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I left it out because most of that is what's apparently referred to as "meta" - which tends to confuse people and frankly isn't really necessary to understand for the 'core" of what's going on with Adol, if that makes sense.
But, the creation of the Monstrums? Let's assume what you say is true, it means there's a plot hole, because when you talk to Marius in the quest with him and Parks, they talk about using the created clones in their war, with the Lemures being a byproduct of the negative emotions following that war - so at worst they were created for one reason but used in another fashion.
They don't mean using them in previous wars but using them for the revolt Chatelard was planning. That was why the knights were arresting a bunch of people in chapter 8 as they were taking over. They planned to create homunculi to deal with the issue of lack of numbers to go against the Romuns.
As far as the Lemures go, they have existed for as long as humans have in Balduq. In chapter 6 we found the mural that showed Grimnir and his demigods fought in the Grimwald Nox in the past. When Grimnir and his demigods died in the Hundred Years War, there was no one to fight the Lemures. So Zola proposed the idea of homunculi of exceptional humans to deal with it and Rosivta's comrades volunteered. That is an important core to the story so leaving out Grimnir and why homunculi were needed leaves out a huge part of why in the hell the Monstrums even needed to exist to begin with. Rosvita wasn't fighting alone for 500 years, she'd had help from her comrades until they fell in battle and new homunculi were made and raised to replace them.
It was also mentioned at some point after the reveal, if not in that quest itself that Parks in the past had worked in the mines and no one realized he was a noble. He does have that quiet unassuming sort of look about him that it could well be that most recognize him more by what he wears than his face. Keep in mind that even Iris doesn't recognize him and an assassin would definitely make sure to memorize what her target looks like.. So this gives me the impression that people remember him more for something besides his face. Very likely the clothing that denotes his rank in the church.
Also keep in mind that as far as the prison goes, they did make an effort to take away the identity of prisoners by only referring to them as their inmate number. They also were discouraged from asking questions, speaking to other prisoners and so on. Just look at how inmate 163 was treated for even speaking out regarding Adol. That shows that even if prisoners would have guessed, they would have been silenced and punished by the guards fast if they said a word of it. Plus, most prisoners would likely convince themselves otherwise since someone of the Cardinal's rank wouldn't be in prison and even if he was he'd be in the Special Sector with the other nobles or up in the tower that the real Adol was in.
Grimnir creates a special world where monsters created by human's emnity go to keep Gllia safe (otherwise they would appear in real world). From time to time his demi-gods purge those monsters so that the world does not overflows. At the end of the war which happened 500 years ago both gods, Grimnir and Luki die so demi-gods can't purge the extra world of monsters anymore and humans are left to do this. Humans don't have enough power to confront the monsters though and Zola uses this opportunity to convince the King to create a grand alchemy lab and invest in homunculi research.
Initially while Rosvita was still alive Zola used alchemy on her doll to trasfuse it with a soul. But the experiment failed in his opinion. He later uses memories of that doll and a lock of hair to create Rosvita's homunculus Aprilis. He also creates several more homunculi using her previous group members. He can't create fully grown ones yet so he has to let them grow naturally and teach them. This party is supposed to fight in Grimwald Nox and keep it clean. But all members of the party keep dying all the time and only Aprilis survives so she becomes cold and treats her previous friends as puppets while she is a master.
15 years ago Zola leaves Aprilis alone for some reason and she can't teach new group of homunculi so she gaves them up in orphanage and keeps fighting alone. Later when they are grown up already she takes them back into the group and makes them fight monsters.
8 years ago Romun Empire sieges Balduq and everything looked bleak until Chatelard decided to make a very risky attack against the besieger army. General which was tasked with protecting the city agreed with his plan but decided not to go through with it after Chatelard was already attacking the enemy and let everyone die, Chatelard including. After that they just give up the city. Zola creates a Chatelard homunculus and gives him an idea to use homunculi to oppose Romuns.
Gllia's general that didn't participate in Chatelard's attack as he promised was imprisoned as a war criminal. Later used by Zola to influence Chatelard and transmuted into monster homunculus. Location - Fool's Jail.
Britai's Bishop that gave an order to execute Rosvita was silenced and imprisoned. Later used by Zola to guard his lab to punish him. Location - Heretic's Jail.
Gllia's King that influenced the bishop to execute Rosvita was used by Zola to fund the research and later was also transformed into a monster. Location - Marionette's Jail.
That's what I understand about the lore. There may be some mistakes and I am not sure about some things, like why in the last batch of homunculi Zola creates only 4 members of their usual group and not 5. He later tries new way of creating a fully grown one on Holy Swordman but puts his soul in some creature's body from Adol's memory. Why was not this Holy Swordman bred 15 years ago together with the rest I have no idea. Any other soul could have been used for the test.
Regarding Xavier The game doesn't outright say he was included with the others. Remember when he speaks of himself that he says that he remembers dying in that battle and then his next memory is waking up in a roo's body. He says he thinks he was given a roo's body as punishment for abandoning his comrades by dying so early on. Why use someone like that in the Grimwald? More likely he was one of Zola's numerous experiments, probably to see if a human soul could be placed in something not human, which led to the creation of the chimeras. Otherwise it seems Xavier was mostly left to his own devices, maybe used for reporting on things going on in the prison since he was pretty well informed.
I thought that Holy Swordman also was one of the saints as there is a whole legend about him, but it seems this legend was about him participating in the war, not about Grimwald Nox. So even though he may be a hero of that war, he was not used as a homunculus until just recently after Adol was captured (I wonder why his soul is still around after 500 years of inactivity, guess that's some alchemy for you).
At the end of a game you destroy the Grimwald Nox and leave the town. Meaning that monsters will now spawn right in the world. There are also no more Monstrums with superior abilities so I guess the town will be screwed.
It's not like monsters will appear. Humans are generating enmity and enmity was converted into Lemures by Egg of Draupnir. The difference now is that enmity will stay within humans, so they might end up more aggressive.
Innnnteresting. I think I understand now. So the Grimwald Nox functioned as sort of an emotional or psychological bulwark on the people of Balduq, making them less in thrall to their negative emotions compared to those elsewhere in the world? I think that makes sense, thank you.