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Ars Barka (14 years before Garrod's calendar-?????)

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　Barka is a Dorien word meaning "frontier" or "backwater.

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　It was named by Paul (later Pope Paul), who was then a priest in the church of the village of Barca.

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　Because of this name, many dramas such as "Ars of the Frontier" have been written.

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　Ars Barca was born in the village of Barca, Fontana in the Kingdom of Dorém, and became a king after many achievements and successes in life, and was later deified.

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　He is currently worshipped as a second-degree deity of the Church of the Holy Light, or as the chief deity of the Balkan deities.

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　He is also a confirmed and living god.

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　He is the god of fertility and destruction, and is also known as the god of architecture, the arts, and learning.

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Life

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Boyhood

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　Born in the village of Barca, Fontana in the Kingdom of Doren, the third child of father Assyra and mother Marie.

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　He was known as a precocious child prodigy, and there is a story that he was already working as a farmer at the age of three.

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　According to "The Life of Ars Varka, King of the Sky" written by Lilina, he created his own magic at the age of five.

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　In addition, the "Manual for the Training of Soldiers in the Army of Barca" and the "Instructions for Improving Magic" suggest that he had already established methods for improving the quantity and quality of his magical power and for creating magic at an early age.

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The period when he was the head of the Knight family

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　When Ars was 9 years old, a battle broke out with the Fontana family who ruled the village of Barca.

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　There are various theories as to the cause, but it is believed that Ars had already taken control of the land in Barca a few years earlier, and that this was a struggle for the right to rule the village.

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　In this "Barca uprising", he defeated Raymond von Barbaros, the Fontana vizier at that time, who led the Fontana army.

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　This battle earned him a knighthood, an unprecedented honor even at that time, from Carlos de Fontana, the head of the Fontana family, who recognized his talent.

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　This led to the founding of the knightly house of Barca, which ruled the village of Barca and the village of Linda to the southwest of Barca.

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　Knight Ars then established a good relationship with Carlos de Fontana and married his half-sister Lilina.

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　After that he participated in many wars as a knight of Fontana.

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　The battles that are highly evaluated even in later times, such as the Battle of Einrad's Hill, the water invasion of the Palamea Water Fortress, and the Siege of the Black Flame, were fought during this period.

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Independence of Fontana

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　In 2 BCE, Carlos, the head of the Fontana family, was assassinated along with King Dorren.

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　This was the occasion for Ars, who was only a knight at the time, to succeed in taking control of the House of Fontana.

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　He protects Garrod, Carlos's illegitimate son who became the head of the House of Fontana after his death, and makes efforts as a guardian of him.

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　Two years after his guardianship, the House of Fontana became completely independent from the Royal House of Doren and became the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　At that time, Ars was appointed Prime Minister and Grand General of the House of Fontana.

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　The House of Barca was recognized as a noble family by the King of Fontana, and was given the title of Marquis of the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　Ars, who had seized the real power of the Kingdom of Fontana, continued to focus on the annexation of the neighboring powers.

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　He was called "General Winter" because he often moved his army during the winter season, when battles were not usually fought.

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　The most famous battles around this period were the raid on the Labyrinthine City in Percival's territory as a battle of mourning for the founder king Carlos, and the invasion of the three noble families in the south, Lubitsch, Hermes, and Bautica.

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　It was also during this period that the military reform of the Fontana army took place.

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　At that time, the army was mainly composed of nobles and knights fighting with peasants, but the Fontana army boasted unparalleled strength by dividing its soldiers into various branches such as engineers, cavalry, correspondents, scouts, and medics, and by using these branches in a mobile manner.

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　This military reform had a great impact on the subsequent military history, and it is said that there is no current military that has not been influenced by it.

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　The siege-and-destruction tactics often used by Ars and his brother, Kyle Reed, are regarded as a high military art form.

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　Other notable inventions that emerged during this period include

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　These include the Barka Bank (later to become the World Bank), the world's first large-scale bank, and the Garud calendar, which provided an accurate calendar or time of day.

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　The expedition to the east took place in the second or third year of the Garod calendar.

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　He achieved the feat of reaching the eastern world by stepping over the Great Snow Mountain (or Mt. Reiyo), and succeeded in establishing trade relations with the Bryllian Magus State.

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　This was a great influence on the subsequent history of the world, as it established a link between the West and the East, which had not been in contact with each other at that time.

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The period of the Divine Realm

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　In the 3rd year of the Garod calendar, he defeated the divine enemy Naja.

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　Naja used the great magic of the royal house of Doren [Light of Judgment] to take possession of numerous noble domains, and even annihilated the Holy City, the headquarters of the Church of the Holy Light.

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　Naja's action also resurrected the Immortal King, who had been sealed in the Holy City, and his defeat of both of them established the subsequent relationship between the divine world and Ars.

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　Paul became Pope after this incident, and Ars became the shield of God.

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　Ars, the shield of God, created the heavenly world based on the knowledge he gained from God in the divine world.

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　As a result, Vulcania, the old village of Vulca and the capital of Vulcanian territory, was transformed into a celestial city.

