take her captive just like Jenna and Kraden. Soon they pass through the Suhalla Gate that leads them through Suhalla Range to the area where Venus Lighthouse itself is located. After they pass through Sheba's hometown of Lalivero, Felix, like Alex with Mercury Lighthouse, uses his Venus Psynergy to admit them entry into the building.

In Venus Lighthouse, Saturos' group climbs up through the tower, but apparently has some trouble because, in Alex's words later on, they "are somewhat lacking when it comes to solving the mysteries of the lighthouses." But they eventually make it, and Saturos and Menardi take Sheba with them to the top as Felix and Alex are supposed to lead Jenna and Kraden outside to Idejima, the place where Menardi moored their ship a long while back. Alex is impressed when Felix decides to head back up to the aerie to confront Saturos over the involvement of Sheba in their quest. By this point Isaac's party has surely come to Venus Lighthouse to stop Saturos, and Jenna says she must go up to the aerie too to prevent a deadly brawl from happening between Felix and Isaac, but Alex stops her by stating that Isaac and his party are sworn to stop their objective to activate the Elemental Lighthouses and thus are their enemies.

So Alex, Jenna, and Kraden exit Venus Lighthouse, to be greeted by the sight of regiments of soldiers and ruffians from Lalivero and Tolbi who have come to take Sheba back from her kidnappers. To make it to Idejima, Jenna says they have to fight the soldiers outright, to which Alex responds by saying he will shoulder her burden. Alex confronts the Tolbi soldiers and uses his incredibly powerful Mercury Psynergy to shoot the soldiers far up and away, intimidating all the other grunts into outright fleeing. Alex follows the retreating Tolbi soldiers to Lalivero, and keeps the rest of the numerous Tolbi soldiers stationed at Lalivero at bay entirely by himself to allow Jenna and Kraden passage to Idejima. Alex eventually comes after them and arrives at Idejima where they would wait for Saturos and Menardi to arrive, but notice that the Lighthouse is only now getting lit. Then suddenly the lighthouse causes the entire area to quake, and the quake tears a rift through the Suhalla Range, literally disconnecting Idejima Penninsula from the rest of the mainland and turning it into its own island, and the island actually starts floating east out into sea with Alex and the other two still on it. Now the three are effectively marooned on a buoyant island drifting far away somewhere, and all they can do is wait; after all, while Menardi's Lemurian Ship is on the island, the Black Orb she and Saturos used to commandeer the ship is with them, and the ship is useless without it.

Indra and Osenia
A period of time later while on the floating island, Alex finds that Felix and Sheba themselves have washed up on the island, having fallen/jumped from the Lighthouse as the earthquake happened and landed in the water where they could then swim to the island in time. When they regain their senses they report that Isaac and his group have killed Saturos and Menardi in direct combat, to Alex and everyone else's considerable surprise. Now, if the five on Idejima are to continue their quest to activate the Jupiter and Mars Lighthouses in the future, they will need to find a ship, as Menardi's ship is now useless to them since they don't have a Black Orb anymore. But as for the matter of getting off the island, they soon find that they are passing by the continent of Indra to the south, but they are not going to collide with it.

Their problem is effectively solved by a global disaster: The Tidal Wave originates from the Sea of Time in the middle of the Great Eastern Sea in response to the fact that two of the four Lighthouses are now lit, and the wave washes over Idejima, Indra, lower Gondowan, and the continent Osenia, causing Idejima to be driven into the north end of Indra and the entire continent of Indra itself to shift southwest and effectively sandwich itself between Gondowan and Osenia. Everyone is knocked unconscious by the wave, but Alex wakes up before everyone else and decides to leave to explore Indra by himself.

Alex by this point has decided that his supposed companions are no longer worth their weight in their ability to complete the rest of the quest of the now-deceased Saturos and Menardi, and believes that somehow the goals to activate Jupiter and Mars Lighthouses will be achieved sooner if he works alone separately from Felix's group. But after a while of exploring Indra on his own, he soon goes to the town Daila near where Idejima embedded itself into the continent's northern tip, seeking a boat that can be used to sail across to the Great Western Sea where Jupiter and Mars Lighthouse are. He goes to the mayor's manor and speaks with the mayor, saying he would pay the mayor a fortune to buy whatever boat he might have, but the mayor simply does not have any boats and tells Alex to travel down south to Madra to look for one. As Alex leaves, he bumps into none other than Felix's party. Alex reports that there are no ships for them to use and that he will be going to Madra next, but when the offer for Alex to travel with Felix down to Madra is made, Alex is almost eager to refuse, citing that he is merely "preoccupied" and that he simply prefers to work alone. He leaves Felix and the town in somewhat of a haste, to Jenna and Sheba's annoyance.

