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 Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:25 pm
All of the same rules alpy and don't quote the posts!retrived from wikipedia.org &http://www.animeindepth.com/series.php?series=1&page=22&mode=page
This our Map to Amestris 
Fullmetal Alchemist takes place on Earth starting in the early 1900's in a country called Amestris. Many different countries border this state and each is slightly different than the rest. Below is a world map and brief descriptions of the countries.
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This article is about the fictional country in the anime Fullmetal Alchemist. For information on the Persian queen, see Amestris.
Amestris is the nation-state that serves as the principal setting of the anime and manga series Fullmetal Alchemist. Culturally and technologically similar to World War I Europe, Amestris is quite large and diverse, both in terms of terrain and inhabitants. In the central and southern provinces the citizens seem to be of European extraction. The province of Ishbal in the East (annexed by Amestris 14 years earlier) is ethnically and culturally distinct from the rest of country; it is populated by religious-minded tribes similar to the people of India, North Africa or the Middle East.
A military dictatorship controls Amestris, with the head of state holding the official title of "Führer." King Bradley is the Führer throughout the series. It is unclear how long he has been in control of the country, but his term at least precedes the Ishbalan War. Amestris shares some parallels with Nazi Germany, especially considering the use of the title "Führer" as its leader and the human experiments during the Ishbalan War, paralleling the human experiments of the Nazis during World War II.
Due to Amestris's many aggressive militaristic acts, it has shaky relations with most of its bordering countries. The country conquered and annexed the former country of Ishbal in the East, and the military is constantly engaged in border-clashes with Creta in the West and Aerugo in the South. Drachma, Amestris' neighbor in the north, has recently signed a non-aggression pact with Amestris after having border wars between the two countries, but diplomatic relations remain shaky--Amestris's government still considers Drachma to be populated by "barbarians." However, the two countries are separated by the Briggs Mountain Range, which aids in hindering another full-scale engagement. Far to the east, beyond Ishbal and the Great Desert, lies the country of Xing. Xing is ruled by an imperial government, and its people use alchemy strictly for medical purposes. At the moment, there have been no mentions of conflict between Xing and Amestris.
This would imply that Amestris is a land-locked nation, as it seems to be bordered completely by other countries (Creta, Aerugo, Drachma, and Xing). It is currently unknown what lies beyond the nations of Creta, Aeurgo, Drachma, and Xing, whether that's all there is to the continent or if there are more countries out there. Whether there are oceans or not is also unknown, though there do appear to be rivers and such, which would imply that there are oceans somewhere. As well, it is unknown if there are separate land-masses (continents) beyond the one that the current countries are on.
The name Amestris was believed to have come from the name of the Persian Queen, who was the wife of King of Kings Xerxes I of Persia. In the manga, Xerxes is the name of the country which had been destroyed in one night because of alchemy. Its ruin are in the east, in the Great Desert. What relationship it shares with the country of Amestris is still unknown.
In the anime, the country's name is deliberately kept obscure; Amestris is simply referred to as "the State." Also, it is shown near the end of the anime that the world of Amestris is a parallel world to Earth, a theme played on in the movie.
[edit] Notable Locations
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Central
Built on the site of an ancient city that vanished centuries ago, Central is the seat of government in Amestris. The National Library, Central Headquarters, and Laboratory 5 are all located in Central.
East City
Located in a backwater region near the desert, East City was the home base of Colonel Mustang and his entire outfit for most of the early portions of the anime. It's reasonably close to Lior, Resembool, and Marcoh's hometown, making it a sort of central hub for some of Ed and Al's early adventures.
Ishbal
Officially conquered and annexed by Amestris several years ago, Ishbal was the focal point of the Eastern Rebellion. Almost the entire region was wiped out by war, and the passing lives of its people were harnessed for the production of a Philosopher's Stone.
Lior
The desert city of Lior is home to a unique ethnic group who, like the Ishbalans, hold religion in high regard. They were formerly under the control of Father Cornello, the so-called "Prophet", but he was deposed by the Elric brothers, leading to a period of civil war that nearly destroyed the entire city. In the anime, it is the site where the Philosopher's Stone that resided in Al's body was forged by Scar.
Resembool
This far-flung town is the home of the Elrics, and a great deal of important events happened here. In Episode 43, The Stray Dog, hints of a forgotten past can be seen by the river said to have once brought life from Central into the town. (The rubble of what appears to have been a large stone building forms the stream's banks.)
