The Battle Of Asgoria

The Battle of Asgoria is the first story under The Worlds Without Fortons category. It concerns Lord Emylus and his search for the one responsible for destroying his planet, yet on his way, he commits some violent and rather malevolent acts.

Plot
Lord Emylus is introduced some months after he overthrew his family. While he celebrates his new inherited power and abilities, his planet is suddenly firebombed by an extraterrestrial source. He realizes that the planet will become uninhabitable from the explosives and orders the evacuation of his armies.

Emylus traces the destructive forces to a planet and maneuvers his armies towards it. There, he discovers the planet is named Asgoria and the people inhabiting the world are primitively advanced and armed. Emylus allows his soldiers to decide their leader, between him and his closest relative Nekales. Nekales is quite concerned about Emylus' morality and tries to persuade him not to take his powers childishly. Emylus refuses and still manages to win the people's support, becoming their leader. Rather than immediately invade, he tries to send an ultimatum, believing the Asgorians too weak to fight.

In the far-off town of Kauni, a group of soldiers, the Kau Knights, organize a meeting with their leader, the Muzabul. They acknowledge Emylus, having sent many of their men to stall his advance, and decide to manipulate the political system so that they refuse the ultimatum; they are more worried about themselves than they are the Asgorian public but seek to make it up with their involvement in combat.

Creation
The story was originally envisioned as a fifth Doujat story that featured characters essentially directly based off of each of the characters from the previous Doujat stories, each having anglicized names. The story dealt with these characters originating from different worlds that are all destroyed, landing on the same world, the one which destroyed theirs, and being led to the man responsible for the destruction. Lord Emylus played a role similar to Gaius from Tales of Xillia; he helps the heroes defeat their enemy, The Muzabul, only to turn against them. The story also implemented The Massacre of Tatich as a method of showing Emylus' act of betrayal.

Rando intended to adapt the fifth Doujat at first into a film series named Fantasma. When he abandoned this concept, he considered a graphic novel, which also failed. Not willing to do a literary work, like The Story of Nothing had been adapted from a graphic novel into a book, he instead intended to abandon the work. Soon, he ended up reworking it, based on the characters The Muzabul and Lord Emylus. He sought to envision Emylus as a cruel character who only sought victory and personal justice.