Dimensional Wars 0.0 Prologue

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Dimensional Wars 0.0 Prologue

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Chapter Titles:
DW 1.0: The War Begins
DW 2.0: The Fall of The Master
DW 3.0: Shadow of the Ancients
DW 4.0: Destiny (Called 'The Final Battle' when it was happening)
DW 5.0: Nightfall

DW 0.0
To find a specific story, use Ctrl+F to scroll to each section.

Cetran Civil War
The Involvement of Zeal
Creation of the Grand Cross
The Dragoon Campaign
Enter the Ocean's Palace and Black Omen
Evermore and Xanatos, an alliance



--(Origin Story / Prologue)--


Cetran Civil War


The world, as far as many of the Dimensional Warriors know, began with Geddon. At this time, there was only one dimension (multiple planes, but one reality which bound them together). This was the Cetran City of Geddon, the Kingdom of Zeal, and Avalon, to the best of the groups knowledge

The largest of these by far is Geddon, a utopian city that is legendary for having covered infinitely across an entire plane. It is the pinnacle of Cetran civilization, and the concepts of war, famine, death haven't been created. Power is shared equally amongst people, and society prospers. The cetra simply ignore any darkness, which includes their distant relatives in Zeal.

Zeal however was a kingdom in pursuit of knowledge. They accepted that there was both a light and dark to the universe, and in doing so strove to understand both. Unlike the Cetra, they did not equate darkness to evil, and did not fear it

Due to the differences in the society however, the Kingdom of Zeal occupied the clouds, remaining eternally separate from the city of Geddon. Likewise, the plane of Avalon wanted nothing to do with either and hides in its hole until about 20,000 B.C. or so

Several of the cetra you know were alive at this time, Wilhelm, Evermore, Slayzer were all born in this period.

In particular, Wilhelm's machinations had already begun to work, even at this stage. Wilhelm's plans were set in motion from the moment of his birth, when a relic known as the compass of order made itself known to him. Little did he know that it was a record of his previous incarnations, written in a mathematical language which would define how he had to proceed to continue the cycle

The Geddon society continued this way for what seemed like an eternity. Meanwhile however, darkness, abandoned for so long by the cetra that it had become unknown, was growing in the city. Giygas, a being which exists outside of space and time for the sole purpose of destruction, was manipulating events to bring about the destruction of the universe. He placed an artifact of great power in he hands of a cetra known as Ivantos, who would become known in history as the Prime Evil.

On the Day of Reckoning, Ivantos summoned a powerful demon known as Ashtarath into existance. For every soul he consumed, a heartless was born in the name of a Shadow Warrior. It wasn't long before the civilization of the cetra was in ruins, faced with an army of shadow demons lead by a megalomaniacal sorcerer fueled by an element they didn't understand

Over years, decades, and centuries, the cetra learned how to fight against the shadows. Offensive magic and weapons were born, and the first war was waged

Over time, the cetra divided themselves into two factions. One faction, known as the Cetran Military Alliance, wanted to overthrow Ashtarah and Ivantos through forced. Their narrowminded goals were to kill him and restore order to the city through power. They constructed weapons of massive power to strike against his forces with varying success, and their leader, Admiral Gault, was a man of strong conviction and grand vision.

<The other faction was the Order of Light, a group who felt Ivantos could not be conquered by raw power, and that the best solution was to seal him away until he could be dealt with, burying the problem as their ancestors did until they could conquer their demons.

This was headed by a man known as Capek

Both sides reached the epitome of their development around the same time. The CMA developed a weapon of mass destruction known as the Arc Triumph, a cannon of devestating power which would strike at Ivantos like a god slaying sword. The Order of Light had developed a spell which they believed would be capable of sealing Ivantos, Ashtarath, and his power, into perfectly shaped crystals.

While the Arc Triumph was fired, and failed to do anything but invoke Ivantos' wrath, it did buy enough time for the Order of Light to bind Ivantos, Ashtarath, and Ivantos's power into the crystals. Using a massive ritual with millions of their followers, they were sealed away inside of their crystals.

Unfortunately, by this time, darkness had permeated the cetra way of life. The CMA realized that things could never be as they were again, and that in order to prevent a new Ivantos from rising, order would have to be maintained through power. They became fearful of Capek and the Order of Light, who desired to restore Geddon to its orderless state

In an act of war, they fired the Arc Triumph upon the Order of Light's chambers, and the Cetra Civil War officially began with the deaths of millions


The Involvement of Zeal

Now torn apart, multiple factions began to arise within these groups. In a civil war that spanned longer than most lifetimes, new and more powerful weapons were developed to kill the otherwise immortal cetra. Darkness spread, evil reigned, and eventually the ultimate weapons were developed, magic and weapons which did not target the physical, but the soul.

Up until this time, The Kingdom of Zeal had stayed out of the war, wanting no desire to interfere with cetra affairs. Now the civil war was threatening all life; the power of these anti soul weapons damaged the cycle of life (the lifestream), and soon it would wither and die.

