Kirif (City)

Kirif was a city located in the northern desert of Haven, the city was founded approximately during the 10th millennium BTE by Kush the Explorer, Narid's firstborn. Kush named this city in honor of his son Kirif, who was the first king of the city. It was the only pre-Jagdasian city in the south of the Rathnir continent. The city was attacked and destroyed by a people who migrated from Jagdas around 2 TE, probably by those who would later found Uldarash.
== Story ==
=== The foundation ===
From what we read in the ancient texts of the library of the Silver Citadel, it is known that Kush, after having first explored the entire continent of Rathnir in about 9 years of sea travel, returns to the Haven to his father Narid. Kush, after showing up at his father's tent, he tells him about what he saw during his journey and above all about how some northern peoples lived in houses made of bricks which are more resistant than tents. So Kush begins to teach his people how to make mud bricks and within twenty years the camp becomes a real city, in the year of completion Kush has a son and he calls him Kirif, and that name is also given to the city. Sixteen years pass, and Kush is now on his deathbed and has not been able to finish the construction of the walls, Kirif is then summoned by his father one last time. In this last conversation Kush appoints him king of that city which he built, after this Kush takes his last breath.
=== Kirif's domain ===
After his father's funeral, young Kirif orders the completion of the walls started by Kush, completing them in six years. Meanwhile many tribes of Naridites began to live outside the walls, so Kirif ordered dwellings to be built in the external area, it is claimed that with the arrival of the other Naridites the city reached a population of around 6 or 7 thousand, something never seen in southern Rathnir before the Jagdasians. Kirif during his lifetime built a fleet of trading ships that reached all over Rathnir, thus the continent-wide trading period began. When he too passed away and joined his ancestors in eternal rest, all the people mourned his passing. Many say that no king of his greatness ever arose again.
=== The arrival of the Jagdasians and the fall ===
Ancient texts mention that in the following millennia the city almost always maintained the same condition, it was one of the last populations to emerge from the Bronze Age and to have a real army. The great column of the city which still exists today was built around the 50th BTE to commemorate the great king Kirif. In 2 TE, an undefined Jagdas people arrived near the city, perhaps the people who founded Uldarash. They saw the wealth and prosperity of the city and were impressed, but their leaders became envious of this and greedy to take possession of the city's riches, so they laid siege to it. After 6 months of war the Jagdasians entered the city and sacked it and almost all the inhabitants including the king were enslaved and taken south, but before leaving the Jagdasians razed the walls and as many houses as possible to the ground. The few who managed to escape went to the islands of the sea north of the Haven, where they founded the city of Kush there, in honor of the great explorer.
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