Origin

The future doesn't belong to you!
For those who have not completed games in the Xenoblade Chronicles series, this page contains spoilers regarding the plot. Discretion is advised.

"We pooled our knowledge, and through time gave birth to a single point of hope... Origin. An ark, containing all the worlds' data, recorded in words of light, carrying hope into the future..."

— Nia

Origin (Japanese: オリジン, Orijin) is a Region in Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and is the final region visited by the party.

Story

Two Worlds Frozen in Time

"However, the worlds yearned for each other. Against the solitude of existence, they strove to reunite... though it would spell certain destruction. Should the two worlds intersect, they would cancel each other out and cease to be, leaving only light."

— Nia

An unknown amount of time after the events of Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the worlds of Bionis and Alrest, two worlds created from Klaus using the Conduit to split the original world in two, began to merge back into one universe in a process that would destroy them both as they combined, due to the worlds being composed of opposing types of matter. Having made contact with each other as their worlds drew nearer, Melia and Nia formed a plan that would allow their people and cultures to survive and rebuild. They would each construct one half of an ark known as Origin that contained all of their societies' knowledge and their citizens' literal souls, which would allow them to be reborn after their worlds were reconstructed and then separated back into their original states. According to Nia, a certain Nopon engineer was involved with the Agnian side of Origin's construction. The Core Crystal of Ontos was a critical part of its construction.

However, Origin was corrupted by the digitized souls of the people within it, creating the being called Z. Born from their fear of an uncertain future and their desire for stability, Z hijacked the intersection of the worlds. Rather than Origin preserving the worlds as planned, both original worlds were merged into one. Z would then go on to shape that world into one defined by an endless cycle of death and rebirth, the Endless Now.

Melia was captured and placed into cryogenic sleep by Z in order to secure its control over Origin (albeit not before she was able to craft the Sword of the End, a weapon capable of destroying Z's reality), but Nia was able to escape and make plans for future heroes to end Z's domination and free their worlds before entering stasis herself in the Cloudkeep, with Poppi keeping Nia informed on the world. In Nia and Melia's absence, Z created mechanical duplicates to act as the queens of the nations of Keves and Agnus, with their people's souls being used as templates for clone lines of child soldiers whose brief lives would be too focused on fighting the endless war between the nations to question the true nature of their world. The war itself would keep humanity in a stasis and effectively prevent people from being able to make the choice to change the world on their own. Z (alongside X and Y) approached dead and dying individuals from various backgrounds, offering them a reprieve from endless fighting, immortality and the ability to indulge themselves as they wished so long as they aided in upholding the status quo it created. All of which came at the expense of making them dependent on life energy stolen from other beings. These became its Consuls and act as its agents on Aionios to ensure the continuation of its "endless now" at all costs.

However, while most people were assimilated by Origin when Aionios was created, there were also exceptions, with some people existing in Aionios without being assimilated for unknown reasons, possibly to play a role of some kind in the world. Additionally, while some people appear in Aionios as themselves, there are some people who appear in Aionios as an object that is an expression or reflection of their own traits, such as Fiora manifesting as Lucky Seven.

Alpha and the Ark

At an unknown point in time, Ontos, now calling himself Alpha, re-emerged to take control of Origin's systems for himself. Having determined that the future had no place for the beings of the old worlds, he planned to destroy Aionios while bringing the new lives born there to another world, where no traces of the past would remain. Shulk, Rex, and Z attempted to drive Alpha away, but failed.

Over a decade later, Alpha inhabits the body of Na'el with the goal of gathering all of the City people as well as to amplify his power. As the City is destroyed by N, Alpha takes many Citizens inside The Ark of Origin.

After his confrontation with the party and N at Raguel Lake, Alpha uses Prison Island's defense mechanisms to summon Origin. The party travels to the Prison Terrace on Prison Island to get inside Origin, but are confronted by N on the terrace. As N and Matthew fight, Matthew's Ouroboros Knuckles release a beam of light that makes contact with Origin, allowing the party to catch a glimpse of a memory of Origin showing how N truly felt when he destroyed the City. N stands down and allows the party to pass.

The Memory of Klaus's World

As Matthew begins to head toward the portal leading inside Origin, Alpha appears above everyone and releases a massive wave of energy that takes the party into Origin's memory stage within the Ark, which the party was directly underneath.

