Kashsians

The Kashsians were a civilization in Saria, western Varasan, in the 3rd to 1st millennia BCE, spanning the Reign of Lamps and approximately the first half of the Reign of Trials.

Having come under Pemantian and eventually Isnarian domination in the late 2nd millennium BCE, they introduced their kisittu cults to Isnarian society, which partially motivated the compilation of the Stanata, as well as providing a violent and fanatical type of socialization often blamed for the Paraphernic Wars.

The Kashsians converted to Pastism in the Reign of Trials and were incorporated into the White Order. In this period Saria produced a number of powerful, wealthy, and prestigious cities controlling trade along the Chavar Sea. Among them, Essegia laid a claim to dictating Pastic doctrines in the Game of Courts of the 5–4th centuries BCE, and established a hegemony over the coast to oppose Omitipal and Tarsia.

Later in the 4th century BCE the Gesnote migration arrived in Saria and the Kashsians were conquered by the Gesnotes, who by 322 BCE destroyed Essegia. By the time of the Voyage of Camathines the Kashsians had been assimilated into the Tymurenes, the Lemarites, or the Hapacians.