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The Great Etene Island is a major island of the world of Astoltia in Dragon Quest X, and home of the great Etene Kingdom. Even when it was transported to the present day, its related fast-travel object sill remained the Time-Trotter's Trinket, although some of its locations can be reached instead with the Mega Zoomstone.
Overview[]
One of the major topological differences from present day Astoltia, was the presence in the past of another big isle amidst the inland sea of Rendacia, the Great Etene Island, who once stood next to the smaller Made Island, and the island later known as Tenton Island.
The people of the Great Etene Kingdom were known for their uncanny alchemical prowess and ability to manipulate time, due to their ancestors having unjustly stolen this power from the peaceful alien creature Kyurex. Eventually, the stolen time power became a malevolent being named Kyronos who, desiring to become a deity of time and wipe out all life, began travelling through the timeline to gather power. While he, as well as the various people who, with their sometimes questionably amoral actions, tried to stop him, did cause several temporal paradoxes all across various time periods of the history of Astoltia, Kyronos was nevertheless eventually stopped, and Kyururu became one with the flow of time of Astoltia.
However, the reckless manipulation of time done by the people of Tenton, combined with the chaos produced by Kyronos, resulted in the prosperous kingdom being threatened by an unstoppable catastrophic impact of a giant meteor; in order to save the kingdom, the island was ultimately transported ahead into the future by its Princess, Mereade.
Meanwhile, some of Etene's survivors, who were not transported forward in time with the rest of the island, instead fled to the second biggest island of Rendacia's inland sea during the disaster, founding the small village of Tenton. For these survivors, over time the power of time became weaker and weaker with each generation, eventually becoming something only spoken in legend, while alchemy remained their pride and joy. One day, in this very same village, the child of Padre, the younger brother of Great Etene's last king, would appear out of nowhere due to one of the many time anomalies caused by the abuse of such power. Here, they would be raised by kind foster parents alongside another child as siblings, and both of them would later play major roles in the shaping of Astoltia's history, including, but not limited to, stopping Kyronos.
Eventually, five-thousand years after the great disaster, the Great Etene Island, its kingdom, and its inhabitants reappeared one day out of nowhere back in the current era, and they began being involved with the affairs of the modern world once more. One day, shortly after the threat of the Jia Kut Clan had been stopped once and for all, Mereade held an unveiling ceremony, meant as a way to reintroduce the Great Etene Island back into the present day politics of the world; however, for reasons unknown many people from Astoltia began disappearing one by one, completely forgotten by their friends and family as if they had never existed at all, including the Hero's biological mother, Marone. Having assisted powerless to the disappearance, the Hero was then approached by a mysterious magician named Porte, who lead them to a different world named Zenias,