Sultana

Prior to The Quieting, before Ancient Parsa, even, there was a magically superior kingdom called Sultana. They knew powerful magics that are unknown today and held tight to their secrets. Today the Sultanese are spoken of as gods, who lived in their floating cities and used magic to erect incredible architecture. Whereas Parsa was a comparatively egalitarian Elven society, Sultana was a strictly hierarchical society dominated by humans and their Hubris. It is said that they didn't believe in the gods, in Ahura Mazda's children, and thought if Zurvan could give birth to creation, so too can the Sultanese give birth to worlds.
When Sultanese relics, buildings, and temples are found today, little in them is comprehensible to modern societies who's technologies are simple and earthly in comparison, haveing eked through dramatic apocalypses and barely surviving.
There is a Parsan tale about the Sultanese, passed down from one gōsān to the next, that describes their downfall.

Once upon a time a mighty lord lived in a flying castle. He sought to usurp Azar, goddess of magic, so that he could become a god himself. He almost managed but not quite, and his entire empire, Sultana, fell from the skies crashing down all around him as he turned to stone. The magic unleashed that day was phenomenal and even the weave itself could not withstand the eruption - it frayed and fractured, then shattered, and all magic was lost to the mortal realm until the day Azar returned. She restored the weave, reuniting its scattered shards, or so we thought. One day, in the course of his studies, a mage by the name of Theron Sunweaver (a pompous name that harkens back to Sultana if there ever was one) found an old Sultanese tome in which a fragment of the weave had been sealed away. Releasing it in the hopes of reuniting it with Azar, it fed on him and buried itself in his heart. Theron disappeared, but it is said this shard turned him mad, and today the great Daeva lord, Zahahk, continues to scour the realm for relics of the Sultanese, and if they can locate Theron's resting place, they will find a hoard of knowledge coveted even in Duzak .

Type

Geopolitical, Magocracy

Government System

Magocracy