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Mana Goddess
| Mana Goddess | |
|---|---|
 Echoes of Mana artwork | |
| First appearance | Final Fantasy Adventure (1991) |
| Latest appearance | Visions of Mana (2024) |
| Homeland | Sanctuary of Mana |
| Role | Support |
| Gender | Female |
| Species | Goddess |
| Voice actor(s) | Yukari TamuraEoM |
- “You are my last hope.”
- —Echoes of Mana Square Enix Official Website
The Mana Goddess, also known as the Goddess of Mana, is a recurring character in the Mana series.
Background[edit]
The highest and most holy deity of any world in which the series takes place, the Mana Goddess is oft positioned as the benevolent, yet stalwart creator god and maker of all things living, Her powers so vast as to defy description by any language. Embraced by good and pursued by evil, She exists as the very essence of the Mana Tree, from which all life and spiritual force are said to emanate. She is even rumored to grant the fondest wishes of one's heart and soul should She be approached with pure intent.
Yet in spite of possessing such far-reaching, world-shaping power, the Mana Goddess is not a perfect deity by definition. She often enters the world as a mortal regardless of whether She is a spirit or not; and so, a common plot in each world involves the selection and/or appointment of a chosen champion to ensure Her will is done and Her consciousness kept safe from all harm; as She goes, so goes the world She oversees. Any significant presence of darkness therefore gravely weakens the Goddess so that if She falls, Her world falls with Her. However, a female of any tribe closely linked to the Mana Tree may succeed Her to prevent the world's collapse. This often comes at the cost of the woman's mortal life and body, with the added effect of mana power becoming dormant until the new Goddess matures, at which point the cycle may repeat.
History[edit]
Final Fantasy Adventure/Adventures of Mana[edit]
In the past, a Mana Maiden joined forces with the Gemma Knights against the Vandole Empire who was trying to conquer the world. With the help of her pendant, she led the resistance to victory. She eventually fell in love with Bogard, one of the Gemma Knight, and conceived a daughter. To restore the torned land to its original shape, she assumed the form of an enormous holy tree atop Mt. Illusia, effectively restoring the flow of Mana.
In modern times, the now all grown-up descendant of the original Mana Maiden must flee her persectuted hometown from the Glaive Empire led by Dark Lord's evil grasp. As she is escorted by her friend Hasim in the Topple Plains, the duo is ambushed by Mushbooms. A traveling swordsman defeats the threat, but Hasim is mortally wounded, pleading the young man to bring Fuji to the elderly Bogard living near the waterfall beyond Topple.
There, the old woodcutter recognizes the heirloom pendant dangling from Fuji's neck to be the same as her late beloved, proving that the young lady is be a member of the Mana Clan. He entrusts the party to seek the help of Cibba the sage of Wendel. The lad and lady eventually reach the aformentioned city, where Cibba summons a vision of Fuji's mother with the help of a magic circle. The motherly spirit tells her daughter that they are both part of the line of Mana, seeds fallen from the Tree of Life, tasked with hr protection against the evils of the world. Vandole used the pendant to seal the Mana Tree atop Mt. Illusia to ensure that nobody would ever draw near. The figure pleads for her daughter to join forces with the Gemma Knight to thwart the Dark Lord's plan to take over the world.
The adventure culminates atop Mt. Illusia, where Julius, the former Dark Lord adviser and a descendent of Vandole, destroys the Mana Tree before perishing himself at the hands of our heroes. However, Fuji's mother appears, and reminds her that they are seeds. Should the Mana Tree ever be lost, a maiden of the Mana Clan can become a new Mana Tree to keep Mana alive in the world. Of course, Fuji must choose this for herself, and has the choice to return with Sumo and await the devastation that would come with the loss of Mana. Fuji makes the choice to become the new Tree, and Sumo agrees to protect her from evil. Before departing, Sumo agrees to carry a message from Fuji's mother to her beloved, Sir Bogard.
Secret of Mana[edit]
While the Goddess of Mana is not explicitly mentioned in the game, the Tree of Mana reveals to Randi and his friends she is his long lost mother and part of the Tribe of Mana, tasked to sustain the balance of the Mana Tree. As tradition dictates, once the Tree is depleted of Mana, it withers away and another maiden of the tribe is appointed to become the next one. Randi's mother was chosen shortly after giving birth and she traveled to the reclusive village of Potos to entrust the Elder into his care before resuming her duties. Meanwhile, his father Serin, who also was a member of the Mana Tribe, enrolled himself as a knight in the Tasnican army and falls before reaching the fabled Mana Sword to defeat the warring Empire.
