Blade Dance

The «Spirit Blade Dance Festival» (精霊剣舞祭, Seireikenbusai^?), more commonly referred to as the «Blade Dance» (剣(ブレイド)舞(ダンス), «Blade Dance»^?), is the largest Kagura ritual offered to the Five Great Elemental Lords, occurring within the spirit realm, «Astral Zero».

Elementalists are gathered from all over the continent and perform a blade dance, so to speak. The Blade Dance is a grand martial battle festival between fellow elementalists. The country whose elementalist or elementalist team wins would be granted the Elemental Lord's protection for several years and this blessing would ultimately lead to the nation highly prospering. Also, a single «wish» will be granted to the victor.

Those who participate in the Blade Dance are the most elite elementalists representing each country. The Blade Dance is the primary reason many countries train elementalists.

System

To participate, the contestants must be 20 years old or younger, thus, it's rare to face the same opponent in two different festivals.^{[citation needed]}

The Blade Dance occurrence is decided by an oracle from the Elemental Lords to the princess maidens that serve them, so there's no fixed time between one and another. As the timing, the battle mode and location is also decided by an oracle from the Elemental Lords.^{[citation needed]}

Generally, each nation could enter one participant/team. However, large nations like the Ordesia Empire can enter three teams.

Known Locations

Stadium where the Blade Dance took place three years prior

• Fire Mountain City - The Fire Elemental Lord's territory^{[citation needed]}
• Megidoa - An abandoned city

Known Winners

• Greyworth Ciel Mais, won twenty-four years ago, with her wish being immortality.^{[citation needed]}
• Yggdra had apparently won a Blade Dance an unknown number of years ago.^{[citation needed]}
• Ren Ashbell (Kamito Kazehaya) won the Blade Dance three years ago. However, as Kamito is a member of Team Scarlet, he won this year's Blade Dance as well, defending his title as the strongest, although ironically, almost all are led to believe that he defeated Ren Ashbell (Rubia Elstein) instead.^{[citation needed]}
• Team Scarlet won the team-oriented Blade Dance in the present time.^{[citation needed]}

Trivia

• The Blade Dance was also a representative war of knights between nations (but the «Divine Ritual Institute» would never admit it).
• The regulation for the Blade Dance changes every time it is held. Fifteen years ago, it was a battle royale.^{[citation needed]} Three years ago it was an individual elimination match. The current Blade Dance was a team battle. The format of the Blade Dance depends on what the Elemental Lords desired.
• Due to the usage of the furigana "blade dance" for both 剣舞 and 精霊剣舞祭. The distinction is made via proper or common noun. (eg: blade dance vs Blade Dance).
• There are a total of twenty-four teams participating in the current Blade Dance. There are three from Ordesia Empire, three from Holy Kingdom of Lugia, two from Quina Empire, two from Island Nation of Robica, and one team each for other nations: Alphas Theocracy, Kingdom of Balstan, Principality of Rossvale, Dracunia Empire, et al.^{[citation needed]}
• Kamito Kazehaya was the only Elementalist to win two Blade Dance events, one was 3 years ago, using Ren Ashbell as alias, and at the present, Team Scarlet.