The Kingdom of Waloed - Final Fantasy XVI Database

A colosseum-like prison located immediately north of Ravenwit Walls in the Kingdom of Waloed. Bearers sent here became the unfortunate subjects of an ambitious military endeavor designed to train untrainable beasts of war. When the Kingdom fell, and the wardens lost their wills to the aether, those same Bearers were left in their cells to starve, which most did.

The Kingdom of Waloed

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A Mothercrystal situated in Stonhyrr, capital of the Kingdom of Waloed. Its sheer walls strikingly similar to the towering cliffs that line the coasts of Ash, the interior can only be gained by means of a solitary stone span that stretches from the heart of the city proper. Being the last remaining Mothercrystal on Ash, the crystals harvested from its surface are a vital lifeline for the Waloeder people, but even then their number is far from enough to sate the kingdom’s appetite, thus forcing her king to seek sources elsewhere.

After the Mother’s Fall

A Mothercrystal that towered over Stonhyrr, capital of the Kingdom of Waloed. The fall of Drake’s Tail meant that, for a brief moment, it was the last remaining Mothercrystal in Valisthea. That moment, however, ended abruptly when the Spine fell following Clive’s otherworldly struggle with Ultima.

The Kingdom of Waloed

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A settlement situated in mining country in the center of Waloed. The miners make homes among their excavations, and live there with their families.

Dark Skies

A settlement situated in mining country in the center of Waloed. The miners made homes among their excavations, and lived there with their families. However, with the advent of the Arche, its residents disappeared, and now the village is all but deserted.

The Kingdom of Waloed

An idyllic mountain village in the Kingdom of Waloed—or at least, what remains of it. Here, an old acquaintance of Harpocrates’s made his home, quietly amassing a vast collection of rare tomes before Ultima and Barnabas’s machinations rendered the realm Akashic and stripped him of his very will.

The Kingdom of Waloed

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An aging fortress in the western reaches of the Kingdom of Waloed. Due to its proximity to Storm, it is oft used as a staging point for the royal army.

Beneath the Keep

An aging fortress in the western reaches of the Kingdom of Waloed. Similar to other constructs across Valisthea, the keep appears to have been built on the site of ancient ruins, and it was in an underground chamber not unlike Phoenix Gate’s Apodytery that a fully intact rendition of Ultima’s Eikonical pantheon was discovered.

The Kingdom of Waloed

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The sole surviving nation in Ash. Waloed has its capital at Stonhyrr, home to the Mothercrystal of Drake’s Spine. A warlike land, its considerable military might serves to keep neighboring countries at bay. While Waloed does maintain a notional alliance with the Dhalmekian Republic in southern Storm, it is very much a marriage of convenience.

Trouble in Ash

The sole surviving nation in Ash. Waloed has its capital at Stonhyrr, home to the Mothercrystal of Drake’s Spine. A warlike land, its considerable military might serves to keep neighboring countries at bay. Not all are deterred, however, and the constant need to fight off hordes of beastmen prevents the royalists from launching a full incursion into Storm.

At the Battle of Belenus Tor

The sole surviving nation in Ash. Waloed has its capital at Stonhyrr, home to the Mothercrystal of Drake’s Spine. Its ruler Barnabas Tharmr, Dominant of Odin and Warden of Darkness, recently dispatched units of intelligencers to Storm with orders to scout ahead prior to a full-scale invasion. Having ceded territory to the Holy Empire of Sanbreque in the Battle of the Twin Realms in the year 865, the Waloeders launched an attack on Belenus Tor in 873 with the intent of regaining their lost foothold on the continent across the Strait.

Following Imperial Occupation of Twinside

The sole surviving nation in Ash. Waloed has its capital at Stonhyrr, home to the Mothercrystal of Drake’s Spine. It is ruled over by Barnabas Tharmr, 1111P .•• Dominant of Odin and Warden of Darkness, who has long harbored ambitions of extending his reach into the neighboring continent of Storm. Somewhat surprisingly, the Sanbrequois Empire’s incursion into the Crystalline Dominion prompted no immediate response from the king, who appears to be biding time and considering his next move.

At Drake’s Fang

The sole surviving nation in Ash. Waloed has its capital at Stonhyrr, home to the Mothercrystal of Drake’s Spine. It is ruled over by Barnabas Tharmr, - Dominant of Odin and Warden of Darkness, who has somehow managed to bring the hordes of marauding beastmen that once plagued his lands to heel, and persuaded them to direct their aggression at his enemies instead. These bloodthirsty forces have been deployed as far afield as Drake’s Fang, in the Dhalmekian Republic.

Machinations

The sole surviving nation in Ash. Waloed has its capital at Stonhyrr, home to the Mothercrystal of Drake’s Spine. It is ruled over by Barnabas Tharmr, Dominant of Odin and Warden of Darkness, who—it transpires—has formed an alliance with the mysterious being known as Ultima.

The Beastmen Armies

The sole surviving nation in Ash. Waloed has its capital at Stonhyrr, home to the Mothercrystal of Drake’s Spine. It is ruled over by Barnabas Tharmr, Dominant of Odin and Warden of Darkness, who—it transpires—has formed an alliance with the mysterious being known as Ultima. After Ultima brought about Primogenesis, Tharmr’s combined force of Akashic soldiers and beastmen was deployed across Valisthea, tasked with sowing chaos and mayhem.

