History

World Weep Opening History

The nation of Rahadoum sent many of its militaristic and peacekeeping forces, called the Pure Legion, to join the doomed First Heroes' March. Rahadoum had historically banned all religious practice within its borders in the aptly named Laws of Mortality, so when the Weep was born, and the gods fell completely silent in the face of global catastrophe, the people of Rahadoum preached some level of mortal law, and some even viewed the Alchemist Mathesis as a herald of the new age of man. Like many other people around the world, the nation was not prepared for the rain of Mathesis' alchemical experiments upon its lands, and the barely surviving government was quickly dashed to the alchemical tained sands of the surrounding desert. 

Age of Collapse History — The Era of Phyrric Victory

In the following Age of Collapse, the Laws of Mortality crystallized in the survivors of Rahadoum, evolving from its already reaching place in law and culture to a core tenet of all ways of life in the people's eyes. Each time Mathesis's gaze fell to the struggling nation, and continued her grinding down of all civilization on the planet for the thousand years of the Worldweep, it strengthened the conviction of the people of Rahadoum. In this practice, some small bands of people had elevated the mortal woman to the place of an evil, wrathful God above all in their oral traditions and culture. The remnants of the Pure Legion stoked this and other hatreds, evolving from its original design of a military and peacekeeping force to a shadowy sect dedicated to stoking the hatred of Mathesis and other god-like beings in the scattered peoples' minds for centuries.

Age of Renewal History

After the Second Heroes' March's success, Rahadoum rebounded, their fiery conviction and shared culture catapulting them to a quick unity that other nations took decades to cultivate. The Council of Elders pushes the nation forward in economic, militaristic, and technological growth faster than the rest of the world due to this quick unity, easily allowing it a dominant position at the developing global table. The Keeper of the First Law has laid out a vision to the people of the nation: "Grow powerful, grow prosperous, grow happily over land untouched by divine interference, and show the rest of the world what man, not gods or kings, can do."

Government

Rahadoum currently hosts a single-party rule where the Pure Legion controls nearly all arms and legs of governmental rule. The organization is divided into many sects where the structure more closely follows a militaristic hierarchy than other forms of government. Above the senior officers of the sects lies the Council of Elders. These elders are named for their relative wisdom and rank rather than their age, and they serve as the generals of the legion. Above all else is the Sword of Man, the Keeper of the First Law, who serves more as an inquisitor of the Elders and their legions rather than a dictator or other governmental role. 

Points of Interest

• The capital city of Azir has been rebuilt into a megacity and bastion against the outside world and its various problems, and is practically a city-state unto itself. It hosts a large state-run port and several privateers, bringing its militaristic culture even onto the sea, where the bastion city repels all manner of attacks from sea creatures, alchemical monstrosity, and pirate bands. 
• Manaket and its ocularium is the second largest settlement of Rahadoum in the new age, and is considered an officer-town, where Pure Legion agents retire and start their families in the new age, sending their children to the Occularium academy. This has created a strain in the academy and the rest of the town, as these officer students often find themselves at odds with the arcane scholars who are more devoted to innovative magical and mechanical studies in civic wizardry. 
• The Iron Townships are a series of industrial towns that occupy where Botosani, Haldrun, Mekhum, and other settlements of the past ages. These Iron Townships have been converted to produce industrial goods and mass-produce foodstuffs in an ever-increasing scale as the Pure Legion seems to be looking to expand. 

Organizations Within

• The Pure Legion has entangled itself in nearly all facets of life in Rahadoum, from top-level and local-level government to infrastructure, civil engineering, and most sectors of industry and production. The pure legion has formulated a strict hierarchy, with the Council of Elders and Keeper of the First Law at the top. Although the legion outwardly promotes merit and hard work for officer placement, it is a well-known fact that many top positions are occupied by families, relatives, and friends. 
• The Cloaks are an underground group of ley-people that attempt to operate under the notice of the Pure Legion. There is seldom any organization or structure; the name Cloaks is simply a catch-all term that has become commonplace for the nation to refer to people and events that are obviously contrary to the Pure Legion. They often deal in smuggling, grand theft, redistribution of Legion assets, and other such activities. 
• The Iron Sects are secretive members of several groups across the Iron Townships of Rahadoum. They deal with Chelix and its infernal cabals and pacts, and have their own agreements with the various cults and other groups of the nation of Garund, supplying those like the Din Children, the Vortex Cult, and the Rovagug worshippers with stolen supplies from their industrial complexes. 
• A minor but growing voice in the Pure Legion known as the Mortal Folly holds Mathesis in a revered saint-like state in political and social doctrine. Holding her as a prime example of what man can accomplish, but unfortunately twisted to evil due to the influence of the other evils of the world. They use her as a platform for what the Laws of Mortality could espouse, a universe entirely dominated by man and not the divine. 

Major Conflicts

• The Border Wars refers to the series of conflicts that Rahadoum has had with the cities and states of Chelix, The Sodden Lands, The Shackles, and Thuvia. Some land and other resources have changed hands a number of times, but due to the few decades of rebuilding in the new age, these footholds in other countries have not yet developed to the level of a fledgling empire, but who is to say if left alone for a few decades more?
• A number of internal conflicts have occurred across the nation, with top-level officers of the Pure Legion engaging their squads and companies on a number of missions. Some peacekeeping, some proactive prevention, some reactive in the face of cults, cloaks, and the Iron Sects that erode the various pillars of the Legion.

Events in the Age of Renewal

• The Alchemical Buckle was a time period a few decades ago in which naturally occurring weather conditions, like drought and the rapid industrialization of the food sector, resulted in widespread famine across the nation. The Pure Legion turned to their civil magi concentrated in the town of Manaket and created an alchemical and arcane stopgap of conjured foodstuffs. This time resulted in many near uprisings and sparks against the Pure Legion and was one of the few times that public opinion was solidly turned against the Pure Legion. 
• The Students' Revolt occurred only a year before the founding of The Second Harbor of Hearts. Brewing for decades, the town of Manaket and its Ocularium finally voiced protests against a clear case of nepotism, which resulted in a crop of prodigal magi with no connections being rejected from the university, to a class of individuals with no talent nor drive but with a number of important Pure Legion connections. The Revolts continue in many forms to this day and are considered one of the few public blemishes of the nation that got leaked to the outside world. 

Other notable changes from the past Golarion

The general population and characteristics of inhabitants mirror the past Golarion. The Pure Legion is notably more radical than their earlier counterparts, and divine magic is prohibited within their borders as a whole. Visitors who practice their own faith from their various nations are faced with more scrutiny at nearly every level.