Memoro de la Ŝtono

"Memoro de la Ŝtono" from the Distant Worlds concert album

"Memoro de la Ŝtono" (lit. "Memory of the Stone") is a vocal section part of the Final Fantasy XI opening theme made famous by its performance during the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy and VOICES: Music from Final Fantasy concerts. It features a choral arrangement with lyrics sung in Esperanto, an artificial language invented in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917), a Polish physician and philologist, intended for international use and still used by millions of speakers worldwide.

The tracks "Despair" and "Repression" in the original soundtrack and the track "Third Ode: Memoro de la Ŝtono" in the Chains of Promathia soundtrack share their central melody with "Memoro de la Ŝtono".

Both live performances were conducted by Arnie Roth and were played as a medley along with the song "Distant Worlds".

1 Lyrics
- 1.1 Esperanto
- 1.2 English translation
2 Game appearances
3 Arrangement album appearances
- 3.1 Final Fantasy XI Chips

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

Esperanto[edit | edit source]

Fluas nun sango senkulpa

Sur Vana'diel, vasta ter'

Tremas la tuta mond'

Pro l' plago en desper'

Preventas ĝin

Nenia sort'

Haltigas ĝin

Nenia fort'

Sed tra la nokto tempesta

Brilas jen stelo de glor'!

Kontraŭ brutala kri'

Fontas jen kant-sonor'!

Stelo brilanta, kanto sonanta:

Revo kaj preĝo por ni!

Vana'diel! Vana'diel!

Mano kaj man' kunpremitaj

Trans la eterno sen lim'

Ne dismetiĝos plu

Ne disligiĝos plu!

English translation[edit | edit source]

Now flows innocent blood

On Vana'diel, a vast land

The entire world trembles

In despair from the scourge

Prevented

By no fate

Stopped

By no strength

But through the stormy night

Behold: a star of glory shines!

Against a brutal outcry

Behold: a hymn springs forth!

A shining star, a ringing song:

A dream and a prayer for us!

Vana'diel! Vana'diel!

Hand and hand together

Across the limitless eternity

We will no longer be put asunder

We will no longer be separated!

Game appearances[edit | edit source]

Final Fantasy XI[edit | edit source]

"Memoro de la Ŝtono" is the third section in the opening theme to Final Fantasy XI, which fittingly plays during the game's opening cinematic. It was composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

"Third Ode: Memoro de la Ŝtono"

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"Despair" and "Repression" play during various cutscenes in Final Fantasy XI. "Third Ode: Memoro de la Ŝtono" plays when the Wyrmking reaffirms the pact he made with the Kuluu during the events of Chains of Promathia.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy[edit | edit source]

"Memoro de la Ŝtono" appears as an Event Music Sequence. Even though only the "Memoro de la Ŝtono" section is played, the track is titled "FFXI Opening Theme" in-game.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call[edit | edit source]

"Memoro de la Ŝtono" appears once again, but this time as a Battle Music Sequence. It keeps the same title as the one in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy.

Arrangement album appearances[edit | edit source]

Final Fantasy XI Chips[edit | edit source]

The chiptune arrangement of "FFXI Opening Theme" features the "Memoro de la Ŝtono" section.

Musical themes

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy - Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call

Recurring themes	Airship theme - "Battle at the Big Bridge" - List of battle themes (Battle theme · Boss theme · Final boss theme) - "Chocobo Theme" - Dungeon theme - Ending theme - "Final Fantasy" - "Good Night" - Main theme - "Moogle Theme" - "Prelude" - Town theme - Victory Fanfare