Desiring to intervene, they brought five of the more major cetra forward as representatives of walks of life. Jason Evermore, Admiral Gault, Slayzer Restalia, the considerably younger Lloyd, and Wilhelm

The only way for either side to be able to resolve the conflict was to grant one side the power of decision. Since the cetra would not grant Zealian's power, the Zealians granted these five cetra near omnipotent power between those of the Zealians and those of the Cetra. The Yomi were born

With their newfound power, they realized that they had no choice but to divide the warring factions away from each other. Each faction was given its own pocket universe and separated from others. Dimensions were born

The core of the city, including the Tower of Geddon, was sealed away in a pocket dimension, never to be seen again until the universes could be reunited.

Each cetran population, overtime, evolved in different ways. This is why you see the differences in modern species we see today.

It has also since been revealed that more life than the cetra -may- have existed on other planes. If it has, it hasn't become relevant yet

Evolution continued normally for centuries. Under the Yomi's lead, a small band of the cetra populated a new home on Rygar, and began establishing an interdimensional network similar to the Stargate Network. This device was made possible by an engine which tracked how far the dimensions had drifted apart and accommodated for it, a device known as the Aegis Engine

Little did the cetra know however, a spider was in their midst. One of the leaders of the cetra factions, a dictator known as Melbu Frahma, desired to reshape the world in his own image. He crafted a way he could unite the cetra to do his bidding through a web of political intrigue, like a chess game. He began courting the leader of the Fae, Queen Mab, with the intent of starting a war between the cetra and fae. United under a banner of war, the cetra would be open to his designs.

One night, he lodged a cold iron dagger in Mab's back. Speaking on behalf of all cetra, he declared that the impure fae race would be crushed beneath the light of the cetra. This single act of violence drove Mab insane. Rather than retaliate against Frahma, she commited an act of Genocide by striking the population of Rygar, starting the Fae-Cetra war around 18,000 B.C.


Creation of the Grand Cross

With the loss of Rygar, the different branches of cetra were left without common leadership. Melbu Frahma united the other leaders in a war against the fae which lasted 5,000 years and decimated the cetran population. It was Frahma who gave birth to the idea of Grand Cross, a machine which could bring the cetra population forward into the future without damaging the timeline (because Geddon was another dimension, hence it would only be destroyed on a dimensional level).

As the war raged on, Grand Cross grew into a weapon of biblical proportions, a time gate which required the destruction of an entire plane to run. Fortunately, Avalon was expendable

To keep it hidden, it was constructed on a world which was relatively unimportant at the time, known as Lanzard III (or Gaia to the locals). Grand Cross was simply known as Installation 15, the same network that housed the Halo Network and several other weapons of destruction

When the weapon was completed, Frahma made his plans known, that he would become the physical form of Giygas, travel back through the timegate, and rewrite history to his own dark whims. As a further distraction, he informed the wraith of the cetra feeding ground. The wraith were another enemy of the cetra who were being fought at the same time, a war which was being lost.

Frahma was confronted, and his plan was foiled by Evermore, who deactivated the facility and destroyed his ability to travel between dimensions. With his empire cut off, he became vulnerable to attack, and an uprising of humans and dragons known as the Dragoon Wars destroyed the Wingly Empire, rendering him inert.


The Dragoon Campaign

During the last battle of the Dragoon Campaign, Frahma was cornered in his stronghold of Flanvel, where many failed attempts to summon Giygas had spawned monsters known as Vierge (incomplete Dark Force)

Frahma was mortally wounded by a warrior named Zieg, but survived by using will magic to possess the warriors body. The last spell he had cast on Zieg however was petrification, which lasted for nearly 12,000 years.

When he awoke, he began again attempting to re-summon Giygas using elements of the creation of the universe to bring him into existance, then to possess the body while it was in infancy to become Giygas itself

This attempt ended no better than the first. Through another political campaign, he worked pieces back into his hand, but he was confronted just as he took the form of Giygas. With the body still weakened, he realized he had no chance against the team that confronted him

Enter Lloyd, who attempted to attack him during the summoning of Giygas. Frahma struck down Lloyd, then transferred himself again, allowing the heroes to strike down and kill the form of Giygas while he escaped via Lloyd

With the wraith bearing down on Gaia, Eden and Installation 15, and no time to disassemble either, the Cetra did the only thing they could do. They entrusted the world to a system of AI machines known as the Elysium System, buried and disabled Installation 15, and put the city of Eden into cryogenic sleep.


Enter the Ocean's Palace and Black Omen

At the same time this was happening, the son of Mab (or Oberon), had realized his mother had to be stopped. He approached Queen Zeal of the Kingdom of Zeal for assistance, and through shady dealings involving children behind the back of his wife and power, a machine was made which could draw and redistribute power from a being to another. This device became known as the Mammon Machine, and the children of Oberon and Zeal became known as Schala and Janus

Queen Zeal, who had slowly become corrupted by power and darkness, began to view herself and her race as superior to beings below the floating continents of Zeal. She would even go so far as to refer to her race as the Enlightened, versus the Earthbound, who lived in relative poverty compared to the lavish Zealians.

