Kartharadd (concept)
Glorious Kartharadd, once the greatest rival civilization the Aversarians had ever met, is nowadays nothing but broken ruins strewn across the vast expanse of Greater Aversaria.
Proficient Living Magi and masters of clockwork technology, the Kartharaddi built a large, cosmopolitan realm in the continental interior through a series of conquests that spanned from the 2nd century BI to the 8th IS, when they fatefully fought their last against Aversaria. They were ruled by a semi-divine Imperator, who held an iron grip over his domain that few contemporaries could hope to match, in large part thanks to a vast slave-government apparatus that is poorly understood today.
Most information about their history, government and customs was lost in the Night of the Bleeding Moon, when the entire Imperium was reduced to ashes in the span of a few hours, and what little remained was systemically destroyed by the Aautokrata, who wished to erase any records of their former foe's existence from the face of Aeras itself out of vengeance. The name of no single Imperator has survived to the present date, and the last of their line is especially shrouded in a seemingly impenetrable veil of mystery. Even the name of their capital, now one of the most hellish and hostile wastes in the world, has been seemingly completely stricken from living memory.
Though once their merest mention was a taboo that would elicit feelings of discomfort among Aversarians, in more recent times they've become more of a historical curio for the general public, a topic of interest for those intentionally seeking to stir controversy, and a perennial bane to the conservative.
Aliases: Kartharaddi, Kartharaddi Imperium, The Imperium, The Imperium of Kartharadd