Founders

The Founders are a group of seven people who established the present day City and are the first Ouroboros. Their statues are located in Memorial Hall in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and play an integral role in Future Redeemed. The citizens of the present day City are directly descended from the Founders. 
==Story==
===History===
Matthew and his sister Na'el originally hailed from the original City, situated in Erythia Sea. After their parents died 15 years ago while fighting Moebius, they are trained by their grandfather, Ghondor, to harness the power of Ouroboros. At the same time Na'el has been caring for orphaned children, including Chyra.
However, after a group of pioneers attempting to establish a second City, Matthew and Na'el found them all killed by Kevesi forces, with Chyra being among the dead. After returning to the City, Na'el express hatred of both Keves and Agnus for their role in their deaths. Not too long after that, Matthew and Na'el fend off a group of mysterious monsters before the latter picks up a red core crystal and returns home with it.
Moebius, led by N then attack the City the same time Alpha began taking people, Na'el included. When Matthew returned to the City, he found Ghondor impaled by N's sword. His dying grandfather tells him that the future is in his hands before causing an explosion that destroyed the City. Matthew was later found half dead by A who found him while passing by and nursed him back to health. Together, they made a grave of his late grandfather before overlooking the ruins of the City from Hope's Rest. The two began travelling together in hopes of finding Matthew's missing sister.
===Future Redeemed===
Matthew and A destroy a stray in Vermilion Woods. After the battle, A asks why Matthew wanted to use the Ouroboros power in the first place, before A warns Matthew that Moebius can track the Ouroboros power. Matthew then pulls out his X-Reader looking for survivors for the City. On their way to a camp, the two are attacked by s in which they kill. Matthew then reminiscences the death of his grandfather, at the hands of N and the destruction of the City before falling asleep. The next morning, Matthew gets a ping of a City Iris from his X-Reader, only to find the refugee dead from an attack by monsters.
Matthew and A stumble on a battle between and . Matthew intervenes a fight between the only survivors of the battle, the Kevesi Nikol and the Agnian Glimmer, imbuing the two with the power of Ouroboros, much to A's annoyance. The Consuls of the respective Colonies, Q and R were angry at the development and attacks the duo in their Moebius only for them to be cut down by A who then set the soldiers free by destroying the Flame Clocks.
While Nikol was content that he can no longer take life to live, Glimmer is still desperate to die for Agnus and ran away from the group when they fell asleep. Nikol then wakes up Matthew to tell him that Glimmer had ran off, prompting the three to chase after her. Meanwhile as Glimmer is attempting to return to Agnian territory, she came under attack by a pack of Volffs. During the battle, she unknowingly used her Ouroboros power. Immediately however, Glimmer came to terms of the loss of the Flame Clock. She is then ambushed by Panacea and the Liberators and is taken captive by them. When she was in Iris range of a nearby Colony Eta, she knocked out the guards and took off. When she met with the Colony's Consul W however, he deems her useless and decides to kill her, only to be saved by the party and the Liberator leaders, Shulk and Rex and manages to defeat him. Glimmer is then forced to accept the truth that she cannot go back to Agnus and decides to join the party.
The Liberators then lead the party to the ruins of the original , where the City survivors that were scattered after its fall and bring them here. After taking a tour of Colony 9, the party are lead to the Command Center before resting in the Tents. The party then visits to upgrade Matthew's Ouroboros Gauntlets.
The party later departs Colony 9 for the The Ragmos Desolation to resume searching for Na'el. While camping at , they are attacked by an Alpha-possessed Na'el, followed by N who attempts to kill Alpha and by extension, Na'el. Matthew intercepts him, awakening his Ouroboros powers in the process, only for A to stop him, revealing that N is in fact, his flesh and blood, prompting Na'el / Alpha to depart and reveal Origin, via 's defense mechanism. N reveals in exchange for eternal life, Z tasked him in protecting the world. Before departing he warns the party that he will bar their way to kill Alpha.
After the encounter, the party return to Colony 9 where Shulk and Rex explains the origins of the world as well Origin's nature. He reveals that Alpha is planning to destroy the current world and move on to a new one, using Na'el as a proxy. Their main goal is now reaching Origin to save Na'el and defeat Alpha. Glimmer and Nikol volunteers to join them in the fight, but Shulk and Rex attempted to persuade them not to come, but relents, on the condition of defeating them in combat at in which they succeed, awakening their Ouroboros powers as well. The party then journey to Prison Island, via the Black Mountains. At the , N intercepts them but is unable to defeat them and the clash between Matthew and N reveals a memory of Origin. Alpha then brings the party within Origin which depicts Klaus's old world before he tore it in two. There they find Na'el who manages to convince her that Alpha's perfect world is scam, but abducts her as her confronts the party.
Alpha then tries to possess Matthew as well, but fails to with N intervening, freeing Na'el from Alpha's control for good. Together, the party, with the assistance of N Interlinks to deliver the finishing blow to Alpha. With Alpha gone, Origin needed new avatars, Shulk, Rex, and A were chosen to be those avatars, but not before removing Nikol and Glimmer's Term marks. The Founders and N depart Origin as it falls on the Cent-Omnia Region, destroying it completely. At , Matthew and N considers finishing their battle before deciding to go their separate ways, but not before warning the Founders that Moebius will defend the endless now to their deaths. The Founders and the old City survivors are seen building the City as Matthew departs on a journey to find more survivors as the rest of the Founders watch on.
===Legacy===
After the construction of the new City was complete, statues of the Founders were built in Memorial Hall, as well as the first Ouroboros Stone cage in honor of them. The Founders' Tale, a series of novels documenting the Founders themselves were written by Leeanne and were sold at Wellwell's Emporium.
==The Founders==
* Matthew of House Vandham
* Na'el of House Doyle
* Nikol of House Ortiz
* Glimmer of House Rhodes
* Panacea of House Reid
* Linka of House Cassini
* An unknown seventh founder
==Trivia==
* Riku's affiliation with the Founders during the ending of Future Redeemed suggests that he is the seventh Founder of the City.
==In other languages==
==Gallery==
House Vandham emblem.png|House Vandham's emblem.
House Doyle emblem.png|House Doyle's emblem.
House Ortiz emblem.png|House Ortiz's emblem.
House Rhodes emblem.png|House Rhodes's emblem.
House Reid emblem.png|House Reid's emblem.
House Cassini emblem.png|House Cassini's emblem.
Matthew's statue.png|Matthew's statue in Memorial Hall.
Na'el's statue.png|Na'el's statue in Memorial Hall.
Nikol's statue.png|Nikol's statue in Memorial Hall.
Glimmer's statue.png|Glimmer's statue in Memorial Hall.
Shulk's statue.png|Panacea's mentor, Shulk's statue in Memorial Hall.
Rex's statue.png|Linka's mentor, Rex's statue in Memorial Hall.
Founders Ouroboros.png|The Founders's Ouroboros form.
Category:Lore (XC3)