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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. | 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=== | ===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. The Wertians do not take a moment to breathe. After their decisive victory over the Kattasians, they occupy Yamenna and take it as their new capital, ruling the steppes in ruthless but stable peace. They are never known to respect the borders to their neighbours, but the threat of their tireless armies and the skillfulness of their (moslty Soskish) diplomats maintain friendly relations with the Kalparians, Dermon and Parka, and the Geranians remaining in western Geran. At this point, the Wertian Kingship of Imynadd encompasses all of the Geranian Heath south of the Kalpa, north of the Ilathw, and between the Nukna and the Mountains of Dermon, and almost the southern half of the later Hajalad. | 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. The Wertians do not take a moment to breathe. After their decisive victory over the Kattasians, they occupy Yamenna and take it as their new capital, ruling the steppes in ruthless but stable peace. They are never known to respect the borders to their neighbours, but the threat of their tireless armies and the skillfulness of their (moslty Soskish) diplomats maintain friendly relations with the Kalparians, Dermon and Parka, and the Geranians remaining in western Geran. At this point, the Wertian Kingship of Imynadd encompasses all of the Geranian Heath south of the Kalpa, north of the Ilathw, and between the Nukna and the Mountains of Dermon, and almost the southern half of the later Hajalad. | ||
Despite the quarrelsome nature of the Wertians and their constant feuds both within and outside of their society, conflicts in this era are small and contained and rarely threaten the stability of Wertian Geran. The people of the west are still fearful of the invaders and remove themselves as far as possible from them, forming a sharp border south of Inverydd that splits the Wertian Kingdom in two; but the Kalparians of the Kalpa Valley are receptive for the newcomers’ trade, technology, and culture, leading to the second decline of ancient Kalparian traditions. The Kalpattu realm maintains its Kalparian nationality, but its identity is a thin veil over an Olgish-speaking, quasi-olgicized state. | |||
Relations to the south remain in the friendly-hostile state common to most Olgish principalities. When Enethin establishes his rule over the Olgs of Belkondíl in 0 E.B., the Wertians silently ignore the call for their homage. They view themselves as Olgs in the broadest sense but do not consider themselves part of the narrower nation Enethin has claimed dominion over. This refusal of allegiance, similar to the resistance Enethin’s rule is facing in the mountains, sours relations between Belkondíl and Geran, but the Kingdom of Belkondíl is not forged yet, and the early Olgish kings are too occupied with their own affairs and too wary of the still-forbidding Wertian cavalry to interfere with Geranian affairs. | |||
-> Some conflicts, but essentially peace for a couple of centuries. | -> Some conflicts, but essentially peace for a couple of centuries. | ||