Western Isles: Difference between revisions

By the year 999, governance of the Etrurian operation in the Isles was led by [[Arcard]], an Etrurian nobleman of no political importance other than his role in the Isles.<ref>{{Cite|Lord Arcard, the supervisor of the mining operation on the Isles, resided in Jutes. According to Elphin, Arcard was of high birth, but he held no importance in the Etrurian court.|Opening narration of [[The True Enemy|Chapter 19]]|The Binding Blade}}</ref>  During the [[Disturbance of Bern]], Arcard arranged an alliance with [[Bern]], the war's antagonists, seeking to benefit from their power and the world's instability.  In conjunction with [[Roartz]], an advisor in the Etrurian court, Arcard arranged for the [[Lycia]]n army under [[Roy]] to be summoned to the Western Isles to assist with combating the bandit problem, in order to keep them away from the mainland while they instigated a coup d'etat against King [[Mordred]].<ref>{{Cite|'''Roy:''' Advisor? It wasn't the king who had made the decision to send Lycia to the Western Isles?<br>'''Cecilia:''' No. Advisor Roartz was working with Lord Arcard, the man in charge of the mining operation on the Western Isles. They made the decision without consulting the king.'''|[[Roy]] and [[Cecilia]]|The Binding Blade}}</ref>  During his tour of the Isles, Roy learned first-hand of the state of the Isles under Etrurian colonialism and ultimately sided with the anti-Etrurian resistance, freeing the archipelago from its corrupt lords before marching on Jutes, the capital.  Upon his arrival at Jutes, Arcard abandoned the city and fled back to the mainland, leaving behind [[Freya]] of the Bernese army to fight Roy, who in turn left the capital in the "care" of the War Dragon [[Ain]]; following the liberation of Jutes, Roy left the Isles upon hearing of the coup d'etat in Etruria.  Some years after the end of the war, the Western Isles - now free from Etruria - were reformed by the resistance hero [[Ekhidna]] into a new nation, the Western Union.<ref>{{Cite|After Ekhidna went back home to the Western Isles, the people were overjoyed at the return of their hero. She left the rebel group, but the people begged her to be their leader once again. Her hard work united the Western Isles into a new nation, the Western Union.|[[Ekhidna]]'s ending|The Binding Blade}}</ref>

Jutes is the capital of the Etrurian occupation of the Isles, from which Arcard ruled.  At the climax of his campaign in the Western Isles, Roy launched an attack on Jutes to bring an end to Etruria's exploitation of the people of the Isles, but instead fought a Bernese unit "led" by the War Dragon [[Ain]].

A mountain in the north of Fibernia which houses the largest of the Etrurian mining operations, governed by Bishop [[Oro]] on delegation from the Elimine Church.  It also houses the hideout of the anti-Etrurian resistance led by [[Ekhidna]].

A village situated on the south-eastern coast of Fibernia, governed by [[Zinc]].

In the year 980, under [[Athos]]'s direction and following Bramimond undoing the seal, [[Hector]] fought Kaim's spirits to obtain Armads for use against [[Nergal]], after which Armads was left unguarded.  Twenty years later, a bandit group led by [[Gelero]] was delegated by the [[Bern]] army to collapse the cave and prevent Roy from gaining access to Armads.