Troe

Troe, is a nation within the continent of Asiri Asa. in which was a small nation of various ‘invading’ tribes before the common era, had just seized control of some old, who cares about it Epatan territory in year 0, acquiring little by little through bribery and trading.

By the time Tamazi was imprisoned in 24, Troe was only a small and unassuming country far north from the trouble, though Tahmasp still reached some citizens in whispers. By 28, the few Troe citizens in Padi where sent home, as their reputation in Padi was only known by gossip from Epata, who described them as barbarians. Shamed, Troe went on a hundreds year conquest to conquer the known world, which to them, was Epata, Padi, and Trebori, all places they had seen or fought before and been kept from. Finally fully organized by 63, Troe went on a military campaign that took over most of Epata, at first viciously killing and laying waste, then arriving at the next city only to see it already surrendered and pledging to Troe as its ruler. By 170, the relationship between Epata and Troe had become such that only two ethnically Epatan ‘states’ remained, one across the sea and one in a pocket of ethnic soup between Tapaipe, Troe, and Trebori (this was also cut in half by Troe, so to slow trade to their soon to be conquest Trebori). Seeing its influence grow weaker the more eastern they moved, and knowing they can’t war with both Tapaipe and Trebori at once, Troe began trading with Tapaipe and even dealing with the Padi people, who everyone else publicly was denouncing (though privately, Epata was making bank dealing with them). They then turned north, crossing the river, hoping to reclaim what they felt was their ancient homeland. However, they found not one but three different ethnic groups there, the kingdoms of the Dakra, who were fighting off ‘savages’ from Ticatn. Farther north, Troe parties encountered farming people just scraping by calling themselves Tilv. Though they posed little threat, their culture and language was so similar to Troe that they felt insulted (Dakra thought that the Troe were strange, tan Tilv when they first arrived in 210). So their territory was taken, but the land is not fertile or pleasant, and they had grown used to warmth, so the border there is not enforced and by 378 they live in relative harmony. At first, Troe seemed to be interested in helping the Kingdoms of Dakra fight back the Ticatn foe, but Troe changed its mind when it realized how powerful the Ticatn were and decided to take Dakra land instead. The Kindgoms of Dakra quickly crumbled, as they were not very sturdy in the first place, and the land descended into a dark age. So, by 378, Troe is at war with ‘barbarians’ from Dakra, to a lesser extent with Ticatn, from elsewhere they have extended their territory (Regrah, Erah), getting ready for the real war with Trebori, trading with Kupati and Padi, beginning a tentative relationship with secretive Todao, and has mapped, thanks to the information center at the pocket of Epata and their friendship with Tilv, all of what consists of the known world. Almost none of them have remained Tahmasp in any respect, though they recognize the common ‘year zero’ because of the implications it had for Troe’s rise to greatness.