The King is dead

The Kingdom of Yianushir was in mourning, as their long lived and greatly loved king has finally passed away after a long battle with illness. After spending his life fighting for the freedom of his Kingdom from the clutches of the cruel Varshan Empire and after that picking up the pieces after the brutal occupation. The wars with Varsha has drained the coffers of the Kingdom, leading it into a path of poverty and crime, with the image of poor and criminal desert dwellers becoming a well known stereotype for people from the Erigiresh among the Varshan peoples. With all wealth having been looted by their old overlords there was little left to rule and yet the King was able to begin to rebuilt his state.
The Kingdom would be extremely decentralised with local towns having their own armies, farms and tax systems as the central government was unable to exert control over them. The King tried his best to try and bring the cities closer together by setting up a group of tax collectors and a small army of professional soldiers, this would be his magnum opus that he spent much of his life working upon. Centralising the religious code was also a huge driver for him as he was a very pious man, with him refusing to become "corrupted" in the eyes of Ilkhur by having an heir. Many of his governors would plead with him to at least adopt a son so that the Kingdom would continue after his death, he refused to do so.
His final days where spent bed ridden and in prayer, his death had been expected for many years since he fell from a camel and breaking his back. This meant power moved to a group of council of nobles who spent many years working out a plan for their lieges death, ruling out accepting princes from Enkidu or Urudik as they where seen and aloof and inept. They considered a prince from Varsha but this was quickly shot down. And just as they had ran out of ideas a new monarch entered the stage, the Mailk of Kisuran, Nanuk. He was a Southern Erigi native who was a devout Ilkhurist and proven himself adept at rebuilding and re-unifying a broken state, and so it was decided that when the King of Yianushir died the Kingdom would be joined with Kisuran in a personal union.
After his death was made public Nanuk would race East to be crowned, and after he was he begun to implement many of the same reforms that he had done in Kisuran, with roads, mines and farms being sprung up all over the region. Diamond mines would soon become a huge part of the local economy as they where exported south, east and west in exchange for all sorts of goods. A new string of border forts was also commissioned, with records saying over 120 construction sites being worked at one time, this was to deter Varshan aggression into the traditionally sparsely defended North.
Education would also be brought to the masses, with children being taught basic reading skills and further education being offered to those who showed exceptional talent in learning. Scribes from Yianushir would soon become renowned for their skill and prowess with a tablet and would become the back bone of the larger record keeping systems of Kisuran.
Category:Erigi History