Karellia

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Karellia is the name of one of the ruined worlds featured within The Dead Ends, a dungeon from the Endwalker Expansion of Final Fantasy XIV. Very little is known about its current fate or history, but due to the events depicted in The Dead Ends, it is widely believed to no longer exist, and its peoples extinct. The civilization makes another appearance within the Omicron Daily Quests, during which the entity known as Stigma-4 "simulates" multiple characters from this civilization into being.

Associated Content

Characters

Hostile Entities

Instances

The Dead Ends

Quests

Quest	Type	Level	Quest Giver
The Café at the End of the Universe		80	Jammingway

History

By the time of the star's demise, the Karellian civilization was very technologically advanced, and ruled by an organization called the Global Community. Under their rule, the star "prospered materially,"^[1] with achievements such as the eradication of disease^[2] They were apparently also successful in solving the civilizations' "World Hunger" issue by replacing machines called agriformers with sophisticated, fully-automated food-manufacturing facilities.^[3]^[4] Unfortunately, the leadership offered by the Global Community was also socially oppressive in nature,^[1] leading to the rise of a revolutionary movement known as the Freedom Fighters. The two factions went to war, which became incredibly violent from the civilizations' advancements in the various technologies of warfare. An unspecified weapon of mass destruction was eventually deployed, leading to total annihilation of the star and its people.^[1]^[2]^[5]

The icon of each faction is represented on the backs of their armor.

Culture

An overhead view of the design planted within Elysion Fields

Glyphs: The rounded arrangement of flowers seen in Elysion Fields is actually shaped after an ancient Karellian glyph, said to be a symbol of good fortune. The expression of this glyph through arrangement of plants is also known colloquially as a "crop circle."^[6]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 N-7000:

<whirr> The data indicates that while the Karellians prospered materially under the Global Community, the antiestablishment Freedom Fighters fought back against its oppressive social conditions, leading to total annihilation of both civilization and star.

↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Meteion voiceover narration during The Dead Ends

"In a faraway place, a brilliant star eradicated disease..."
"...before destroying the selfsame lives it had saved."
"Its people sought ever greater freedoms no matter the cost..."
"They tried to buy peace with fire and steel..." 
"And when one asked, 'What is the point?' there were none left to answer."

↑ Proud Citizen dialogue from quest

"The Global Community solved world hunger through automation, you know."
"Though we replicated a wide variety of cultivars in our factories, just as many were consigned to history."
"I don't know where it came from, but I'm glad for the sudden appearance of that agriformer. It's a relic of the days before we fully automated food production, but it will make nurturing the plants much easier."

↑ Defiant Fighter dialogue from quest

"That “food” you served us made me long for the days of chewing a boot in the trenches."
"Everything we typically eat, from beans to beef, is manufactured according to specifications that I could not begin to guess at[...]"

↑ The Meteia's Report mentions a set of events that sound exactly like the description of Karellia, as well as the events that played out during The Dead Ends:

"Okto: Star found in state of violent conflict. Contact successfully made with inhabitants, but deployment of weapons of mass destruction resulted in total annihilation of local population shortly thereafter."

↑

Karellian Quartermaster: 
Do you recall the rounded glyph at the heart of our fields? It is an ancient symbol of good fortune, passed down by our forebears.

Stigma-4: 
Scanning database for records of Karellian civilization... <ping> Glyphs like the one at the Karellian agricultural facility are colloquially known as “crop circles.” They were created by a number of primitive cultures as a form of “artistic expression.”
The belief that such symbols are a catalyst for good fortune is categorized as “nonsense.” However, the glyph's positive effect on worker morale and the flow of dynamis bears further analysis.

[n7-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 N-7000:
<whirr> The data indicates that while the Karellians prospered materially under the Global Community, the antiestablishment Freedom Fighters fought back against its oppressive social conditions, leading to total annihilation of both civilization and star.

[deadends-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Meteion voiceover narration during The Dead Ends
"In a faraway place, a brilliant star eradicated disease..." "...before destroying the selfsame lives it had saved." "Its people sought ever greater freedoms no matter the cost..." "They tried to buy peace with fire and steel..." "And when one asked, 'What is the point?' there were none left to answer."

[citizen-3] Proud Citizen dialogue from quest
"The Global Community solved world hunger through automation, you know." "Though we replicated a wide variety of cultivars in our factories, just as many were consigned to history." "I don't know where it came from, but I'm glad for the sudden appearance of that agriformer. It's a relic of the days before we fully automated food production, but it will make nurturing the plants much easier."

[fighter-4] Defiant Fighter dialogue from quest
"That “food” you served us made me long for the days of chewing a boot in the trenches." "Everything we typically eat, from beans to beef, is manufactured according to specifications that I could not begin to guess at[...]"

[report-5] The Meteia's Report mentions a set of events that sound exactly like the description of Karellia, as well as the events that played out during The Dead Ends:
"Okto: Star found in state of violent conflict. Contact successfully made with inhabitants, but deployment of weapons of mass destruction resulted in total annihilation of local population shortly thereafter."

[6] 
Karellian Quartermaster: Do you recall the rounded glyph at the heart of our fields? It is an ancient symbol of good fortune, passed down by our forebears.

Stigma-4: Scanning database for records of Karellian civilization... <ping> Glyphs like the one at the Karellian agricultural facility are colloquially known as “crop circles.” They were created by a number of primitive cultures as a form of “artistic expression.” The belief that such symbols are a catalyst for good fortune is categorized as “nonsense.” However, the glyph's positive effect on worker morale and the flow of dynamis bears further analysis.

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