Kingdom of Paradis

Gaijin-Shita [Bastardized Hizurese]

Jaegerist Cult

Church of the Walls

Seijū Worship

The **Kingdom of Paradis** or **Neo Eldia**, also referred to as **Second Eldian Empire**, the **Neo-Eldian Empire**, the **Eldian Empire**, as well as simply **Eldia**, is the Eldian rump-state that formed following the dissolution of the Old Eldian Empire following the Great Titan War and the exodus to Paradis Island, from which the Kingdom takes its name.

The Kingdom's monarchs are Queen-Founder Historia III Reiss and King-Consort Eren I Jaeger.

## History

### Exodus and Founding

During the last days of the Great Titan War, long after the loss of eight of the Nine Titans, and the deaths of all the Great Houses save the Tyburs, who had given fealty to a resurgent Marley, and the Beschützers, who would hold the city of Udynel for another two years before being stormed by Marley's reborn legions, the 145th King of Eldia, Karl the Coward, gathered hundreds of thousands of his subjects and fled the mainland to an island on the borders of the Empire, though leaving millions behind to face persecution under Marleyan rule. Using the power of the Founding Titan to create three, massive walls, shutting his remnant kingdom off from the outside world, Karl issued one final declaration which assured the enemies of Eldia that if Paradis were to come under attack, the Founding Titan would unleash the Wall Titans to trample the earth into ruin.

However, that warning was nothing but a bluff that the Coward King had no intention of using. Instead, the Fritz King planned to do the opposite and force the Founder to renounce war for all eternity, stripping the Founder of most, if not all, of its sovereign power, in order to ensure that when the outside world finally launched an assault for some reason or other, there would be little hindering them.

Karl Fritz never got the chance to see those promises through.

Upon discovering his correspondence with the Tyburs, and coming to the realization that the Fall of Eldia was a needless and *entirely* avoidable conflict that had happened at the behest of the King and the Lord Tybur at the time, Karl Fritz's eldest son, Crown Prince Cardel, wroth at the discovery, quickly organized a small coup, taking his father's palace in the night and drugging the Founder with enough sleep-draught to kill a normal man. After his securing of Mithras, the Crown Prince immediately called an Assembly, informing the aristocracy of the betrayal that had occurred, and prostrated himself before the people, begging forgiveness.

So moved by the Crown Prince's humbleness was the Assembly that they crowned him on the spot, and rushed him and the comatose Coward King to transfer the Founder from father to son. When the process was complete, Cardel, now the King of the Walls, officially dissolved House Fritz as Eldia's ruling House, so ashamed of the actions of his father and what they had caused, replacing it with House Reiss, the new name of the Royal Bloodline from which all subsequent Kings of the Walls would born from.

#### Early Days

With Mithras secured, and the Royal Bloodline stabilized by King Cardel’s hasty marriage to Lady Wilfriede of House Dietr, the Founder turned outwards from the capital to find the rest of Paradis in disarray, and none more so than what remained of Eldia’s great Legions, differing factions vying for control over of the remnants. The Reiss King, having none of that, was quick to reassert Royal authority amongst the soldiers, demoting the heads of each individual military faction and implementing several reforms in order to better suit the new state of the Legions. No longer could the Empire afford to sustain the massive Legions of old, both due to a severe lack of soldiers, most of them having either fallen on the mainland or were left behind. Henceforth, the remaining tatters of the Imperial Legions were combined into one entity, then split into three distinct units that would serve as the basis for the future Innenpolizei, the Founderliche Garnison, and the Vermessungskorp, though for the time being, they were, in actuality, little more than an attempt of assuring the people that Eldia could defend itself should Marley and the Tyburs choose to finish what they had started.

Having reformed their army to a form deemed sufficient, Cardel then began to pour all his focus into rebuilding Eldia’s industry from the ground up, turning what had once been a small smattering of vacation villas and holdfasts into thriving cities, even going so far as to grant the Shogun’s son and his people a plot of land in the easternmost portion of the Walls. It was a task that he would spend the rest of his thirteen year-long reign completing, and with such ardor and determination did Cardel go about his duties that, when he died, he was forever emblazoned with the title of the Repentant, in memory of all he did to undue his father’s ruinous work.

## Geography

Paradis Island appears to have a temperate climate, with the northern regions of the land being especially cold, rarely exceeding 30° C on the hottest summer days. However, the coldness of the northern regions of the island are alleviated by the occasional presence of hot springs.

The Walls raised by the First King, were built upon the center of Paradis Island, with the central region of the Walls laying at a higher elevation than the outermost territories. Some regions of the land are home to Forest of Giant Trees, where the trees are known to reach as high as 80 meters, possibly due to the unique content of the soil. Paradis Island is also rich with various minerals and natural resources, which made the land a valuable target for the people of Marley over eighty years after the end of the Great Titan War.

