City at the confluence of the Lighic and Sugrad Rivers northeast of the Tarhanian Mountains, the capital of an Uzdumalian province also called Filmar.  The early history of the city is obscure and shrouded in myth, but it was probably founded around the same time as Uzda.  The area was conquered by Uzdumalian forces late in the reign of Devon-Lars I, and Filmar became the primary city in the northeastern part of the empire.

Throughout the Uzdumalian period the northeast was the poorest part of the empire, and the hardscrabble farmers of the Lighic and Sugrad valleys never took kindly to the imperial yoke. Filmar remained a small, isolated city, and never played a large role in the politics of the empire except as the setting for several notable mutinies among the unhappy soldiers garrisoned there.  Although the Uzdumalian church quickly supplanted the little-known indigenous religion(s) of the northeast, attachment to it was weak among the populace, and when the first Targhandist missionaries arrived in Filmar in 663 they had great success in converting the poor, unhappy residents of the city and surrounding countryside, who had little difficulty believing that they were already living in hell.  The area soon became one of the strongest bastions of Targhandism outside the southeast.

Uzdumalian control in Filmar deteriorated quickly after the spread of Targhandism there, and when the garrison mutinied in 669 it joined forces with the local nobility and Targhandist priests to declare Filmar an independent city-state.  The city was a major political power throughout the Early Targhandist period, until the Reformation, when the forces of the rising Kingdom of Lighica, loyal to the new form of Targhandism, overran its weak army and annexed its territory to Lighica.  Thereafter Filmar's influence once again declined, and it reverted to being a provincial backwater on the margins of a powerful state.

Filmar was never known for cultural or intellectual vibrancy, and few artists, thinkers or theologians of note hailed from the northeast.

See also:

Early Targhandism

Lighica

Reformation

Hell