Ivalice

Ivalice
Final Fantasy location
Ivalice concept artwork for Fortress
First appearance	Final Fantasy Tactics
Created by	Yasumi Matsuno
Genre	Role-playing video game
In-universe information
Type	Kingdom, region
Locations	Nabudis, Rabanastre
Characters	Vaan, Balthier, Ramza

Ivalice (イヴァリース, Ivarīsu) is a fictional universe setting primarily appearing in the Final Fantasy video game series. The world was created by Yasumi Matsuno and has since been expanded upon by several games as the Ivalice Alliance series. Ivalice is described as a complex world with a very long history, and the stories of Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and Final Fantasy XII take place in it.^[1]

Though described often as a world, this was only physically true of Ivalice in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, in which Ivalice was created parallel to the real world. The 'true' Ivalice, as witnessed in the remaining games, describes two distinct locations; a geographical region,^[2] and a smaller kingdom, both of which belong to a larger, unnamed world. Generally, however, the term Ivalice is also used to refer to the conceptual setting, rather as one might say the Medieval world of Europe and the Mediterranean.