Jupiter

Jupiter

Hometown	The Holy Land (predating Cernium's founding)
Current Residence	Geardock
Gender	Male
Race	Ancient God (Human)
Affiliations	Ancient Gods (formerly) Jupiter's Followers (formerly) Melian (formerly)
Minions	Jupiter's Followers
Enemies	Adversaries Overseers Gerand Darmoor Gerand Darmoor Apostles Gob The Adversary The Primacy
Status	Deceased
Name (Other Servers)
KoreaMS	유피테르 (Jupiter)
JapanMS	ユピテル (Jupiter)
ChinaMS	朱庇特 (Jupiter)
TaiwanMS	尤比太 (Jupiter)
MapleSEA	Jupiter
Voice Actors
KoreaMS	Hyun-soo Choi^[1]^[2]
JapanMS	Yūichirō Umehara

Jupiter is a powerful Ancient God who once commanded the largest faction of gods during the Ancient War. After being sealed away by the Adversaries, Jupiter was attacked by an Apostle and lost his right arm, which was replaced with a mechanical prosthetic by the Ancient God Melian. With Melian's help, Jupiter lured the remaining gods to Geardock and sacrificed them to the Kronos furnace, fusing together with an entity created from the gods' power until he was defeated by the Adversary and consumed by his own creation.

Story

The Ancient War

In the beginning, the Primordial God made 365 creations - the sun, the moon, the stones, the trees, the wind, the rivers, the seas, and countless others - each adhering to 365 laws that governed the universe. From these 365 creations that made up the world, powerful beings were brought into existence that embodied these natural laws, including Jupiter. Over time, these beings were revered as gods by mortals, and ages later, they would be known as the Ancient Gods.

During the era of the Ancient Gods, Jupiter was widely known as an upstart and a troublemaker. As one of the most powerful gods, Jupiter ruled the holy land at the edge of Grandis where the city of Cernium would someday be built. At the height of the war, Jupiter commanded around 30% of the gods who had survived the War of the Immortals. Eventually, the Primordial God - unable to abide the chaos in the universe - created the Overseers to establish order in the universe. To this end, the Overseers tasked the elders of Grandis with creating beings known as the Adversaries. Imbued with the divine power of relics known as the Godspheres, the Adversaries began a war to defeat the Ancient Gods. Believing that the Adversaries could only be defeated by working together, Jupiter issued a call to all the gods, hoping to unite them together in an alliance against their common foe. Though some gods - such as Garuda - came to follow Jupiter, many gods believed that Jupiter intended to lure them into a trap, for which they refused to join forces.

During the fall of Tallahart, Jupiter fought against the Adversaries alongside the gods of Tallahart, though the battle ultimately resulted in the city's fall. Following the battle, a wounded Jupiter overheard the gods Prague and Gob discussing how no other gods had survived the battle. Jupiter arrived at the scene and told them that there were still those who remained. Gob noted that Jupiter seemed worse for wear and realized that even, who had led so many immortals, couldn't handle the Adversaries. Jupiter laughed bleakly and agreed that none of them could handle the monsters that the Overseers had created, adding that the Adversaries had crushed them so easily that none of the immortals had stood a chance against them. He noted that immortal beings such as them had fallen at the hands of mere mortals, gesturing to the battlefield and claiming that the age of the immortals was coming to a close. Gob replied that such an ending had always been destined, as the immortals had been fighting amongst themselves for far too long. He pointed out that even before the Overseers had intervened, the immortals had been slaying each other, and that such a catastrophe had been inevitable, though he lamented that he had never expected it to end so bleakly. Jupiter lamented that he had gotten it wrong from the start, believing that the crisis could have been averted if the immortals had allied together when the war had first begun.

