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The central lands of the main western continent of Farohseldar. Nyshuhr is know for its glory and worship-like loyalty to its royal state. Its lands are of red, green and gold grass, its trees likewise. The mountains are grey and brown with very little snow above its peaks and its cities are built in the mountains, within forests and beside vast expanses of water. They are a militaristic folk who had, at the time of their golden age, become feared by every nation around them. However their loyalty to those who mate peace with them is never forgotten. Their knights wear silver armour with red swirls upon them and those who guard the royals are the opposite.
Their lands are of the most beautiful in the world and the grass ripples upon clear days and the rivers flow blue on stone shores and between old ridges of earth.

Nyshuhr was first founded upon the arrival of Queen Elarnarsur from Arinalgar, far east, in the twenty fifth year of the first age. She and her brother were the first of those who were to become known as the Sun Children. She swept into the lands where she met little resistance from the original armies of Argar whose kingdom lay north of the mountain border which stretched from ocean to ocean. The Queen settled in the forests on the western side of the country and hence her city was built with the internal style of her own kingdom far away in mind. There came tan buildings and olive roofs and the people worshipped her as a deity for her abilites as the sun child wiped-out all oppressors. The name Nyshuhr came from the Arinalgarin words meaning ‘New Realm’ though the Nyshuhrians themselves spoke the tongue of Barthorin (what we hear as English)

From there the bloodline went on. She married the Lord of whom she had allied when destroying her brother’s kingdom and together they had a child who they named Elavor, from their son the bloodline continued with strong kings, even after Elarnarsur’s death when she underestimated the sheer power of the Areddunians upon attacking them at their northern border which was south of Arinalgar’s.

After Elarnarsur’s death her lords found in her chambers the stone from which she got her abilites. It was then decided within the cult that came from the lords that the stone should be made into separate items fro separate Nyshuhrian sun children to gain their abilities from and so four items were cast.

Elavor’s descendants each ruled with great passion from their people who built cities in places no one could ever destroy them, or so they thought.
Elavor had two sons from a wife who although he didn’t know it, was Argarian. These sons were Envalor and Enfalor. The latter ruled Nyshuhria whilst the other took a great army into Argar and revealed that he was of blood and demonstrated the sheer size of his army and so he was forcedly made king of Argar.

Enfalor of Nyshuhr then conceived a daughter, Enfar
The bloodline continued from there.
Envelor
Anvelor (who married Rhanil, an Uhrian and hence a great unity was sparked between the two countries, an alliance that would last until the end.)
Anranil
Arahnil

Then came Rhandyr upon the rising of the second red dawn. He was the sun child of the second age. Many thought of him as evil and he fully unified Nyshuhria with Uhria in the southern warmlands and hence Nyshuhria was born. The names of cities and the some words of the Arinalgarin language were changed to adapt to such a unity. Rhandyr took his abilities and combined armies back into Arinalgar, though he swept south and once again attacked the Areddunians and won over three of its five largest provinces. He returned having made his empire expansive. Argar however was waiting for the right moment to strike.

Rhandyr died at an old age from exhaustion of war and the Argarians overthrew their loyalty to the Nyshuhrian crown and became independent.
His bloodline continued on and the armies of Nyshuhria slowly crept into Argar until eventually being pushed back out.

For around another five hundred this line continued until Safirion was born and in the sixtieth year of his reign the third red dawn came and his granddaughter, child of his own son Safron was born. She was called Sapphire for her eyes were blue jewels. She was the third sun child and what became of her is unknown. She led her armies into Argar when her parents were taken hostage by those she thought were her own protectors. She watched many of her own die. However she did manage to besiege the Argarian capital and was about to be made Queen of the captured land once more until she died of unknown causes upon walking to be coronated at seventeen years old.

