Aegyus, known as well as Ighi, Ighyus or Ighipus was an early human realm founded during the Age of Invasions in northern Zarhuy, being considered to be the first human nation of Aiers, with it's foundation at the 220 a.a.H, roughly 120 years after the fall of Eden.
History[]
The Aegyus of the Immortal Kings[]
Founded near the ruins of Eden, Aegyus was ruled by a small elite of humans who controlled and limited jealously the access to Tekkno-loki, forming secret societies who acumulated as treasures the relicts of the Sky Age, being ruled by what they called the Immortal Kings, who claimed to be from the Sky Age, keeping their lives thanks to their control of Tekkno-Loki.
Having knowledge, they ruled over a largelly ignorant population, who for long held the secret cults and the Immortals as wizards and gods.
The ruling class began ambitious projects, often related to the reclaiming of ruins of the Sky Age and building mysterious monumental structures: however, the costs in lives due the Curse of Eden would produce malcontent among the common folk, along with the increasingly ambitious construction projects of large structures specialists for long considered to be purely ceremonial.
This eventually lead to a revolt against the Immortal Kings, who where killed, and the cults of Tekkno-Loki, who became again a secret.
Some of the elites where able to defeat the rebels thanks to their control of Tekkno-Loki, but where the rebels where defeated, they abandoned Aegys, while the ones who where succesful toppled the mysterious buildings projects of the Immortal Kings, destroying their unknown plans: while the Secret cults of Tekkno-Loki revered the relics of the past era, many of the rebels actively destroyed and tried to erase their memory.
With the Immortal Kings dead and their priests of Tekkno-Loki, either dispersed or half crazed, holding in solitude strongholds against the ones who rebelled, the brief Aegyus of the Immortal Kings was no more.
The Kingdom of Aegyus[]
Despite the grim tales of the Immortal Kings and the ruins of their projects, lacking now the council of the Cults of Tekkno-Loki, the fertile soil remained:
After decades of turmoil, Agrarian communities of humans began to build again on the shade of the ruins of Eden and of the Immortal Kings. Villages elders organized agrarian labour, and began further organization to make irrigation works. Councils of Elders and Warrior chieftains resulted on the foundation of a new, united Aegyus. New kings -warrior kings, that rejected the Immortal Kings and their teachings and cult of Tekkno-Loki- rose to power, as elected figures by the free inhabitants of the reign
But slowly and surely, while never with the same power, wise men came to be in the council of the warrior kings, who thanks to their knowledge served specially well: members of the secret societies and cults: and while they never had the power or the knowledge of their forefathers who served the Immortal Kings, slowly but surely began to influence society again.
In time, the Kings of Aegyus finally granted them the right to create monasteries, temples and libraries, on the edges of the ruins of Eden and the remains of the Sky Age, forming brotherhoods and mysterious sects, dedicated to the study of the Tekkno-Loki.
The Kingdom of Aegyus, thanks to it's location, riches -and in no little measure, the Cults of Tekkno-Loki-, became one of the most prosperous and important human cultures and civilizations, and new cities emerged from it's territory, trading with other realms of both humans and non-humans.
The temples of the Mysteries of Tekkno-Loki became learning centres among scholars of the relics of the Tekkno-Loki, and the cults, gaining importance, began to compete with each other for Tekkno-Loki and records of the Sky Age.
The kings, who had learnt of the power of the knowlegde keep in secret by the cults, tried to form academies and centres of learning, to extend the studies of the Sky Age among their peoples. This leaded to a serious rivalry between the elected kings and their supporters of an open knowledge and the Sects of Tekkno-Loki, who rejected the obligation to share their treasures.
The conflict eventually lead to the kingds forcing the opening the temples as centres of studies, open first to all the citizens of the realm, and later, even accepting in their halls allied non-human scholars, to share with them the ancient human knowledge. The Sects, who had been forced to accept this -but weren't banned- began to make secret shrines and temples, and to hide what they could.
This open attitude to knowledge of the Sky Age and sharing of Tekkno-Loki in one of the places that had the most relics of the past, not only among humans but as well with non-humans, will put the Kingdom of Aegyus in a clashing course with the Empire of the Librarians of Dume: meanwhile, it's trading significance interested the Kanov Blazakhovians.
And to the Librarians, it was innaceptable for the ruins of Eden and the archives of Aegyus to fall in the hands of non-humans.
Aegyus as a disputed province of Dumia and Blazakhov[]
Muslim Aegys[]
Aegyus as a centre of pilgrimage.
Aegyus during the First War of the Power