1st Imperial Dynasty, 1
1st Imperial Dynasty, 1
The first record start dated around this time, marked down as year 1 of the imperial reign.
The name of this empress is lost to time, however it was her line that established the law of succession in royalty, where the appointed daughter of the current empress would succeed her in her passing or abdication.
1st Imperial Dynasty, 30
1st Imperial Dynasty, 30
Contradicted by older tales, the official tablets of the imperial court set this as the date of its completion.
The city that now lies in ruin and abandonment still lingers as a crumpled figure of its greatness. "The city of colours" it is recalled in song.
Now it is but a overgrown outline of ruins dotting the landscape north of the new imperial city. Many have forgotten where it lies and there are no longer roads that lead to it.
1st Imperial Dynasty, 380
1st Imperial Dynasty, 380
Recorded forever is the name of the first and only male emperor: Tiriagan.
Said to have died while trying to run from his palace, from a mob of his angry people. He tripped and fell down a rocky slope into the sea.
1st Imperial Dynasty, 380
1st Imperial Dynasty, 380
Following the death of the boy emperor, the gods were enraged. The sea churned and the earth rumbled for three days. When folk finally emerged from their refuges, most homes lie in piles of rubble, some being seemingly swallowed by the earth or sea itself. Cities crumbled as if made of wet sand, among them the first imperial city.
The watch towers on the coastal islands fell, disappearing as if they had never been erected in the first place.
1nd Imperial Dynasty, 385
1nd Imperial Dynasty, 385
Ten years after the death of the boy emperor, a craftsman by the name of Ekkupi-Adad was visited by a the goddess of rulers Shiptu, who entrusted him with the mission of building a new imperial city, only when finished would she choose a new leader of his people.
With this he rallied is people and committed all his life to the design and construction of the new imperial city. He vowed that all of his line would swear as min, to finish the new imperial city.
1st Imperial Dynasty, 451
1st Imperial Dynasty, 451
finished by his two sons and two daughters, new new imperial city was finished. gleaming on the banks of the river Mur - the river of gods.
2nd Imperial Dynasty, 1
2nd Imperial Dynasty, 1
One day the sky went dark, the gods blocking out the sun. After it emerged from their blanket a child was born, the only child born that day in the city. Her mother carried her to the palace temple and offered her to the priest, proclaiming that it must be the new empress. No priest believed her words and they sought to pierce her with their swords, for daring to enter such a sacred place, yet their blades seared in their hands, and their tunics lit on fire, their helms boiled their heads and any who dared to draw a weapon perished.
The same day she was proclaimed the new empress, ruling into her old age over a new empire in prosperity.