Due to Alpha's memories, Origin's memory stage takes on the appearance of the Land of Morytha and the World Tree in their original states in the original world before Klaus split the world in two. The party find Na'el playing a piano and playing with children while a news report plays on a Radio. A shows Na'el the ruined Land of Morytha after the experiment and tells her what really happened to the original world, convincing her to not follow Alpha.

As Matthew and Na'el try to hold hands, Alpha captures Na'el and dispels the memory before fighting the party. During the fight, Alpha locates the turmoil lingering within Matthew, and attempts to pull in Matthew, but is stopped by N, releasing Na'el from Alpha's grasp in the process. With the party joining forces with N, Alpha decides to eliminate Matthew along with all older lives and transforms into a giant humanoid-entity.

Origin's Avatar

N grants Matthew the power of his Sword of the End, telling him to transfer it into his "Fists of the End". Activating the power of Pneuma's core from inside his Gauntlets, Matthew strikes the Sword of the End, resulting in Matthew, Na'el, Nikol, Glimmer, Shulk, and Rex all Interlinking into a single giant Ouroboros. With the power of Ouroboros, the party defeats Alpha, resulting in Alpha's demise.

With Alpha gone, Origin needs a new avatar to keep Aionios stable, with those avatars being Shulk, Rex, and A. After gifting Glimmer and Nikol the life force to live a full life, the three of them walk into a large rift.

Afterwards, Origin's systems briefly fail, causing Origin to crash into the Cent-Omnia Region below, which destroys the region, and resulting in Origin sinking into the ocean. Eventually, a vortex formed around Origin, preventing anything from approaching it without being ripped apart.

Escaping the "Endless Now"

After the Ouroboros party learns about Origin from Nia in the Cloudkeep and Samon upgrades the Boundary into the Bravery, they are able to reach Origin without getting killed. N confronts the party in an effort to stop them from saving Melia, but following his defeat Noah persuades him to let go of his regrets and merge with him like M did with Mio. Melia is freed, and she explains that Z is not a person so much as a physical manifestation of humanity's fear of the future and desire for stability, before she returns to Keves Castle for the final assault on Origin. With her encouragement, the party defeats X and Y for the final time before meeting Z in the Amphitheater.

After battling him, Noah destroys the Amphitheater with Lucky Seven, which enrages Z, causing him to reveal his true form, Z∞, whose nature as an incarnate desire leaves it incapable of understanding why the party would ever reject its "endless now", which it claims is humanity's greatest wish. Origin then begins to blindly bombard all of Aionios in a desperate attempt to preserve Moebius' control over the world. Nia, Melia, and the City mobilize their forces for an assault on Origin. After Z∞ is defeated, it tries to force Aionios to self-destruct in a final effort to deny the world a future that it cannot personally control, but is stopped by the spirits of N and M, who are the only ones capable of ensuring Z's annihilation as they are manifested desires themselves. With the destruction of Z and Moebius, Origin is reactivated, and the party decides to proceed with the reconstruction process of both worlds, everyone vowing to meet each other again once the process is finished. The two worlds, no longer made up of opposing types of matter, merge in earnest, restoring Earth to what it was before it was divided by Klaus but still preserving the inhabitants of the old worlds, now able to live complete lives without apocalyptic worry.

Landmarks and Locations

Origin Interior

Landmarks

Rest Spots

Locations

Enemies

Normal Minor Enemies

Unique Monsters

Bosses

Future Redeemed

Origin (Japanese: オリジン, Orijin) is a Region in Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed. There is a portal here that connects Origin with the Prison Terrace on Prison Island.

Regions of Aionios in Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Regions	Aetia Region · Fornis Region · Pentelas Region · Keves Castle Region · Cadensia Region · Swordmarch · City · Agnus Castle Region · Origin · Amidst Fog · Land of Challenge · Cent-Omnia Region
Colonies	Colony 9 · Colony Gamma · Colony 4 · Colony Iota · Colony 30 · Colony Lambda · Colony Tau · Colony 11 · Keves Castle · Colony Mu · Colony 15 · Lost Colony · Agnus Castle · Colony Omega · Colony 0 · Fort O'Virbus