Dae Yul

Dae Yul Niru-Guk or The Great Yul Empire (Yangeul: 대율니루국, Guja: 大律 帝國) was a state ruling the Yulean peninsular and the Wutae plains (locally known as the North and South regions) in North Western Tyensya until 1896 AZ. Dae Yul is one of the only nations in Tyensya with a continuous dynasty the other being Koma. Dae Yul shares a land border to the north east with Huaxia, the tribal Icelands to the north and a maritime border with their closest ally Koma through the Azure Sea. It's capital is Yanseong with Dalbeol as its second largest city.

Peninsular Yulea was first settled by proto Yuleans coming from the northern steppes in roughly 2200 BZ and conquering the Kulun colonies there. At first splitting into tribal domains, then city statelets. Eventually in roughly the modern Hwanghae province the various tribes and statelets would unify into the Majin Kingdom in the year 2078 BZ. In the south and rest of the peninsular various tribal confederations would emerge. After Majin's fall in 500 BZ - 300 BZ, the 3 Yan confederations would emerge eventually becoming the 3 Kingdoms of Dalhae, Byeokjin and Hwaryeong until they themselves would be united under Taejo (Shin Heun) the first Niruha (Emperor) of Yul in 658 AZ - 670 AZ. Yul would last over 1000 years before falling to the Desculian Huaxia in 1896. During its 1238 existence the Yul Dynasty was a major regional power, influencing the many nations and cultures of Tyensya.

## Etymology

The native name Dae Yul Niruguk simply means Great Yul Empire. The Guja (Kulun Script) character for Yul: 律, can be read as law or rule. Another local name for Dae Yul is Samyan meaning 3 Yan, referring to the 3 Kingdoms and before them 3 confederations ruled by the Yan people. Although these days Yan is used to refer to all 3 groups of Yuleanic peoples. The exonym Yulea comes from the dynasty name; Yul, it comes from the Aetrian language as was first used in the 1500's AZ.

## History

### Samyan Period

#### Proto 3 Kingdoms Period

After the fall of Majin in 500 BZ due to unknown causes, many Majin nobles and people fled to the tribal lands on the peninsula and the northern region forming their own statelets. While former Majin was brought under Tan Dynasty control through the commandery system, in the south and west 3 tribal confederacies formed; the Balyan in the north of the peninsula, Kalyan in the south west of the peninsula and Seonyan in the south east of the Peninsula. This was known as the proto 3 Kingdoms period and not much is known due to the lack of written evidence. Early Yulean Niruha's (Emperors) would refer to themselves as xx of the Balyan tribe when talking to the Nyeojin chieftains of the North Region.

### 3 Kingdoms Period: 57 BZ - 658 AZ

#### Byeokjin

Byeokjin was the founded by possible northern nomads claiming Majin decent. The legend goes that before the founding of Byeokjin there were 6 villages led by chiefs, wanting to form a kingdom of their own (at this time a city state), they met in the serim forest to discuss which of them would lead such a state, each chief pled their case until the debate got heated. The debate was interrupted by a babies giggling, one of the village chiefs Lee Rang-i investigated the source of the sound and came across a well, inside there was a baby boy laid in a golden box playing with a Vermillion Bird, when the chiefs gathered they knew they had the answer. Each chief would help raise the child until his 12 birthday when all submitted to him as the first King of Byeokjin his name Gim Jobun. During the reign of the 4th King the King went on a walk down the Geumgang river and discovered a giant gourd with a baby inside, he would adopt the baby he would be names Bak Jin and his 7th generation descendant would become King of Byeokjin, The reigning king would switch between Bak and Gim until the end of Byeokjin. Overtime Byeokjin would slowly dominate or conquer the other states of the Seonyan Confederacy, fully forming in the year 195 AZ.

#### Dalhae

Dalhae was founded by a mix of Pre Nyeojin peoples and Majin refugees