Adrien

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Adrien
luShtar luHalaal aYadrayeen
City
Holy City of Adrien
Motto: 
"luShtar luHalaal aYasteriya"
Founded byNone
Named forUnknown
Government
 • TypeMayor government
 • BodyCouncil of the Holy City of Adrien
Elevation
1,567 m (5,141 ft)
Highest elevation
(Mount of the Temple of the Restoration)
1,780 m (5,840 ft)
Population
 • Total3,353,039

Adrien is a city located in the Ashura Province of Packilvania. It is a holy site of Paxism and a site of pilgrimage. The first feline Sultan of Packilvania, Amhoud I was crowned here to mark the restoration of the Packilvanian monarchy and to reestablish the religious authority of the Sultan over Paxism which had been broken by Sultana Zerah Demir IV due to her marriage with Thadeus I who was a Thaerist.

History

The city of Adrien was established in 1200 BCE to be a new capital of the Kingdom of Yehudah. King Adrien II of Yehudah, after whom the city is named, ordered the construction of a fortress and city walls. His entourage and clan built huts and other structures within the city walls. The city was built on the banks of the Ufrata River. This allowed the people of the city to travel on boats and ships to Akas Akil further upstream. King Joral II conquered the Kingdom of Wala, taking their Capital and Akas Akil.

King Suleiman of Yehudah, resided in the city around 400 BCE. His Kingdom was deeply troubled by a drought that made the Ufrata River run dangerously low. He went into the wilderness beyond the city of Adrien to pray and fast. He claimed to be visited by an Esma in the form a flash of lighting in the sky. He claimed that a light fell on him and voice rung from the heavens instructing him to complete the work of Prophet Besmali. He said that the wisdom that Noi had brought through Prophet Besmali and after him in the form of his Disciples need to be gathered and the infiltration of heathen books had to be expunged so that Noi could once again release the waters of the Ufrata.

He returned to Adrien and ordered a scholar from the Dama civilisation known as Jerome of Damaclion to begin putting together all the Writings that met standards of canonicity as Suleiman defined them. Suleiman himself penned several Writings that were added to the Vagumar. Many of them were letters to Paxist cities and religious leaders about spiritual and ritual matters. Jerome thus compiled the works and after decades of effort he presented the final copy to the aging Suleiman. He ordered a Council to be called in Adrien to canonised the scriptures he had written. He invited scholars not only from Yehudah but from surrounding Kingdoms. Many of them were eager to participate in the project. They respected Suleiman as being of the country from which Prophet Besmali originated.

The Council had many robust debates and deliberated for over a year until they came at last to the final version. Scribes went to work making copies so that the Councillors could take them to their respective cities and nations. Suleiman of Yehudah passed away. His dynasty's last patrilineal heir died and a Council was summoned in Bingol to elect a new King. Ashganaf I was elected as King and his sons followed him and continued to rule from Adrien. The Ashganafite dynasty built a new capital in Ilkamiyad. They conquered the Buweydin Confederacy which lived in the desert oasis beyond Wala. They renamed the country from Yehudah to Bakil.

Adrien remained a prominent city. The Ashganafite dynasty was overthrown by the Dyrmiad dynasty in 30 BCE. The Dyrmiad's died out in 50 CE and the Kharmifite dynasty took over. They decided to unify the structures around the place which they believed Suleiman's old Palace to be and construct the Temple of the Restoration to commemorate the writing of the Vagumar. The construction nearly bankrupted the Kingdom. The building stood for nearly 800 years.

The Ixomid dynasty from the Kelmadeen Confederacy with its capital in Shabrahan around took over Adrien and Ilkamiyad in 370 CE. The Rushanite family led a resistance against Ixomid take over and ruled over Wala, and Akas Akil. They declared themselves the True Kingdom of Bakil. They conquered Adrien and overthrew the Ixonid dynasty. After a Palace coup, the Nehadim dynasty took over in 500 CE. Their descendent Iktan the Devout inherited the Throne.

