Aiolon is the setting of Gears of Rebellion and Gears of Rebellion: Uprising. It is a technologically advanced civilization lacking in natural mana, and the home world of Mono, Tetra, Aenea and Belphomet.
In Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond, Dreizehn originates from an alternate reality version of Aiolon.
History[]
Aiolon is a world where mana has always been scarce. As a result of this, the nobility decided to study the machines, which required very little magic to function. Thus, Aiolon became a world dominated by technology.
Belphomet Ardelyte, once a regular researcher, seized power and took control of Aiolon; being secretly aided and manipulated by the Keeper, Nerva of Purgation, behind scenes. Belphomet's robotic forces enforced his rule which based solely on his whims, causing people to be forced to work for days on end, be put under curfew for similar lengths, and having every aspect of their lives under his control. Anyone who would violate one of Belphomet's rules would be punished by his enforcers.
During his rule, Belphomet began creating a series of androids with sentience, but when they failed to meet his expectations, he decided to destroy them. Three of the androids, Mono, Tetra, and Aenea, either managed to escape or were rescued from Belphomet, but the others were unable to survive Belphomet's testing and were destroyed. The surviving androids found other awakened robots, robots who had gained sentience and free will through chance, and formed a resistance against Belphomet.
Gears of Rebellion[]
Seeking help to overthrow Belphomet, Tetra broke into Belphomet's central tower and stole a device that allowed her to travel to other worlds. Using the device, Tetra sought out the signal of Nicola Adel to Isunia, but instead found a group of otherworlders who offered to help fight Belphomet. When Tetra brought the otherworlders to Aiolon, an outside influence only brought four of them and the rest were sent to the world of Naterra. The otherworlders explored Aiolon, meeting Tetra's sisters and the resistance, learning of Belphomet's tyrannical and senseless rule, and joined the rebellion against Belphomet.
Gears of Rebellion: Uprising[]
During the rebellion, the resistance targets Belphomet's factories to cut of his supply of new enforcers. However, Belphomet sends The Furies, three robots made from the remains of the destroyed androids, to protect the factories. After a hard battle with several casualties, The Furies are defeated and the factories are destroyed, leaving Belphomet unprotected. The androids and otherworlders storm Belphomet's tower and push the tyrant to the brink of defeat. However, Belphomet calls out to the keeper Nerva of Purgation for power and Nerva grants Belphomet a new mechanical body.
Invasion of the Worldreaver[]
Using his new mechanical body, Belphomet travels to Naterra and unleashes an invasion to conquer it. The invasion ultimately fails and Belphomet takes his own life in a last act of defiance towards Nerva. With Belphomet's death, infrastructure of Aiolon is destroyed and Tetra plans to stay in Naterra, using the leftover scrap from Belphomet's failed invasion to maintain the robots and plans to build a portal to bring refugee's over from Aiolon.
Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond[]
A parallel version of Aiolon takes shape after a certain "mischievous one" deviated the world from its timeline and led it to the most unfortunate outcome.
In this universe, Belphomet is a scientist who, instead of seeking power, wanted to unite machines and humans to save Aiolon from its declive. As a result, he became obsessed with an ambitious project to give robotic beings human hearts. However, he failed time and again, with two androids named Nio and Fyra being the only models that remained functional, despite being in themselves a failure of the ultimate goal. However, when the AIs of the destroyed models merged into a single AI that the professor named Eumenides, he found in it the reproduction of the human heart he had been searching for. Thus, he decided to change his goal to "bring humans closer to machines," thus creating the culmination of his project, a human-machine being that would be called Dreizehn. However, everything ended in disaster when Nio and Fyra, along with En, the first AI created and thought to be dead, twisted the concept of "bringing happiness to humanity" by assuming it would be found by being dominated by machines. Thus, the three murdered their creator and imprisoned the minds of all humans within a virtual reality world, separating them from their bodies in the process.
Dreizehn, lost and without memories, ended up as the only sentient being on Aiolon apart from her siblings and other robots. Supported by Eumenides, she took up the mission entrusted to her creator and finished off Nio, Fyra and finally En. However, Eumenides sacrificed herself in the last battle, leaving Dreizehn alone in a ruined world.
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