History WMG / Terranigma

At the end of Soul Blazer, the hero vanquishes evil and becomes human. After this, the world tries to separate its dark and light halves so no one gets the idea to summon Deathtoll again, ejecting the Dark Gaia in the form of a malicious comet. The comet however ever is still bound to its origin and passes by corrupting the flow of evolution and effectively putting the world into [[MedievalStasis]]. Gaia guides heroes of both light and dark to merge to disperse the mass of Dark Gaia that is the comet, they succeed and history corrects itself returning to world to a more industrialized civilization. However, Dark Gaia is STILL part of the planet and once it reforms, it decides to try and rejoin the world through impact.Thus creating the dual worlds cycle in Terranigma, and the hole Ark climbs out of in Chapter 3. Since Light and Dark Arks merge and defeat Dark Gaia in the heart of the world, the cycle breaks destroying Crysta for good but allows Ark to reincarnate as a bird in the world of light. Granted most of the theory relies on things happening that are never said or indicated but I think it fits with the stories of all three games.

The only source we have for this are his own cult members. Anyone who knows anything about cults knows that they make their followers believe the most outrageous stuff in order to create a kind of cognitive sunk cost fallacy. Cults in the real world often make even more ridiculous, demonstrably and obviously false claims about their leaders in particular. The explanation they give doesn't even make sense: His achievements should have gotten him a Nobel Prize in *medicine*, not a Nobel Peace Prize.

It has often been said that Terranigma's world map actually has a toroidal shape and not a spherical shape, because if you sail northwards from Storkholm, you immediately reach the South Pole. But actually, it is still absolutely possible to map this onto a sphere if you assume that the point opposite of the South Pole on the sphere is somewhere along the east-west axis of northern Sahara - Indus River - Eklemata - Neotokio - Polynese - Colorado River. From a narrative point of view, choosing Eklemata as the point would make the most sense. I therefore propose that Terranigma's Earth is a sphere with the South Pole as its southernmost point and Eklemata as its northernmost point. (Alternatively, it could also be Neotokio, given the Japanese origin of the game.)

It has often been said that Terranigma's world map actually has a toroidal shape and not a spherical shape, because if you sail northwards from Storkholm, you immediately reach the South Pole. But actually, it is still absolutely possible to map this onto a sphere if you assume that the point opposite of the South Pole on the sphere is somewhere along the east-west axis of northern Sahara - Indus River - Eklemata - Neotokyo - Polynese - Colorado River. From a narrative point of view, choosing Eklemata as the point would make the most sense. I therefore propose that Terranigma's Earth is a sphere with the South Pole as its southernmost point and Eklemata as its northernmost point. (Alternatively, it could also be Neotokio, given the Japanese origin of the game.)

It has often been said that Terranigma's world map actually has a toroidal shape and not a spherical shape, because if you sail northwards from Storkholm, you immediately reach the South Pole. But actually, it is still absolutely possible to map this onto a sphere if you assume that the point opposite of the South Pole on the sphere is somewhere along the east-west axis of northern Sahara - Indus River - Eklemata - Neotokyo - Polynese - Colorado River. From a narrative point of view, choosing Eklemata as the point would make the most sense. I therefore propose that Terranigma's Earth is a sphere with the South Pole as its southernmost point and Eklemata as its northernmost point.

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