Prague then interrupted and reminded them that the Adversaries would soon return and finish what they had started, for which he urged Jupiter and Gob to return to Tallahart and recuperate so that they could plan their counterattack. However, Gob refused to join Prague, claiming that he had work to do and adding that after expelling his disciple, Melian, he had no choice but to do it all alone. Jupiter also refused to go with Prague, explaining that if he was going to go down, he would rather do so fighting on the graves of the other immortals. As he walked away, Jupiter wondered whether they could have put a stop to the war if they had joined forces from the beginning. Realizing how the immortals had fallen at the hands of mortals, Jupiter wished that he had been given another chance. With Tallahart's fall, Jupiter's sanctuary at the holy land became the site of the last battle of the Ancient War, resulting in Jupiter and his followers being sealed away. Following the end of the war, the Overseers created the Transcendents in order to suppress the Ancient Gods, thereby ensuring that the gods who had fallen into slumber would remain asleep for eternity.

Jupiter's Call

Shortly after the death of the Black Mage - the last Transcendent of Maple World - Maple World and Grandis fused back into one, just as they had been during the age of the gods. With their convergence, the Ancient Gods began reawakening in the absence of the Transcendents, including Jupiter. Soon after, Gerand Darmoor authorized countless raids across Maple World and Grandis, with his Apostles draining the power of the reawakening gods in special draining crystals. Shortly after Jupiter's awakening, an unknown Apostle fought him and used the power of the draining crystals to sever his right arm. Barely escaping with his life, Jupiter fled the battle and eventually came across Gob's exiled disciple, Melian, who restored Jupiter's arm with a powerful mechanical prosthetic. From Melian, Jupiter learned that during the Ancient War, she and Gob had been working together to create a furnace called Kronos, which used the divine Erdas of the gods as fuel to create a god-like entity that Gob had hoped to defeat the Adversaries. However, Gob had given up on the experiment when he had been unable to find a way to capture the Erdas of the gods as they perished, even expelling Melian from his tutelage when she had proposed directly sacrificing the gods into Kronos.

Believing that Kronos was the only way to gain the power to defeat Darmoor, Jupiter agreed to help Melian complete her experiment by sacrificing all the remaining gods whose power had not been stolen by the Apostles. Together, Jupiter and Melian traveled to Gob's abandoned workshop, Geardock, where Jupiter planned to activate Kronos with Melian's help. Though Melian had advised Jupiter against sending his message to Gob, believing that he would ignore the call, Jupiter decided to send out his message to all the gods regardless. Using his divine power, Jupiter issued a rallying call to the gods, asking them whether they would fall dormant again or experience death again before declaring that they would not. He noted that there was no place left for them to hide anymore, as they were the only gods left in the world. He then sent a rallying cry for the gods to shake off their fears, leave behind their anger and the struggles of the past in order to join forces, calling for them to come together and follow his voice before declaring that things would not go as the Transcendent of Life willed. His message was heard by many of the other gods, as well as the Adversary, who had inadvertently received it through the power of Noctis that existed in the World Heart.

Sacrificing the Gods

Soon after, nearly all the gods who had not lost their power came to Geardock, hoping that Jupiter would lead them in the fight against Darmoor. However, when Jupiter discovered that Gob had refused the call, just as Melian had suspected, he sent Melian to meet with Gob and bring him to Geardock. While Melian kidnapped Gob, Jupiter appeared before the remaining gods and addressed them, asking whether there were any amongst them who did not hold a grudge against the Overseers' servants. He noted that they had been forced into a long slumber by the Adversaries, and that they had only just woken up to find that yet another servant of the Overseers – the Transcendent Gerand Darmoor – and his followers were now targeting them. He explained that he had lost his left arm because of Darmoor, and that his mechanical prosthetic symbolized the end of the gods. He then asked the gods whether there were any amongst them who claimed to be stronger than him, pointing out that despite all his power, he had been defeated and humiliated by Darmoor, who had stolen the power of the Ancient Gods and given it to his mortal followers. Jupiter then declared that they had effectively not been attacked by the Transcendent's followers, but by dozens – if not hundreds – of gods whose power was now in the Apostles' hands.

