Lantis' time in Autozam

[VKiera]

So, I'm attempting to develop some more complete headcannon for the time Lantis spend abroad, most of that time he's suppose to have spent in Autozam and I'd like to hear what others think about it.

I wonder how long he was there? It's implied he visited the other counties as well, but I guess Autozam was his last stop and he stayed there the longest. I always thought he was at least there half a year, if not longer, but then we're not sure when he left Cephiro either. A month before the magic knights are summoned? A year? I was thinking maybe a year? That would give him time to explore the other countries plus time for LaFarga to be appointed and be settled in as the new captain too.

Also, it's implied he told Eagle about the Magic Knights and how the Pillar system works. It's pretty clear Eagle understands completely how the Pillar system is, but I wonder how much about the Magic Knights did Lantis tell him? I mean does he just know that they're summoned when Cephiro is in danger? Like Ferio and Presea, or is he completely aware their sole purpose is to kill the Pillar? Though I've always wondered why Lantis would be told the full legend and not Ferio? Maybe because he was captain of the guard? But then why wouldn't LaFarga know about the full legend?

I wonder if Lantis willingly left after he got bored while visiting Farhen and Chizeta or did he have to leave? Maybe too many drunken hug parties. And stayed in Autozam because he made friends? I've always had the thought that if the Magic Knights had not been summoned he would have stayed in Autozam and not ever returned to Cephiro, or at the very least not returned while Eagle and Geo were still alive. The whole 'you are the age you will yourself to be' does that um...'turn off' when you leave Cephiro, so he'd start to age normally?

Really I'd just like to hear anyone's thoughts on this, as well as just general head cannon for the other nations.

[Somariel]

My headcanon timeline for events in Cephiro can be found here. The second page is the location of the pre-series parts of Lantis' time outside Cephiro.

With regards to Lantis knowing the truth of the legend, but not Ferio or Lafarga, I've headcanoned the following reasons:
1) Ferio is much, much younger than Emeraude (since I needed an explanation for why he didn't have any memories of her ever smiling completely happily; I've included when they were born in the timeline I linked above if you want to see just how much younger) and simply hadn't quite reached the age at which Clef had been going to tell him the truth.
2) Clef deliberately failed to tell Lafarga the truth, since he knew that if Emeraude did summon the Magic Knights, Zagato would try to stop her and he (Clef) didn't want Lafarga to have any doubts that stopping Zagato in that situation would be the right thing to do.

[Revolutionaren]

I've always jokingly headcanoned Lantis' time in Autozam as being like British teenagers going to Magaluf, getting incredibly drunk and regrettable tattoos. But then he decided to stay and became a bartender and met Eagle.

But other than that, I've genuinely not put much thought into it :/

[VKiera]

@Somariel-oooh your list, that's right I remembering seeing some of that before! I can totally get behind Clef not telling Lafarge about the true legend for those reasons. But you know I never thought of Ferio being way way younger than Emeraude, at least not by that much...I wonder when their parents died? Hum. Though my own thoughts were that she was Pillar for much longer than that before falling in love with Zagato, but both ideas are interesting.

I still wonder how much of the true legend Eagle knew about from Lantis, I need to reread that part of the magna.

@Rev- LOL, yes drunken Lantis getting a tattoo, someone needs to write that, right now. haha Or some questionable body piercings while visiting Chizeta.

[Somariel]

@VKiera: I headcanon Emeraude and Ferio's parents as having died in the interval between the death of the Pillar before Emeraude and Emeraude's own ascension to the post.

As for how long Emeraude was the Pillar, my thoughts on that were strongly influenced by a few posts in the Fanon Beliefs thread here.

Also, I'm pretty sure that Eagle knew the full legend. In MKR 2, Volume 2, we get the following from Lantis during Eagle's flashback:

$ (Lantis)
$.... Princess Emeraude.... died....

P.106
$ (Lantis)
$.... Zagato.... knew that this was going to happen...
$He said that the Princess would never throw everything away and live
$the way her Heart wanted to live....

P.107
$ (Lantis)
$Still, he couldn't keep from fighting for his own wish...
$"Please be free, Princess Emeraude."

$ (Eagle)
$Lantis.

<patpat>

P.108
$ (Lantis)
$...... I thought that it was going to end up like this....
$They cannot lie to their Hearts.
$But their Wishes were never going to be fulfilled.

P.109
$ (Lantis)
$Cephiro as it stands now.... cannot fulfill both of their wishes....

$Cephiro can not stand without the sacrifices of the Pillar.
$I...

P.110-111
$ (Lantis)
$I can't think that that is right.
$This tragedy should never occur again...
$I will end the Legend of the Magic Knights and the Pillar system with
$my own hands.

and in Volume 3, we get the following from Eagle during the test for the Pillar:

P.153
VOICE (Creator)
Is it for your friend... Lantis, the Kailu of Cephiro?

HIKARU
Lantis!?

EAGLE
No, it is not.
It is true that Lantis risked his life to end the history of Cephiro that
can only be written with the sacrifice of the Pillar.

P.154
EAGLE
Because that was his Wish.... after he found out about the tragic ending
to the love story... between his older brother and the princess that he
guarded for so long.
But I don't want Lantis to die.
I don't want someone with eyes colored like the skies of Cephiro to die. 
Someone with the eyes that remind me of a place where I always longed to
be......
.... I am being Selfish.  I know that I am ignoring what he wants to do.
I am going to become the Pillar of Cephiro for _my_ Wish.