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Royal Annals of the Nur
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Before -3000 to -2863
Qadir Asfarin
Considered the first Sultan, though he did not use this title. United loose Noor tribes scattered in the Alnujum, Nabi plains, southern forests, and Qamadi mountains, as well as the Sea-dwelling Noor who had settled northern Kemodesia from the west. He ruled from a now lost city in the Alnujum.
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-2863 to -2760
Jamashad Raheen bin-Qadir
Son of Qadir. Saw construction of the first Noor structures in the Nabi plains. Madrasa of Magic is built.
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-2760 to -2556
Khaledan Majdul
Grand-nephew of Jamashad. Cultural development. Written as a character in ancient Noor poetry and moral fables. Exploration of magic.
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-2556 to -2401
Razia Al-Nur
Grandson of Khaledan. Economic growth, new agriculture and trade with the Kemodesians to the south. Died heirless.
End of the Grand Dynasty of the Ancient Kings
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-2401 to -2253
Farou Bahral
Was Captain of Razia's Hamyir. Became known for naval exploration, establishment of sea routes to tribes of Mystalbion and the Yaporgines.
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-2253 to -2109
Malikan bin-Farou
Farou's son from a favored concubine, born in his late rule. Military campaigns east, expanded borders from the Alnujum.
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-2109 to -1951
Nadirah Zahren
First Sultaness, Malikan's great grandaughter. Patron of arts, led cultural renaissance. Married her advisor.
End of the Lesser Dynasty of the Ancient Kings
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-1951 to -1807
Idrisar Jabr
Nadirah's advisor, an alchemist and Vizier. He centralized power and began administrative reforms. Viziers formally invited to court. Office of Grand Vizier is created.
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-1807 to -1689
Tariqar Fateen
Isridar's Captain of the Hamyir, successful military conquests, internal conflicts with Marauders. Crownroads safe, peace established throughout the Sultanate, until the late 1690s, where the first Marauder war began.
End of the Rightless Dynasty
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-1689 to -1504
Yasir Muqaddir I
A southern, mixed-race Nur & Kemodesian marauder who seized the throne in Nabirah. Strengthened diplomatic relations with the south and the tribes of len who were now broken off, who settled in Mystalbion. Established haven for the persecuted, wandering Noor tribe called the Rabani, who now predominantly settled in the Alnujum. Moved the capital to the great lake in the southwestern oasis. Scholars believe this to be the site that Nabirah is now built upon.
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-1504 to -1350
Lailanur bin-Muqaddir
Second sultaness, Yasiral's daughter. Oversaw scientific and technological advancements in mathematics and alchemy. Religion of Yol declines, pagan religion and lack of religion increases. The Prophet Mobit, the Everliving is born in this era. Lailanur marries Mehroud of house Al-Amin yet dies in childbirth.
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-1350 to -1296
Mehroud Al-Amin I
Yasiral's widower. Considered the first Sultan of House Al-Amin. Brought about an era of religious, philosophical enlightenment. The Lyric of Yol is believed to have begun to be written by Mobit during his reign, and begins to be spread throughout the known world.
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-1296 to -1099
Yasir bin-Muqaddir II
Lailanur & Mehroud's frail, deformed son who claims his grandfather's name to invoke a warlord image. Economic reforms, infrastructural development by way of treaty with the Venganzi Empire to the north, who exploit them. The cave network that became the Den of Glory and Excellence is discovered and turned into a vault.
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-1099 to -901
Dhari bin-Yasir
Yasir's only son, born of a wolen of his harem. A beloved Sultan, known for his peaceful treaties, cultural diplomacy with the tribes of Mystalbion, cultural exchange and relative peace kept with the Venganzi.
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-901 to -754
Dhari bin-Yasir II
Dhari's great-grandson. Expanded military might, army reform, but is swiftly crushed in attempted incursions into the Venganzi north, inviting more monetary corruption and dependence on the the north.
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-754 to -603
Hakima Al-Sali
Dhari II's neice, third sultaness. Promoted education and welfare reforms, scholarships for the Madrasa. Married a Cleric from House Al-Fahran, a fundamentalist sect.
