History of Metafalss

The history of Metafalss is actually their hard path towards the realization of Metafalica. And that is because no matter the age in which the people lived, the hope always existed in their hearts.

=The Origins of Metafalss=

During the First Era, the nations that acted as the main rulers of the world were the main kingdom of El Duel and its 48 allied nations, which formed the nation of Sol Cluster. Still, while the nation of Sol Ciel wasn't a large state, it prospered thanks to its high degree of technological advancement. Given that the people of all these nations had a very materialistic outlook of the world, they developed hearts that were pretty much insatiable for many aspects. However, among them, there was another nation whose culture didn't develop materialism as their central way of thinking, called Metafalss, which lived isolated from all the other regions for most of its history.

This nation was populated by people whose outlook on life was very spiritualist, since a long time before the discovery of Sound Science. Because of that, it was left behind by the materialistic superior civilizations leaded by Sol Cluster, but that doesn't mean at all that their spiritualist level and civilization were being what delayed their technological advancing. Rather, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the nobility of the ideals of the people that lived in Metafalss was the highest that existed in the world.

The Teachings of Metafalss
Even though the ideologies of the Metafalssians were pretty religious at their core, they didn't have any images. And even though the ones that had the strongest power in Song Magic were the Tsukikanade (Moon Chanters) called the Twelve Sages, which were on charge of the political matters in the land, there weren't any true hierarchical relationships. Even the lowest of the countrymen had their lives guaranteed by the government, and the individual efforts of the people were remunerated in proportion to their extent. There was almost no crime, and thanks to this peace, the culture in Metafalss prospered to levels that no other region in the world could even dream of achieving. The people in Metafalss lived believing that the Songs were within themselves, and they also believed that the strength of their Songs, called the Wave Level (which we know as Cosmosphere Level from Wave Science), would allow them to receive more power the more their wave levels rose. [The power of a Song is made from the contribution of an individual, while the power of an strong Song is made from the contributions of everyone]. Such were the teachings that the people received since they were young children, and also, given that the neighbors used to plow the cultivating fields for each other, they also did their best at researching the Songs and the heart for the sake of their neighbors. In the Metafalssian civilization, the quantity of material inheritances was extremely low, and this was because this land wasn't very active when it comes to producing material goods. [If mankind receives the blessing of being able to harness the Songs, they won't need to rely into materials things anymore. Even if the people try to make things for themselves, by doing so, they are destroying the trees and stones they use as their fundamental materials, which goes against the Providence of the World]. That is what was handed down in this culture. Because of that, there wasn't any building in it aside from the bare minimum, and they didn't have any weapons beside their Song Magic. And once the other regions began to desperately research under the terms of Wave Science, Metafalss focused in the mutual understanding with the Will of Ar Ciel through the Hymmnos language, which developed independently from Sol Cluster and all of the other regions. This was how the form of the Hymmnos language we call the [Metafalss Note] was created, having the Twelve Sages as its main creators. This Note was special because it displayed an strong, yet delicate power that the other regions weren't able to replicate. It was said that this power was able of making even complicated things, such as [Creating something out from nothingness]. However, given that something like this would require an absurd level of mind power and pure feelings, it had an extremely low success rate. The Metafalss Note is still used for many things in the current times; and it's still recognized as the most powerful note, but given that it's made from archaic words, now it's known under the name of [Ancient Metafalss Note].

The Utopia of Metafalica
This was something that started around the beginning of year 3000, when the lack of habitable land became an increasingly grave problem to the people because of the continued increase in population. Even the government began to become inefficient in solving this problem, leading to an increase in the dissatisfaction of the people. There were even people that supported the idea of clearing more land by cutting down the forests, but that idea was viewed as a taboo by the Metalfassian society, and as such, it was turned down. That was the announcement of the end of the peaceful times. Meanwhile, they continued researching steadily the Metafalss Note, and they reached the conclusion that it was possible to create matter of enormous proportions through the Hymmnos language. This fact gave hope to the people, and became the driving force for the feelings they were putting in their new land and sky. A land floating in the sky, created by the Hymmnos language, which would be expanded through Song Magic, and nurtured by the Songs... That was the Song Magic that everyone dreamed with at the time, which would let them to create a new land and sky. Given that it was a land made by the people of Metafalss, for the people of Metafalss, they ended calling it [Metafalica]. However, given that the Hymmnos language of the time required to continue singing without pause to maintain the physical shape of the created matter, especially for creating something as enormous as a continent, its creation ended in a complete failure. The realization of Metafalica also brought a great number of distresses to the people, and at this stage, it was nothing more than an absurd, empty dream.

