#athia

So while I was writing my fic and studying Frey's new outfit closely, I realized that one of the key accessories she now has is a kind of belt? sash? (IDK. I ended up calling it a belt.)

ANYWAY, so if you look closely you can see she has at least two knives: a smaller one near the orangeish pouch on her right side, and on her left you can spot a pretty bigass one that probably has a five or six inch blade.

So where am I going with all this? Given the gear and general outdoors preparedness vibe of it, I've decided to headcanon that Auden's mom Calista had it originally, and Auden has kept it all those years as a kind of sentimental connection, so for her to set Frey up with it just cements how firmly she believes Frey is The One who can help Athia. <3

There are 13 Locked Labyrinths in Athia. And all of them are filled with a Tanta's (Broken) magic.

You'd think they'd be evenly distributed, right? Three for each, one left over so probably given to the oldest/most powerful. But they're not evenly split!

Cinta has five labyrinths, whereas Prav only has two, with Olas and Sila tied at three labyrinths each.

Cinta

East

Hill

Castle

Forest

North

Sila

Barrier

Cliff

Mountain

Olas

Field

West

South

Prav

Mountain Base

Depths

ON JANUARY 24TH, 2023

SQUARE ENIX

& LUMINIOUS PRODUCTIONS

PRESENTS

A NEW AGE OF HEROINE IS UPON US

OUR STORY BEGINS

ON EARTH 🌎

IN A MAJOR METROPOLIS CITY KNOWN AS NEW YORK CITY 🗽

FREY 👩🏿, A YOUNG WOMAN ABANDONED NEAR THE HOLLAND TUNNEL  🚇AS A NEWBORN, APPEARS IN COURT FOR THEFT AND IS SENTENCED TO COMMUNITY SERVICE.

SHE IS AMBUSHED BY THE GANG WHO FORCED HER TO STEAL, BUT ESCAPES TO HER HOUSE 🏠 🏚 AND HER CAT 🐱, HOMER.

THE GANG SETS THE BUILDING ABLAZE🔥, BUT FREY AND HOMER ESCAPE.

NOW HOMELESS, FREY TRUSTS HOMER TO HER SENTENCING JUDGE, AND VISITS HOLLAND TUNNEL🚇 ON HER BIRTHDAY . SHE IS DRAWN TO A STRANGE BANGLE 📿, WHICH ACTIVATES A PORTAL THAT DRAWS HER IN........

FREY IS TRANSPORTED TO THE WORLD 🌎 OF

ATHIA.

THE BANGLE 📿, BONDED TO HER, REVEALS THAT IT IS SENTIENT AND CAN ONLY BE HEARD BY HER.

FREY NAMES HIM "CUFF📿" AND FINDS THAT HE HAS AWAKENED MAGICAL ✨ ABILITIES WITHIN HER. SHE DISCOVERS ATHIA IS OVERRUN BY A MIASMA CALLED THE BREAK, WHICH CORRUPTS ALL LIFE, BUT SHE IS UNAFFECTED BY IT. FREY REACHES THE CITY OF CIPOL, HUMANITY'S REFUGE FROM THE BREAK. 

FREY LEARNS THAT ATHIA WAS ONCE RULED BY THE TANTA'S, FOUR BENEVOLENT SORCERESSES, BUT THEY BEGAN EXUDING THE BREAK AND OPPRESSING THE CITY'S INHABITANTS. 

SHE IS WITHOUT A DOUBT

THEIR ONLY HOPE FOR ATHIA'S SURVIVAL FOR SEEING THE LIGHT SHINE AGAIN

THROUGH THE DARKNESS

ITS TIME FOR A NEW HERO IN THE MAKING TO RISE

&

FIND HER WAY TO FIGHT

SQUARE ENIX ⬛

& LUMINIOUS PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

THE 1ST EVER VIDEOGAME 🎮 TO FEATURE

A BLACK FEMALE AS THE LEADING MAIN CHARACTER IN HER OWN VIDEOGAME

BLACK GIRL MAGIC TIME ✨ 👩🏿🖤✨

ELLA BALINSKA

IS

FREY HOLLAND

IN

FORSPOKEN 👩🏿🖤🤎📿✨ 

HAPPY 1ST ANNIVERSARY TO SQUARE ENIX'S

FORSPOKEN 👩🏿🖤🤎📿✨

If any one could figure out what the red text says that would be great it’s hard to see but it is in Athian. Also looks like a Rheddah soldier mask on a skeleton makes you wonder what happened here…. I’m thinking that each locked labyrinth says something different or has a different symbol on it.

I was looking through the archive entries. And specifically, in the archive entry titled "Remnants of the Rheddig", there was a picture of a tattered war banner.