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The ''Arunid | The ''Arunid Empire'' was a powerful Fravarti-Zoroastrian empire in the [[Daria]] region of [[Audonia]] during Classical Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages(~372BC-884 CE), following the collapse of the [[Battganuur#Umaronid_Empire|Umaronid Empire]] of [[Daria]] in [[738]]CE and the [[Banner Wars]]. It dominated the trade networks of the [[Aab-e-Farus]] and its provinces stretched from modern day [[Kandara]] all the way to northern [[Battganuur]]. The state's founding background as part of a zealous religious movement led by the communitarian 4th Century prophet '''Fravarti''' led to later disastrous campaigns by its founding Padishah Aadesh [[Atur The Conqueror|The Conqueror]] to expropriate the lands of the ''Erezu'' class and to liquidate the ''Barsom Armies'' and directly centralize administration around the Crown. These campaigns, continuing under his successors, led to marked decline of Darian civilization, and its conquest by the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] after scarcely more than a century of existence. | ||
Its origin, wartime capital, and powerbase was in what is now [[Pukhgundi]], where the vestiges of its legacy can still be most obviously seen. While it was a very cosmopolitan empire made up of thousands of ethnic groups, religions, and languages, the ruling clans were from the | Its origin, wartime capital, and powerbase was in what is now [[Pukhgundi]], where the vestiges of its legacy can still be most obviously seen. While it was a very cosmopolitan empire made up of thousands of ethnic groups, religions, and languages, the ruling clans were from the Bisht region from modern [[Pukhgundi]]. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The power base of the Arunid Empire was formed during the anarchic period following the collapse of the [ | The power base of the Arunid Empire was formed during the anarchic period following the collapse of the [[Battganuur#Umaronid_Empire|Umaronid Empire]] when the control of the Erezu class's 6th-8th century nominal control over the regional Banner Armies under the Zardari dynasty disintegrated, Arun, leader of the Tripathee clan and commander of the Pukhgandi Barsom (Avestan for "Collection", "Bundle"), quickly established control over the Pukhto Barsom after his father-in-law died and he pressed his claim to headship of his wife's clan in 372 BCE. The pseudo-Kingdom carved out by the combined banner armies of Arun quickly became a powerhouse in the region and Arun's son. | ||
In 324 CE, Aadesh (later known as The Conqueror) courted the Zoroastrian scholar and mystic Fravarti, who espoused a radical revision of traditional Darian Zoroastrian doctrine. According to Fravarti, God had originally placed the means of subsistence on earth so that people should divide them among themselves equally, but the strong had coerced the weak, seeking domination and causing the contemporary inequality. This in turn empowered the "Five Demons" that turned men from Righteousness—these were Envy, Wrath, Vengeance, Need and Greed. To prevail over these evils, justice had to be restored and everybody should share excess possessions with his fellow men. Aadesh, shrewd as he was, realigned Fravarti's teachings towards his own aims, reimagining his communitarian vision as a statist one, and using the influence of loyal clergy, he established Fravartism as a doctrine of Rigid Centralization of State, Religious, and Social bodies around the person of Aadesh, who was given a special theological role akin to the role of the Imperator-Pope in later Caphirian Catholicism. The religious fervor caused by the spread of Fravartism across Daria led to the heightening of civil strife in the region, with legions of fanatics often fighting alongside Aadesh in his campaigns against the other 10 remaining Barsom Armies. | |||
With each new confrontation with the Barsom Armies, he was ruthless in their total liquidation, with mass executions of their clan leaders being commonplace. A notable exception to this rule, which later would prove to be key to the Arunid Empire's downfall, was Aadesh's sole defeat at the battle of | With each new confrontation with the Barsom Armies, he was ruthless in their total liquidation, with mass executions of their clan leaders being commonplace. A notable exception to this rule, which later would prove to be key to the Arunid Empire's downfall, was Aadesh's sole defeat at the battle of Qandagozar at the hands of Ardafravash of the Khadem Clan, leader of the Adunishan Banner Army, who, after his retreat into the deserts of the interior would be the progenitor of the ruling family of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]]. | ||
In the | In the 25 years of Aadesh's campaigns he and his zealots forcefully dispossessed the estates of the Erezu caste and installed loyal governors from the Farazu class of bureaucrats in their place to administrate the growing realm. As the years progressed, Aadesh reached near total autocratic power over the entire region, with only the Imperial Capital under the rump [DYNASTY] Emperor and the Orthodox Zoroastrian clergy remaining the only obstacle to his total power as Padishah and King of Kings of Daria. | ||
In [DATE, 782] Aadesh, in old age, laid siege to the city, and finally entered the Citadel in Sayendag, the ultimate symbol of divine and secular power in Darian civilization. On [DATE], Aadesh, now dressed in the | In [DATE, 782] Aadesh, in old age, laid siege to the city, and finally entered the Citadel in Sayendag, the ultimate symbol of divine and secular power in Darian civilization. On [DATE], Aadesh, now dressed in the sumptuous robes of royalty, proclaiming the foundation of a new dynasty, with himself as the new Sublime Padishah of Daria. The Pukhgandi Barsom became the core of the new Aruni military, with conscripts from across the realm being integrated directly into its system, rather than the traditional disparate banner systems of old. | ||