Tý-hayïd

Tý-hayïd was a Heta-Hayïdic city founded during the Hayïdic Expedition of 25032 AYM and represents the westernmost extent to which the Expedition ventured before being forced to return back eastwards. Following the creation of more Haýïdic cities and the establishment of the Maðúšýï tribe, Tý-Haýïd would become a vitally important settlement for the Maðúšýïan subsection known as the Hýhïd-Tëžem, which relied on this city for the efficient transport of rocks and personnel to and from the mines in the Arbin Watershed. Later on, as one of the northernmost cities still under Maðúšýïan control after the Matousian Civil War, Tý-Haýïd would see extensive combat in the Varonian Civil War of 24538-24533 AYM, forcing a complete rebuilding and ushering in an age of economic prosperity under the reign of the tribe of Týmðúr.

History

Prelude: The Hayïdic Expedition

Tý-Hayïd, formed during the Hayïdic Expedition itself, is often labeled as one of the three Heta-Haýïdic cities, alongside the similarly-formed Óm-hayïd and Yuževhït. This Expedition, the first of the Yarpalïŋ-Ýmïlýrhonid, came about due to built-up frustrations within the Ïlýrhonid Tribe that were targeted towards the reigning Hyvamto-Rhïlýrhonid, especially in the leaders' abilities to properly address and satisfy the needs of the people. At that time, the entire Ibrófeneð species' population was contained in the walls of the tribe, and kept there by religious and legal bounds.

When, in 25032 AYM, a section of the tribe's outer walls collapsed, an individual named Hayïd used that opportunity to convince the government to allow him and some other people to act as guards for the wall during its construction. Due to a high desire to leave the tribe, over 4,300 individuals went with Hayïd; disobeying their pledge to stay with the wall, the Expedition went westwards, away from the tribal walls, in what became the first major venture out of the Ïlýrhonid Tribe in around 900 years.

Partly because of a need to maintain secrecy, and partly because of an assumption that the rock of the outside world would be of the right quality for sustenance, the Expedition members did not bring their own supply of food. That assumption was proven wrong in the Amoŋot Desert, where the earth proved so worn down by erosion and wind that one could not gain any meaningful nutrition from it. Still, the people relied upon the scarce edible resources of the Nuzowli Mountain Range and Volain Forest, whose meeting point formed the location of the first permanent settlement outside the Ïlýrhonid Tribe, Óm-Hayïd.

Still confident in the existence of a more suitable source of nutrition, Hayïd and the others ventured due west around a month later, entering into and bearing the brunt of the windstream that the region was exposed to. After trekking for several months (nearly 500 kilometers), the scarcity of food had taken its toll, and more than 400 people were dead of starvation. Hayïd would found the city of Tý-Hayïd at their furthest point before turning around and beginning the arduous quest back to Óm-Hayïd, during which another 400-500 would perish. Curiously, Tý-Hayïd was less than 300 kilometers away from the Arbin Watershed to the west, which was precisely what they were looking for and which would have sustained the survivors for an indeterminate length of time.

Tý-Hayïd during the Expedition was nothing more than a few lowly structures, mostly underground and greatly limited in size due to the inability of the brittle rock to sustain any long-lasting structure. Barely anything remains of these initial landmarks, as they were covered over and built upon by successive colonies.

The Pre-Maðúšýïan Years (25032 - 25019 AYM)

Tý-Hayïd during the Pre-Maðúšýïan Years was mostly deserted until the discovery of the Arbin Watershed around 25030-22 AYM. Most of the population before then was concentrated in Óm-Hayïd due not only to the relative abundance of edible food, but the additional shelter that the mountains provided against the wind. It is thus often considered a miracle that the Watershed was discovered so soon after the Expedition, as no one in their right mind had any reason to leave the comfort of Óm-Hayïd, much less make the near-800-kilometer hike to the far west.

In fact, it is likely that the people would had discovered the Watershed were not from Óm-Hayïd but Yuževhït, which was a city founded not long after Tý-Hayïd by a breakaway group of the Expedition. Unbeknownst to them, that city had been built upon an enormous deposit of nutrient-rich silicon, lending massive amounts of structure and stability to a region that was otherwise crumbling and near-collapse. It is very likely that a few settlers of that city followed the coast westwards, which, despite the arduous weather conditions, would have led them to the Watershed within 10 days. These merely coincidental series of events, from the disastrous Expedition, to the happenstance of Yuževhït's advantageous position, to the likely discovery of the Watershed itself, are what historians often dub the 'Hayïdic Miracle' and one of the single greatest series of events to occur. These rocks, to the Hayïdic community, were an essential beyond essential; in addition to the onlyreliable source of sustenance and nutrition, it served as the construction material for their houses and enabled the formation of structures and towns at an exponential rate. From this, life in the southern Amoŋot Desert (hereafter known as the Hýyó-Hayïd) could be a viable and longstanding effort, and for the next 200 years, life in the Hýyó-Hayïd was indeed sustained largely by the Watershed.

In this effort, Tý-Hayïd served a vital distribution center as the closest of the three cities to the Watershed. This was bolstered by the timing by which the Watershed was discovered and harvested and the true structural development of Tý-Hayïd; the two coincided in such a way that the city did not have to be destroyed and rebuilt, but merely built over the few primitive structures that had existed there previously. This new system was centered around a large earthen path that stretched directly from the mines, which was flanked by two massive buildings (built from the rocks themselves) that held in storage excess rock. From these, a series of paths were drawn out away from the city that traced the passage of rocks from the watershed, and all of them went through Tý-hayïd before branching out to other cities, like Yuževhït. These paths increased in number as the towns increased, and were mapped out and improved upon by the visiting Šókhekic Expedition of 25021 - 25019 AYM.

The Ýmor-Maðúšýï (25019 - 24910 AYM)

The Ýmor-Maðúšýï represents the golden age of the Maðúšýï Tribe, specifically the age in which they achieved near-total domination over their rivals in Varhoŋïð-Khalúš and the Hýyo-Wýðúr. It was formed after the takeover of Óm-hayïd and the expulsion of its local population by the Khalúšians, resulting in these expelled Hayïdians creating and settling in the cities of Varand, Hayïd-Entëž, and Žënhðwör. The Úrïsic Expedition of 25019-17 AYM, sent out from the Ïlýrhonid to gather allies against the Khalúšians, brought weapons and armor and galvanized the sentiment of vengeance, eventually resulting in the formation of the Maðúšýï Tribe as a war-like raiding group.

This tribe was not one unified organization, but two distinct parts. The eastern part, consisting of the aforementioned cities that formed after the takeover of Óm-Hayïd, were entirely focused on the act of raiding, which dominated their lives. The western cities, which constituted almost 80% of the land of the Hýyó-Hayïd, were denoted by the term Hýhïd-Tëžem and primarily responsible for the continued harvesting of the rocks in the Watershed, this time to feed not only their own citizens but those of the eastern region in addition. As such, Tý-hayïd saw a massive boost in commotion, resulting in the expansion of the city and the creation of numerous towns linking the western and eastern sides of the tribe, all completed somewhere between 25015 and 25010 AYM.