Crefsharlos

Crefsharlos, formally known as Losiaran Crefsharlos, seated in the middle of the desert Nesulo, was an ancient city, recorded as the first in the world. Though small in size, Crefsharlos was a wonder of the ancient world and considered the hearth of humanity by modern scholars.

## History

A network had been building around the oasis called Crefsharlos, essentially an enormous market for the nomads of what is today Kubra since 1,300 N.I, but the city was not named and Shar Ia did not appear until 2,600 N.I, after the language First South had been recorded.

Shar Ia died in 2629, at which Stin Ia, regarded as the first and greatest scholar and prophet the world has ever seen, appeared and began teaching. Stin Ia left the city sometime after. A power struggle emerged and the city plunged into civil war, known as Nenefstiaran, and led to the creation of a council of five called the Shar Nawniran, led by the Shar Ia, which had then become a title.

Stin Ia returned to Crefsharlos in 2701 as an old man, and brought the Tarshest with him, as well as his protegee, a foreigner named Cresahr.

After Stin Ia dies, Cresahr takes over his work and talks about a sacred city in what is now Erovielk, where Stin Ia had a vision of the gods in the Tarshest.

The city crumbles to the ground in a nameless time, marked as the year 2784, as the Shar Nawniran loses control and the people divide between the Tarshest and the Sharn. In the ruins, the people of Crefsharlos all go their separate ways. The remnants of the Shar Nawniran go south and become tribal peoples in the jungles and on the plains. Cresahr's people follow him east to the fertile lands they find there, and they found the Cresahr Empire, which would later become Comtahr. An undecided minority decide to follow Stin Ia's path, now a historical route, to the north, and the few who remain behind again become nomads.

## Culture

Though art and music were scant and little explored, runes were practiced as pertains to sun-worship, the accepted deity was represented as an abstract, distant but towering being, called the Sharn. Runes and stone carvings made up the language and art, respectively. Philosophy was a new, little-explored field, all of which revolved around the Sharn.

Then, in 2629 N.I, after the death of the man Shar Ia, a scholar Stin Ia introduced his philosophy. Seeing the power struggle and the corruption of the city, Stin Ia identified the concepts of good, evil, brotherhood, peace, war, power, and greed, among other things. Although the left the city, the mark he made remained and led to a greater independence between the people of Crefsharlos, who gained a personal ideology, and the will of the Shar Nawniran, who represented the voice of the Sharn.

More than 70 years later, Stin Ia returned in 2701, and brought with him one of the first books (written on animal skins), a foreigner named Cresahr, and stories of the northern, mountainous lands. His book was called Tarshest, and in it, he provided a pantheon of new gods, gods that did not stem from natural phenomenon but from the man-made inventions of numbers and abstract human relationships.

These gods in conflict with the Sharn led to the disintegration of Crefsharlos, which is left without a name, and the first ideological revolution.

## Government

The first official government of the world was deeply seeped in the philosophy of the Sharn. The first ruler of Crefsharlos seized control of the city under the name Shar Ia, around 2,600 N.I, which translates to 'One of the Sun,' and held total control and the first monarch of the planet.

Succeeding the civil war Nenefstiaran, in 2633 N.I, a council of five emerged, known as the Shar Nawniran, the head of which took on the title of Shar Ia. The Shar Nawniran continued to be a religious sect but controlled the city with total power. Though more democratic, the system did not allow for elections, which led to fighting for spots on the council.

## Legacy

Crefsharlos is remembered as the most ancient of many ancient cities, and little more than as the birthplace of Stin Ia. The sun worshippers of Kadune and Tichil still tell stories about the Shar Nawniran, and the oasis city itself is an artifact scholars and artists often use in metaphor, as an ideal example of a great nation torn apart by ideological differences.