The Kingdom of Lindsey

Former western kingdom

Lindsey was the western kingdom that once contained the Eterna Mountains. A long succession of corrupt monarchs had already left it close to collapse when the Gate appeared. The loss of Eterna under the Treaty of Hope therefore became a grievance for a fragile court that saw the range as lost territory and lost resources.

Victor and dissolution

Victor the Third rejected the treaty, led thirty thousand soldiers through the mountain passes, and ignored the Tower’s warning. His death in the attack created the First Transgression. Agabah and Helio then invaded from two fronts, defeated Lindsey’s depleted defences, and partitioned the realm. Lindsey ceased to exist as a kingdom.

Survivors and legacy

Elian Stewart, the common-born headmaster of the School, is a surviving Lindsey commoner. The vanished kingdom therefore remains part of the present story through its people and through the Tower’s location in its former territory. Volume II’s return to Eterna repeatedly shows that the treaty boundary created by Lindsey’s fall still governs the lives of everyone at the Tower.