Kazdel

**Kazdel**, or known as **Teekaz** in ancient times, is a Terran country. It is a monarchy and the "homeland" of the Sarkaz that is located between Siracusa, Ursus, and Yan. Kazdel has been long considered to be a backwater country without much potential, at least since the aftermath of a civil war that ravaged it.

The ancient Kazdelian language is similar to Hebrew and other Levantine Semitic languages in our world, though incomprehendible with our world's but being lost to time. The modern Kazdelian language resembles Yiddish in our world.

Kazdel plays a crucial role in the Main Theme of *Arknights*, in which one of Rhodes Island's objectives is to restore peace to the nation.

## Background

> The Sarkaz have tried to rebuild "Kazdel", their home for centuries, though they have never succeeded.
> Everyone has a different idea as to what the term "homeland" means, but as it stands right now, Kazdel is perhaps as close as you can get to the term's original meaning.
> The "Teekaz" deserve a home.
>
> Kal'tsit's description

For a long time, the concept of Kazdel/Teekaz was never meant to be a nation or an ethnicity, but the name for the whole world, a paradise of the Teekaz. But their homeland was gone forever when the Ancients and the Elders invaded their world as "aliens" back in the forgotten ancient past millennia ago. The Teekaz was given the derogatory name as the "Sarkaz" by the victors, and they were heavily demonized for many unreasonable accuses like witchcrafts, "cannibalism," natural susceptibility to Oripathy, and bloodthirsty nature. Yet, the name also became a rally cry that tied up those homeless races together under one banner.

As sorrowful as they are, the Sarkaz have been enhancing their everlasting racial memories through their superior Originium Arts to take back their homeland by any mean. Specifically, they were banded together under the command of the "King of Sarkaz," the monarch of all Sarkaz race, whose accumulating wrath keeps on fueling their vengeance. As a matter of fact, the "King of Sarkaz" has become the legendary "Lord of Fiend" in Sarkaz eschatology who inherited the power of all the Sarkaz Kings and was "prophesised" to be the "destroyer" of the world against their "alien" enemies.

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Despite their vindication, the rebuilding of "Kazdel" always fails. In their racial memories, Kazdel was taken down for more than 3,421 time, and the shortest of them was just three days when the Pegasi just trampled their walls. Not only they failed to expel their enemies, but also, they bitterly lamented the "betrayal" of a Sarkaz group who would later gave rise to the Sankta race. As a matter of fact, their deep vengeance became their major weakness, causing Kazdel to be fallen into a cycle of devastating foreign wars and internal strives.

The most recent disintegration of Kazdel occurred around two hundred years ago, in the year 893. Kazdel faced a grand crusade led by Gaul, Victoria, and Leithanien, which vowed to end the threat of the Sarkaz King. Even though the kings of the Royal Court sacrificed themselves for their homeland, notably the achievements of the Sanguinarch and the Nachzehrer King, it did not halt the destruction. Since then, other Terran great powers take such advantage to keep Kazdel fragmented by involving themselves in its domestic conflicts. The war also triggered a mass exodus known as the **Westward Relocation** that forced many Sarkaz common folks to flee the country and settle across the entire Terra.

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As Kazdelians tried to rebuild their homeland from the ruins for the past centuries, another civil war broke out centering the usurpation of the reigning Sarkaz King Theresa by the Regent Theresis with the support of the Royal Court and the Military Commission. The ideological differences between the two factions led to such conflct in which Theresa wished to use peaceful methods to rebuild the country rather than holding on to their ancient grievance. Three years ago, in the year 1094, the civil war ended after the siege of Babel in autumn by the Military Commission and Theresa's assassination. Theresis became the Regent of Kazdel in the aftermath and started his plan to rebuild the country, which makes other nations wary of Kazdel.

Following the civil war in 1094, Theresis entered Londinium, the capital of Victoria, under the invitation of the Duke of Cavendish to help pacify the empire's succession crisis. He used this opportunity to have the Kazdelian army enter Londinium, effectively placing Victoria under Kazdel occupation. Since then, he has since been building up a fleet of airships, reconstructing the Shard into a giant Catastrophe manipulator, and inviting the other Sarkaz kings of the Royal Court in an effort to reunite Kazdel and avenge the humiliation suffered by the Sarkaz by other Terran great powers over the millennia.

## Branches

### Government

The monarch of Kazdel/Teekaz, the **Sarkaz King**, is anointed by the **Royal Court**, a gathering of kings with powerful, royal Sarkaz lineages, a.k.a., the Sarkaz subraces. The Royal Court was previously called the **Ten Kings' Court** as there were a total of ten kings representing their tribes. After the crusade two hundred years that annihilated the nation, half of the Royal Court was left vacant with the remaining half supporting the current Regent.

The Royal Court is represented by the following Sarkaz subraces:

* Vampires, led by the Sanguinarch/Prince of Blood
* Banshees, led by the Great Banshee
* Nachzehrers, led by the Nachzehrer King
* Damazti, led by the Damazti Cluster
* Lich, led by the Lich King
* Wendigos (formerly)
* Gargoyles (formerly)
* Cyclopses (formerly), led by an unnamed matriarch
* Diablos (formerly, extinct)

Along with the Royal Court, there also exists the **Senate**/**Zekenim** which is made up of many leading Sarkaz elders, though the current information regarding it remains vague.

### Military

Main article: Military Commission of Kazdel

## Notable people

* **Bill Perley**: A Sarkaz musician who came to Columbia. He used his Rock n'roll music as a way to protest against the injustice he and many other Sarkaz suffered in the country, leaving an impact in pop culture. However, one day, he left to return to Kazdel for unknown reasons, and was never seeen again. To this day, Perley is considered an icon for the Sarkaz.

### Sarkaz Kings

#### Kollam

**Kollam** is one of the Sarkaz King who was once an adventurer before taking up the throne and brought peace to Kazdel during his reign. Legend has it that Kollam could force his foes into fleeing by a strong mental pressure from his mere presence alone. Kollam went into a journey to the east along with some Sarkaz tribes, after which he disappeared from historical records. Amiya's memory revealed that Kollam and his followers were betrayed by those who initially welcomed his retinue, massacring the civilians, upon which Kollam unleashed his boundless wrath, killing all the traitors before taking his own life.

Kollam wields a black longsword named *Wrathful Cerulean Flame* after the azure flame that surrounds it while being held by Kollam himself, which bore an ancient Sarkaz inscription saying "here the fighting stops" on it. After Kollam's death, the *Wrathful Cerulean Flame* is lost; Amiya's *Ying Xiao* bear some resemblances to it due to being partially based on Kollam's memories.

His name likely means "their voice" in Hebrew (קוֹלם; pronounced as *kolam*).

## References

2. ↑ WD-7 After
3. ↑ 11-4
4. ↑ 12-11
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 JT8-2 After
6. ↑ 7-18 After
7. ↑ 12-16 Before
8. ↑ 11-17 After
9. ↑ Vigna's Operator Module description
10. ↑ M8-8 After
11. ↑ DM-6 Before
12. ↑ 10-1
13. ↑ Vigna's CHG-Y module desciption
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Amiya's first Class Conversion Record file
15. ↑ קוֹל (pealim.com)