Editing Elves and Faeries (section)

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Being based on ''Dragon Quest IV'' and with Rose as one of the central characters, elves receive considerably more focus in this spinoff than they did in the 1990 original. Here it is revealed that elves once lived in an ancient kingdom known as [[El Zetta]] on the surface of [[Terrestria]], of which only the ruins of [[El Fayum]] remain. These ancient elves were capable of crossing dimensions through the powerful crystals known as [[travelite]], and [[chronocite]], used to control time and space respectively. At one point, some El Zettians even summoned [[Wyrmsworth]] the wyrmhole dragon and traveled with him through different dimensions.

This civilization would crumble, as some time in the distant past the wicked [[Aamon]] would lead an army of monsters to raze El Zetta to obtain the crystals. Once in his possession, Aamon would drag the ruins of El Zetta deep underground to [[Nadiria]], where he would then curse the queen of the elves to become the very [[Circle of Caprice]] itself as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_loci genius loci]. Her subjects would not be spared, being cursed into becoming mindless [[stone golem]]s that slave away mining the precious [[Penteractic crystal|penteractic crystals]] necessary to create the [[Secret of Evolution]]. A single elf, [[Pierre]], would retain his sentience and plead for {{Psaro C}} and Rose to free his people from Aamon's lieutenant [[Petrarch]], who oversees the mining operation. With Petrarch slain, the stone golems crumble to dust and the souls of the elves are freed.

Much later, after Aamon's plot is exposed and he is defeated in [[Aamon's Sanctum|his sanctum]], the curse he placed on the queen of the elves fades and she returns to her original form. After retrieving the souls of the formerly-cursed elves, she expresses her immense gratitude to the party and presents a piece of white-coloured travelite that will allow them to invade the Upper Echelon of the [[Circle of Conquest]] and take the fight to Psaro's father [[Randolfo]]. The queen also uses the power of the chronocite to create an exact duplicate of the Circle of Caprice for the benefit of the monsters that had unknowingly inhabited her during her curse. The queen wishes the group farewell, and disappears in a flash of light.

The elven power of time and space manipulation is the focus of the post-game, where it is revealed that [[Ludo]]'s mother [[Elshael]] was the living seal that kept the madwoman [[Azabel]] trapped in the depths of the [[The Whispwoods|whispwoods]]. Once the genocidal [[Zenithian]] is slain and Elshael freed, Ludo asks her to use her power to begin creating a utopia in a different dimension freem of the tragedy that plagues Terrestria like a blight. Doing so would destroy the entire material realm, leading to the final stand off against Ludo.

As it turns out, even distant descendants of the El Zettian elves are capable of channeling the power of travelite, as demonstrated when Rose performs a ceremonial dance around a piece and enables [[Rosehill Tower]] to teleport between Terrestria and Nadiria.