Ikaruga Civil War



The "Second War of Ars Magus", also known as the Ikaruga Civil War (イカルガ内戦, Ikaruga Naisen), was a war orchestrated openly when the Ikaruga Federation openly rebelled against the dictatorship and governance of the NOL. It is the first time mankind had used Ars Magus against each other.

The war was concluded when the Novus Orbis Librarium sent one of its most powerful Knights, Jin Kisaragi to battle, giving him a unit to commandeer. Through Jin's leadership skills and tactics, his unit managed to break down most of Ikaruga's forces. By personally slaying the head leader of Ikaruga, Lord Tenjo, and completely taking down the Ikaruga Federation by himself within two days. Thus, ending the war.

Jin would then earn the title of "The Hero of Ikaruga" (イカルガの英雄, Ikaruga no Eiyū).

After the war, the NOL imposed a much harsher rule in the world. In that anyone with open form of opposition to the NOL will automatically be dealt with the "Death Sentence".

During the events of Continuum Shift in Jin's story mode, a flashback shows Jin standing right before Tenjo's frozen body when he realizes that something apparently shocking with the situation, and even in his words it was some sort of hidden meaning behind all the war, just after that Hazama appears in his ghost form and devours Jin's memories about the event before taking Tenjo's body away, also claiming that Jin will make the perfect figurehead hero. This scene and dialogue strongly imply that the whole war may have been a setup from the NOL or Hazama himself to use Jin, have him win the war and get something in particular from it. Jin apparently realized all of this and after the war his personality drastically changed to the cold person in the present with breaks of insanity towards Ragna or Noel. Even Makoto and Tsubaki point out that he had changed for the worst after the war, furthering reinforcing the idea that the whole war was a sinister plot from the NOL.