Empire of Ibbathis

The Empire of Ibbathis, also known as the Eastern Empire or the Empire of the Sands, was the easternmost of the Three Great Empires. Originally forming a third of Edos' Thousand-Year Empire, it was established upon the death of the Creator God and the end of the Second Age. The Eastern Empire was founded at the outset of the War of Holy Succession by Shalmanisar Shu-Anum, one of Edos’ three Grand Lieutenants. Shu-Anum took control of the Thousand-Year-Empire’s Eastern holdings upon the God-Emperor’s death, declaring those lands to be the chosen of the Creator. He established his capital in the great city of Al-Marathis at the foot of the Peak of Ibbathis, one of the tallest mountains in the world. The Empire of Ibbathis would endure for millennia, locked in an endless and indecisive conflict with Aldera and Anderia, until the Fourth Age Collapse. Though the events of the Collapse are not entirely clear, it is certain that the catacalysmic period saw the end of the Three Great Empire’s dominance of Edos’ dominions. Ibbathis managed to survive the Collapse, but was greatly diminished in both strength and territory. During the Fifth Age, the Empire struggled to reclaim its position as the greatest of the Eastern kingdoms, but it could not delay the inevitable forever. Ibbathis waned slowly over the centuries, tearing itself apart from within as it was ravaged by civil war, secessions and political turmoil. Finally, in the late 500s of the Sixth Age, the last vestiges of the ancient Empire were overrun and annexed by the emergent Epherian Empire, a new power which had risen from one of Ibbathis’ own successor states.