1) Garland was created to oversee the failed fusion of the planet Terra with the young planet Gaia. This led to ruin on Gaia's surface and civilizations being wiped out.
2) On Gaia, summoners studied summoning magic and eidolons but one, Alexander, was too powerful to control. Its power was divided among the kingdoms.
3) Locke, an angel of death created by Garland, sought to weaken Gaia's crystal to allow Terra's assimilation. He manipulated the queen of Oerba Dia and the summoner Garnet to start wars to obtain the fragments of Alexander's crystal.
1) Garland was created to oversee the failed fusion of the planet Terra with the young planet Gaia. This led to ruin on Gaia's surface and civilizations being wiped out.
2) On Gaia, summoners studied summoning magic and eidolons but one, Alexander, was too powerful to control. Its power was divided among the kingdoms.
3) Locke, an angel of death created by Garland, sought to weaken Gaia's crystal to allow Terra's assimilation. He manipulated the queen of Oerba Dia and the summoner Garnet to start wars to obtain the fragments of Alexander's crystal.
1) Garland was created to oversee the failed fusion of the planet Terra with the young planet Gaia. This led to ruin on Gaia's surface and civilizations being wiped out.
2) On Gaia, summoners studied summoning magic and eidolons but one, Alexander, was too powerful to control. Its power was divided among the kingdoms.
3) Locke, an angel of death created by Garland, sought to weaken Gaia's crystal to allow Terra's assimilation. He manipulated the queen of Oerba Dia and the summoner Garnet to start wars to obtain the fragments of Alexander's crystal.
History day the summoners called forth the Astral eidolon
Alexander, one of the eidolon gods, but were
The light remains Gaia's for now, but when the unable to control it. Alexander was extracted from blue changes to crimson, all belong to Terra, and its summoner into a summoning crystal, which its restoration will be complete. was divided into four fragments to ensure it could – Garland only be summoned with mutual agreement of all the world nations as well as the summoners, each Gaia is a young planet and thus the people of a fragment was given to the three rulling kingdoms much older planet, Terra, saw it as a candidate for of Nox continent: Oerba Dia, Balthier and assimilation. Terran civilization had thought they Heartilly. The last fragment was kept by the had found the key to eternal life, and believed summoners who emigrated to the Galvus they could preserve their civilization and continent and established Amicitia to where technology forever by fusing with young planets. Gaia's pulse ran closest to the surface to carry on During this time Garland was created to watch their studies in summoning magic. over Terra. The Nox continent civilization forgot about Gaia's crystal rejected the fusion process and summoning magic and Alexander's crystal Gaia's surface was left in ruin, its civilizations fragment became known as royal heirlooms. The wiped out. The planet of Terra shifted to the continent was plagued by war with Heartilly inside of the planet Gaia with Terra's red moon splitting and half the populationtaking the crystal moving on Gaia's orbit, giving it two moons, and fragment with them to Luso, which they in time many Terran locations ending up on Gaia's shut off from the world entirely behind a massive surface. The Terran's retreated into slumber and sandstorm. Eventually, engineers in Balthier ordered Garland to create a plot to assimilate Gaia developed aiships that run on mist, and the wars anew. Garland moved Terra's magical tree Lifa to came to halt with one nation domineering the Gaia to oversee the planet's recovery, but it took airspace and thus gaining an advantage. Instead of millennia for Gaia to recover from the failed exploiting this advantage, however, Balthier fusion attempt. projected its power to bring peace to the world. With the wars ended, Garland back in Terra grew Garland's new plan was to deprive Gaia's crystal frustrated over the slow pace his plan was of souls to weaken it enough for Terra's crystal to advancing and created a Inari to be his angel of assimilate it. He used the Lifa tree to block the death to incite war in Gaia. His creation, Locke flow of Gaian souls to their crystal, allowing only developed a strong mind and wished to break free Terra souls to cycle, and built a soul divider to from Garland and become the ruler of Terra and disperse the Gaian soul replace them with Terran Gaia both. While Garland saw the flows in his ones. Terran flora and fauna began to revive on creation and decided to try again with a Inari he Gaia's surface as the planet was recovering while would eventually replace Locke with, Umbra, Lifa tree would expel the rejected souls through Locke began plotting for his master;s demise its roots which would manifest as mist. while kidnapping Umbra and abandoning him on Gaia, where he grew up unaware of his origins. Civilization took root on Nox continent, but the presence of mist allowed monsters to grow fierce Terr'a crystal was too weak to create eidolons, and and hardened people's hearts leading to war even thus Garland feared the power the summoners if the populace settled to regions above the mist. could potentially wield against him, and ordered One of the numerous peoples living in Nox Locke to decimate their village. Locke followed continent were the summoners, students of suit but became fascinated with eidolons and summoning magic and eidolons, powerful decided to obtain Alexander to gain the power to creatures made manifest from the collective challenge Garland. memories stored within the planet's crystal. One Locke manipulated Queen Lesily of Oerba Dia into his scheme by promising her world domination. Locke had realized Lesily's daughter, Garnet, was a summoner whose latent eidolons could be used to conquer the other nations to capture their shards of Alexander's summoning crystal. Using his knowledge of how Inari are manufactured Locke established a similar process on Gaia to produce Black Mages, a race of living dolls to create an army of unmatched power. With these advantages Oerba Dia grows mightier than Balthier and destroys Heartilly, Balthier and Luso.
Locke neber succeeds in collecting Alexander's
summoning crystals and princess Garnet escapes Oerba Dia with Alexander's shard of the crystal, and the last piece remains in Amicitia in the possession of the last Summoner. Lesily deems she ho longer needs Locke and seeks to destroy him with an eidolon stolen from Garnet, but Locke enslaves it and orders it to destroy Lesily's fleet. After Lesily's death the crystal shard in her possession pass om to Garnet who becomes the new Queen of Oerba Dia.