Garland

The Demon Kingdom Garland (ガーランド) is the Demon nation in Tortus. It was previously known as the "Igdol Empire" (イグドール) during the age of the Liberators.

Layout
Garland's territory comprises most of Tortus' southern continent with it stopping just beside Reisen Gorge.

Garland's architecture is nearly identical to the Heiligh Kingdom, with the only difference being that all of the buildings’ roofs are rust-red.

Ideology
Garland's religion revolved around worshipping the God Alva. It was believed that Alva is the one "true" God of Tortus and that Ehit, the God worshipped by the various human kingdoms of Tortus, was deemed to be a false god that usurped Alva's title. This in turn has greatly motivated the demons to wage a war against humanity to eliminate the false faith of Ehit from the world. This fanatical devotion was all ironically created by their "true" God Ehit, who Alva served under, and unknowingly to the demons, was in fact nothing more than Ehit's servant and a lesser God. Alva successfully cultivated this religious belief and fanatical devotion within the demon race in order to make them all the more manipulative as his pawns for his mad game. This resulted in the demon race blindly and fanatically following Ehit's orders and whims unknowingly through the decrees of Alva.

Since Magic was the cornerstone of the Demons' civilization, the most magically powerful of them would be their ruler with the title of "Demon Lord". This individual was regarded as a living avatar of their god, which turned out to be true due to Alva having possessed each Demon Lord for many years.

History
The Demon nation has had a long history of war against the Humans of Tortus.

During the age of the Liberators, when the Demon Lord, who was also the father of the Liberator Vandre Schnee, discovered his son could use Ancient Magic, he used him to create an army of empowered chimera-like monsters in order to exterminate humanity and enacted a large-scale war. The end result, however, was a stalemate, in which both sides suffered heavy casualties.

The year after the war, the Demon Lord's position was usurped by his other son Rasul Alva Igdol. As a result, the Igdol Empire had started focusing its efforts on domestic affairs and had maintained that for over ten years. In that time, there had only been a few small skirmishes between Igdol and the human kingdoms. During this time, Rasul was planning to resume his father's work of creating an army of enhanced monsters in an effort to conquer the entire world. His plans, however, were foiled thanks to the Liberators, when it was revealed that Rasul was under the control of the demons' god Alva throughout his reign as the Demon Lord.

After Rasul was freed from Alva's control, he revealed to his people the true nature of Tortus' gods as evil and manipulative, while also preaching for cooperation amongst the other races. This, however, only served to divide the demon nation's populace and gave way to the rise of three factions: The "Demon Lord" faction, which was the smallest of them, who remained loyal to Rasul and agreed to support his ideals, the "Orthodox Faction" that still believed demons were the superior race and wished to eliminate humanity, and the "Neutral Faction", which was the largest, that still supported their nation, but remained sceptical of Rasul's leadership. When the Liberators were preparing to confront Ehit and the Holy Church, Rasul pledged the Demon Lord faction's support in their crusade. Ultimately, however, the Liberators were defeated and forced into seclusion.

At some point thousands of years later, Igdol had been renamed "Garland", and had still maintained its hostile relationship with humanity. The last great war ended in the Demons' defeat due to the aid of an infamous group of mercenaries, who would later become the founders of the Hoelscher Empire.

Throughout the next 300 years, the demons were in a perpetual stalemate whenever battling the human kingdoms, but they eventually managed to gain the upper hand after General Freid Bagwa conquered one of the Great Labyrinths and acquire the Ancient Magic that allowed him to create powerful monsters under his control. When the humans responded to this development by having their god Ehit summon a group of "chosen heroes", the demons attempted to either recruit them to their side, or kill them if they refused. Ultimately that plan failed, but they had managed to acquire the aid of one of them to become their spy in the Heiligh Kingdom.

Garland launched a military campaign that simultaneously targeted most of the human nations on the northern continent, as well as the beastmen nation Verbergen. Despite their best efforts, they were all thwarted due to Hajime Nagumo and his allies.

When Ehit decided to wipe out all life on Tortus, the demons were deemed as the "chosen race" that would avoid the rest of their world's fate, and were transported to the realm of the gods, known as the Sanctuary.

"Zero" Timeline

 * Iguld (Capital)

Notable People

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 * Freid Bagwa (General)†
 * Davros (Captain)†
 * Celeka (Vice-Captain)†
 * Cattleya†
 * Mikhail†
 * Reiss
 * Balen†
 * Divoff†
 * Fidra†
 * Heather†
 * Kramer†
 * Logan
 * Eri Nakamura (Sleeper Agent)†


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 * Rasul Alva Igdol (Demon Lord)
 * Karm Tranlit (Prime Minister)
 * Angol Mittlight (General)
 * Elga Insut (General)
 * Lestina Ascion (General)

Note: †; deceased