Her cousin was soon after made King and the line continued for another age until the emergence of the Fourth when Nyshuhrian prestige and glory and strength had been waning. The young boy was named Osirion, sun child of the fourth red sun. It was upon the fifth year of the fourth age that the regenerated armies of Argar swept into Nyshuhria and burnt down every city they came across. they killed all Nyshuhrians they could find for they were considered not even worthy as prisoners. The King forced his wife to take their son and his cousin to the eastern shores of Arven Hyrn when he saw great torches heading towards the second capital. They reached the shores when Uhrian ships arrived and took as many hundreds and thousands as they could onboard before setting off. Osirion’s cousin got left behind as the Argarians reached the beaches but she was rescued and taken far south by a cult who refused to leave their homeland. The ships sailed away into the darkness of night with their beaches now cold and covered in blood and crawling with the armies of the north. This was the night Nyshuhria ceased to exist for it was now part of the greater lands of Argar.

other notes:
Urasha is the eastern most realm of Nyshuhr, mainly populated with Uhrians to the south and they have their realm capital in Vran Vanar. in the north there is mainly Nyshuhrians. the realm was founded in the twenty eight year of the first age and its expanses grew until it became what is is now and that was in the three hundreth and sixty second yaer of the first age. its northern and western borders have shifted over the years but it is mainly grasslands in the north and more desert-type terain in the south

Elarnarsur visited a few times, there was almost a war in the desert mountains but it was prevented when the Uhrians did not attack. they were peaceful people, they worshiped their own god, but their alliegience to the Nyshuhruans chanegd that.

The Argarians also stopped at the borders when they invaded for the last Uhrian army held them off and thus the unity with the Nyshuhrians was broken

i suppose if i were to relate any place in the world to Nyshuhr, it would be the scenery of Denali Park, Alaska. (seen at bottom of page)

In the era before the pre age days Uhria was a small land which lay in sands which blew across deserts and lay upon slopes of grey mountains. Its northern most parts were of yellow grass which grew in the pass of Ahvyn, the gap between mountains which would in the future lead to the land of Nyshuhr. Its cities are of sand stone and brown roofs and mainly rest in mountains or upon stone hills in the deserts. Its armies wore bronze coloured armour and were skilled with the sword. No nation that attempted to besiege Uhria’s vast deserts succeeded through toiling in the burning sun in blue skies. The flags of Uhria are of a winged spear which pierce what is a representation of the sun, displaying the fact that they are masters of such heat. In the north the great cities resided, in the south there were tribes which roamed sandy plains in search of the burial site of their goddess. The people of Uhria are of a darker skin and have dark hair, they are usually very strong and tall.

The north was split into separate provinces; Ahvyn to the north, Thuhrnyn, Unnarha, Guhrnyn, Vhanar and Dhuhra (the capital)

The King of Uhria is known as the ‘Dhara’ and was founded by Uhra four hundred and eight two years before the pre age era began. His bloodline died out and Uhria was only survived by a number of tribes that were scattered about its deserts.

There was a Queen of one of the most ancient tribes who was called Enighuir who wanted what fell from the sky. She sent out a great army across the seas to the island where it fell only to see another fleet of ships at its shore in flames and so they turned back. The desire for the stone which fell from the sky then controlled Enighuir to the point that she became so powerful and motivated that all tribes bowed down to her.

It was not until a rumour of a great divinity known as Riath and his army emerged who had travelled the world and neutralising entire nations that Enighuir decided to take action. Her armies were rallied and sent to six different places their camps grew to towns and then their land expanded to form six provinces. Many were sent to the south also but they dispersed far and wide, creating very small settlements spread about a great lake that came to be called the ‘Waterhold of Nuhrian’

Enighuir led her people onto what became known as the hundred day march which went from the south of the country where she later lived amongst her original tribesfolk and into the north. She was able to lead her people through the deserts without a single man dying.

Raith was thought to be a savour of the world, defender of his people, but with his loyalty came the death of many others. He became power drunk and there came a time where people in his home lands of Enoriva celebrated in his absence for there was peace and no fire. He came to the country with his army in the forty sixth year before the end of the old world. He saw the armies built up over the lands and mistook them as a rallying evil, not as a defence against his powers which had grown to a level unimaginable. Enighuir’s armies were savaged by the armies of Riath and Enighuir begged them to stop yet Riath refused for his lust for power had become so great.