Game specific themes

Final Fantasy	"Main Theme" - "Battle" - "Chaos Shrine" - "Matoya's Cave" - "Mt. Gulg"
Final Fantasy II	"Battle Theme 1" - "The Rebel Army" - "Main Theme" - "Battle Theme 2" - "Tower of the Magi" - "Finale"
Final Fantasy III	"The Altar Cave" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Eternal Wind" - "Tozas" - "The Boundless Ocean" - "Priestess Aria" - "Doga and Unei" - "The Crystal Tower" - "Dark Crystal" - "Last Battle"
Final Fantasy IV	"Theme of Love" - "Main Theme of FINAL FANTASY IV" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Rydia" - "Edward's Harp" - "Mystic Mysidia" - "Battle With the Four Fiends" - "Troian Beauty" - "Dancing Calbrena" - "The Final Battle"
Final Fantasy V	"Main Theme of Final Fantasy V" - "Lenna's Theme" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Mambo de Chocobo" - "Sorrows of Parting" - "Home, Sweet Home" - "Music Box" - "The Evil Lord Exdeath" - "Legend of the Deep Forest" - "A New World" - "The Final Battle" - "Dear Friends" - "Ending Theme"
Final Fantasy VI	"Battle" - "The Decisive Battle" - "Terra's Theme" - "Celes's Theme" - "Kefka" - "The Phantom Forest" - "Kids Run Through the City" - "Aria di Mezzo Carattere" - "Relm's Theme" - "Battle to the Death" - "Searching for Friends" - "Dancing Mad"
Final Fantasy VII series	Final Fantasy VII	"Opening - Bombing Mission" - "Anxious Heart" - "Let the Battles Begin!" - "Tifa's Theme" - "Fight On!" - "Turks' Theme" - "Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII" - "Farm Boy" - "Descendant of Shinobi" - "Jenova" - "Cosmo Canyon" - "Aerith's Theme" - "One-Winged Angel"
	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children	"Calling" - "Safe and Sound" - "The Promised Land"
	Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-	"Redemption" - "Longing"
	Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-	"Theme of Elfe"
	Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-	"CRISIS CORE Theme" - "The Price of Freedom" - "Why"
	Final Fantasy VII Remake	"Hollow"
Final Fantasy VIII	"Liberi Fatali" - "Balamb GARDEN" - "Blue Fields" - "Don't Be Afraid" - "Force Your Way" - "The Man with the Machine Gun" - "Premonition" - "Fisherman's Horizon" - "The Oath" - "Eyes on Me" - "The Castle" - "Maybe I'm a Lion" - "Ride On" - "The Extreme"
Final Fantasy IX	"A Place to Call Home" - "Vamo Alla Flamenco" - "Battle 1" - "Battle 2" - "Festival of the Hunt" - "Kuja's Theme" - "Roses of May" - "Unrequited Love" - "Not Alone" - "The Final Battle"- "Melodies of Life"
Final Fantasy X series	Final Fantasy X	"Zanarkand" - "Tidus's Theme" - "Otherworld" - "Battle Theme" - "Hymn of the Fayth" - "Thunder Plains" - "Assault" - "Via Purifico" - "Suteki da ne" - "Fight With Seymour" - "A Contest of Aeons" - "Final Battle"
Final Fantasy X series	Final Fantasy X-2	"KUON: Memories of Waves and Light" - "Real Emotion" - "Yuna's Ballad" - "1000 Words" - "Their Resting Place"
Final Fantasy XI	"Memoro de la Ŝtono" - "Vana'diel March" - "Ronfaure" - "Battle Theme" - "Gustaberg" - "Rolanberry Fields" - "Voyager" - "The Grand Duchy of Jeuno" - "Battle In The Dungeon #2" - "Mog House" - "Awakening" - "The Sanctuary of Zi'Tah" - "Fighters of the Crystal" - "Faded Memories - Promyvion" - "Distant Worlds" - "Griffons Never Die" - "Ragnarok" - "Forever Today" - "Rhapsodies of Vana'diel"
Final Fantasy XII	"Opening Movie [FFXII Theme]" - "Boss Battle" - "The Dalmasca Estersand" - "Giza Plains" - "The Archadian Empire" - "Struggle for Freedom" - "Kiss me Good-Bye"
Lightning Saga	Final Fantasy XIII	"FINAL FANTASY XIII - The Promise" - "Blinded By Light" - "Saber's Edge" - "Ragnarok" - "Eternal Love" - "March of the Dreadnoughts" - "Fighting Fate" - "Fang's Theme" - "Gapra Whitewood" - "Will to Fight" - "Sulyya Springs" - "Dust to Dust" - "Born Anew" - "Nascent Requiem" - "Kimi ga Iru Kara" - "My Hands"
	Final Fantasy XIII-2	"FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 - Wishes -" - "Paradox" - "Etro's Champion" - "Noel's Theme" - "The Last Hunter" - "Caius's Theme" - "Yeul's Theme" - "New Bodhum" - "Worlds Collide - "Unseen Intruder" - "Eclipse" - "Village and Void" - "Limit Break!" - "Plains of Eternity" - "New World"
	Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	"Almighty Bhunivelze" - "Crimson Blitz" - "Divine Love" - "Noel's Theme ~The Shadow Hunter~" - "Noel & Yeul ~The Promise~" - "Savior of Souls" - "Desert Lullaby"
Final Fantasy XIV	Before Meteor	"Primal Judgement" - "Good King Moggle Mog XII" - "Fallen Angel" - "Rise of the White Raven" - "Answers"
	A Realm Reborn	"Battle on the Big Bridge Reborn" - "Blind to the Dark" - "Eternal Wind" - "Hubris" - "The Land Breathes" - "The Maker's Ruin" - "Now I Know the Truth" - "Oblivion" - "Out of the Labyrinth" - "Penitus" - "The Reach of Darkness" - "Through the Gloom" - "Through the Maelstrom" - "Thunder Rolls" - "Torn from the Heavens" - "Tumbling Down" - "Ultima" - "Under the Weight"
	Heavensward	"Battle to the Death" - "Dragonsong" - "Equilibrium" - "Exponential Entropy" - "Fiend" - "Locus" - "Heavensward" - "Melt" - "Metal" - "The Mushroomery" - "Rise" - "Solid" - "Unbending Steel"
	Stormblood	"Amatsu Kaze" - "Beauty's Wicked Wiles" - "Crimson Sunrise" - "Protagonist's Theme" - "Revolutions" - "Storm of Blood" - "The Measure of His Reach" - "The Measure of Our Reach"
	Shadowbringers	"Shadowbringers" - "What Angel Wakes Me" - "Invincible" - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" - "Return to Oblivion" - "To the Edge" - "Smells Like Teenage Riot"
	Final Fantasy XIV battle themes
Final Fantasy XV	"Somnus" - "Stand By Me" - "Too Much Is Never Enough" - "I Will Be" - "Choosing Hope" - "Calling for Rain" - "Apocalypsis Noctis" - "Magna Insomnia" - "Conditioned to Hate"
Final Fantasy Tactics	"Hero's Theme"
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance series	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance	"Main Theme" - "Teach Me, Mont Blanc" - "Shiroi Hana"
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance series	Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift	"Summer Vacation"
Type series	Final Fantasy Type-0	"The Beginning of the End" - "Tempus Finis" - "Vermilion Fire" - "Zero" - "Colorful - Falling in Love" - "Utakata"
Type series	Final Fantasy Agito	"FINAL FANTASY AGITO" - "FINAL FANTASY AGITO The Beginning of the End" - "Forbidden Fruit" - "My Diamond"
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles	"Sound of the Wind" - "Moonless Starry Night"
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers	"Kuule tää unelmain"
Dissidia series	Dissidia Final Fantasy	"DISSIDIA" - "The Messenger" - "Cosmos" - "Chaos"
Dissidia series	Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy	"Cantata Mortis & God in Fire"
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call	"THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY CURTAIN CALL Special Arrange Medley"
Final Fantasy Dimensions II	"Timeless Tomorrow"
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius	"DUEL!!" - "Touch It - FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS Remix" - "Immortal Flame"
World of Final Fantasy	"Innocent²" "Silent World" - "World Parade"

