Southeastern Parania

**Southeastern Parania**, also known as the Paranian Southeast is a geographic region in Parania that generally includes Hartnett, Kosna and most of Obnivir as well as adjacent portions of Minuka, Sidrova and, ironically, northernmost Mecirhan. The largest cities in the region are Sharikba, Hanara, Seraph, Bearingsham and Victoria. Much of the area was apart of Mecirhan before most of the 19th century.

## History

### (15th Century, the Beginning)

The region now known as SE. Parania was known as the crossroads of Cheskachena and Pasia and a very popular traveling route for northern and western travelers bound for NE. Parania, Gouba, or E. Pasia to go through. The area was once considered the northernmost part of Pasia and was geographically apart of the Pasian continent up until the 1920s with Bearingsham, formerly called Ariasise (Mecirhanni for "river land") being the northernmost point of Pasia. The region was very diverse in natural habitats and was home to deserts and scrublands with very little vegetation and very little water, to large, wintery mountains with taiga forest to rich, grassy and overflowing swamplands teeming with a variety of waterplants. Due to how diverse in natural regions SE. Parania was, it became a warground between the Cheskachenans and the Mecirhannians to retrieve the land for their own benefit, caught in between were the people native to the land the ethnic Kosnans. Somewhere around the SW. Hartnett and W. Kosna lied the city of Hanara which sat at the border between the lands of the Mecirhannis and the ethnic Kosnans, the area that is now known as Hanara was known as the *gift from Heaven* due to being placed in such a remarkable spot that allows its residents to get easy access to the nearby prairies, deserts, ocean coastlines, forests and rivers but was declared under neither Kosna or Mecirhan's rule at the time. Hanara was the site of the Mecirhanni-Kosnan War and was to be awarded to the winning country by the judging King of the Two Kingdoms, a strong and powerful ruler who at the time reigned both Mecirhan and Kosna. The two countries wanted to fight because of the strong opportunities this area could hold. On July 31st, 1433, the war came to a close, and the monarch gifted the city to the Kosnans. The people of Hanara built large stone walls at the southern end of the city to block any easy access from the Mecirhannis, and they also covered the walls in shrubbery such as grapevines and roses to make the walls harder to climb up on and to add beauty to them. At the time, Hanara was located very close to the vicinity of Mecirhan, which caused the residents to fear that they would be a vulnerable target if any attacks were to take place. Adbel Anab, the city's ruler at the time, enacted strict laws requiring that only Kosnans be admitted, that guards guard the city's perimeter with weapons, that outsiders be killed, and that their corpses be dumped in the nearby Obnavira River, buried deep in the nearby prairies, deserts, or forests.

### (16th Century, Sharikba and the extension of Hartnett and Obnavira)

Eventually, as the city of Hanara began to grow significantly, so did its population, a bit too much. On the night of Christmas Eve, the current ruler of Hanara declared an announcement that he'll pick select households to transfer to a new colony being built in the eastern portion of Kosna known as Sharikba. After the select households were picked, on Christmas Day they were set to transfer east to Sharikba and rode on camel and horseback across the scrublands that sat between the two cities. Soon, Sharikba grew significantly and, unlike Hanara, the ruler of Sharikba was on good terms with the ruler of the Mecirhannis and it was shocking for the ethnic Kosnans from Hanara to see so many Kosnans and Mecirhannis living together in such good manner. The friendliness of Sharikba stunned Hanarrans who disagreed with trusting Mecirhannians moving to a city of Kosna and the two rulers began a war that was designated in the halfway point (Now known as Lahanali) where they began a bloody rampage upon one another. The rulers of Sharikba won and the Hanaran ruler surrendered and offered the city of Hanara to the Sharikban leader. As a peacemaker with the Mecirhannian ruler, the Mecirhannian offered him a piece of land that was the same land that sat directly south of Hanara and the country shaped into what is known as Kosna today.