Sthanan ith Vussam
Sthanan ith Vussam
Religion
Traditions
+10% Infantry Combat Ability
-15% Stability Cost Modifier
The Gold and the VioletIt is rare for the tale of Taychendi god-heroes to start with a romance. Nonetheless, it is how the story of Eletam the Gold and Elajith the Violet begins: a rising Tenvachi general enamored of a reclusive erudite, two young husbands united, and their ambitions flourishing.\n\nElajith, an influential member of the esoteric Violet Brotherhood, conspired to hand control of the city to Eletam, who had gathered a significant following in the Tenvachi army. Elajith would prove surprisingly apt at statecraft, directing domestic policy while Eletam's martial expertise and physical prowess would lead them to create one of the greatest realms of Thektoram, the Dumrusvarn, in 681. Extending over the southern Iron Hills and modern-day Tirsin, Sthanan ith Vussam and Vul Tenvach, the lordship’s expansion would only be stopped by Eletam’s death in the siege of Sibisimra.\n\nAlthough the conquered parts of the Iron Hills broke free after Eletam’s death, Elajith managed to keep the army’s support and stave off the Dumrusvarn's collapse, leading it towards two centuries of relative stability. The Dumrusvarn stood out in Taychend’s extremely unstable political landscape as a symbol of peace and a diplomatic powerhouse until its eventual demise at the hands of the Chendhyan invasions, and the Gold and the Violet are still today revered as Sthanan ith Vussam’s greatest god-heroes.
-5% Core-Creation Cost
+1 Land Leader Shock
The Dumran Vustarvach"For all eternity has the Dumran Vustarvach belonged to this world, and for all eternity will it stand beneath its sky. Upon the walls and towers of the Violet Library does endless knowledge transpire: wisdom of past, present and future, of reincarnations and ascensions, of worlds familiar and foreign. Its flowing figures are not ours, but our forebears’, and the insight concealed within their symbols is the endeavor and doctrine of their greatest minds. Not all gods may smile upon us, but it is no matter: we recognize which ones truly rule this world and those mortals yet to join them. Our earthly mission is to decipher the science of the bygone ancestors, so our spirits may expand and achieve a pure godhood, one unstained by blood and ash."\n-Creed of the Violet Brotherhood
-10% Administrative Technology Cost
The GoldswordsWhen Eletam and Elajith came to rule Sthanan ith Vussam, Taychendi armies were rarely much more than rural levies hastily raised whenever war arose. Eletam sought to replace this poorly equipped and desertion-prone rabble with a corps of the faithful and talented, a tool with which he hoped to withstand Taychend's instability.\n\nFrom this ambition were the Goldswords born, one of the first true professional units in Taychend. To be personally selected by the rulers of Sthanan ith Vussam to join the four hundred pairs of male lovers constituting the Goldswords is the greatest honor a Vussami can receive, but the Goldswords are not sworn to a specific warlord: they are bound to the city itself and stay unwaveringly loyal to whoever commands them. Despite Taychend’s many struggles, they have protected Sthanan ith Vussam’s integrity over the years.\n\nIn time, professional military units of this kind spread over all of Taychend, the most notable example being the Ironblood Army used to found the Great Gophiran Empire and nearly root out Taychendi warlordism. Still, Sthanan ith Vussam has stayed the heart of this military revolution.
+0% Yearly Army Professionalism
VioletbloodIn the midst of the Dumrusvarn’s conquests, Elajith and Eletam discovered a bright and resourceful orphan in Sthanan ith Vussam. Brought into the household of the two lords in a traditional adoption ceremony in 687, the orphan later given the name Lanahasha was a keen political asset even as a young woman.\n\nWith its conquests, the Dumrusvarn had came to rule over not only Thekvrystana, but many proud Yodhanpir as well. These warlike people didn’t take kindly to foreigners ruling them and were proving to be a real threat to the lordship’s continued existence. In order to keep them loyal, Lanahasha was married to Tirsin’s lord and stationed in the city to further her parents’ ambitions in the region.\n\nFrom this union was the Violetblood dynasty born, also known as the Dumraktam, who would come to rule over both the Dumrusvarn and Sthanan ith Vussam after the death of Elajith in 712. Uniquely, Lanahasha and her descendants adopted many Yodhanpir cultural practices, and even today are more accurately described as Yodhanpir than Thekvrystana, despite their subjects.
+0.5 Yearly Devotion
+0.5 Yearly Horde Unity
+0.5 Yearly Legitimacy
+1 Max Promoted Cultures
+0.15 Yearly Republican Tradition
Golden OpportunitiesThe Thekvrystana are known for their love of the sea and mercantile interests. The Vussami, alongside the cities of Imarchend, are some of the only Thekvrystana to lack a coastline, a trait which joined with their northerly ties often leaves them stereotyped as mere Yodhanpir in violet cloth. This is misleading, however; lack of direct possession of coastal land is no barrier to commercial activities, nor does it truly make the Vussami any less Thekvrystana.\n\nInstead of trading along the coasts for Kheionai or Kalavendhi products, the people of Sthanan ith Vussam know where true riches hide: inland. Over the years, Sthanan ith Vussam has developed its fluvial ties with its Yodhanpir neighbors, gaining an exclusive access to the renowned iron giving the Iron Hills their name. Their connections even allow them to obtain rare gold from Urvand deep within the Larankarha highlands, making the Goldswords’ namesake blades available.
+20% Caravan Power
The City Between WatersLocated between the Vyech and Nakadi rivers, Sthanan ith Vussam means "the City Between Waters" in Thekvrystana, a name often thought to be ridiculously long by most outsiders. Enjoying an advantageous position along trade arteries and a particularly fertile soil, the city was destined to be a demographic center of the region and had already experienced remarkable population growth under Yodhan’s Empire in the 2nd century.\n\nHowever, its true rise to prominence would come with the days of the Dumrusvarn. The relative stability and peace brought to Thektoram by the lordship allowed its capital to prosper and an entire urban ecosystem soon sprawled around the Dumran Vustarvach. Tales of this period of abundance tell of streets lined with gold and buildings covered with violet cloth.\n\nEven today, Sthanan ith Vussam is one of the biggest cities of Taychend. While Nagar Vyechei has retaken its place as the foremost city of Thektoram and the great Kalavendhi cities of Nanru Nakar and Royakottar still overshadow the rest of Taychend, Sthanan ith Vussam is comparable in wealth and size to cities such as Clematar or Gophira.
+15% National Manpower Modifier
Woodland WarriorsAlthough the Goldswords were instrumental in the Dumrusvarn’s protection, the lordship’s vast conquests wouldn’t have been possible without the vast peasant levies common to most Taychendi armies. However, unlike other Taychendi campaigns, the soldiers could not settle back in their original lands after their leader’s end; many of them were refugees from Sibisimra’s cruel bandit-king, a factor often posited to explain Eletam’s involvement in Sibisimra. These landless peasants would be given territory in the state’s countryside after Eletam’s death, including in the depopulated woodlands south of Sthanan ith Vussam.\n\nThe population of woodsmen deriving from this would eventually become known not only for their martial aptitude but also for their knowledge of the woodlands and their rough terrain tactics. Many in the ranks of the Goldswords can be traced back to these woodlands, alongside scouts, vanguards, and rangers of the Vussami army.
+15% Movement Speed
Ambition
+2 Tolerance of Heathens
History
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Strategy
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