Holy Empire Westelande

The Holy Empire Westelande is a large empire in Japan's Elder Tale and one of the five territories of Yamato. Much of the area is controlled by Nureha, the guild master of Plant Hwyaden ; Nureha managed to influence most of the nobles in the area into aiding her cause.

Overview
The Holy Empire Westelande is considered as the main rival territory to the Eastal League of Free Cities. Unlike the League, which recognizes the Cowen Clan as its link to the original royal lineage of the Imperial Dynasty, Westelande is nominally ruled by the Saiguu Clan, a cadet branch of the original Imperial Dynasty, but in practice, the Saiguu heads are figureheads and the Westelande Senate control the country. Eastal does not respond to orders from Westelande to return all the old Yamato Kingdom's lands, stating that these orders do not come from the legitimate King of Yamato. For their part, Westelande nobles consider Eastal's lords to be rebels to put down.

Minami is the Player city in this area and houses the guild Plant Hwyaden. Unlike Akiba and its Round Table Alliance, Plant Hwyaden has absorbed all other guilds and rulers as a singular entity. As a result, everyone, even the nobility of the Holy Empire Westelande must bow down to to this singular guild.

Politically, the Holy Empire Westelande holds more power than the Eastal League of Free Cities, though in economic terms, they are inferior, due to treaty the League had made with the Adventurers—although Plant Hwyaden had made such discoveries earlier, they made their gains off of exploiting Earthlings. This gave the League a far better bargaining position and a chance to advance themselves further. Because of this inequality, the nobles of Westelande attempted to disrupt the Round Table's Alliance's authority during the Libra Festival by causing numerous and random acts of confusion all over the city. The goal was to overwhelm the security and administration departments, thereby weakening the relationship between Akiba and the League. The most noticeable act was Malves suddenly bringing in 500 tons of cargo to be stored at Akiba's warehouses, thinking that they were already stretched to their limits with all the other merchants at the festival. This act was aimed to discredit the Cowen Family and embarrass Princess Raynesia.

However, this attempt ultimately failed as Shiroe successfully countered these random acts of confusion with equally spontaneous measures, such as using the female members of the West Wind Brigade to smooth over tensions. Furthermore, Marves had greatly underestimated the storage capacity of the warehouses owned by the Marine Organization, which could easily store shipments several times the size he had brought. In the end, Malves found himself outmaneuvered and had to withdraw with his pride severely injured.

With their ties to Plant Hwyaden, which controlled two Adventurer Cities in Yamato, the nobles and military leaders of Westelande planned on dragging the massive guild into a war against Eastal and their allies, the Round Table Alliance. Mizufa Trude, general of Westelande's armies, was especially eager for war and was given a go-ahead by Nureha to begin Operation Red Night. However, as luck would have her, the first area targeted by this operation was where Touya's Party had traveled to in order to acquire Wyvern Skins, with Nyanta trailing them to ensure their safety. Furthermore, Nureha herself had weaved her way into Touya's Party by disguising as Dariella. Seeing how Mizufa's operation was negatively affecting "Shiroe's kids," Nureha calls off the operation and orders all the Nightshades summoned by Westelande's Earthling Summoners to be destroyed.

With the revelation of the Genius threat, a number of the Ten-Seat Council members seek a ceasefire with Eastal and Akiba. Nevertheless, some still vie for war, including Indicus.

Corresponding Real Life Regions

 * Osaka Prefecture (Minami)
 * Osaka (Minami)
 * Aichi Prefecture (The Town of Kiyosu/Ruined City of Oosu, Undead Town Toyota)
 * Kiyosu (The Town of Kiyosu/Ruined City of Oosu)
 * Toyota City (Undead Town Toyota)
 * Hyogo Prefecture (Beautiful Port Sixcele, Egret Castle Town)
 * Kobe (Beautiful Port Sixcele)
 * Himeji/Himeji Castle (Egret Castle Town)
 * Shizuoka Prefecture (Redstone Mountains, Izu, Saphir)
 * Minami-Alps (Redstone Mountains)
 * Izu (Izu)
 * Fuji City (Saphir)
 * Hiroshima Prefecture (Naval Port Kuore, Itsukushima Floating Shrine)
 * Kure (Naval Port Kuore)
 * Itsukushima Shrine (Itsukushima Floating Shrine)
 * Kyoto Prefecture (Kyo, Mount Kurama)
 * Kyoto (Kyo)
 * Mount Kurama (Mount Kurama)
 * Gifu Prefecture (Sekigahara, Ildorf, the Town Where Spirits Descend)
 * Sekigahara (Sekigahara)
 * Hida-Furukawa (Ildorf, the Town Where Spirits Descend)
 * Okayama Prefecture (Guardclaw, Town of Kilns)
 * Bizen (Guardclaw, Town of Kilns)
 * Mie Prefecture (Sacred Shrine Ise)
 * Ise/Ise Grand Shrine (Sacred Shrine Ise)
 * Nara Prefecture (Yoshino, Ikoma)
 * Yoshino (Ancient City Yoshino)
 * Ikoma (Ikoma)
 * Shiga Prefecture (Lake of Nio)
 * Lake Biwa (Lake of Nio)
 * Ishikawa Prefecture (The Golden Book District of Romatrice, Mount of the Spirits)
 * Kanazawa (The Golden Book District of Romatrice)
 * Hakusan (Mount of the Spirits)
 * Toyama Prefecture (Snowwatch Fisherman)
 * Shinminato (Snowwatch Fisherman)
 * Wakayama Prefecture (Kumano Grand Shrine)
 * Shingū/Kumano Hayatama Taisha (Kumano Grand Shrine)
 * Fukui Prefecture (The Port of Tuluga)
 * Tsuruga (The Port of Tuluga)
 * Shimane Prefecture (Izumo)
 * Izumoshi (Izumo)
 * Tottori Prefecture (The Oases of Ronga)
 * Tottori/Tottori Sand Dunes (The Oases of Ronga)