The Kingdom of Muriel

## Status:

Extinct with old territory now under The Province Kingdom of Ahmir under The Empire of Atrya.

## List of Rulers:

1. Self proclaimed goddess Muriel
2. Queen Aven (daughter of Muriel).
3. King Kumar (son of Queen Aven).
4. King Dima (son of King Kumar).
5. King Jezkim (past general for King Dima before usurping the throne by secretly slaying King Dima shortly before the first battle against Ahmir).

## History of The Kingdom:

During the days of Jarmuth, chief of Ahmir, the father of Jazer, the father of Reuben, the father of King Haza of Ahmir, a woman by the name of Muriel lived as a poor and a spoiled brat, demanding attention and thought of herself as higher than others despite her position in life. Everyone would mock her, then one day, she lost her job and home, and lived in the streets since then homeless.

She resulted to becoming an harlot and slept with many men in return for money. During one of these affairs, she concieved and bore a daughter named Aven. She then took a break from her whoredom and began to raise her daughter in the street, at times she was tempted to kill her but she chose not to do so, due to the fact that people were seeing them both being homeless so they get them free money, so she used her daughter to milk money from them.

She then began to see a random man perform miracles for his god, then she chose to do the same but in exchange for money, and she began to have followers (except she falsely performed her miracles and no one noticed, and she always covered them up and lied). When she had around a hundred followers is when she proclaimed herself as a Goddess, and her followers worshiped her and multiplied in great number.

Muriel then demanded for a kingdom to be built for herself, and within two months, a palace was built for her and her daughter in the Valley of Dalton, but at the time the city was walless and had very little homes, so she commanded her followers to move in and build their homes, and they did so. Then she commanded her followers to build an altar to her and to sacrifice animals and their first born children to her, when asked, "Shouldn't thou make an example for us? Sacrifice thine own daughter to prove that we're supposed to follow thee." Muriel replied to them, "Uh- my daughter Aven has been chosen to rule in my stead after I ascend up to my heavenly kingdom, build the altar and do as I command or thine own family shall perish!" Her followers then build the altar, appointed priests, and sacrificed animals, and their firstborn children, and made them pass by the fire.

Once Princess Aven was grown, she wedded and had a son named Kumar. Muriel hated her son in law so much, that she secretly smote him and burned his remains, and buried them in the valley without her daughter knowing. Afterward her evil caught up to her and she was filled with diseases, and then she died.

Then her daughter Aven reigned in her stead as a Queen, and chose to not be called a Goddess, nor her descendants after her. Queen Aven reigned in the land with peace till King Tolah of Adah (who were located in the province of Joah in Ahmir before Ahmir explored that land) the discovered their existance and waged war with them. When Queen's Aven's son Prince Kumar was grown, he took up a thousand men of Muriel, and went and constantly smote Adah, and they suffered great losses. Queen Aven died worshipping her mother, believing her to be a Goddess, and her son Kumar became King of Muriel.

During King Kumar's reign, he smote Adah and all of the inhabitants, and took no person captive, and they became an extinct people as he left the place nearly desolate and they tore down all buildings and commanded for no one to live there. He smote and took the head of their king Tolah, and offered his head to the altar of his grandmother. King Kumar later wedded and had a son named Dima. King Kumar later had more homes built in Muriel and had walls fortified around the city with one gate on each side, and then he died. And his son Dima reigned in his stead.

King Dima prior to his coronation married, after becoming king his wife conceived and gave birth to a daughter and named her Ashmua, but his wife died of childbirth. So King Dima raised their daughter as a single parent, and they worshipped Muriel their ancestor together as she grew.

## First Meeting With The Kingdom of Ahmir:

Prince Menachem of Ahmir rode and saw the kingdom in the valley of Dalton and rode and told his father the king of Ahmir. They traveled and entered the kingdom of Muriel. While there, King Haza of Ahmir and King Dima of Muriel made peace and became allies.

## Collapse:

Princess Ashmua and Prince Menachem had an affair with one another and she concieved by him outside of marriage, angering Muriel and causing them to break their alliance with Ahmir and declaring war on them. Princess Ashmua then denounced her city, her people, and her goddess and left to live with Ahmir. Before they attacked, King Dima was secretly slain by his general Jezkim, and he usurped the throne and became king of Muriel. Then they waged war and had a good start but Ahmir won in the end, wiping out every Murielite inhabitant with Ashmua as the last survivor, and she was granted title of Princess of Ahmir and became wife to Prince Menachem of Ahmir.

## Culture:

They perform pagan rituals and sacrifice animals and babies to the altar of Muriel.

## Belifs:

They believe that their founder self proclaimed Goddess Muriel can perform miracles and founded the kingdom as their promised land. And they sacrifice animals and their first born child to Muriel to atone for their sins.