Enighuir’s son was pulled from the capital by a rope on the back of a horse and dragged into the desert by Riath’s army. Enighuir ran after them and Riath only watched as she grovelled for the body of her son to be released. In anger she took up arms and ran at Riath full of vengeance, screaming that he should leave her lands alone. For her actions Riath killed her in a second. Any person that took up arms against him was considered an enemy. Her loyalty, courage and ferocity inspired her armies to come forth and attack Riath who in a matter of moments turned them to piles of ash and so the black sands of Dhuhra formed. Enighuir’s sacrifice led to her being known as a martyr. She went from martyr to a subject of tales, from there to a legend, to a myth and then to a deity for she was in the future known as the ‘Goddess of the Sun’

Hence named because of her leadership in the deserts. It is thought that a true Uhrian man would not die in the deserts unless he worshipped her.

In the one thousand four hundred years that followed the eruption of the volcano in Halvaro which killed off most of the world the Uhrians barely existed, but some tribes remembered Enighuir. They reminded the northern Uhrians of who she was, but their interpretation of the ‘Goddess of the Sun’ was far different from what it used to be. Hence why they were so eager to form an alliance with Elarnarsur in the first age, the story of Riath too being a form of sun child and wiping out Uhria’s armies had been forgotten by the North Uhrians, and the south Uhrians were furious at such an alliance which is why the country was then split even further.

Eventually the northern Uhrian provinces were re-founded and broke away from their old tribal ways and became real civilizations and the line of the Dhara was reinstalled by they who were worthy enough to act as such a leader.

In the first age and by the time that Queen Elarnarsur of Arzuria arrived on the shores of what was soon named Nyshuhr, the Uhrians were under siege by the armies of Valkor. This was a mysterious country where no much is known of its downfall in the fourth age.

Elarnarsur took over what became Urasha, eastern realm of Nyshuhr in the twenty eighth year of the first age and upon reaching its southern borders she came face to face with the uhrians. Because of their likewise worship to a divinity associated with the sun, Enighuir (goddess of the sun) Elarnarsur liked the new race she had come across and so a friendship evolved. After Elarnarsur’s death in Arinalgar the stone she possessed which fell from the sky was forged into four items by a secret cult. One member unknowingly took a fragment from the stone, fearing what Nyshuhr could become. He took it to the capital of Uhria and asked that they keep it locked within the caverns beneath the mountains.
The Uhrians gladly accepted. What they now had was a part of a stone just like that which Riath had all those years ago. The stone that their goddess was thought to have wanted. In an act of worship the stone was used for many rituals worshipping Enighuir. (No one knew what power the stone actually possessed and wouldn’t do until the fifth age when the Argarians managed to besiege Uhria. The Uhrians would use I on a prisoner girl put in their dungeons by the oppressive Argarans and the Uhrians would use her to break free of such opression)

It was only in the four hundredth and fifteenth year of the first age that Uhrian blood mixed with Nyshuhrian. King Anvelor married Dhorian (Princess) Rhanil of Uhria. They were both the great-grandparents of Rhandyr (second age sun child) they were married in Vran Vanar which later became a massive Uhrian/Nyshuhrian colony in the distant mountains of Urasha with two tall towers either end of a city upon a bridge of rock. Hence from this occasion the first great link between then Uhrians and the Nyshuhrians was born.

When Rhandyr was eventually born at the start of the second age the Uhrians wondered if their unity was still valued as it once was. This was clarified on the thirtieth year of the second age when Rhandyr met with Dhara Hehl and convinced him that their lands should form a great alliance and head across the seas to Areddun where Elarnarsur’s army was defeated and she was killed. This alliance was what allowed the birth of ‘Nyshuhria’ to be born (Nysh-uhr-ia). Hehl took his armies and that of Rhandyr’s, in a great fleet of ships across the oceans to Arinalgar in order to serge the borders in another great attack. The Uhrians had not anticipated the colder climate and the war was bloody upon the grounds aside he river which split Ainalgar and Areddun. On top of this the Arinalgarin King, Garliorn, was furious with the sudden arrival of troops on his lands. The Nyshuhrians may have been distant relatives but they chose to stay independent. The Uhrians were even more unwelcome and when the war was lost anyway the Uhrians wre forced to return to their homeland in shame. They pulled out of the war through loss of numbers. Rhandyr pulled out a year later and he died a few weeks after returning.