=The First Era - The Prelude to the Present=

The history after the discovery of Sound Science is divided into three great periods, called the First, the Second, and the Third Eras. In these, the First Era was the one that extended from the discovery of Sound Science until the Grathnode Inferia catastrophe, during which Metafalss was still ruled by its Twelve Sages and its spiritual ideologies. The raise and decay of its civilization, its firsts contact with El Elemia and the rest of the outside world, and finally, the construction of the Second Tower, all were facts that happened during this great historical period. Furthermore, in relation to how the Eras are divided, the 3772 year is seen from the viewpoint of the chronology that was established in Sol Ciel. In Metafalss, no one thinks or knows that the period of time after the Grathnode Inferia is divided into the Second and Third Eras.

Start of Project Metafalica (3016~3032)
At 3032, a delegation of the city of El Elemia, located in the region of Sol Ciel, came to Metafalss. At the time, there were very few people that knew about the emerging nation of El Elemia, but the Sound Science technologies that they brought with them caused a great shock in Metafalss. Even though the conservatives opposed to this, they were ignored, and finally, El Elemia and Metafalss began working together. This was the biggest transition phase for Metafalss. As for El Elemia, they acquired a very powerful weapon thanks to the polishing of the Metafalss Note, given that it was a kind of Hymmnos language created by methods that they, who indulged so much into Wave Science, would have never thought of. However, in exchange for giving to Metafalss their cooperation and sharing their Sound Science technologies, the Elemians demanded the Metafalss Note to be disclosed to the public. Thanks to these collateral exchanges it was that El Elemia lent to Metafalss one of the newest results of their technologies: their Second Reyvateil Origin, Frelia. Both nations agreed to start a conjunct project that used the powers of Frelia, and thus said project, under the name of [Project Metafalica], was setup. The Project started with the construction of a Symphonic Power Amplification Tower of [Ar tonelico] over the land of Metafalss.

The Development of Sol Marta
Sol Marta is an artificial satellite, whose name translates to "Motherly Light" in the Hymmnos language. It works as an amplifier for the powers of Song Magic, and also, as an artifact that emits Dynamic Waves of a great energy and strength, and we can see the intensity of the feelings of these waves given that they were used for a feat such as creating a Tower. Sol Marta was designed as a project whose functions were amplifying the powers of the songs that use the Metafalss Note by the nation of El Elemia, and its development began after the Elemians learned about the Metafalss Note. However, at that time, the Elemians were more than convinced that the project would be success, given that around that time they also started working in the development of the Reyvateils, and they ended becoming the preamble to the construction of Sol Marta. Its development was continued in the remote region of Metafalss, and finally, around year 3037, its core part was completed, and it was sent to the atmosphere the following year. Once there, Frelia started her works on constructing the Tower, using the Divine Drafters that were created by Sol Marta and herself.

Project Metafalica
Frelia's singing has special abilities. Given that she was programmed to sing using the Metafalss Note as much as she wants, she is able to continue singing at optimal conditions without needing even a minute of resting in compensation. The people were completely sure that as long as Frelia was with them, the creation of the land, better said, of Metafalica, would be a reality.

However, both nations had different goals on mind. In contrast to the wishes of Metafalss of creating the green land they sought for so long, the goals of El Elemia were the construction of another Tower (Ar tonelico). Because of that, it was decided that the Tower would be built first, and the green land would come later on, thus ending the disputes. Given that Frelia would be in charge of the plans for constructing such a massive structure, the Project ended being called [Project Metafalica], following the legends of Metafalss.

