What, then, ties these legendary figures with the Warriors of Light who emerged but five summers past? One answer might be the Mothercrystal and the power She is hypcthesized as providing to those of H er choosing.
While much of this can be attributed to embellishments by bards looking to add spice to their honeyed tales of sword and sorcery, might it be that these tales also speak some truth, as the powers which they describe are often similar to ones docwnented by the Scions of the Seventh Dawn as being experienced by those fi:w who have had contact with H ydaelyn? This power- known as the Echo-comes in many forms, several of which are listed below:. I The Power to Transcend Words I The Power to Transcend Time I The Power to Transcend Worlds For those blessed with the power to tranSCCnd Those granted with this furm of the Echo can Though rare, there have also been cases rcporred words, language no looger poses a barrier to in- mentally travel back in time to witness occurrences of individuals who, through the manifestation of tercultural communication.
V oiccd utterances fule experienced by another. It was originally thought H ydaclyn's very Light, can walk die aethcrial plane and are replaced by an internal understanding of that proximity with the memory holder was necessary and communicate directly with the planet H ersel another's intentions. Conversely, words spoken by fur transcension; however, it has recently hecn dis- one with this power are immediately understood by covered that residual mnemonic aether lingering in a all, without need of linguistic interpretation.
A IAnd lrrrJed bJ gods. And forged hJ hero,,. The gods of which this epithet speaks are the Twelve- the pillars upon which religious fuith in Eorz. He commands the element of wind and is associated with the sixth moon of the Eorrean calendar. Oschon is the brother ofNald'thal, and the close companion ofHalone. He is most often depicted as a carefree ranger wielding a bow of yew. His symbol is the walking stick. She commands the element of wind and is associated with the fifth moon of the Eorz.
Llymlaen is the daughter ofThaliak, and the elder sister ofNophica. She is most often depicted as a strong fisherwoman wielding a long-bladed harpoon. Her symbol is the wave. N ymeia is the younger sister of Althyk, and master of Rhalgr. She is most often depicted as a weaver donning a white, silken veil Her symbol is the spinning wheel. He co! Thaliak is the lather of Llymlaen, and the teacher of Byregot, He is most often depicted as a reserved scholar holding an ashen staff.
His symbol is the scroll. She commands' the element of ice and is associated with the second moon of the Eorzean calendar. Mcnphina is the sister ofAzc:yma, and the divine lover ofOschon. She is most often depicted as a maid carrying a round skillet. Her symbol is the full moon. She commands the element of ice and is associated with the first moon of the Eorzean calendar. H alone is the daughter of Rhalgr, and a bitter rival of N ophica.
She is most often Jepicted as a relentless warrioress armed with a bronze greatshicld Her symbpl is the three spears. Though theologians Sometimes people from certain races. Many Miqo'te of the Seeken of the Sun relics from the Allagan civilization tell us that even five thousand years ago clan will follow the teachings of Azcyrna, the Warden and goddess of the at the peak of the Third Astral Era, the six and six deities were already sun.
Sailors will often pray to Llymlaen, watcher of seas and goddess engrained in society-as they are today. Not only is the year divided into of navigation to see their ships safely to port, and artisans will pdy to twelve, and twelve-year cycles used in modem astrology, city-states still B yregot to guide their hands. He commands the element of lightning and is associated with the seventh moon of the Eonean calendar.
Byregot is the elder brother of Halone, and pupil of Thaliak. He is most often depicted ,,;,-. His symbol is the hand. He commands the element of lightning and is associated with the eighth moon of the Eonean calendar. Rhalgr is the father of both Byregot and Halone, and serves as attendant to Nymeia. He is most often depicted as a magi carrying a staff of bronze.
His symbol is the streaking meteor. She commands the elell Cllt of fire and is associated with the ninth moon of the Eorzean calendar. Azcyma is the daughter of Althyk. She is most often depicted as a noble lady holding a golden fan. Her symbol is the radiant sun. He commands the element of fire and is associated witb. N ald'thal is the single manifustation of the deific twins N ald and ThaL He is most often depicted as a discerning merchant holding a balance.