He noted that in doing so, the gods, who had once ruled as supreme beings, were now rendered no different from mortals. He asked the gods whether he was the only one angered by the collapse of such a truth, to which one hooded god declared that they were all just as furious as him. Jupiter then explained that he had been fortunate enough to meet Gob's disciple, Melian, who had replaced his arm with his prosthetic, adding that it may have proven to be a disaster if she hadn't. He noted that he wasn't the only victim, as such things had already happened or would soon happen to the rest of the gods. He told the gods that they had no idea how many of them had already lost their power, or what Darmoor intended to do with all that power. He added that they would all be killed if they simply stood by and allowed it to keep going, to which Garuda declared that they could not let that to happen, while another goddess wondered what kind of person could have taken out all the gods. Jupiter rallied the gods and told them that they needed to work together against Darmoor, as they couldn't let him keep doing as he pleased. However, he told them that he wouldn't stop those who didn't wish to fight from leaving. Nevertheless, the hooded god and Garuda declared that they would all follow him, while a small, spirit-like god named Tiny told Jupiter that he would do whatever he could as well. Jupiter thanked the gods for their support and promised that he would personally put an end to the age of the Transcendents with his own hands. Just then, however, Jupiter used his mechanical arm to trap the gods inside force fields, declaring that he and the world would remember the sacrifices made by the gods. As he melted down the gods in Kronos, however, only Tiny alone had managed to escape and flee the massacre.

Soon after, Melian reported to Jupiter at the bottom level that uninvited guests had entered the facility. Upon learning that they were Gob's mortal allies, Jupiter noted that he still couldn't understand Gob's eccentric behavior before ordering Melian to handle them, claiming that he didn't wish to be disturbed as he put their plan into motion. Melian then activated Geardock's security system and ordered the machines to attack Gob's guests, noting that it would only be polite to greet her old master's friends. Meanwhile, Jupiter confronted a wounded Gob, who demanded to know what Jupiter was doing. Jupiter asked Gob why he hadn't answered his call, to which Gob replied that he had no intention of siding with him, claiming that Jupiter stood no chance of winning the war that he was about to begin. Though Jupiter noted that he wasn't trying to start a war, he nevertheless asked Gob why he believed that they would lose. Gob replied by asking Jupiter why he was gathering the Ancient Gods together if he didn't intend to fight, noting that it was obvious that Jupiter was trying to get revenge on Gerand Darmoor. He then asked Jupiter what else he would call immortal beings trying to annihilate each other if not war. However, Jupiter retorted that the fight against the Transcendent of Life was inevitable for Darmoor to fall, and that someone had to start it. He asked Gob whether he truly believed that Darmoor would stop hunting them down if they sat by and did nothing. Gob agreed that while someone had to stop Darmoor, it wouldn't be Jupiter, warning him that not even uniting the Ancient Gods together would be enough to defeat the Transcendent. Jupiter then asked Gob who, if not him, would kill the Transcendent before laughing and asking whether Gob himself would do it. Gob explained that it wasn't him or Jupiter or any of the gods who would defeat Darmoor. Jupiter asked Gob who he had in mind, noting that it surely couldn't be any of the mortals whom Gob had sided with. Gob admitted that while he wasn't sure who would kill the Transcendent, he believed that the Adversary of the new age stood a chance against Darmoor.

Jupiter was taken aback and asked Gob whether he truly meant to say that one servant of the Overseers would turn on another. However, Gob revealed that the Adversary didn't serve the Overseers, and that they had already slain one fallen Transcendent and saved the world. He added that Jupiter would be amazed by what the mortals that he looked down upon could accomplish, adding that he himself was also quite amazed as well. After a pause, Jupiter asked whether there was truly such an Adversary in the world who had killed a Transcendent, noting that such a being was yet another threat to all immortals. As he turned away, Jupiter told Gob that Melian had voiced her concerns when he had sent out his call to all the Ancient Gods, believing that he shouldn't have invited Gob when she was certain that he would refuse to side with them. Though he had once thought differently, Jupiter realized that Melian had been ultimately been right. He noted that they had all been cast down as gods by the Overseers' servants, with their names long forgotten and their power stolen and used by common mortals. He declared that the supreme beings who had once been revered as gods had disappeared, leaving them as only ghosts of a forgotten past, and yet he noted that Gob still didn't seem angry about such an ignobility. Realizing that he would never appeal to Gob through ideology, Jupiter instead ordered him to activate Kronos, promising to release him if he did. Gob was shocked that Jupiter knew about Kronos and realized that Melian must have told him about it. He angrily demanded to know whether Gob even knew what Kronos was, revealing that it was a furnace that used the divine Erdas of the gods as its fuel. However, he explained that Kronos was useless on its own without the Erda Condenser that he had built as its counterpart, adding that the Erda Condenser was stored in a place that Jupiter could never reach. However, Jupiter simply told Gob not to worry, as the preparations had already been made.

