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The various Ixa'Takan peoples have lived in the eastern shore of the Nysdra since at least the late 800's BCE, it is believed they originally migrated from the south and displaced local Venua groups under the guidance of their proto-monarch, Tlipoca. The ancient Ixa'Takan appear to have upheld a system where they were ruled by an absolute monarch known as the Umatz. According to the Chokma stele, construction of the great city of Rixis begun in 875BCE on the orders of the 6th Umatz, a ruler only named as Enetzin and known to be of the line of Tlipoca. It is this ruler that seemingly set down the bases of the state, the social order and military that would be needed for imperial growth. The city of Rixis is believed to have risen in the following centuries to establish its local primacy and expanded its territorial control by building sister cities. In time, cities such as Mezro and Tolon grew in importance and wealth and served as regional nexus. These other cities were never ruled directly by the Umatz but by lesser kings anointed in Rixis, not quite puppet rulers but neither fully autonomous. Their loyalty was secured through royal marriages, sacred oaths to the gods of Ixa'Taka and the military might of the Umatz.