Score

The Score, also known as Yulia's Score or the Planetary Score, is a prophecy developed by Yulia Jue shortly after the success of the Float Project, a last-ditch effort in order to save the world from being swallowed up by poisonous miasma. It dictated the next 2000 years of the human history and, in the end, promised to bring prosperity to the world. Because of this, the world at large has begun following the Score religiously, even forming a church called the Order of Lorelei, to regularly read the Score to the masses.

In truth, the Score is merely the memory of the planet. The Score, as dictated to Yulia by Lorelei, is written in seven parts on objects known as fonstones. At the time in which the game takes place, all but one of the fonstones have been found and read. However, it is later revealed that the seventh fonstone does not actually promise prosperity as originally believed. Instead, it actually predicts the destruction of Auldrant and the demise of humankind.

This revelation, in addition to mankind's dependence on the Score, motivated Van Grants into rejecting the score and striving to destroy it. To this end, he intended to replace the entire world with replicated people, creatures, and landscape in order to escape the "Score of Final Judgement" by ensuring that the Score is fulfilled while creating a new world on top of the old.

Trivia

 * Ironically, the destruction of the world predicted by the score may in fact have been Van's destroying of Auldrant, and his creation of a replica world.