Faerdyn Askar-Tarro (1982-1941)
Era beginning/end
Following the death of Starrander, the Lords of the Dome elected a new Emperor Faerdyn Askar-Tarro, a powerful and talented Arc General who had fought many battles in the Arclands to keep the city safe from the tribes that surrounded it. There was no direct descendent from to inherit the throne from Starrander, and Faerdyn had been loyal to his master throughout his career, allowing the fiction that he was in some way, a Starrander Emperor; maintaining this fiction prevented a dynastic war for the throne from tearing the city and the empire apart. Faerdyn's surname, Askar-Tarro, was earned from the battle of Askar, north of Gol, where the city of Gol was relieved by Faerdyn's armies (Tarro is a general term for warrior, general or can mean code of the warrior). Faerdyn was generally popular, but this might have more to do with his presiding over a period of prosperity, where growing trade, low grain prices due to plentiful harvests and the beginnings of cultural golden age in Arc all led to a contented populace. Aruhvian texts argue that Faerdyn was visited by Graces who showed him in visions the shape of a new white stone city where the current Arc stood that he and his ancestors would build. He was told it would take three centuries to complete but would eventually become the mightiest city in Aestis and would be the 'foundation stone of the earth'. It was during this period that the ancient burial caves at the peninsula of Dancare began to be developed into the vast mausoleum city that it became on the great western straits.
Faerdyn ruled until -1941 when he abdicated in old age and infirmity for his daughter Drassa Askar, who ruled along side her consort Viyeldin and the most famous Arc general of the age Nurian Mondrias. It is thought that Drassa, no fool, suspected Nurian of planning a coup and the establishment of a military dictatorship so she exiled him to a remote outpost or 'Dran', five hundred miles to the south. Nurian claimed that he had been granted a royal charter to found a new city that would one day become the third great capital of the Arc empire.
