Homecoming
- For other articles titled "Homecoming", see Homecoming (disambiguation).
The Homecoming is a ceremony in Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
Description[edit]
Receiving a Homecoming is the lifetime goal of many soldiers of Aionios. After a soldier carries out ten years of fighting, they return to either a Colony or the Castle of their respective nations to be honored. The off-seers then play their melodies to send off the soldier to "return to the Queen's embrance" as they dissolve into golden motes. However, most soldiers die on the battlefield before they receive their Homecoming. Prior to the Homecoming ceremonies, Consuls would often execute soldiers who reach the end of their tenth term.
Story[edit]
The first Homecoming seen in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is at Colony 14 where the Queen of Keves conducts one for a soldier, an event in which a young Noah, Eunie, Lanz, and Joran witnesses.
Mio is an Agnian off-seer who is three months away from her Homecoming, to this end, she carries a Journal that counts down to that day. When Lanz reminds the party about the Homecoming after they fled their respective Colonies, Noah told him he had to kill his friends to go back, comparing the ceremonies to a pile of husks; a terrible altar built on death.
After the party is taken captive by N, he plans to let let Mio die by Homecoming on the solar eclipse, revealing to Noah that there's an exception to the cycle of rebirth: those who receive their Homecoming will not be able to come back. As the days counts down to Homecoming, every attempt to escape and free Mio were futile as she resigns herself to her fate. On the day of the eclipse, N brought the party to the Ascension Grounds, with the Queen of Agnus, M, X and a few others attending. As planned, the party is forced to watch in horror as Mio seemingly fades aways. However, it turns out that M is in fact, Mio, alive and well and that M has switched places with her during the skirmish outside of Li Garte Prison Camp to commit suicide via Homecoming, causing N to breakdown and attack Noah in a rage but is defeated.
In Side Story: Noah, 1000 years ago, Commander Crys stops V from executing a soldier at the end of his 10 year lifespan. With M's approval, Crys sends off the soldier in the first traditional Homecoming.
In other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
 English
|
Homecoming | — |
 Japanese
|
Adult's Ceremony | |
 French
|
Grand Retour | |
 German
|
Heimkehr | |
 Spanish
|
Llegada a Casa | |
 Italian
|
Ritorno | |
 Chinese (simplified)
|
成人仪式 | Adult Ceremony |
 Chinese (traditional)
|
成人儀式 | Adult Ceremony |
 Korean
|
성인식 | Adult Ceremony |
Gallery[edit]
Crys performing the earliest known Homecoming, 1000 years ago
Mio during her Homecoming
