User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 439: Albareth Empire, Review./@comment-26263257-20150608164011/@comment-26263257-20150609102054

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I can't really be certain at this point. But it might be that Albareth WAS a lot like Ishgar until some big bad decided to mess the whole continent up, forcing all guilds, their magic council, and the ruling monarch to join forces and enforce a military system...

I'm thinking they wanted Lumen Histoire because they feel they needed it. Perhaps an Ishgar (most likely from Fiore) native visiting Albareth told a story about "a powerful artifact from a continent east of Alabreth" that is so powerful that it can destroy anything...  Perhaps the Alabreth ruling body, feeling that they need a powerful weapon to finally destroy the Albareth villain, decided to invade Ishgar to get that artifact...

OR they might just be a people who enjoy war and conquest...