Rendacia is a continent of the world of Astoltia in Dragon Quest X. and homeland of the Human race, although many other settlements can also be found on other continents and islands. After it has been upgraded, the Mega Zoomstone can be used to Zoom to the major locations of both the Real and False Rendacia.
Description[]
In its great inland sea, a small island, named Made isle can be found, as well as another island home of The village of Tenton; once, five-thousand years ago, beside this isle, a much bigger one could be found, the Great Etene Island, home of a great kingdom known for its uncanny alchemical prowess and ability to manipulate time, due to their ancestors having unjustly stolen this power from the peaceful alien creature Kyurex. After barely dodging a great cataclism by leaping forward in time, the Great Etene Island have now reappeared in the present day.
In the proper continent of Rendacia, a great and prosperous kingdom, named Grand Zetannia can be found. Other locations include the kingdom of Al-Agun, the Gyra Jungle, the village of Mersandi, the town of Seled, Alltrades Abbey, and many others. However, some of them more out-of-reach locations can only be visited thanks to the use of a flying dragon mount, a hatchling that the Hero themselves retrived and hatched from its egg.
Rendacia was partially protected from evil by four sacred relics, the God's Scarlet Stones, created by the patron deity of humans, Grand Zenus, with his own blood. Originally, they were so powerful that Demons couldn't even touch them, let alone damage them; unfortunately, over the course of time, just like many other things sustained by the powers of the seven patron deities, the power of the Scarlet Stones weakened, leading to the Great Demon King Maldragora to target them in order to allow his false copy of Rendacia to erode the real one and take its place. One of them, stored in a temple dedicated to Grand Zenus at Solaria Canyon was destroyed by Demon Marshal Zerudorado and the resurrected and brainwashed Tomas, now a Dark Hero. Luckily, the power of the hero, also a gift to humans by Zenus, could be used to replenish their original power, leading to the current hero, Anlucia, accompanied by her ally, the Hero, to search for the remaining three Scarlet Stones. To do so however, Anlucia would first have to learn the secret arts of breaking evil, combat skills devised by the past generations of heroes, and now preserved by the members of the Crown of Wisdom for the future generations. Another Scarlet Stone was kept safe in the back of Alltrades Abbey, having been entrusted to the God of Vocations after Zenus fell into his slumber; the stone came under the threat of Phantom General Fuzzma, but fortunately, the Hero and Anlucia were able to protect the stone and replenish its power. The third Scarlet Stone was stored in the Pyramid in the desert kingdom of Al-Agun, with the monstrous spider Gejura targeting it, but once again the forces of Maldragora were stopped and the stone was recharged. The last of the Scarlet Stones was hidden in the near proximity of the hot spring near the village of Mersandi, with the demonic sisters Belinda and Brenda in search for it; once more, the timely intervention of the Hero and Anlucia allowed the stone to be saved and recharged.
However, due to the destruction of the Scarlet Stone located there, Solaria Canyon was eventually dragged into the False Rendacia, swapping place with the twisted region created by Maldragora. This twisted region, as well as the castle built by Maldragora there, are still visitable in Real Rendacia, while the Solaria Canyon, now a part of the false world, can be still found there.
Rendacia is also the location where a hidden village of Dragons could be found, them being the last remaing ones on Astoltia after most of their kind was sealed away alongside their home, the floating continent of Nagaland, in a pocket dimension beyond the Abyss Gate. Only after the seal was lifted Dragons began once again settling in the rest of the world.
False Rendacia[]
Eventually, during one of the many demonic invasions of Astoltia, Maldragora the Worldbreaker, the Great Demon King at the time, formulated a plan to re-create Astoltia and substitute it with a fake copy made by him, starting with Rendacia. Having been created by tapping into Goddess Luciana's very own Power of Creation, this semi-illusory False Rendacia, survived his defeat, albeit barely, still remaining connected to Astoltia, and effectively became yet another pocket dimension, after being judged by the Celestrians of being worthy of continuing existing after being convinced by the Hero.
False Rendacia is very similar to its real counterpart, but there are some subtle differences the closer one looks, like the absence of Made Isle in the inner sea, a room missing in Grand Zetannia's castle, and so on. Furthrmore, because Maldragora lacked inspiration at the time, and was slain before he could reasume, several locations of False Rendacia remained "Unfinished". The Vortex of Creation, from which Maldragora poured the stolen Luciana's Power of Creation and created the false land, can be reached from a cave on the false version of the Isle of Tenton.
The people of False Rendacia are fairly mixed in origin, as some were transported from the Real Rendacia without they realizing it, some of them even becoming monsters in the process, some were recently deceased souls that failed to properly pass into the afterlife and instead continued to live on in the False Rendacia like nothing had ever happened, and others were instead directly created by Maldragora when he made the false land, having memories of a past they in truth did not live; some of the latters were created by taking inspiration from fictional stories, like Zang.
Initially exclusively requiring the mystical Brave stone in order to travel between the real and false Rendacia, as it allowed to use a set of pillars set near important locations, to connect with their counterparts in the False Rendacia, eventually the major locations of False Rendacia became easily reachable, like the ones of the real Rendacia, thanks to the use of the Mega Zoomstone, once this item has been upgraded, making them quickly accessible. Furthermore, after the relative sidequest's completion, the flying dragon mount, previously only usable on real Rendacia, also becomes available in the false continent.
There is a slight time distortion between the rest of Astoltia and False Rendacia, with the latter being in the past compared to Astoltia; as a result of such gap, some slight paradoxes occurred. The most important one of such paradoxes was when the Hero, who at the time had just reincarnated as a member of one of the other races, were saved from the forces of evil by a mysterious, mightily bright light shooting into the sky; this light was later revealed to having been the awakening of Princess Anlucia as the Hero, an awakening that the Hero from Tenton had brought forward themselves when they visited the False Rendacia, and restored Anlucia's missing memories.
Appearances[]
Dragon Quest X[]
This is the overworld of Version 2's story.
Trivia[]
- The concept of an illusory copy of a real landscape, originally created by an evil entity, only for it to go on after its creator's demise and eventually becoming "real", was later explored again in Dragon Quest Builders 2 though the Illusory World of Hargon.