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　In the 4th year of the Garud calendar, he and Kyle engaged in a war to acquire territory over a wide area centered on the site of the Holy City.

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　At that time, the site of the Holy City was also moved to the sky and turned into a sky cemetery.

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　In the following five years, he destroyed the Reinsatz family, which had been the dominant aristocracy, and led the Kingdom of Fontana to a further breakthrough.

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　For this achievement, he was given the one-time-only title of King of the Sky, comparable to King Doren, by the Fontana royal family.

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　With this title, he became the king of the Kingdom of the Sky, which covers the celestial world of Vulcania and the Celestial Cemetery.

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Deification

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　After becoming the King of the Sky, Ars made a complete turnaround from his previous activities and appeared less frequently on the stage.

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　This is due to the fact that the Kingdom of the Sky has been closed off from the rest of the world.

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　Most of the transfer magic circles in the Kingdom of the Sky were removed, and the only place to communicate with the outside world was at the Dejima Island, which was built separately from Vulcania.

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　Only magic airships could travel from the island to Vulcania or the Cemetery of the Sky, and entry was subject to strict inspections.

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　Afterwards, the Bank of Vulcania was dedicated to the Church of the Holy Light.

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　The priestesses of God, Ai, were assigned to the churches scattered throughout the country, and the churches took charge of the banking business.

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　Because of this achievement, the Church of the Holy Light recognized the Sky King Ars as one of the gods and ranked him as a second level god after the Lord God.

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　In later years, Alphonse Barca, the last of the Barca brothers who had studied in the Magical Kingdom of Brillia, founded the Barca Nation by taking over the Orient Nation that existed in the Minor Nations.

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　When the Barca State annexed the minor states and came into conflict with the Church, it introduced as its new state religion the Barca theocracy that had prevailed in the Valiant region.

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　This Balkan deism worshipped Ars as its chief deity.

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　In addition, due to Alphonse's expansionist policy, Barca became the Barca Empire and included most of the eastern world, including Bryria, and later invaded the United Kingdom of Fontana by building a long tunnel under the Great Snowy Mountains.

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　As a result, the United Kingdom of Fontana was destroyed and the Barca Empire reached its peak.

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　Due to the influence of the Balkan Empire, the Balkan theocracy now has more followers than the Church of the Holy Light, and the order of the gods is often disputed.

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Personality and Evaluation

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　Ars has fought in many battles since his childhood and has never lost a single battle.

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　He was also good at siege and annihilation warfare, and his opponents were always defeated severely, and the number of casualties was enormous.

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　For this reason, he is sometimes described as a harsh character in the stories of later generations.

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　However, in terms of politics, he is also regarded as a very stable ruler.

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　In particular, his countermeasures against the great earthquake that hit the Kingdom of Dorren are the basis of today's disaster countermeasure laws.

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　For this reason, he is sometimes described as a very compassionate person.

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　He is also famous for his constant respect for his master Carlos, who recognized him despite his power, and whom he had installed.

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　For this reason, Ars as a knight is sometimes described as the epitome of a knight.

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　It is also said that Carlos, who recognized and promoted Ars's talent, is the reason why Ars is highly regarded as a great ruler.

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　In terms of world history, the world changed before and after the birth of Ars.

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　In particular, the successful expedition to the East, which brought the magic of Ars to the East, caused a population explosion.

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　Therefore, the birth of Ars is sometimes called a turning point in history.

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　It also had a great impact on the expansion of the sphere of human existence, which until then had been largely unexplored.

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　It is said that a map of the world was completed in the early stages of the formation of the Celestial Kingdom, and it is said that the entire surface of this planet became within the grasp of Ars.

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Anecdotes

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　Ars is famous for being a very loving wife.

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　He has been giving poems to his wife, Lilina, since the beginning of their marriage, and his collection of poems is huge.

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　Some of his poems donated to the Balkan Empire alone fill three libraries.

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　Ars Valka, the god of fertility and destruction, is always accompanied by Kaiser Valkyrie, the god of knowledge and ice.

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　This Kaiser Valkyrie is a messenger beast born from the magic of Ars, and is the ancestor of the Valkyries.

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　The Valka Empire achieved its supremacy through the use of these Valkyries.

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　However, during the reign of the 33rd emperor, most of the Valkyries on the earth were killed by Granada, the messenger beast of Catherine, a princess descended from the old Ladar nation, which was destroyed by the Valka Empire, and the power of the Valka Empire was drastically reduced, leading to the collapse of the Empire.

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　In later years, when the explorer Vibrio asked about the Granada incident when he had an audience with Ars, he replied, "It was a nasty incident.

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Appearances

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"The Life of Ars Barca, King of the Sky," by Lilina, 31.

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"Ars on the Frontier" by Priant Pixie, 551.

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"The King and God of the Sky" by Gandharb, 1894

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"The Tale of the Rise of Barca" by Handelsen, 1998.

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"History of the Founding of Fontana" by Graham Illis, 2133.

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　And many more.

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