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The Urartian kings built fortress cities above Lake Van, engineered canals across volcanic highlands, and matched Assyria blow for blow. iWrity ARC connects your Urartian fantasy with the readers who want this Iron Age Caucasus world brought to life.
Start Your ARC Campaign Free10–40
Verified reviews per campaign
4–6 weeks
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100%
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Urartian fantasy draws on the history and mythology of the kingdom of Urartu, which dominated the Lake Van basin and surrounding highlands from around 860 to 590 BCE. Under kings such as Argishti I and Sarduri II, Urartu expanded to control a territory stretching from the Ararat plain to the Araxes River and beyond, challenging Assyrian dominance through a combination of military strength and extraordinary civil engineering. The Menua canal, stretching over 70 kilometers, still carries water today.
Stories in this space range from royal intrigue at the fortress capital Tushpa to the spiritual world of the storm god Teisheba and the sun god Shivini, from campaigns against Assyrian and Scythian incursions to the bronze-working traditions that made Urartian cauldrons prized across the ancient world. iWrity connects your book with Iron Age fiction readers who are hungry for settings beyond the Mesopotamian lowlands.
iWrity's reader pool includes people who have read their way through Assyrian historical fiction and want to see the Iron Age Caucasus from the other side. The Urartian kings who matched Assyria campaign for campaign, and built fortress cities that still command the landscape above Lake Van, are a story waiting to be told.
Assyria, Babylon, and Persia are well represented in ancient Near East fantasy. The kingdom of Urartu, with its advanced irrigation engineering, its distinctive bronze cauldrons traded as far as Greece, and its fortress capital Tushpa, has been almost completely ignored by commercial speculative fiction.
Because iWrity targets matched readers, your reviews come from people who chose your book for its setting. Their feedback tends to be substantive, specific, and persuasive to other buyers who are searching for Iron Age depth beyond the well-worn Mesopotamian lowland settings.
You don't need an email list or a social media following to run a successful ARC campaign. iWrity's reader base is your audience from day one, and both can grow together as your series expands across the Urartian highland frontier.
The Urartian highlands have been waiting for speculative fiction that does them justice. Get your book in front of the right readers, free to start, no credit card required.
Create Your Free AccountYes, and it is almost entirely unclaimed. Urartu, the Iron Age kingdom centered on Lake Van in eastern Anatolia, rivaled Assyria for dominance of the Caucasus region for three centuries. Readers drawn to ancient Near East settings already know Urartu through its fortress cities, elaborate irrigation canals, and magnificent bronze cauldrons, but almost no speculative fiction takes place inside this world. Authors who enter this niche now face virtually no direct competition.
iWrity's matching engine analyzes each reader's review history and stated genre preferences. Readers who have engaged with ancient Near East historical fiction, Assyrian and Armenian highland settings, Iron Age empire fantasy, and Caucasus mythology are prioritized for your campaign. These readers will appreciate the strategic grandeur of King Argishti's campaigns, the engineering marvel of the Menua canal, the sacred city of Tushpa on its volcanic promontory above Lake Van, and the distinctive Urartian bronze craftsmanship that ended up in Etruscan tombs across the Mediterranean.
Most authors collect between 10 and 40 verified reviews per campaign over a 4 to 6 week window. The exact number depends on campaign size and how closely your book matches reader preferences. Urartian fantasy attracts historically engaged readers with high completion rates, especially those who are tired of Assyria always playing the protagonist in Iron Age Near East fiction.
Every iWrity review is compliant by design. Readers disclose that they received a free advance copy, no star rating is requested or incentivized, and the platform is built to stay inside Amazon's current terms of service. Using iWrity carries none of the account risk that comes with grey-area review tactics.