Xenotime (Note: Only appears in the anime and novel Land of Sand)
Xenotime was once known as the "City of Gold", due to its rich deposits of said element. They sold their wares far and wide, gaining great wealth, but when the gold was exhausted, the town fell into disrepair. The land-baron Mugwar attempted to use the toxic Red Water hidden in the mines to forge Red Stones, so that he could transmute gold and return the city to its former glory. However, the Elric Brothers caught on to him and, together with the sons of alchemist Nash Tringum, stopped his plan.
New Hiessgart (manga only)
A city founded and governed by Professor Wilhelm Eiselstein, a member of the Ten Alchemists, when Hiessgart was overrun by chimeras. The city is relatively new and lies somewhere between Resembool and Central City. It appears only in the first video game, Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel, where it acts as the story's primary setting.
Siam-Sid (manga only)
Once a gleaming metropolis, the former capital of Lebis is now little more than ruins. Long ago, the king of Lebis attempted to create the perfect human being, unleashing an untold horror which destroyed the entire civilization in a single night. The city and the fate of its residents is often referenced in the anime, but is only directly dealt with in the second video game, Curse of the Crimson Elixir.
The Underground City
An old city that once stood on the site of what is now Central City. Four centuries ago, Hohenheim used the city's entire population to create a Philosopher's Stone, and pulled the city itself beneath the earth to keep the deed a secret, as well as perpetuate the myth. Dante used the city as her headquarters to create new stones. In the manga, it is a massive underground complex where the mysterious "Father" lives.
Xerxes (manga only)
Though not much detail is known, it was a city east of Ishbal that was destroyed long ago. As the manga depicted, the entire civilization was destroyed in a single night, with its entire population sacrificed to create the Philosopher's Stone, which was in turn used to create Envy.
[edit] Flags
Flag of Amestris
Flag of Amestris' military governmentThe official flag of Amestris is green with the symbol of a rampant white dragon. It appears twice in the course of the anime: one flag was draped over Brigadier General Mäes Hughes' coffin, and another flag was shown being torn apart by an angry mob of Ishbalans.
Appearing more frequently is the flag of the military government: a yellow-bordered green gonfalon with the same dragon symbol. It can often be seen hanging from the façades of government buildings, most notably on the several regional military headquarters.
The dragon symbol also appears on the uniform of the State Military as a lapel insignia on the right collar. The person's rank is displayed after it. Also, the cover of the pocket watches carried by state alchemists, used to amplify their transmutations, has the gonfalon on its face.
>Creata, Drachma and Areugo
Creata lies to the west and Areugo to the south. Not much is known about these countries other than the fact that they have border skirmishes quite frequently with the Amestrian Military. Drachma lies to the north and is seperated from Amestris by the Briggs mountain range. Drachma has signed a non-agression pact with Amestris but who knows how long that will last?
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:27 pm
Ishbal
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The Ishbalan Civil WarIshbal is a fictional region in the world of Fullmetal Alchemist. Due to a mistranslation in early fan releases of the anime, it is commonly spelled "Ishbal", however, the correct spelling is Ishval (translated from イシュヴァール). The mistranslation was carried over to the English releases, where it is called "Ishvar".
It is to the east of Central and seems to have been in existence for several hundred years. Ishbal has been isolated from the rest of the world for decades, so it has no industrialized society. It was recently attacked and annexed by the country of Amestris, much to the dismay of its inhabitants. Because of this attack, the once prosperous land of Ishbal has been reduced to ruins and a barren desert.
Contents [hide]
1 Locals
2 The Ishbal Massacre
3 The Philosopher's Stone
4 The Future of Ishbal
[edit] Locals
An Ishbalan holy man and Scar's teacher, in "The Sinner Within"Natives of Ishbal are characterized by their brown skin and red eyes. They are a deeply religious people who reject alchemy (which they call "The Grand Arcanum") as a sin against their god, Ishbala. Ishbalans also despise the military of Amestris, most outsiders and exiles, or Ishbalans who were banished because they practiced alchemy. They are often assumed to be based on the Islamic religion, however the movie strongly disproves this by placing them as Romas and not at all Islamic. Natives of Ishbal include Scar and several others.
[edit] The Ishbal Massacre
The Ishbal War began around the year 1900 when a special ops team from Ametris infiltrated the city and killed several locals. The people of Ishbal revolted and the Amestrisian military began a full scale assault on the region. According to Dr. Marcoh’s accounts, the resulting wave of violence "lasted seven years, until the Führer had had enough". Tired of the endless conflict in the region, King Bradley ordered a brigade of State Alchemists, led by then-Colonel Basque Grand, into Ishbal to end the war once and for all. After a futile attempt at defending their homeland, the surviving Ishbalans fled, only to be attacked by State Alchemists such as Grand and Zolf Kimblee. The remaining refugees were rounded up and relocated to concentration camps.
