Explosion Nation

Explosion Nation (Spanish: ***Nación de Explosión***) is a nation located in an archipelago surrounded by the Water, Grass, and Wind nations. They are best known for defending the Polarians from the Reaper nation's enslavement, but the nation is known to be full of explosives, and other nations buying bombs from them. The breathing quality here is rather poor due to the numerous explosive weapon tests kicking up clouds of dust, as common problems are children malnutrition, radiation sickness, and lung diseases such as asthma, tuberculosis, et cetera.

In the early 1950s, Explodians started designing and building nuclear weapons, and in 1955, they became the first nation in Elemental Vesial to posses nuclear weapons, though by the late 1980s they eventually retired all nuclear weapons in favor of bombs powered by the Explosion magic energy, mainly due to security concerns and continuous civilian protests over these weapons.

## ***Locations***

### **Boom Town**

The city's population is 1,000,193. It is known for inventing a new energy source: Concentrated Combustion. Concentrated Combustion is the process of other elementals firing projectiles near an explosion elemental. That elemental then uses combustion to absorb these projectiles and, instead of releasing it in a large explosion, they move the mass of mana and slowly release it into a pool of water. The evaporating water then rotates a turbine connected to a magnetic cylinder surrounded by wires, which generates electricity.

### **Descarga (Discharge)**

This is a rather large city with a population of 49,954,012 but it is home to the Sacred Crater.

### **The Sacred Crater**

Located in Descarga, the sacred crater has a story: The Explosion nation was under attack (by what was commonly believed to be the Reapers), when the Explosion nation was losing many locals of Descarga, who wished for a victorious end to the war. At the front, one explosion elemental had sacrificed himself, overloading himself with mana and wiping out the invading Reapers with a single blast. It was only then which they won, but such a desperate move had only placed the Reaper nation under further contempt by the people of Descarga.

### **Cráter de la desesperación (Crater of Despair)**

This was once a city, home to one of the worst elemental disasters in history. On March 14th, 2005, scientists were constructing a bomb powered by Explosion magic energy, and then something went wrong... an error in the activation circuits triggered a preemptive nuclear explosion, leaving thousands upon thousands dead. To make things worse, nuclear fallout killed even more people in the city, but some managed to survive in fallout shelters or well-fortified buildings. The ash covered 30% of the city. In total, 953,475 lives were lost, about 70% of the city's population, and 21% of Explosion Nation's population at that time.

A photo taken of the explosion minutes before the shockwave destroyed the houses and killed the photographer. Recovered some weeks after the accidentThe crater of the explosion photographed in November 2007. Even two years after the disaster, whatever remained of the city lies under several inches of ash.A photo taken 13 hours after the main explosion
### **Augan Ruins**

The Augan Ruins are what remains of the town of the same name. It was a test site on which two nuclear bombs were dropped. Similarly, it's impossible for anyone to enter the ruins for more than one minute before succumbing to radiation poisoning. Special suits are fitted with reflective Arcanium Padding which deflects the radiation away from their bodies.