Basan

**Basan**, officially the **Sublime Basanian Imperial State** (Basanian: 𐎲𐎠𐏁𐎠𐎵𐏁𐎡 𐏐 𐎲𐎠𐎾𐎠 *Bâšânšahr-e Bâlâ*; Oghuz: 𐎲𐎠𐏁𐎠𐎵𐏁𐏃𐎡𐎽𐎡 𐏐 𐎲𐎠𐎾𐎠 *Bâşânşehir-i Bâlâ*), also colloquially referred to as the **Basanian Empire** (Basanian: 𐎲𐎠𐏁𐎠𐎴𐏁𐏂 *Bâšânšahr*; 𐎲𐎠𐏁𐎠𐎴𐏁𐏃𐎡𐎼 *Bâşânşehir,* lit, "Land of the Basanians"), is a multi-ethnic human state in Central Isciterra. It is bordered by [placeholder].

## History

#### Age of Pain

##### Roshanid Dynasty

With the aftermath of the Brumalian genocide, the previous preeminent power of the region, the Caelian Empire, significantly lost de facto control over [insert what they referred to as present day Basan] due to high political instability which would later lead to the empire's collapse as a coherent political institution. The empire's political collapse created a power vacuum in the region which subsequently resulted to a series of dispersion and expansion by the Basanian peoples around 32 LE known as the Basanian Dispersion after their emergence from the Alborz mountain range.

Artifact analysis in the Alborz mountain range led to various assertions that these groups of Basanians were not nomadic settlement in nature but a rump state's reconquest to restore the Roshanid Dynasty, a Basanian-led multiethnic imperial state which was recently subjugated and annexed into the Caelian imperial system prior to the Brumalian incursions. Limited sources during this brief period had indications that the short-lived Roshanid restoration began viewing its political entity as a Caelian successor state prior to its dissolution in 109 LE after Khavad's rebellion established the Kurushid Empire.

##### Kurushid Dynasty

Khavad, the satrap of the [placeholder region], rebelled against the Roshanids and established the Kurushid Dynasty in honor of his grandfather, Kurush.

Work in progress

The Kurushid Dynasty also saw the conceptualization of Basan or the Land of the Basanians as a proto-national identity.

#### Age of Sorrow

##### Tughri Artilate

Suffering from political instability, various plagues, and increased autonomy among the various satraps, the Kurushid Dynasty was designated by Dawajik-Ātā as the first target among the Tughri Artilate's religious driven military expansion known as the Struggle Against Evil. Work in progress

##### Rustamid Artilate

More military conquests blah blah. Work in progress.

##### Ardashirid Artilate

Work in progress.

The Agmaic Scientific Revolution started when a large number of texts of local and foreign origin regarding science, mathematics, theology, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, and technology were translated into Basanian script. Historians credit the beginning of the translation movement to the foundation of the Khirad-khāna (Basanian: 𐎧𐎡𐎼𐎭𐎧𐎠𐎴 *Xerad-xâne*; Oghuz: *H̱ired-ẖâne*, lit. "House of Wisdom"), also known as the **Grand Library of Ardakan**, a public academy, library, and intellectual center that is considered to be one of the oldest universities in the world of Arka. Various sources also credit the success in the Agmaic Scientific Revolution to the increase in trade links with Siaca (or whoever invented paper) which introduced paper-making technology and increased the quantity of available scholarly works.

The Agmaic Scientific Revolution also marked the total eradication of magic as a practice among various Agmaic polities as religious law tightened its regulation against magic practitioners. Varying sources claimed that various methods were employed by religious authority such as the demolition of magical institutions as well as mass persecution and massacres against suspected magical scholars and practioners. However, the latter is a more internationally accepted theory as various analysis of reported mass graves such as the Massacre of Kofarnihon, an event referred in the work Secret History of the Ardashirids as the Pâk kardan (lit. *purification*) was estimated to have resulted to the deaths of more than 80,000 suspected warlocks and witches.