In the manga, the war begins after a child is shot by Envy, disguised as an Amestrisian soldier. A rebellion began, and Amestris sent in the military to put it down. Although the Amestrisian military was superior to the Ishbalan rebellion's forces, the rebels held out quite well against the military, killing many Amestrisian soldiers. It was decided that the powerful State Alchemists were to be used, and they were dispatched to the region. The Ishbalan annihilation campaign began, using the Alchemists as a key tool in murdering Ishbalan civilians as well as ending the rebellion. Although the leader of the Rebellion attempted to make a truce with the Führer by sacrificing himself in return for the sparing of the remaining Ishbalans, the Führer did not comply and continued the campaign, demonstrating that the war had escalated into a full-scale genocide, akin to that of the Holocaust.
[edit] The Philosopher's Stone
After being cast out as an exile for using alchemy, Scar's brother returned during the war and offered to create a Philosopher's Stone that could be used to drive out the invaders. He turned himself into a living transmutation circle and absorbed the souls of all the Ishbalans who died in the war to create the Stone. During the Ishbalans' flight, Scar was fatally wounded by Kimblee but was saved by his brother, who gave him his own right arm and all the souls he had absorbed. In the anime, Scar continued his brother's work on the Stone and after several years of research, created one in Lior by sacrifing his own life and the lives of 7,000 Amestrisian soldiers.
In the manga Ishbal makes no Philosopher Stone, Amestris uses them to make the first Philosopher's stone which they gave to Kimblee. Scar's Brother never tries to make one.
[edit] The Future of Ishbal
Relations between Ishbal and Amestris improve in the anime. In the final episode of Fullmetal Alchemist, it was revealed that the new assembly of Amestris had decided to stop the war against Ishbal and help them rebuild on their old land.
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:28 pm
Lab 5
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Lab 5, or Laboratory Five is a fictional laboratory from the series Fullmetal Alchemist.
Contents [hide]
1 Uses
2 Laboratory Rats
3 The Ishbal War
4 List of People Involved
5 Other
[edit] Uses
In Central, Laboratory Five was headed by Colonel Basque Grand (was promoted to Brigadier General after the Ishbalan Civil War). The experiments in it were chimeras and the Philosopher's Stone. Laboratory Five was used to make chimeras that were half-human, half-beast; in the anime series these included Martel, Dorchet, Roa, and Shou Tucker. However, in the manga, we are not told which lab exactly Greed freed the former three from, and Tucker is killed by Scar rather than "executed" by the military. The "defunct" Laboratory Five was also a holding place for the Homonculi's experiments. It was guarded by supposedly executed criminals such as The Slicer Brothers (#4 ( 8 ), and Barry the Chopper (#66).
[edit] Laboratory Rats
In the anime, the members of Martel's Covert Ops team were taken captive by the military after the outbreak of the Ishbal War and turned into "BeastMen" chimeras. The statement of their being "lab rats", is actually a quote from Martel in the english anime as she stated "those of us who lived, became the rats of Lab 5".
[edit] The Ishbal War
Laboratory Five had numerous functions for the Ishbal War. For one thing, it provided the Philosopher Stones used by Basque Grand, Roy Mustang, Zolf J. Kimblee, and Alex Louis Armstrong used to "massacre" the Ishbalans.
[edit] List of People Involved
Basque Grand
Tim Marcoh
The Slicer Bros. (#48 & #49)
Barry the Chopper (#66)
Martel
Roa
Dorochet
Bido
Greed
Lust
Gluttony
Envy
King Bradley (pride)
Scar
Ed Elric
Al Elric
In the Anime Only
Shou Tucker
Dante
Zolf J. Kimbley
King Bradley (Pride)
Juliet Douglas (Sloth)
Nash Tringham
[edit] Other
Laboratory Five has an unexplained connection with the Second Execution Ground. As Archer was assigned to clear up Lab 5, he gave Sheska a mission and stated "I need all the records pertaining to Brigadier General Grand, Dr. Marcoh, and Shou Tucker. And be sure to include and documents regarding Laboratory Five or the Second Execution Ground". By the execution ground, he probably meant the 2nd Prison, which was supposedly used to "execute" people, but then use them as ingredients for the Homonculi's experiments to create the Philosopher's Stone.
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:29 pm
Lior (Fullmetal Alchemist)
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Leto, the Solar God of LiorLior (spelled "Liore" in a scene in the English dub of Conqueror of Shamballa) is a fictional city of Fullmetal Alchemist, on the East border of Amestris, the central country of Fullmetal Alchemist.
