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{{Quote|Mostly colonies of Etruria, the Western Isles were rich with minerals and natural resources. With mining being a major industry, various rogue groups had traveled to the Isles, hoping to loot the mines and sell the minerals for themselves. Therefore, the islands' people spent their days in constant fear of bandit attacks.|Opening narration of {{FE6}} [[The Misty Isles|Chapter 9]].}}

The '''Western Isles''' ({{hover|西方三島|Seihō mishima}} ''Western Isles'') are an archipelago of mineral-rich islands situated on the north-western coast of [[Elibe]], comprised of three major islands: the central-north island '''Fibernia''' ({{hover|フィベルニア|Fiberunia}} ''Fibernia''), the south-western island '''Caldonia''' ({{hover|カレドニア|Karedonia}} ''Caledonia''), and the north-eastern smallest island '''Dia''' ({{hover|ディア|Dia}} ''Dia'').  For much of their history, the Isles have been ruled by [[Etruria]] as colonies, and have been exploited by a dominating mining industry owing to their mineral-rich landscapes.

By the year 999, governance of the Etrurian operation in the Isles was led by [[Arcardo]], an Etrurian nobleman of no political importance other than his role in the Isles.<ref>{{Cite|Lord Arcardo, the supervisor of the mining operation on the Isles, resided in Jutes. According to Elphin, Arcardo 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]], Arcardo 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, Arcardo 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 Arcardo, 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, Arcardo abandoned the city and fled back to the mainland, leaving behind [[Flaer]] of the Bernese army to fight Roy, who in turn left the capital in the "care" of the War Dragon [[Ein]]; 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>

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|game10={{title|The Binding Blade}}, {{title|Blazing Sword}}

|description16=A bandit in Zinc's employ.

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File:Cm fe06 10B.png|Zinc's territory in [[Amidst a Struggle|Ch. 10B]] of {{title|The Binding Blade}}.

File:Cm fe07 H-30.png|The Armads cave in [[The Berserker|Ch. 30H]] of {{title|Blazing Sword}}.

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|jap-mean=Officially Romanized as '''Fibernia'''; as above.

|jap-mean=Officially Romanized as '''Caledonia'''; as above.

|jap-mean=Officially Romanized as '''Dia'''; as above.