Crystalline Dominion - Final Fantasy XVI Database

A Mothercrystal located in the Crystalline Dominion. It is one of only five remaining in Valisthea, and is the largest of its kind. Silhouetted by the setting sun, the islands of the Dominion spread out before it, the Tail is truly a wonder to behold.

After the Mother’s Fall

A Mothercrystal that was located in the Crystalline Dominion. It was one of only five remaining in Valisthea, and the largest of its kind. It was lost in the chaos that followed the rebellion spearheaded by Prince Dion Lesage and his knights dragoon, but not before undergoing a fantastical transformation heretofore unwitnessed in the entirety of Valisthean history—a literal blossoming of the crystal, its shards peeling away like petals of a snow daisy to reveal the sacred heart within.

The Crystalline Dominion

A tiny, independent state straddling the continents of Storm and Ash. Its capital Twinside is built on the tiny Isles of Ark from which its Mothercrystal—Drake’s Tail—rises. The lack of a Dominant has seen the dominion become the subject of constant maneuvering over the years, both political and military, and it was only through the recent convening of a council of all nations that a non-aggression treaty towards the neutral body was forged, and a tenuous stability amongst centuries-old rivals achieved.

As the New Imperial Capital

A once independent state straddling the continents of Storm and Ash. Its capital Twinside is built on the tiny Isles of Ark from which its Mothercrystal—Drake’s Tail—rises. After Drake’s Head was destroyed in 873, the Holy Empire of Sanbreque declared Twinside its new capital in defiance of the long-standing non- aggression treaty. While controversial, the move— carried out by Prince Dion and his Knights Dragoon—proceeded mostly unopposed, largely due to the dominion’s lack of a Dominant of its own with which to intimidate the interlopers.

Following Dion’s Rebellion

A once independent state straddling the continents of Storm and Ash. With the incursion of the Holy Empire of Sanbreque in the year 873, its independence was reduced to little more than a pretense, but things changed once again in 878, when Prince Dion Lesage and his dragoons instigated a bloody coup. As imperial institutions fell into disarray, so did the situation in the dominion and beyond. After five years, Sanbrequois dominance in the region ended as quickly as it had begun.

Following the Emergence of Origin

A once independent state straddling the continents of Storm and Ash. Sanbrequois dominance here, and with it, any semblance of order, was brought crashing down in the bloody coup led by Prince Dion Lesage. Not long afterward, Twinside’s luckless inhabitants were subjected to further misfortune when the fall of the realm’s final Mothercrystal at Drake’s Spine caused an ancient construct to rise from beneath their city, sowing death and devastation in its wake, and effectively decimating the already reduced populace.

• A small nation between the Storm and Ash continents.

The Crystalline Dominion

A pact in which was codified the agreement between nations to refrain from invading the Crystalline Dominion and laying claim to its Mothercrystal, Drake’s Tail. It both cemented the Dominion’s position at the center of world politics, and placed checks on the ability of key players to exploit that position.

The Crystalline Dominion

A conflict fought between the Holy Empire of Sanbreque and the Republic of Dhalmekia in the year 878, largely concerning control of the Crystalline Dominion. The Dominion had previously been the subject of a non-aggression pact between the Valisthean nations, but in 873, the empire claimed Twinside for its new capital, an act which eventually spurred the Dhalmeks into military action.

The Crystalline Dominion

The cluster of tiny islands upon which the Crystalline Dominion stands. They are largely man-made, having been built on top of existing ruins, and are arranged with an administrative hub at the center surrounded by the citizens’ dwellings, and beyond those, the slums in which various refugees make their homes. The glistening spire at the islands’ center is home to the Dominion’s Mothercrystal.

The Crystalline Dominion

The former capital of the Crystalline Dominion. After a unilateral maneuver by the Holy Empire of Sanbreque in 873, it became the imperial capital.

The Crystalline Dominion

In 878, an insurgency by Sanbreque’s Knights Dragoon, led by Prince Dion Lesage, resulted in the destruction of much of the Crystalline Dominion’s capital, and the Mothercrystal Drake’s Tail along with it, after the prince lost control of his Eikon, Bahamut. One curious thing to note is that many who survived the night of chaos claim they witnessed the crystal “bloom” like a flower before its demise.

The Crystalline Dominion