Taryaad Saramsaasan (concept)
The Taryaad Saramsaasan was a Kashiryan polity that existed between the 10th and 11th centuries. The last of Kashirya's great historical empires, it stretched across nearly the entire region and maintained what many would consider a sadly brief but otherwise prosperous golden-age.
While Kashirya had not been united for nearly two hundred years before the Taryaad, the Sabar Lambay Raad led to a near full third of the sub-continent being devastated and nearly uninhabited. Asojiva, who slew the undead ruler Holkkarak and ended the event, used their widespread popularity to establish a new empire in both the devastated regions and their personal lands and took upon themselves the dynastic name Taryaad.
The Taryaad dynasty would proceed to rule for four generations, Asojiva and subsequent emperors declaring themselves to be reincarnations of the ancient god Paerasjatan. This, along with various political conflicts with the Vidvaookeyatran scholarly class and the Taryaad's worry that the scholars could cause mass-destruction with their disregard for safety in their practices, led to constantly conflict with the scholars for most of the empire's rule.
The empire would end with the great-grandson of Asojiva, Chutagrat, who commissioned the Vidvaookeyatran 'Sansthakap' sect to write a dynastic biography to further establish his rule. The Sansthakap's instead discovered that Chutagrat's father may have secretly been adopted to the dynasty, and that Asojiva had possibly been born a bastard to a minor merchant family. This would cause the collapse of Chutagrat's legitimacy and the Vaarash. It is a popularly held belief that the Vidvaookeyatrans had invented the knowledge in order to eliminate their rivals in the Taryaads, though if this is truth, it is the first that they have chosen not to disseminate.