Eorzea Ascian War Saga

Lore & Background

The Ascians are remnants of the unsundered world of Amaurot, a civilization so advanced it mastered the art of creation. When the primal god Zodiark was summoned to save their dying planet from a great flood, a counter-summoning by their enemies caused the world to shatter into thirteen shards. The surviving Ascians, bound by the will of Zodiark, have spent millennia manipulating events across these shards to bring them back together. They view the current inhabitants of the Source and its reflections not as people, but as obstacles standing between them and the restoration of their beloved home. The war in Eorzea is merely one front in this eternal struggle. The Ascians operate from the shadows, manipulating empires, summoning Primals, and inciting wars to generate enough aetherial energy to crack the barriers between worlds. Their methods are subtle yet devastating, often turning allies against one another or forcing heroes into impossible choices. The Scions of the Seventh Dawn, led by a Warrior of Light, must uncover these machinations while protecting the realm from both external invasions and internal corruption.

In Their Own Story

What began as a struggle against primal worship evolved into a war for reality itself. As the Scions peeled back the layers of history, they found that empires rose and fell by Ascian design. The conflict reached its zenith not in Eorzea alone, but across the shattered reflection of the First, where the Warrior of Light confronted the Convocation's truth: their enemies were not monsters, but grieving survivors desperate to resurrect a dead god. In the end, survival demanded the choice to preserve a broken world rather than restore a perfect past.

Reader's Guide

The saga begins with the nation of Eorzea recovering from the Seventh Umbral Calamity, only to discover that a rogue Ascian named Lahabrea is manipulating events to summon Primals. As the Scions investigate, they uncover a conspiracy involving the Garlean Empire and the mysterious Ascian organization known as the Convocation of Fourteen. The conflict escalates in A Realm Reborn's sequel content, where the Ascian Emet-Selch reveals the tragic truth behind the sundering: the world was shattered to save Zodiark from a flood, not to destroy it. The saga concludes on the First, as the Scions battle Elidibus to prevent the Final Days, forcing the Warrior of Light to reject both Hydaelyn and Zodiark's wills to forge a new path for humanity.

Did You Know?

• The Ascians wear masks representing their original names and roles from the unsundered world of Amaurot.
• Elidibus is unique among the three as he acts solely as the heart of Zodiark, suppressing his own memories to maintain order.
• The term 'Rejoining' refers to merging the thirteen shards back into the Source, a process that erases all life on those fragments.
• Emet-Selch's emotional arc is widely considered one of the most complex villain-to-ally dynamics in the franchise's history.