Final Fantasy XI

Rise of the Zilart - Chains of Promathia - Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Wings of the Goddess - Seekers of Adoulin

A Crystalline Prophecy - A Moogle Kupo d'Etat - A Shantotto Ascension - Vision of Abyssea - Scars of Abyssea - Heroes of Abyssea - Rhapsodies of Vana'diel

Content	Allusions - Artwork - Timeline - Translations - Wallpapers
Gameplay	Features	Characters - Locations
	Inventory	Armor - Auction House - Augmented Items - Items - Mog House - Storage - Temporary items - Weapons
	Mechanics	Aura - Abilities - Battlefields - Chocobo - Combat Skill - Damage Types - Elements - Fame - Fields of Valor - Grounds of Valor - Job Points - Job Traits - Linkshell - Merit Points - Missions - Records of Eminence - Skillchain - Spells - Sphere - Stats - Statuses - Tactical Points - Trusts - Weapon Skill - Weather
	Activities	Chocobo Racing - Chocobo Raising - Clamming - Crystal Synthesis - Fishing - Harvesting - Moblin Maze Mongers - Mog Garden - Pankration - Seasonal Events - Trial of the Magians
	Regional Systems	Abyssea - Besieged - Campaign - Colonization - Conquest
	Battle Content	Assault - Ballista - Brenner - Conflict - Delve - Dynamis - Einherjar - Escha - Limbus - Meeble Burrows - Monstrosity - Salvage - Sinister Reign - Skirmish - Voidwalker Notorious Monsters - Vagary - Voidwatch - Walk of Echoes
	Enemies	Enemies - Enemy Abilities - Enemy Types
	Other	Achievements - Macros
Media	Related games	Final Fantasy Grandmasters
	Manga	The Out of Orders
	Music albums	Original Soundtrack - Rise of the Zilart - Chains of Promathia - Treasures of Aht Urhgan - Premium Box - Wings of the Goddess - Plus - Seekers of Adoulin - Priceless Remembrance The Star Onions - Piano Collections - Sanctuary - Memories of Dusk and Dawn - Chips - Sword Songs - Musicbox Adventures - Stolen Hearts - Forever Today
	Music themes	"Memoro de la Ŝtono" - "Vana'diel March" - "Ronfaure" - "Battle Theme" - "Gustaberg" - "Rolanberry Fields" - "Voyager" - "The Grand Duchy of Jeuno" - "Battle In The Dungeon #2" - "Mog House" - "Awakening" - "The Sanctuary of Zi'Tah" - "Fighters of the Crystal" - "Faded Memories - Promyvion" - "Distant Worlds" - "Griffons Never Die" - "Ragnarok" - "Forever Today" - "Rhapsodies of Vana'diel"