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    Interest in the war of the magi

    First of, Hello and this is my first post in the lore forums. Please bear with me.

    Lately I got really into the war of the magi(and FFXIV Lore in general I guess). I'm a sucker for magic so naturally this picked my interest by a lot. However, while I was trying to search for more details, I could barely find anything. I did find out that 2.2 was explaining a lot on it but at that time I was barely interested in lore as much as I was in gameplay and progression (Which I highly regret by now). I didn't skip the conversations but I also really didn't try to understand and I fear I might have really skipped some great details. NOTE: I might be wrong in many things I'm saying now, apologies if I upset some lore maniacs.

    Here is what I know so far.

    Starting with the 5th Umbral era, an Ice age, man discovered magic for the first time which then lead to the 5th astral era.
    Only to use this magic to survive in this Ice age wasn't enough and man was learning, stronger, more destructive magic. Black magic was born by the hands of Shatotto.
    Shatotto, being a powerful sorceress brought down a meteor and formed staffs/rods out of it's fragments. Worthy of being mentioned is the Stardust rod. (And I guess dark matter in general?)
    To keep everything in balance the elementals gave birth to White magic, magic to succor rather than destroy. (?).
    White mages started abusing their powers for their own good.
    Since magic was first discovered in this era I am assuming the art to call by a fairy and the scholar arts where also first discovered in this era.
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    Here is where I lack details. The war of the magi happened before calamity if I am not mistaken but what was it that it triggered it ?

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    The White mages have Amdapor, their City-state. (? Is it a city-state?)
    The Scholars have the floating city of Nym, their City-state.
    The third nation of Black mages, we do not know. However they play a big part in forming Belah'dia. Proto Belah'dian you might call them (?)

    BLM's fight WHM's.
    BLM's fight SCH's.
    WHM's fight SCH's.

    It's an all out war.
    The third nation of the Black mages also do summon voidsent and let those attack Amdapor. A voidsent worthy of being mentioned, Diabolos. Diabolos bringing utter destruction to the City of Amdapor, driving the WHM's to an edge. The WHM's do end up sealing him away at a great cost (?)
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    What cost ? Is the info even right ?
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    WHM's and SCH's form an allegiance for a short time.
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    The elementals being utterly disappointed with man and their actions, summon forth a flood. The calamity that brings the 5th Astral era to an end. Washing away the magic that befell the land and ending the all out war of the magi. Amdapor seemingly completely destroyed. A tragedy befell Nym, an illness that turned their people into tonberries (Or was this prior to the calamity). Belah'dia was formed by the BLM's that survived the calamity.

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    I guess this is where my knowledge ends, or at least is all I remember right now. For the love of god, please correct me and/or add stuff that I don't know yet or missed. I heard 2.2 had some info on it but I couldn't find out what exactly it was that 2.2 had in store for us and I'm too lazy to play everything again lol. I'd like to try to edit the post and add/correct information about the war. I'd greatly appreciate any help. Sorry for my bad grammar. /bow
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    Last edited by Cherub; 02-13-2015 at 06:13 PM.