Tar'firna: Dragon Temple (A short history)
Related Vocabulary:
Virun'sa: Faithful Follower (High Priest of the Sa'a El'tarsi) Sa'a El'tarsi: Followers of the Dragon Vir'darisi: faith enforcers Tar'mirsi: Dragon people (the name given to all who worship the Dragon King) Sasi or Sasa: Followers Tar'firna: Dragon temple Niviras: King of the Dragons and father of Dorian Sun'vir: Envoy's faith (both a holy book and the level of holiness after which all of the Sasi strive)
About: The Tar'firna was built hundreds of years after the tearing, with construction beginning in Karthan in the year 7,001 (Un'clyr nevz'no). It built by a religious order which came to be known as Sa'a El'tarsi, of Followers of the Dragon. They were a sect of religious zealots who came to hold power among the still budding human society of Karthan through force. In fact, the year 7,001 was the first year after the Tearing in which humans were allowed any freedoms of self-governance at all. Prior to this, humans were ruled with an iron grip by the Dragon King's Envoy (Tar'myrk sun), a Dragonite general appointed to the task, and his armies. The quality of life in Virnibrukti at the time of Alysia's escape from Karthan is even less harsh than that to which humanity was subjected during the 700 year dark age (El Nevx Un'Clyrsi A'yang -- literally, The 700 full cycles of darkness) from 6,301 to 7,001.
More than anything the Envoy grew bored and petitioned the dragon king to be released from his duties in Karthan. It was the Envoy who concocted the plane to allow humanity to once again govern itself. Humanity was given strict provisions to which they were forced to agree, not that they had much choice anyway. Anything at all was better than how they were living at the time. The Envoy drew up the Sun'vir (literally, Envoy's faith), a book that would come to be seen as the central point of the Tar'firna. Not only was the Sun'vir the name of the holy book in the Tar'firna, but it also became that which the Sa'a El'tarsi strove for as a concept of being. A devout follower was said to be striving for Sun'vir, the Envoy's faith. Only one follower per generation could reach Sun'vir, though, and they would gain the title Virun'sa, or Faithful Follower, and become the high priest in the Tar'firna and govern the Sa'a El'tarsi as well as rule over Karthan. In every single case the person chosen to take the seat of the Appointed is the one who reaches Sun'vir and thereby takes the seat of Virun'sa.
The Sun'vir (book), which contained all the laws to which humanity must adhere, as well as a false history designed to make the humans believe the Dragons had always been their masters and that Niviras was actually their creator god, was written by the Envoy out of his boredom in ruling over human slaves. Niviras, the Dragon King, was amused by the Envoy's ploy and agreed to allow the humans to govern themselves as long as they followed the Sun'vir. And so it was that humanity fell into a form of slavery that they themselves perpetuated under the illusion that all of their hard work was going to please their creator god.
Even given that humans finally regained the ability to govern themselves and that the Dragons and Dragonites are no longer involved in human life and are rarely only seen flying above, the humans are not without immediate enforcers of the Dragon King's will. The Envoy tasked the Dwarves, who he saw as low life forms like the humans, with the task of guarding Karthan's immense wall, two sides of which are the canyon walls which Karthan spreads between themselves. It is the responsibility of the Dwarves to keep humanity inside the city and to ensure that they fulfill their mining quotas. Dwarven society is set apart from that of humans in that there is animosity between them and they generally do not intermingle amicably.
Virun'sa: Faithful Follower (High Priest of the Sa'a El'tarsi) Sa'a El'tarsi: Followers of the Dragon Vir'darisi: faith enforcers Tar'mirsi: Dragon people (the name given to all who worship the Dragon King) Sasi or Sasa: Followers Tar'firna: Dragon temple Niviras: King of the Dragons and father of Dorian Sun'vir: Envoy's faith (both a holy book and the level of holiness after which all of the Sasi strive)
About: The Tar'firna was built hundreds of years after the tearing, with construction beginning in Karthan in the year 7,001 (Un'clyr nevz'no). It built by a religious order which came to be known as Sa'a El'tarsi, of Followers of the Dragon. They were a sect of religious zealots who came to hold power among the still budding human society of Karthan through force. In fact, the year 7,001 was the first year after the Tearing in which humans were allowed any freedoms of self-governance at all. Prior to this, humans were ruled with an iron grip by the Dragon King's Envoy (Tar'myrk sun), a Dragonite general appointed to the task, and his armies. The quality of life in Virnibrukti at the time of Alysia's escape from Karthan is even less harsh than that to which humanity was subjected during the 700 year dark age (El Nevx Un'Clyrsi A'yang -- literally, The 700 full cycles of darkness) from 6,301 to 7,001.
More than anything the Envoy grew bored and petitioned the dragon king to be released from his duties in Karthan. It was the Envoy who concocted the plane to allow humanity to once again govern itself. Humanity was given strict provisions to which they were forced to agree, not that they had much choice anyway. Anything at all was better than how they were living at the time. The Envoy drew up the Sun'vir (literally, Envoy's faith), a book that would come to be seen as the central point of the Tar'firna. Not only was the Sun'vir the name of the holy book in the Tar'firna, but it also became that which the Sa'a El'tarsi strove for as a concept of being. A devout follower was said to be striving for Sun'vir, the Envoy's faith. Only one follower per generation could reach Sun'vir, though, and they would gain the title Virun'sa, or Faithful Follower, and become the high priest in the Tar'firna and govern the Sa'a El'tarsi as well as rule over Karthan. In every single case the person chosen to take the seat of the Appointed is the one who reaches Sun'vir and thereby takes the seat of Virun'sa.
The Sun'vir (book), which contained all the laws to which humanity must adhere, as well as a false history designed to make the humans believe the Dragons had always been their masters and that Niviras was actually their creator god, was written by the Envoy out of his boredom in ruling over human slaves. Niviras, the Dragon King, was amused by the Envoy's ploy and agreed to allow the humans to govern themselves as long as they followed the Sun'vir. And so it was that humanity fell into a form of slavery that they themselves perpetuated under the illusion that all of their hard work was going to please their creator god.
Even given that humans finally regained the ability to govern themselves and that the Dragons and Dragonites are no longer involved in human life and are rarely only seen flying above, the humans are not without immediate enforcers of the Dragon King's will. The Envoy tasked the Dwarves, who he saw as low life forms like the humans, with the task of guarding Karthan's immense wall, two sides of which are the canyon walls which Karthan spreads between themselves. It is the responsibility of the Dwarves to keep humanity inside the city and to ensure that they fulfill their mining quotas. Dwarven society is set apart from that of humans in that there is animosity between them and they generally do not intermingle amicably.
Type
Religious, Temple
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