The Titan's decline also resulted in roaming monsters forcing the Tantalese to build new dwellings on higher ground.
The Tantalese were forced to live in poverty, only able to access basic produce that was smuggled in from other nations and sold for exorbitant prices on the black market. This led Tantal to fall into an energy shortage, causing the earth inside Genbu to freeze and their crops to fail. Zettar is seen in Indol negotiating this deal himself. The Indoline Praetorium agreed to keep this secret, in exchange for an annual tribute of Core Chips, capitalizing on the crisis that Alrest was in at the time to expand their influence over the military and energy needs of all the other nations. The Tantalese then used the Omega Fetter to order Ophion to prohibit passage to the World Tree. Amidst the confusion, his opponents claimed to carry his bloodline in order to bring stability to the new nation and formed the Tantalese royal dynasty using Addam's name to win over the people. Those who followed Addam believed that humans, Blades, and Titans should live together, while his rivals believed that humans were the masters and that Blades and Titans were their tools. The Kingdom of Torna was destroyed in the Aegis War when Addam, the hero of Torna, did not return to the Tornans' new home of Genbu, there was mass confusion about who would lead their people. Torna is destroyed, leaving its populace refugees
