The Forest Kingdom of Ringford is a mentioned magical fairy forest kingdom location in the Erion Sagas book series, this is the kingdom homeland of the fairy race formerly ruled by Queen Elfaria and currently ruled by Queen Mercedes at the time of the main event situated on a thick jungle island, this domain also houses unicorns who are indigenous to their jungle island and the dwarves who defected to the ringford forces after the destruction of their kingom homeland, It is located in the southwestern realm of Erion, Bordered by the ruins of the Valentine Kingdom to the west, and the ocean to the eastern side.
Domain Overview[]
This kingdom sits in an island of forest and it is mostly composed of large magical forests and large plants with orbs where fairy babies are being placed to develop their embryos into a complete fetus baby to be born, it has a palace building inside within its center region but it is not visible within outside of the kingdom as it is being covered by large forests, Ringford Kingdom has the largest existing trees in the continent of Erion.
This kingdom nation is at war with the Kingdom of Ragnanival, and much like them, they also compete seizure dominance over the cauldron; while the Ragnanival Forces are planning to use the cauldron for the strengthening of their military forces and their king for their world conquest ambitions as they hope to win over it, the fairies wants it as a main source of their life because of its phozon contents within, phozons are the main life source for fairies as if it is a food for them, this nation do not only hosts fairies exclusively it also houses unicorns and myconids that we're indigenous to their kingdom and lilipats who we're dwarves that defected to the Ringford Kingdom after the destruction of their kingdom homeland.
Ringford Kingdom is the largest forest area in erion, the leaves and trees of this lair is much larger and thicker, the plants in this location hold magical abilities that can produce supernatural powers and even taking care of it's fairy offsprings as the flowers in this area can be used as fetus covering for fairy babies where it can develop for sometime until they are completed in development, the forests in this domain are much dense compared in elrit forest in the northeast realm of erion.
Due to it's giant oversized trees and abundant of the magical creatures and elemental characteristics of the forests that can be found in the ringford kingdom, the location is also being referred as the magical forest jungle by many people across the erion whom have oversighted the ringford forest as they pass through the inland sea of the continent which we're mostly titanian humans and some valentinian humans by the least when their kingdom was still intact before it's destruction and the start of the main storyline events, despite their numerous calling name referrences to the jungle island of the fairies, many of these people who described it have never been inside of the ringford kingdom.
Some of them are fascinated of seeing it's fairy inhabitants personally as they mostly rarely to encounter one of the fairy species who mostly avoid contact with the outsiders due to their fear of any foreigners that passes through the inland sea that surrounds their kingdom homeland, as ringford jungle forest island is mostly inhabited by fairies as it's most abundant inhabitant creatures since it was their native homeland in which fairies acts as it's main creature and people, it has been also nicknamed as "The Fairy's Lair" since fairies are very prevalent in this location and more dominant than any other creatures that also resides in this location as them.
Encountered Mobs[]
Elf Hunter[]
These creatures are female gendered winged elves armed with bow and arrow as their ammunition, they are basic ranged attacking mobs that can be found across the jungled fairy forest of ringford, they are the most common and most numerous mobs that are found in this area, elf hunters have the second weakest damage in all of the mob entities in the location, they wore a green colored bikini that only covers the private and sensitive parts of their body, they are among the most vulnerable units in the ringford army due to their lack of armor garments and exposing most of their body in the outside from the attacks, they have medium sized green wings attached to their backs that they use to fly themselves around.
Elf Caster[]
These creatures are the mage variants of the elf hunters, instead of using bow and arrow as their main armament, they use cane sticks made out of the wood from the trees of their habitat forest that they use to cast magic powers of projectile range fire orb attacks to engage their enemies, their attack damage is a little stronger and more than the projectile attacks made by the elf hunters, the attacks of these creatures gave fire burning effect overtime damage to any of it's targeted entity except for those who have fire resistance effect, these mobs have ability to heal themselves and their comrades in the battlefield, their garments is similar to the basic counterparts, only bikinis but with different color, their garment is colored in purple along with the wings attached to their backs.
