Reva is the current Southern Guardian. Though he has been offline for centuries and as a result his territory shrank to a mere fraction that it was now. It was never the biggest territory of the Four Guardians in the first place. Seeing as the Southern Guardian was normally considered the weakest of the four, their territory was not only the smallest but where they resided was also the closest to what was officially considered the land of the South. The Four Guardians were a group named after the four directions thus their territory was named as such. The Northern, Eastern, Western, and Southern territories were how the overall territory of the Mecha Lord was divided between the four of them. The Mecha Lord being the one that reigned over all four of these territories and their rulers as the overall ruler thus did not have a land of their own, as in there was no specific Mech Lord territory.
On the human side, there was no overall King of the Humans just four lands called the Northern, Eastern, Western, and Southern lands with a hero that was native to each of them. The fifth hero could be from any land but has not aligned to one land alone. Being the hero from the overall human lands themselves. Mistaken as secondary heroes from one of the four lands until they do something eventually that causes them to stand out. Once Reva set things up so that the Hero and the Mecha Lord would take each other out then was set up himself to be left offline. The idea of the Hero becoming just a wanderer with no ties to any lands, the Mecha Lord completely forgotten a mythic legend, and the Southern Guardian almost one as well. The Southern territory that he was supposed to rule over shrank to what it is now through various land grabs by the other seven lands both human and robot alike.
In the end, the one place that suffered the most from the loss of the Southern territory was the Southern Lands. As with the counterpart to keep them constantly improving to get better at defending themselves. The already weakest of the lands Southern Guardian was normally the weakest of the Guardians then the Southern Hero was normally the same way as well. Thus after countless years of peace from a lack of threats from Southern robots, the other seven lands eyed them up and split it up between themselves as well. Wiping out the Southern Lands from existence as they were craved up and divided out of it completely. Unlike the Southern territory that still retained the very core of itself because of Reva being there and the passive sphere of his influence always being at max level for its basic range. The same was not true of the Southern Lands once they were gone they were gone for good.
The only thing left of them were isolated villages that once existed within former Southern Land as not everyone fled into the South. Thus eventually forming the only village that would exist deep within it. These were just normal villages within the Human Lands that did their best to remain that way as those considered to be from the Southern Lands were targets of both humans and robots over the years for reasons that were never questioned just the knowledge that they were considered dangerous even if they were just being left to their own devices in their isolated villages. While others just took advantage of the fact that they had no lands of their own meant that there was no need to worry about blowback, backlash, and/or counterattack from the non-existing Southern Lands
Being dragged to the remains of the Southern territory now just known as merely the South. There was a group of people that were raiding the village made up of those descendants of those from now non existent Southern Lands. This group that was raiding villages was dumping the people of the villages they had no usage for here to be dealt with more easily. The reasoning behind why the South was allowed to continue existing was because it was an area that was too dangerous for anyone to roam into as doing so was just asking for death. Going into the South was easy it was the getting out that just did not happen and this was tested and proven in the past already. Enough time that it was just left alone as it was not even considered worthwhile by the humans and robots never tried in the first place at least normally.
The one being forced into walking into the South was from a.n isolated village that she was born and raised in. She was very tall for a girl as she was as tall as most guys and even taller than some guys as well. She was basically just a normal village girl who worked outside so much that her skin had developed tanned skin that only left her torso and feet their original skin tone (Her head, neck, arms, and legs were all tanned). This along with her height was why she was being taken to be dumped in the South as the raiders did not know what else to do with her and what they did with those who fell in this category was just let what roam in the South deal with them instead.
The village girl who had lost her village and was now being laid to her possible death at the hands of being she did not even know beyond the bedtime horror stories that were told to kids at times or to scare them into behaving was named Myne. What the raiders could not know at the time was that this was a mistake that was going to backfire on them. Dumping Myne into the South would prove to be one of the biggest mistakes they would make in their lives and complicate the lives of many with this one choice of theirs.