While you've probably read plenty about the fictitious world of Vana'diel, here's a quick refresher. Twenty years after the great war with the Shadow Lord, the world of Vana'diel is returning to a tenuous normality. However, the Beastmen once commanded by the Shadow Lord are stirring, and the recovering nations of Bastok, San d'Oria and Windurst send out a call for help to adventurers like yourself. Joining one of these nations, you'll start out small, build fame, and eventually take the fight to the Shadow Lord, his minions, and beyond -- all with the help of your friends! There's a lot more to the story than just killing Foozle, and Square has taken an approach similar to that taken with Final Fantasy X's Spira, and given Vana'diel a history, politics, racial strife, and other real-world situations to help flesh out the standard high-fantasy epic.