Artwork from Final Fantasy II.
A blade with the power to make the very earth tremble.
Description, Final Fantasy II.
Gaia Blade (だいちのつるぎ, Daichi no Tsurugi? or 大地の剣, Daichi no Ken?), also known as Earth Sword, Terra Sword, and Gaea, is a recurring sword in the series.
Appearances
Final Fantasy II
Template:Sideicon Gaia Blade is a mid-ranked sword that provides 52 Attack, 58% Accuracy, and 2% Evasion. It can be found in Leviathan.
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
Template:Sideicon The Earth Sword is a low-ranked sword that has an attack of 5 and is Earth-elemental. It can be dropped from Sand Devil.
Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
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Etymology
Gaia or Gaea was the goddess or personification of Earth in ancient Greek religion, one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia was the mother of all: the heavenly gods, the Titans and the Giants were born from her union with Uranus (the sky), while the sea-gods were born from her union with Pontus (the sea). The Greek word "γαῖα" (transliterated as gaia or gaea) is a collateral form of "γῆ" meaning Earth. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was named Gaea (Terra in more ancient documents). This is alluded to in Final Fantasy IX with the existence of Gaia's twin world.
The mythological name Gaia was revived in 1979 by James Lovelock, whose Gaia hypothesis proposes that living organisms and inorganic material are part of a dynamic system that shapes the Earth's biosphere, and maintains the Earth as a fit environment for life. In some Gaia theory approaches the Earth itself is viewed as an organism with self-regulatory functions. This theory is especially alluded to in the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within take on Gaia as the planet's soul.
It is also called the "Earth Sword" and the "Terra Sword." A sword is a blade weapon used primarily for cutting or thrusting. The precise definition of the term varies with the historical epoch or the geographical region under consideration. A sword in the most narrow sense consists of a straight blade with two edges and a hilt. However, in nearly every case, the term may also be used to refer to weapons with a single edge (backsword).
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