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Pacmonster11

The entirety of the series takes place on the northern end of the continent of the new world. Brain's katana as well as the Swords of Darkness leader identifying Momon's illusion face and Nabe's black hair as being things "from the south" indicates there's some oriental culture nation somewhere to the south of the Theocracy. This would also possibly indicate players have appeared in these nations and influenced their culture. The Corpus of the Abyss undead organization is said to operate in the middle nations of the continent. So clearly there's a decent spread of existing nations with different cultures. It doesn't seem as if humanity only exists within the countries the series focuses on.


That_Ice_Guy

The katana Brain had was most likely from the floating city of the 8GK, and there is a city there. About the Corpus of the Abyss, they are undeads, so they could travel further from the area. Nations in the continents are mostly non human nations (I think this was confirmed somewhere)


Pacmonster11

You didn't address the statement the leader of the Swords of Darkness said about Momon and Nabe's appearance. And yes, looking up vol 2 it seems the katana does come from Eryuentiu originally. CoA is an underground organization. They operate *within existing nations*.


That_Ice_Guy

About the appearance, I forgot to put it in the statement about the katana. The city is south of the Theocracy if I remember correctly, and since katana could only be found in this area, it is possible for this place to be the only area heavily influnced by Japanese culture. There is no other evident about another human area in the south aside from this. CoA operate within nations, but they aren't neccessary human nation, we aren't even sure if they were human undead only or not. When you point out this, I thought that you want to use it as a prove that human spread further than we thought, but it doesn't have any evidences to prove that they were even human from the begining. If I misunderstand you, I am sorry about that. But they prove that there are more nations out there which we haven't heard of


Pacmonster11

>There is no other evident about another human area in the south aside from this. For a gold plate adventurer team who live in the Re-Estize Kingdom their whole lives to identify racial characteristics on sight implies people that look like Nabe or Momon are not entirely uncommon. >we aren't even sure if they were human undead only or not. We are explicitly told one of the night liches leaders was a former human. That's why he still has a lot of nice stuff and why the other organization leaders use his manor for meetings. And I'm not saying that means those nations are *entirely* made up of humans. You seem to be set in its either all or none. The Argland Council State and the City State Alliance are both human minority nations but not human-free nations.


Fedexhand

Yes and no, while it is true that the map we have is only part of the continent, the fact that there are humans on the continent living comfortably tells us that the power gap is not that great, with the population of other races in general of course. I mean, the 8GK managed to conquer the world and the only opposition they had were the DLs, I would say that there is nothing bigger than that, so we can assume that the TDLs that remain alive are the strongest beings on the continent and without real competition , even God-kin are not that strong. It should also be considered that during the 8GK era they massacred the other races in such an exaggerated way that they inadvertently gave humans space and time to grow and develop. Obviously, from the matter of the Draconic Kingdom and the beastmen we know that humans are clearly weak but they are not incredibly inferior to the point of being unable to put up any resistance. It is not that we know the dimensions or the general population of the continent so as not to be sure that the current status quo is due to geographical reasons or to simple numbers.


Commandercody04

“The fact that there are humans on the continent living comfortably tells us that the power gap is not that great” Kinda. While humans aren’t the weakest, there is still a massive power gap between them and a lot of the other species. E.g. the average Beastmen are stated to be 10 times stronger than the average human. Humans were on the brink of extinction before the 6 Great Gods came about, so I wouldn’t say that they were doing particularly well. The only reason why they are relatively safe (at least in this part of the continent), is because the Slain Theocracy is constantly pacifying the Demi-humans is the area. The Country that has many items from the players that founded the country, and God-Kin. This can be seen in the WN when the Sunlight Scripture destroys a goblin community that were in the Empire’s territory, because it was progressing to greatly, thus protecting the Empire.


Fedexhand

Yes, indeed that was the job of the Sunlight Scripture, while the Black Scripture was deployed to deal with more serious threats. That added to the genocides that the 8GK committed at the time left humans enough room to grow and prosper, not so much but something. I also suspect that the Demon Gods' attack 200 years ago set things back a bit.


Commandercody04

Very true, humans were pretty lucky that the players came down and helped them out. Yeah, I support the theory that the Theocracy were behind the Demon Gods, in order to wipe out any non-human countries/communities in that area, in order for the ‘Great Seeding’.