The anicent War of the Magi. When its flames at last receded, only the charred husk of a world remained. Even the power of magic was lost. In the thousand years that followed, iron, gunpowder, and steam engines took the place if magic, and life slowly returned to the barren land. yet now the Gestahlian Empire would reawaken the magic of ages past, and use its dread power as a means by which to conquer all the world. But there remains one small hope. When an enslaved woman named Terra frees herself from the Empire's mind control, she joins a band of rebels who seek to enlist the aid of a mystical race, the espers, in their struggle to prevent the Empire from dominating the world.