From the introduction: The world known as Aeolus has suffered several bloody wars over the past one thousand years. This portion of the Final Fantasy 6 worldbook gives an overall description of these events that have led up to the present situation that the worldbook takes place in. The material here split up into different eras: the golden age, the first war of the magi, the age of Chaos, the age of recovery, the Imperial war, the second war of the magi, the year of hell, and the present.