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Humans are a race of beings that are indigenous to the planet Earth. In Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Klaus and Galea are the only known earthling characters. In Xenoblade Chronicles X, Humans are the main playable race. By the year 2054, Earth had a population of 10 billion humans. However, Earth was attacked and destroyed in a war between two alien races, forcing the humans to evacuate and eventually settle on the planet Mira. They currently reside in New Los Angeles.
Playable Humans[]
Doug, one example of a Human
DLC Playable Humans[]
Definitive Edition Playable Humans[]
Story[]
The player eventually learns that all the humans in New Los Angeles are Mimeosomes. These are controlled by their respective humans' consciousness, but the genetic data and actual bodies are housed in the Lifehold Core, a supercomputer that was separated from the White Whale when it crashed. One of BLADE's objectives is to find the Lifehold Core and revive the actual human bodies before the Mimeosomes run out of power, lest the people of New Los Angeles die.
Humans are descendants of a race known as the Samaarians. The Samaarians were responsible for creating the Ganglion as a race to serve them. Because they were aware of the risk of the Ganglion growing out of control, they made the Ganglion vulnerable to human DNA. Contact with significant amounts of human DNA can destroy a Ganglion. It is because of this that the Ganglion are actively seeking to destroy humanity, the biggest threat to their existence.
In the trilogy[]
In the final chapters of both Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, it is revealed that humans were originally a race that existed before the creation of their respective universe. It is shown that humans once had a successful civilization, having built cities and even space stations, however humans would eventually find themselves in conflict with one another. During this conflict, Klaus, a scientist working on the First Low Orbit Station, used the Conduit to create a new universe after losing faith in humanity. This experiment was ultimately successful, but the Conduit also sent much of the world, including half of Klaus, into different dimensions; Xenoblade Chronicles demonstrates how one half of him became Zanza, while Xenoblade Chronicles 2 showed that his other half would live on as the Architect. As such, humanity suffered great losses and would eventually die off, leaving Klaus and the Guldos the sole remaining humans alive, although the immortal Guldos would become less recognizably human over time. Feeling guilty over his actions, Klaus created the world of Alrest and new life to inhabit it; this life would eventually become humanoid races that would call the world of Alrest their home, such as the Ardainians, Coeians, Gormotti, Indoline, Leftherians, Tantalese, Tornans and Urayans. In Alrest, all of the aforementioned humanoid races refer to themselves and each other as "human", as well as humanoid races not native to their world such as Homs (as seen in a post-battle conversation between Fiora and Poppi). An important distinction is made in that true humanoid Blades, such as Pyra, are never referred to as "human" despite their appearance (except for the aforementioned Fiora, and by extension Shulk and Elma, who are not actual Blades).
In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, humans encompass people from the nations of Keves and Agnus (with the exception of the Nopon). The Kevesi are different people who can have traits from races of Xenoblade Chronicles, such as Homs, High Entia or Machina, while the Agnians can have traits from races of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, such as Gormotti, Indoline, Blades, etc. It is hinted that they are those races and have been misinformed about their true species, and they themselves are strangely unaware of their conspicuous physical differences in most circumstances, as seen with Nikol, the child of two Homs, and Glimmer, the child of a Leftherian and a Blade. As a rule they all share the same lifespan of ten Terms, but the free humans who live in the City retain their natural lifespans.
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