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The '''Aed Desert''' (Japanese: {{hl|イード砂漠|Īdo sabaku}} ''Yied Desert'') is a desert covering the center-east of [[Jugdral]]. It is bordered by [[Grannvale]] to the east, [[Isaach]] and [[Silesse]] to the north, and the [[Munster District]] and [[Miletos]] to the south. Largely inhospitable and harboring only a small few settlements, for centuries it was the primary haunt of the exiled [[Loptr Church]], making it exceptionally dangerous to travel through.

Following the [[Loptrian Empire]]'s downfall, the [[Loptr Church]] and other prominent former members of the Empire retreated into hiding within the Aed Shrine, living there for centuries to avoid persecution; [[Lewyn]] theorized that this trapped experience came to corrupt their descendants who would otherwise have been normal people.<ref>{{Cite|For ages, descendants of the Loptrian Empire lived in hiding underneath the shrine. They had no choice. They would've been persecuted and burned at the stake otherwise. I doubt they differed much from you or I at first, but over time the ways of evil took root.|[[Lewyn]]|Genealogy of the Holy War}}</ref>. For most of their existince in hiding in the Shrine, the Loptrians kept their presence a secret.

In Grann 760, the Aed Desert experienced two prominent skirmishes. The armies of [[Grannvale]] marched on the western region of the desert and occupied the city of Phinora in their efforts to close in on [[Silesse]] to arrest the fugitive [[Sigurd]]; while the armies of [[Lombard]] and [[Andrey]] set up in Silesse's Lubeck Castle, a [[Velthomer]] army led by [[Vaha]] occupied Phinora as a base of operations, with [[Meteor]] wielding Velthomer mages posted atop the desert's cliffs to bombard Sigurd's army as they passed. Sigurd's army successfully defeated Vaha's forces, liberated Phinora and continued on to Grannvale itself. Meanwhile, in the desert's south, Prince [[Quan]] of [[Leonster]], his wife [[Ethlyn]], daughter [[Altena]] and a group of Leonster's [[Lanceritter]] knights marched toward the north, seeking to reinforce Sigurd; however on their way through the desert, they were ambushed by a detachment of [[Thracia]]'s army led by [[Travant]] and assaulted, an event known as the [[Aed Massacre]]. Hindered by the desert sands, Quan's group was quickly slaughtered, leaving behind only Altena, who was adopted and taken away by Travant.

In the aftermath of the [[Battle of Belhalla]] and the ascension of [[Arvis]] to the Grannvale throne, the Loptrian inhabitants of the Aed Shrine began to emerge and unofficially had full rein of the entire desert itself. Loptrian mages took to wandering the desert, preying on innocent travellers, leading to numerous disappearances;<ref>{{Cite|That's right. And with the Aed Shrine falling under Loptrian jurisdiction, the desert is crawling with dark mages who'll attack without any provocation.

It's no wonder people now refer to the Aed Desert as the desert of death.|[[Lewyn]]|Genealogy of the Holy War}}</ref> One of their presumed victims was [[Lachesis]] of [[Nordion]], who disappeared after departing the [[Munster District]] to find her son [[Diarmuid]] in [[Isaach]]; her route would have taken her through the Aed Desert, making this her most likely fate according to Diarmuid.<ref>{{Cite|'''Nanna:''' She left me when I was around 3 to meet up with you in Isaach, but she never came back. I've waited for her to come home ever since...<br>'''Diarmuid:''' Mother came for me? But... but I never saw her!<br>'''Nanna:''' Oh, no! What could've happened to her...<br>'''Diarmuid:''' Well, first of all the Aed Desert is no place for anyone to be traveling alone.<br>'''Nanna:'''Oh, no... Poor mother!|[[Nanna]] and [[Diarmuid]]|Genealogy of the Holy War}}</ref>

In Grann 777, the Isaach liberation army led by [[Seliph]] crossed the eastern region of the Aed Desert en route to the [[Munster District]] to provide reinforcements for Seliph's cousin [[Leif]]; at the same time, Isaach's Prince [[Shannan]] and the thief [[Patty]]/[[Daisy]] were fighting at the Aed Shrine after stealing the [[Balmung]], Shannan's birthright, back from it. Seliph's group joined up with Shannan and cleared out the Loptrian occupation of the Aed Shrine, then moved on to fighting at Darna and Fort Melgen.

===Darna===

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Darna is a fortress city, considered a sacred site to the people of [[Grannvale]] as the place where the [[Miracle of Darna]] occurred during the era of the Loptrian Empire.

The Aed Shrine is a temple in the desert's north-east which has long housed the [[Loptr Church]] in hiding from the downfall of the [[Loptrian Empire]]; every known Loptrian active in Jugdral presumably grew up in the Shrine. In the aftermath of the [[Grannvale]]-[[Isaach]] war, the divine blade of Isaach, [[Balmung]], was hidden in the treasury of the Aed Shrine as a trophy. It is theorized by [[August]] that the Aed Shrine is also used to house the [[Stone (tome)|petrified]] victims of [[Veld]] and other Loptrians wielding the Stone spell, and that these captives may include survivors from the [[Battle of Belhalla]].<ref>{{Cite|I have heard rumors of a secret Loptrian temple underground in the Aed Desert. They say that the statues of various warriors are kept there. I have even heard that the statues include the captives of the fight in Belhalla from a decade ago.|[[August]]|Thracia 776}}</ref>

A city located in the north-west of the Aed Desert. It was used by the [[Velthomer]] army under [[Vaha]] as a staging point in their fight against Sigurd.

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The Aed Desert is present in two chapters of {{FE4}}: its western half is part of [[Doorway to Destiny|Chapter 5]] as Sigurd's army crosses it to return to [[Grannvale]], and the eastern half comprises the bulk of [[Beyond the Desert|Chapter 7]], depicting Seliph's army's liberation of the Aed Shrine and quest to reach [[Leonster]].

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== Etymology and other languages ==

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|jap-mean=Officially romanized as '''Yied Desert'''. From ''[[wikipedia:Aed (god)|Aed]]'', the Irish god of the underworld.

== Gallery ==

File:Cm fe04 5.png|The western Aed Desert, plus parts of Silesse and Grannvale, as depicted in [[Doorway to Destiny|Chapter 5]] of {{title|Genealogy of the Holy War}}.

File:Cm fe04 7.png|The eastern Aed Desert, plus parts of the [[Munster District]], as depicted in [[Beyond the Desert|Chapter 7]] of {{title|Genealogy of the Holy War}}.