After the Capital’s Fall

The sole surviving nation in Ash. Shortly after the death of Barnabas Tharmr—scion of Dzemekys and catspaw of Ultima—Drake’s Head was shattered, leaving the capital of Stonhyrr without Mothercrystal and king.

The Kingdom of Waloed

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An elite unit of the Royal Knights of Waloed led by Benedikta Harman, who lead clandestine incursions deep into the territory of enemy nations for myriad purposes—espionage and assassination chief among them.

At the Sack of Caer Norvent

An elite unit of the Royal Knights of Waloed led by Benedikta Harman, who lead clandestine incursions deep into the territory of enemy nations. Unlike Waloed’s main battlefield forces, whose orders are usually issued by their Lord Commander, the Intelligencers reported directly to the king—or at least, they did, until their dissolution in the aftermath of Cid and Clive’s surprise attack on Caer Norvent.

The Kingdom of Waloed

The kingdom of Waloed’s main battlefield forces, also known as the Kingsguard. While they ultimately answer to King Barnabas, the Knights’ orders are usually issued by their Lord Commander. The Royal Intelligencers—a special unit led by Benedikta Harman, Dominant of Garuda—are a notable exception to this rule, reporting as they do directly to the king.

The Beastmen Armies

The kingdom of Waloed’s main battlefield forces, also known as the Kingsguard. At Ultima’s instruction, King Barnabas supplemented his ranks with ores, creating a hybrid force which he duly dispatched to wreak havoc across Valisthea. Even after Barnabas’s death, the chaos Ultima had sown with the casting of Primogenesis continued to spread, dooming the better part of the late king’s army to end their days as mindless Akashic thralls.

The Kingdom of Waloed

A settlement situated in the south of Waloed. After being abandoned by its former residents, it became something of a gathering place for followers of the savior cult recently arisen on Ash, leading the Undying to dispatch an investigative mission there.

The Kingdom of Waloed

A mining settlement in the southern part of the continent of Ash. It is known for the adamantite it produces—a resource highly prized for its unrivaled durability—but this is both a blessing and a curse, leading as it has to repeated attacks by marauding ores over the years. Though previously well-protected, the encroachment of the Blight has seen citizens deserting in their droves, leaving the town ever more vulnerable to attack.

• Can be found in the south of the Ash continent.

The Kingdom of Waloed

Ravenwit’s towering rampart fills the narrow valley betwixt two adjacent peaks, creating a nigh impenetrable barrier that serves to protect the royal capital of Stonhyrr from armies that might attempt an approach from the southwest. Once manned by a garrison of hundreds, the walls are now empty save for a handful of ores and those beasts of war that managed to escape from their pens.

The Kingdom of Waloed

An impossibly tall tower in central Waloed that seems to pierce the very heavens. The few followers of the Circle of Malius remaining on Ash believe it to have been built by the gods, who would one day pass their final judgment from its heights. It has long been considered hallowed ground, whereupon mere mortals fear to tread.

The Kingdom of Waloed

A religion that has arisen in recent years in Ash, and which has its basis in the Circle of Malius—an ancient faith whose followers worshipped Ultima as a god. It was popularized by King Barnabas Tharmr of Waloed, who spread its prayers and rituals among his people. Believers see becoming Akashic as a means of achieving purity, and of being freed from the torments of the mortal realm.

The Kingdom of Waloed

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Capital of the Kingdom of Waloed, located on the coast of Frigg’s Calm, Ash’s northernmost bay. Its Mothercrystal, Drake’s Spine, sits just off shore and is connected to the city proper via a massive span that legends say required a hundred years and an entire mountain’s worth of stone to construct.

After the Nation’s Fall

Capital of the Kingdom of Waloed, located on the coast of Frigg’s Calm, Ash’s northernmost bay. Its Mothercrystal, Drake’s Spine, was eventually destroyed by Cid and his allies, but by this time, the city had already been lost, its leader perished atop a distant spire, its citizens reduced to mindless thralls, and its streets claimed by Ores and masterless beasts.

The Kingdom of Waloed

A dilapidated orphanage for Bearers that sits upon a hill overlooking the verdant plains of Vidargraes in Waloed. The children who lived here were not cared for, but rather experimented on, enduring harrowing tortures designed to turn them into fearless, mindless weapons—an education that few were to survive.

The Kingdom of Waloed

In the year 878, the Waloeder capital of Stonhyrr, already besieged by Akashic and beastmen, was rocked yet further by the destruction of its Mothercrystal, Drake’s Spine, at the hands of Cid the Outlaw and his companions.

The Kingdom of Waloed

The forbidding cliffs that line the Naldia Narrow on the Ash side of the channel. Though viable ascents exist, their numbers are few and the paths narrow and perilous. That said, they have more than once been used as a staging ground for covert incursions into the kingdom. Now, the land above having been all but consumed by the Blight, it is only the boldest of adventurers who dares set foot here.

The Kingdom of Waloed

Formerly the most powerful kingdom in Ash, until Barnabas Tharmr led his armies in rebellion against its rule and established his own Kingdom of Waloed upon its still-smoking ruins.

The Kingdom of Waloed