For the rest of the second age he Uhrians stayed in their own lands and in such un-militant times the Nyshuhrians had become far more powerful and asserted order over Uhria in the two hundredth and sixty eighth year of the second age. The south Uhrians in which time were a vast collection of tribes stretched across the Waterhold of Nuhrian. They grouped together for one time only and travelled the mountains which separated north from south. In a matter of weeks they attacked the capital of Dhura an surrounded its walls. The leader of the tribes, Yhruhl met with Dhara Guhil, great, great grandson of Hehl. Yhruhl said that the north Uhrians had lost their religion in Enighuir and they must be reminded that they are not the puppets of Nyshuhrians. The peace was settled but with a great loss of life before the armistice was reached.

Fifty years later the Nyshuhrians had grown tired of the lack of loyalty the Uhrians had displayed and ordered that they accompany them in an attack on Argar. The Uhrians could not refuse such blackmail and went to war alongside the Nyshuhrians.
This was to be the last armed alliance until the Inarian invasion a hundred and eighty years later.

In the early years of the third age the Dhara, Nheri sent his armies to Nyshuhr to assist in the battle of Narshyr Marshes against the Inarians in the southern most part of Rhuhnar which is the capital realm of Nyshuhr. The Uhrians were not prepared for such wet warfare, they had been deemed sea-lords for their great armadas of ships but never had they had to deal with undying mists and bogs. They mainly let the Nyshuhrians fight in the thick of the marshes whilst they themselves stood back at the shores and kept guard against any Inarian who escaped the wrath of the army who ruled under King Safron.

When news broke out of Nyshtare, the Nyshuhrian capital falling Nheri and his most trusted captain put Nheri’s son in charge before riding off on horseback to the forest city in Nyshuhr known as Nyrsu Gara where it was rumoured the survivors of the attack by Argar were headed and they felt compelled to help protect their allied country from a second foreign invasion. There Nheri met Princess Sapphire and a deal was made that the Uhrians would not only help keep Inar at bay, but venture into the northern lands of Argar to rescue the captured monarchs of Nyshuhr. The armies of Uhria came to use once again at the battle of Rhushar where they sent forces across the sea of Ahrndorn from their colony in northern Urasha (the eastern realm of Nyshuhr) in great ships and secured a victory when Nyshuhrian numbers began to fall unfavourably.

Hence afterwards the great Uhrian army helped Sapphire’s army break through into Argar where they pushed north and found the Nyshuhrian royals before they were executed. The armies fought to destroy the agrarian capital but they were forced to fall back when a great new power emerged, but history has deemed it unspeakable. A great beast they say, who stared in Uhrian eyes and turned them to ash, a beast too powerful even for Sapphire. Dhara Nheri was killed in this last battle.

After the events of such a time and the Nyshuhrian state was restored, although seriously damaged, the Uhrians went back to their own lands where they re-grew their numbers and re-glorify their lands after they had served the superior Nyshuhrians for so long. In the rebuilding of Nyshuhria, Dhara Nerhil, Nheri’s son, and King Farnhire, Sapphire’s cousin ruled side by side and the nation became great once more.

In the fifth year of the fourth age the Nyshuhrians displayed one last act of loyalty when the Nyshuhrian lands north of their borders began to burn in the fires of Argar. Dhara Nuhrl got message of the Nyshuhrians being burned alive without mercy and ordered his last great fleet of ships to head for the coast and rescue any survivors. One of his sons went with the ships and ended up travelling to Areddun with the Nyshuhrians. Nuhrl never saw him again and sent the rest of his armies to the pass of Ahvyn to keep the Argarians out. With a great loss of life both sides ceased to fight and a great wall was built between the two lands. Uhria was on its own yet the Argarians didn’t know part of the Nyshiniak stone still lay in the depths of Dhuhra.

