Martizieu was a major city on Sera and the capital of the nation of Eslaria. Founded as a small village in Seran antiquity, Martizieu would eventually grow into one of the largest cities on the planet, supporting a population of over four million before Emergence Day. After E-Day, its population was devastated, with only a few hundred thousand surviving. After its evacuation, it was quickly abandoned by Locust forces who continued their rampage across Eslaria, thus sparing it from the Hammer of Dawn Counterattack in 1 A.E. It would remain mostly abandoned for the next sixteen years, populated only by a few dozen Stranded camps.