Elf Sage[]
These Ranged attack creatures is another kin variant of the elf casters but these mobs possess more greater range and damage ball orb attacks, these elf sages are second generation units of the winged female fairy range attackers of the ringford army, they share the same attack method as the elf casters but with better stats compared to their basic counterparts due to their upgraded status which is more than their basic kin comrades, their garment outfit is similar to their caster counterparts with almost same color of their garments and wings but with their garments and wings have yellow color at the very end tip edge of their wings with some little orange can be seen between the purple and yellow zone colored of their wings.
Elf Summoner[]
These female winged range attackers is exactly the same as elf casters and mages in terms of attacking type ability, like their other kin counterparts, they also casts magic powers to create ball orbs they use as projectile ammunition attacks against their targeted entity much like an arrow to a bow, but these creatures only come out when summoned by their battalion leaders, these summoners have the ability create mushroom pore mob backups that act as a militia fighter that assists their summoners in the battlefield, the garment of their outfit are bikinis that only covers private and sensitive parts which is colored in lilac and their wings are light blue colored.
Elf Knight[]
These soldier mob entities are the male counterparts of the elf hunters who we're female gendered fairy mob entities, compared to their female counterparts, they use melee as their method type of attack rather than ranged mode of attack that the female elves are using as their armament in the battlefield, they are armed with small sword they use to swing against their targeted entity when attacking, they attack their target in close combat range rather than by far distance, they sometimes act as a tanker to their ranged attacking comrades, they wore a color dark green suit armor that protects their entire body, they possess a small wing on their backs that they cannot use to fly unlike their female counterparts who can fly with their wings, they possess a shield in their armament along with their small swords they use to temporarily block the attacks of their targeted entity.
Paladin Elf Knight[]
These mob entities are the upgraded and better version of the elf knight, they share the same attack, abilities and armament as their basic counterparts, but they deal a little higher damage and possess a better armor protection compared to their lower ranking counterparts, the only obvious difference between them and their basic comrades is the color of their armor garment, the paladin elf knights wore armor colored in silver while their basic counterparts wore dark green, since these soldiers are a little stronger, they sometimes act as a second battalion commander in command of the ringford army if their more powerful units are unavailable in the battlefield for them when they are fighting in a combat zone.
Unicorn Knight[]
These creatures are a rest of a different compared to the other units of the ringford army, instead of being an elf creature, they are unicorn mammals who we're trained and employed by the ringford army, they we're tamed and taught to speak and fight for the fairies, they are also among the indigenous creatures of the ringford forest alongside the elf creatures, these unicorn knights are the strongest units of the ringford army, due to their high ranking status, high toughness and damage, they act as the main battalion commanders of the military group and their entire army, these creatures acts as a mini substitute bosses in the ringford forest map stage that players can fight, they have similarities with the abilities of an elf knight, which is melee attacking and temporarily blocking attacks with the use of their shields against their opponent.
The unique abilities that unicorn knights has while elf knights don't is that they have the ability to do charge attacks against their opponent due to their high speed as they are hoofed creatures that can run faster if on all fours but we're trained to stand upright and use only two of their limbs in order to be able to fight using weapons, these creatures are armed with long spears they use to create charge attacks and combined it with their intense speed for the charging attack they possess, they can also leap high allowing them to strike down their opponents from above probably due to the structure of their legs or the high leap feature of their combat boots.
Enchanting Spirit Myconid[]
These creatures are giant mushroom pores that lives within the deep jungles of the ringford kingdom, unlike any other mobs of the ringford kingdom that actively fight outside of their kingdom, these creatures are exclusively found within the ringford forest, they act as guardian natures of the location that suddenly attacks any foreign intruders that comes near of their habitat, they are the second most powerful mobs that can be found in the ringford forest, like much the unicorn knights, they act as another second variant of mini substitute bosses that can be encountered in the ringford jungles, they have the ability to casts magic, shapeshifting and create smaller mushroom pore backup as it's assisting fighters during it's combat state, these creatures are often lying in ambush type attacks to surprise their opponents, technically posing themselves as a seemingly lifeless simple mushroom tree that comes to life to attack any intruders that comes too close in their range vision.
Background History[]
This Kingdom was formed by union tribes of fairies that only came to happen after the destruction of the Valentine Kingdom because of the cauldron it leaves unattended after its destruction as most of its surviving citizens either flee away from the kingdom or hide, its dwarves citizens who survived the destruction mainly defected on two side factions either to the Ragnanival or the Ringford ones, the fairies used to fight each other of their own kins as they were divided into many section of tribes and only became unified upon the destruction of the Kingdom of Valentine, Ringford is the most recent country to exist in Erion at the time of the main storyline event, before their unification, fairies had no representing nation of their identity and race and they were only a group of many tribe sections whom shares with one another with the same related race species.