## Population and Society

### The Subjects of Ymir

The most numerous of the Kingdom's people, the Subjects of Ymir are, from their view, the last 'true' Eldians left in the world following the Fall, as every other Eldian off the island exist under persecution and slavery in all but name. As such, the Eldians of Paradis see it as their duty to free their mainland brothers and sisters from the oppression of the outer world, which has played a role in their demographics since the end of Cardel's reign, as the drive to rebuild Eldia's military might from the ground up, as well as the Two-Child Minimum Policy implemented during Hansel Reiss' rule, have seen an increase not only in the amount of Eldians born a year, but has also bred a fervent loyalty into the Subjects.

### Hizurese of the Hasegawa Bakufu

The only other race within the Walls aside from the Subjects of Ymir, the Clans of the Hasegawa Bakufu have, since the reign of Uri the Unfaithful, largely kept to themselves within the city of Hasharito, the capital of the Hizurese rump-state. Inter-racial marriage between the Hizurese and Eldians are, however, not uncommon.

## Government

While, officially, the governing power of Paradis is a Mixed one, in truth, the Queen-Founder and King-Consort rule as absolute monarchs, though they nominally answer to an assembly of politicians, aristocrats, and nobles, either elected by the populace or simply through birth. It is oft said that *"what the Founder wills, the Founder receives"*-- and, for the Eldians of Paradis, that is indeed true.

Based on the Tings of the old Norður tribes of antiquity, the Royal Government is comprised of three 'room,' so to speak-- the Lobby Room, where the common folk cast their say into government affairs, as well as where local leaders are elected for stately affairs. The Dining Room, where politicians, aristocrats, and nobles intermingle in official affairs, for this or that. And, the War Room, where the Monarch-Founder and their advisors discuss matters of the state at the highest echelons.

## Military

The state and the Armed Forces of Paradis are closely intertwined, seeing as the first backers of Historia Reiss in the Paradisian Succession Crisis were the scouting legions of the Vermessungkorps. Since that time, many high-ranking military officials have come to seat themselves within both the Dining and War Rooms, most notably among them, Feldmarschall Erwin Smith.

### The Vermessungskorps

**Task:** To reconquer the lands that once belonged to the Eldian Empire and to recapture the lost Titan Powers

**Head of Branch:** Erwin Smith

**Subdivisions:** Experimental Panzer Division, Levi Squad

**Manpower:** N/A

**Standard Equipment:**

* Anti-Urban Omni Maneuver Gear
* Mauser C96
* Ultrahard-steel chestplate

**Additional Equipment:**

* Motorcycles
* Thunder Spears
* Anti-Titan Maneuver Gear
* Experimental Armored Vehicles

### The Founderliche Garnison

**Task:** To ensure the defense of the Home Island and its people from foreign aggression

**Head of Branch:** Dot Pixis

**Subdivisions:** The Imperial Reserve

**Manpower:** N/A

**Standard Equipment:**

* Anti-Urban Maneuver Gear
* Ultrahard-steel chestplate
* Ultrahard-steel Pickelhaube
* Gewher-88 Commission Rifle

**Additional Equipment:**

* Wall-mounted artillery
* Anti-Titan Maneuver Gear

### The Innenpolizei

**Task:** To maintain order and peace in the Home Island territories of the Empire

**Head of Branch:** Nile Dok

**Subdivisions:** Detainment and Containment Department

**Manpower:** N/A

**Standard Equipment:**

* Anti-Urban Maneuver Gear
* Ultrahard-steel chestplate
* Ultrahard-steel Pickelhaube
* Gewher-88 Commission Rifle

**Additional Equipment:** None

### The Kaiserliche Eldianische Marine

**Task:** To guard the seas belonging to the Empire and to secure safe passage for the Mainland Eldians to Paradis if need be

**Head of Branch:** Rita Iglehaute

**Subdivisions:** Marine Korps

**Manpower:** N/A, 60 battleships afloat

**Standard Equipment:**

* Ultrahard-steel chestplate
* Ultrahard-steel Pickelhaube
* Gewher-88 Commission Rifle

**Ship-Class Types/Notable Battleships:**

* ***Kaiser-class*;** the *Historia*, the *Crown Prince Cardel*, the *Queen Agnet*, the *Jaeger*
* ***Nassau-class;*** the *Retribution*, the *Ymir’s Vengeance*, the *Forward Unto Freedom*
* ***König-class;*** the *Ninestar*, the *Trample Under Foot*
* ***Siegfried-class*;** the *Maria*, the *Rose*, the *Sina*, the *Ymir*, the *Mithragr*
* ***Seydlitz-class;*** the *Royal Fritz*, the *Conqueror*
* ***Yamato-class*;** the *Son of the Shogun*, the *Hasegawa*

### Wehrpflichtige Kriminelle

**Task:** To aid in the Eldian Empire’s reconquest of Continental Marley and to suffer penance while doing so

**Subdivisions:** None

**Manpower:** Comprised of thousands of rapists, murderers, human traffickers, and prisoners sentence to death-row, no one ever really cared to count

**Standard Equipment:** None

**Additional Equipment:** None