Sylvaine

**Sylvaine** (スイルベーン, *Suirubēn*), also known as the Emerald Capital, is the Sylph's Capital city in ALfheim Online.

## Appearance

The city is located near a mountain named Mount Sugarplum. It is easily recognizable by the dazzling and gigantic Tower of the Wind, the symbol of Sylvaine, at the city's center, which is used by some players as a Fairy Airport, or "Fairport".

Behind the Tower lies the Lord's Mansion, where the current Queen of the Sylphs resides. The city itself has spires of varying green shades rise along a complex, airy corridors which connect the streets. Bursting out of each tower is a brilliant dark green light that gives the city an impression of a fantasy kingdom.

## Synopsis

### Fairy Dance Arc

#### Pre-Episode 14

As part of ALfheim Online's development, Sylvaine was made to be Sylph Capital. When ALO's popularity picked up, it became ruled by a player named Sakuya. At some point, the Sylphs ended up having a "civil war", and Sakuya deemed that the only solution was to have her adopted daughter, Leafa, marry a player named Prince Cazmer. Sakuya then left to attend a peace conference with the Cait Sith at Butterfly Valley.

Cazmer arranged an engagement party for himself and Leafa in his abode, with gifts and a band that played Leafa's favorite band, but became annoyed when she didn't turn up.

#### Episode 14

After five hours, Cazmer sent one of his subordinates, named Recon, to find her, threatening to "hunt [him] like a common Cait Sith" if he didn't bring her back. He then told the exhausted band to keep playing Leafa's intro music, or else he'll crush their nuts in a vice. But eventually, the band stopped playing.

Leafa meanwhile had gotten attacked by a group of Salamanders and rescued by a Spriggan. The Spriggan expresses his interest in the World Tree and Leafa agrees to tell him about it at Sylvaine, but soon gets jealous at how quickly the Spriggan learns the game's mechanics compared to her. To teach him a lesson, Leafa doesn't tell the Spriggan how to land when they arrive at Sylvaine, causing him to fly face first into a building and falling the rest of the way so he'll know his place.

Recon soon spotted Leafa and approaches her. Upon greeting Leafa, Recon notices that she's with a Spriggan and becomes hostile and asks Leafa is she wanted him killed. Leafa tells Recon not to kill Kirito assuring that he's is one of the good Spriggans.

After leaving Recon behind, Leafa tells the Spriggan about the Race War, and eventually decides to join him on his crusade, but is shocked when she finds out that the Spriggan is Kirito, her real life brother, and logs out before he found out who she was too.

#### Episode 15

The next day, Kirito and Leafa met up in the Fairport, a meeting point that Leafa knew would annoy her brother. Before Leafa could take Kirito on her wild goose chase, Cazmer appears and confronts Leafa about not appearing at their engagement party. After a tense conversation, Cazmer is eventually scared off by Leafa threatening to report Cazmer to Sakuya.

After getting Kirito through screening, Leafa suggest visiting Sakuya and asking for her help in Kirito's journey at the top of the Fairport. They are briefly visited by Recon, but Leafa sends him off to keep an eye on Cazmer, out of fear of figuring out who Kirito is. Leafa and Kirito then fly off, with Kirito and Yui teasing Leafa about her relationship with Recon.