Reign of Urges

The Reign of Urges was a reign from the 7th to 13th centuries CE, succeeding the Reign of Trials and preceding the Reign of Gears. The center of this reign was northern Hypocos, with Kaskia and Pytarus defining the period. Regnal historiography has identified the metaphysical primacy of drives, desires, wills, or 'urges' in these cultures, such as the organic and corporate metaphors of the nal which developed into tayalil, or the idealistic actualizations of Peruru by the curators. These reflected in, among other things, the prodigious expansion of maritime trade and cultural contact, the (re)discovery of Eremia, and a hydraulic industrial revolution in Kaskia known as the Great Nourishment. This period was ended in the 13th-century crisis caused ultimately by an ecological crisis in eastern Hypocos, after which the centers of the reign underwent considerable instability and decline, with perhaps only Pytarus weathering it to contend with newly ascendant Vasarean powers on equal terms.