Digital World (Classic)
The Digital World of most anime series, governed by the host computer King Drasil. Its knights take their name from medieval chivalry and its host, Yggdrasill in Japanese, from the world tree of Norse myth, while holy beasts of Chinese cosmology guard its compass and an ancient war still echoes through its history.
- Host computer
- King Drasil
- Cultural theme
- Norse myth and medieval chivalry
- Main guardians
- Royal Knights (13)
- Underworld
- Dark Area, guarded by Anubismon
The world under King Drasil
the ordinary Digital World, as official material calls it
Official material calls this world simply the Digital World: Digimon Profile #035 calls it the ordinary Digital World beside Iliad, and the Shambala page counts Shambala as one more world after the Digital World and Iliad. The atlas calls it Classic to tell them apart. King Drasil, the mysterious host computer, governs the entirety of the Digital World on the Network. The Royal Knights are the highest rank of network security under its jurisdiction: King Drasil apparently selects them, and each knight interprets its orders for itself.
The world's identity is mixed. The host computer is named after the world tree of Norse myth and the knights draw on medieval chivalry, but the Four Sovereigns and their Deva come from Chinese and Buddhist cosmology, and the Ten Legendary Warriors belong to an ancient era of their own.
Royal Knights
main guardian organization: the thirteen Holy Knights
Royal Knights
13 membersEstablished LoreSaid to number thirteen, the knights are the highest rank of network security in King Drasil's Digital World. Each one interprets King Drasil's orders for itself and solves problems its own way, so at times the knights disagree to the point of fighting one another, and at times they cooperate. Alphamon, the Lord of the Empty Seat, is said to act as a deterrent to the other knights and usually stays hidden.
OmnimonHoly Knight
AlphamonLord of the Empty Seat
GallantmonHoly Knight
MagnamonHoly Knight
UlforceVeedramonHoly Knight
DynasmonHoly Knight
CrusadermonHoly Knight
CraniamonHoly Knight
KentaurosmonHoly Knight
LeopardmonHoly Knight
ExamonHoly Knight
GankoomonHoly Knight
JesmonThirteenth seat
Four Sovereigns and the Deva
secondary organization: guardians of the compass and their twelve generals
Four Sovereigns
4 guardians + the CenterEstablished LoreFour Holy Beasts that have protected the Digital World and governed its stability since the age of myth, each ruling a compass point and commanding three of the twelve Deva. Huanglongmon, the emperor of the Center, once ruled them, until an Angel Digimon sealed it deep underground in ancient times; without their ruler, the four struggled for supremacy before settling into today's balance. They are not subordinates of the Royal Knights: no official text ranks one group under the other.
Ten Legendary Warriors
historical group: the saviors of the Ancient Digital World
Ten Legendary Warriors
10 membersLegendaryAncient warriors, one per element, who saved the Ancient Digital World and are said to be among the first Mega Digimon. AncientGreymon and AncientGarurumon survived the holy war to the end and are said to have sealed Lucemon, and the warriors' power lives on in twenty Legendary Spirits. They belong to the world's distant past, not to its present government: no official text places them under King Drasil or the Royal Knights.
AncientGreymonFlame
AncientGarurumonLight
AncientBeetlemonThunder
AncientKazemonWind
AncientMegatheriummonIce
AncientMermaidmonWater
AncientSphinxmonDarkness
AncientTroiamonWood
AncientVolcanomonEarth
AncientWisemonSteel
Dark Area
the Classic world's underworld, guarded and judged by Anubismon
Established Lore
Anubismon guards and supervises the Dark Area and acts as the judge of the Digital World. Its profile says it seals Digimon made of evil data away in eternal darkness and lets Digimon made of good data be reborn as Digi-Eggs; Digimon Profile #035 adds that data judged bad keeps wandering the Dark Area.
Anubismon is a guardian and a judge, not a sovereign. Official material gives every Digital World its own Dark Area, and nowhere calls Anubismon the ruler of all of them. Below this Dark Area lies Cocytus, the single deepest layer shared by every world.
Notable relationships
who answers to whom, and how firmly each link is established
- King Drasil governs the Classic Digital World Established Lore
- King Drasil selects Royal Knights Established Lore
- Imperialdramon Paladin Mode founded Royal Knights Legendary
- Royal Knights rival in power Olympos XII Established Lore
- Huanglongmon ruled, until its seal Four Sovereigns Established Lore
- Azulongmon member of Four Sovereigns Established Lore
- Azulongmon member of Four Great Dragons Established Lore
- Deva serve, three each Four Sovereigns Established Lore
- Deva all serve Zhuqiaomon (Tamers) Continuity-Specific
- AncientGreymon & AncientGarurumon sealed Lucemon Legendary
- Ten Legendary Warriors entrusted their Spirits to Three Great Angels (Frontier) Continuity-Specific
- Anubismon guards and judges Dark Area Established Lore
- Dark Area leads down to Cocytus Established Lore
Sources
- Digimon Profile #036, Royal Knights: digimon.net/profile/report036
- Digimon Profile #035, Dark Areas and Cocytus: digimon.net/profile/report035
- Digimon Profile #014, Legendary Spirits: digimon.net/profile/report014
- Digimon Reference Book profiles (English), including King Drasil_7D6 and Anubismon: digimon.net/reference_en
- The site's own rosters, whose lore notes carry their sources: Royal Knights, Four Sovereigns, Deva
Names link to DigimonWiki/Fandom (CC BY-SA unless noted otherwise); artwork © Bandai, shown from the official Digimon Reference Book. The atlas is an editorial model built from official material, not a universal chain of command. King Drasil and Anubismon are Yggdrasill and Anubimon in Japanese material, and Huanglongmon is DigimonWiki's name for the official Fanglongmon.