The Reyvateil Origin "Frelia"
Frelia is the second Reyvateil that was created in the world, namely, the second one of the Reyvateil Origins. Given that the first Origin Eolia (Shurelia) was a Reyvateil created specifically for Administrating the Tower of Ar tonelico, she is the only Reyvateil Origin that has the special I/O interfaces for connecting directly to the Tower, allowing her to become one with the Tower, as it was the goal of her creator. However, the goals for the second Reyvateil that was developed, Frelia, were to create a Tower in the land of Metafalss through her singing. The Reyvateil Origins are created immediately after their nurturing process in a Tripolar Resonance Incubator is complete. After around one year, they come out from the Incubator with an appearance equivalent to the one that a 6-year old human child would have, and after around 12 years, they reach their critical state (maturity). Frelia (Hymn Code: FRELIA_ANSUL_SOL=MARTA) was sent over to Metafalss when she was still on the early stages of her development, and because of that, when she still had her 6 years old initial appearance, she was raised as a Reyvateil Origin without an Hymn Code. The SOL=MARTA part that is contained in her current Code alludes directly to the artificial satellite (Sol Marta) that was planned to be used in Project Metafalica. When Frelia finally arrived at Metafalss, the voices that greeted her weren't warm at all. That was because the people in Metafalss had fixated an enormous emphasis in their spiritualist mentalities, and as such, they looked at the science from El Elemia as mere aberrations. Obviously, the existence of a life form created through science, as Frelia was, only gave to them uneasiness, and everyone felt exactly like that because of how much this land honored its traditions. However, the Twelve Sages of Metafalss welcomed Frelia as one of them, and they even let her attend school so the people would grow accustomed to her presence. Still, that didn't have the desired results, since Frelia ended growing up persecuted by the people of Metafalss. Only one thing saved Frelia from these dark days, and that was the existence of the person that acted as a mediator between her and the people: Jaza. Frelia and Jaza shared their hearts with each other, and she taught Frelia that no matter how hard the situation was, she should always go through life with an smile. That she should accept everyone, love everyone, and forgive everyone. Jaza was one of the very few people that new the true essence of these teachings, since the majority of the people were corrupted already in these times. After that, Frelia managed to make friends with others of her same age. However, her best friend was the only son of Sage Crijaba: Enja. He and Frelia shared their hearts with each other, and though his shape changed with the time, both continued spending their days together forever.

Sol Marta Elevates to the Skies (3033~3040)
The original plans were that Frelia was to be sent to the exosphere together with Sol Marta as soon as she reached the age of 18 years. After she was sent over to Metafalss immediately after her creation, she attended school together with the local children. However, five years later, when Frelia reached the age of 11 years, a notification from El Elemia arrived, ordering Frelia to be sent to the exosphere at once. As a consequence of moving the plans forward seven years ahead of their original timeframe, the project was accomplished in an imperfect way. Because Sol Marta was left incomplete, it wasn't equipped with the necessary facilities that allowed it to gather and produce Symphonic Power by itself. Instead, it would have to depend entire on the First Tower for its energy supply, but despite this, Frelia went on to the exosphere, riding on Sol Marta. She was accompanied by a maintenance droid that also doubled up as Frelia's guardian, whose name was decided by the great sage that was going to be remembered forever in Metafalss: Jaza. At the time, Jaza was the woman that was in charge of Frelia and her relationships with the people, and she pleaded to the directives, as the representative of Metafalss that they allowed the droid to accompany Frelia in Sol Marta.

Rhaki and Jaza
Frelia embarked in Sol Marta together with Rhaki thanks to Jaza, however, this exposed her to danger almost immediately. This was because Rhaki, as Frelia's guardian, was programmed to exterminate anything that she considered as a threat to Frelia. And this was because Jaza didn't listen to the explanations that the El Elemia engineers gave to her. Once Rhaki's program was initialized, it was obvious that it would kill off Jaza, but.... she still chose Rhaki as Frelia's guardian because the Miko clothes that covered her body gave her the appearance of a lovely girl, and she didn't seem like a danger at all, at first glance. However, her combat capabilities are extremely high, to the extent that no living human would be able to match her alone. Even if she was constantly putting her life at risk by getting close to Frelia, Jaza always lived alongside her, giving her all of her. However, these days soon reached their end. 702 days after the ascent started, Jaza received terrible news from El Elemia via Rhaki. The project that El Elemia made was planned in such a way that Metafalica would never exist after all. The Second Tower, which was still under construction at the time, would be completely destroyed four years after that day. Metafalss was deceived by them. Since Jaza saw important information with the highest level of secrecy, Rhaki was ordered by El Elemia to pursuit and attack her with all of her powers, until Jaza fell dead. Given that Jaza didn't have any ways to fight back against Rhaki, she barely got into an escape pod, and successfully got away from Sol Marta, arriving to the top of the Tower, still in construction. Meanwhile, Rhaki just told Frelia that [Jaza has returned to the surface]. However, at this time, Jaza had already taken away in secret the program that stimulated Frelia's growth: the D-Cellophane.

Onwards to the Construction of the Second Tower
The construction (creation) of the Tower began in 3038, together with the ascension of Sol Marta. It began when Frelia started up the rotation of the three great Rings, which worked as her drafting tools, and crafted an horizontal one. She created the Tower by using these Rings. While Frelia sung her special song, EXEC_VISIONDANCE=SOCKET/.,inside of Sol Marta, she also danced. And following the movements of that fairy-like, and beautiful dance, the 3 Rings lightly rotated, using the horizontal one as their pivot. Then, the [Tower] began to form in the air, without even a little discrepancy from how it was designed in the blueprints. The vertical rotating Rings would continue doing this until they had completed the Tower, and only at that moment they would collide into each other, to fall off afterwards. The Tower was created little by little through this miraculous act, though its advancement was also sped up. The beautiful movements of the Rings were called at the time the [Dance of the Heavenly Fairy], and it became the main conversation topic for the people.

