Naan

Naan, officially the Tsardom of Naan, is a vassal of Chimeria.
== History ==
=== Era of Chains ===
The records of Naannite history are ones that are poorly kept, unscribed and unspoken by those that do know it, for who wants to know the horrid truth of what happened to their ancestors? The pain and bloodshed that came from the heavy handed fist of the immortal beings who first traveled to the land of Zarilyia in search of more colonial holdings to increase their might amongst themselves. These immortal beings were passed from word of mouth as the Jindari, a race of immortals hellbent on achieving superiority over the world of Abexilas no matter the cost to others, and sometimes not even themselves.
The Jindari held many skills that allowed them to achieve they're short term goals, from powerful military leadership to a deep understanding of the art of channeling, allowing them to achieve magical might unseen except by some of the greatest wizards and eldest of dragons. They however suffered from a lack of population, and saw fit to build they're colonies on the back of the one resource they had an abundance of, slaves.
The Jindari brought with them whip and lash to the natives of what is now Naan, a splinter group of the Solonari who had migrated further south in an effort to escape religious persecution from an overbearing kingdom that records have lost the name of. The Jindari found in them a race fit to build their empire, all while the kingdom fought them on their borders, trying their best to hold back the might of the seemingly endless channelers and beasts until eventually they fell to ruin, many fleeing north and west to seek refuge in other lands.
By then had finally set up their foothold, establishing the city of Narrshundi as the capital of this colony, in honor of the first Jindari ever to be birthed under the twin moons of their homeland. They sought to then consolidate their rule, for one could not rely on slaves to keep to themselves. They took those Solonari under their empire and in a great gathering of bodies and magic sought to push a deep change upon them. They sought to destroy the bindings that allowed those Solonari to keep their skins, seeking to push them into new humanoid containers to create a type of homunculus, the Azuja. For each ten lives of the Solonari, one of them came to life, without memory of those soul that had gone into their creation as they awoke into their reality to find themselves surrounded by corpses. The Jindari immediately set to work the thousands of beings they had created to cleanse the site of their genocide, burning the bodies that had once been the vessels of their souls.
The Azuja had been created to fill in the lack of manpower the Jindari suffered from, sitting in the middle of their hierarchy below the Jindari proper, forming a middle class in the empire of slaves, filling the daily administrative roles and handling guarding of the empire and her cities, as well as put down the near constant slave revolts that happened under the constantly expanding empire. To aid them in this task the Azuja were given many physical attributes, from enhanced strength and stone-like skin, to an affinity for channeling that left some Jindari paranoid of their power.
The empire continued like this for roughly 600 years, the Azuja growing greater and greater in size as the empire constantly empowered their numbers with fresh slaves to allow their work to continue, until a small rebellion among the Azuja sprouted, leading to the destruction of a border city at their hands and the deaths of the Jindari nobility of that city. In fear of the power of the created Azuja, the Jindari leaders of the city of Narrshundi ordered that the Azuja of Narrshundi take their lives. These obedient Azuja obeyed their masters, taking their own lives in deference to their masters.
This would be what would lead to the end of the Jindari empire, and the beginning of the Era of Swords, for when the new spread to the Azuja of what had happened in Narrshundi, they could no longer sit back and allow the deaths of their people.
===Era of Swords===
The Era of Swords begins with Azuja and slaves rising up in Jindari cities, tying down resources the Jindari needed to deal with a new northern threat, a race of sentient mushrooms who called themselves the Scrooms. The Jindari tried their best to resist the change and these threats, but with new and new ones popping up, they could only hope to hold up in Narrshundi and allow the storm to pass them. The Azuja refused to let this happen, and hundreds of them gathered at Narrshundi where the Jindari held behind their wards'. The collective Azuja, under a leader only recorded in stories as 'Tokar' had the Azuja create a spell-plague to wipe out the Jindari inside of Narrshundi. The magic was powered by their own lives, and by allowing it to consume their very life force, the Azuja were able to bypass the Wards of Narrshundi and release the magic into the capital. This would be the official end of the Jindari empire, with nearly 90% of their population dying over the following weeks. 
The world they left behind was horribly divided, unable to be reformed under any one Azuja as the empire splintered into various city states. each vying for control over the world that had been left behind. The city states of note during this time are Narrshundi, Arrakeen, Byharnum, and Satalo, each lead by various factions, many with Azuja majorities who had stayed in the southern lands of the empire as it was the only real home they knew of, unable to sail the sea for the stone-skin that increased their weight to the point they would sink under any water rather than swim. 
Satalo, which sat upon the eastern border of Narrshundi, would find itself in constant conflict with the cities, the two clashing regularly over borders.
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