Other World

The Other World is the tentative name of the place where Cid Kagenou was reincarnated and in which the setting of The Eminence in Shadow takes place. It was revealed to be one of limitless Parallel Worlds.

Past
The officially published take on history in the world is that, a millennia prior to the founding of Shadow Garden, a great catastrophe occurred where Three Heroes defeated the demon Diablos. In actuality, the Cult of Diablos was conducting inhumane experiments and created Diablos from a girl named Aurora in their endeavor to develop immortality via the Tears of Diablos. The world of the time had technologically advanced science and technology, at most a century ahead of Earth before their ruin, but their world would collapse and be rendered into a post-apocalyptic wasteland rebuilding itself. Details and information being restructured from records into fables into myths and legends-- especially the Three Heroes and their heirs. Aurora was slain and her spirit then sealed in isolating within the Sanctuary of Lindwurm for over 1,000 years.

The Three Heroes would have many children and the modern royal lines would descend from that ancestry. While the female descendants of the Heroes would suffer magical overload and be cared for under medical attention, the cult would infiltrate key points of society, such as the Church of the Divine Teachings, and rewrite history to discriminate the heroes' descendants as having Demon Possession, claiming these girls for experimentation to continue their immortality and covert rule over nations. Such as developing Velgalta into a warrior empire dissuaded from anything but honing the sword, while conditioning Oriana into a nation of arts to detest war and relying on neighbors for protection. The Cult molded the world after they destroyed it into how they desired it and used their weaponized revision of history to take the heroes' descendants to ensure their retained immortality.

Present
Ironically, their goals and mission were exposed by a fantasy-indulging young boy as the impetus for Shadow Garden; despite him making actually improvising the story to recruit the original members. From healing possessed girls and educating them, his story would be repeated to subsequent recruits as the insurgent organization found evidence to prove their evils. Eventually, Shadow Garden grew from a motley resistance into an existential threat to the Cult and their leaders, the Knights of Rounds. Due to their millennia of overstayed longevity, the Knights of Rounds have splintered into factions and squabble over resources while Shadow Garden steadfastly dismantles their assets and claims their treasures.

Promised reinstatement into the Rounds, Lutheran Barnett incriminated Shadow Garden as terrorists, but they welcomed the infamy unimpeded in their aims, and Shadow killed Barnett. Shadow Garden raided the Goddess's Trial to infiltrate the Sanctuary, recovering substantial information of the Cult and Demon Possession, eliminating the Nelson sect. With the Sanctuary's destruction, Aurora's spirit was set free and possessed Claire Kagenou, Shadow's sister. With the Bushin Festival, under command of 9th Seat Mordred, Chancellor Perv Asshat had brainwashed King Raphael Oriana to kill King Klaus Midgar to instigate war, but Princess Rose Oriana mercy killed her father and Shadow revealed himself an undercover contestant, hindering the Cult's plans even further for the Midgar Kingdom. The Cult's next plan to collapse Mitsugoshi Company backfired when a third party foe named "John Smith" printed counterfeit bills alongside Yukime of the Lawless City's White Tower, devastating the Cult's financial holdings in the Midgar capital and dissolving their merchant asset, the Major Corporate Alliance.

To end the Oriana Civil War, King Raphael's last will exposed the Cult and forced Mordred into the spotlight to eliminate all witnesses. However, Shadow Garden intervened and Shadow eliminating the 9th Seat and stopping the Black Rose. But as Rose became queen, The Cult's control of the church branded Oriana a heretic state hindered by trade sanctions, with Shadow Garden helping as best as possible covertly. When Fenrir and his faction moved to create new Tears of Diablos, the abductions of Academy students led Shadow to battle and slay Fenrir. However, Claire Kagenou was forcefully bound to Diablos's right arm by Zeta of Shadow Garden, in the fanatic's plot to immortalize Shadow.

Nations

 * Midgar Kingdom: A nation renowned for their Knight Order, military, education, and commerce.
 * Oriana Kingdom: A nation dedicated to the arts, so much so that their alliance with Midgar ensures their safety.
 * Velgalta Empire: A warring empire often trying to continue expanding, who prize the sword; an opposite to Oriana.
 * Altena Empire: An island state and a key member of The City - State Alliance opposing Velgalta expansion.
 * Holy State of Orum: A theocratic member of The City-State Alliance.

Cities

 * Lindwurm: The holy city where the Divine Teachings church situates and the Sanctuary once hid.
 * Alexandria: The lost ancient capital of Midgar, now the secret headquarters of Shadow Garden.
 * Lawless City: A non-affiliated domain with unrestrained crime and where the monarchs live in luxury towers.
 * Laugus: The academic city and mecca of learning, current home to Sherry Barnett.
 * Grazheim: A trading-focused city and the headquarters for the City-State Alliance.

