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11 The Dagdan Empire is the largest and most powerful nation on the continent of Dagda and the setting for most of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. It is a theocracy, introduced in Nintendo's own narration as a land at the peak of prosperity under the rule of the gods. Its capital is Dagsion, and three vassal kingdoms sit beneath it.
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55 Power sits with the gods rather than with a mortal dynasty. The current ruler is the Divine Sovereign Solel, god of the sun, who holds the throne as regent while the founding king sleeps. Solel opens the Heroic Games in person and pledges to grant one wish to whoever wins them.
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78 The temples and their servants are part of the machinery of the state rather than a body standing apart from it. Temple knights carry out imperial business: the man who arrives to tell Cai's father his sentence has come due is one of them, and the priesthood staffs the seven temples where ordinary citizens go to earn a divine blessing.
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1112 The empire has stood for roughly 1,500 years. Nintendo's own wording is that it has prospered under the rule of gods for 1,500 years, while an in-game cutscene is reported to say fourteen centuries, so the founding year should not be treated as fixed. It was established by Dagda, the empire's first and founding king, after a run of major wars, and the land is said to have been entrusted to him by a goddess. Dagda later fell into slumber, and the Divine Sovereign has ruled in his place since.
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1314 In the year 1449 of the Dagdan Calendar, the empire staged the Heroic Games that the game's four Hero routes revolve around.
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1516 Vassal Kingdoms
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1718 Three countries answer to the empire.
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1920 KingdomPositionNotesSaramisSouthern end of the continentCapital Megaira. Its people worship the Keeper of Death and Night, and writing is forbidden there. Ruled by Queen Theodora.AragoNorthwest cornerNamed settlements Baphos, Cydonia and Ortill. Its generals Creek and Nathan both compete in the Games.BrezarantSouthwest cornerNamed settlement Mons, the fortress city that gave its name to a historic uprising.
2021 Mosa, in the far south, borders Saramis but is not ruled from Dagsion.
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2223 The Heroic Games as an Institution
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2425 The Games are an imperial event, not a private tournament. They are staged at the Grand Arena in the capital in tribute to the founding king, opened by the Divine Sovereign, and their prize is a wish he grants himself. Competitors enter as registered clans, and the crowd fills the arena for the opening declaration. Generals from the vassal kingdoms compete alongside commoners, which is part of what makes the event the empire's showpiece.
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2628 The Empire and the Pantheon
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2830 Each temple in the capital belongs to a named member of the Dagdan pantheon, and those deities are present as rulers rather than as distant figures. Fortuna keeps a temple of her own and a hidden chamber beneath it. Aurora, named as the daughter of the Divine Sovereign, is confined to her temple and forbidden contact with outsiders. On the mechanical side, Temple Blessings is where that relationship reaches the player.
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3032 Notable Locations
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3234 PlaceNotesDagsionThe imperial capital, built around a lake in the territory of Amalthea, with a population well over a million.CaelusHolds an annual Festival of Roses; the winner takes the title Rose of Caelus.
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3537 For the sun god who rules as regent while the founding king sleeps, see Solel, and for the capital where that rule is administered, see Dagsion. Heroic Games covers the tournament the empire stages in tribute to its sleeping founder, and Dagda places it beside the vassal kingdoms and the unruled south.