Nahar

Nahar is an old trading port on the Kbrilma Sea, founded in the Bronze Age by the Arta Xorti. For much of its existence simply a quiet city state nestled in a desert valley, Nahar rose to prominence under the rule of the brilliant general Ruman the Great, who conquered neighboring Zirais and founded the Nahari Empire. The Nahari Empire would eventually become one of the Dual Empires under Savirai rule, but Nahar remained one of the most important trading ports on continental Athis. In RM 509 Nahar was thoroughly sacked by vengeful Gallatene armies during the Peregrination, and left mostly abandoned for several years thereafter. Upon returning to the south and assuming the title of Emperor of Nahar, the Halyr Altaro Javan made the reconstruction of the city a top priority. Money was poured into Nahar and veterans of the many campaigns of the Great Ordeal settled there to jumpstart the repopulation of the city. Javan seems to have intended Nahar to be a test case for a hybrid Gallatene-Arta Xorti culture binding his empire together, but his disappearance and division of that empire put a halt to any such grand schemes. Nahar once again was the capital of the Nahari Empire, at least for a time. Conflict with the ascendant Daharai and the Javani Roshate brought the second Nahari Empire down after a relatively brief existence, and Nahar passed into Javani hands. Subsequently the Javani Roshate itself would be subsumed into the Order-dominated Halyrate.
Throughout these changes of ownership, the descendants of the Gallatene, Taudo, Accan, Savirai and Stetin veterans planted there by Javan remained. Although the united culture that the Halyr had dreamt of never quite emerged, Nahar nevertheless became a melting pot, a hotbed of innovative cultural expression, and one of the seeds from which emerged the Gallatene creole and the amorphous, syncretized culture that would spread across much of the Halyrate. 
Category:Cities
Category:Arta Xorti
Category:Athis