Everkeep is a location in Final Fantasy XIV, introduced in the expansion Dawntrail. It is a massive tower that serves as the central location of authority for the kingdom of Alexandria.

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Everkeep is a massive tower built with electrope. It is an entire city constructed with several levels, and serves as the central location of authority within Alexandria. Each level serves a purpose, such as goods manufacturing. The tower has twelve levels, but when it was transferred to the Source, the top level was left behind.

• The Underkeep: Located in the foundation sector is the castle of the old kingdom, which was preserved even as Everkeep was constructed above it.
• Origenics: A facility within Everkeep that processes soul cells, spanning the first to eleventh levels of Everkeep.
• Eighth level: Contains a residential district and a demolition site. This level is the setting of AAC Cruiserweight M3.
• Solution Nine: The ninth and largest level of Everkeep. It acts as a residential district that has several shops, parks, and entertainment venues in the sectors near the aetheryte plaza. The Arcadion is a battle arena located in this level. It also houses an administrative center of government.
• Tenth level: Contains Containment Complex 10-29, an abandoned Preservation research facility.
• Eleventh level: This level houses the soul cell storage for Alexandrians.
• Summit of Everkeep: Located above the eleventh level, this is the throne chamber for king Zoraal Ja, and an interdimensional portal to the Ninth.
• Living Memory: The top twelfth level of Everkeep, which was left behind in the ninth reflection when Everkeep was transferred to the Source. Within Living Memory, deceased Alexandrians were brought back as facsimiles from their extracted memories, called Endless. Living Memory was built with an image of how Alexandrian civilization was at its height. Here, the Endless "lived" their happiest moments in life over and over.
• The upper level of Everkeep is believed to contain luxurious apartments, where the immortalized fighters of the Arcadion live their lives in comfort. However, Eutrope, the Wicked Thunder, discovered that this is not true: the immortalized are taken to a secret facility where they are kept in stasis to prevent them from dying of psychonekrosis.

History

The kingdom of Alexandria was devastated in a war called the Storm Surge against the neighboring nation of Lindblum. Thanks to the efforts of a group called Preservation, led by Calyx, Alexandria survived beneath a giant dome that kept it safe from the never-ending thunderstorms raging across the world. In order to keep their civilization alive, Alexandria began to construct Everkeep on top of the remains of Alexandria's castle. Levels one through eleven were publicly known, but the true nature of the top twelfth level, Living Memory, was kept secret. The Alexandrians believed it housed the luxury residence of the queen, when in truth, it served as the living space for the Endless.

The Endless required a constant supply of aether, so when he world eventually began to run low, Preservation began to look for other sources. They planned to utilize interdimensional fusion to fuse Alexandria with the Source and harvest aether from its people. The plan was put on hold when two rebelling Milalla scientists took the key required for the fusion to the Source and out of their reach.

Twenty years later in the Source's flow of time, Zoraal Ja, son of the Dawnservant Gulool Ja Ja, opened the portal in Yak T'el in Tural, which led to the ninth reflection. He made contact with the Eternal Queen Endless Sphene and became the King of Resolve of Alexandria. With the gate now open, Zoraal Ja and Sphene utilized interdimensional fusion and transferred Everkeep and everything within the dome, mainly the region Heritage Found, to Yyasulani in Xak Tural, fusing the two regions. Only Living Memory was left behind in the ninth reflection. Due to the time discrepancy between the Ninth and the Source, thirty years passed inside the dome while outside only days had passed since its appearance. The time flow was stabilized once the dome was breached.