Nia Khera

Nia Khera (ニ・アケリア), known as Village of Spirits and Sanctum of Maxwell, is a Rieze Maxian village in Tales of Xillia and Tales of Xillia 2 where faith in Maxwell is still strong as opposed to other parts of country. As of events of Tales of Xillia 2, Nia Khera sports an Elympion job board despite the village's spiritual beliefs.

Geography
Nie Khera is a remote village from which three roads fork at different entrances to the village: the northern exit leads to Xagut Floodmeadows, western exit leads to Nia Khera Spiritway, and the eastern exit leads to Kijara Seafalls. The housing was created with the help of earth and wind spirits allowing the creation of low, circular, brown buildings with ornate designs. Ivar's House is located near the Nia Khera Spiritway exit, although in the fractured dimension F4216 it is the home to Milla. In the southwestern corner of Nia Khera is the Hall of Assembly where the party can rest for free. Near the exit to Kijara Seafalls there's a peddler dealing with all sorts of shopping needs.

Past
Twenty years prior the events of Tales of Xillia, Maxwell created a baby girl named Milla Maxwell with an intention to use her as the bait to rule out Exodus out of their hiding in his land and to destroy them before they'd destroy Rieze Maxia with spyrix technology. At the same time, Maxwell also "reserved" The Four Great Spirits for use for Milla, effectively making it unable for Rieze Maxians to call upon The Four. With The Four's aid, Maxwell raised Milla and the villagers of Nia Khera to believe that the girl was the real Maxwell. Four years later, Ivar was born and over the years he became Milla's devoted handmaid and grew overprotective of her over the years.

Tales of Xillia
Milla and The Four sense large quantities of spirits fading and concluding the source comes from Fennmont in Rashugal they travel there to investigate the matter. Later when Milla returns with Jude Mathis and Alvin, the three of them walk around the village collecting temporal stones with the four elemental energies sealed within them to use them in a ritual in Milla's Shrine as Ivar went missing after he decided to look for Milla.

After E.S.S. Zenethra sunk at the bottom of the sea after Milla's sacrifice, much to Jude's horror, Muzét killed the elders of Nia Khera due to their knowledge of the schism.

Trivia

 * The name "Nia Khera" is based on a Pakistani town of Akerianwala.
 * In Tales of Xillia when Milla is the party leader the village residents will bow before her.