Most of the fairies had been isolated in a same one particular place for a long period of time until they were involved in the war against the Ragnanival Forces fighting for the cauldron's domination ownership, the war they involved in, forced most of the fairies to explore the outside world and even making into the farthest point places of the continent such as the Elrit Forest, because of not being used of traveling outside of their kingdom homeland, most of them are afraid from any living beings outside of their home or anything considered foreign to them, majority of the fairies are xenophobics at the time of the main storyline event.
Topography[]
Ringford Kingdom sits on a jungle island located in the southeastern realm of Erion, surrounded by southern sea region of the continent that features an abundance of giant trees. Its palace, which is the castle of the fairies, is situated in the center region of its area but it is not visible because of the large trees that covers the building, it also features some few very small islands, and another bigger one but smaller than the main jungle island where the kingdom of the fairies is situated, these smaller outlying jungle islands indicates that during the ice age times the jungle island of the Ringford Kingdom used to be much bigger that shrinks as these outlying smaller jungle islands are actually connected to the largest jungle island body or the main jungle island body of the Ringford Kingdom by its low lying flat plain areas that was flooded by the rising sea levels during the ice age period.
Climate[]
The Ringford Kingdom has a climate ranging from temperate to dry weather due to its close proximity with a desert region terrain of the ruins of the Valentine Kingdom, Ringford is abundant to constant rainfall and sometimes in a hot summer climate as the place is close to the center region of the continent.
Main Playable Character Visits[]
Book 1: The Valkyrie[]
Gwendolyn: Gwendolyn visits this place to retrieve the Ring of Titrel from the hands of the new Fairy Queen, Mercedes. She encounters Mercedes in her palace and battles her, eventually defeating the newly throned young queen.
Book 2: The Pooka Prince[]
Cornelius: Cornelius never visited this place in his perspective book story, the only time he visited this area is during the Armageddon event part of the main story plotline, where he has to battle the Darkova formed Ingway being under controlled by now revenant formed Beldor at the time.
Book 3: The Fairy Land[]
Mercedes: Ringford is the home to the Fairy Queen Mercedes, and such is the first area to explore even that Mercedes is forced to leave after the usurp of Melvin. Mercedes later battles Oswald in her castle, she proved to be victorious (even though Oswald is not at full strength at that time) and took back Ringford.
Book 4: The Black Sword[]
Oswald: This area serves as a base headquarters for Oswald, as he serves the ringford military under his foster father's command, oswald never visited this place in his gameplay for available battle scenario but rather only as a cutscene stories, as oswald has no hostility against fairies as he works for them, he would later leave this place after the death of his foster father from his failed launched revolution.
Book 5: Fate[]
Velvet: Velvet visited this place to retrieve the ring from the fairies when the cauldron was controlled by fairies after it was seized during the war.
Armageddon[]
Ringford was hit hard during the catastrophe event of the armageddon as it was mostly destroyed by darkova formed ingway while being under control by revenant formed beldor through his magic spell powers that can enslave a beast such the darkova, he was eventually challenged by cornelius which would be the one to set him free from the enslaving curse of the darkova spell power and wounding him greatly leading to his death.
Bosses, Enemies and Mandragoras[]
Boss: Unicorn Knight, fought two times in this place.
Enemies: Mostly the Vanir guarding this area, including the soldiers and the fairies.
Main Bosses: Mercedes and Oswald are both bosses fought here for Gwendolyn's story and Mercedes' story, respectfully.
Mandragoras: Onnione and Caroteer are the most frequently found Mandragoras here, but sometimes Habaneristo and Cusbane are found here as well.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Ringford could be based on Vanaheimr in Norse Mythology, the home for Vanirs between the nine worlds of Norse Mythology. In the game, 'Vanir' also refers to the Fairy Army led by Queen Elfaria.
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Continent/World
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Capitals
♦ Nebulapolis ♦ Ringford Palace ♦ Titanian Palace ♦ Valentine Palace ♦ Netherworld Shrine ♦ Inferno King's Shrine ♦ | |