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'''Babran''' (Elw: Баброн, ''Babron'') is an [[Elwynnese bailiwick]] and city in the [[Ardashirshahr metropolitan area]]. Bordering [[Ardashirshahr]] and [[Eskenderiyebandar]] in the north, [[Qajar]] in the south, and [[Majid-e Aik]] in the east, Babran is situated on the west bank of the [[Blue Elwynn]]. Its population was 1,821,214 (as of 1680), of which 68% could speak Babkhi and 14% Elw as their native languages. Babkhi was the only [[Languages of Elwynn|official language]] of the bailiwick.

It was the site of a rather controversial memorial to [[Kaspar Soleiman]] raised by die-hard supporters of the [[Emirate of Sathrati]] during Kaspar's tenure as emir. The memorial has since become a curiosity, as with time, people have moved on from Kaspar's treachery. Since the reign of [[Adam al-Osman]] the reputation of Kaspar has undergone something of a rehabilitation - with him being considered to have been "the last man to enter the Senate with honest intentions". As of {{AN|1704}} it became the fashion to "dress" the Kaspar Monument with the corpses of criminals and heretics executed by the [[Guild of Magisters-Carnifex|magister]] assigned to the bailiwick. The remains of up to five hundred democracy activists have also been staked out around the monument in a macabre tableau as a warning to all those who would wish to replace the status quo that came into being after the [[Second Elwynnese Civil War]] with a constitutional or democratic form of government. Beginning in {{AN|1709}} a concerted effort was made to remove the revolting collection of rotting corpses and scattered bones, the site having become infested with scavengers and vermin which had grown fat on decaying flesh of those who had been executed at the site. Following the physical cleansing of the site by felons from the [[Benacian Labour Reserve]], conducted under the close supervision of the [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels|cudgellers]], the monument and the bounds of the bailiwick were subjected to numerous purification rituals carried out by representatives of the denominations of the [[United Ecclesiastical Corporation of Benacia]]. The collected remains of the condemned were reportedly sold to bone-meal merchants for appropriate disposal.

The bailiwick was devastated by the [[Streïur_uis_Faïren#Activation_of_Bad_Neighbour_II|airburst of a 350kt nuclear warhead]] originating from [[Shirerithian]] territory on 23.XI.{{AN|1733}}. Estimates after the fact indicated that the strike claimed the lives of 599,300 subjects with a further 224,940 injured.

[[Category:Elwynnese bailiwick]]
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