Niata

The Niata are the beings met if the player chooses a specific mission quest in the first "Tales of The World" game. The Niata are met in the Orphic maze and speak to the player using Raine as a "Vessel". They explain that the World Tree is a product of the seeds they sow in the Universe, which in turn produces more Seeds, and therefore more worlds. They are what makes up the Mana in the worlds, though the beings met in the Orphic Maze explain that the mana they originally guarded on their world ran dry, and that they aren't fit to produce any more because of the inactivity of their Descender.