Alex travels south across the continent to Madra; along the way, he sees a Lemurian Ship at East Indra Shore, where he witnesses the apparent captain of the ship, a young man named Piers, being taken away by Madrans while unconscious and captive. Alex is intrigued and follows Piers down to Madra where Piers is imprisoned on suspicion of being a Champa pirate in league with the pirate Briggs. He keeps himself out of sight as he then watches Felix's group come to Madra and enter the jail, where they see a spat between Piers and a Madran man named Shin and Piers can't resist casting the Mercury Psynergy Frost; this is how both Alex and Felix's party learns Piers is a Mercury Adept too. But getting back to the issue at hand, Alex learns that Madra's ships were destroyed by the tidal wave, but the town Madra trades with, the bustling town of Alhafra at Osenia, recently completed a massive sailing ship that is powered entirely by catching wind in its sail.

So Alex now travels to Osenia (apparently using his warping Psynergy to bypass the security at Madra Drawbridge and to cross the bridge to Alhafra that Briggs and his crew destroyed recently to prevent Madran pursuers) and arrives in Alhafra, which turns out to be another town that was thoroughly damaged by the tidal wave. And he finds once again to his dismay that the famous sailing ship has been sold to Briggs, and that the ship itself was damaged by the tidal wave. Having traveled long, Alex lodges at the inn and uses his apparently vast wealth to get a two-bed room entirely to himself. While he is staying here, Felix and his party once again encounter him, them having come to Alhafra to both look for a ship and confront Briggs over both the latter's piracy and the fact Piers is falsely imprisoned because of Briggs. Alex suggests to them to try to fix the ship while they're at it. After Felix's run-in with Briggs plays out successfully and they try to fix the ship (but aren't able to do the job completely), Alex warmheartedly teases them about their honorable deeds, mentioning that Mia would have done the same.

Sometime after Felix's party leaves Alhafra, Alex leaves after them to return to Indra. In his mind's eye he has exhausted every other possibility, so when he sees that Piers has left to lower Gondowan and Felix's party has departed to Gondowan in pursuit of him, he entertains the option of taking Piers' ship for himself, which in his perspective is his "borrowing" the ship. (It is not made clear whether he uses the term "borrow" to mean actually steal or if he was honestly planning on returning it to Piers at some point, but apparently Alex has a Black Orb of his own to commandeer the Lemurian Ship with.) Moments before he can make his move, however, Felix's and Piers' party returns from Gondowan, having retrieved the Black Orb that the warlike Kibombo Tribe had recently stolen, and Alex must withdraw again. But because he remains on Indra as Felix and Piers' party leaves on their Lemurian Ship, Alex is then able to meet with Karst and Agatio, fellow warriors to Saturos and Menardi from Prox, who have sailed out here originally to assist Saturos and Menardi but are now seeking vengeance upon Isaac's travelling party because Isaac murdered the latter pair. Alex reports to Karst and Agatio everything he knows about the quest to restore Alchemy and its current circumstances, and he then joins Karst and Agatio on their own ship because they have a ship, but more importantly because they are more powerful and reliable than Felix's party in Alex's perspective.

The Great Eastern Sea and the Jupiter Lighthouse
Alex, Karst, and Agatio sail the Great Eastern Sea together, aware that the Jupiter Star that is the key to everyone's next shared objective, the activation of Jupiter Lighthouse, is currently in the possession of Felix's travelling party. It occurs to Alex, however, that Felix and his party are not as incompetent as he once believed; after all, they went all the way to Gondowan and singlehandedly retrieved Piers' Black Orb from the warlike Kibombo tribe. And Alex is secretly not trusting of his new companions because in his mind's eye, Karst and Agatio are just as inept at solving and climbing Lighthouses as Saturos and Menardi would; these lead him to decide to not take the Jupiter Star for themselves, instead leaving the task to Felix. The three Adepts also get a hold of the news that the lord of Tolbi, Babi, has passed away, apparently shortly after Alex and Saturos' original passed through Tolbi a while back.

Alex forsees that Felix's party will be headed to the cliffside town of Champa on Angara's lowest border, and he and the Mars Adepts go there with the intention of confronting Felix once the latter's party arrives and intimidating him to hurry up with his quest to light Jupiter Lighthouse faster. That they do once Felix's party arrives. This interaction starts off with Alex mockingly remarking on how he sees Felix has "replaced" him with Piers as their new water Adept and admitting he was once going to "borrow" Piers' ship, and then letting Karst and Agatio threaten Felix by saying if Felix doesn't hurry up on his goal to reach and light Jupiter Lighthouse, they will take the Jupiter Star themselves to light Jupiter Lighthouse themselves. Alex does not have any moral qualms, however, about letting everyone including the Mars Adepts know through insults that he does not consider any of them terribly useful and/or intelligent, and that includes the deceased Saturos and Menardi. He clarifies that he is "on no one's side" through all of this; his only concern is to see all four Lighthouses lit once again. He and Karst and Agatio promise Felix that they will always be near Felix's group to push and pressure their way to Jupiter Lighthouse, and as he and the Mars Adepts leave, Alex remembers what he learned about Babi's death and announces it to Kraden. In his mind's eye he's doing Kraden a favor, as the old man now shouldn't have a reason to continue putting himself in danger on this quest for Babi's sake.

