Srijunga had the worst childhood you could imagine. He never saw his father Wedo Hang's face and his mother had been responsible for the death of her husband. His mother took and him to a remote village and raised him as a girl. Years later, Srijunga's maternal uncle, the man who killed Wedo Hang, took his niece as a military adviser and a bride meant to kill her uncle's rivals. Whilst as a man, Srijunga raised his own band of warriors. Slowly the mysterious person named Srijunga rose in power in the hills, mountains and grasslands.
In 900 AD, Srijunga achieved the rank of Mahang or the 'Hang of Hangs' after uniting all Khas and Kirati tribes of the island known today as Athara Magarat. He made the Koyongwa Dynasty of Bhumidol help him in an invasion of Atnaia. After a stalemate, he conquered Wellsia (then known as El Mashriq) and modern-day Taziristan. He freed his people from being vassals to the Koyongwa Dynasty, returned to Atnaia again and forced the Treaty of Redwood upon the nearly defeated and routed the fabled land of Domanania.
And then, after 15 years of constant military campaigns against foreign nations, Srijung Hang (aged 35) died under mysterious circumstances while on a voyage to his capital. The world rejoiced at the death of this tyrant conqueror. People across the Isles thanked the Almighty for protecting them from the man who was the living embodiment of Satan to them. How wrong they were! Instead, the generals and successors of the Great Hang used his death as an excuse to go for more military campaigns. The Khas-Kirat Empire spread out of its cradle in the South Mesder Sea and this was just the beginning.
The Children of God would now feel the Wrath of the Yellow Dragon.
What this OOC is for?
This OOC will be for discussion of the historical events that took place during the Khas-Kirati conquests; particularly those between the middle 10th to early 14th Century where most of the bloodshed by the tribes was done. Now that is a huge time difference. So before we head to the IC, we will be having extensive discussions on this thread.
It is not necessary that your nation is involved in war with the Khas-Kirat Empire. But your nation might still feel the impacts like refugees from other cultures arriving, increase in trade products, or just plain discussions among the citizens about Yellow Dragon barbarians, etc.
Whilst the Khas-Kirat Empire is the equivalent of the Mongol Empire, it never was like the world's greatest empire. The Yellow Dragon took extensive amount of time to conquer a nation since TWI is made up of islands; sea being one of the weakness of the hordes and AM still having a pathetic navy. They never managed to fully conquer their first target, lost to other barbarian tribes such as the Hunnic people of Karahar and Aprosians who used their own tactics against them, etc.
But still at the end, they were one of the largest empires of TWI and had impacts on many nations such as somewhat helping Balnianism and Buddhism (possibly Islam and a few other religions) to flourish in TWI and maintaining significant trade routes. One of the impacts is that Khas-Kirati minorities are found today in virtually every TWI nation and that sadly is one of the reasons that has allowed IS-wannabe terrorist group SHOCK to thrive.
As said earlier, in this OOC, we shall discuss the history of your nations in that time period and maybe in the end, this thread can hopefully have your nation's history be more broad. I have always thought of something that I can do to help TWI. I think for now, this thread will help TWI in expanding our region's history.
Rules and A Thing
You know the drill, ladies and gentlemen. No god-modding and meta-gaming! And for the OOC discussion, please use this thread and in the IC, refrain from quoting everything.
Okay, let's get started with the discussion...
Before we move there, there is a thing I want to say. You might be aware about the Ilkhanate, the Golden Horde, the Yuan Dynasty and the Chagatai Khanate. The word 'Hang' which mean 'lord' or 'ruler', got into the ears of the Herudis, the Parsaev and other peoples of Bhikkustan who pronounced the word as 'Khang' and in Atish or English translations the word became 'Khan'. The Khanate or Hangate raised by the Moogriins (Magars) in Bhikkustan and the Yakkha-Koyongwa Dynasty which destroyed Bhumhalese Hinduism and allowed Bhumhalese Buddhism to fill the religious vacuum, are generally not considered the part of the Khas-Kirat Empire even though the three kingdoms were founded by Khas-Kirati tribes and interrelated to each other in many ways.
Another thing is that the banner Khas-Kirati had hundreds of tribes who generally had lesser Hangs who had command over their tribes but followed the orders of the Great Hang of the Yellow Dragon to death. Each horde, was sent on a different campaign, missions and purposes. One notable example is the Nine Khas (second powerful horde after the Yakthung Thibon) who conquered what is now Covonant, the Four Thakalis who were more involved in trade than in warfare and the Four Khams who were kept in the homeland for maintaining domestic security (and the island soon became only a place for Khams as other Khas-Kiratis ventured out and was later on named Athara Magarat as in '18 Kham Magar Kingdoms').
The hordes or if they stayed in a nation for a period of time; a lesser Hangate, would usually have a number and the tribe's name. Exception were there such as the most powerful horde Yakthung Thibon rather than being called the Ten Limbu tribes Srijunga Hang and most Great Hangs were born into. Rather than being called Twelve Tamangs, the lesser Hangate and horde in Locuterris was called Tamang Cavalry, a rare name for the tribes.