Her plan was to absorb and distribute the power of a being known as Lavos to her Kingdom (and mostly herself). She ordered the construction of a fortress known as the Ocean Palace, which would move the Mammon Machine close enough to draw energy from the being sleeping in the core of the planet

Unfortunately, her attempts woke the being known as Lavos, who rose to the surface and attacked at those who would dare steal his power.

The Kingdom was decimated, though Zeal herself gained the power she sought and used it to raise the Ocean Palace into a black airship known as the Black Omen.

Mab was sealed by the Kingdom, at the cost of a promise that the fae would never again interfere with the affairs of others. Zeal attempted to use the Mammon Machine in a bid to gain power, but we all know how that turned out

When Lavos attacked the Zealians, Wilhelm used his power to seal the Kingdom in a magic cavern, saving it from destruction but also removing it as a factor in his plans.


Evermore and Xanatos, an alliance

1960's Earth
Specifically, Podunk University, USA

Evermore has long since been splintered away from the other sides of the universe thanks to the loss of the Aegis Engine. With no technology, he had no choice but to try to develop a new system of dimensional travel using parts made available to him by the rapidly progressing humans. He completed his doctorate in several subjects, but met a young Daemon Xanatos studying political science at the University

Both took several courses under the ingenius Doctor Ruffleberg before his mysterious disappearance in 1964, and the two took a friendship to eachother. Daemon grew interested in politics, while Jason continued to become a revolutionary mind in the field of theoretical science

By the 90's, Daemons nephew David Xanatos was a powerful corporate magnate, and agreed to sponsor a political campaign which would back Daemon. Jason agreed to assist in the campaign if Daemon would fund his dimensional research. The pact was born.

In 1994 however, tragedy struck, when Daemon's wife Elizabeth was killed in Rwanda during the genocide there, leaving him with two children, Victoria and Jessica Xanatos. Now backed by a determination that Jason's machine might help bring back his family, he ran and won the 2000 presidential election over George W Bush, becoming the President of the United States

The next 2 years and something were busy. Using the vast resources of the USA, Jason began constructing a dimensional port device under the codename Project Chronomaster. The real objective of his however was to reconstruct a new Aegis Engine by undoing the Dimensional Drift.

April 6th, 2003. The Chronomaster was brought online at Area 51 with the aid of an international consortion of Scientists. The dimensions, which had been allowed to drift freely for years, suddenly were pulled back together to focus on Area 51. Null Space breached and ate the majority of Nevada, as well as Area 51. Any surviving scientists who escaped the calamity were to be executed, and the event was to be covered up as a terrorist attack

Jason's plan had worked though. Immediately the dimensions were dragged back together, and the Cetran Yomi were able to make contact with him. And they weren't happy.

Angry that Jason had acted unilaterally, Admiral Gault and the others tried to decide what they would do in their own pocket Dimension, known as the Yomi City

It was suggested by Gault that a small scale simulation be run in order to see if the universe could be maintained while combined, perhaps enough time had passed to allow races to remingle, the bad blood to spoil.

By doing the simulation in a pocket dimension inside of the Yomi City, the simulation could be monitored, controlled, and run on their own time while time had frozen in the real world
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Added Information: The Evolution of the Races

Alterans: The Stargate Network and Halo network designers. These were the most technologically advanced of the cetra, and were responsible for much of its larger technology. The Alterans had a dark side however, in that their technology sometimes created monsters in an attempt to defeat minor issues

The Alterans were weakened by the Wraith and Fae war, and relocated to Earth where they would become the modern day population.

One sub category of the Alterans are the Silvites. This extremist population of the Alterans believe in victory at any cost. Not much is known about them yet, only that they committed great atrocities, and they inhabited Gaia before the Fae/Cetra war


Nomadic Cetra: This is the Cetra you hear about from FF7, who travelled from world to world. The Nomadic were incredibly spiritual, and preferred high magic over high technology.

Due to their spiritual connection, it was this population Giygas decimated by sending his 'daughter' to infect and corrupt them. His daughter of course is known as Jenova.


Wingly: A formidible empire, and the most formal nation of cetra. The Winglies organized under Frahma and ruled the planet they occupied, enslaving humans to build their massive cities. Under his dictatorial tendancies, their empire was unmatched until Melbu Frahma spread their forces too thin, allowing the human population and dragons to unite in revolt to overthrow him


Prime Cetra: Cetra which are descended DIRECTLY from Geddon are known as Prime Cetra. Generally these are ancient beings which survived due to superior magic power. At this time, the only Prime Cetra known in existance are Jason Evermore, Wilhelm and Slayzer. Gault and Lloyd were Prime's, but Gault's fate is unknown and Lloyd was rendered half human
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