Study and Discipline of the Swordsmanship
In this world, swordsmanship tends to be studies and refined within the nation of origin, with restricted knowledge divulged to outsiders. Due to this isolationist view of study, the techniques barely evolve and develop inconsistently. What's more, the swordsmanship of the world either relies on superficial presentations or an overwhelming charge of magic into one's attacks.

Magic
According to Cid's words, he was very surprised that magic existed in the world where he reincarnated, since he had finally obtained what he had yearned for. But with the passing of time realized that the use of it, for most if not almost all races, do not know how to correctly use the magic that inhabits the world and thus they waste it poorly. The magic users relying solely on its destructive power, along with its tremendous speed and healing power that it offers. Until the current date, only the members of the Shadow Garden organization, along with their leader, Shadow, know how to use magic correctly and efficiently while increasing it. A few others outside the organization, like Claire Kagenou and partly Alexia Midgar, have been shown to use magic similarly to them in more developed and efficient methods compared to the general public.

Culture and Military Discipline
Other world's study, management and breeding in agriculture, and in everything related to commercial production at a civil level, among its branches, are identical to those of The Land, with the difference that they are one century behind, in advances of how to harvest, cultivate among other things even better.

While his discipline, study, management, development and training in the military, although it is good, according to the words of Cid Kagenou, while he was thinking about it, it is deficient, especially in the management of fencing, since due to magic and their trust in it, they only learn the normal handling of the sword, to later reinforce and potentiate, the attacks that they exert with the sword, in terms of speed, strength, and resistance, both in the swords themselves and with their own bodies, which according to Cid, is something unfortunate for him, since he rarely finds good opponents to face, in terms of swordsmanship or with his own body. This also applies to athletic attitudes, since, according to Cid, most of those who exercise in the world where he reincarnated do not usually practice the basic parts of athletic training and warm-up, such as normal stretching, and doing more. flexible the muscles of the arms and legs, (according to what could be noticed and analyzed from the anime and the Light Novel, up to the present date).

Technology
The other world’s technological level is around industrial era mixed the elements of magic in the current era. Several key non-magical technologies like steam power and printing is already in use. It is possible that technology used to be far advanced due to the existence of artifacts, highly advanced and hard to replace magical devices.

As a side note, Aurora says that the town she lived, and presumably rest of the world, wasn't enjoying this much prosperity during the era she lived (Master of garden).

As for the combat technologies and tools, swords and other medieval era level weapons, Magic and magical devices seems to be the most commonly used instruments of war. Gunpowder based weapons are also available, albeit seen as "commoners' toys" due to their lack of firepower and uselessness against dark knights. In addition, both magical and non-magical ranged attacks and tools to commit these attacks seems to be surprisingly unpopular. Melee combat is meta, at least in the kingdom of Midgar. The most notable user of ranged attacks so far is Aurora with her blood bending vampire attacks.

Additionally, the Cult of Diablos have access to advanced technologies and infrastructure that they hid from the rest of the world. Notably technologies and techniques linked to biological engineering, and several laboratory complexes, including an ancient advanced research facility like the Sanctuary. The Cult has ruled the world unopposed for so long that it hordes its technologies for themselves to maintain control over the world, which is entirely possible that they possess highly advanced weapons and devices in their disposal that no other organization, nation or person has access to.

It's not until Shadow Garden has created their corporate front Mitsugoshi Company using the wisdom knowledge brought by Cid Kagenou from Earth, that new innovation began to spread around the world. For this reason, the technology level of this world is expected to advance further.

Religions
The Divine Teachings is a monotheistic religion that believes in the Goddess Beatrix (ベアートリクス), which is the most widespread religion of this world.

Inhabitants
Basically all characters, except those that are living on planet Earth. Such as the majority Human nations and peoples, the long-lived Elven peoples who intermingle, as well as the Therianthrope tribes and clans warring for dominance in the vast wildernesses between cities and countries.

Visitors

 * Akane Nishino

Trivia

 * The Other World's time flow is five times faster than Earth's as it been fifteen years after Cid had reincarnated, while it was three years after his death.
 * This was further verified when Cid and Beta were gone for a few weeks, the whole of winter break, but were on Earth for nearly one week.
 * Both in the Novels and Manga, they treat the description, history, and development of the other world in the medieval style. Yet conversely in the Anime and Game, they treat it from the industrial era of the 18th century to the modernization of the 19th and 20th century.
 * In both the light novels and the Manga and Web novel, firearms have not been shown so far, such as normal pistols and semi-rifles, due to magic making up for the most part in combat. By combining them too, with swords, while in the anime and game, they do show firearms, from the first events of the story.