Gia

Gia
Kingdom, homeland of Utrea, and one of the major rival powers in Tribal: Bloody Beginnings
Series	Tribal
First appearance	Tribal: Bloody Beginnings
Created by	Tony James Nelson II
Type	Kingdom Rival power-state
Ruled by	Utrea
Government	Monarchy
Key figures	Utrea Rimitorry Kavumo
Known rivals	Nebu
Status	Conquered by Alpha during the events of the Book

Gia is a fictional kingdom in Tribal: Bloody Beginnings by Tony James Nelson II. It is one of the Book’s major political powers and serves as the principal counterweight to Nebu. Ruled by Utrea, Gia is associated with royalty, bloodline, maternal legacy, and the side of the wider conflict that resists Nebu’s culture of numbering, total possession, and engineered dehumanization.

In the Book, Gia is not merely a kingdom under attack. It is also a memory-space, a homeland, and a symbol of what might still remain human inside a world increasingly ruled by conquest and control. It is where some of Alpha and Utrea’s children are raised, where Utrea’s queenship is centered, and where the long war between rival powers becomes fully personal. Later in the Book, Alpha defeats Gia’s defenders and explicitly claims it as part of the Nebu empire, making Gia one of the central sites of loss and political collapse.

Overview

Gia functions on several levels in the Book:

• a kingdom ruled by Utrea
• a political rival to Nebu
• a family homeland for part of the fractured bloodline
• a symbolic counterforce to Nebu’s machinery of domination

If Nebu is often presented as the Book’s dark center of systematized violence, Gia is more often associated with lineage, exile, memory, and resistance.

Government and rule

Gia is ruled by Utrea, who is repeatedly identified as queen. Her authority is not decorative; she is both sovereign and warrior, and her identity as ruler of Gia is inseparable from her role in the wider family war. Unlike Nebu, whose structure is built around Alpha’s absolute and militarized command, Gia is framed more traditionally as a kingdom, though one still shaped by violence and survival.

Utrea’s position gives Gia a distinct political character. The kingdom is not merely land under her name. It is also an extension of her bloodline, her grief, and her unfinished struggle with Alpha.

Gia in the war with Nebu

Gia’s rivalry with Nebu is one of the Book’s defining geopolitical conflicts. Rimitorry explicitly frames the larger world-struggle in those terms: “Gia. Nebu. The war.” That line matters because it reduces the conflict to its essential poles.

By the time of the major siege and courtyard battle scenes, Gia is in open collapse under Alpha’s assault. The Book shows:

• burning towers
• broken defenders
• bodies scattered through the courtyard
• Alpha openly declaring victory and conquest

When Alpha says, “Gia is mine. Conquered. Claimed. Part of the Nebu empire,” the Book marks the fall of Gia as more than military defeat. It becomes absorption — the transformation of a rival kingdom into an imperial possession.

Gia as homeland

Gia is also important because it serves as a home for part of the Family of Alpha and Utrea.

Rimitorry in Gia

The Book makes clear that Rimitorry lives in Gia with her mother for part of her life. This is one of the reasons Rimitorry becomes such a loaded figure in the wider lore: she belongs to both worlds. She is the daughter of Alpha and Utrea, but her life in Gia ties her to the kingdom of her mother rather than the empire of her father.

Gia therefore becomes one of the places where the fractured sibling bloodline takes shape away from Nebu’s direct reach.

The children and divided inheritance

Gia is not home to all of the children equally. Some remain tied to Nebu, some are left behind on the island, some are hidden, and some are raised under Utrea’s side of the divide. This makes Gia not just a state, but a partial refuge — incomplete, unstable, and always threatened by the unfinished pull of Alpha’s world.

Gia and Utrea

It is impossible to separate Gia from Utrea. She is its queen, its martial center, and one of the reasons the kingdom matters emotionally rather than merely strategically.

The Book portrays Utrea as:

• ruler
• mother
• warrior
• counter-force to Alpha

Because of this, Gia inherits its texture from her: proud, dangerous, wounded, and unwilling to submit quietly.

