Oriana Kingdom

Oriana Kingdom (オリアナ 王国おうこく) is a nation known as the "Country of Arts" (芸術の国) which has now become Shadow Garden's forward base of operations, after they eliminated the Cult of Diablos territory influence which was once controlled by Mordred Sect faction.

Geography
The Oriana Kingdom's territory borders with Midgar Kingdom in the southeast.

History
Oriana is a small country that is known for its people's loyalty to the arts because they always devote their time in assessing every work of art and craft that is aesthetic, which even boasts of their status in increasing the artistic talent acquired and investing in collecting the various art objects they have, as well as being patron for a person who has made a significant contribution to the arts talent development until they deserve the appreciation of all nobles in order to elevate their status position.

Background
The kingdom was first founded by the Oriana royal family. Either prior or after Oriana's foundation, the "Black Rose" was discovered, a gateway that can allowed access to other dimensions.

At some point, the Oriana Kingdom was at war with the Velgalta Empire. About to suffer crushing defeat, the Oriana Kingdom activated the "Black Rose", killing 100,000 Vegalta soldiers who were sieging the capital. Unfortunately, this horribly backfired on them as the Black Rose would connect to the Fourth Realm, unleashing wild magical beasts onto the kingdom. The magical beasts turned their sights on Oriana and proceeded to slaughter the kingdom and its populace. Thanks to certain someone's interference, the "Black Rose" was closed and the kingdom was saved, which made the Cult of Diablos decide to take advantage of the tragic incident as an opportunity to ravish Oriana.

Surviving the annihilation, the Cult offered a deal to Oriana Kingdom by making an agreement on the stewardship over the Black Rose to ensured that the kingdom would survive in perpetuity under the Cult's protection. In exchange, Oriana Kingdom must provide fair sufficient compensation to the Cult in two forms; firstly, the Royal Family is obliged to hand over their children to the Cult whose blood might have high magical potential and secondly, Oriana would give a majority of their tax revenue to the Cult, resulting in the kingdom to heavily invest on the arts. With the Cult manipulating the Church to vilify Dark Knights, Oriana had no manpower to rebel against them and they became basically a puppet kingdom.

17 years earlier in the present, the current king of Oriana, Raphael sired his daughter, Rose who was blessed with an incredible amount of magic when she was just a baby and had supposed to be handed over to the Cult. However, Raphael refused to hand over his daughter to the Cult and decided to find ways to free his kingdom from their oppressive control.

Present day, when Rose expressed her interest in taking up swordsmanship, Raphael allowed her to travel to Midgar Kingdom and attended their academy as a transfer student in the secret hope to protect her from harm. Knowing he doesn't have much time left before the Cult retaliated, King Oriana took possession of the "Ring of Succession", which was actually the key to the "Black Rose", and altered it so that the gateway could only be activated by Rose. Not only that, the ring would have a recording of the king's full confession on the Cult's crimes.

Oriana's "Black Rose" Civil War Wedding Incident
When King Oriana was murdered at Midgar during the God of War Festival, a civil war took place within the kingdom between those still loyal to the Oriana royal family and those that wanted Doem Ketsuhat become king. The civil war ended when Rose returned to her kingdom and activated the "Ring of Succession" that exposed the Cult of Diablos and their collaborators' crimes.

The 9th Seat Knights of Rounds, Mordred activated the "Black Rose" to unleash the magical beasts and the Grand Ruler of the Fourth Realms, Ragnarok in order to kill everyone in Oriana so that the cult can take control of what's left of the kingdom. Thankfully, Rose and her Shadow Garden allies wiped out the magical beasts with the Shadow Garden's leader destroying not only Mordred but also the Black Rose, finally ending the Oriana Kingdom's nightmare.

The Academy Disappearances
After the incident, the Shadow's right hand, Alpha immediately rushed over to the Oriana Kingdom, after hearing of her master and Beta getting sucked into the "Black Rose" and took charge of damage control by rebuilding the capital and making Rose the new queen of the nation.

