

Edward and Alphonse then leave Resembool to travel to Central City.Īlong the way, they met Majhal, whose name had appeared on their father's letters relating to Human Transmutation. Shortly then, Winry and her grandmother fit two automail limbs for Ed in place of his right arm and left leg. Mustang also stated that he received a letter from the boys, inquiring Hohenheim of course. Colonel Roy Mustang who recruits the boys to become State-Alchemists of the State Military due to seeing the failed Human Transmutation. The horrors showed what happened to Ed and Al's bodies.Īfterwards, the Elrics met Lt. Even during the time, the sons of Trisha sends letters to their father Hohenheim, who never answers their letters. A past of the Elrics' childhood is shown from episode 3 to 9, when the brothers had performed alchemy (Ed in age 6 and Al in age 5), their love with their mother, Trisha, the horrors that began when their mom died due to an illness. With Ed's left leg gone, he sacrificed his right arm to bind the soul of Al to a giant suit of armor. The Elric brothers set out to confront after him their meeting with Rosé Thomas, a woman that is mourning her dead boyfriend Cain and the death of her parents when she was a young girl.Īs the Elrics confront Cornello, they revealed their past about Ed losing his left leg and Al losing his entire body. Such things can happen, especially when Philosopher's Stones are involved.Edward and Alphonse Elric arrive at Reole, hearing about Father Cornello who can perform miracles and claims to bring the dead back to life. It's a weird connection that even Fullmetal Alchemist's creator has jokingly pointed out. This family tree is based on the generations at play, rather than the age of each character in this case, a person might have an aunt or uncle who is younger than they are.

This would also mean that Ed and Al are Father's cousins, and by extension, they are uncles to the seven homunculi, despite being much younger. Genetically, they are twin brothers, but if Father may be considered Hohenheim's son, then that means the seven homunculi are Hohenheim's grandchildren. In another theory, Father might be considered Hohenheim's son instead, since Father was created from Hohenheim instead of alongside him. These boys inherited their father's unique gold hair and eyes, and they're related to Father. Elsewhere, many years later, Hohenheim married a human woman, Trisha Elric, and had two sons with her. As Pride, the firstborn, explained it, the seven and Father are ultimately the same being, just in different bodies. Father created his seven homunculi, one for each deadly sin, from his own essence. Hohenheim and Father are effectively twin brothers - since they have the same DNA and each contains half the total Xerxian souls in them. That's a grisly tale, but this is where it becomes amusing. Needing to purge himself of all human sin to further his grand scheme to become a new god, he became Father. But it was all a trick: all the Xerxian people save for Hohenheim were sacrificed to the ritual, and with Hohenheim's blood sample and 500,000 Xerxian souls in him, the tiny homunculus became Hohenheim's twin in his genes and body alike. Hohenheim, when instructed, gave the "dwarf" his own blood sample and the transmutation began. He had a massive transmutation circle dug around the entire Xerxes city-state, all to grant the Xerxes king immortality (or so he said). It convinced Hohenheim to learn alchemy from a master and buy his freedom, and its ambitions rapidly grew. Crafty and ambitious, the "dwarf" made friends with this slave and even gave him a name, Van Hohenheim, to empower him. It was the "dwarf in the flask," and one day, it spoke to a gold-haired slave boy known as Slave #23. Over 300 years ago, in the desert kingdom of Xerxes, a strange creature was contained in a glass flask: a tiny homunculus, its origins unknown.