Presumably for the next period of time Alex, Karst, and Agatio on their ship follow Felix's travelling party and ship, always making sure that Felix does not stray unnecessarily from his quest, but Alex and Felix's groups do not physically encounter each other again until Felix has made it into the Great Western Sea and has reached Jupiter Lighthouse itself, and has started to explore and climb it. Alex, Karst, and Agatio enter Jupiter Lighthouse, and then see that Isaac's party has entered Jupiter Lighthouse as well, and Karst and Agatio prepare a trap to divide Isaac's group so that they can then engage them in battle and kill them. When this event happens, however, Alex has completely abandoned his two "companions", leaving them to do the dirty work themselves. Alex, after all, witnessed Felix's party watching Isaac from below fall into Karst's trap: when Felix's party rushes up, Alex materializes before them and speaks what's on his mind directly: He knows Felix will not emotionally handle Isaac's death enough to light Jupiter Lighthouse since Felix lacks, in Alex's own words, the ability to "discard someone who is no longer of use to [him]" that Alex possesses. Thus, Alex personally heals Felix's party before sending them off to save their friends (Alex also admits that despite his motives and what he is capable of, he would still rather not directly inflict harm on Mia, and would probably part ways with Karst and Agatio after this).

Much drama and physical confrontation occurs between Felix's party and Karst and Agatio before the activating of Jupiter Lighthouse with the Jupiter Star, which Felix does eventually achieve as Alex believed he would. But an outright fight to the death ensues between the two groups in front of the now-lit Jupiter beacon, right after Karst steals the Mars Star. Whether the victors of this battle are Felix's group or Karst and Agatio, Alex steps in before one side can finish the other off for good and announces that Isaac's party has recuperated and is coming after them, and that Karst and Agatio are too drained from their battle to fight them off too. He uses this argument along with the fact that now Karst and Agatio have the Mars Star they need to convince the pair to flee Jupiter Lighthouse with him while they can. That they do via elevator just as Isaac's party arrives to encounter Felix's.

The Return of Alchemy
After the events at Jupiter Lighthouse, Alex and Karst and Agatio are all too happy to part ways. Karst and Agatio, with the Mars Star now in their possession, depart for their hometown of Prox to the north so they can then enter Mars Lighthouse and activate it themselves to complete Saturos' original objective. Alex, in the meantime, immediately prepares for the final phase of his master plan: He knows that once all four Lighthouses are activated, the place for him to be is at the top of Mt. Aleph, so he sails from Atteka across the Great Western Sea to Angara with all haste. (While it is not ever explicitly stated in the game, it is most likely that Alex steals, or "borrows" to use a more appropriate term, Isaac's Lemurian ship for himself for this purpose because Isaac's ship is never seen in-game and Isaac's party comes to join Felix's party and quest on Piers' Lemurian ship for the rest of the game.) He lands on Angara and travels a good distance over mountains back to Vale, and then climbs the outside of the mountain entirely by himself.

No sooner than when Alex reaches Mt. Aleph's very tip does the Mars Lighthouse get activated and the great, global process that heralds the return of Alchemy to Weyard commences. The four Lighthouse Beacons shoot out their beams of purified energy into the airspace above Mt.Aleph and merge to form one golden sphere of pure Alchemic power named the Golden Sun, which in turn shoots down into Mt.Aleph to give shape to the Stone of Sages within the mountain. Alex, for standing in the center of the path which Golden Sun's beam of Alchemy enters into the mountain while passing through his body, gains immense power and near-limitless life: effectively, the power of the Golden Sun itself.

Ecstatic and triumphant over the success of his plan, Alex eagerly tests his newfound power by targeting the now-empty town of Vale far below at the base of the mountain, and calls out to the sky to summon a storm to attack the town. To his puzzlement, however, no storm appears. He is then confronted by the Wise One himself, who Alex last encountered inside Mt. Aleph, and the Wise One announces that Alex has only gained a lot of power, but not mastery of reality itself like Alex was expecting. Alex, believing the Wise One is trying to anger him, confidently pushes the Wise One away with the bolstered Psynergy he does have, but the Wise One telepathically drives Alex into the ground and completely immobilizes him.