The Grathnode Inferia
In 3040, an unprecedented crisis happened upon the world. Because of the subversive activities of the Terus that were dispatched by El Duel, the First Tower, which was what gave to El Elemia its great prosperity, was silenced. However, this caused the Symphonic Power of the Tower to run wild, initiating the catastrophe. The great quantity of plasma that was released by the Grathnode Discs into the sky formed a plasma sea called the Blastline, and the land of Sol Ciel was shattered into bits. Furthermore, from the remains of the land, a great quantity of poisonous gas seeped out, and formed the Sea of Death that currently covers the entirety of the world. As a consequence of this catastrophe, called the Grathnode Inferia, all of the people in Sol Ciel became unable to continue living in anywhere that wasn't part of the Tower or its surroundings. The damages caused by the Grathnode Inferia also extended to very faraway lands, and the land of Metafalss also received a great damage. At the time, Frelia was working at an astounding speed with her duty of creating the Tower, and in just 2 years, she had already completed around 1/4 of it. But when the Grathnode Inferia occurred, the Sea of Death crossed over the boundary where the three Rings that Frelia was manipulating for the creation of the Tower were located, and from that day onwards, the Rings became inoperable.

=The Second Era: Infel Phira and the War Against the Goddess=

Because of the worst catastrophe that occurred since the dawn of history, the Grathnode Inferia, the world completely changed. The development of the world greatly ended stagnating, and many precious technologies were lost. Its influence also left a great mark for the future generations, given that the ages that came after Grathnode Inferia were classified as the [Second Era] in many history books. It was in this Era that Metafalss took upon itself the challenge for developing Metafalica. Important events such as the completion of Infel Phira, and the War Against the Goddess, which also left their marks in the generations posterior to them, all happened during this period of time.

Reunion with Enja
Jaza saw the coming of the Grathnode Inferia from the top of the Tower, and on that same place, she collapsed and lost her consciousness. When she came about, there were a great number of people around her: the Twelve Sages, and the boy the was Frelia's friend, Enja. Also, and what surprised her the most, were the faces of many Reyvateils. She was told by them that they had been sent to Metafalss from El Elemia the past year. There were in total 33 Reyvateils, and thanks to them having learned to sing in the Metafalss Note, they were even able of feats such as creating trees from the air. It was felt by the people afterwards that if it were for the power of their Song Magic, they wouldn't had been able to recover from the catastrophe. However, the situation got worse. Because Metafalss was so far from El Elemia, which was the epicenter of the catastrophe, this region wasn't completely covered by the Sea of Death until around ten years later. However, the surface began to gradually fill with poisonous clouds of sand and smoke, and slowly, the environment became unhabitable for the people. The people fell dead one by one, and because the Tower was a man-made structure, with no vegetation or trees, they had to go back down the Tower to collect food, and then hurry back up, and the toxicity of the Sea of Death increased with the passing of the time. Definitively, the situation in Metafalss got harsher than ever.

The Times of Chaos
Jaza had strong motivations to go defeat Rhaki and bring back Frelia. However, she also saw the plans of El Elemia at Sol Marta, in which she learned that they intended to destroy the Second Tower in 3045 AD, and furthermore, she also saw the implications that would bring now this world had moved onto the next era literally devastated. The Second Tower was now the place where everyone in Metafalss lived, and its destruction was something that should be avoided at all costs. Jaza told about the conspiracy of Elemia to the people, and her speech about it was then propagated among the people, known under the name of [Jaza's Prediction]. However, no one wanted to believe these words, and everyone just gave her strange looks. Jaza didn't ever get any supporters in her efforts to preserve the Second Tower, and when the 3045 AD year passed without any major incidents, no one wanted even to be associated with Jaza anymore.

Sol Marta, Isolated
The Grathnode Inferia brought complete isolation to Sol Marta. Given that El Elemia received a devastating shock from the catastrophe, all kinds of telecommunication from the surface came to an end. To Frelia, the creation of the Tower was the most fun of experiences, so when she noticed she couldn't make the Rings rotate anymore, she fell into a boredom from which nothing could get her out. Feeling pity for Frelia, Rhaki began teaching her about all the scientific knowledge she had recorded. From that, Frelia discovered about the existence of Cold Sleep Pods. So Frelia began singing, crafting a pod around her, and fell asleep inside of it, continuing to do so until [That day] came. Soon enough, the area around where the pod was began to change. Land appeared over the metallic floor, and grass and trees began sprouting from it. And now, 700 years after that, Sol Marta is covered in greenness, effectively turned into an small land floating through the space. And that could be because that was the closest Frelia imagined how the Tower would originally be, had it been completed.

