Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy/Mythology

 Fabula Nova Crystallis  7mQT3NGqHrs A video of the Fabula Nova Crystallis mythology was shown at the January 18th 2011 Square Enix Conference. The video details the story of the many gods from the Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy series.

Mythology
The universe of Fabula Nova Crystallis is divided in two - the visible world, and the invisible world; the world of the living, and the world of the dead. In the beginning a single god, called Buniberzei, defeated his mother, the goddess Muin, to take control of the world for himself, and the defeated Muin disappeared into the the invisible world. Becoming the sole ruler of the world did not satisfy Buniberzei, who was certain all of the world was destined to die due to a curse laid on it by his mother. In order to stop this Buniberzei knew he had to destroy her. But because Muin had gone to the invisible world she could no longer be reached. In order to find the door to the invisible world Buniberzei created the first three fal'Cie, and the very first of all the fal'Cie was the fal'Cie Pulse. The duty Buniberzei laid on him was to open the world and search for the door to Muin. Next he created the fal'Cie Etro, but unknowingly created her exactly in the image of Muin. Buniberzei thus feared Etro and gave her no power of her own. Instead, he created the fal'Cie Lindzei and laid on him the duty to protect Buniberzei from all who might seek to destroy him. Buniberzei also gave Lindzei one special duty: to wake him once the time would come.

Buniberzei then turned to crystal falling into an endless sleep. Pulse wished to expand the world and created many fal'Cie and l'Cie. Lindzei wished to protect the world, so he also created many fal'Cie and l'Cie. Etro alone was powerless and could create nothing of her own. Etro thus tore at her body letting her blood flow to the earth and disappeared from the visible world. From her blood sprung humankind, creatures born only to die.

That the visible world would one day be destroyed was no curse, only fate, and if the balance between the visible and the invisible worlds were destroyed, the universe itself would collapse. The goddess Muin could do nothing to stop this fate and she was being swallowed into the chaos of the invisible world, but just before her last moment, Etro came to her side. Muin told Etro she must protect the balance of the world, before slipping into the chaos forever. But Etro didn't know the meaning behind Muin's words. She was lonely, but felt affection toward humans who live only to die. As they died, Etro smiled, and gave them chaos, and the humans named the chaos "heart", holding it inside them. Their hearts would become their power, but the humans did not yet know this.

Humans would come to call Pulse the all powerful ruler. Lindzei they named their protector. And Etro... Etro they named "death". And because humans held chaos so close the world once again was in balance.

And Buniberzei continues sleeping. Until the end of forever.