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-603 to -459
Jabir Al-Fahran
Relative justice and fairness in rule, legal reform. Cultural customs and gender norms are solidified and remain largely unchanged to the modern day. As a consequence, wolen are forbidden from taking the throne, managing households, or legal rights to land and titles, unless their husbands were rightful heirs, crowned first, and they have born a male child in waiting to receive the inheritances. Mobit rebukes him by letter, but Jabir is filled with pride and refuses to change the law. Many scholars criticize Jabir for this oversight, and attribute to the prolongment of the Era of Dynastic Chaos to his sexism and crude interpretation of the Prophet Mobit's teachings.
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-459 to -305
Basim Al-Fahran
Jabiradil's great-grandson. Advanced exploration, maritime achievements, leading to some of the first academic maps of Etria, which are still referenced today.
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-305 to -306
Sulazim Al-Fahran
Basim's son. Grew haughty with the perceived might of the Sultanate, and through a series of offenses, triggered a defensive war with the Venganzi empire, which brought about a coup due to the existential threat it posed to the Sultanate. Married a wolen from house Kabr, a powerful Hamyir house.
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-306 to -298
Daliah Al-Kabr
Fourth Sultaness, widow of Sulazim. Focused on peace and stable governance in wake of the Venganzi occupation. Though peace were established on papyrii, the crownroads are not safe, and there are skirmishes up and down the Nabi plains. Daliah and her entire family are murdered by fundamentalist extremists who see her gender as a disqualification, leading to a succession crisis. The Viziers and Yol Priesthood make the emergency decision to create a theocratic consortium between the Madrasa and the priesthood. The Capital is split between the Alnujum and the Madrasa itself.
End of the Dynasty of Marauder Kings
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-298 to -197
Years of the Consortium
Gridlock and stagnation between divided wills of the Madrasa and the Priesthood causing a growing chasm between rich and poor, religious and non-religious, and racial disunity. Most carried on as they always had, with the people attending to their trades and traditions. Marauders press into the north but are held back by militia efforts.
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-197 to 37
Hallowed Zyla, Kahathah of Yol, The High Priestess
The high-priestess and de-facto Queen of the Noor. During this time, the Noor are forced into the Alnujum, which at the time was a verdant valley, Ignaeryx, the Bazürrat, and the Venganzi completely scorched the Nabi grasslands, turning it into a smoldering wasteland and nearly extincting the Noor. The heat of the Flamestar year after year, as well as the fierce winds from the north and roaring waves quickly transform it into a desert. There is a period of perpetual darkness. Blessed with a relic from Lumenaris, the Candle of Alnoor, Zyla leads the survivors to an unscathed patch of green in the heart of the wasteland, where the encampment becomes Nabirah. This is the most important holiday of the Nur people, the Hazz Al-Lail Al-Azali. (The Pilgrimage Through the Long Night). In the newly founded refuge, the Lyban champions assemble under the wandering Rabani warrior, Yolgar, believed by some to be the incarnation of Yol himself, who is crowned King of the Lyban race. Yolgar leads the coalition of champions across the rough seas of the Mystal crossing, to land on the southern shores of Arlia, where he begins the War of the Conquest, completely and irrevocably shattering any unified Venganzi power. The conflict is immensly costly and bloody, but the court is able to contain with one of the two titans, who slay Yolgar in the process. Ignaeryx is slain later by Hal. Fyor, and Fiora is formally settled and enters a period of relative peace. After the war, Zyla returns to Nabirah and reigns, bearing children. Some fanatics insist that she bore Yolgar's children, with little to no evidence. Others say they are Fyor's children. This belief enhances national pride that the Noor are the rightful religious leaders of Etria. After penning the final stanzas of the Lyric of Yol, Mobit the Everliving dies during her reign in the Madrasa, his servants and students' compete for his "mantle", and create several controversial writings.
