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Floralia
- This article is about the kingdom and setting ofKirby: Triple Deluxe, and should not be confused withFloria.
Floralia is a kingdom featured inKirby: Triple Deluxe, and apparently a part ofPopstar. It consists of six floating islands, each higher up in the sky than the last, with the highest being the seat of power in the kingdom. It is the home of thePeople of the Sky, as well as the arthropod wizardsTaranza andQueen Sectonia. During the events ofKirby: Triple Deluxe, it became connected toDream Land via theDreamstalk, a giant beanstalk-like plant that serves asKirby's means of travelling to and through the kingdom.
Geography[edit]
Floralia consists of six distinct islands, each with their own climate, relics, and inhabitants. True to its name, most every island has excessive vegetation, with numerous flowering plants. Before theDreamstalk grew, the islands were entirely separate from each other. While this is presumably not an issue for the flying inhabitants, it nonetheless compelled Queen Sectonia to createWarp Holes to make travel between them more convenient.[1][2]
Floralia is also home to a large array of insectoid creatures, who served underQueen Sectonia during the events ofKirby: Triple Deluxe. They primarily occupied the last island,Royal Road. Apart from them, most of the islands' denizens are the same as the ones below in Dream Land and Popstar at large, including a healthy population ofWaddle Dees as always.
InKirby: Triple Deluxe[edit]
Prior to the events ofKirby: Triple Deluxe, Queen Sectonia—having become a tyrant obsessed with beauty and control due toan enchanted mirror—stopped coexisting peacefully with the People of the Sky.[3] She began a campaign to seize all of Floralia, and eventually the planet below.[1] In a last-ditch effort to save themselves, the People of the Sky devised theDreamstalk seed and tossed it down toDream Land in order to call onKirby to save them.[4] Sectonia noticed this, so she imprisoned the People of the Sky withinRoyal Road, and ordered her underling Taranza to kidnap the "hero of the lower world" to stop their plan.[2][5]
As the Dreamstalk took root in Dream Land's soil, it brought up two objects from the countryside:Kirby's House andCastle Dedede. When Taranza descended, he assumed thatKing Dedede was the hero of Dream Land and invaded Castle Dedede to subdue him, leaving Kirby to give chase. From there, Kirby pursues them throughout all six of Floralia's islands, defeating Taranza's traps and freeing the People of the Sky in the process. Once Kirby finally catches up with the arachnid mage and his hostage, he battles a possessedMasked Dedede, then proceeds to fight Queen Sectonia directly—defeating her with the help of Dedede, the People of the Sky, and even Taranza, who had a change of heart after Sectonia dismissed him for his failure to subdue the real hero.
Once Queen Sectonia is defeated, the Dreamstalk—having momentarily been possessed by her—enters full bloom, remaining as a permanent fixture of Dream Land.
Levels[edit]
| Levels of Floralia | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Image | Name | Image |
| Fine Fields |  | Wild World |  |
| Lollipop Land |  | Endless Explosions |  |
| Old Odyssey |  | Royal Road |  |
In theKirby novel series[edit]
In theKirby novel series, Floralia appears inKirby's Labyrinth Rescue! andKirby: Save the Rainbow Islands!.
InKirby's Labyrinth Rescue!,Magolor shows up in Floralia to steal theDimension Mirror fromQueen Sectonia's room. At the end of the story,Taranza returns to Floralia to take care of Sectonia's castle.
InKirby: Save the Rainbow Islands!, at the start of the story,Pirika comes to Floralia to see the castle where Queen Sectonia once lived. There, she meets Taranza, and after hearing her admiration for the queen, offers to explain her story. In the end of the story, one of theDreamstalk fruits that Pirika has thrown atGooey is carried by the wind to Floralia, where Taranza finds it. He plants the Dreamstalk seed and waters it, hopeful to see it grow strong.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | フロラルド furorarudo 浮遊大陸フロラルド fuyū tairiku furorarudo | Florald Portmanteau of フロラル (floral) and ワールド (world). Floating Continent Florald |
| English | Floralia | "Floral" + "‐ia" (suffix used to create placenames) |
| French | Floralia | - |
| German | Floralia | - |
| Italian | Floralia | - |
| Korean | 플로랄드 peullolaideu | Florald |
| Spanish | Floralia | - |
References
- ↑1.01.1"The entire floating island of Royal Road is covered with palatial buildings, to the point that the whole mass resembles a single giant castle. On it there lives a race of sweet, good-natured flower people, along with an intelligent (and possibly slightly greedy) species of insect. Our story begins when one prominent insect clan abandons the idea of peaceful coexistence and succumbs to its obsession with beauty and desire for control. The Warp Holes in level 6 that connect the various islands were probably put in place by the final boss who controls Royal Road, in order to forward the campaign for control of the land below and the countries beyond! No doubt this explains why the Sectra Dees (the insectoid foot soldiers) are already there when Kirby backtracks to the other islands during certain stages in Royal Road. And the fact that Kirby is unable to catch up with Taranza throughout the adventure is surely because Taranza is also taking advantage of these magical Warp Holes." –Satoshi Ishida (Miiverse post (archived))
- ↑2.02.1"The final boss of Kirby: Triple Deluxe – a unique, insectoid master of manipulative magic who calls the Warp Holes into existence and imprisons the People of the Sky – is a little different compared to previous bosses in the Kirby series." –Satoshi Ishida (Miiverse post (archived))
- ↑"A glass modeled after the queen who once ruled the people of the sky. Her obsession with her own beauty was magnified by a certain mirror to a tragic end." –Sectonia Flask description (Super Kirby Clash)
- ↑"The People of the Sky had long lived under the cruelties of the evil queen. In a last-ditch effort to save themselves, they put their hopes and dreams into a seed and sent it to the surface... in order to bring Kirby, the hero of Dream Land, to their rescue." –Narrator ("F-L-O-W-E-R-E-D" cutscene)
- ↑"I, Taranza, cannot allow you to interfere with Queen Sectonia's plans. Let me guess: you're here to save the hero of the lower world." –Taranza ("Taranza, the master of puppetry" cutscene)
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