Alex is aghast at how the Wise One is beating him so soundly if it is Alex who has gained ultimate power, and demands to know how and why this is. The Wise One gives it to him: Long ago in Sol Sanctum when the Elemental Stars were first pilfered by Alex and Saturos and they had to leave with the Mars Star in Isaac's possession, the Wise One predicted Alex would make a move like this in the future and took a precaution by imbuing the Mars Star with a certain magical property. This property caused the Mars Star, when it was cast into the Mars Lighthouse's well, to not contribute all of its essence originally intended for just the Golden Sun that Alex just took power from, but instead enter Isaac's body on Mars Lighthouse. This has caused Isaac to unwittingly possess the portion of the Golden Sun's power that Alex now lacks, effectively meaning that Isaac has robbed Alex of his dream for complete mastery of the building blocks of reality.

It is then that the entire mountain and the surrounding landscape begin to change and collapse as part of the last phase of the process that signifies Alchemy's release. The Wise One instructs Alex to flee the mountain if he wants to save his own life, lest he be "drawn into the heart of the earth forever". Alex exclaims he can't even move right now, to which the Wise One responds that now Alex sees the limits of his power, and that Alex may not survive falling with the mountain as it submerges itself underground. The last words Alex hears before he meets his supposed demise is this cryptic final statement by the Wise One: "If you survive, perhaps we shall meet again someday..."

=Quotes=
 * In the Elemental Star Chamber:
 * Alex: "The Mars Star... It's a pity that we have to leave it, but perhaps we'll be seeing it soon..."


 * At Mercury Lighthouse:
 * Mia: "Alex, do you realize what you've done?"
 * Alex: "Hah! Of course... I have freed a great power that has long been sealed away. Mercury, the lighthouse of Water... What a mighty force."
 * Mia: "Alex, you... Are you mad!?"
 * Alex: "No, Mia... Don't you understand? The lighthouse granted you great power during your battle with Saturos."
 * Mia: "It's true... I could use my power without ever depleting it."
 * Alex: "Don't you see? The Mercury Lighthouse supplied you with limitless Psynergy."
 * Mia: "Psynergy? Are you telling me my powers come from Psynergy?"
 * Alex: "You and I are both members of Mercury Clan... Masters of Water Psynergy."


 * Garet: "I won't let Saturos escape!"
 * Alex: "And just what are you going to do? Will you finish him off?" (If Isaac says no) "Yes, Isaac. You seem like a smart warrior. You can't beat our combined might, now that we've seen how you fight. And I doubt you are the type to 'finish' anyone off!"


 * Alex: (To Mia) "Ah, well... I can't stay the same Alex you knew forever... Well, it seems that my ride has returned while we were speaking. And so, I bid you adieu."


 * In Venus Lighthouse:
 * Alex: "So... Felix went back to the top of the lighthouse?"
 * Kraden: "Why do you seem so pleased, Alex?"
 * Alex: "Why shouldn't I be? After all, the lighthouse will soon shine brightly once again!"
 * Jenna: "Alex, why do you want to see the beacon lit so badly?"
 * Alex: "Oh, so it's my turn to answer questions, is it? Once, Alchemy was commonplace throughout this world... With its power, mankind worked wonders across the land..."
 * Kraden: "The lost age of man..."
 * Alex: "I want to see that world restored once again, and..."
 * Jenna: "And what, Alex?"
 * Alex: "We've spoken long enough already. Let us continue this another time."


 * (More coming soon)

=In fan circles= Alex is easily one of the biggest points of debate in Golden Sun among the fan community. Many consider him to be the overall series antagonist because all throughout the games he pulls the strings of those he claims to be allied with and is only allied with them for the sake of his own purposes, which are mainly his aim to gain the power of dominion over all, and once he gains the power he seeks he has no hesitancy to use it to try to assault the nearby town of Vale and then oppose the Wise One himself. There is also much argument that Alex is not an outright evil individual because of this, though, since while he accompanies the "other antagonists" Saturos, Menardi, Karst, and Agatio he never joins them in battling their enemies, and at Mt. Aleph the town of Vale had already been evacuated when Alchemy is returned; if Alex could see that the town was empty then it would not cast him in such a malicious light after all, though there is no way to fully affirm either case.

There is general consensus that Alex would most likely have a central role in a theoretical third Golden Sun game, with most of the opinion that Alex would be cast as the role of the primary antagonist. After all, at the end of The Lost Age Alex has obtained most of the power of the Golden Sun, but does not have full mastery of reality and the full form of the ultimate power he sought because the Wise One played a ploy that causes the primary Golden Sun protagonist Isaac to possess the portion of the power Alex lacks. Alex, provided he survives his episode at Mt. Aleph (whether he survives and how he does so is another point of debate among the fandom), is often thought to develop a grudge against Isaac and seek him out because his desire for all of the Golden Sun's power would put him in direct conflict with Isaac; this is the basis for many fan speculations and works of fan fiction. And even with this aside, Alex's generally ambiguous nature makes him a versatile character to interpret.