One of the first places visited by the Elric brothers in their quest for the Philosopher's Stone, Lior is located in the middle of a desert, making it only of moderate importance and minor economic strength. The State Military's lack of oversight in Lior, combined with the strong religious sense of the citizens (in this sense Lior is similar to Ishbal), made it possible for an ambitious man named Father Cornello to institute a sort of theocratic government with himself as the unquestioned ruler. Fashioning himself as a prophet of Leto, the solar god of Lior, and as a miracle worker, Cornello promised riches and everlasting life, even resurrection of dead loved ones, for those who followed him. Though the people of Lior believed he could truly perform miracles, Cornello was merely performing alchemy, using a small Red Stone, mounted on a ring he wore, to violate the Law of Equivalent Exchange. This attracted the attention of the Elric brothers when they visited Lior, as they initially thought what he has on his ring was just what they were looking for.
Another notable inhabitant of Lior is Rosé Thomas, a follower of Cornello until Edward showed her the truth and deposed Cornello from his seat of power. Rosé went on to assume a more active role in the small Lior society, leading the people after Cornello's fall from grace and through the civil conflict that consumed the city in its wake.
Lior has little importance in the manga, and has not been mentioned very much after the very first story arc, which dealt with the downfall of Cornello.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Scar taking on the role of Priest of the "new" religionThough Alphonse and Ed believed they had managed to overthrow Cornello's theocratic regime and free the city, the two brothers had no idea until much later that in many ways they only made things worse. When Lust, the homunculus who had originally given Cornello the incomplete Philosopher's stone he wielded, learned of Cornello's failure, she refused to equip him again with a Red Stone and allowed Gluttony to eat him. Envy, a shapeshifting homunculus, impersonated Cornello and took his place, claiming that the Cornello that had just been deposed was an impostor and that he was the true prophet. Cornello's followers were now divided. Some, like Rosé, refused to believe that God's purpose for humans was to turn them into an army of fanatics. Others believed in the false Cornello, remaining loyal to him. Civil war engulfed the city.
The State Military was dispatched to Lior to stop the infighting. The two factions briefly re-united in the face of a common enemy, only to suffer major devastation and suffering at the hands of the Amestris military. The military captured as the supposed ringleader of the rebellion, Rosé, imprisoning and raping her for almost a year. When they released her, not only had she borne a child (presumably of the rape), but the atrocities had rendered her only a mute shell of the woman who she was before.
Then Lior was noticed by Dante, who wanted to use the conflict in Lior to create the Philosopher's Stone, much as Ishbal was used to try to create a Stone. Now in the body of a young alchemist named Lyra, Dante befriended and to some extent protected Rosé and her child. She then used Scar to win the citizens to himself, using the alchemical powers of his right arm to perform "miracles" in the public plaza, just as Cornello had done before. He managed to convince people that he derived his power from Rosé, now called the Holy Mother, herself. Having gained the trust of Lior's citizens, Scar dug a massive transmutation circle through the whole city - a special array from the Grand Arcanum, an ancient form of alchemy secretly passed down among the Ishbalans for generations.
The array used in Lior to transmute a true Philosopher's StoneLior once again gained the attention of the military, and this time, Ed was sent in to the city to investigate, based on reports that Scar was in the city. Photos taken from the military's new hot-air surveillance balloon showed Scar's massive transmutation circle, which Ed recognized immediately as an array used to create the Philosopher's Stone. When Ed arrived, he confronted Scar and demanded he destroy the array, expecting that Scar planned to use Lior's inhabitants as components for the Stone. Scar revealed that his plans did not involve using the citizens as components, but rather the soldiers currently surrounding the city. He gave the people strict instructions to not retaliate to anything the military did, thus forcing the military to come in of their own accord, so that the military would not be able to blame the Liorites for starting the conflict. Then, once the military was inside the city, the citizens were to evacuate the city via a secret escape tunnel. The military, led by Colonel Frank Archer, marched right into Scar's trap, intending to capture Scar, annihilate the population, and bring the city to the ground.
When the military arrived, Scar activated the Grand Arcanum circle, wiping out almost the entire military contingent. The deaths, along with the numerous souls already trapped in Scar's right arm, were enough to complete the creation of the Philosopher's Stone, though it was not quite how Scar envisioned it. He had sacrificed his Right Arm of Destruction to stabilize Al's metal body, which the Crimson Alchemist had turned into a bomb. Al's body, therefore, became the focus for the souls engulfed by Scar's transmutation, and the Philosopher's Stone was created inside Al's body. Lior was all but wiped from existence in the process of creating the Stone.
After the death of Führer King Bradley and the restoration of democracy, the refugees from Lior are able to safely return to rebuild their city. With Cornello long gone and Rosé living as a normal and happy woman at Winry's home in Risembool, Lior is on the road to restoration, with help from Major Armstrong.
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