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The Cilician plain — the flat, river-fed territory between the Taurus Mountains to the north and the Mediterranean to the south, bounded by the Amanus range to the east — is watered by three rivers descending from the Taurus and has been continuously cultivated since the Bronze Age. It was the agricultural engine of ancient Cilicia, the breadbasket of Armenian Cilicia, and under the Ramazanids it was the richest agricultural territory in Anatolia. Three rivers, a mountain barrier on three sides, and direct Mediterranean access: the Cilician plain is a natural kingdom.

For a fantasy author, this geography is a gift. A flat, fertile plain surrounded by mountains and sea is a world legible from above — the kind of setting where armies move in straight lines, where irrigation determines political power, and where controlling the river mouths means controlling everything. iWrity connects your Ramazanid world with readers who value geographic specificity in fantasy, and whose reviews communicate that specificity to future buyers.

Armenian Cilicia — the medieval Christian kingdom that ruled this plain from the eleventh century until its destruction in 1375 — left behind a landscape dense with monasteries, churches, fortresses, and administrative infrastructure. When the Ramazanids took control of Cilicia, they did not inherit an empty territory. They inherited a functioning religious and architectural ecosystem built by a different civilization, many of whose communities continued to exist under the new order.

A Muslim emirate ruling over living Christian communities in the ruins of a destroyed Christian kingdom is not simply a post-conquest setting. It is a situation of perpetual negotiation — over land, over sacred rights, over the meaning of the ruins themselves. The Armenian monks who copied manuscripts in the Taurus monasteries understood that the Ramazanid rulers needed them to remain functional. The Ramazanid rulers understood that the monks knew where things were buried. iWrity connects this layered world with readers who reward moral and political complexity in fantasy.

The last Ramazanid ruler commissioned a survey of every Armenian monastery in Cilicia before his death. His heirs suppressed it immediately after the survey was completed. No historian has ever located the findings. This is not a gap in the record — it is an active suppression, a document that existed and was made to disappear.

What did that survey find? The monasteries of the Taurus held texts, relics, maps, and land records accumulated over four centuries of Armenian Christian rule. A survey conducted by a Muslim vassal ruler who then died and whose heirs panicked at the results is a mystery that can anchor an entire novel sequence. The Ramazanids outlasted every other Anatolian beylik — surviving as Ottoman vassals until 1608, two centuries after most beyliks were absorbed. That longevity required something. iWrity delivers your Ramazanid fantasy to readers who want to know what it was.