Tirsini Ideas

Traditions
+15% Manpower Recovery Speed
+2 Tolerance of the True Faith

Vehasha’s RebellionDuring the 300s AA, Taychend was unified under the Mudaliars of Nanru Nakar. However, after the death of Ardpanth II, the last of the Four Prosperous Emperors, and the accession of his infant son, Nanru Nakar’s grip would loosen further, and their empire came under the influence of cruel regional warlords and court advisors. On the back of a devastating famine, and amidst the excesses and abuses of the late Mudaliar Empire, Vehasha the Trickster – a lowly wandering doctor – was gifted by a peasant a highly ornamented mirror as reward for saving their life – the Saviracuri, or Thousand Shards. \n\nVehasha soon discovered that the mirror was a powerful precursor relic capable of conjuring unbelievable illusions, and that it could be fuelled by her previously untapped magical potential. She found that with such power she could no longer stand idle against injustice, and started a rebellion among the peasantry. She used her powers to dazzle, confuse, disorient and then destroy enemy armies, her forces spreading across Taychend, eventually even proclaiming her a living god. However, after 10 long years, the stress of war and internal conflicts weakened Vehasha, and she was struck down by the Tyrant-King of Pirsitel, Varelrudu, her mirror and movement shattered. However, the legacy of the Trickster lives on, and many warlords of Tirsin, men and women alike, have invoked her name as they rally their subjects to war.
+1 Land Leader Manoeuvre
yes May Recruit Female Generals

Relics of PeaceMuch as in Royakottar after the defeat of Kadradar, after Vehasha’s demise many looked at the Precursor ruins of present-day Tirsin with a new eye - especially considering the increasing chaos and danger of the Empire of the Mudaliars, which was violently collapsing around them as the fifth century dawned. In 453 AA, a group of scavengers would find a cache of still-working relics under the Slaver-Noble Manor that now comprises the core of Tirsin – relics of peace, not of war, that allowed the continuous and sustainable application of low-intensity plant growth magic. Off the back of this discovery, the fields of Tirsin – already very fertile – became the most productive of all Yodhanpir, matching the ripest alluvial plains of the Kalavend for its sheer productivity. Even a millennium later, these relics provide the backbone of Tirsin’s agricultural power.
+10% Goods Produced Modifier

A Thousand Gardens, A Thousand CitiesTirsin lies in an area known as the Central Yodhanchend Belt, a stretch of productive plains and farmlands that separate the forests of the iron hills and southern Taychend, and in the confines of these plains, scores of petty city-states – little more than fortified peasant villages – dot the landscape. These are the most populous lands of the Yodhanpir by far, and the most beautiful, for the numerous peoples of Tirsin are also known for their passionate love of horticulture. Every petty city-state is blanketed in the brightest flowers and public gardens, irrigated by the Vyech, form the gathering squares of many of these villages.\n\nThese gardens, however, pale in comparison to those of Tirsin itself, the city playing host to an unending sea of colours that fills every spare corner and laps against the city walls. Every ruler of Tirsin adds to the gardens as a point of pride, expanding and cultivating them – even the precursor manor at the city’s heart now plays host to wondrous displays of dangling vines, waterfalls and rooftop gardens, featuring at its heart a scaled-down recreation of Tirsin’s stretch of the Vyech river. No wonder, then, that the city has always played into its beauty, its reputation known throughout Taychend.
+1 Diplomatic Reputation