She is ultimately destroyed by the newly revived Mana Fortress but manages to reveal the truth about Randi's upbringing and revitalize the drained Mana Seeds into the Mana Sword so the hero can use it in the final confrontation.
Trials of Mana[edit]
The Goddess of Mana is said to have used the Mana Sword in ancient times to defeat the raging Benevodons, sealing them inside Mana Stones. The Goddess then materliazied into the Tree of Mana and went into a deep slumber. However, forces of evil sought to set free the Benevodons and gain control over the world of Fa'Diel. As rivaling factions began to wage war, Mana power started to wane and so the Holy Tree withered.
In present times, a Faerie from the Sanctuary traveled the world down below to appoint a Chosen who would wield the Mana Sword. The hero then paired with two adventurers to gather the help of the Elementals and open a portal to the Sanctuary of Mana before the villains do. As they make it there with the help of the Winged Defender, the Chosen retrieves the Mana Sword, but Faerie gets kidnapped in the process by the winning evil faction. A avatar of the Goddess appears before the party, informing them of the dire situation, then gives them the Flammie Drum in exchange.
Alas, the Mana Tree is ultimately destroyed by the winning evil ruler, who claims her death to be the start of a new world of domination. He slays the party, but the heroes are revived by Faerie's spirit, urging them not to give up. They defeat the overlord and restore peace to the world, and Faerie is reincarnated to become the next Mana Goddess.
Legend of Mana[edit]
- See also: Mana Goddess (Legend of Mana)
The Mana Goddess is said to be the creator of Fa'Diel and the spirit of the Mana Tree itself.
She became corrupted and her tree rotten by the monsters that plagued her land and tried to use Mana for their own gain. Finally a savior rose up and restored the land by awakening the artifacts that sealed Fa'Diel and finally slew the corrupted Mana Goddess at her own request. The Mana Goddess then became a Sproutling and planted herself in the Mana Tree's rotten trunk and then called upon the other Sproutlings to join together to restore the Mana Tree to its former glory.
Sword of Mana[edit]
The Mana Goddess is mentioned many times in passing.
Dark Lord Stroud declares worship of the Goddess as heresy because her adherents, the Mana Clan, seemingly hoarded Mana power by refusing to use it even to help, fearing the potential for its misuse.
In the final confrontation, Julius reveals his desire to make the Goddess a normal woman and have her bow to him as the new Emperor Vandole. After his defeat, it is revealed that Elena's mother Mana became the new Mana Goddess after Vandole's defeat, and now, with the Mana Tree dead as a result of Julius' actions, Elena must now succeed her mother as the new Mana Goddess, with the Hero as her guardian.
Children of Mana[edit]
According to the Mana Lord, when the Mana Goddess first descended onto the world of Fa'Diel, she did not know the extent of her powers and thus her might went out of control. In the center of this turmoil came into life the Scion of Mana, representing her delirious hybris. She then created the Mana Lord and tasked him to amplify the Mana surge sprouted by the Scion and fill the world with Mana. However, realizing what awful mistake she made by creating those two entities, she tried to undo her bidding by bestowing the protagonist the Mana Sword and use the Gems to prevent the world to be flooded by her own creation.
The Chosen ultimately defeat the Mana Lord and the Scion of Mana. This produces a small infant called Mana's progeny, who according to Treant and Gaia, will usher in the guidance necessary for the Tess's descendants to take over once the current Mana Tree withers. The Mana Maiden decides to remain on the fading Illusia Isle while the rest of the inhabitants hop on a boat to repopulate on the other continent.
Dawn of Mana[edit]
Dawn of Mana deals with the origins of the Mana Goddess within the context of the World of Mana mythos.
After Stroud (empowered and transformed with Thanatos) and Medusa are defeated, Ritzia is freed from her possession. As the Tree Maiden, she inherits the duty and becomes the new Mana Goddess, restoring the world with the Spirits' aid.
Heroes of Mana[edit]
- “The creator of Fa'Diel who now inhabits the Mana Tree. In ancient times, she used the Sword of Mana to defeat the benevodons who wreaked havoc on the world, then sealed them into eight stones. She then metamorphosed into the Mana Tree, and has since watched over the world from Sanctuary.”
- —Notebook
The mythology of Heroes of Mana reuses many elements from Trials of Mana, whith the Mana Goddess sealing away the Benevodons in Mana Stones and entering a deep slumber thereafter. The Great Witch Anise, appears as the behind-the-scene villain who manipulated the ruling elite of Pedda to erect her Black Mirrors all over Fa'Diel and use the devices to sap away Mana power to turn the world of the Goddess into nothingness.
