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The '''Lécaronian Imperials Roads''' were a system of 24 roads laid out across the Lécaronian Empire, serving as the backbone of the Empire’s transport and information system. | The '''Lécaronian Imperials Roads''' were a system of 24 roads laid out across the Lécaronian Empire, serving as the backbone of the Empire’s transport and information system. | ||
== | ==Purpose and Layout== | ||
==Road System== | Built on behest of emperors or local administrators, the roads were usually built on older routes or roads used by the local population for centuries (with the notable exception of the Niom Tárakin). Officially termed ''Caron-Nioma'' ‘roads of the empire’, they were maintained directly by the provincial governments, who ensured a constantly high quality of fabric, at least up until the last decades of the Empire, but offered by far not the only travel routes, competing with numerous smaller roads and pathways maintained either by the local population or tread out through constant usage. | ||
Imperial roads were consistently built in cobblestone between one-half and four Elôreni wide, with milestones every twelfth of an Olgish League, marking an Olgish Hour (a distance of ~3.25km or 2.02 mi, twelve of which could on average be travelled in a single day). | |||
==History and Road System== | |||
===Initial Construction Phase=== | ===Initial Construction Phase=== | ||
The first ‘imperial’ roads were built by the third emperor, Eldebrin I, between 92 and 135 L.R., mostly on existing road systems in the eight original provinces of Lécaron, Belkondíl, Geran, the Olgish Reknaya, Ukkar, Olgish Seligon, Armundia, Oshale, and the North-Western Colonies. Intended to strengthen the coherence of his empire, Eldebrin’s road system proved crucial to the success of the early emperors in consolidating their power over the young empire and was part of the origin for this epithet Ginetar ‘the constructor’. | The first ‘imperial’ roads were built by the third emperor, Eldebrin I, between 92 and 135 L.R., mostly on existing road systems in the eight original provinces of Lécaron, Belkondíl, Geran, the Olgish Reknaya, Ukkar, Olgish Seligon, Armundia, Oshale, and the North-Western Colonies. Intended to strengthen the coherence of his empire, Eldebrin’s road system proved crucial to the success of the early emperors in consolidating their power over the young empire and was part of the origin for this epithet Ginetar ‘the constructor’. | ||
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Constructed hastily after the Battle of the Weeping Plains in 687 to faciliate troop movements into Atrissar during the Geranian War. Branching off the Niom Alôr at Fádá and crossing the Plain of Ortûlék westward before meeting the Niom Aran Turin at Talis. Named ''Niom Tárakin'' ‘road of war’ for its military purpose. | Constructed hastily after the Battle of the Weeping Plains in 687 to faciliate troop movements into Atrissar during the Geranian War. Branching off the Niom Alôr at Fádá and crossing the Plain of Ortûlék westward before meeting the Niom Aran Turin at Talis. Named ''Niom Tárakin'' ‘road of war’ for its military purpose. | ||
[[Category:Lécaron]][[Category:Roads | [[Category:Lécaron]][[Category:Roads]] | ||