The Great Tree of Origins is an enormous ancient tree located at the center of Isle of Seiren, it can only be viewed from the Northern Region. The tree is nestled just below the Gendarme mountain range and is connected to Aegias, the ruined capital of the Kingdom of Eternia. The tree was given birth by the Earth Goddess Maia.
Eternian Culture[]
The Eternians revered the Great Tree of Origins as a divine entity and the very source of Essence. Their religion also centers around it. Lead by a Great Tree Maiden, one of them will be chosen selectively from young candidates, this position would be passed on from generations to generations. The Maiden is also granted by visions that allows her to guide their civilization in ways possible to attain perpetuity.
History[]
The Earth Goddess Maia gave birth to the Great Tree of Origins with its true purpose to only select the most suitable species to prosper into the new world, while the goddess herself sleeps inside the tree. The ancient tree has been there from the 1st Civilization of humanoid creatures that prospered on the island, and by it enacted the first Lacrimosa- ending their civilization and created the next intelligent lifeforms. This has been going on continuously until Adol's Expedition Group ended the cycle in expense of erasing the great tree's history and of the Eternia's civilization from the new world, while Dana replaces its duty as the new Goddess of Evolution.
Only the Warden of Evolution, the Expedition Group, and the Castaway leaders knew the Tree of Origins' purpose. The culture that the Eternian thought of its divinity was taken also as a lie and that it is seen as a threat to the present civilization.
The Eternians, were originally Saurians, and that the present humans inherited the genes of the Eternians with Dana's physique as the Tree's basis.
The Wardens, who were selected by the Tree's will, are the selected individuals from generation to generation. They are cursed to see the Lacrimosa fulfilled and knows all that lives on earth are doomed for its will.
In Games[]
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana[]
The castaways of the Lombardia signify the start of the current generation's Lacrimosa. Especially with Adol's arrival, who is chosen by the tree as its new Warden.
After the castaways learn the true purpose of the Origin Tree, Adol and the expedition group decide to stop the Lacrimosa. With the help of the Tree of Psyche, the expedition group forges the Mistletein, a mystical sword made from the energies nurtured from the last generation, and symbolizes its defiance to the Tree of Origin's will.
In the aftermath of the tree's demise, the world started to collapse as the Lacrimosa and the tree were integral parts of the world's existence. To prevent the world from disappearing, Dana sacrifices her own life and the Misteltein's power to reawaken the sleeping goddess from her slumber - ultimately erasing the existence of the Great Tree of Origins.
Dana's existence is erased from the memories of the current generation, except Adol and the expedition group. Nevertheless, she is resurrected by the Goddess Maia to become the Goddess of Evolution, with the former wardens as her cohorts.