Fire Emblem: The Crystal of Bonds

Today I'm going to write on Kestra, a home to any able to afford it. It is bordering Riese, an ally, Nykos, with whom it has a mutual distaste of, Shurca, a trade partner, and Maya, a desert wasteland with little to no population. ​ Kestra is an aristocracy, and the dukes, duchesses, and councilors are extremely powerful because of the country's wealth. They do not have much of a military force, though, because most Kestrans are pacifists or value their lives over their country. This is why they are allied with Riese: Riese sends them skilled mercenaries to protect the Northern Kestran border, and in exchange, Kestra gives a large sum of money to Riese each year, like an annual mercenary fee and a payment for Riese's loyalty. It is damp and hot, which is perfect for many herbs and flowering plants. The flora that grow there are sold an an extremely high price, due to their multiple uses, such as tome page paper, medicinal use (vulneraries, elixirs, salves, etc.), and simply...

Today's country spotlight is on Tryst, the rural ungoverned country above Lyrouche. Tryst, as previously stated, has no government. This is not due to chaos and rebellion, but actually a lack thereof. Tryst's citizens are not interested in their country, they are only interested in farming and making money off of their produce. They leave each other alone, and so, despite the lonely lives the people there live, there aren't wars and other countries really have no desire to take the land because all it's good for is farming. Additionally, some military forces are afraid of striking Tryst, for it is the only country that does not enforce the removal of shape-shifting beasts, and so these creatures roam the area and defend their territory with ferocity. The area has a temperate climate, and it has many thick forests. The trees in Tryst are the oldest on the continent, some have existed longer than people are estimated to have began living on the continent of Seinara. These...

Here, I have work I have previously posted on Serenes Forest , but it may be new to some readers. There will be a few Weekly Country Spotlights that will be similar or identical to the Serenes Forest content I posted, but there are a few countries I have not written about, and I will toss them into the mix as well. The first country I will be writing on is "the good guys" country, Lyrouche. Lyrouche is a monarchy, the current king is Lord Firos, who's daughter, Syllish, was to inherit the throne when she turned twenty, but at twelve she was put in a coma from the Empirion incident. The Empirion is the country's national treasure, a powerful crystal housed inside the castle and guarded by the royal sage. The culture in Lyrouche is simple, but they do hold a prejudice against shifters, because Lyrouche is not the native home of any type of shifter (laguz). Most shifters avoid government when they can, so anarchies and free regions like Tryst are preferred in compariso...