Parusahan Saya
Parusahan Saya
Religion
Traditions
+15% National Manpower Modifier
-10% Land Maintenance Modifier
The Great Grain PalaceUnlike most of the palace names of Inner Rahen, our home has a justly pragmatic title. The lands of Parusahan Saya are part of the great Raheni bread basket, the food grown here just as vital to civilization along the Dhenbasana as the better known cotton crop. In addition to ensuring that our people are well fed, the constant industry of trading and shipping wheat up and down the Dhenbasana has made the folk here adepts at moving large quantities of victuals and other goods quickly and efficiently.
+20% National Supply Limit Modifier
+5% Land Force Limit Modifier
The Iron StripeBorn in 1370, Vasudevar of the Imperious Stripe was the seventh son of the of then-Prabhi of Ghundagar. Small as a child, he was seen as a disappointment to his tutors – he had no skill in writing, no patience for books, no interest in learning the finer points of administration. But when he first took the field of battle to lead his father’s men during the Moderationist Revolt, his destiny became apparent. A natural born leader, a brilliant tactical mind, and a skilled and utterly unflinching warrior despite his diminutive size, Vasuvedar led his soldiers to victory time and time again, rapidly rising the ranks. Noticed by Amanapurna the Bloody himself for his successes, particularly on the field at the decisive battle of Satarsaya, he was elevated to his own Prabhia position on land once held by the Setarbul and bestowed with the clan name Iron Stripe for his noted willpower and resolve.
-10% Morale Damage Received
The Battle of SatarsayaIn the year 1401, the combined moderationist armies assembled upon the Plains of Satarsaya, some thirty-thousand men strong, opposed only by the twelve-thousand Iron Tigers of Vasuvedar. Their elephants and horses charged us, but they fell and broke their legs in the concealed ditches we had prepared, and we waited. The enemy pelted us with arrows and sling bullets, but they pinged harmlessly off our unusually large shields, and still we waited.\n\n Then when this had failed, they charged us, but their charge was slowed, broken by the ditches; only then did we finally pounce. Nearly half of the rebel host fell to the army of the Iron Stripe, and the backbone of Dalapalar’s rebellion was broken. It was this battle that built the Iron Stripe’s legacy, and this commitment to discipline that remains at the core of its military tactics to this day.
+5% Discipline
The Compact of SephahanThough their land was won by Vasuvedar at Setarsaya, it was kept by the diplomatic prowess of his son Hemantsenar. Recognizing the vulnerable location of his holdings, Hemantsenar spent the four decades of his reign building a network of friendships, alliances, and spy networks across Rahen. These alliances built Parusahan Saya’s power and influence far beyond what could be expected of the small state, and Hemantsenar and his heirs were regular guests of Senaptia, great Ministers, and even the Raja himself. This alliance network formed the backbone of the resistance to the ascension of Ramapalar III in 1481, and was formalized into the Compact of Sephahan, by Amtujsaat when they declared Indira of the Bloody Claw unfit to serve as first minister and started the Wars of the Vizierate.
+1 Diplomatic Relations
The Secret Heirs of Acay the YoungerIn 1487, the first War of the Vizierate ended at the Battle of Nabukh. Acay the Younger, Raja of the Gold Banner, was slain on the field by the Greens, and his young son trampled in the rout that followed. Despite their many early successes, the fortunes of the Golds were utterly reversed by Nabukh, and the months that followed would see the grudging re-establishment of peace under Ramapalar III.\n\nUnknown to the courts of Rahen, however, Acay’s line was not extinguished at Nabukh. His daughter Aysha, believed lost in the same chaos that claimed her brother, had managed to escape the battlefield and fled to the court of Parusahan Saya. There she would live in hiding, wedding the young lord Kitir of the Iron Stripe, and birthing two sons by him – Golpalar and Hemantsen. The princess would tragically die at only 23 following the birth of her younger child, and missed seeing both boys return the line of Acay the Younger to the Lotus Throne in the coming decades.
+1 Diplomatic Reputation
+10% Improve Relations
The Storming of DhenijansarWhen Ramparlar III was assassinated in 1495, his ineffectual and foppish son Vijayswanath II took the throne. As his rule progressed and saw the young man dominated by his vizier and ministers, Kitir of the Iron Stripe saw an opportunity to press his son Golpalar’s claim to the throne. Calling together the old gold banner faction, Kitir revealed the true parentage of his children, rallied his banners, and secured alliances with the Golden Paw and Starry Eye clans with betrothals between their daughters and his sons.\n\nIn the spring of 1498, the Iron Tiger pounced and infiltrated the fortress of Dhurajilala in a swift and brutal campaign. Making extensive use of sappers, the city of Dhenijansar fell before him in just 6 weeks, and Vijayswanath II was forced to flee. The Iron Stripes and Golden Paw led a great triumph through the streets of the capital that culminated with the 6-year Goparlar III sitting the Lotus Throne as the first Iron Raja.
+1 Leader Siege
+5% Siege Ability
Reforms of the Iron RajaHemantsen of the Iron Stripe ascended the Lotus Throne at the age of 19. Unexpectedly inheriting the throne from his brother Gopalar III, his energy and optimism were a galvanizing force that powered the recovery that the Raj would experience in the first half of the 16th century. With the aid of his wife, Rani Jira of the Starry Eye, sweeping changes to the Raj's structure were enacted - the vizier was disempowered, the ministries reformed, and the armies of the realm modernized and centralized. These military reforms, incorporating lessons of the Wars of Vizierate and the elevations of the new senapti of Tujgal, Amtujsaat, and Banjisbid, allowed the Raj to repel the Jaddari at the Shenral pass in 1522 and push The Command back from Eastern Dhujat in a pair of wars waged during the 1530s.\n\n After the death of Rani Jira in 1556, however, Hemantsen's mind would begin to slow and much of the Raja's power would again fall to the Vizier, the Senapti of Amtujsaat. Ambitious lords restarted the short-sighted intrigues of the 1400s, culminating when the Imperious Stripes of Ghundagar triggered the 1561 Dhenbasana Uprising that marked the beginning of the end for the second Harimraj.
+20% Reform Progress Growth
Ambition
-10% Aggressive Expansion Impact
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