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In order to quell this massive rebellion of his frontier forces, who were aided in turn by their rebellious trustees in the interior provinces, Kaykaus had to turn to Irqin Khan, the leader of the Afsharii, for aid. In exchange for this aid, Kaykaus ceded the entirety of 10 Barsom Armies following their defeat, with the Afsharii becoming the 10th remaining Barsom army in gratitude for this massive land grant from the victorious Emperor. In the coming centuries, the Afsharii Barsom became increasingly powerful, especially in the interregnum following the death of Kaykaus’s grandson Khosrow in 350 AD. By the rise of Nariman I in 420 AD, the Afsharii Barsom-Khans were effectively vice-emperors, owing to their extensive control of the frontier, and their growing ties to the landholding classes of the interior.  With the premature death of the second Nariman Shah, Bahram VIII, the empire was faced with another interregnum. The provinces were thrown into crisis, and no one dared present themselves to the Citadel. Seeing this crisis as interrupting the flow of trade through his land (which was vital to the silk road trade with Eastern Audonia), the Afsharii Khan (whose customs were by now extensively Deiocized) named Yazdergerd, marched his Barsom Army to the north, subduing any that questioned his authority as he marched north to the Imperial Capital. Yazdergerd was acclaimed Padishah in 501 AD, and with his coronation and the crisis that preceded it, the classical era of Deiocean statehood had ended.

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