His symbol is the cowry, an ancient shell currency. She commands the element of earth and is associated with the eleventh moon of the Eorzean calendar.
N ophica is the daughter ofAzcyma, and the younger sister of Llyml. She is most often depicted as a jubilant farmer holding a scythe of steel Her symbol is the spring lea.
He commands the element of earth and is associated with the twelfth moon of the Eorzean calendar. Althyk is the father ofAzcyma and Menphina, and elder brother to Nymeia.
He is most often depicted as an austere emperor wielding a mythril greataxe. His symbol is the hourglass. Ii" - '. When the deities deemed Their work on Eon. A belief made popular by a funous theologian and playwright seventh heaven to rule them all However, a residual product of these of the Sixth Astral Era states that upon an evil man's death, he will fall heavens were six similarly aspected hells, ruled by an all-encompassing, to a hell that corresponds to the sins he committed in his lifetime.
Once umbrally aligned seventh hell The six "lower heavens" are represented suffi:ring an eternity in payment for these sins, he must joUt'lley throtrgh in the sky by six constellations-star formations which astrologians also the remaining five "upper hells" and witness the sins of his brothers, perceive as gates that, when opened, can allow a person to become before finally arriving at the gate of the seventh hell, where his heart will attuned with the heavens and manipulate their aether.
These constella- be weighed. If it is heavy with sorrow and repentance fur what he has tions revolve around the pole star which is believed to be the gate to the done, he will be sent to the heavens. But if it remains light, he will be seventh and final heaven. Here reside the just which Thaliak added the essence of knowl- upon an endless sea ruled by Llym.
Here and the fair, the honest and the philanthropic. Here mountain bandits, defilers of tricked their customers, and those who gave Water. Here drown deceivers, counterfeit- land and sea, and pirates suffi:r as the air tears and received douceurs.
Lightning-a place ofdamnation for nndals, Here lie buried thievra and defilers of nature, slumlords, and warmongers. From currency to units of length and weight, funiliarity with these concepts and their origins will affurd the reader a deeper knowledge of the realm and the references employed by its residents to descnbe the world around them.
Cabanity came, laying waste to the land and swallowing up once-proud nations of magi and wise men, the currencies minted and circulated by these civilizations lost their value, and the economy ofEorz. As city-ttatcs and mtions came to ftourish, certain interests took steps to mint their own currencies, with Sharlayan and lshgard quick to fullow suit.
As contact between nations in these times was limited at best, no elfurt was made to introduce a universal standard, and fur years, many and myriad currencies were nchanged throughout the land This changed in the years of peace that fullowed the Autumn War.
Trade and diplomatic relations between nations ftourished, and fur reasons of economic convenience, voices calling fur a universal currency grew louder. In the year of the Sixth Astral Era, the leaders ofEonea's six great city-ttates came together, and after some debate reached the decision to mint a universal currency to be used the realm over. So it came to be that gi1, a coinage once used by the ancient Allagan Empire, was reinstituted as the standard currency fur all the land I On the Design of Gil In times of eld, coins would typically bear designs inspirQI by hcroco, leaders, or religious imagery of the nations that minted them.
CS not rooted in the traditions of any one culture or nation. To this end, the f. An exception to the rule can be found in the oommcmorativc one-gil ooins issued by the grand companiea fur Fotmdation Day, which arc emblazoned with the images of the leaden of their n:spective city-mtes. Unit Approximation The ilm is the fundamental unit of measurement, roughly equivalent to the length of an adult H yutan thumb, with the longer fulms, yalms, and I iJm An adult H yuran tlmmb, a ripe rolanbcrry maims calculated using the ilm as a base.
Needless to say, as the size of body parts can vary wildly from person to person, these units were I fulm 1a ilms, an adult H yuran fuot, a grown chocobo tailfcather somewhat imprecise in the early days of their use.
