Kingdom of Sapin

— The Beginning After The End Novel: Volume 1 - Prologue

The **Kingdom of Sapin** is the largest and most populated region of Dicathen. Located on the eastern border of the continent (western as seen in illustrations), the kingdom is primarily composed of humans, but there are also numerous merchants from the Dwarven race, trading many commodities. Moreover, Sapin has a symbiotic relationship with the Kingdom of Darv when it comes to resources.

## Geography

**Ashber Town:**

This town of Ashber was more of a glorified outpost, seeing that there were no roads or buildings. People walked on the main dirt trail, where there were tents on both sides with various merchants and salesmen selling all sorts of things—from common, everyday necessities to things Arthur couldn’t help but raise a brow at, like weapons, armor, and rocks... shining rocks!

-> The Home of the Leywin Family

-> The Market Square from Ashber Town

**Valden City:** While operating in the city of Valden, Reynolds Leywin fell in love with an Adventurer Guild hall exam proctor named Alice Leywin, who he later married.

Xyrus City**:**

->Helstea Mansion

->Helstea Auction House

->Xyrus Adventurer's Guild

->Xyrus Academy

->WINDSOM’S POTIONS AND MEDICINES

->Xyrus Elixirs

**Grand Mountains**

Between the Forest of Elshire and the Kingdom of Sapin lies the Grand Mountain range which spans across roughly 90% of the continent, separating the North and East from the West and South. This mountain range is the place where Arthur Leywin and his family were attacked by a group of bandits.

**Dragonspine Inn**

The Dragonspine Inn is a few hours away from the edge of the Grand Mountains.

The Dragonspine Inn is where Arthur and Jasmine decided to go pick up some money. Arthur ended up getting challenged by a B-Rank Adventurer and Arthur cuts his fingers off.

## Government

The Kingdom of Sapin is a monarchy, which is ruled by the Glayder Family.

### Human Royalty

Human Royalty is dressed in fine clothing with golden accessories across their attire, signifying their wealth. Both the king and queen wear crowns on top of their heads.

### Human Warriors

The Royal Knight Guards were Knight armour and seem to be Augmenters, except for Sebastian who was not only a Conjurer, but also dressed differently from the rest.

### Hierarchy

This kingdom is a place of discrimination and classification. The hierarchical roots imbedded into this land would never truly disappear. Normal humans were considered second-rate people, while even amongst mages, augmenters were discriminated against by conjurers. It went further than that where, unless one was a deviant or a dual element specialist, some elements were considered "higher class" than others.

Slavery is still a thing in the Kingdom of Sapin unlike Arthur’s past world where slavery was abolished hundreds of years ago.

There also exists a division between nobles and commoners in this country.

## Customs

Apparently, when meeting someone of high standing, it was customary to get on one knee and shake the hand, while bowing.

Although it isn’t against the law, only nobilities and the royal families tend to have multiple wives.

## Education

There was no mandatory form of a structured education system in the Kingdom of Sapin. Any sort of rudimentary education was provided by one’s own family. (just basics like reading and writing).

## Currency

Copper Coins, Silver Coins, Gold Coins and White-Gold Tablets are used as currency in the Kingdom of Sapin.

Copper was the lowest form of currency, then silver, followed by gold. Normal families seemed to be able to live off of a couple copper coins a day just fine.

100 Copper Coins = 1 Silver Coin

100 Silver Coins = 1 Gold Coin

1000 Gold Coins = 1 White-Gold Tablet

Back in Ashber, ten silver coins were more than enough to feed a family of four for a year. Of course, there were obviously luxury foods that totaled astronomical amounts, but simply by going off of that standard, one hundred silver coins, which amounted to a single gold coin, would be more than enough to feed a family of four for ten years.

## Background

See the Timeline page for more information!!

Major Events before and after the founding of Sapin: The Beast Era, The First War and The Second War.

The Glayder Family had been the Royal Family since the founding of Sapin.

## References

1. ↑  The Beginning After The End Novel: Volume 1 - Prologue
2. ↑ The Before After The End Novel: Volume 1- Chapter 1
3. ↑ The Beginning After The End Novel: Volume 1- Chapter 2
4. ↑ The Beginning After The End Novel: Volume 1- Chapter 6
5. ↑ The Beginning After The End Novel: Volume 3- Chapter 65
6. ↑ The Beginning After The End Novel: Volume 2- Chapter 31
7. ↑ The Beginning After The End Webcomic: Episode 40
8. ↑ The Beginning After The End Webcomic: Episode 42
9. ↑ The Beginning After the End Novel: Volume 2- Chapter 30
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 The Beginning After The End Novel: Volume 2-Chapter 24
11. ↑ The Beginning After The End- Volume 1- Chapter 20
12. ↑ The Beginning After The End Novel: Volume 1- Chapter 11
13. ↑ The Beginning After The End Novel: Volume 1- Chapter 4
14. ↑ The Beginning After The End Novel: Volume 1- Chapter 1