Will of the Planet

Ar Ciel

As every single being in the universe of EXA_PICO, the planet Ar Ciel has a Will too, however, it's composed of an aggregate of several high-leveled consciousnesses, each one having an specific role and function in the maintenance and preservation of the life in the planet. Due to their great powers, the inhabitants of Ar Ciel worship them as Gods and the Wills themselves have also manifested in the physical world, either by possessing a person, or by being born as a human, to help with the development of the human civilization, as well trying to keep it from overpopulating the planet's surface. While the Planet has a theoretically infinite number of wills, the main wills that compose its consciousness are listed in the following table:

Name	Name in Kanji and Meaning	Lineage	Role in the Myths	Current Role as a Will	Represents in Cartology
Ciela = Horus	(Doesn't have one).	Land	Discovered near the end of the First Era. Doesn't appear in any myths.	Governs the entirety of the Ar Ciel's physical structure (D-Wave phenomena)	N/A
Nayudara = Juklizda	那由他羅 (Creator of Myriads)	Sky	Sun god	Light, radiation, preservation of the stratosphere	January / First Moon
Rokkan = Clyuue	六冠 (Six Crowns)	Souls	King of kings, lord of the gods	Core of the wills, controller of U waves	February / Second Moon
Soutentei = Soreile	蒼天帝 (Blue Heaven Emperor)	Sky	God of the skies and wind	Weather control, atmospheric maintenance	March / Third Moon
Koudeinomikoto = Listea	紅禰命 (Lord of the Crimson Shrine)	Souls	God of weapons and battle	Control of H-Wave interference, mediation, natural selection	April / Fourth Moon
Saranoyomei = Shelanoir	沙羅世命 (Master of the Sal Tree World)	Land	God of plants, forests, and life	Plant-centric god of creation	May / Fifth Moon
Deiji = Dijya	泥路 (Mud Road)	Sky	God of mountains and volcanoes	Oversees mantle convection, minerals, the earth, etc.	June / Sixth Moon
Reishiki = Lere (Rere)	零獅姫 (Princess of Zero Beasts)	Land	God of souls and the material world	Primary god of creation, controls H-Waves	July / Seventh Moon
Sakiyarumei = Saki	咲夜琉 (Shining Life That Blooms at Night)	Land	God of salvation, life	Animal-centric god of creation	August / Eighth Moon
Datenkou = Salapator (Sarapatra)	墜天后 (Fallen Heaven Empress)	Souls	Goddess of love, god of downfall	H-wave interference, harmony, resonance	September / Ninth Moon
Soumanomiya = Soma	蒼痲ノ宮 (Residence of the Blue Measles)	Sky	Violent god of catastrophes	Balance through natural selection, maintenance of the world	October / Tenth Moon
Sashanomiya = Sasya (Sasha)	沙々ノ宮 (Residence of Gold Dust)	Souls	God of civilization and knowledge	Oversees D-waves and material order	November / Eleventh Moon
Suzunomiya = Hymmnosphere	珠洲ノ宮 (Residence of the Milky Way)	Souls	God of song and creation	Mother of all 3D substance, controls D-waves	December / Twelfth Moon
Kokura = Filament	黒螺 (Black Whelk)	Sky	God of death and poverty	Overseer of balance for world preservation	N/A
Gurentei = Yurishica	紅蓮帝 (Crimson Lotus Emperor)	Land	God of fire and civilization	Revelation and encouragement of human advancement	N/A
Ar Ru	(Doesn't have one).	Land	Born after the First Era. Doesn't appear in any myths.	Creation and control of the Antibodies.	N/A

Note: The first name is the one given to them by the humans, while the second name is their true name. Additionally, while Ciela is indeed a representation of the Will Horus, she is also composed of several other Wills, Clyuue and Juklizda included among them. It's just that Horus forms the core of her existence.

As shown in the table above, all of the Wills belong to a determinate Lineage, which indicates to which Wills they are subordinate, or more straightforwardly, which Wills are parents to which. All of the Wills can have their origins traced back to the three Wills of Origin: Horus, Juklizda and Clyuue, which were the first Wills of Ar Ciel, and the founders of the Earth, Sky and Soul lineages, respectively. However, if any of the Wills of Origin were to die, then all of the Wills that are children to it would perish as well. This is what would happen a few years after the events of Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel to Horus due to her extreme weakening, which was caused by the planet's surface being destroyed by the Grathnode Inferia. In this same example, if Horus dies, all the other Land Wills will perish as well, and this will inevitably lead to the death of the planet and every being living in it, in the event called the Demise of Ar Ciel.

The Wills are divided into two main classes: Modifiers, which are tasked with creating life, and Maintenancers, which are the ones tasked with the preservation of life; and among them, they are also further subdivided into other four subclases: Powers (the Wills of Power), Wisdomes (the Wills of Knowledge), Charities (the Wills of Love), and finally, Hymmers (the Wills of Feelings). They can also change classes depending on the circumstances in which the Planet is at the moment, if they really wish to undergo said change and if the other Wills are in agreement with the change. However, the Will that requests this has to comply with a great number of very severe conditions to be able to perform the change, otherwise, it won't gain the approval of the other Wills, and will disappear. Once a Will has disappeared, it's impossible to bring it back, and another one has to be created in replacement for it.

The Wills of Ar Ciel all live in the Planetary Core, which, as its name says, it's located in the deepest underground areas of the planet.

Ra Ciela

Like all planets, Ra Ciela has it's own collection of Wills as well. The original Wills were destroyed during the events of Ciel nosurge due to the song Ra Ciel Fuser converting the entire planet and the planetary core into a microquasar. Prior to Ra Ciela's rebirth in Ra Ciel Reincarnation, Cosal had already trained to become the Will that served as its core. It is unknown what the names of the other new Wills are.