Celume Province

Celume, officially the Celume Province, is one of the 9 provinces of the Aurlûnor Velande. Its capital and largest city is Tinwirëfal, which serves as the main port town of the province. Formerly classified as a colony, Celume was reorganized into a territory, and later an official province, following the Second Battle of Athrabar. Celume is home to over 30 different Dune Elven tribes, all classified under the Istih peoples.

Geography & Wildlife
Celume Province is the largest province in the Aurlûnor Velande, but is sparsely populated as it is mostly arid desert. It is the northernmost natural part of the Great Western Desert Belt. The topography of the province is mostly flat, with low rolling sand dunes covered in desert vegetation.

The Celume Jackrabbit, Lepus istihi, is endemic to the province. Western Hawk Turtles (Buteochelys occidens) are often found offshore or nesting on the shores in the summer.

History
Long neglected, the Velande received control of the area around the city of Athrabar in 930 ACA. Shortly after this, a squatter tribe known simply as Boris settled the region. Thusly, the First Battle of Athrabar was launched on February 17th. Though the Aurlûnoran forces scored more casualties and took back much of the land, the first battle was maintained as a stalemate and thus the Second Battle of Athrabar began on the 19th.

The Second Battle was an undisputed Aurlûnor and allied victory, finally evicting the Boris squatters from the territory. However, there is controversy over the use of ethnic cleansing by the Aurlunor Velande against Boris-affiliated humans in Celume. Regardless, the aftermath of the battle changed the local government from a colonial one to a territory, and from a territory into a fully-integrated imperial province.

Athrabar was later renamed to Tinwirëfal following the name standardization law, wherein all cities in the Velande must have names in the Lhûren Imperial dialect.