Arcadia is a village found in the Nabata Desert where dragons and humans lived together in peace and harmony. The town was discovered by Archsage Athos and Nergal hundreds of years before their bitter enmity began. They studied there together and Nergal used the knowledge he gained from the dragons in order to harvest quintessence and to call forth Nils and Ninian through the dragons gate shortly before the events of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. While the dragon inhabitants are simply referred to as "dragons", The Binding Blade's backstory seems to indicate that most, if not all, of them are Divine Dragons or their descendants. In the Japanese version of The Blazing Blade, Nergal also claims that Athos conspired with the Divine Dragons to defeat him.