Amaurot

Amaurot is a village in Agartha where the beauty of a settled community stands beside the memory of a devastated civilization. Its guarded welcome to Asuna Watase and Ryuuji Morisaki is rooted in generations of violence from the surface: Amaurot’s inhabitants have closed their doors to Topsiders because earlier encounters brought exploitation and war rather than safety.

Setting and Appearance

After several exhausting hours of walking, Asuna Watase and Ryuuji Morisaki see a village below them, enclosed by a river and a wall. It differs sharply from the ruins they have passed through in Agartha. Smoke rises from clusters of wooden houses, enormous windmills turn for practical use, and farm fields extend to the settlement’s outer wall. The signs of cooking, shelter, and cultivation make the village seem inhabited and self-sustaining; to Asuna, its existence is striking after the desolation of the journey.

Reception of Surface Travelers

The villagers’ first response combines gratitude with exclusion. A representative thanks Ryuuji Morisaki and Asuna Watase for returning a child from the village, but immediately identifies them as Topsiders and says Amaurot cannot accept them. Ryuuji steps forward to shield Asuna and the horse carrying the unconscious Shin. Asuna, focused on Shin’s injury and fever, asks the villagers to examine him. The encounter makes the village’s boundary more than a physical wall: even a good deed does not erase the distrust attached to their origins on the surface.

History and Isolation

An elder explains the history behind Amaurot’s closed doors. For centuries, surface emperors and kings plundered Agartha’s wealth and knowledge to strengthen their power, while bringing repeated wars in return. Agartha’s cities had once surpassed those on the surface in grandeur, but were destroyed; the population dwindled until only a few villages remained. In response, the people used the claves to shut the doors against Topsiders. The elder’s account presents Amaurot’s isolation not as an unexplained custom but as a defensive measure formed through accumulated loss.

That history shapes the villagers’ suspicion of outsiders, whom they regard as a bad omen. Yet the elder’s conduct is not simply hostile: after refusing the travelers entry, he offers to show Morisaki his library and asks Asuna to help with dinner preparations. The invitation suggests a limited opening for conversation and practical cooperation, even while the larger prohibition remains in force.

Place in the Wider Conflict

Amaurot’s opposition to Topsiders also appears through its soldiers. In Canaan, Amaurot soldiers challenge Shin for protecting surface travelers, warning that allowing Topsiders to act freely will invite disaster. Shin answers that the travelers saved a village girl and that the villagers owe them a debt. The confrontation carries Amaurot’s inherited fear into a present dispute: Shin argues from a specific act of rescue, while the soldiers defend a collective rule shaped by the past. Through the village’s history, guarded reception, and soldiers’ response, Amaurot embodies both the costs of Agartha’s vulnerability and the tension between protecting its people and recognizing that outsiders can help them.