The city lives

In the far west of the Kingdom of Yianushir, half swallowed by the desert and worn away by centuries of win stands the once mighty city of Ilkhuruna. Its massive walls towered over the surroundings, not having been torn down by time just yet, a mass exodus that had left the city abandoned, the cause for this abandonment being well documented to be a massive famine that left hundreds of thousands at risk of famine. The high priests would lead many to the city of Enkidu, with other moving to Yianushir and Kisuran and many other opting to return to their nomadic routes.
Many of the priesthood in Yianushir and Kisuran has wished to see the city brought back to its former glory, and with the final blessing from their Malik the reconstruction would finally begin. It would begin with the appointment of a new High Priest for the city, with Ilu Sang being made Sangzarur Anûšĭrĭ of Ilkhuruna. He would begin his rule of the city by inviting Ilkhuists from all over the region to resettle the city, with many descendants of the refugees taking up the opportunity and setting up markets and farms. Trade deals would be made with merchants from Kisuran to ship in grains and other goods in and out of the city.
Slowly the city would begin to blossom into a large centre for trade between Varshas west coast and the Erigi interior and getting rich off of the tax. Along side the re-population
of the city Mailk Nanuk would also have himself crowned as the protector of all Ilkhurists across the world, the Rashur of Enkidu would see this as a direct challenge to his authority over his own Kingdom, with the Loyalty of the Ilkhurists inside his cities being put into question. This, along with a rise in worship to the traditional Karuthēn gods in the territory of Elderline, would lead to him making the royal decree that all citizens of Enkidu would worship the traditional Pantheon or face death. He would also ban all worship to Ilkhur, decreeing him to be a false god all his doing merely being the work of Lašĭras, the goddess of Fertility and Motherhood. This, unsurprisingly, was met with massive amounts of resistance, as all iconography of either Ilklhur or spirit temples where burnt or destroyed. Within a week protests would break out in Enkidu and Elderline, being easily put down by the mighty armies of the city. This wouldn’t deter the protesters and soon it wouldn’t be uncommon to see shops burnt down and it be blamed of religious extremeists.
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