Gia and the family war

Gia is one of the principal theaters in which the personal war between Alpha and Utrea becomes public and political. Their struggle is not contained to private rooms or bloodline revelations. It spills outward into kingdoms, armies, and the fate of everyone attached to them.

In that sense, Gia is not just one side in a war. It is one side of a marriage turned into history.

Military and defense

The Book shows that Gia has its own defenders, courtyards, towers, and organized resistance. It is not weak or symbolic-only territory. It stands long enough to require a serious assault from Alpha and to become the site of one of the novel’s major power displays.

Still, the Book makes equally clear that Gia ultimately falls when Alpha reaches full force. During the courtyard battle, Utrea and Kavumo together can briefly make resistance seem possible, but Alpha’s power overwhelms the field and reduces Gia’s defense to ruin.

This matters because Gia is not trivialized by defeat. Its fall is meaningful precisely because it takes extraordinary power to break it.

Culture and symbolic role

Compared to Nebu, Gia reads less like a machine and more like a blood-and-memory realm. The Book does not present it with the same obsessive attention to ranks, marks, and engineered programs that define Nebu. Instead, Gia is more strongly associated with:

• queenship
• family ties
• separation and exile
• maternal inheritance
• the idea of a home that can still be lost

That symbolic difference is important. Nebu is system. Gia is wound.

Gia after conquest

After Alpha’s declaration, Gia ceases to stand as an independent power in the same way. Its conquest marks a major turning point in the Book’s balance of power. With Gia broken and claimed, Alpha’s control expands, Utrea’s side is further destabilized, and the next movements of the story shift toward:

• imprisoned or injured family members
• the hunt for Reonniz
• the widening reach of Nebu’s empire

Even conquered, however, Gia remains important. It continues to exist as:

• the homeland Utrea ruled
• the place Rimitorry belonged to
• the kingdom whose fall measures Alpha’s scale

Relationship with other powers

Nebu

Nebu is Gia’s principal rival and eventual conqueror. The war between them is one of the Book’s main structural conflicts, and the contrast between the two realms helps define the wider world: kingdom versus empire, queen versus alpha, memory versus machinery.

Terra

Terra is not the central direct rival of Gia in the same way Nebu is, but it becomes increasingly important to the same family-political network through Reonniz. In that sense, Terra becomes part of the wider geography of what remains contested after Gia falls.

Gia and the larger mythology

Gia matters beyond politics because it helps hold the emotional side of the Book’s mythology. Without Gia, the story risks becoming only conquest, laboratory horror, and engineered monstrosity. Gia keeps alive:

• the idea of sovereignty outside Alpha’s rule
• the maternal side of the bloodline
• the possibility that family identity is not completely defined by Nebu

That does not make Gia soft. It makes it necessary.

Themes

Gia is strongly tied to several of the Book’s central themes:

• Kingdom under siege
• Maternal inheritance
• Family fracture across nations
• Home as something that can be conquered
• Resistance against domination
• Queenship under war

Narrative importance

Gia is one of the Book’s major power-anchors. It matters because:

• it gives Utrea political weight equal to her emotional and combat weight
• it raises the scale of the conflict beyond family infighting
• it gives Rimitorry and others a world to belong to
• its fall marks one of Alpha’s most important victories

Without Gia, Nebu would simply be strong. With Gia, Nebu becomes imperial.

Trivia

• Rimitorry explicitly frames the wider conflict as “Gia. Nebu. The war.”
• Alpha later declares Gia conquered and part of the Nebu empire.
• Utrea rules Gia as queen.
• Rimitorry lives in Gia with Utrea for part of her life.
• The fall of Gia becomes one of the Book’s major political turning points.

See also

• Utrea
• Nebu
• Rimitorry
• The Dark Alpha
• Reonniz
• Family of Alpha and Utrea
• Tribal Bloody Beginnings (novel)