Valarsace was a semi-mythical Parthia

Parthia

Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, rulers of the Parthian Empire....

n-ruler of Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

. The first work of the new Parthian ruler of Armenia, Valarsace was to wipe out Brigandage

Brigandage

Brigandage refers to the life and practice of brigands: highway robbery and plunder, and a brigand is a person who usually lives in a gang and lives by pillage and robbery....

. He was horrified by the barbarity of the country, whose inhabitants, he reported they lived by murder and pillage. Valarsace then organized a subdivision of the empire, and conferred his greatest favors upon a certain Jew whose name was Pakarad.