


The Convocation member bearing the title of Azem left in dissent prior to Zodiark's summoning as the endeavor required sacrificing half of their population, with Zodiark revealed to only hinder the Final Days as the force causing it remains active. To halt the aether stagnation, the ancients combine their powers and sacrifice the Convocation member bearing the title of Elidibus to bring forth Zodiark, who halts the calamity by creating a barrier to keep the Meteia's song out while restoring the cycle of life. The resulting natural disasters warp the ancients' creation magick, causing them to produce unspeakable horrors while in a frightened mindset.

While Hermes is offered a position in the Convocation, Meteion is overwhelmed by her kind's hivemind as their journey leads them to believe that life is suffering and they resolve to end it. One of these ancients, a scientist named Hermes, creates Meteion and her sisters to explore other worlds in the universe to find meaning in life. The people are ruled by the Convocation of Fourteen. The world of Etheirys is inhabited by a race of beings able to freely weave their aether into various forms through creation magick, bringing forth new life forms that can benefit their star.15.18 Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers.3 First Astral Era (A Time of Stone and Fire).Another effect of the time bubble is that characters do not age, even if they claim they have passed their nameday. Likewise, the Moonfire Faire characters recognize the player's actions from previous years' events, even though the last sighting of Bombards at the festival was "five years ago" every year. However, both of these events take place five years after the Seventh Umbral Calamity, despite being a year apart, due to the time bubble. For example, the Doman revolt is stated to have happened about a year before Stormblood (Patch 4.0) and its occurrence coincided with Yugiri's arrival in Eorzea in "Through the Maelstrom" (Patch 2.2). The events that explicitly take place in the "present" of the game have normal temporal relationships with each other, but they are a fixed time away from all events in the "past". The current events of the game take place in a "time bubble", which is used as a storytelling device to streamline the worldbuilding, timeline, and maintenance costs associated with updating old dialogue text. Version 2.0 ( A Realm Reborn) initially begins in the Seventh Umbral Era. Version 1.0 was set at the end of the Sixth Astral Era. The world's history is divided into alternating periods of calamity (Umbral Eras) and prosperity (Astral Eras).

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