(08-25-2015, 05:18 PM)Ryanti Wrote:(08-25-2015, 05:04 PM)rainichan Wrote: Meracydia, iirc. They were at war with them. It's talked about in Final Coil from what it looks like (though I could have sworn it got mentioned in the Syrcus Tower quests, if briefly since I haven't been through Final Coil yet.) Meracydia was home to dragons, the Allagans went crazy trying to conquest, and fought with the dragons (the original Dragonsong war! Only they didn't eat the dragons, they used 'em for batteries to power the Coil areas!) enslaved them, and then trapped Bahamut in the big solar powered battery we know as Dalamud.
The Allagans were kind of jerks.
Yeah. Meracycdia is the only other nation I know of that opposed Allag. And the only thing that I know is that they had dragons. They label it as a nation but I don't even know if it was really a nation or not because they have only spoken of its dragons. Miqo'te hail from there as well. I'd like to know whether or not Meracycdia was actually a country. With a government. Because they speak of it like it is but what info we have about Meracydia is extremely vague except for the dragons there and that it was ravaged by the Endless Frost.
But then you hear of Phelegeon (I probably butchered that word. The boss of the Labrynth of the Ancients) who was kind of like a Spartacus if Allag were the Romans. Then you have people like Urth and Odin. Apparently Odin was from the North. These were classified as enemies of Allag.
Meracydia is a continent like Aldenard. It likely had many city-states or maybe just wandering tribes. We know Miqo'te and the dragons kin to Tiamat and Bahamut lived there. But we don't know much else. My personal theory is that the Miqo'te (who lived in Meracydia's northern desert region) fell first under Allag's decades of assault. While the dragons persisted in the mountainous southern reaches of Meracydia, holding out even after Bahamut was first slain by the Allagans, which, after the Resurrection of Xandes prompted Tiamat to summon Bahamut back as a primal at the Ascian behest. Only for the Ascians to have betrayed the Meracydians to the Allagans and taught the empire how to control eikons a la Summoner.
As for who all was at war with the Allagans? While we only know specifically of Meracydia being the Allagan's long-standing enemy, nearing the end of the empire's thousand-plus year reign their territories began rebelling against them. Enter Phlegethon:
Rammbroes Wrote:You wish to learn more of Phlegethon? Certainly. His story is quite compelling...
In Phlegethon's day, he was but a mortal man who sought to bring revolution to the Allagan Empire. The empire lasted more than a thousand years, but that is not to say its reign was entirely peaceful. It was especially during the later days of its supremacy that imperial rule found itself under constant challenge. Famous even among these endless conflicts was the rebellion led by the mighty general Phlegethon. Imperial annals paint him as a murderous villain, but the writings of the commonfolk reveal Phlegethon's status as a hero of the people.
Adored though he was, the revolutionary leader was eventually captured by agents of the empire. Scholarly records give a chilling account of how his body was forcibly altered through sorcery and science, his mind broken and conditioned to obey. An example was made of Phlegethon, a hideous warning of the fate that awaited those who refused to kneel.
