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Character Bios: Basque Grand

Brigadier General Basque Grand is the Iron Blood Alchemist. He is able to transmute the iron in his blood to an assortment of guns and other weapons. Grand was also in charge of the "defunct" Laboratory 5 in Central, which he ran in hope of creating a Philosopher's Stone for his own purposes.

During the Ishbal War Grand held the rank of Colonel, and was selected by Bradley to lead a group of State Alchemists into Ishbal to put an end to the war once and for all. The leading proponent for using the Philosopher's Stone for military applications, Grand was the one who had Marcoh's research be used in the Ishbal War. With his power augmented, Grand could turn his entire body into an enormous pillar of cannons, firing in every direction. After Marcoh went AWOL, Grand was enraged for losing such power and decided to forge his own Philosopher's Stone. Among his underlings after the war was the "human" Shou Tucker. Displeased at "then-Lieutenant" Colonel Mustang's recent achievements he strong-armed Tucker into showing immediate results, an order that led Tucker to take the drastic measure of using his own daughter in the creation of a talking chimera. After the incident Grand supposedly had Tucker executed, though he actually put him to work at Lab 5, making super-soldier chimeras for him.

After Ed and Al located Dr. Marcoh, Grand and his men arrived to take the Doctor into state custody to force him to resume work on the Philosopher's Stone. Unfortunately Grand’s car was intercepted by Scar, who killed Grand before he could see his ambitions realized. Hughes would later note, with grim humour, that Grand would remain in charge only if he could "survive having his brain turned into hamburger meat." A common unofficial translation has his family name as Gran. Some believe that Grand is of Ishbalan heritage due to his darker skin. This is unlikely, however, as he does not share the other commonly Ishbalan trait- their eyes have red irises, while Grand's irises are more of a redish-brown. It could be more likely that he is from the Lior region instead.
-divinedragonking