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With their homeland taken, the Aribelians have no choice but to flee north into the sphere of influence of the Yamenaens, as the Kattasians of Geran are now known. Negotiations quickly erupt in violence and develop into the First War of the Steppes. The Aribelian minority seems lost beyond hope, but the Yamenaens are scattered, both geographically and politically, across the plain and the Aribelians desperate and united in their need for land. It is a short and bloody conflict that will end with the subduction of the Yamenaens and the foundation of the first unified Aribelian state, the Kingdom of Aeros. The Yamenaens are left with only a small strip of land reaching from Yamenna to the sea. This early Kingdom of Yamenna will fall less than a century later, in the Second War of the Steppes, which sees Aeros expand its territory and assert its dominance over the region against the land-hungry Wertians. | With their homeland taken, the Aribelians have no choice but to flee north into the sphere of influence of the Yamenaens, as the Kattasians of Geran are now known. Negotiations quickly erupt in violence and develop into the First War of the Steppes. The Aribelian minority seems lost beyond hope, but the Yamenaens are scattered, both geographically and politically, across the plain and the Aribelians desperate and united in their need for land. It is a short and bloody conflict that will end with the subduction of the Yamenaens and the foundation of the first unified Aribelian state, the Kingdom of Aeros. The Yamenaens are left with only a small strip of land reaching from Yamenna to the sea. This early Kingdom of Yamenna will fall less than a century later, in the Second War of the Steppes, which sees Aeros expand its territory and assert its dominance over the region against the land-hungry Wertians. | ||
But the nobility of Aeros is already divided over the question of Yamenaen religion, many calling for the destruction of the great Temple of Yamenna and the expulsion of the Kattasian clergy, others cautioning not to upset the Yamenaen populace. Only a few years later, Krošcan, high priestess of Yamenna, narrowly survives an attempt on her life. Fleeing the city, she seeks refuge in the Nukna and rallies around her all loyal Kattasian chiefs, plotting an uprising against the Aribelians. The Third War of the Steppes is as devastating to the Aribelians as the first was to the Yamenaens, seeing the fall of the city of Aeros within three years. Some of the Aribelians flee north into the land then known as Oshale, which will soon become their permanent home, leaving the history of Geran, others remain and receive mercy at the hands of the Yamenaens. Victorious and united, they retake their holy city and restore the Kingdom of Yamenna, now spanning all of the Geranian Heath. | But the nobility of Aeros is already divided over the question of Yamenaen religion, many calling for the destruction of the great Temple of Yamenna and the expulsion of the Kattasian clergy, others cautioning not to upset the Yamenaen populace. Only a few years later, Krošcan, high priestess of Yamenna, narrowly survives an attempt on her life. Fleeing the city, she seeks refuge in the Nukna and rallies around her all loyal Kattasian chiefs, plotting an uprising against the Aribelians. The Third War of the Steppes is as devastating to the Aribelians as the first was to the Yamenaens, seeing the fall of the city of Aeros within three years. Some of the Aribelians flee north into the land then known as Oshale, which will soon become their permanent home, leaving the history of Geran to become the Celsondach, others remain and receive mercy at the hands of the Yamenaens. Victorious and united, they retake their holy city and restore the Kingdom of Yamenna, now spanning all of the Geranian Heath. | ||
=== | ===The Golden Age of Yamenna=== | ||
With the Yamenaen victory in the Third War of the Steppes begins the heyday of the Kingdom of Yamenna. In the 1140s B.E.B., the first Yamenaen priests are sent west to missionize the Kalparians and Hayans, then dwelling in a large area stretching from Bernab to the Arsapárian Marsh. In 1082, a marriage pact brings the Yamenaens closer to their Wertian neighbours, and in 1049, most of the Wertian lands north of the Ilathw fall under Yamenaen rule. A hundred years later, the kingdoms expands north, establishing a colony in the Oshale. The colonists are mostly of one descent, offspring of the once great Aribelian nation which had become | With the Yamenaen victory in the Third War of the Steppes begins the heyday of the Kingdom of Yamenna. In the 1140s B.E.B., the first Yamenaen priests are sent west to missionize the Kalparians and Hayans, then dwelling in a large area stretching from Bernab to the Arsapárian Marsh. In 1082, a marriage pact brings the Yamenaens closer to their Wertian neighbours, and in 1049, most of the Wertian lands north of the Ilathw fall under Yamenaen rule. They will remain in Kattasian hands for almost four hundred years, and much of Wertian legend tells of the heroics of this time, some of its heroes battling on the side of the Yamenaens, other, like Nambara, fighting against their rule. | ||
A hundred years later, the kingdoms expands north, establishing a colony in the Oshale, a territory formerly belonging to the Kalparians. The colonists are mostly of one descent, offspring of the once great Aribelian nation which had become vassals to the Yamenaens after their defeat in the Third War of the Steppes. The Treaty of the Kalpa of 944 B.E.B. grants them partial autonomy, but they are still nominally dependent of Yamenna. | |||
The kingdom reaches its high point in the mid-9<super>th</super> century B.E.B., in a time when both Geran and Belkondíl experience a long-lasting peace before unknown to either region. Yamenna's rule in this age stretches from the Ilathw River northward, encompassing all of the Hajalad except for Antarea and Ialta at its northernmost tip, the Ilathw Arnym, and the Geranian Heath, and extending further north into Aribel and east to include the western part of the Mountains of Dermon and the northern half of the Black Mountains. | |||
===The Decline and Fall of Yamenna=== | |||
The decline of Yamenna begins in the following century. The Aribelians of the Oshale have long been pressing northward in their need for more lands, driving the Celsondach further and further northwest. Around 750 B.E.B., the Celdic eastward migration has come to a halt in and afoot the Mountains of Hûr, faced by fierce resistance from the steppe-dwelling Volsians. Now lodged in between two nations, the sea in the north, and the swamps and forests of Aribel in the west, the Aribelians begin to stir, striving for greater autonomy. At the same time, Yamenna is tied up with a renewed Olgish threat on its Ilathw border, as sprouting sentiments of Olgish unity incite the Wertians on both sides of the river. The heartland of the kingdom is wide and infertile, and the tightly organized state required the resources from its provinces more than ever. When the flow of taxes from the Oshale abruptly stops in 724, Yamenna has little choice but to give in to Aribelian demands, and grants the region full sovereignty as a sub-kingdom of Yamenna the following year. | |||
The Aribelians of the Oshale have no interest in the battles of the south. With the de-facto secession of the important province, Yamenna loses a great many of its resources and power, and soon, the Wertian encroachment is unavoidable. The Wertian Wars stretch over almost the entire first half of the 7<super>th</super> century, | |||
The First Oshalian Rebellion of 589 | |||