Velgalta Empire

Velgalta Empire (ベガルタ 帝国ていこく), also known as the "Country of Swords", is home to Velgalta's Seven Blades and the Velgalta imperial family.

Geography
The Velgalta Empire's territory borders with The City - State Alliance.

History
Velgalta is a very powerful nation that prizes swordplay whose army was known to be the strongest who always faced death, no matter how strong they harbored unrealistic expectations of war and death.

Background
Hundreds of years ago before Velgalta unification, the land was dominated by many local lords who were vying for power and there were frequent skirmishes between lords throughout the continent, until there were no hidden details have been recorded in the history that was passed down amongst the people. Because of this, everyone were become exhausted from the wars that raged across the land and still yearned for the unification of the continent.

As a result, the feudal lord who formed a cooperative relationship where most of the lords lacked ambition were willing to serve any ruler so long as they were guaranteed autonomy until the land is finally unified under the Velgalta Empire and became the first emperor who unify the continent.

In reality, they built a close relationship with the Cult of Diablos that has played an significant role before the formation of the Velgalta Empire by effortlessly infiltrated the aristocrats' inner circle and the Herzog Family were one of the aristocratic families that accepted the Cult's power and submitted to them as they understood what needed to be done to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.

Assault on the Oriana Kingdom
A some point in the past, Velgalta Empire sent one hundred thousand soldiers to attack Oriana Kingdom as they had already laid siege on their capital which made Velgalta side think was about to win, until Oriana then activated "Black Rose" and their army suffered a crushing defeat after being slayed by the Magical Beasts.

Madlid Abandonment
In the past, there is a shipping city called Madlid which located in the easternmost part near the border of the Vegalta Empire, that used to be prosperous due to the shipping industry that used the Nyle River.

But about a century ago, a formidable monster known as Malak appear and made his own territory at the the coastline that was supposed to be a docking area, which disrupted the city's transportation routes until it was finally stopped and the central authorities of the Velgalta Empire decided to abandoned Madlid because their inability to vanquish Malak had caused a decline in the city's finances to the point of accelerating the depopulation of the city that was once rich in national taxes.

Madlid is also located considerably far away from the capital, making it ill suited for commerce. Due to the mountainous nature of the land, it is difficult to grow crops, so they have established a collusive relationship with the Cult in exchange for supplies.

Bushin Festival Tournament
After hearing rumors that the Velgalta Empire has experiencing a new wave of prosperity due to Mitsugoshi Company opening up a branch in their imperial capital, which drawing all of Madlid’s youth and merchants to uproot their lives and move there.

Hearing the news, the Madlid's feudal lord want to repopulate his city and order Rude to met with the company's director, Luna and tried to convince her to buy a prime property in Madlid and opening her branch store in his city, which he gave a low price of up to 100 million Zeni. Luna isn't sure at first because Mitsugoshi Company was carrying out a reconstruction process in the Sacred Land, Lindwurm which resulted the city being flooded, after the Sanctuary under the dam water had destroyed.

When one of her employees tells her that they found petroleum deposits in the area on their survey, Luna decides to buy every property in that street and explains that she wants to redevelop the city if he's willing to meet their conditions and with the promise of developing Madlid into become the greatest city in Velgalta. Then, Luna ordered her employees to buy up all the necessary land downstream of the Nyle tributary and building a canal there.

Military
Velgalta Empire is a militaristic empire to which referred as the "Country of Swords", and is noted to be one of the most powerful military powers in the world, with their overall military abilities.

Within the Velgalta military, there are special group known as the Velgalta's Seven Blades, which consist of their seven strongest warriors.

Featured Locations

 * Madlid

Inhabitants

 * Annerose Nichtsehen
 * Rude
 * Lambda
 * Karen von Herzog
 * Sergey Gorman