Activating Kronos

Gob asked Jupiter what he meant by preparations already being made, to which Jupiter revealed that after he had delivered his speech, he had used his mechanical arm to trap the gods inside force fields, declaring that he and the world would remember the sacrifices made by the gods. As he had melted down the gods in Kronos, however, only Tiny alone had managed to escape and flee the massacre. Aghast, Gob asked Jupiter how he could have killed all the followers who had believed in him, to which Jupiter simply declared that they had made a noble sacrifice. He then noted that while Melian had been able to help him through the preparations, he needed Gob to cooperate for the fusion process. Gob angrily reminded Jupiter that he had wanted to fight Gerand Darmoor in the first place to ensure the survival of all the gods, and that he stood to gain nothing by defeating Darmoor at the cost of his friends' lives. However, Jupiter told Gob that everything had been decided for the gods' sake and for their glory, for which he ordered Gob once again to activate Kronos. Nevertheless, Gob refused and told Jupiter that he had no idea just how dangerous Kronos was. He explained that Kronos had been designed to use the Erdas of deceased gods, and that operating it by throwing in materials that it hadn't been built to process meant that it would be impossible to predict what kind of entity that such a fusion process would create. Gob warned that such a being would consume Jupiter and asked whether he was truly willing to sacrifice himself just for the sake of power. However, Jupiter replied that it wasn't a question of gaining power, but for achieving his goal, and that he would do anything it took in order to do so.

Realizing that Jupiter had gone completely mad, Gob noted that he had expected someone just like him to show up and misuse Kronos, which was why he had made it impossible for anyone except himself to activate the furnace. He declared that he would never go along with Jupiter's plan, adding that he would never have expelled Melian in the first place if he had wanted to. Upon hearing Gob's words, Jupiter suddenly realized that Melian was the key to changing Gob's mind. He noted that Melian, his first and only disciple, had spent countless years by his side, and that Gob – even now – still considered her to be precious to him. For this reason, he threatened to sacrifice Melian into Kronos if Gob refused to comply with his demands. Just then, the Adversary arrived at Kronos to stop Jupiter, though Melian immediately teleported before them in order to stop them. Meanwhile, Jupiter told Gob to choose, to which Gob asked him how he could threaten Melian when she was his greatest ally. Jupiter replied that Melian herself had wanted to see Kronos in action more than anyone else, and that she would be happy to sacrifice herself for it. When Gob refused to choose, however, Jupiter used his mechanical arm to trap Melian in a force field and dangled her over the furnace. As he threatened to throw her into the lava, Gob finally relented and reluctantly activated Kronos.

Upon seeing this, however, Jupiter laughed and told Gob that his choice had been no different from that of a mortal. He noted that if Gob was truly a god, then he would have made a decision that went with his own will, rather than going along with someone else. In disgust, Jupiter threw Melian into Kronos, declaring that his choice as a god would be to gain the power to stand against the Transcendent of Life. As Melian was melted in the lava, Jupiter claimed that the gods were, and still were, beings who had lost everything, which was why he was making such a choice. As a volatile, unstable purple entity created from the Erda of the gods emerged from Kronos, Jupiter claimed that if he had such power, even the Transcendent himself would be brought to his knees. Upon fusing with the entity, Jupiter immediately fought against the Adversary with his new abilities. After a fierce battle, however, the Adversary managed to defeat Jupiter, who seethed in rage that even after acquiring such immense power, he had still been unable to defeat even a single mortal. Unable to contain the power of the entity, the Adversary and Gob watched in shock as it devoured Jupiter and made his power its own, leaving behind only his mechanical arm. As the World Heart attempted to absorb the entity's power, Gob - realizing that the entity was far too unstable - used the Erda Condenser to coagulate the entity into a purple crystal, which he resolved to stabilize so that the Adversary could take its power safely.