The Feelings of Enja and Jaza
Jaza prepared herself for the events that would happen on 3045, though at the end, nothing happened. She even continued living this kind of life despite all of the people siding against her, and even then, she continued acting as she thought it was the best. And to make everything worse, around this time the immigrants from Elemia and the Metafalssians began to quarrel, and these disputes became more frequent with the passing of time. At the time, the population ratio of Elemians and Metafalssians living in this land were 3 Elemians per each 7 Metafalssians. What could be built of the Second Tower was thanks to the collaborative efforts of the Metafalssians, Elemians, and a minority of the Teru, yet the Elemians still claimed that given their great knowledge of Wave Science, they were originally entitled to the complete administration of the Tower, and at the end, the authority was indeed given to them. Because of their advanced technologies, it didn't pass much time before they started acting as if they were the owners of the entire place. And yet then, the people were dying because of the starvation and the fights between themselves. The harsh environment of the Tower caused a sharp decrease in the total population of Metafalss, and even in the current times, it's the cause of death for some of the people. And during this, the Elemians continued seizing day by day more power for them, and it would have seem that the Elemians would end up construction a community where they would be ruling over the Metafalssians. Yet still, Jaza didn't give up. During many years, she continued fighting alone. The days passed, and when she began getting old, a sole supporter appeared for her. The person that was closest to her before the great catastrophe, who at the time was just a boy constantly scolded by his parents: Enja. 13 years had passed since them, and Enja had grown to become a fine man. Given Jaza was isolated, and treated as an heretic, Enja needed to have quite a lot of courage to help her, yet still, he was decided to press on. There was just one thing he regretted, and he had decided he couldn't leave this past error without being repaired. Enja always believed the words of Jaza. She once told him that this world would be destroyed, and that Frelia was in crisis. Since he knew what kind of person Jaza was since he was a child, he never doubted her words. However, his own weakness got in the way of him telling his true feelings to his most important person until now. Frelia was that kind of an special person to Enja. If they could meet again, he would apologize to her, even through only one word. Because he heard she was coming down after a few years, he thought it would be all right to wait until then, but that day never came. If what Jaza said was true, he would never be able to meet with Frelia again. Because of that, Jaza and Enja worked together to reach Sol Marta. So he could give at least a one-word apology to Frelia. So he could express to her his true feelings, without his body betraying him again.

Selena, the Collaborator
When Jaza got beyond 40 years old, she noticed that her body was deteriorating with the passing of time. While Frelia, as a Reyvateil Origin, could continue living forever, Rhaki would only continue moving as long her Symphonic Power source lasted. However, Jaza's own life also had a limit. Once she died, there wouldn't be any left that could warn the people about the crisis this Tower faced. And also, once Sol Marta became impossible to see without a telescope, the ages would pass, and it would disappear from the memories of everyone. However, the facts of the crisis that threatened this world, as well Frelia being left behind in Sol Marta were thing that wouldn't change, even in the farthest future, and would always continue like this. Jaza knew she didn't have much time left. She was about to succumb to despair, when a new collaborator appeared. It was an engineer that worked together with Enja, called Selena. She also was one of the Reyvateils that came from El Elemia, called a Pureblooded Beta-type. Selena heard the things that Enja told her, and then she offered her help to them. Her sincerity made Jaza overlap Frelia's image over hers, and trusting in her, she showed to Selena the possession she treasured the most. That was the D-Cellophane of Frelia, which Jaza brought back from Sol Marta. They tried extracting Selena's D-Cellophane and Installing Frelia's into her. For some time, it seemed that there was nothing different about her, until a certain day, she suffered an unexpected change. As if Selena had been completely possessed by Frelia, her consciousness turned into Frelia's consciousness. Then, Frelia talked to Jaza, as if they hadn't been separated for much time. It might just have been that Selena's body moved by itself because she had the same Spectrum Gene as Frelia, however, it truly was Frelia the one that was talking. This is how Jaza learned that Frelia continued sleeping at the current time, and that Rhaki was currently at her side. By Installing Frelia's D-Cellophane into herself, Selena was able to become Frelia as much as she liked. This served to Jaza and her group to learn about many cutting-edge Wave Science technologies from Frelia, and these technologies and knowledge are what put the poor land of Metafalss into the way to its salvation. Naturally, because of this, many people came to Jaza's side.

To be continued...