Rudish

The Rudish were a Pagerian people of northern Vasarea in the 1st millennia BCE and CE.

History
By the early Reign of Trials the Rudish were well-established as the dominant group among the peoples of the Sletts, raiding or exacting tribute from militarily inferior Alcalians, Gerals, and Vadish. Large though ephemeral nomadic confederacies developed through the common legal order offered by Pastism and the White Order, as well as exploiting the profits of growing overland trade.

From the 2nd century CE, tribes and confederacies became regularly usurped by Pastic varshtanitans or princes returning from centers of Pastic learning in Carsa (sometimes with support from Tarsia or its legates), and from the 4th century a transformation of Rudic society similar to the Vasarean Legations begins. The elite sedentarized into a manorial lordship and warrior nobility, erecting numerous fortresses from which to dominate the grasslands, while Pastism was taught and disseminated in ever-more literate and complex forms. Opposition to this process produced considerable upheaval exacerbated by the collapse of Pastism in southern Vasarea after the Legate wars and the rise of contending theistic, prophetic, or mystic movements, most notably Conradianism and Tiritism as well as less successful forays of Lygene Anamnestism.

The result of these pressures was the period of flux known as the Strifetide, beginning in the 6th century. Defeated and exiled lineages of the so-called wretch-houses rose to power in eastern Vasarea and by the 10th century made up most of the nobility in this region, founding theRudic dynasties. On the Sletts, new religiously and intellectually diverse political arrangements similarly consolidated by the 9th century. The Rudic states of the coast, which strengthened over the course of the Reign of Urges, overwhelmed their cousins in the interior, and by the 11th century the latter had mostly fallen to the spheres of influence of states such as Aluaria. The annexation of these realms in the 12th to 14th centuries came with extensive settlement of Geralic-speaking easterners in the Merish migration which broke up the Rudish as a cohesive and significant nation. Nevertheless, Rudic culture proved a key building block for the civilization of the Edifice.