The Hundred Years' War (百年戦争) was a conflict between the Kingdom of Gllia and Britai. The war broke out roughly 500 years before the start of the Ys series and continued for approximately a hundred years.
Although it started to be a war fought between humans, it quickly became a war between the gods across the two regions as Gllia was under the protection of Grimnir while Britai was under the protection of Luki. In the end, Grimnir and Luki both fell in the war.
Background[]
The Hundred Years' War was dominated for the longest time by Britai. That changed when Rosvita, a young woman born in a Gllian family of farmers and known as the Saint, started raising an army. Rosvita managed to turn the tide into the Gllia's favor, take back Balduq and lead Gllia to the victory. However, the royal family of Gllia ostracized her very existence and through a Britai scheme, she was burned at the stake.
Aftermath[]
The war is known as Twilight of the Gods within the Nors religion. After the war, all the gods and demi-gods died off. This became a critical problem for the people of Gllia as previously the Nors demigods would destroy the evil spirits created from the negative emotions of the Gllian people in the Grimwald Nox. With the disappearance of gods and demi-gods from the land of Gllia, the evil spirits continued to manifest from the negative emotions, with no one to kill them off. So now the Grimwald Nox, originally a gift to the humans of Gllia, became a curse. Unfortunately, the war-scarred land could not stand to fight these monsters.
As the Gllian royal family struggled to find a way to deal with the Nox, Zola showed up and suggested to the Gllian royal family that he can create the Monstrums to fight against the evil spirits in the Grimwald Nox. The royal family could do nothing but agree to his suggestion. The heroes who once fought with Rosvita answered to the royal family's request, and volunteered to be the base of the homunculus warriors that would go on to fight in the Grimwald Nox for the next 500 years. Whenever one fell in battle, a new replacement would be created and raised. Zola's alchemy that enables the various powers of the Monstrums has a side effect of forbidding the Monstrums to step out of the city of Balduq.
Zola and Aprilis are responsible for raising and training the infant versions of the Monstrums. About 15 years ago (9 AC), Zola disappeared without letting Aprilis know where he went. At the time, the older Monstrums were exhausted, yet the infant Monstrums were too young to fight. So Aprilis decided to fight the Grimwald Nox all by herself. As she could not afford to raise and train the infant Monstrums at the same time, she left them in the orphanage as war orphans to be adopted by the townspeople of Balduq.
Legacy[]
The day that the Balduq Liberation Army led by Rosvita reclaimed Balduq was named and is still celebrated as Victory Day (戦勝記念日). A Memorial Festival (戦勝記念祭) for those that have fallen in battles is also organised.
Trivia[]
- The war is an analogue to the real world Hundred Years' War and the stories of Joan of Arc.
- The naming of this event speculates this is a parallel counterpart to the Hundred Days War in the Legend of Heroes's Trails Series.