Arrogation Wars

The Arrogation Wars is a general term for a series of conflicts in northern Vasarea which took place between states known as petitor-empires, whose claims to political legitimacy were founded on direct, unrivalled succession to the Enlightened Empire. The term originally referred to any war between the petitor-empires from the 14th to the 17th centuries, including the on-and-off struggles between the Second Avelnian Empire and the Aluarian Empire, but with revision of historiography in the 19th century began to be used for a narrower definition of the conflicts of the long 14th century, when several petitor-empires existed (mostly located in Avelna) and competed to produce the two main hegemons of late medieval Vasarea. In this sense, the wars saw the triumph of the Kingdom of Orilia, which proclaimed a new Avelnian empire and unified much of northwestern Vasarea by 1420.