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The appearance of Mage Constructs are a recent thing within the lands of Ivalice, dating back as far as 695 Old Valendian.  First theorized in 692 Old Valendian by Doctor Cid Bunansa, these creatures would later come into quiet, secretive production three years later.  Initial theory had stated constructs of magical nature would need to be created by imbuing a sentient essence upon collected magicite, thus creating a 'core of intelligence'.  With limited intelligence imbued upon the 'core of intelligence', these constructs would be simple minded, capable of taking orders, and possess no morals or qualms when it came to being used as a weapon or perishing.

Secret experiments continued, producing the first Construct in 694 OV.  Created from magicite forged from the lava of Bervenia Volcano, the initial 'core of intelligence' had been formed and awaited an intelligence to be imbued upon it.

Overcrowding of Archadian prisons provided Doctor Bunansa with an abundance of minds to use for this experiment.  Painful extractions took place over the next six months, leading to a series of abysmal failures.  In 695 OV, however, research had changed in a different direction.  Instead of removing a consciousness to implant into the 'core of intelligence', it became vastly easier to implant the core into a test subject.  Late into 695 OV, the first successful Mage Construct was 'born', thus paving the way for further creations.

Once implanted into the subject, the 'core' (as it later became) fused both the subject's essence and its intelligence inside while granting vast power relating to the particular fields of magic the magicite comprised of before the core forging.  Side-effects were numerous, one of which being the subject took on the appearance of archaic mages relating to their field of magic.  Those of destructive black magic capabilities took on the visage of wearing blue robes, a yellow straw hat, and had an inky void of a face with yellow eyes.  Those of white magic took on the visage of a priest in white robes with red triangles, and so on.  Another unfortunate side-effect had been the rotting and destruction of the body which housed the core, giving these constructs a short lifespan.

After the folly, things changed for the Constructs.  Their cores, a highly guarded secret of Archadian military, grew unstable at first as the Mist touched them.  Memories of prior hosts of these cores began to surface, as well as a great desire to seek a replacement.  Images and voices from the first caretakers of the cores spoke of the need to find others to give the core to, or else they would cease to exist, leading the current holders to seek out those who they felt they could trust.  

Over the next two hundred years following the Larsan Folly, a strange cult began to spring up around these Constructs.  Reincarnation played heavily into the formation, these 'past lives' giving the holders of these cores a sense of divine inspiration and purpose to their lives, forced to be reborn anew into others.  Followers gathered around these Constructs, enthralled by their appearance of immortality and wisdom of the ages.  What had started out as an experiment to create a more powerful, subservient mage had evolved into a fanatical cult.


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