Qar Tolga

The Qan Tengur-Namag (literally King of the Sky and Aether) stood at the centre of Qar Tolga, and was a Badist shrine to the element of aether. Salicaean warriors believed sufficient engagement with the aether element was pivotal in warfare, particularly for their archers.

Qar Tolga (Zalyk: Хар Толга; Qar Tolga, Classical Salicaean: ᡍᠠᠷᡐᡆᠯᡙᠠ, Soravian: Хартолга; Khartolga) was the eastern capital of Salicaea and the capital of the Amag Jetei, the lands of the Jetei clan that ruled Salicaea from the 10th to the 12th-century. At its height it was one of the largest cities in Western Euclea and is thought to have contained the largest network of Badist shrines outside of Coius.

History

Qar Tolga was first settled in the 9th-century during the Tagamic Migrations by the Jetei clan, who ultimately became the foremost religious and administrative clan in contrast to the warrior Ghazars. After successfully overthrowing the Ghazar clans in conjunction with the Mungligs, Narin Kegen Qagan launched his own successful coup d'état in 963 to install the Jetei clan as the clan of qagans in Salicaea. Located in the east the city grew rapidly as a result of raids and invasions into Pavatria in the 10th and 11th-centuries. By the mid-11th century the city was the de facto capital of Salicaea and where most of its administration and armies were located.

Most of its grandest religious architecture was constructed after the coupe of Narin Kegen in the 11th-century. It became known as Balhasn Nutg ("City of Kings") due to the impressive kurgans that were constructed around the city for the Jetei qagans.