He heard of a King by the name of Obed III from Bingol who wanted to add his own Writings to the Vagumar. He was deeply unsettled by a ruler from a faraway foreign land adding to a book that his ancestor put together. Furthermore, he heard that the ruler in question was trying to introduce ideas such as demigods and a marriage between Pax and Noi.

He sent Duqar the Wise, a scholar at the Library of Wala with a cavalcade of a thousand people to Bingol to investigate. It took them a year to make it, but they eventually found it as they travelled first by land on camels and then through the Meked River. They documented the lush beauty of the Southern Kingdoms. On reaching the city walls of Bingol, they proclaimed themselves ambassadors of the King of Bakil.

Although the Bingolites spoke a language that they struggled to understand, they eventually got the gist of the message and took a copy back with a translator. This book called the Haagemar, had a copy of the Vagumar, which was mostly written in the language of Akas Akil, and another element writing in the language of Bingol. Iktan was furious not only by this addition but by the practices that Obed had enabled on his court such as the worship of idols but there is reason to suggest that he envied the lush beauty of the Southern Kingdoms. He ordered a grand army to be made and placed it under the command of generals who had been in many wars.

He sent messengers to the surrounding Kingdoms to tell them of what Obed was doing and to exhort them to act. Over the course of a few years, this grand army was assembled. The scholars and scribes of the time write that the forges were overflowing with the molten iron that would make the swords, armour and shields that would be worn by the soldiers on their way to conquest.

On horseback, Iktan led his army on a conquest of the Southern Kingdoms. By this time, many of them were adopting the Haagemar. They took The Kingdom of Meked. Then they took the Kingdom of Tashkar. Iktan the Devout was a ruthless ruler who had many people wiped out and libraries destroyed to prevent the spread of the Haagen contagion, as he is said to have put it. The Kingdoms of Mochtan, Zahayad and Ohindawo also fell. One scholar said that the floodgates of Bakil had been released and a flood of blood filled the land. The city of Kin was quick to fall as fires burnt the fields of grain around it.

Surrounded on all sides and indecisive, King Iktan the Devout laid siege to Bingol. He took it with force and killed Obed II whom he described as a carnivorous animal like a hyena. He saw the splendour of Bingol and declared himself King over it. He declared that all the realms he conquered would be part of the Great Realm of Bakil and he would be high king. Those rulers who succumbed and obeyed would be preserved and those who supported him were exalted with power and Kingdoms larger than those they had joined with him. And thus, the Bakil Afhana was proclaimed. Adrien lost its place as Iktan's capital in place of the much larger and grander Bingol.

After over 250 years of Iktanite rule, a fire rampaged through the Temple of the Restoration. It was believed to have been caused internally by a spilt lamp oil but exacerbated by the burning of the fields and the unusually hot and dry weather. Much of the stone structure survived. As the heir of Bakil, Melkezedek the Great was expected to repair it. Torkhaydek, a priest, began to claim that Melkezedek the Great was cursed for sin. There was a protest against him led by Torkhaydek that began to spread including in Adrien.

Melkezedek had to practically empty the treasury to repair the structure. He also expanded it substantially, rebuilding much of it from marble and granite. He also decided that the priests were too rebellious. He called the Council of Bingol to approve additions to the Vagumar that would create the Magisterium, an authority of scholars to rule over the Priesthood. Thus the Magisterium was established.

Adrien continued to be the home of the Iktanite dynasty but the empire began to collapse as cities rebelled and the last High King of the Iktanite dynasty, Jezril IV. The Kingdom disintegrated as princes and kings rebelled around the 1100s. The Magisterium retained political control of Adrien and established it as their head quarters. In the late 13th century, High King Ishak I.

The Supreme Magister Imodin III accepted Ishak I's letter that the Magisterium recognise him as the High King in return for the reestablishment of its authority through the new Bakil Afhana. Imodin III accepted it and lent his armies to Ishak I to continue to spread the new Bakil Afhana which by then was colloquially known as Bakhilfaniya. Thus, Adrien came under the rule of the Zubraynite dynasty. They had the Supreme Magister relocate to Bingol and rule the Magisterium from the Temple of the Authority.