Alec

Alec was an important figure who lived in the years prior to the Great Calamity. He is most well known for uniting a multitude of small countries and founding one of the Four Great Nations known as the Kararagi City States, implementing within it a culture that strongly resembled that of Japan.

He is considered a world-wide symbol of success for merchants and, as such, is a figure who is looked up to by any individual remotely associated with business. This includes Anastasia Hoshin, who even named herself after him.

According to history, Alec Hoshin lived roughly 400 years before Subaru's arrival and was responsible for uniting the cities and small countries scattered around the Western regions of the continent. With the help of the Witch of Greed, he was able to successfully bring them under his dominion, thus creating the nation that would soon become known as Kararagi. During that time, he involved himself in a regional conflict between Kararagi's Humans and Demi-Humans. He made several allies along his journey, fought in the battle of Banan, and won, which originated the phrase "Hoshin was Banan's setting sun". However, what was not known to history was that he travelled in a group with his friends, including Flugel, Reid Astrea, Farsale Lugunica, Echidna, and Satella. He went through many brutal experiences, including being chased by a true dragon, being swallowed by a great flood, and the bloodless capture of a barbarian fort.

He introduced cultures and previously unseen cultural aspects, such as clothing, like kimonos and yukatas, and foods, like okonomiyaki (later named Daisukiyaki), and dorayaki, which became a popular phenomenon in the new world. He also introduced the new world to the Kansai dialect, a version of Japanese that was used in the Kansai region of Japan. It was adopted in the world and it became the native way of speaking in the Kararagi City States.