The Garlean Solus zos Galvus was born in the year 1489 of the Sixth Astral Era to the esteemed House Galvus, a distinguished family of pureblood Garleans in the then-small Garlemald Republic. During the Source's Third Astral Age, Emet-Selch influenced the creation of the Allagan Empire by helping its advancement until it was destroyed in the Fourth Umbral Calamity. Going by his title Emet-Selch, Hades worked with the other Paragons and their Ascian followers to orchestrate the Rejoining of the shards with the Source to restore both their god and their home. Hades survived the Sundering intact along with two of his fellow Convocation members, Lahabrea and Elidibus, while everything he knew and loved was either sacrificed to Zodiark, or fragmented into what they consider flawed parodies.
An opposing group of Amaurotians who felt similarly thus summoned Hydaelyn in opposition to Zodiark, and the resulting conflict ended with Hydaelyn's final attack shattering reality, sundering the world and nearly all life on it into the Source and its thirteen shards. This disturbed Venat, who felt that the sacrificial costs were already too great, and that the world now belonged to the lives birthed in it. For Hades and the Convocation to restore the lives of those originally sacrificed, Zodiark would require even more aether aether that would come from the new life being born into the world. Even with the Final Days halted, the world was still unfit for nurturing life, so the Convocation besought their people to sacrifice another half of their number to replenish their ruined world and restore the cycle of nature. Upon Zodiark's creation, the deity enthralled Hades and the others into becoming his devout followers, but succeeded in his primary purpose. Half of their people were sacrificed to offer up the necessary aether to complete the ritual. The price to accomplish this feat would be grave, and caused Azem to leave in dissent.
Falling into despair when their world was besieged by a calamity from within, Hades joined his fellow Convocation members and devised a plan to halt the calamity: summon the will of the planet, the primal Zodiark. Hades was good friends with two other ancients: Hythlodaeus, another ancient with soul sight and the Chief of the Bureau of the Architect and his fellow convocation member filling the seat of Azem. He is briefly shown as a false memory in Cid Garlonds recollection of the events at Bojza Citadel.īorn as one of the few ancients with the gift of "soul sight", the man known as Hades was chosen to fill the seat of Emet-Selch for the Convocation of Fourteen, a group that served as guardians of the city of Amaurot and the world. Despite this prominent role, Solus was never depicted in the flesh on screen. The Garleans oppressing the imperial provinces led to fear, anger and resentment towards the Empire. He forged an empire in the span of a single generation, but his vision led to war and expansion, the Garleans conquering nation after nation under the pretense of "uplifting" them and ending the threat of the primals. As the Legatus and later Emperor, Solus was a visionary and brilliant leader who dreamed of a glorious future for his people.
Resurfacing in Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood with a younger, more able body, Emet-Selch would go on to become the main antagonist of Shadowbringers.Įmet-Selch's best-known persona was Solus zos Galvus, the founder and first Emperor of the Garlean Empire, and the grandfather of Varis zos Galvus and great-grandfather of Zenos yae Galvus. He is an Ascian working to bring about the Rejoining.
Solus zos Galvus quoting his imperial mandate.Įmet-Selch is a non-playable character in Final Fantasy XIV.
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