Nameless Zone

The Nameless Zone is a fictional area in Sonic the Comic, and the original home of Miles "Tails" Prower.

Description

A mystical pocket dimension that exists close to Mobius' reality, the Nameless Zone is inhabited by a large kingdom of foxes ruled over by the Enchanter Kings. Across the Dimensional Bridge, which stretches over a great void that kills anything that falls into it, lies the Land Beyond, a hellish realm of monsters and Goblin hordes.

Tails left the Nameless Zone for Mobius to seek his fortune. He wrote back many letters (it's unknown how he did this), talking AbOUT his adventures, but saying he was the hero and Sonic was his sidekick. The Nameless Zone's inhabitants believed this, and Tails has repeatedly found himself magically transported back home when the foxes are in serious trouble and require the help of a great hero. Apart from Knuckles, nobody on Mobius knows this happens to Tails.

The Nameless Zone used to be threatened by the evil goblin warlord Trogg, who attempted to invade the Nameless Zone. Tails and his allies were able to keep him contained and eventually ended his threat. However, the goblins were later united under King Roubal. The Enchanter Kings have made a deal to pledge allegiance to the Land Beyond every year, ensuring everlasting peace and prosperity for both realms. While this is presented as a mutually beneficial alliance, it effectively makes the Enchanter Kings puppet monarchs of the goblins; and if allegiance is not pledged, there will be a vicious war.

Characters

Trogg (Shirob)

Shirob was once the third and eldest of the Enchanter Kings, three kings that ruled over the Nameless Zone. The Eldest of The Enchanter Kings, with the most powerful magics, Shirob had accidentally summoned 'The Evil One' (later 'The Dark One'), a demonic being that drove him insane and transformed him into the monstrous Trogg. Incredibly strong and with the power to turn others into beings like him, he disappeared and terrorised the Zone. The other Kings believed Trogg had murdered Shirob until the truth was uncovered.

Tails first met Trogg in The Nameless Zone (STC 16 & 17); believing him a great warrior, the Enchanter Kings summoned Tails to battle Trogg on the Dimension Bridge. Tails won by a fluke and Trogg was expelled to the Land Beyond on the other side of the bridge. Once there, he took command of the goblin hordes. Later, a vengeful Trogg assumed the form of Shirob in order to send a message for help, drawing Tails and his swordsman ally Errol Blackthorn into a trap.

Trogg's final fate came in The Revenge Of Trogg (STC 59-64). Trogg had captured both Enchanter Kings and transformed Errol Blackthorn, who'd gone to rescue them, into a monster. Tails (and accidentally Knuckles) were summoned to stop him, along with Errol's sister Morain, but they were swiftly captured by Trogg's army. Trogg revealed that he intended to transform the other Enchanter Kings into monsters like himself, and to do this he summoned the Dark One. The heroes escaped, stole the black orb from where the Dark One was summoned, and threw it from the Dinemsion Bridge into 'non-existent space' below, causing The Dark one to cease to exist. This reversed the transformations of Errol, the Enchanter Kings, and Shirob himself. With his sanity and form restored Shirob bid Tails and Knuckles farewell.

When Tails was summoned the final time to the Nameless Zone, this time by Morgan, Shirob was shown simply as one of the three Enchanter Kings, and showing no signs of his previous madness as Trogg.

Errol Blackthorn

Swordsman and champion of the Nameless Zone, Errol was a straight-jawed fantasy hero when first introduced. Much to Tails' discomfort, Errol was tasked to serve as his assistant in a mission to rescue Shirob from the Land Beyond. It soon became clear to Errol that Tails wasn't the great warrior the Enchanter Kings believed him to be and that the boy would've died on the mission without him, but he saw potential & courage within Tails and decided to keep the truth a secret. When the Enchanter Kings were both abducted, Errol was sent to rescue them and was transformed into a monster by Trogg; he was transformed back at the demise of the Dark One.

When Roubal claimed dominance over the Nameless Zone, Errol initially clashed with the goblins. However, in Sonic the Comic Online, Errol was shown to have decided to collaborate with the goblins as a law enforcer so he could ensure that the foxes would be treated fairly. This has brought him into conflict with his sister.

Morain Blackthorn

Morain Blackthorn is the sister of Errol. She is also a swordswoman and able to perform some limited sorcery. Temperamental with a defensive, cocky attitude and a love of battle, she is constantly on the defensive against imagined sexist slights. Morain was created by Nigel Kitching for the Tails & Knuckles Story The Revenge Of Trogg (STC 59 - 64) and subsequently in the Tails story The Goblin Overlords (STC 143 & 144).

Morain initially followed Tails and Knuckles to the Land Beyond to seek vengeance on Trogg after he transformed her brother into a monster, like the rest of the Nameless Zone (Tails' homeland in this continuity) she believed wholeheartedly that Tails is the hero of Mobius (via Tails's letters to his family, in which he lied that he was such a thing) but was less impressed with him, and more with Knuckles, though she did not get her revenge directly, it was Morain who told Tails to throw The Dark One's orb from the Dinemtion Bridge that connects her homeland the Nameless Zone and Trogg's Land Beyond into the 'non-existent reality' below and erase the demon from existence, in doing this Trogg and Errol were both reverted back to their original fox forms.

Morain then used her magicks to open a portal and summon Tails, still believing that the Enchanter Kings and her brother were being held captive by The New Goblin King. Although Tails attempted to stealthily sneak in, they were discovered, and Morain, much preferring direct combat, attacked, eventually stumbling in upon the Goblin King negotiating with the Enchanters. Furious that the Enchanters were going along with the his plan to add the Nameless Zone to his Empire, she attacked and the Goblin Leader, and in turn was attacked by his underlings.

Distracted by her admiration of Tails' improved skills, she was nearly killed by a sneak attack, only to be saved by her brother. To prevent a full scale war, the Goblins allowed Morain, Tails, Errol and the Enchanter Kings to leave in exchange for compliance with the Goblin plan. Tails was returned to Mobius, Morain's magicks no longer able to keep him in the Nameless Zone. Despite a caption at the end that implied further use of Morain, she did not appear in the comic for the rest of its run.

In STC-Online, the 'unofficially official' continuation to the series, Morain and a small group of her own freedom fighters appeared with Tails in another Nameless Zone adventure. Furious at the her brother's 'betrayal' and the goblin's introduction of steam power and primitive electricity (despite the improvements they bring), she attempts to destroy a Goblin supply train with dynamite. Tails prevented the bombing while she escaped, and it is unknown what she's been doing since.

King Roubal

Roubal has assumed command of the Land Beyond and has modernized the goblins, bringing many technological reforms. Through both diplomacy and the open threat of war, he has gained control of the Nameless Zone and, at least publicly, seems to view this as benefitting the foxes due to the technological advances it brings.