The city-state's only known access point is a bridge called the Steps of Faith, blocked off by the Gate of Judgement. Matters have grown so grave as to prompt the archbishop and his advisers to consider throwing open the heretofore sealed gates of Ishgard and calling for outside aid. Nevertheless, the city-state proper is warded with a layer of wards known as Daniffen's Collar to prevent direct assault from their draconic adversaries. Faced with ever more aggressive attacks from its serpentine foes, as well as an unprecedented spell of bitter cold following the Calamity, the theocracy's days are dark indeed. Ishgard's formidable army of knights wages constant battle against its mortal enemies, the dragons, in the millennia long Dragonsong War. The Archbishop of the Ishgardian Orthodox Church, Thordan VII, while leading his people in the teachings of Halone, the Fury, rules also as the nation's sovereign. In the central region of Abalathia's Spine, that great mountain range that spans Aldenard from east to west, can be found the forbidding highlands of Coerthas and the Holy See of Ishgard. Ser Alberic Bale, on the founding of the Holy See So did She appear before Haldrath's sire, a man of courage and integrity named Thordan, and bade him lead Her people to the Promised Land─to what would become the great nation of Ishgard. The Fury, impressed by the spirit of our ancestors, decided it was meet that She make them Her own. It all began a millennium past, when our forebears resided in the southern plains in humble circumstances. 4.3.7 The Supreme Sacred Tribunal of Halonic Inquisitory Doctrine.4.2.6 Congregation of Our Knights Most Heavenly.

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