Description[]
The Sun Moon Empire is an empire that ruled in the Sun Moon Continent. It was a nation that was devoted to soul tool development. Within the Sun Moon Empire, the soul engineer occupation was more prestigious than being just a soul master.
Sun Moon Empire contains plenty of mineral deposits from the Jing Yang Mountain Range and is proficient in creating Spirit Guidance Weapons. There are many precious metals on the Sun Moon Continent. It is with these precious metals that they can create Spirit Guidance Devices of the best quality. It is also here and the Evildemon Forest where hey also hunt the spirit beasts for their soul rings.
The number one spirit guidance academy is in the Sun Moon Empire. It is called the Sun Moon Royal Spirit Guidance Master Academy. The mounted spirit guidance device was originally invented by them. It's most prodigious members go on to research in the Illustrious Virtue Hall to contribute their most developments to the nation's technological advancement.
Their predominant national church for a small time period was the Holy Ghost Church, with the two Limit Douluos, Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui, held the positions of Imperial Tutor for the emperor.
History[]
Several thousands of years ago, following its integration into the Douluo Continent, there were major wars that took place which resulted in the three great Empires of the Douluo Continent combining forces to defeat the Sun Moon Continent, but the three other empires also suffered great losses. Following its defeat, the Sun Moon Empire was heavily monitored and their army forces are restricted.
In the last several generations coming before the events of Soul Land 2, the royal family had been undergoing a turbulent period where families would fight amongst themselves for power. The first known ruler was He Caitou's grandfather, and later passed it to his father.[1] Back when his father was still the crown prince, his younger brother had always tried to snatch the throne away from him. However, his grandfather knew about uncle’s vicious nature, and knew that giving him the throne would have only brought trouble to the country. Even though his uncle’s talent far surpassed that of his father’s in every field, his grandfather still decided to deny him the throne. Right before his death, his grandfather told his father to completely strip away his uncle’s power—only then would their country remain peaceful. However, his father was too kind-hearted; he couldn’t bear to take away his younger brother’s power. Therefore, he didn’t fulfill grandfather’s last wish, and thus left behind the root of all of the troubles that followed.
Six years prior to the main events, when Caitou's father was in the prime of his life, he suddenly died in the middle of the night. His mother and three unmarried elder sisters also died that same night. Later that same night, his uncle led the army and barged into the capital. Later, it was found out that his father, mother, and elder sister’s food had all been poisoned. Everything changed from that night on. He Caitou still remember that terrifying figure entering the imperial palace and murdering everyone. He was only able to survive because his mother shoved him into a secret passage.
After, his uncle sent some out some people to find and kill him once they they failed to discover his body. At the same time, his uncle declared to the country that our entire family had died from food poisoning. He then took advantage of the situation and killed all of the subordinates and servants in the palace that were still loyal to his father, and then buried them with him. After this great purge, and due to the fact that he was the sole remaining heir to the empire, he began to rule over the country with an iron fist.
At the time, the uncle already had some of his own children, including Xu Tianran and Xu Tianzhen. When he was a small child, his younger brother, the Second Prince, plotted an assassination on Xu Tianran. Ju Zi met Xu Tianran after her parents died and she became a vagabond. Xu Tianran wasn’t crippled back then. When Xu Tianran was ambushed, Ju Zi took two stabs in her back to protect him, and was almost killed.[2] After Xu Tianran returned, he erupted in fury after enduring for a while. He had captured the Second Prince and his charges in one fell swoop. No one knew how Xu Tianran managed to track him down, but this brother of his was cut to pieces in his own palace. That entire palace was washed with blood, and Xu Tianran reaffirmed his position as the Crown Prince even though he was disabled. This showed how frightening Xu Tianran was.[3] Although it was a huge blow to Xu Tianran, Ju Zi became his confidante. He adopted her and sent her to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy to study.
At the end of Soul Land 2, it annexed Heavenly Soul Empire and Duo Ling Empire and was renamed Heaven Dou Empire.
Pre-Soul Land 3 Era[]
The Sun-Moon Empire formed into the Sun-Moon Federation during the time of Soul Land 3.
Royal Family[]
- He Caitou (Exiled)
- Xu Tianran - Crown Regent/Current Emperor
- Second Prince (Deceased)
- Xu Mochen's Father - Third Prince
- Xu Guozhong - Prince
- Xu Mochen - Captain of Royal Stewards
- Xu Tianhe
- Xu Tianzhen - Royal Princess
- Ju Zi - Morganatic Consort
- Xu Yunhan - Crown Prince
- Xu Tianyun - Royal Prince/Legion Commander
Titled Douluos[]
Many of the titled douluo forces in the Sun Moon Empire are class-9 soul engineers. Individually, they are weaker than even average titled douluos, but have much higher war potential together than a group of titled douluos.
- Jing Hongchen
- Zheng Zhan
- Xue Chen
- Ye Xishui
- Wang Yiheng
- Ye Yulin
- Kong Deming
- Fire Phoenix Douluo
- Liao Mengkai
- Xia Xuanchen
- Xu Tianyun
Military[]
Within the Sun Moon Empire lay a powerful military composed mostly of soul engineers. Furthermore, their military organization can be split up into the ten legions: the Sun Moon Imperial Spirit Engineer Legion, the four Beast Lord-ranked soul engineer legions, and six normal soul engineer legions numbered first through sixth. Together they were collectively known as the Hand that Protects the Nation[4]. On many occasions, they would cooperate with the Holy Ghost Church as they held many powerful soul masters.
