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Tenseikyo is one of the major landmasses of the world of Astoltia in Dragon Quest X, and homeland of the Celestrian race. Its fast-travel related item is the Soul Candelabra, although its past incarnation, dating way back to Astoltia's origins, can instead be reached thanks to the Time-Trotter's Trinket.
Overview[]
The history of Tenseikyo, as well as the one of Astoltia itself, began on another, far-away world, the Eternal Cradle. There, Gods, Humans, and Celestrians lived in harmony in a near-perfect society; however, one day, the Jia Kut Clan, an interstellar invading force led by the cruel Jia Red Genos, attacked the Cradle to completely drain the Power of Creation that sustained it after Goddess Zenesia invited them since she resented her sister Goddess Luciana and wanted to be Zenus's heir of Creator Deity. The attack from the invaders was devastating, wiping out most of the Celestrian population with just a single blow; in a last ditch-effort, Zenus passed his duties and powers to Luciana, who then fled across the stars with a group of survivors using Tenseikyo as a space vessel, while he sealed Zenesia in the Waldo Region's Big Tree's Bird Cage as punishment for her sins in the hopes she would repent. During the voyage, which took many years, the humans, being too fragile to survive on their own, were progressively transformed by Luciana into Celestrians. Eventually, all the original Celestrians, recognizable from the newer generation by their halo, died out, leaving only one alive.
Finally reaching the primordial Astoltia, Luciana poured her Power of Creation over it, moulding it into a new and fertile world. She then created the first of her children, Nadraga and Eldona, who began the process of creating new sentient races to populate the world, while Luciana herself began to create powerful tools to use against the Jia Kut Clan. Unfortunately, just the night before the creation of a powerful shield that would had masked Astoltia from the Jia Kut Clan eyes forever, one of their members sent to track the Descendants of the Cradle down, Jia Gonuba, later better known as Jagonuba, arrived in his spacecraft, and since then Luciana and her allies at Tenseikyo fought against him and his evil creations, until the conflict finally reached an end.
Tenseikyo, still exist in the present day as floating continent, usually hidden by magic from the eyes of the mortal races. Tenseikyo is mainly composed by five separate major floating islands that surround its biggest city, Fourion, located on its own floating land, and due to the large buildings spread across all the islands, to the people located to the lower Astoltia, the few times they are able to see it, it gives the impression of being a single, giant floating city, while in truth there are some area of wilderness on Tenseikyo, these being the White ash testing ground, the Golden testing ground, the heavily forested Deep green testing ground and the Deep blue testing ground. Interestingly, one of its smaller floating islands was actually originally a small part of Nagaland, before it was moved by the Celestrians. At some point in the past, one of the original floating islands of Tenseikyo, for unknown reason plummeted to the surface world below, becoming an island in the open sea northwest of Rendacia not known by many. This isle contains a monolith, inside of which the eternal souls of deceased Celestrians were laid to rest in the past, before their circle of reincarnation was established, after which the monolith became unused. While depleted, the energy core of isle necessary for floating was still fairly powerful, and was later retrieved to power up an ancient relic from the Eternal Cradle, the Starflight Express.
The ruins of the Celestrians' previous capital city, buried deep beneath the new Fourion, are still tainted to this day with the evil red mist of the catastrophic invasion from the Jia Kut Clan.
This red mist would eventually corrupt some Celestrians, who began plotting a chain of events that eventually caused the destruction of the shield masking Astoltia's existence, and the Jia Kut Clan to once again find the descendants of the Cradle, re-igniting the ancient conflict once more. As part of this scheme, several heroic resurrected souls, which were candidates selected by the Celestrians to receive the deification process, were corrupted by evil; due to this, many of them created mini-pocket dimensions in certain locations, including Tenseikyo, the inside of which memory fragments of their most traumatic memories, their "heart" so to speak, could be freely navigated. Even when the heroes of ages past were purified, or completely passed in the afterlife, these mini alternate spaces still remained accessible for those who knew how to enter them.
After many trials, tribulations, and the sacrifice of many allies, the invasion was stopped, and the Jia Kut Clan, alongside its evil overlord Jia Red Genos, were wiped out completely, never to endanger another world again.
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