Dinion

   Most of these pages probably won't have much more than links on them to actual fleshed-out pages (That term has always sounds really weird to me. Just think about it.), and most of them won't have much more than history, either. That is because history is awesome. And government, in my opinion, is more of a necessary afterthought. In conworlding, not in real life, that is. Either way, please feel free to fill up those pages that have a lot less than the other ones... You can extract information from here, because it is my favorite country of the ones I am creating, and will subsequently be updated the most, and have history tacked onto it the most. Also, don't feel free to just make stuff up for those placesor make places up entirely. I want to have complete control of this world's history. Because I'm a control freak. Anything else, especially the culture of the more minor nations, go ahead. So much italics...

History of Dinion
Yay! History! It's awesome and stuff! More stuff should be put here later. Seriously.I can't think of any actual stuff I can put here.Um... Dinion is in a desert.

Oh, that's geography.Darn geography!

Dinyon/Ancient Dinion
Dinyon,or Ancient Dinion, is believed to be the fourth oldest civilization (In the world I am creating), predating both the fabled Ikan and the entire continet of Hyile. It resided (akward wording... revise) along the Inyon River Valley, and consisted of several city-states, the most powerfulbeing De'et and Mantin, who constantly warred. This doesn't imply the other city-states didn't war, but these two warred the most. Most of this warring was against eachother. Dinyon is believed to have existed from about -4000 to -1200 or so.

All of these city-states shared a common religion, social order, language, and, surprisingly, written language, which indicates they must have been unified at one point in the past. Unfortunately, Pre-ancient Dinion was either completely annihalted or just happened to have the bad habit of destroying all their written records and cities and stuff.This language is known as 'Pre-Daan', and isn't very complex (at all) or very useful in keeping written records, anyway. However, at least four of these city-states have fragments of a tax record in 'Pre-Daan'.

Pra'waan Wars
These wars wouldn't be too important if they weren't for control of the large city Pra'waan. Pra'waan is walled, so it was pretty darn hard to take over. It was also large, and supposedly was where the great god (Din or Dinv, depending on city-state) created the Earth from. Or something like that. They weren't very specific, which was understandable due to the only record of history being oral.

Control of Pra'waan originally belonged to a different Dinyon city-state known only as 'the defiers of Dinv'. It's Dinv and not Din/Dinv here because these people were only seen by the Mantin, who captured the city with the help of Dinv. Or so they say. Anyway, control over Pra'waan shifted back and forth after that between the De'et and the Mantin.

It is hypothesized that the De'et only wanted Pra'waan at all because the Mantin took it. Supposedly, the ruler was all like "Oh, that's the place where Din supposedly created the Earth? And you were assisted by Din in capturing it? Were not! We're the rightful people of Din!" This is hypothesized because some oral stories and stuff say Fred (believe it or not, now a very rich city) is the place where Din created the Earth, while others say it's Pra'waan. This could be boiled down to bad translation, but there are some pretty ancient temples in Fred. These templesare ruined, by the way.Just in case you couldn't have guessed.

Second Period Dinyon
Second Period Dinyon is just a fancy name for 'When the De'ets thought they were so cool and tried to completely conquer other city-states and stuff'. As you may have guessed, the De'ets were hipsters. They started conquering fellow city-states before it was cool. Well, they weren't exactly hipsters, but you get the point. Perhaps the things I write should be a little more formal? This was all sparked by the power of a new king, named Hettenwaan. He came to power during a period when the Mantin controlled Pra'waan. Hettenwaan claimed that it was the divine duty given to him to stop the constant chaos that embodied Dinyon. This message was supposedly given to him by, not Din as you may have guessed, but Lia, Din's wife. Din was supposedly fading away due to lack of belief in him. This happened around -1900 or so.

While it's obvious that the other city-states believed in Din/Dinv as much as the De'et did, that didn't stop the first religious war between the city-states of Dinyon. The others had been about petty things like land and not liking the opposing king. S*** just got real.

Hettwenwaan raised fairly formidable army, of about 500 or so. This encompassed a great deal of De'et's men, but children over the age of five were also allowed to fight, so there were a lot of children in the army as well. They started by going to the North and taking out the weaker city-states there, then going South, careful to avoid Pra'waan and the Mantin's other territory.

However, the current king of Mantin, Guldin the fourth, noticed this behavior and started conquering a lot of territory in the name of Dinv with an army almost as large. Both forced men in the city-states conquered to fight in the army, which enlarged the armies by a great deal. Women and children were allowed to continue their lives normally. In the case of the Mantin, that is. The De'et forced women and children to join the army as well, which often didn't turn out positively.

The De'et had a larger army, but the Mantin had more people live in the conquered territory. They were typically also kinder to the people they conquered, allowing the less fit men to be slaves if they so chose. De'et eventually toppled Mantin, and took permanent control of Pra'waan.

This, however, did not mean the Mantin were gone. This did not mean they didn't continue, just in the conquered cities. This did not mean the Mantin had given up on capturing Pra'waan.

Third Period Dinyon
Second Period Dinyon lasted until around -1700, being the shortest of the three periods of Ancient Dinion, or Dinyon. The third and final period came about after the De'et eventually lost power due to a civil war. The Mantin eagerly took it, and ruled it relatively peacefully. The third period is by far the most boring, with the exception of the introduction of...

Gaadne No
Yes, the last section was only one paragrpah. Deal with it. Other civilaztion had popped up by this time, but Third Period Dinyon remained the most powerful. Until it was all shattered by Gaadne No, the king of nearby Gaadne, which is further up the Inyon River than Dinyon. Gaadne No was born in the year 0. Notice anything? Gaadne No was eleventh king of Gaadne, and his name translated to Gaadne Eleven. Gaadne had been a trade partner with the Mantin, and therefore should be allies. Gaadne had adopted the Mantin language, and the Dinyon religion, which was expected, due to Mantin having complete control of Dinyon now (which the exception of 'rebellious city', but who knows what that is).

The Beginning of Gaadnen
However, Gaadne started to boycott the Mantin's goods suddenly. It was due to the work of Gaadne No, who claimed to be able to speakto gods. There were ten of his gods, being the ten kings of Gaadne that came before him. No claimed that when he died, he would be immortalized as a god as well. These gods all had the word Gaadne before them, which, in life, was what proved they were king. They were as follows: Ud, Yet, Da, Myon, Faad, Ved, Ventaan, Doro, Laal, and June, equating totheir respective numbers. It may seem weird to have gods/kings be Gaadne 'Number', but they went with it.

This, of course, defied the religion of Mantin. These, according to the Mantin, were just ghosts or spirts of Gaadnean kings, not gods. However, the people of Gaadne (for the most part) followed their king. Gaadne No feared being conquered for deying the religion of the Mantin, so he stopped trade with them. This, unfortunately, was what caused the Mantin to attack them. However, defying the religion would probably have caused a more heated war.

Culture
It starts with two headings. What do you want me to do? There won't be anything here for a while, if anything ever goes here. Just Sayin'. You could put things here if you want, just know headwear is important. And most of this is in a desert, so camels...