One Heart

On Esperia, it was the War of Chaos that finally led the Espers to understand the fundamental need to work together, with one heart, for a common cause.

Before that, each element continued to think first and foremost about its own sovereignty, even as global problems, requiring everyone’s united efforts, became clear to anyone who paid even a little attention to the world’s overall situation.

The civilization of the Espers was quite paradoxical.

It had been capable of developing and taking control of the entire planet, shaping landscapes as it pleased, eliminating unwanted species, and destroying vast parts of an ecosystem founded on balance, completely destabilized by their arrival.

It had also been capable of developing technologies of incredible reach, allowing anyone on the planet to communicate with one another, no matter where they lived.

And yet, trust between individuals had dramatically declined.

Although the Five elements had built a global economy, exchanges became increasingly based solely on profit rather than on trust.

Instead of working together by discussing the world’s problems every day, each element saw the others as an ever-growing threat and therefore sought to protect itself from them, seeing the others as enemies, again and again.

Did it really have to take a disaster like the War of Chaos for minds to finally unite?

Is it in the nature of the Espers to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, without ever truly learning from them?