Bagram

The Sultanate of Bagram, also known as the Kingdom of Bagram or Old Baghram, was an arid monarchy of the Western Nations bordered by Iadria, Eaddovar and Medatha. Much of Bagram was dominated by the Stehevar Desert, but its main source of power lay in the fertile coastal regions of Baghramia and the large Lake Stehevar. Formerly among the eastern holdings of the Anderian Empire on Adovias, the culturally diverse region of modern-day Bagram collapsed into a state of chaos and civil war following the Fourth Age Collapse. It would not fully unite until the late Fifth Age, when the Kingdom of Baghram was formed. A fairly progressive monarchy, Baghram would not last the century. Iadrian King Castor I's Wars of Eastward Expansion, launched from neighboring Leogoth in 6A 56, found their first targets in the 'upstart warlords' of Baghram and Eaddovar. Despite valiant resistance, the young Kingdom would be eventually defeated and annexed by Iadria, reformed into the new Frontier Duchy of Bhagramia. Following nearly two centuries of Iadrian occupation and Bagrami resistance, the region finally regained its independence with the end of the Stehevar Secessionary Wars in 6A 240. The Sultan of Ejhari, one of the primary military leaders of the Bagrami resistance in the latter years of the Secessionary Wars, wrested control of the newly-independent Duchy from his rivals in the ensuing power struggle, creating the Sultanate of Bagram in the place of the old Kingdom. The young Sultanate shifted Bagram's focus as a nation away from the sea lanes it had allowed Iadria access to and toward the desert power of the country's Stehevar-dominated northern regions. This shift would reflect itself in the culture of Bagram over the following centuries, as a tradition of reverence for the shifting sands would take hold, alongside the rise in power of the Bajnahari, a caste of mounted warrior-nomads hailing from the Sultanate's far north.