Maana Shaethra
the capital city of the Lashaan's southern tribes
The great Lashaan southern capital of Maana Shaethra once stood on the north shore of a wide bend in the Raau Hathum River. It was members of the city defenders and a couple of city administrators that met and welcomed the first members of humanity to come to Ashvaarya, and it was the southern ruling council that helped the Fallen settle upriver and establish their own city of Landen.
After the Sunder and the great unmaking of the Lashaan and all their works, the great crater that was left from the city of Maana Shaethra became hallowed ground to all humanity. Eight centuries later, that same crater is a great park and living cenotaph to the memory of the Lashaan.
Demographics
Though the ancient tribal divisions were largely symbolic by the time of the Sunder, most Lashaan still retained the old titles as part of their identity. It had some minimal effect on status and influence but only superficially. This was typified by the fact that more than two thirds of the population of Maana Shaethra referring to themselves as members of the Nithaarem Dvaa, even if they only had a single grandparent or even great-grandparent who could positively claim such a thing.
Government
Maana Shaethra was home to the southern tribes ruling council, a quasi-governmental administrative body held over from the years following the beginning of the great peace. The nine person council was intended to be a gathering of leaders from the nine major southern tribes that had banded together during the Endless War. Within a couple of generations however, it had become more political and practical, with professional bodies and powerful families from across the southlands, delegating members to the council in an only quasi-democratic way.
The city itself has a smaller city council and Curaaya Paita (mayor), that would oversea it's running and the taxation and administration of the local people.
History
Founded unknown thousands of years ago as one of many small Lashaan cities around Ashvaarya. After the Endless War, a thousand years before humanities arrival, it was chosen as the capital city for the new coalition of the southern tribes. The city grew and prospered, contributing to the slow and gradual development of centralization across the southlands.
"It may have been a city of mud-brick and wood, but it was vibrant, beautiful and alive. It was home to a wise and infinitely benevolent people, and now it's gone. That great lashaan metropolis, torn from the surface of Ashvaarya, rendered to pure nothing by the depths of human arrogance."
- the First Brother (14AS)
RUINED SETTLEMENT
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Founding Date
unknown
Founders
Type
Large city
Population
approximately 100,000
Inhabitant Demonym
southerners
Owning Organization
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