Matters came to a head in the year of the Sixth futral Era, when yalms, the distance an adult Elczcn can rw, in a tenth bell a pirate who had come to Liinsa Lominsa to procure sailcloth from the I maim The approximate height ofO'Ghomoro black markets became enraged when his purchase full short of the length fur which he believed he had paid Though contradicting accounts of the incident exist, most agree that the ensuing scuffle left some fifty men dead Unit Approximation or wounded Admiral Agarzahr Roehmerlsyn of Limsa Lominsa took 1 omc An adult Hynwi thumb, a gil ooin swifi: action, promptly arresting the pirate who had caused the ruckus, lopping his thumb clean off', and declaring that it would hencefurth serve as the standard measure of an iim throughout the land Cast-iron replicas 1 pomc 16 onzcs, a merchant's scale sto.
What then, you may ask, of the land before the first calamity struck? Historians and schcilars of biological fields, on the other hand, claim that mankind could not have simply "appeared" and suggest an evolution of the species in the thousand thousand years preceding the first calalnity, What the two groups do, however, agree upon is that modem history begins with the First U mbral Era. It wu not until the advent af the Sixth Umbral Era t! Era waa indocd conneacd in some way with wind-possibly in the form af tcmblc hurricanes, tcmposu, or tornadoes.
Tools allowed for the rise of agriculture and a departure from hunting and gathering, which eventually resulted in the abandonment of nomadic lirestyles and saw the establishment of villages and towns. Within these towns, civilization thrived and basic sciences such as animal hus- bandry and simple metallurgy were discovered and refined As the towns grew, so did the hegemonies that oversaw the towns until finally kingdoms were born.
However, kings, as is their wont, are rarely content with what they have, and soon the leaders of the newly formed countries abandoned the creation of tools for the forging of weapons, and the era descended into bloodstained madness. Equipped with picb and uco, hiotoritns believe mankind made short work of nature' bounty.
Cave punting, dated to the Fillt Altl'al Era suggest the exiaience ofhundredt of now-Iott ,pccica, from two-headed biaon, to winged ooeurl- like ocalekin, to tin relCbing over a thouiand yalmo in height.
To house and feed the people, forests were felled and fields planted. To forge their tools and weapons, mountains were gutted and skies blackened. For countless years, nature sufrered this wanton spoiling of the land until finally the scales were tipped. Mountains of fire belched forth ink-stained clouds which covered the skies and thrust the realm into eternal darkness. And from the skies fell an endless rain of white-hot levinbolts which razed fields, boiled lakes, and split the very walls of mighty fortifications.
For a full twelvemoon and a day did nature's fury ring. Fearful that the gods meant to purge the land of mankind once and for all, the people abandoned their homes and towns and fled underground into caves. Awaiting them here, however, was not salvation, but death. As the people sat trapped in darkness, watching their families meet slow, painful ends, they concentrated their efforts on the one path left to them-prayer.
Theologians believe it is this mixture of desperation and focused prayer that gave way to the very first magical incantations. The people were drawn to these charismatic leaders who accredited the fall of the previous era with the faithless kings and their unquenchable avarice.
They claimed that only through fuith and prayer would they be saved from a similar fute, and thus were the first organized religions born. In but a matter of years, kingdoms centuries in the making were replaced with theocracies populated with men and women eager to prove their worth to the gods, that the divine beings may spare them from the land's wrath.
Church leaders convinced the people that through the building of massive temples, monuments, and effigies would they achieve peace and salvation. To adorn these constructs so that the gods would smile upon them, the people perfected the arts of painting and goldsmithirig. To protect these constructs from those who would defy the gods, they solved the riddle of stceL To better bask in the gods' light, mankind reached high to the heavens.
Soon, desire fur plenary control pit rival religions against one another, culminating in the advent of an extended dark age ofholy wars, witch hunts, and cleansings. Towns were burned, children sold into slavery, all while men and women died in the thousands. With no one to tend the fields at home, crops withered, leaving those few who had not marched to war to starvation.
The coffi:rs of the victors swelled with the spoils taken from their enemies, but there was nowhere to spend this newly acquired wealth. The road to rebuilding would be a long one, but the people were convinced that if they maintained their faith.
By this time, however, the gods had grown weary with mankind-the hubris displayed by the church enough to convince the heavens that the people ofEorzea must, once again, be humbled.
