Tripartite Alliance

Tripartite Alliance (三国の同盟関係) was a political coalition of three human nations in the New World in Mass for the Dead.

Background
In the aftermath of the appearances of the Cracks, their emergence brought forth disasters in the form of the Contaminated Beasts and the Chaos Beasts. In a new and terrifying world, the three humans nations: the Slane Theocracy, the Re-Estize Kingdom, and the Baharuth Empire, decided to join forces in order to ensure their peoples' survival against these new threats. At the first summit meeting, which was held after the upheaval, a trilateral alliance was formed after the three nations signed the Tripartite Agreement.

To cement their alliance, the three nations even chose to gather and share their resources together in order to help rebuild the city of E-Rantel. While so, making the fortress city their base of operations, as it laid in the central route of all three nations.

The Empire sent two members of the Four Imperial Knights, Nimble Arc Dale Anoch and Leinas Rockbruise and knights to shore up the city's defenses. Later relief provisions were shipped by the Theocracy with the aid of the Sunlight Scripture led by Ian Als Heim.

Mass for the Dead Arc
The state of world affairs has become pretty dire with the situation looking grim outside the three nations. So far rumors have it that the Dragon Kingdom and the Argland Council State were destroyed. Additionally, contact was lost with the Roble Holy Kingdom in the west due to the Chaos Beasts in the Abelion Hills. The Empire, however, has managed to contact the Karnassus City-State Alliance and are in the process of beginning negotiations. Before the second summit meeting of the Alliance could be held at E-Rantel, Princess Renner Theiere Chardelon Ryle Vaiself contracted Blue Roses and the protagonist in investigating a series of disappearances that could potentially undermine the safety of the meeting.

After the situation was under control, the meeting proceeded and representatives from all three nations met at a private venue. While the meeting started on cordial terms, with the Kingdom proposing to begin full investigations on the Chaos Beasts and Cracks. However, issues began to arise on the allocation of funds. Emperor Jircniv Rune Farlord El Nix accused that King Ramposa III of using the situation of the increase in profits from the city to bolster his own kingdom at the expense of the Alliance. Though the emperor did not wish for reimbursement. He demanded that the funds made in the city should go the Alliance and be divided based on contribution. He also went as far as to demand an implementation of a merit-based system. While his arguments were sound, King Ramposa feared that the who could not contribute, particularly the weak would be left behind and at the mercy of the strong.

At an impasse, the Bloody Emperor was willing to call of his proposal, if the Kingdom would contribute more manpower to the Alliance's forces. In order to prove that the Kingdom was capable of its strength, he suggested holding a mock battle between his escorts and the Kingdom's. The match was supervised by Enhela Read Gahi of the Slane Theocracy. Of the three matches, two of them were won by the Kingdom with the help of the protagonist. Gazef Stronoff and his allies. However the last battle was against Fluder Paradyne proved difficult, however, the match was halted after the representatives learned of a massive invasion force of Chaos Beasts were coming north of the city. The Alliance was saved from annihilation thanks to the protagonist and his friends. The Kingdom who had hired the adventurer, then used the momentum of this success to call for a large-scale investigation of the Chaos Beast force and where they originated. Gazef volunteered his Warrior Troop to accomplish this mission to locate the source of the threat.

Unfortunately Gazef and his warriors lose contact with the royal family in E-Rantel. The king fearing the worst, decided to sent out Blue Roses and the protagonist to find the missing warrior. The movements of the Kingdom are not unnoticed by the Bloody Emperor, and sees it as an opportunity to subvert the power of the Kingdom. Thus he orders his forces to increase their military presence in the fortress city, putting the balance of the Alliance in jeopardy.

The protagonist managed to rescue a contaminated Warrior Captain from the depths of a cave north of E-Rantel which was infested with Chaos Beasts in the underground caverns due to the Crack. Emperor Jircniv, continued to consolidate his forces at E-Rantel, not simply as a show of force, but also as a contingency against a resurgence of Chaos Beasts attacks from the new Crack. Due to outside interference, the cave network containing the Chaos Beasts collapsed, releasing the ten thousand monsters to the surface. The monsters then turned their attention to the closest human settlement. The Bloody Emperor having expected this outcome then marshaled several worker teams to lead majority of the beasts into a quarry at the pretense of holding them off until the imperial knights came. However the workers were sacrificed when the knights activated a trap called the Melting Pot that sent the workers and monsters to be dissolved in acid. Thousands of Chaos Beasts were killed, thinning the numbers for the Alliance.

At the front lines, the emperor led the Imperial Army to engage the horde. At his back were the Sunlight Scripture of the Theocracy and the Royal Army of the Kingdom. United under his military leadership the Alliance prevailed thanks mainly to the Empire due to the disciplined knights, leadership, specialized units and latest magical weaponry. All looked like the Baharuth Empire would be seen as the true master of humanity and seize the leadership of the Alliance. That is until an even greater army of Chaos Beasts rose from the cave network, at thirty thousand strong. Exhausted and outnumbered the Alliance realized that they had no chance to defeat this new threat. However the Alliance's forces was reach out to by an unlikely ally, the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth, offering them salvation.

Strength
The forces of the alliance is composed of the combined armed forces of the Kingdom, the Empire, and the Theocracy. So far the forces that are united in protecting the interests of the three nations include the Sunlight Scripture, the Four Imperial Knights, and the Warrior Troop.

Trivia

 * The citizens and refugees all situated in E-Rantel have mixed thoughts on the alliance, as it has placed the city's autonomy into question. In addition, while the Kingdom's residents have been accepting of the knights from the Empire, the presence of the Sunlight Scripture is another story. Most are aware of the group's reputation of destroying harmless demi-humans settlements and fear that they may spread their doctrine.
 * The forces of the Great Tomb of Nazarick are interested in strengthening the Alliance. Not out of benevolence but merely to use the gathering military forces in the city to distract the Chaos Beasts from attacking the dungeon. In fact they plan to subtly take control of all three nations in the Alliance.