However, the Cult of Diablos, fearing that their existence would be exposed, managed to minimize Shadow Garden's gains by using the Holy Church's power to create a faux story about the new queen, claiming her to be a patricide who summoned the "Black Rose" in the first place. As a result, the Oriana Kingdom became a heretic state, with other nations cutting ties with them and their trade being heavily restricted. The cult also began gathering a large number of troops in the neighboring country to launch an "inquisition", intending to completely annihilate the Oriana Kingdom to cover their tracks.

In response, despite knowing that the entire world would be against them, Shadow Garden intended to fully support Rose's reign. Moving their base of operations to Oriana, they began to prepare for the upcoming all-out war between them and the cult.

Culture
As the name of the kingdom's title referred to as the "Country of Arts", the Oriana Kingdom devoted their time pursuing arts and crafts because of people's loyalty to the arts such as painting, literature, music, acting, fashion design, embroidery, sculpting, and etc which is become a popular tourist destination. Anything else like swordsmanship is met with ridicule.

In Oriana, people respect the artistically talented, no matter what race they are or what their social status might otherwise be. Also, it's not just artistic talent that matters, but also the narrative surrounding the artist.

However, it is revealed that the reason the kingdom is so attached to artistic culture is due to the kingdom's agreement with the Cult of Diablos to give a majority of the kingdom's tax revenue to the cult, resulting in the kingdom to heavily invest on in the arts to which it can remade as an entity that provides entertainment for the Cult members as compensation, other than royal blood until the nation itself has become their puppet.

Military Strength
The Oriana Kingdom had become a Cult's puppet nation, ever since the appearance of Black Rose. As a result of the kingdom's pact with the Cult, this kingdom lacks proper military strength as the Cult had seized its weaknesses and want to deprived its strength to resist by manipulates the Church using the idea that swordsmanship is barbaric in order to persecuted Dark Knights as a way for the Cult to prevent Oriana resistance from gaining the strength and no manpower to create a fighting force for rebel against the Cult.

The Oriana Kingdom used to have army assistance from the Midgar Kingdom which was their ally to protect them if they were in an emergency. But now, the alliance with Midgar has been abolished and they have no more allies from all countries because the cult has declared their kingdom as a heretic state through the Holy Church.

Featured Location

 * Saisho Fortress

Foreign International Relations
The Oriana Kingdom's relations with other countries generally ranged from good to neutral, but heavily relied on their ally the Midgar Kingdom to send their troops for defense and protection from other nations as it was unable to build up a proper military of its own. By the time Oriana was declared a heretic state by the Church due of the Cult's instigation, the kingdom's trade had been restricted and had no allies anymore as all diplomatic ties with neighboring countries had been severed until they prepared to annihilate the Oriana kingdom.

Midgar Kingdom
Both nation have been on friendly relations as Oriana Kingdom made an alliance with Midgar Kingdom with the objective to build an army to rebel against the Cult for gain independence from their influence. However, Midgar Kingdom had decide to officially nullified their alliance after the Church brand Oriana as heretic to the entire world after the "Black Rose" incident.

Velgalta Empire
In the past, Oriana Kingdom was on the brink of defeat on their war against Velgalta Empire until the Black Rose gate coincidentally opened during the war and obliterate the Velgalta's army.

Altena Empire
They have neutral relationship with each other.

Inhabitants

 * Rose Oriana (Current Queen) (Princess; Formerly)
 * Raphael Oriana (Former King; Deceased)
 * Reina Oriana (Former Queen / Traitor; Deceased)
 * Doem Ketsuhat (Former Royal Chancellor; Deceased)
 * Grant (Marquess and the leader of the Anti-Chancellor faction)
 * Newwealth (Marquis)
 * Parton (Earl)
 * Margaret (Maid)
 * Kevin (Palace Guard)
 * Marie (Citizen)

Trivia

 * In the Oriana Kingdom, it's said that the world of fine art has two rising stars that shine brighter than all the rest, namely Natsume Kafka for literature and Shiron for music as they're also regarded by everyone as the pinnacle and pillar of culture due to Cid Kagenō's teachings.
 * Even after Rose Oriana's name gets cleared to the people of Oriana when she returns to her kingdom because the late king showcases the truth behind his murder thanks to the hidden message inside the "Ring of Succession", she is still seen as the villain by other countries due to the Cult of Diablos spreading false information that she intentionally summoned demons through the Black Rose to take over Oriana.