Allagan empire

The Allagan civilization was birthed in the Third Astral Era, roughly 5000 years ago. The most powerful technomancers in the known world- past and present-, they harnessed the near-endless energy of the Crystal Tower. Allagan coinage remains a popular currency, though most "Allagan pieces" found in the Eorzean markets are replicas coined in later eras.

Over the generations, the Allag city-state grew decadent and stagnant, its citizens complacent. A technomage named Amon attempted to revive its founder, Xande, to provide eternal strong leadership. Amon ultimately succeeded and the reborn Xande brought a new renaissance to Allagan- for a time.

Power-mad Xande reborn had an ambition to conquer the entirety of Hydaelyn. To do this, he sought the forbidden power of the Voidsent. To maintain a stable portal to the Realm of Darkness, Xande arranged for the Elder Primal Bahamut to be placed in the artificial moon Dalamud]. As Xande's madness brought corruption and unrest into Allagan, uprisings and rebellions spread through the Empire. To quell them, Xande attempted to transfer the full energy of Dalamud into the Crystal Tower in order to complete his pact with the Voidsent and tear open a rift to the World of Darkness. This proved too much for the Tower to maintain. Excess energy spawned a catastrophic earthquake that laid to Allagan and sundered the empire, ushering in the Fourth Umbral Empire.