The vast sprawling Kingdom within which Skullgirls takes place. Ruled by the Renoir royal family, it is a prosperous land which contrasts sights of beauty to scenes of despair. Vaguely similar to 1940s America, the Canopy Kingdom is home to millions of humans, Dagonians, Ferals, and the giant-sized Gigans. This kingdom is blessed with a very socially-conscious royal family, a strong military, and amazing technology. King Renoir’s ruthless war campaigns lead to explosive technological and cultural growth, investing a lot into combining technology and magic to take on the other 2 countries during the Grand War. There's a lot of discriminations against minority groups like ferals. Parasite hosts specifically are heavily ostracized as hosting a Parasite is seen as taboo. While the Renoir Crown rules the Canopy Kingdom, the Medici rules its sizable underworld. The capital of the Canopy Kingdom is Canopolis. Currently the Canopy Kingdom is in peace with the other kingdoms and countries. Despite this the kingdom itself is not at peace as a new Skullgirl is currently causing chaos within the kingdom's great megacity, New Meridian.
Historic Information[]
Seven years ago, the world was engulfed in conflict, in what became to be known as the Grand War, involving The Canopy Kingdom, The Chess Kingdom, and The Gigan Nation. The Queen of the Canopy Kingdom Nancy Renoir found the Skull Heart and wished for peace, but found herself transformed into the most powerful Skullgirl to date as a result. In the end, the three nations had to stop their war to team up to defeat the former queen – in the end her wish was granted, as an uneasy peace formed following her demise.
Locations in the Canopy Kingdom[]
- Canopolis
- New Meridian
Characters from the Canopy Kingdom[]
Playable characters[]
Non-Playable characters[]
Trivia[]
- The climate of the Canopy Kingdom is based off of Northern California, but it’s mostly based off of whatever looks cool.
- The name of the official currency of the Canopy Kingdom is still undecided, but what may be a common slang term for it is called Bones which might be similar to the slang term of bucks for US dollars.
- The distances between the Canopy Kingdom, the Gigan Nation and the Chess Kingdom are roughly the equivalent of the distances between Europe, Russia and Southwest Asia. They are separated by No Man's Land.
- The Renoir family are colonizers of the land that is currently known as the Canopy Kingdom and the Medicis are the indigenous inhabitants which is the reason for their rivalry. Given this information the Canopy Kingdom takes place in the Skullgirls equivalent of Italy and depending on how expansive it is, the Mediterranean and other parts of Southern Europe.
- Gehenna has the remains of Queen Lamia's ancient society given further credence it is in a fantasy equivalent of the Mediterranean.
- New Meridian is a "megacity" that also includes the areas of Little Innsmouth and Maplecrest. It's name came from the old country that used to occupy the land, the Meridian Empire. However in Squigly's Origin Story, her father refers to the old country as "Meridian Kingdom" rather than Empire, so the name may be outdated.
- Rule under King Renoir was much harsher than under Princess Parasoul. Political freedoms were restricted, and you could expect jack-booted government thugs to do unscrupulous, unethical things without question. Weapons R&D was extremely high priority. Alex agrees that it is "kinda Nazi-ish". This kind of thing has diminished after the King's disappearance/death, and although still highly nationalistic, the Canopy Kingdom is significantly more free under Parasoul.
- According to the Skullgirls Special Selection Soundtrack cover (the CD that came with the Limited Run edition of the game), New Meridian is located on the "West Continent." Interestingly, it says "New Meridian, West Continent" rather than listing the country, Canopy Kingdom. Since the soundtrack is supposedly recorded by Medici Recording Studio, perhaps it shows the Medici's disdain for the Renoir's rule.
- The graveyard seen on the Streets of New Meridian stage is not at the same location as the Grand Cathedral. The Grand Cathedral is located on top of a hill overlooking Maplecrest as seen in Beowulf's story and the SGM overmap. However, this could change in the future and the 2 locations could end up getting combined.