The Twin GalaskattiIn the centuries after Vehasha’s failure, Tirsin was ruled by a succession of tyrannical warlords and foreign powers – but the spark of liberty lived on. In the 11th Century AA, there were many among the peasantry who struggled against the despotic and arbitrary rule of the Warlord-King Ultatam. Raised amongst such cruelty, one would expect his daughters, Yodhanna and Jexiwarya, to follow the trend – however, after a life raised in seclusion in Tirsin's gardens, a chance encounter with the harsh realities of their father’s reign changed their hearts. Filled with righteous indignation, the sisters publicly denounced their father, and the peasants, seeing a chance at freedom, rewarded them with the Twin Galaskatti. Made from the shards of Vehasha’s mirror Saviracuri, the Twin Galaskatti were glass swords that could tap into the illusion magics – however diminished and fractured – of the original relic.\n\nWith the power of the Twin Galaskatti, the twins waged a war against and overthrew their father at the back of an unprecedented peasant rebellion, personally executing the tyrant. Their movement eventually conquered half of Yodhanchend from the petty warlords who had profited from Olhokar the Fortuitous’ demise. Though the realm of the Twin Katti would eventually fall and be divided by the rising powers of Oremvand and Gophira, from then on, the Thousand Gardens of Tirsin would be ruled by a warlord who ruled for – not simply over – their people.
+33% Female Advisor Chance
+1 Land Leader Shock

With Great Vengeance and Furious AngerThe Taychendi have always had a very particular view of freedom. Their freedom is to fight, to rule, to conquer, to win glory for oneself. In the millennium and a half since the ruin, this has naturally led to warlords using their strength to rule arbitrarily and cruelly – the Taychendi may profess a love of freedom and liberty, but that mostly means freedom for those at the very top. Warlords rule without limits, abusing their subjects to their heart’s content.\n\nSince their deaths, the successors of Yodhanna and Jexiwarya have faced this injustice with righteous indignation – now wielding both of the Galaskatti, they have often waged war not solely for their own purposes, but to strike against the various tyrant warlords that surround the central belt of Yodhanchend. For this, they claim, is true glory – in striking their enemies down with great vengeance and furious anger, the deeds of the rulers of Tirsin have become legendary, with the many stories of the righteous wrath of the Galaskatti’s wielders and their peasant companions striking fear into the hearts of warlords across Taychend.
+100% Power Projection From Insults

First Grenadiers of TaychendSince the ruin, the peasant communities of Tirsin have been a recruiter’s dream – thousands of small city states, each able to provide a complement of soldiers to a warlord’s army. However, with all their arrogance, the various tyrants and conquerors who have ruled over the central belt of Yodhanchend have never seen the need to truly develop the skills of those from whom they were levying troops. Nevertheless, as the wielders of the Galaskatti waged war against their neighbours, they cultivated the skills of their trusted peasant infantry, treating them not as expendable goons but as the integral, valued spine of their armies – and this is nowhere more evident than in the development of the Peludubanti.\n\nSmall, tightly sealed balls filled with fertiliser fumes and lit with a long fuse, the Peludubanti were originally a Larankarha invention. It was the peasants of Tirsin, however, who truly came to take the weapon as their own, casting the balls out of glass in order to give their explosive potential a cutting edge, in emulation of the Galaskatti of their leaders. The Peludubanti would prove especially effective in times of irregular warfare, their glass shrapnel eviscerating those who would seek to strip the Tirsini of their freedom.
+0.15 Infantry Fire

Heart of Taychendi LibertyThe Tirsini fought hard against Laskaris, playing a central role in the Wars of the Two Heroes, including as the site of the dramatic Siege of Tirsin, where a near-fatally wounded Laskaris miraculously recovered just in time to save his beleaguered army. Though they were conquered by Kheionai soldiers, the peasants of Tirsin never let the spark of liberty die out and were among the first to rebel against Ameion after the death of Laskaris.\n\nThough early defeats by Ameion – including their theft of the Galaskatti following an unsuccessful revolt – demoralised the Tirsini, the Ameioni imposition of serfdom on the Taychendi in the late 1400s reinvigorated the resistance. A daring raid recovered the Galaskatti in 1522, and the Tirsini would continue to fight against the Kheionai invaders, their Peludubanti wreaking havoc on Ameion’s closely-packed formations. The unwilling serfs of Tirsin would likewise be great supporters of the Oren Nayiru in their quest to liberate Taychend, though zealous support for the faith itself was lacking, and the Galaskatti would eventually and famously make their way into the hands of Elrandar Silverspite, the Kamrayakval, as a gift from the Tirsin cell of the Oren Nayiru.
+1 Attrition for Enemies

Ambition
+2 Tolerance of Heretics