The party spends the next few months in town, where the two chimeras and a reluctant Yoki assist in Reole's reconstruction efforts. In Chapter 80, Alphonse Elric, Winry Rockbell, Yoki, and the Human Chimeras Jerso and Zampano arrive in Reole and exchange information with Hohenheim. After delivering a message of challenge to Father through Pride, Hohenheim returns to the town and assists in the citizens' relief and reconstruction efforts. In Chapter 78, Van Hohenheim comes to the city to inspect the tunnel and encounters the Homunculus Pride inside. Later, Reole was rebuilt by the effort of its citizens. It was also mentioned by Vato Falman to Ed that despite Ed's efforts at stopping this and contacting Roy Mustang to send in troops to help with the cleanup, soldiers from Central City had instead dismissed the East City troops and took command, effectively helping start the bloodshed again which allowed for the Homunculi's original objective to be completed. It was revealed that Reole is a crest of blood, one of the points of intersection of the Nationwide Transmutation Circle, making the bloodshed in it a part of Father's plan. It has been mentioned is a short reference by Ed and the Briggs officers in chapter 67 to the wars in Amestris. Reole has little importance in the manga, and has not been mentioned very much after the very first story arc, which dealt with the downfall of Cornello. Others believed in the false Cornello, remaining loyal to him. Some, like Rosé, refused to believe that God's purpose for humans was to turn them into an army of fanatics. Envy, a shapeshifting Homunculus, impersonated Cornello and took his place, claiming that the Cornello that had just been deposed was an impostor and that he was the true prophet. When Lust, the Homunculus who had originally given Cornello the incomplete Philosopher's Stone he wielded, learned of Cornello's failure, she refused to equip him again with a Stone and allowed Gluttony to eat him. Though Alphonse and Ed believed they had managed to overthrow Cornello's theocratic regime and free the city, the two brothers had no idea until much later that in many ways they only made things worse. Rosé went on to assume a more active role in the small Reole society, leading the people after Cornello's fall from grace and through the civil conflict that consumed the city in its wake. This attracted the attention of the Elric brothers when they visited Reole, as they initially thought what he had on his ring was what they were looking for.Īnother notable inhabitant of Reole is Rosé Thomas, a follower of Cornello until Edward Elric showed her the truth and deposed Cornello from his seat of power. Though the people of Reole believed he could truly perform miracles, Cornello was merely performing alchemy, using a fake Philosopher's Stone, mounted on a ring he wore, to, seemingly, violate the Law of Equivalent Exchange. Fashioning himself as a prophet of Leto, the solar god of Reole, and as a miracle worker, Cornello promised riches and everlasting life, even resurrection of dead loved ones, for those who followed him. The State Military's lack of oversight in Reole, combined with the strong religious sense of the citizens (in this sense Reole is similar to Ishval), made it possible for an ambitious man named Father Cornello to institute a sort of theocratic government with himself as the unquestioned ruler. Reole (spelled Liore in the 2009 anime and Lior in the 2003 anime's English dub) is one of the first places visited by the Elric brothers in their quest for the Philosopher's Stone.
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