Arinalgar

Areddun

Rumelian

Elgarn

Arivan

Argar

Inar

Enoriva

Thorynwor

Ember, the main character speaks to her sister, Sharla, about her frustration of being kept hidden all her life within the city of Arzuritan in Arzutare. she unlocks her abilities by connecting with a crown she has owned for 12 years. afterwards she dreams of another girl, Princess Sahfire. Sahfire looks similar to Ember in appearance and lives in Elarnitan in Nyshuhr. she is revealed as the 'sun child'. Ember wakes up wandering what the dream was all about and queries it with her sister, but Sharla acts like she hasn't noticed anything strange, however the candle in the room begins to change form with Ember's concentration.

Ember has another dream about Sahfire. this time Sahfire's brother is sent off to war and he comforts his sister who feels alone. Sahfire admits she never wanted to be the sun child because people throguhout history have looked down at them for their chaotic behaviour. She sinks into an alcove in the wall and the candle above her begins to shift form. Ember wakes up and goes to speak to ehr mother. she asks about Sahfire and if she infact is a sun child also. Ember learns that she has had to hide all her life because she is a sun child, but also learns that the army was responsible for her father's death 15 years previous. Her sister, Sharla overhears and in anger she leaves the house. a while later she returns in the custody of a silver armoured soldier for having tried to kill a guard on the market. for assaulting the man holding her she is told she is to go to Koren Court to learn discipline. Ember watches her sister leave the house. (by now paralells with Ember's dreams and her real life begin to show)

Sahfire goes to see her disowning parents about troubles on her mind, but she sees her royal guards converging and entering her parents' chambers uninvited. She realises something is not right and follows them only to find that they have been taken hostage. she picks up her father's golden sword which rests in a weapons rack nearby. (this is one of five unique items which we learn about later)
soldiers arrive and try to take her, but she refuses and kills them. she runs after her parents and after having to kill many more trecherous royal guards she reaches them only to see them killed before her. something hits her and she is knocked out. she wakes up as she is being dragged along, her eyes turn orange as the candles all around begin to flicker more vigorously.
Sharla arrives at Koren Court and is taken under by General Hanron. The General tells her that in secret he favours all who disobey the law for he finds the rule of Lord Larinian corrupt. He introduces her to a fellow General; Larnkor, and a new friend; Theran (of whom takes an imediate liking to her). Sharla ends up telling Theran that Ember, her sister, is the sun child (the sun child is the most feared being in history, the only one feared by Lord Larinian)

The Fire Princess Part 1-4 are the 10th-14th books in 'The Sun Children' series i am writing. planned books include;
-The Forgotten Stone
[The red dusk / The red dawn]
-The Nyshiniak Stone
[The first age / The second age]
-The Phoenix Prince
[The burning west / The Rising East]
-The Descendents
[The days of old / The refugees / The bond of sisters]
-The Fire Princess
[Arinalgar / Areddun / Nyshuhr / Thorynwor]

The child of the sun,
The master of the fire,
Their wrath shall come,
Their flame grows dire,
They come with the ash,
They live in sorrow,
Their blades shall clash,
Their lands burn in the morrow.

Ava ovalvar agg ava arupa,
Ava panor agg ava olisi.
Avisiri ikav uvki vira,
Avisiri olkilra norvis varisi.
Avkil vira vav ava kuv,
Avkil lind ra ariorv.
Avisiri dalkilvaris uvki callkuv,
Avisiri ars dornov ra ava pariorv.

There is also the scientific side to this story. the sun children have the ability to control fire with their minds, known as Pyrokinesis in the real world. (it is actually thought vaguely possible on earth) but it requires so much concentration and energy that it can leave a sun child in pain or even death if they overdo it. over years of practice the sun children can learn to use their abilties for longer, but when they're new they struggle to control them. unidentified psychons have some sort of connection with the oxygen in the air and interference causes the oxygen to combust where ever the sun child diverts their attention (or their eyesight) to. using the effects of pyrokinesis however, weakens a sun child's immune system whilst they use their abilties and makes them suseptable to radiation. radiated objects such as sun stones or sun vaults (nyshiniaks 'great jewels of the gods') are already radiated with beta radiation from the heat energy already absorbed by a previous sun child. the beta radiation can hence penetrate the sun child's skin and cell walls in moments of vunerability.