After the Conquest
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37 to 212
Lajal bin-Zyla
Zyla’s grandson, widely considered corrupt, brought an era of artistic and cultural flourishing, expansion and security of the entire Nabi Desert. In 99, the first canon of the Noor-Yidi is compiled from ancient manuscripts. However, in 104, following Hal. Fyor’s death, upon advice of a powerful Venganzi sorcerer, Grand Vizier Azhim Al-Zummurud, started a holy war with Fiora for their refusal to accept the Nur-Yidi. Southern Fiora was conquered, but King Fyorcar preserved the North and created a stability by holding the line at a chokepoint in central Fiora, which became the Great Fioran Rampart. In the latter years of the reign, the loose peace broke and Lajal sacked Fioranz by sea, forcing King Granitcar to make conciliatory peace with the Nur once again, forcing payments of exorbitant tribute to the Sultan. The Sultanate becomes an empire and arguably the most powerful Lyban civilization in Etria. Azhim Al-Zummurud enchants the Den of Glory and Excellence.
Lajal was ultimately slain in his sleep by his cousin, Qasimaz, who coveted his throne.
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212 to 233
Qasimaz Ghaniyar
Though he is considered to be a wicked, irresponsible Sultan, he oversaw the golden age of the Sultanate, emphasized wealth distribution, social reforms following the gross material prosperity of the Sultanate. When King Brüdë was crowned in 231, he began the Fioran reconquista, where he mortally wounded Ghaniyar in battle. Ghaniyar returned to Nabirah and lived out the rest of his days, maimed. In the chaos, Captain of the Hamyir, Makar Al-Khyin seizes the opportunity to breach the Den of Glory and Excellence, he disappears, and his account is printed by his son, and spread throughout the world. It is treated as thrilling fiction.
End of the Holy Zylic Dynasty
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233 to 549
Interdynastic Period
A tumultuous time with several short-reigned rulers and instability following the Fioran reconquista. The language of the Noor evolves into Nur. The Nur-Yidi is added to, multiple times, drawing ire and pushing away religious commonality with the North and Mystalbion. Poverty, internal strife, and extensive warfare occurs throughout the Nabi. The Northern League is formally assembled, and leads five crusades to address the "instability" and "wickedness" of the Sultanate over the Nur-Yidi. Nabirah is ruled by several warlords, Nur, and foreign, but no Sultan until the rise of the Al-Amin dynasty, whose rise is marked by the expulsion of all Venganzi viziers and non-Nur descendants from court, and brutal suppression of religious minorities and scientific communities.
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549 to 709
Mehroud Al-Amin II
Inheriting the respect of many Hamyir, he was crowned sultan as a teenager, and was seen as a fulfillment of Yol's faithfulness, as he restored and blessed the line of an ancient sultan, Mehroud Al-Amin I. Viewed as a restorative king, with his Hamyir, he became second ruler of the Al-Amin dynasty; As he grew older, he became known for his firm decision making, and is known for implementing strict cultural and governmental reforms which brought stability to the Sultanate once more. Reformed and re-armed the Hamyir, and began a brutal campaign to uplift magic, alchemy, and religion, and suppress the "mechanical blasphemies" of the north, whom Mehroud viewed as covert operations to keep the Sultanate weak.
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709 to 897
Sultan Fazil Al-Amin I
Mehroud's son. Expansionist policies and strengthening of the empire’s borders, Fazil II’s grandfather. Calming of religious tensions. Normalization of relations with the North.
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897 to 963
Jahroud Al-Amin
Fazil II’s older half-brother, Mehroud II's first-born (of a prostitute). A leader in the Sea Peoples crisis of 942, wherein he reluctantly joined with King Gormar III and the coalition of the Northern League too drive the Sea Peoples back, and off of the Ihitan islands that they had conquered. Jahroud was wounded and unable to father children in that war, and abdicates to his little brother to ensure the Al-Amin dynasty will continue.
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963 to present
Sultan Fazil Al-Amin II
A mild-mannered, gentle Sultan. Almost universally beloved by his people, he is father to a daughter, Kaida al-Amin. There is a looming succession crisis because she is still unmarried, and approaching middle-age, and plain-faced with freckles. Following the rise of the Fioran empire, and the occupation of the northern coasts, there are murmurs that he is naive and unable to balance the Viziers, the Hamyir, and foreign policy with the increasingly aggressive north.