Farahdeen

This page is a sub-page of the Geography page which records all major regions of the Alorian world and explains roughly what each nation or area is like. Farahdeen, also called Ard-al Nur, is roughly east of Corontium, home to the Skyborn and Songaskia, and has a deep, complex history. Some of these pages may be tied to more expansive lore, which is linked within their respective table rows. Below is a piece of the Geography map cut out to show the relation between all the nations geographically.

Name	Description
Masajamana ka Tile	The great and powerful state of Masajamana ka Tile, also called the Songaskian Masaya, nominally rules most of Farahdeen. Founded by the Koné Dynasty of the Songaskian people within several decades of their first emergence before the Cataclysm (and currently ruled by Masaya Musamansa Koné), the state rapidly expanded and took over the deserted cities of the Skyborn, their decimation a result of the Great Storm that preceded the birth of the Songaskia. While initially focused on conflict and warfare, seeking to own all of Farahdeen in the name of the Dragons the Songaskians worshiped, the Masaya eventually retreated from this philosophy. The state did become a rival and enemy to the Regalian Empire, resulting in two recent wars in 302 and 305 AC, though relations have gradually improved to a point of neutrality as the Songaskians instead devote themselves to other pursuits. The great state’s territory is extremely barren, with the only arable land located around a dozen or so Pearl Cities, great coastal bastions built by the Sariyd but now densely populated by the Songaskia (with a few others located inland). The rest of what the Masaya claims are great, thunderous mountain ranges, oasis specks, and ceaseless tracts of sand, alongside any ruins within such harsh terrain. Their border to the south, with Al-Alus, is a place of stagnation, where mindless Necroservants risen from the bones and flesh of other dead beings (for the Songaskia cannot conventionally die) ceaselessly combat the machines of the Skyborn. For more on the Songaskia, read Dragonkin.
United Qasr of Al-Alus	The United Qasr of Al-Alus is the great Skyborn state that survives in Farahdeen today and controls all of the Al-Alus Peninsula in a great united government. Not ruled by a single leader, but a technocratic council made up of experts and leaders, the state formed after the Great Storm. Survivors in the two Pearl Cities at the fringe of Sariyd territory, Al-Alus, and Istiniyye, actively sought out and welcomed their now refugee brothers and sisters from nearly ravaged regions. But then the Songaskia came, pursuing the caravans of devastated people, and further devastation took place. Eventually, the machine strength of the Skyborn allowed for a stable border to be created, and Al-Alus became the new capital of the remaining Skyborn. It took up the mantle of leadership for their people, and has led contact with the outside world ever since. The fight against the Dragonkin has also carried on ever since, and the Skyborn have slowly recovered their numbers in the centuries since the cataclysm that befell their world. Less sandy than the rest of Farahdeen, the region of Al-Alus was once rich with mineral resources, but eventually mined away to nothing by the Skyborn efforts to supply themselves with war material. There remain plentiful oases, as well as arid, though still tenable land, in places. The region is dotted with over a hundred towns and connecting waystations across their land. The Skyborn seek to survive, using ancient stores of knowledge in their homeland, and those developments found abroad which are transmitted back to aid this technocracy. For more on the Skyborn, read Skyborn.