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The collapse of Caphiric hegemony over Vallos in [[1172]] inaugurated a second chaotic period of warfare that would last for over two hundred years. Centuries of raiding had led to economic deprivation in some quarters of Vallos and significant dynastic hatred between nearly all of the eleven kings. The worst part of the warring states period came during its initial century, which saw five different royal dynasties completely exterminated and most of the eleven kingdoms disintegrate into regional factions. | The collapse of Caphiric hegemony over Vallos in [[1172]] inaugurated a second chaotic period of warfare that would last for over two hundred years. Centuries of raiding had led to economic deprivation in some quarters of Vallos and significant dynastic hatred between nearly all of the eleven kings. The worst part of the warring states period came during its initial century, which saw five different royal dynasties completely exterminated and most of the eleven kingdoms disintegrate into regional factions. | ||
===Kingdom of Oustec=== | ===Kingdom of Oustec=== | ||
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| | The rise of [[Occidental]] oceanic trade presented a number of opportunities for the petty kings of [[Vallos]], especially in the wake of [[Aster's expedition]] which introduced trade to [[Crona]] from [[Sarpedon]]. Centuries of war had created significant hardship and lack of opportunity for additional plunder in the form of tribute, but the increasing volume of trade centered near [[Vallos]] by the decade caught the eye of both local authorities as well as enterprising individuals. Beginning in around [[1450]], petty kings began to sponsor public privateering of trade ships in [[St. Brendan's Strait]]. Besides the negative impact on overall trade, the sudden influx of wealth back into [[Vallos]], the piracy produced had a profound impact on its politics. In many different cases, privateers had become significantly wealthier than their local ruler, and they used these funds to take over the port they lived in and eventually neighboring settlements. By [[1500]], most of the northern third of [[Vallos]] had become "piratocracies" - realms created by force by wealthy privateers. These states would transform into efficient machines of piracy, as the state apparatus and military continued to grow in support of piracy. This process grew exponentially as [[Culture of Varshan#Slavery|Varshan]] opened its doors to [[Vallos]]i slave traders in [[1579]], making it so that not only the cargo, but the crew, of captured ships were of high value. As they raided the high seas, the piratocracies also consolidated northern [[Vallos]] from more than two dozen petty kingdoms into just three large Kingdoms who actively competed for the right to raid and plunder. The most prominent of these realms was the Kingdom of [[Oustec]], established in the northern archipelago in [[1566]] by the conquest of one privateer of the outlying insular territories of another. Oustec, the privateer-turned-King, would later unify the northern [[Vallos#Capelranco_Archipelago|Capelranco Archipelago]] and push on to mainland [[Vallos]], with his successors establishing the southern boundary of the Kingdom in modern [[Arona]] in [[1598]]. The Kingdom of Oustec would go on to be the primary rival of encroaching [[Occidental]] powers for the next centuries. | ||
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The rise of [[Occidental]] oceanic trade presented a number of opportunities for the petty kings of [[Vallos]], especially in the wake of [[Aster's expedition]] which introduced trade to [[Crona]] from [[Sarpedon]]. Centuries of war had created significant hardship and lack of opportunity for additional plunder in the form of tribute, but the increasing volume of trade centered near [[Vallos]] by the decade caught the eye of both local authorities as well as enterprising individuals. Beginning in around [[1450]], petty kings began to sponsor public privateering of trade ships in [[St. Brendan's Strait]]. Besides the negative impact on overall trade, the sudden influx of wealth back into [[Vallos]], the piracy produced had a profound impact on its politics. In many different cases, privateers had become significantly wealthier than their local ruler, and they used these funds to take over the port they lived in and eventually neighboring settlements. By [[1500]], most of the northern third of [[Vallos]] had become "piratocracies" - realms created by force by wealthy privateers. These states would transform into efficient machines of piracy, as the state apparatus and military continued to grow in support of piracy. This process grew exponentially as [[Culture of Varshan#Slavery|Varshan]] opened its doors to [[Vallos]]i slave traders in [[1579]], making it so that not only the cargo, but the crew, of captured ships were of high value. As they raided the high seas, the piratocracies also consolidated northern [[Vallos]] from more than two dozen petty kingdoms into just three large Kingdoms who actively competed for the right to raid and plunder. The most prominent of these realms was the [[ | |||
===Initial Levantine intervention=== | ===Initial Levantine intervention=== | ||