After ripping a hole through space and time, Baxilios now consumed with Anise's hatred plots revenge against the Mana Goddess by trapping the universe inside the Sea of Chaos. The Goddess of Doom is destroyed, however, by Roget and crew, who use the Mana Sword to shatter her mirror and erase these terrible events from most most inhabitants' minds.
Echoes of Mana[edit]
- “The alter ego of the Mana Tree that serves as the source of life. She seeks the Mana Sword in order to restore the world that has been lost.”
- —Square Enix Official Website
Serving as the player's main guide through the early story, the Mana Goddess first appears as the benevolent presence that awakens the twins Quilto and Quilta from their nightmare. She seeks to restore the Echoes, memory fragments of worlds past and present, to rebuild what is now a wasteland devoid of life and memory. The twins have the unique ability to travel into worlds borne of Her sacred fruit. As they progress through the Echoes, the Goddess sends the heroes to resolve ever more complex corruptions of each world they visit as they seek out the Mana Sword.
As the twins and their allies hop from memory to memory, they meet with many heroes who have wielded the Mana Sword in their time and place, but also find that none of these swords is the Mana Sword they need. Their quest is interrupted when the forces of darkness finally apprehend them and pull them into the Voidfig and the emptiness between worlds. There, the Mana Sword is manifest from the harvester pole in their very hands. With it, they defeat the Ebon Knight in a brutal battle, and peace comes within their grasp.
When the twins report back to the Mana Goddess with sword in hand, however, "She" makes the unusual request that they slay Her. They do so with reluctance; and in the blink of an eye, darkness pours out of the Goddess' body, for Her task was a ruse that ultimately awakened Dema, the False Goddess, an entity bent on erasing all worlds from existence in order to halt the cycle of mana that has killed the Goddesses of each and every world. By manifesting herself as the False Tree, Dema sends her roots and her agents of destruction to help her perform this feat.
Yet, as all seemed lost, the true Mana Goddess, Nona, extracted the hero from the "Hollow World" to once again restore the Echoes as Dema's corruption threatens all of existence.
Visions of Mana[edit]
The Mana Goddess was presumably an appointed Mana Maiden destined to become the next goddess. Her swordsman Khoda was entrusted with protecting the Mana Tree at all costs, as per tradition.
The present world of Qi'Diel was once divided into five worlds collectively known as Fa'Diel whith Mana power flowing freely through them. The Mortal Realm sought to harness its power for warfare. This rapidly depleted the life source to the point of erasing Mana energy from existence and merging the five worlds into one. This unleashed the Benevodons into the Mortal Realm, sending the whole land into chaos. The Mana Goddess sent her emissary to find a suitable champion to thwart the mighty monsters. The Faerie chose Daelophos as the Chosen and he agreed to fulfill his ordeal, on one condition: for his fiancée Cerulia to be spared while he's gone. With the Mana Sword in hand, he successfully subdued the eight benevodons and restored peace to Fa'Diel.
However, he quickly learns about his beloved being mercilessly killed by a ruffian, sending him into an uncontrollable rage against the Goddess herself. With Mana depleted, the Goddess went into a deep sleep and in her last resort asked her guardian Khoda to guard the sanctuary along with the elementals. The Mana knight failed to defeat Daelophos, however, instead encasing him into a giant boulder with the fabled sword wedged on its top.
Exhausted from the ensuing duel, Khoda became a wandering soul and continued to guard the slumbering goddess now transformed into the Mana Tree. While Khoda suscessfully dismantled Daelophos's power to all corners of this land, the former champion's hatred caused unparalleled disasters into the surrounding lands. Tortured with the impeding disasters brought up by Daelophos's curse, people used appointed alms as sacrifice to temporarily rejuvenate the sleeping Mana Goddess. Khoda was tasked to turn sacrificed alms into corestones to power up the Goddess, just like Val can.
The Mana Goddess is finally awaken during the final confrontation against Daelophos, as the Mana Sword is powered up enough by the thoughts and wishes of all the people Val's convoy met during their journey. The Goddess reunites her former Champion and his beloved Cerulia in the afterlife, adding they will surely meet again in another lifetime. She then bestow upon Val the ability to grant one of his wishes. Knowing all too well that altering the world's future might cause irredeemable actions, Val still chooses to take Khoda's stead as the Sanctuary Guardian as Hinna is lastly seen taking the place of the Mana Goddess.
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- For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Mana Goddess.
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