This is my ekutsudesu rant! Oh where to begin....I guess at the beginning! Okay!
1. There was Enuo. He was a powerful mage. He created the Void and used it to cause havoc in the world. He was defeated by 12 legendary weapons, 12 heroes. He dies, his soul doesn't though.
2. Void is sealed within the rift, space between the two worlds. Made by breaking crystals into two halves....the world splits into 2 different dimensions.
Note: It can possibly be presumed that there was no such things as black holes before this event then.
------somewhere in between Enuo's death and possibly 100-300 years before the main game----
1. Enuo is reincarnated as a tree in the forest of Moore.
2. Somehow or another, demons got sealed into it. Possibly through demon absorbtion, or people of the time sealing the most powerful/troublesome demons into tree.
--------1000 years after Enuo's death------------
1. Main game. Exdeath emerges from the tree form, having compiled enough demons to transform and gain powers and stuff. Obviously, he then causes havoc being an incarnation of Enuo, and possibly on a revenge run.
2. 4 warriors of dawn defeat him and seal him into the rift with the Void. One stays in the second world to make sure he doesn't escape there.
----------30 years later-----------------
1. Dorgann makes a family, hes like 40-50 now, in the second world. His son is Bartz, the game's hero.
2. Exdeath has been draining power of the crystals, primarily of the second world to break his seal from the rift.
3. He succeeds in doing this and goes to the 1st world to wreak havoc and again revenge. He builds a floating castle out of human flesh, and declares himself lord ruler of it as he continues to learn the secrets of controlling the void.
Note: He is a reincarnation of Enuo, not Enuo himself, so he has to learn how to control the Void all over again, albeit easier, but it takes some time still. 30 years and he still hadn't fully mastered it.
2nd Note: While in the 1st world, he is mainly draining the power of the crystals there to break the seal on the Void so he can use it. In the meantime, torturing humans and taking over their kingdoms was something to do.
4. New dawn warriors go to 1st world and attempt to break into his castle. Exdeath just finishes his barrier on the entire place, and the heroes are tossed somewhere, miles away.
5. Heroes gather the old dawn warriors, and together they go try and unseal the guardian tree that houses the 1st world's crystals, the key to the seal on the Void. But fail, as exdeath drains the last of their power and they break.
6. Void is unleashed upon hapless cities as the worlds fuse back together into one. The rift still remains though, oddly enough, just not between those worlds anymore. It is still connected to the world, but is more like a satellite dimension like heaven and hell would be. I guess a creation of a hell would be the appropriate event. Within the rift, exdeath promised demons that they could live there and cause whatever havoc they pleased.
7. Exdeath moves into the rift after he is defeated at his castle, and sets up camp there. He knows how to control the Void now, and lets his roots grow as his true form still is a tree. The heroes go into rift too, and defeat him there.
8. Exdeath is consumed by the Void, and transforms into Neo-Exdeath, which is a compilation of all the demons inside of him. He really loses it this time, and wants to destroy everything at all costs, then himself. Needless to say, Exdeath has a condition I like to call, focused insanity.
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He has a one track mind, though his planning is quite well done. I read once a question, why does he want to destroy everything with the Void? And the response: -Who the hell knows!- This is the easy way out, but I think I can come up with a more fulfilling answer. I think he wants to create a sort of perfectness with the Void, as everything is combined and time ceases to flow, it is an "inevitable eternity". This may be true; in the far distant future we may all be consumed by black holes, but the problem arises when he tries to force this eternity on people much too early, sort of like an imbalanced reaper; hence the name "Ex-death".
Still it doesn't quite make sense. People still exist within the Void, matter cannot be destroyed. As seen in ff5, exdeath was consumed by the Void. In ff3, Cloud of darkness emerges from the Void. Spirits, humans, and demons alike are sucked in by the Void. It really is just an alternate form of existence, everything is combined, mashed together, in an infinitely small space, that inside could be infinitely large as space is. I suppose the thing I get confused about is why not just leave the world the way it is if he doesn't intend to rule over this singularity? It is not very easy to understand the reasoning of the insane and deranged, but I think on one hand, he does want to rule over it...and does with much skill; on the other hand he wants to be a part of it, it is an inevitable fate, or possibly because one can't rule over stuff if there's nothing to rule over...I don't know. An interesting predicament is...one cannot effectively rule over something and yet be a part of it too...not in that sense.
-We are human, we rule over other humans, though are still part of the human race. But, you cannot rule over yourself, as in one individual over another, unless you have split personalities. You can only rule over yourself by yourself in saying that no laws apply to you, no one rules you but you.-
I guess the only way for it to make sense is to consider what Exdeath is...he's made up of many smaller demons being ruled by one main guy with horns and a jewel. So he would fit the whole multiple personailty deal, a main self ruling over your other selves, as a whole being both the subjugator and the subjugatees. Go personality disorders! Anyway, backing out of the deep thought, exdeath pretty much sums it up in his phrase, "the laws of the universe mean nothing!" He has control over one of the oddest and most powerful essences of the universe, so why should he have to make sense to anyone. He breaks and makes laws as he goes along...really.
***So, that's all I have to say about Ekutsudesu today. He's mean, kinda green, and a Void controlling machine. Alright, so he's aqua in the game and more light blue in dissidia. Is he an ass? Yes. Most definitely. Is he a badass? Up there with Sephiroth in my opinion. A little cliche, but that adds to his charm...or hatred I suppose. A good villain is one you love to hate, and he certainly fits the bill.
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