Western Grandis

Western Grandis
Dimension	Grandis
Continent	Grandis
Sub-Area(s)	Cernium Hotel Arcus Odium Shangri-La Arteria Carcion Tallahart
Boss(es)	Chosen Seren Kalos the Guardian First Adversary Kaling Limbo Baldrix Jupiter
Name (Other Servers)
KoreaMS	그란디스 서부 (Western Grandis)
ChinaMS	格兰蒂斯西部 (Western Grandis)
TaiwanMS	格蘭蒂斯西部 (Western Grandis)
MapleSEA	Western Grandis

“The western region of Grandis--home of great cities and grand ruins. The settlements that remain live under the looming threat of High Flora invasion.”

― In-game description for Western Grandis

Western Grandis is a region on the continent of Grandis. While Grandis consists of various lands, islands, and moons, the name 'Grandis' refers to the large continent that constitutes most of the planet, similar to Ossyria in Maple World. Western Grandis is home to many different races and nations, and is suitable for players Level 260 and above who have completed their Sixth Job Advancement (though the Job Advancement is not mandatory).

World Map

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Towns / Regions

Cernium

Main article: Cernium

Unlocked at Level 260, Cernium is the first major area in Western Grandis. After the dimensional barrier between Maple World and Grandis disappears, the Maple Alliance is approached by Prince Carlisle, who requests their aid to protect the Holy City from Gerand Darmoor and the High Flora. Players can fight the Major Boss Chosen Seren after completing the Burning Cernium questline.

Burning Cernium

Main article: Burning Cernium

Unlocked at Level 260 after completing the main Cernium questline, Burning Cernium is the first side area in Western Grandis, located near Cernium. With the city in ruins from the Apostle Havoc's attack, the player must help Seren awaken as the Chosen One in order to save Cernium from the High Flora invasion. In the aftermath of the battle, the player must defeat Seren and help her regain her senses after she is possessed by the Ancient God Mitra, who seeks revenge against Adversaries, such as the player.

Hotel Arcus

Main article: Hotel Arcus

Unlocked at Level 265, Hotel Arcus is the second major area in Western Grandis. Several months after the battle of Cernium, the Alliance follows a lead about the Ancient Gods to the deserts of Grandis, where they must race against Senya Angler to learn the secret buried beneath Hotel Arcus.

Karote

Main article: Karote

Unlocked at Level 265, Karote, the Unending Tower is the second side area in Western Grandis, located near Hotel Arcus. After the expedition to Hotel Arcus, the mysterious tower of Karote has emerged from the ocean, eternally building itself as a mysterious power in the sky prevents its completion. Legend tells that the completion of the tower will reveal a secret that even the gods fear, for which the Alliance must scale to the top. Players can fight the Major Boss Kalos the Guardian here.

Odium

Main article: Odium

Unlocked at Level 270, Odium, the Awakened Laboratory is the third major area in Western Grandis. After the fall of Kalos the Guardian, the Angler Company - with the help of the Apostle Kaling - moves to invade Odium, where, eons ago, the elders of Grandis had mass-produced Adversaries to defeat the Ancient Gods. The Alliance must reach the heart of Odium and discover the secret of the laboratory before it can fall into the enemy's hands. Players can fight the Major Boss First Adversary here.

Shangri-La

Main article: Shangri-La

Unlocked at Level 275, Sinners' Paradise Shangri-La is the fourth major area in Western Grandis and a sub-area of Odium. After arriving in the realm of the sages, the player meets the elders of Grandis and discovers a shocking secret about their destiny as the Adversary. Meanwhile, Kaling invades Shangri-La with her three Perils - Hundun, Qiongqi, and Taowu - with the intention of taking the World Heart from the player and completing the experiment that she began ages ago. Players can fight the Major Boss Kaling here.

Arteria

Main article: Arteria

Unlocked at Level 280, Arteria is the fifth major area in Western Grandis. With Maple World and Grandis fused into one world, the High Flora launch a full-scale invasion of Maple World, with the Apostle Reina leading the battleship Arteria to Ereve in order to kidnap Empress Cygnus. With the help of Shinsoo and the Cygnus Knights, the player must rescue Cygnus and stop Reina from draining the Empress's partially-awakened Transcendent powers.

Carcion

Main article: Carcion

Unlocked at Level 285, Carcion, the Cradle of Life is the sixth major area in Western Grandis and the final area with a normal Sacred Symbol. Following the High Flora invasion of Maple World, the Alliance rushes to rescue the Ancient God Keira before the Apostle Limbo and his Specter army can take her powers. Along the way, the player must unite the warring turtle and snake Anima of Carcion, all while attempting to wield the uncontrollable power of the World Heart. Players can fight the Major Boss Limbo here.

Tallahart

Main article: Tallahart

Unlocked at Level 290, Grave of the Gods Tallahart is the seventh major area in Western Grandis and the first area with a Grand Sacred Symbol. After the battle in Carcion, the Alliance follows Seren's message to meet the Primacy at "the place where the world starts again", where they discover the ruins of Tallahart, an ancient sanctuary where the Ancient War was said to have begun. With the help of a mysterious girl named Luce, who seeks the "godly treasure" within, the Adversary must join forces with the Primacy against the Apostle Baldrix, who leads the Knights of the Einherjar to claim the power of the dormant gods sealed within the city. Players can fight the Major Boss Baldrix here.

Geardock

Main article: Geardock

Unlocked at Level 295, Geardock is the eighth major area in Western Grandis and the second area with a Grand Sacred Symbol. While searching for a missing Gob, the Adversary and the Primacy discover his secret workshop deep beneath the Arcus desert, where the Ancient God Jupiter seeks to activate Gob's failed experiment, Kronos: a furnace that swallows gods. With Jupiter planning to sacrifice all the remaining gods and seize their power to destroy Gerand Darmoor, the player must uncover the secret of Kronos and stop Jupiter's misguided quest for vengeance. Players can fight the Major Boss Jupiter here.

Inaccessible Regions

Evernia and the Chronica Sanctuary

Main article: Twilight Eve Festival/Story

Evernia is a remote village located near the Arcus desert, in the valley of a mountain range that runs from Western Grandis to Eastern Grandis. Although the harsh terrain makes the mountain range uninhabitable, Evernia was built at the site which once held the Chronica Sanctuary, the sanctum of Chronica, Grandis's Transcendent of Time. Following the Flora Civil War, Gerand Darmoor stole the power of time from Chronica and imprisoned both the Transcendent and their sanctum in a prison dimension, with the descendants of the sanctum's priests eventually building Evernia in the valley. Since then, the villagers would hold the Twilight Eve Festival every ten years, praying for the lost Transcendent's second coming. Although neither Evernia nor the Chronica Sanctuary are directly accessible, the Twilight Eve Festival event took place in Evernia, where the Adversary and the Maple Alliance helped the townspeople of Evernia conduct the ritual to summon Chronica. Additionally, while the Chronica Sanctuary is also inaccessible, the prison dimension in which it is located was seen in a cutscene during the Twilight Eve Festival event.

Trivia

• When Cernium and Hotel Arcus were first released in the NEO Update, they were included on the main Grandis world map. To differentiate between Grandis's moons and the planet at the center, the latter was referred to as "Continental Grandis" on this Wiki.
  • As of the second part of the Savior Update, the name Continental Grandis became canon and officially confirmed in-game.
  • However, beginning in the NEXT Update, the Grandis World Map is reorganized into three areas: Western Grandis, which consists of nearly all areas that were part of Continental Grandis (except Erimos, which is now part of Eastern Grandis), Central Grandis, and Eastern Grandis.