In the realm of Final Fantasy X , Nikolai inhabits the fayth of the banished aeon , Diabolos. This heavily embodies @killthebxy‘s canon with their respective Final Fantasy X verse , but separate threads can be requested.
In his time on Spira , Nikolai was the young ruler of an imperial nation that stretched from the lands now known as Guadosalam to the shores of Mushroom Rock. In a time where magic encompassed Spira in every fiber of their being , Nikolai’s nation was thriving with summoners and pyreflies alike , with those that could cast , transcending even death. Their lives spent on Spira merely continued in the Farplane , when borders between the two remained stable. However , the body that would soon become the nation of Yevon opposed the unlimited and unfettered power Nikolai’s realm held. It was this greed for power that soon sparked a war between the two , and the downfall of a great civilization and their king. Summoners that betrayed and defected Nikolai would soon start up the foundations of Yevon and their beliefs , including imprisoning these powerful spirits in stone which would later become the fayths of lore.
It was a cruel practice that required the cost of a summoner’s life in order to call upon these divine beasts called aeons , and there were many famed ones that lost their names long before later civilizations arose in technological advancements. As tensions flared and reached a standstill between the nation of summoners and that which sought to control them through a systematic belief system of manipulation , Nikolai resorted to becoming a fayth in a last-minute effort to give his country the power they sought out for: that of Diabolos. This daemon was borne of eternal night , and terrified its adversaries. While the powers of summoners kept Nikolai’s legacy going long until after his death , Yevon was determined to take away the former king from the last connection they held onto the physical earth. Saboteurs were sent to the resting place of Nikolai’s fayth , attempting to steal it back to Yevon so that the power of the Diabolos could be harnessed for their respective summoners. However , a strong series of storms stalled the hauling of the fayth , and with the many attempts of thievery from the thieves , it ended up being lost and washed in the basins of Mushroom Rock. For eons , this fayth was forgotten to the records of history , letting the leader who once led a nation of summoners slumber for eons.
In the current present of Final Fantasy X , It’s after Sin’s appearance on Mushroom Rock , post the joint-operation between the Crusaders and the Al Bhed failed horrendously washed up on its shores. The millennia which passed from Nikolai’s time preserved the fayth , but had melded the borders between vessel and aeon. From his awakening and rebirth , Nikolai was aware he was the monster , and the monster was him.
In this wake of death , it saddens Nikolai to see how Spira digressed into a spiral of death , wrought on by Sin. However , in his time roaming about , Nikolai quickly adjusts and takes up a façade of a privateer on the seas near the isles of besaid , kilika , and to bikanel island. it’s in besaid that nikolai meets jon to accompany him on his pilgrimage , much to nikolai’s chagrin. it’s then that he gets told of the machina war between yevon and zanarkand , and the events which transpired with the waning of summoners in history’s past.
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