Ancient Idiri history

I'd love to know more about this, particularly Ancient Amunat, since Khalduno's mother is Amunati and I'd like to develop that backstory more. The timeline on the website goes back about two millenia from the present. Is there a sense of when the Ancient Amunat civilization was flourishing, and when/why it declined?

Also regarding this timeline entry: ca. 1150-850 B.D. Peak flourishing of the Rassi civilization of northeastern Idiri.

Are the modern Razmani descendants of the ancient Rassi, or is the similarity in name merely coincidental? Based on the location of their homeland (further west in the Hazari desert?), I'd lean toward the latter, but they could have migrated from Raziya (which sounds like it was named after the ancient Rassi).

I realize many of these details are probably still being worked out - asking as much to inspire lore-writing as to actually get the questions answered.

The peak flourishing of ancient Amunat would have been several millennia ago, much like ancient Egypt in the real world, but I don't have a date for it set in stone yet. Though it lost its pre-eminence as other nearby kingdoms rose and gained in power and influence, Amunat always remained culturally influential in north Idiri and the eastern Adelantean basin. Lower (northern and coastal) Amunat became a client state of the Ruveran Empire and paid regular tribute to it in grain, but the Amunati there never considered themselves to be "conquered". They did however elect to become a full province of the Kalentoi Empire in the aftermath of the Ruveran Empire. Upper (southern) Amunat remained entirely unvanquished by the Ruverans and held fast to many ancient Amunati customs, and still does so. Upper Amunati are a bit like ancient Nubians, and have old blood ties to the Milombo people of the Izendi Highlands. Although the peoples of upper and lower Amunat used to be rivals and consider themselves different people, all of them now proudly refer to themselves as Amunati.

Amunat is actually next on my list of Sirdabi provinces to be mapped and written up for the wiki, so hopefully that will help provide additional information -- but please feel free to ask more questions in the meantime!

Regarding the Rassi civilization, yes, the the Razmani are in fact their descendants! Raziya is the Razmani homeland, and there are also quite a few Razmani in Ifru province. The Amunati and the Razmani are long-time rivals, so Razmani enclaves are less common in Amunat even though it's next door to Raziya. There is actually a little bit more information on the ancient Rassi here: http://songofavaria.com:8080/mediawiki/index.php?title=Omrazir:_History

Thanks, that information is very helpful, as is the wiki page on the history of Omrazir. I think it'd be good to link that page from the page about the Razmani heritage, because it's pretty sparse right now and doesn't indicate that they are descended from the Rassi people or that their homeland is Raziya. Are they loosely based on the Berber/Imazighen people of the real world?

That's a good suggestion, and I'll go ahead and add a link from the Razmani page. All of the heritage pages should eventually have a lot more information, but I'm slow and as you can see it's very much a work in progress XD

The Tessouare are the heritage in the game that is more or less Berber-analogous in Avaria. The Razmani are actually in some ways loosely inspired by the Nabateans (the builders of Petra), but they're sort of their own thing. To envision their more "rustic" settlements, you could think of places like Mesa Verde or Montezuma Castle in the southwestern US.