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Amalark is a kingdom in Dragon Quest X.
Appearances
Dragon Quest X
Biography
One of Zenias's locations, it was founded 300 years ago by desert nomads, who were forced to leave their original territory due to the increasing harshness of Zenias following the Jia Kut Clan's attack. Using the massive telecrystals now littering the land to cross the sea, after many years of wandering amidst the now ruined lands, the nomads eventually reached the land that would become Amalark. There, they found a strong stone castle sill standing, and the foundations of a castle town surrounding it, although the original wooden houses had since long before decayed; they decided to claim them both as their own, seeing it as providence from the gods, re-building the wooden houses and decorating them with their traditional, colorful desert garbs, forgoing their traditional building method of using hardened sand bricks or raising tents, now no longer practical.
However, inside the castle, a black spear was found, as well as a tablet saying "Do not dwell here", but the advice was not heeded. In time, the rules and laws governing the city became overcomplicated, until they were reorganized in a more comprehensive way by the current ruler, King Rizk; one such law was the prohibition for women to join the guards, due to the population being once very small.
However, soon the meaning of the stone tablet became clear, because 100 years after its founding, Amalark became plagued by the Fluzula, a breed of almost invincible monsters, that frequently appeared to attack its civilians to consume one or two of them before disappearing to parts unknown. With no other place to go, the people of Amalark were forced to accept this danger as an inevitability.
The seemingly only way destroy them was the ancient and powerful black spear; over the course of history, the black spear was attempted to be replicated multiple times by Amalark's scholars, but to no avail. Now entrusted to the best knight of the kingdom, Ilseem, the spear continued to dutifully destroy Fluzulas; but even with the drastic decrease in deaths in the past 20 years thanks to Ilseem's dedication to the cause, the common practice of the guards to willingly sacrifice their lives to the Fluzula in order ensure the survival of the innocent civillians was still a harsh reality.
However, as it turned out, it wasn't the black spear itself that the Fluzula were vulnerable to, but it was instead the strong Power of Creation residing within. With this new information, delivered to the Astoltian exploration team by the mysterious Raki, Jiganf was finally able to harm the Fluzula, having realized the similarities between the Power of Creation and a Martial Artist's internal Chi. Unfortunately, Raki revealed another piece of information: the usual modus operandi of the Fluzula involved letting a town grow relatively undisturbed for centuries, and only then, once the population had grown enough, the Fluzula would attack it en mass, wiping out the entire settlement in a single attack. Furthermore, now feeling threatened by Jiganf and the Hero's newfound ability to harm them, the Fluzula decided to attack Amalark now, invading alongside their alpha, the huge Albino fluzula.
Most unsettingly, after being defeated, the Albino fluzula began to desperatly cry for help in human tongue, before disappearing. The Fluzula were driven away, but the town suffered heavy losses; but Jiganf, alongside King Rizk raised the people's morale with an encouraging speech, spurring them to all fight together the next time the Fluzula would appear. Jiganf decided to stay in Amalark to teach martial arts, while Rizk rewarded the rest of the Astoltian exploration team, the Ember Explorers, thusly filling the Star Seal Crystal with a little of Benevolessence.
Connecting Areas
Monsters Encountered
- Fluzula (story cutscenes only)
- Albino fluzula (boss fight)
Trivia
- The layout of this town resembles Stornway from Dragon Quest IX, although it is missing Quester's Rest.
- One of the books in this town talks about a desert queen and her pet lizard, referring to Queen Voluptua and Drak/Grand Lizzier of Gleeba.