Character

Ricard was ordered to find the Ultima scroll, but his ship was swallowed up by the Leviathan. He first meets Firion inside the Leviathan where he tells Firion that the idea of the dragoons being extinct is preposterous since he's a dragoon himself. He then joins forces with Firion, Maria, and Guy. They use his ship to get out of the Leviathan and sail to the Mysidian tower. After entering and climbing to the top of the tower, they reach the sealed door leading to the Ultima scroll. Minwu is already there and tells them to stand back while he focuses all of his remaining energy on opening the door. Minwu succeeds, but he dies immediately afterward as a result of his over-exertion. Finally, one member of Firion's party learns the Ultima spell.

The group travels to Fynn where they are informed of the Emperor's Cyclone. They use a pendant found on another dragoon's corpse in front of a large mirror in Fynn Castle to summon the Wyvern whose egg they had protected by transporting it to Deist's cavern's spring. Ricard and the wyvern form a connection. If the party travels to Deist, Ricard learns from Elina, who is the widow of his dragoon friend Phillip, and her son, Kain, that the dragoons and their wyverns were massacred by the Palamecian empire's army and that they are the only survivors. He promises them that he will return after he defeats the Emperor and they will be a family. Then, Ricard, accompanied by Firion and his party, flies on the wyvern into the Cyclone and together they defeat the Emperor for the first time.

When Leon attempts to assume the throne of Palamecia, the heroes travel there and confront him. When the Emperor suddenly returns from the dead as the Dark Emperor, Ricard attacks the Emperor to create a diversion while the other three heroes, accompanied by Leon, get picked up by the Wyvern and escape. Ricard is no match for the undead Emperor and is easily slain. If Firion returns to Deist to break the news to Ricard's adoptive family, they will tell him that they are leaving Deist because there are too many painful memories there. In parting, they also give Firion the Excalibur sword.

In the Dawn of Souls remake, Ricard is seen in Heaven fighting a worm-like creature (similar to the one that he fights with Firion's party inside the Leviathan) when Minwu and the others join him. After they defeat it, they travel to figure out where they are. They later confront the Light Emperor who asks for their forgiveness, but images of Elina and Kain tell Ricard not to be fooled by the Light Emperor, because in reality the Light Emperor is as evil as his dark side. Ricard then summons the will to fight the Light Emperor and defeats him. Ricard can finally rest in peace knowing that the future of the world is now in good hands.