Amrhyl

Kingdom of Amrhyl Hioherthradd an Amrhyl
Flag Coat of arms
Amrhyl within the Orddonach.
Capital	Levon
Largest city	Llyd-an-Járth
Official languages	Phyrean
Demonym(s)	Amrhylian
Government	Part of a constitutional monarchy, direct government exercised by the government of the ULP
Legislature	Senate (Mwyradd)
Area
• Total	296.975,3937 km2 (114.662,8405 sq mi)
Population
• Estimate	63.552.734
• Density	214/km2 (554,3/sq mi)
Currency	Anedd (₳)
Driving side	right

Amrhyl, officially the Kingdom of Amrhyl (Phyrean: Hioherthradd an Amrhyl), is a country located in coastal Phyrea around the Gulf of the Amrhyl, bordering Darsavia to the north, Asconia to the northeast, Hower to the east, Yardin to the west and Nemmark to the south. As of the 1721 amrhylian census, its population is counted at 63.552.734. Its capital is Levon and its largest city is the ex-capital Llyd-an-Járth.

Etymology

Amrhyl as a name is a poetic Phyrean word meaning "horizon," and originally referred to the river flowing along the centre of the country.

History

Early History

The peoples predating the modern inhabitants of Amrhyl have been identified with the Lezachis and the Shamrock House culture, both Nademic groups. These early Stone Age tribes left behind very scant evidence of their existence, only pottery and some stone structures, dated to around 50 000 to 40 000 BNB. Shamrock House structures mainly included their cross-shaped houses which, when viewed from above, were reminiscent of shamrocks. Lezachi structures were mostly earth lodges partially built into surrounding hills and hillocks. The pottery found in these latter structures was largely reserved for funerary purposes, many of which having contained remains of the dead mixed with aromatic oils. Evidence suggests that the people in this area cultivated rye as their staple crop. During the Copper-Bronze Age Invasion, Proto-Namuno-Ethians displaced these native Nademic cultures.

First Phyrean Empire

621 BNB saw the rise of the First Phyrean Empire, expanding to modern-day southern Amrhyl and Hower from modern-day Blackstrath early in its existence, and further reaching the north and parts of what is now Asconia at the beginning of 620 BNB. A wealth of architecture, textiles and significant cultural artifacts can be recovered from this era, as long as texts inscribed in their majority in Elder Phyrean.

Berhyl Celton

In 113 BNB, semi-legendary king Pieromant of No-one founds the Berhyl Celton along the banks of the Amrhyl and Hower rivers. Pieromant unified the various disperse Avannian city-states between these rivers, and expanded further north up to the Ascon river in southern Asconia. He instructed the newly-established noble caste to standardise and begin teaching written and spoken Old Phyrean to the public, to mixed success, and instructed his scribes to begin writing a history of the Kingdom. This history would be later known as the Phyrean Codex.

Two Kingdoms period

The First Phyrean Empire was annexed into the Berhyl Celton in 63 BNB. Around this time, Pieromant and the king of Krasnia, Etsonborw Bëljsol, begin exchanging letters, meeting and falling in love soon after. This would lead to them handfasting ten years later in 53 BNB. This union of love also represented the political union of both kingdoms, creating the Duumvirate of Phyrea and Krasnia, beginning the Two Kingdoms period. Several cultural innovations date to this time, most important of which being the Phyro-Krasnian calendar.

This period would eventually end in 200 ANB, when the Krasnian Kingdom seceded under Lady Bor IV of Secyl, and became the Queendom of Secyl.

Dissolution of the Phyrean Kingdom

In the year 1022, on the 21st of Mawbguwnt, despotic and widely disliked king Argwydar VII was defenestrated by a mob originally formed outside his castle in protest. The following controversy and long-standing resentment towards the nobility from the southern regions led to the separation of the Phyrean Kingdom. The northern regions became the Kingdom of Amrhyl, while the south became the Kingdom of Bluehand.

Phyrean Federation

Oppression from the Queendom of Secyl at the north was commonplace during its entire existence. At one point, the Kingdom of Amrhyl was subjugated enough to let the Queendom freely use the port of Levon, the biggest in the country, and was almost annexed several times. This would end in 1204, when the heir of the Levonian throne Tyll Cwallgun unified Amrhyl and the Hearnish Kingdoms to form the Phyrean Federation, defeating the Queendom in 1205. The subsequent wealth and power marked a period of flourishing for a distinct Phyrean identity, especially in Amrhyl, who now had Levon as its capital.

Colonial era

Amrhyl officially started the colonial era when, in 1520, expeditions sent to map beyond the Orddonach resulted in the crew finding northern Gogg.

Secession of Hower

Hower seceded from the kingdom after a referendum in 1692.