Avatarl

The **Avatarl Kingdom** (アヴァタール王（おう）国（こく）, *Avatāru Ōkoku*?) was a nation in Tortus. It was the home of the Vampires before they became extinct 300 years prior to the heroes of Earth being summoned. During the age of the Liberators, it was known as **Dastia** (ダスティア, *Dasutia*?)

## Layout

Avatarl was located at the southwestern tip of the southern continent. It was deep within the Azure Marsh, which was perpetually shrouded in a faint blue mist, and covered with deep swamps.

In contrast to its hostile environment, the capital was filled with greenery, and many streams cut through the city streets. Those streams spilled over terraced blocks of earth, creating a series of waterfalls that gave birth to a rainbow bridge. Its buildings were all made of gray limestone. The royal palace was situated atop the tallest hill in the city. The basement of the royal palace contained a special magic circle that had been created during the age of the gods, known as the "*Font of Knowledge*", that could read the memories of whoever stepped into it and determined whether or not they had the right qualifications to be a ruler. If they did, a pillar of light would shoot up from the palace, announcing to the citizens the birth of their new leader. It also contained all of the vampires' historical record, which passed down to each of its rulers by having it magically implanted into their brain.

The palace also contained a special artifact call the "*Arbiter of Truth*", which had bee passed down within the royal family. It was an invisible barrier that spread out radially from castle, connecting across towers and fortresses strategically placed at regular intervals around the boundaries of the kingdom.

Aside from the capital, the vampire nation also contained many villages that were occupied by humans that were given asylum, in exchange for offering some of their blood.

## Ideology

Avatarl had maintained a state of imposed self-isolation from the rest of the world. They did not engage in disputes with other nations unless attacked first, and also did not establish diplomatic relations with them due to having become self-sufficient throughout their history. As a result of their independence, Avatarl did not openly worship any of Tortus' gods. This, however, had them labeled as enemies by all religious bodies that acted on their god's behalf, such as the Holy Church.

## History

As Dastia, it was the oldest nation in Tortus' recorded history. As such, it had manage to survive all of Ehit's genocidal acts over the ages. It had maintained its seclusion from the rest of the world. At the time, Dastia faced a leadership crisis due to its ext ruler, Prince Alfard Il Dastia, abandoning his nation after the death of his father, due to the attempted assassination of his wife Selene. With the aid of the Liberators, Price Alfard returned to Dastia with his wife, as wel as their newborn son Albanor, and became its new kings. Afterwards, the vampires aided the Liberators in their quest to find a way to kill Ehit, by providing them with the information from the Font of Knowledge.

One week later, Dastia, as well as the rest of Tortus were subject to Ehit's magic that compelled the people to hunt down and kill every member of the organization, and eventually kill each other until all of civilization ceased to exist. Four days after the hypnosis took execs, the demon empire Igdol declared war on Dastia and launched an invasion. However, this would soon come to an end when Ehit cancelled out the hypnosis magic after striking a deal with the Liberators' leader Miledi Reisen.

Following the Liberators' defeat, Dastia granted asylum to many demons, including its ruler Rasul Alva Igdol, who fled their homeland while Ehit's hypnosis was in effect. Furthermore, Alfard aided the surviving Liberators by allowing them to study the Font of Knowledge, which they needed in order to create their legacy that they hoped would eventually lead to Ehit's defeat.

At some point in history, Dastia was renamed Avatarl.

During its final years, Avatarl had existed during a time of turmoil throughout the world. Wars were constantly breaking out over various reasons, including religion, economics, resources and even national status. As a result, many nations experienced a constant cycle of founding, conflict, and colaspe. Avatarl had maintained its status as a closed nation during that time, and cut off all diplomatic ties with other kingdoms. Despite its inaction, many other nations had made repeated attempts to invade it due to the vampires' reputation as the most powerful race in existence, as well as the desire of many people to marry its magically gifted queen Aletia Galdea Vesperitio Avatarl. Despite their best efforts, not one nation had managed to conquer the vampire kingdom. It addition to enduring reported invasion efforts, Avatarl was also experiencing political turmoil due to increasing fear the the queen's prime minister and uncle Dienleed was secretly plotting to overthrow her. One day, Queen Aletia met with representatives of the Holy Church after being offered the title of "*Oracle*" and help establish peace with the rest of the world. During the meeting, however, she was betrayed by her uncle and his retainers. They killed all of the attendants, with the exception of Aletia, and Dienleed had proclaimed himself as the new king. He then imprisoned his niece deep within the Great Orcus Labyrinth.

Avatarl would fall afterwords after going to war with Ehit's followers of humanity's god, which ended up with the near-extinction of the entire vampire race, and Dienleed becoming possessed by Ehit's arbiter Alva.

## Trivia

* Avatarl is based on the word "*Avatar*", which is a mortal possessed by a supernatural being. This may be a reference to both Yue and Dienleed acting as vessels for Tortus' gods Ehit and Alva respectively.