[Nightengale]

Here’s Part 2 for those who remembered about my Belka-fanon history.

Velka: The Desert Empire

Chapter 2: ~ Civil War of the Desert Empire

Spoiler:

As Roland expanded his kingdom in the continents, Fiera likewise, found herself in a barren desert island, with oasis villages scattered around. It was a lifeless country with almost no foreign connections, separated from a large part of the world.

In a similar vein, Fiera applying her geographical knowledge and cultural understanding from both her world and her short year in the green continents, set up an oasis village, located nicely in the center of the entire island, and encourages trade, businesses to expand and grow.

In the coming years, her village expanded into a town, and slowly…the people of the island rallied under her, as her city became the capital of her empire, under her ruling. A small desert empire…The Belkan Empire, isolated from most parts of Mid-childa.

As the empress of her empire, Fiera then developed the Ancient Belka into a more “traditional” foundation, as opposed to the more weapons-based technological developmental style that Roland opted for. The emphasis of her Ancient Belka had strong emphasis on developments of guardian beast or program-based lifeforms, in that time, considered as genies. Along with developments of life-form magical entities, it also employed ceremonial magical forms of incantations, along with different techniques in executing its magical properties, be it through tomes, and armed devices that had different appliances of battle from staffs to rings, as in devices that had low reliance on magical boosting properties as seen in Roland’s Ancient Belka system. Technically, Fiera’s Ancient Belka had stronger and a more flexible potential in magical appliances than Roland’s, but at the same time, it wasn’t as efficient and effective as Roland’s.

It was Fiera’s Ancient Belka development that formed the bulk essence of the magical Ancient Belka properties that would in the future, created the basis behind the Tome of Night Sky, the program-based entities like Reinforce Zwei, along with non-combat and different magical appliances compared to regular Mage Knights like those used by Hayate, Shamal and in a way, Zafira. While technically similar to Mid-childa’s own familiar magical concept, it was also Fiera’s concepts that lead to creations of guardian beast like Zafira.

Fiera’s empire was small, but prosperous. In its own way, Fiera’s empire could be idealistically called a magical empire, of genies and mages with a semblance of mythical lore, as compared to Roland’s more-down-to-earth medieval empire.

However, unlike Roland, Fiera waited, and did not possess any heir to her empire. She adopted 2 orphans, one boy and one girl, hoping that she would one day pass on her empire to the better one of the 2, when Roland arrives. The wait was in vain, and Fiera died of sickness when both her children were 20 years old, without naming a successor.

That was the end of the Belkan Empire’s golden era. And the coming of a divided empire, as a civil war between the prince and the princess then raged the empire.

The east was ruled by Prince Vauxhall, christened Emperor of Time, the adopted son of Fiera and the west by Princess Opel, christened Empress of Night. The empire was split into 2.

That was the beginning of the end.

The civil war raged on for decades and decades… There were times when it seemed like it was going to be the battle to end the war, there were times of peace where it almost seemed like both sides were not at war for years…but the reality was that both sides were almost equal in power and capability. The one truth of this war was that the empire was suffering from it.

30 years had passed since the beginning of the strife. The empire was but a mere shadow of its former self. The peaceful magical empire has lost its luster of beauty, and is now merely torn apart by war. Once populated greatly by scholars and practitioners of Ancient Belka, was now merely struggling to keep them alive, as tools of war.

Both of them, Vauxhall and Opel were getting older as the war continued on. Opel had a daughter, named Tiara, and christened Princess of the Night Sky. When Tiara was but merely 15, Opel passed away, with the simple wish that her daughter lives on happily. However, with the war going on, Tiara took on the crown of her mother, and decides to fight, carrying on the hope of ending the foolish war.

Tiara was a genius. Smart, charismatic and highly potent in magical potential, she took it to herself to import manpower and weapons from the other side of the sea, exploiting usage of Germanic-based Ancient Belka weaponry, which then already started employing cartridges in their earliest fronts, as the west controls the majority of the sea route and port ways compared to the west. She also personally formed Claudia, a specialized combat unit composed of a well-balanced formation of a guardian beast as the tanker guard, 2 frontal offense attackers, and one support mage as she herself too, partakes in the war as the defensive castella, attacking from a huge distance away.

The Claudia was formed of Signum, Vita, Zafira and Shamal, which would later be knowned as the Knights of the Sky, Wolkenritter. Signum and Vita were also the earliest knights that employed the cartridge-based Belka weaponry, making them more efficient in close combat. However, the Leavantinne wielded by Signum, was obtained, or rather passed on to her when she defeated the previous wielder of Leviathan.

The war was starting to change as the flow of future battles favoured the west, under Tiara’s ruling. Vauxhaull was threatened, and started employing more drastic measures in battle, from unethical experiments to create greater mages, alchemy, and unnatural manipulation of human beings. Some bore certain degrees of success, but it didn’t work to restore the power balance.

The times forced worse measures, as anyone with even a remote magical aptitude was forced to become a soldier. When a young, aspiring writer/scholar living at the remote borders of the east, Saga was ordered to honour his emperor, and take up the spear of Belka as a warrior of his kingdom…everything changed.

Little did he know…his destiny as a mage and his meeting with Tiara…would change everything, and destroy all he held dear.

All he wanted was to be free of the shackles and burdens of war, to pursue his dreams. All he wanted was to write a book that captured his visions and ideal…The Tome of 1001 Nights.

TO BE CONTINUED

Part 3: The Destroyed Empire

---COMING SOON----

Well, most likely I'll also post profiles for Saga and also Vauxhall's version of the Wolkenritter, Zerstortritter. Depends.