Tarqalan Empire
| Imperijai Tarqalon | |
|---|---|
  | |
| General Info | |
| Official Name | Imperijai Tarqalon |
| Common Name | Tarqalan Empire |
| Capital City | Koltoksa |
| Demonym | Tarqalan |
| Anthem | "Targoltos Hymn" |
| Politics | |
| Government | Theocracy |
| Legislature | Targoltian Matriarchs (De Facto) |
| Official Language(s) | Targoltian |
| State Religion | The Carmine Faith |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 98 Million |
| Species | Human* |
| Assets | |
| Other Assets | Magic |
| Geography/Astrography | |
| Planet | Yata |
| Continent | Eurasia |
| Historical Info | |
| Founded | 2800 BGS |
| Dissolved | 747 BGS |
| Preceded by | Targoltos City States |
| Succeeded by | Order of the Immortal Targoltos (Indirectly) |
| Other | |
| Created by | Hakced |
| Controlled by | Hakced |
The Tarqalan Empire was a vast nomadic empire that spread out of a region initially based around the Altai mountains as the 'Kingdom of Targoltos' which went on to expand across a significant portion of Eurasia, reaching its peak 1802 before the Great Sleep following their invasion of the Hyacin Dynasty. Targoltos began as a theocratic city-state surrounded by a collection of fellow Indo-Iranian statelets which were eventually conquered by the Targoltos, unifying the region and allowing them to expand across the Eurasian steppe without much resistance until they faced a defeat by the Yetai Empire, forcing them back into Siberia until the Yetaians' own empire collapsed, allowing the Tarqalans to reclaim much of their territory until their eventual collapse due to a series of defeats by Sizzle, Zantozacoria, and the Empire of Yata weakening them enough for a slave revolt to destroy them.
Societal Structure
The Tarqalan Empire began as a series of city-states in the Altai region with shared culture and religion, though once the Empire rose its culture took a darker turn towards imperialism, oppressing most of those they conquered by subsuming them into their stratified matriarchal culture. Religion-wise, the Tarqalans practiced a veneration of human life, the material world, and its creator which sprung life into the world by taking the form of its source, with this creator being worshipped via sacrificial rituals and dance-like veneration of the living as opposed to the dead, which were not seen as existing past death.
Modern Day Influence
Despite the demise of the Tarqalan Empire, their influence continues to have some impact on modern day cultures and practices in the form of a number of cults dedicated to the more extreme parts of their cultural practices which arose in the 100s. In the 190s the SDS Foundation put its focus on stamping out the influence of these cults, eventually forcing them to retreat out of the public eye. Despite this, several missing persons reports have been connected to these cults actions in Emiro, London, and Yetia City, though the only known location where these cults continue operate is a minor industrial district in Yetia City.
The most notable incident regarding the Tarqala cults past the 100s was in the 290s, during which the SDS Foundation managed to identify several Tarqalan cultists and facilities which were using a Siberian oil conglomerate as a front company, prompting the SDS foundation to fabricate a controversy during "Operation Red Frost" to allow for the conglomerate to appear to have naturally dissolved while its leadership were captured, leading to the discovery of their final strongholds in western Khuree. Due to artifacts such as SDS-031 there is a supposed threat of the Tarqalan Empire re-emerging via rewriting itself back into history if the anomaly was to breach containment.
