Paraphernic Wars

The Paraphernic Wars or Exegetical Wars were a series of conflicts that took place across Isnaria over the course of the 9th century BCE, leading to its collapse and the wider 9th-century BCE crisis. Fought primarily by the paraphernes, popular cults celebrating the Stanata which had been compiled in the previous years to transcend both old Pemantian beliefs and foreign movements like kisittu, the sheer extent of fanaticism combined with the factional participation of authorities caused total chaos and a breakdown of order. In the later stages of the wars, the imperial house of the Secharids saw its prestige severely undermined by the participation of its members, and several emperors were installed or deposed to serve the intrigues of the cults. This led to open rebellion by more fanatical cults and further political disorder that led the response to rising sea levels and the Isnarian Cataclysm of 808 BCE to be ineffective, ushering in a wider civilizational collapse and the deposition of the last Secharid emperor in 803 BCE. With this the Reign of Lamps was brought to an end, and the new legalistic religion of Pastism stepped in to stabilize society in the Reign of Trials.