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Dermon itself rebels a generation later, during the First Uprising of Dermon in 592, but the insurgents are soon torn apart by disagreements over the distribution of spoils and the political future of Dermon, many defect back to Yamenna, and the rebellion eventually falls apart. Only three years later, in 589 B.E.B., the Aribelians, still disgruntled over Yamenna's failure to provide them the tax relief promised thirty years prior and increasingly restless in the tight fist of Yamenaen rule, rebel as well. The First Oshalian Rebellion fails, and its consequences are dire. In one final attempt to maintain its grip on Geran and the surrounding lands, Yamenna renews its ties with the Wertians, granting them lands to settle in in the Hajalad and the southern steppes in exchange for the service of their feared cavalry. For one more century, Geran remains peaceful. | Dermon itself rebels a generation later, during the First Uprising of Dermon in 592, but the insurgents are soon torn apart by disagreements over the distribution of spoils and the political future of Dermon, many defect back to Yamenna, and the rebellion eventually falls apart. Only three years later, in 589 B.E.B., the Aribelians, still disgruntled over Yamenna's failure to provide them the tax relief promised thirty years prior and increasingly restless in the tight fist of Yamenaen rule, rebel as well. The First Oshalian Rebellion fails, and its consequences are dire. In one final attempt to maintain its grip on Geran and the surrounding lands, Yamenna renews its ties with the Wertians, granting them lands to settle in in the Hajalad and the southern steppes in exchange for the service of their feared cavalry. For one more century, Geran remains peaceful. | ||
In the end, it is the same feared warriors who have now come to Yamenna’s relief that will write the last chapter in its downfall. From their earliest days in the renewed covenant, the Wertians are restless, repeatedly violating their truce with Yamenna and raiding each | In the end, it is the same feared warriors who have now come to Yamenna’s relief that will write the last chapter in its downfall. From their earliest days in the renewed covenant, the Wertians are restless, repeatedly violating their truce with Yamenna and raiding each others’ and neighbouring lands. The free Wertians living south of the Ilathw more and more often join their raids, and by the turn of the fifth century, the Wertians of Belkondíl have again become a major threat to Geran. Seeing their chance of escaping Kattasian rule, the peoples of the mountains, the Oshale, and the Hajalad begin their calls for freedom. When the Aribelians rebel again in 454, Yamenna can but watch as the Oshale secedes from the kingdom. Kattasian attempts at enacting their influence over the area persist throughout the following civil war, but finally fail with the establishment of the Republic of Aribel in 447. Around the same time, the Kalparians, for many centuries a spiritual child nation of Yamenna, begin to reclaim their culture, and when Yamenna tries to reconquer the Oshale in the Aribelian Campaign 427–424, they form an alliance with the Republic. Greatly outnumbered and unwilling to fight for the widely abhorred Yamenaens, the Wertians abandon their posts, leaving the rump of the Yamenaen army to a devastating defeat in the following Battle of the Kalpattu of 424. The sovereignty of Aribel is secured, and the Kalpa Valley is returned to its native Kalparian inhabitants. | ||
The remainders of the Yamenaen army and court flee, first to Yamenna, and after multiple Wertian incursions further east to Aeros. But the Wertians, in this Olgish age of the Dawn Heroes, are | The remainders of the Yamenaen army and court flee, first to Yamenna, and after multiple Wertian incursions further east to Aeros. But the Wertians, in this Olgish age of the Dawn Heroes, are nigh impossible to dismay, and in 422 B.E.B., they breach Geran with united forces, overrunning the steppes and forcing the last living nobles of Yamenna into exile in Dermon and Kalpa. It is there that they spend their last years and wield their last influence before falling prey to their own greed for power and bloody infighting. By the middle of the 4th century B.E.B., the last of the great Yamenaen noble houses has become extinct. | ||
===Wertian Geran=== | |||
It is thus that Geran meets a fate that has already befallen the mountains many centuries earlier and that will by the end be taken equal to the fate of Elondor itself: Invaded by Belkondilian cavalry, occupied and colonized by foreign forces, and, after only a handful of generations, by and large, an Olgish country. | |||