Luxor

The country of Yesmos is the southernmost territory in Rethium, and is swathed in deserts and valleys caked with sand. Dunes rise and fall like waves on a storming ocean, and vast flats of rocky and hard ground blanket everything in the land that is not covered by the endless, golden ocean.
There are seventeen cities in Yesmos, with the city of Luxor being the largest of them all. It stands along the southern coast of the country facing the ocean, and is one of the first cities to have been built in the country before the Great Expansion event, which turned the pages of history and marked the beginning of known recorded history in the world, following the Pantheonic Age, which is also known as the B.G.E Age, which stands for Before Great Expansion. Luxor was founded by Thyenius and his son Antander-Hatti, who had found the location of their new city lying amongst three rocky mountains, along the banks of a great river that flowed into the valley behind them, disappearing into a great cavern below the surface. Thyenius named the place Luxor, and so the city was born.
Luxor was actually founded long before the Pantheonic Age, after the Jackalfolk race had first appeared in the world as one of the planet and continents' oldest races. It is commonly accepted that the city of Luxor was founded some four-thousand years before the Great Expansion event, which first documented the time in which the known races of the world began their expansion across the planet and throughout the known world. The city started out with a meager population of around thirty-five-hundred in it's first decades, and it was known to grow thanks to the fact that it had been constructed around a large and very powerful river that rushed into the desert landscape. As the decades went on, the population grew upwards along with the city, and after almost two-hundred years or more, the population had risen above more than one-million residents, and although this was not the largest population cap in Luxor's history, it was thought to be the beginning of the city's golden age.
The city was founded by Thyenius and his son Antander-Hatti, but due to Thyenius' age at the time of founding Luxor, he instated his son as the land's first Pharaoh, the first ruler, it is known in ancient history, of the grand city of Luxor. The rulership of the city was passed down from Antander to his son Achereus, who became the second Pharaoh, and thus the line continued throughout history, passed from father to son, until the last Pharaoh of the city, Pthah-Nefer, died without a son or daughter to his name. His life falls in line with the historic battle between the Jackalfolk forces of the city and an army of Orcs that had laid siege against Luxor and it's people in a one-day battle which marked the end of the great city's history sometime in the seventeenth century or earlier, although the exact date remains unknown. Afterwards, without a ruler and with a majority of it's population scattered around the country, the capital fell into disrepair and abandon and after only a year's time efforts to restore the capital had failed, and so the other cities followed afterwards, until one city remained, which was Setka in the late eighteenth century. 
The city of Luxor maintained a population of roughly five million during it's golden age, but was known to have reached upwards of five-point-seven million at one time before declining again. This time in history was a famine period in which the river did not run as strongly despite it being connected to the ocean to the south, therefore limiting the crops and other supplies that could be grown and manufactured for the great city. Otherwise, very few ill events had taken place in Luxor's history, leaving it as a relatively peaceful southern empire in Rethium's history.
The continent recognizes that there were two extremely large and intricate constructs during Luxor's history, these being the Grand Palace of Luxor, home of the Pharaoh and his wife and whatever family he may have fathered at the time of his reign, as well as the Great Temple Pyramid at the city's center, which was the tallest freestanding structure in the city built on level ground. It would have risen high above the roofing of the Grand Palace on a level plane, but in order for the Pharaoh to oversee his lands, the palace was built on a large mountain that stood over the valley inside of which Luxor was built. The city was also well known for it's exports, mainly of exotic fabrics, paper, wines, grains, even gold and other valued artifacts. 
The Great Temple Pyramid was never finished during Luxor's time, as it's construction had commenced comparatively late in the city's history. It was destroyed along with much of the city itself during the One Day War, and the remains of the structure were eventually buried under deep sand dunes after the city itself had long-since been abandoned by it's former population. The Valley of Pharaohs was also decimated, and many of the statues that had depicted ancient rulers of the city were felled in the disaster of the war that claimed countless lives on both sides of the conflict. In modern times, both Luxor and the Valley can be found amongst the dunes, their remains left to crumble and fade away, never to be restored. 
Luxor acted as the country's capital for its entire tenure before its fall in the sixteen-hundreds, and when the mid-eighteen-hundreds came, a new city was founded in Yesmos to act as its modern-day capital. This city is known as Dodgeball, and is currently home to more than one-million residents. It sits along the same coastline as the former city of Luxor, though they do not share the same location, as Dodgeball was founded several miles eastward of Luxor's original location.

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Conurbation