Ĵordaan-Juroo

Ĵordaan-Juroo (496:23 - 573:89), commonly known as Lord Juroo in the Balooun Empire, was an Adr-Kaa'an philosopher and political leader who was considered one of the Great Philosophers. She originated the theory of the four virtues and is considered the inventor of Jurooniyoo, of which she is the namesake. She also served as the only Prime Minister of Adr-Kaa'an and laid the groundwork for the Balooun political system, despite the fact that she was arrested and imprisoned a few days before the Empire was established. She remained in prison for the rest of her life, and never obtained Balooun citizenship as a result. She was the first written philosopher and her writing style set the template for the majority of 6th century philosophical discourse. One of her most influential works was The Races of Man (c. 553), which inspired the creation of a racial caste system in both the Balooun and Kadeean Empires.

Ĵordaan lived at a time when politics and religion were deeply intertwined and sometimes indistinguishable. This was because the Badkalden was simultaneously the ultimate political and religious figure. As a result, Ĵordaan's political theory was deeply enmeshed in religion. This was a major factor in the political dominance of the Glaan-San church over the subsequent centuries.

Life
Ĵordaan-Juroo was in born into an affluent landowning family in the district of Braad in 496:23, the same day that the Badkalden met the King of San and was appointed head of the Imbrahaan. She was born into a wealthy landowning family in Adr-kaa’an.

In 530:44, Ĵordaan arrived in Gorn to study under Lampax-Daahat.

In 539:99, Ĵordaan returned to Braad to take up a position in Malisin-Duf-Baloo’s advisory council. Over the next few decades she was responsible for constructing the Balooun political system – based on the importance of stability – and the world’s first legal system. Prior to this, justice had been enacted by nobles, or their delegates, according to their own ethical proclivity. Ĵordaan changed this by introducing a strict protocol for passing judgement. She also advocated slavery and implored the Kamakan government to enslave the native people of Draan, who she believed were uncivilised.

In 551:27, the Malisin granted Ĵordaan the title of Kweldeledaa (meaning “Prime Minister”) of Adr-kaa’an. She was the only person to hold this title, and it was the precursor to the position of Prime Minister of the Balooun Empire, was at least the second most powerful position in the Empire for its entire history.

When Duf-Baloo died in 556:32, her daughter Paramasō took the throne. The new Malisin disliked Ĵordaan, despite adopting almost all of her political theories. Major tension arose in decade: 56 when the Badkalden died leaving his daughter in charge of the Empire. Paramasō desperately wanted to break away from the Empire and wage war with San, but Ĵordaan consistently advised against it. In 566:99, Paramasō decided to break with the Kamakan, and a few days later had Ĵordaan imprisoned for the remaining 6 years of her life. She died in 573:89

In the decades after her death, Ĵordaan's reputation improved rapidly and she became so respected in the Balooun Empire that she was posthumously awarded the honorary title of Lord to atone for her imprisonment. This honorary title was subsequently used every now and then to commemorate exceptional individuals.

The Four Virtues
Ĵordaan originated the idea that humans can express four fundamental virtues: stability, morality, intelligence and game-skill. She also posited that stability is in opposition to intelligence, and morality to game-skill, and that by improving in one virtue you will become worse in the virtue it is opposed to.

Political theory
In the mid 5th century, Ĵordaan laid the foundations of the Balooun political and legal system, and her ideas greatly influenced future Afbarkeean politicians.

Ĵordaan identified 4 classes that she believed where crucial to the functioning and structure of society, and that everyone was born into the class they rightfully, because the Kamakan had promoted the most worthy people to positions of authority and had defeated the unworthy in battle. The four classes she identified were:


 * Holy: consisting of the Badkalden and the Glaan, who have authority over all of humanity
 * Noble: consisting of aristocrats and their immediate family; they have authority over the citizens in the area they rule over
 * Common: consisting of any free citizen who is not a member of the upper classes; they have authority (or autonomy) over their own lives
 * Slave: those who are considered not worthy enough to have autonomy, and must answer to their master or a slavery institution

The common class were typically financially independent and included high-paying professions such as scribes and military officers. Balooun commoners were generally either landowners or tenants. In the centuries after the Great Plague, the common class started to gradually divide into an informal middle and working class, the former of which was associated with the most successful descendants of the lucky generation who had trained to become professionals.

Racism
In his work The Races of Man, Ĵordaan proposed a racial caste system which was later implemented in the Balooun Empire and inspired similar systems across Afbarkeean. Unlike the four traditions races that were defined as the descendants of the four children of Afbar, Ĵordaan identified races by eye colour and arranged them in a loose hierarchy, as follows: white, yellow, green, red, purple, brown, blue, orange.