In the following moons, the sun grew large, parching the earth and sapping the lire from all creation, be it plant or animal V crdant fields and lush forests were reduced to dust- choked wastelands, the people who relied on them fur their livelihoods, stricken with fumine.
The Calamity of Fire was upon them. The following section examines the rise and full of the realm's most prosperous age. The order had high hopes for the young prodigy and envisioned him a fututc.
Turning a deaf ear to the pleas of his professo C: was expelled from the seminary and eventually ostracized by his closest companions. To fund his obses,gi. It was not until the year before he pas1ecf awayver five decades after his search began-that Coinach finally found what he was looking for in a sparsely populated comer of Mor Dhona.
Once a laughingstock in academic circles, Coinach was now a hero. U niversitics begged him to join their staff, while sponsors from across Eonea showered him with coin to finance future excavations. Further vindication was achieved after his death when he was canonized, not by the order which forsook him, but by the followers of Althyk, the Scholar. Coinach's name lives on to this day bave linoe begun escavatiom in these areas in in Saint Coinach's Find-an organization dedicated to the continuation of the eponymous archaeologist's work.
Pursuit of the divine had incurred the wrath of the heavens, so to avoid a similar fate, mankind chose to place distance between itself and the gods. As a result, society hegan to incus on the individual talents of its people. Faith in the gods gave way to faith in onesel With this newfound confidence, mankind began producing some of the greatest minds in history.
New discoveries in science and technology were being made each day. Civilization was advancing at a rate unseen in the previous two Astral Eras, and at the forefront stood a man who would see that civilization reach to the far corners ofHydaelyn-Xande. Considered by many to be a genius in his own right, the highly ambitious Xande used his uncanny intelligence and charisma to build a nation that, while founded in science, did not deny the magic of the Second Astral Era.
Those fi:w descendants of the priests and witches of the Second Astral Era were welcomed and given places where they might hone their skills and wield Upon his death, Emperor Xande w.. In body, The actual consequencea were quite diffi:rent. Their most important contribution to the empire, however, was not solely spellweaving, but the incorporation of their magicks into existjng scientific principles.
Siege engines enhanced with magicks launched projectiles futher and with more pre- cision. Emon:clled treadwheel cranes lifted blocks ten times their maximum load with a fraction of the manpower. O nce the secrets of aether had been unlocked, they were applied not only to war, but to everyday societal needs, from construcrion to medicine, tnn1portation to communication.
The field came to be known as aetherochemistry, and upon its back would the Allagana ride into a Golden Age of prosperity. A GOLDEN AGE Xande knew he would not live furever, but he was not about to allow his lifi:-'s work come to naught upon his passing, so he carefully groomed his offspring to carry on his legacy.
As a result, in the years subsequent to the first emperor's death, the direct descendants of Xande fustered the growth of the empire by dispatching its armies to the fur comers ofllsabard and Othard. While there was resistance, the empire made short work of all who stood befure it, and in time there was not a city in the Three Great Continents where the imperial standard did not hang.
With no more enemies to fight, peace prevat1ed and the people thrived. The fucus of the empire now shifted from expanding its borders to bettering the lives of those who lived within them.
One such undertaking involved the construction of a massive array of spires at Silvertear Falls designed to gather the very rays of the sun and deliver that energy to the homes and manufuctories of the empire. With the completion ofSyrcus Tower-or the Crystal Tower, as it would come to be called in the scripture of later eras-the Allagans began their reliance on myriad machina to ease their daily burden and allow them to concentrate on bettering their minds and their souls.
For three centuries, not a war was waged on the Three Great Continents, and the bloodshed which had spawned the empire became but a blemish on a furgotten age. And thus, for several years, one of the most noteworthy Duskwights was a woman who turned to ritually sacrificing her maids and making pacts with voidsent via the Ascians in order to be beautiful again- which is perhaps a bad look for a clan that already has most of its in-game representation in the form of brigands, murderous sellswords, assassins, ex-criminal gladiators, and a guy who trained himself as a lancer by slaughtering baby animals.
Additionally, considering the marginalized social status of Duskwights in Gridania, one wonders how a prominent, wealthy family would not just come about, but also be permitted to purchase an opulent manor that had previously been owned by the Seedseers.
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