The commander-in-chief and marshal who led all of these legions and hailed as the God of War was the Empress of the nation, Ju Zi. According to the Sun Moon Empire’s beast-ranked soul engineer legions’ organizational structure, every soul engineer legion had three legion commanders, one head commander and two vice-commanders. Every legion consisted of at least 300 soul engineers, and sometimes even more if normal soldiers were counted. On the battlefield, even a low-level soul engineer legion was stronger than a cavalry legion of ten thousand men. They were highly destructive, and because they were few in number, they could use their soul tools very flexibly. Normally, a single soul engineer legion could decide the outcome of a battle. The five major soul engineer legions could also turn into aerial soul engineers.
Their technology is also highly effective in war, allowing efficient transportation and surveillance on top of immense group offense and defense thanks to linked soul tool arrays. With their surveillance technologies, they can detect soul power undulations, distinguish heat signatures, and zoom in from high altitudes of several kilometers. With their transportation technologies, they have developed highly efficient flight-type soul tools, large vehicles like the All Terrain Soul Tool Fortress that can be used to transport materials, and high capacity storage-type soul tools. With their warfare technology, linked soul tools made it very effective for the Sun Moon Empire to pool their collective power into adapting offensive and protective output.
During the time of their conquering campaign, they would also induct prisoners and other people into the army, giving them soul tools and formed two new soul engineer legions from those. In the land they occupied, they also shared the findings of their technological advancements like heaters to the citizens. This benefited not only their approval, even if only a little bit, but also the appreciation of soul tools in general to the public.
Sun Moon Imperial Spirit Engineer Legion[]
The Sun Moon Imperial Spirit Engineer Legion was the most powerful force in the empire, and were mainly stationed in Radiant City. One’s soul power had to be at least Rank 50, or a Soul King, to be qualified to join it. In total, it had three hundred men. Among them were three legion commanders and three legion vice-commanders, all of whom were Class 9 soul engineers who were loyal only to the imperial family. Only the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire could use this powerful soul engineering legion. They received the best treatment among all the soldiers in the Sun Moon Empire[5].
Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion[]
This legion was led by Xu Tianyun, a member of the royal family[6]. They were named after the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon rather than the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon as it was the martial soul of the royal family. They possessed dark yellow colored soul tools.
Despite the major influence and loyalty to royal family, the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion had always been rather neutral. They didn’t lean toward any prince, and their neutrality during the internal conflict for the throne was the reason for their continued existence. They only served the royal family, and furthered their needs.
The Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion was the legion with the greatest number of Class 9 stationary soul cannon shells among the Hand that Protects the Nation. This was something that even Xu Tianran did not know. The Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion had always been led by a member of the royal family. Even though these members were extremely loyal to the royal family, that did not mean that they must be loyal to the Emperor at that point in time. Hence, they would usually hide and stock up whatever Class 9 stationary soul cannon shells they were given.
Terrorclaw Soul Engineer Legion[]
This legion is led by Liao Mingkai[7]. Their legion is named after the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear. This legion is composed of strong men who excel in close quarters combat and were almost all close-combat soul engineers. Hence, the Terrorclaw Soul Engineer Legion specialized in assault operations and often dispatched to assault fortified structures. They were equipped with not only the linked defensive soul tools, but also close-ranged soul tools that were of different weapons they respectively specialized in.
Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion[]
This legion was initially led by the Fire Phoenix Douluo[8] before passed to Ju Zi. Their legion is named after the Fire Phoenix. The legion is entirely composed of women. The Fire Phoenix Legion’s soul tools were mainly fire-type weapons.
The female soul engineers were dressed in red armor that was well-fitted, while others in dark-red armor Evidently, it was top-quality as every one of their suits of armor was custom-made. There were even buckle-like accessories and slots on them that were used to connect to different soul tools. These suits of armor were also equipped with automatic defense-type soul tools and alarms to signal an ambush if one were to ever occur.
Evileye Tyrant Soul Engineer Legion[]
This legion was initially led by Wang Yiheng[9] before being passed on to Xia Xuanchen[10]. Their legion is named after the Evileye Tyrant Emperor. This legion specializes in speed and surprise attacks, which is also the best for sending reinforcements.
They were dressed in black warrior robes, and had the pattern of an enormous blue eye on their chests. Their outfits were seemingly made of metal. The reason why they saw the blue lights was due to the light from the eyes on their robes, which had pupils as deep as the abyss. There were even countless dark blue patterns around the sides of these pupils that resembled veins.
Within the Evileye Tyrant Soul Engineer Legion are five smaller sections. One of them being the Dagger Section, though it's particular function is unknown.
National Religion[]
The national religion of the Sun Moon Empire was led by the Holy Ghost Church. All across the Sun Moon Empire, evil soul masters had integrated into the organizations of the nation. They were all led by the largest sect, or church, among the two continents. It was not openly said by anyone, but they were approved by the Emperor Xu Tianran when he ascended the throne who used them to carry out his darker political schemes. While not worshipped by the entire nation, they also had plenty of support from other sources besides the emperor like the underground Duskwater Alliance and terrifying might of two Limit Douluos, allowing their influence to even grant them high positions in the military. This allowed them to practice their dark arts and inhumane transgressions in many locations of the Sun Moon Empire.
After a few misunderstandings and approach to the last stretch of their campaign, the Sun Moon Empire finally decided to cut ties with the Holy Ghost Church. They first removed them all from the military after they failed to defeat Huo Yuhao in the one-on-ten battle at the Dou Ling Empire. Then they ambushed the two limit douluos in a valley. Finally, they drove the rest of the Holy Ghost Church out of Radiant City into the Evildemon Forest.