From the introduction: Ivalice means different things to different people; to some, it’s a fictional world of heroes and monsters, the setting of some of the games in the Final Fantasy series. To others, it’s home, the only place they’ve ever known. You, Jumper, have crossed the line between the two, as you have for other worlds before this one. Welcome to an illusory world brought to life by a grimoire and the imagination of a boy starved of a mother’s love and yearning for a kinder world; I hope you’re prepared to spend the next ten years here.