Nammataksa Antsel Kurkeras

Short overview

After the Asargam Empire made contact with Erana by the Establishment of the Asargam Bridgehead in Arakat at the end of the Era of the Trees, the locals started to fight back against their overlords, the Asargam people and the early Messellat Mdûlûn, who were also present in the eastern parts of Arakat and have also been pressuring the tribes of Arakat for a long time. The tribes had not yet become sedentary and had not yet united, but the danger posed by the Asargam Empire and the Mdûlûn worked as a kind of catalyst for their cultural development.

At first the tribes concentrated on hit and run warfare, taking advantage of their horses and their ability to ride. This set them apart from the Asargam soldiers and the Mdûlûn. Later in the conflict, their successes were getting massive, due to the changes the Great Scorching and the Era of the Fire brought with them. The Arakat tribes, not being bound to fixed settlements and being used to make most of what they got profited massively from the Asargam bridgehead being not only cut of from the mainland, but also being struck with catastrophe. The Mdûlûn likewise had to retreat further north and east, as the changing climate and the ongoing attacks of the Arakat tribes out too much pressure on them.

Course of events

Puttapalara Dantamutti was the last emperor of the Asargam Empire and made a decision to explore Erana about eight years before the Great Scorching. His scientiest's mighty new weapon, the Vimãna had just made the southwestern contintent Auchulpa's coast free for the taking, after eliminating the resistance of the Vayazza there. Surveyors were sent north to find landing spots for the Asargam forces and also, to spot potential powers to antagonise them. By that time, only some tribes which should later become known as the Arakat people, after their great leader and reformer Arakas, were present in the spot, that was closest to the Asargam Empire's home continent, Emniyama. A bridge head was erected and the tribes gradually pushed north. It would take a handful of years, before the tribes started regrouping and striking back, not only against the new threat from the South, but also against Mdûlûn, precursors of the Messellat Mdûlûn, who were settling to the East during that time.

Four years before the Era of the Trees ended with the Great Scorching, a man named Arakas had arisen. He belonged to one of the tribes, which were more successful in raiding the Asargam camps and watchposts that were gradually being erected. He also saw the advantages of stealing and employing Asargams own technology instead of only killing soldiers and setting everything on fire.

Soon more and more tribes rallied behind him. They supposedly now took on the name 'Arakat', which means 'those of Arakas'. At first everything worked out successfully. But after three years the Asargam sent massive forces into Erana. This should be in vain though, as all of a sudden, the gods reacted to Asargams unruly behaviour. The Great Scorching began and Asargam was erased from the surface of Samthô. This again put the Arakat people back into a position to take their land back - a reconquest - the Nammataksa Antsel Kurkeras.

While the Great Scorching almost completely reshaped Emniyama, extinguishing almost all traces of the Asargam Empire there, but also in Auchulpa, Murahisi and not sparing the bridge head in southern Erana, the few survivors were mostly killed of by the peoples they had formerly subjugated and forced into slavery. The beginning of the Era of the fire thus meant relentless hunts of the Arakat people against the few Asargam survivors in their area. In Erana, so the stories of the Arakat people say and their absence in the stories and histories of the other peoples, noone survived. Elswhere only few escaped the divine genocide, only to vanish into the mists of history.

Aftermath

The Arakat people were now in a difficult situation: On the one hand, their enemy, the Asargam soldiers were defeated, on the other hands the effects of the Great Scorching showed themselves in the changed and changing environment and times, known as the Era of the Fire. The land could no longer sustain them all and the Mdûlûn to the East, who were struck harder by the cataclysm, had become easier to push north. Although this was one of the results, the situation kept worsening, until a part of the Mdûlûn and a part of the Arakat people set their differences aside, preparing ships and setting off to the East over the Grey Sea.

Conflict Type

Rebellion