Logaria

**Logaria** (Hisuian: Southernesse) was a kingdom of Men in Northern Roria, established by the Logarians under the blessing of Arceus after the final ruin of the Kalosi Rumhoth and the end of the Elder Days. The culture and military strength of the Logarians originated soon thereafter.

Logaria was the most powerful military force of the Free Peoples against the Mbelekoro, and was in perpetual war with the Black Foe. After a thousand years of rule, the Logarian empire, allied with the Hisuians, defeated the Mbelekoro in the cataclysmic War of Wrath, putting a end to the dominion of Evil Incarnate on Earth for two thousand years.

In the absence of the Mbelekoro to fight, the Logarians became mightier and more prosperous than any other society of Men or Pokémon. Still, a shadow began to fall over then, and their folly increased in wickedness until climaxing in the Fall of Logaria, putting a end to the empire for ever.

## History

After the end of the Elder Days, the Powers took pity on the Men of Roria that fought against the Evil Djinn and the Kalosi Rumhoth and gifted the survivors the north of Roria, and extreme military strength and supernatural vitality as a gift of their choosing, unlike the Hisuians in the north. This rash choice and vengeful oath against the Mbelekoro caused Celebi to pronounce the First Doom Concerning Logaria, which cursed Logaria to eventual failure and suffering in their wars against Evil.

The Logarians took a king of the most noble linage of their kind, and Tar-Elrosi was the first Lord of Logaria. Under his rule (MD 1-243) and that of his descendants, the Logarians increased in number and became extremely powerful among the Men of Earth. The fought in the Battle of Alola, and laid siege to Dor Daedeloth for five hundred years, severely limiting the Evil Djinn's power for a time.

In the Battle of Rushing Flame, the leaguer of Logaria was broken around Dor Daedeloth, and the capital city of Atun-Kaah (Hisuian: City of Caves) was besieged for many a month until the fires died out. There was war in Logaria ever after until the War of Wrath, and although the might of Logaria numbered in the many millions, the hordes of the Enemy increased at a ever quickening rate.

In August of MD 1002, the first ships of Logaria reached the shores of Hisui, making contact with the northern empire and enlisting their aid in the Quest to Imprison the Evil Djinn. The Logarians Berothrim, Arnethrim, and Targon journeyed with the Golden Company through the deserts of Nuria and the fair land of Beulah to forge the Prison Bottle, a deed which they managed to complete by sacrificing the Legend Plate to Azelf, Uxie, and Mesprit.

Immediately after this, the Battle of Atun-Kaah began, with a million-strong army of half-men, enslaved Pokémon, Nurians, and Kalosi Rumhoth attempting to destroy Atun-Kaah in a desperate effort to stop the Prison Bottle from being forged. The relatively hasty assault failed due to the Will of the Mbelekoro being weakened with the forging of the Prison Bottle, and the arrival of a vanguard of Logarians at the rear of the Black Host. The *elohim* Lucius was slain, and the entire Black Host was defeated, although it was but a tithe of the power of Dor Daedeloth.

One year later, in MD 1003, the combined Great Alliance of Logaria, Hisui, Johto, Hoenn, Alola, Unova, Aredia, and Galar marched against the entire power of the throne of the Mbelekoro. No song or tale remains on the breeze that can count all the valiant and fell deeds done in this battle, or the victims of the War. The very Powers fought within the amassed legions of Logaria, and Rayquaza and the Swords of Justice were there, along with Latios and Latias, the Captians of the Host of Heaven. Yet in that time the truth that Celebi had spoken came to pass, and help came from the hands of children when the Wise faltered. For Dialga and Palkia fought in manly combat with the Mbelekoro once the battle had become grievous, and the Black Foe was captured.

The entire Dark Empire collapsed, and the corrupted and defiled areas of the Earth were destroyed or cleansed. Much damage was suffered to the coastlines, especially that of Kanto and Johto. Dor Daedeloth floundered, and a glorious new era came upon Earth and the two kingdoms of Logaria and Hisui.

### Decline

After the defeat of the Mbelekoro, Logaria entered a time of unparalleled prosperity and peace. They sailed all along the vast coast of Southern Roria, made peace with the Nurians, and voyaged to the northern Alpha Continent to bring wisdom to the Men of Darkness and help remove the remaining traces of the Evil Djinn's worship from the many lands.

It had been one hundred and two years since the Fall of the Mbelekoro when a shadow came across the empire. They still loved the Hisuians, but they begrudged their long life, and their bliss was diminished. Their own land seemed somehow shrunken to them, and they were not content in their own land, and now they wished to exact heavy tribute from the Men of the Alpha Continent as lords and rulers, not kindly teachers.

The worship of Arceus declined and then was utterly forsaken, and the people of Logaria became cruel. The white ships of the Hisuians came less and less to the northern havens of Shaaman-Pah, until they came not at all. The south of the Rorian continent was colonized, and a whispered fear of invasion came into the hearts of Men.

In the year SE 389, Tar-Castamir came to power upon the throne of Logaria. He was more terrible and wicked than any king before him, yet he would not harm the Hisuians, for in his folly he wished to keep the old bonds of protection between the two lands.

Lucius the *elohim* had reformed from the Abyss, and rose as a great counselor to the king by the virtue of his flattering words. And the King was ensnared, and the Logarians under the guidance of Lucius turned to the worship of the Mbelekoro, first secretly, and then to the pride of all.

The Hisuians readied for war, and the Logarians came upon the coasts of the world not as bearers of wisdom or even lords or collectors of tribute. Instead, they came as conquerors and wicked men of war, and they hunted the Men of Darkness, and took their goods and Pokémon, and the memory of the kindly kings that had come over the sea only five centuries earlier was faded by many a tale of dread and woe.

And Lucius advised Tar-Castamir to build the second Star-tower of Babel, so that he might reach Deep Heaven and wrest everlasting life from Arceus. Regigigas was captured to carry out such a feat, and the great tower was built by the suffering of many slaves.

Now, the Doom of Logaria was at hand.