Lygenes

The Lygenes were a civilization in southern Vasarea from the 6th century BCE to the 6th century CE.

History
The Lygenes originally emerge as a typical Vasarean Pagerian society based on polycentrism and sel socialization, distinguished by the use of the Lygene language and script, who established a number of cities around the eponymous Lygene Sea. From the 4th century BCE the influence of Pastism, social conflicts (including those involving Alcalians and Asvars), and a wave of fascination with the Ablians combined to, after a period of social upheaval, establish academies as centers of law, debate, and ideology. The academics upheld a system of accommodating and investigating the diversity of Lygene communities, and though heavily influenced by more advanced thinking in Carsa declined to establish the White Order or care much for Pastic orthodoxy at all. This was based on an interpretation of otherwise barely recorded Ablian history, known as Abliology, and imitations or revivals of Ablian legacies in other areas soon came to define Lygene cultural output.

In the 2nd century BCE Lygene cities consolidated into a number of kingdoms either centred on or overriding the academies, though even in cases where academies were overthrown new clubs of isostates were usually concerned with academic life and ideas. Lasros soon emerged as the most powerful and hegemonic Lygene kingdom, a feat usually accredited to the network of academies and academics its isostate rulers were in contact with. In the 1st century CE it was displaced by Mecessia, which accomplished the imperial unification of the cities through its association with the miracle-worker Sematodore, while entering increasing competition with Tarsia. By the 160s Mecessia was promoting the religion of Simonianism to directly challenge Pastism, while reorganizing Lygene society using academic ideas. Pastic varshtanitans and the Pracian state of Calcaria to the east fought the Red Sail Wars until the destruction of Simonian Mecessia in 288. By this time Pracian legates of the Vasarean Legations were recognized by the Tarsian court over Lygene lands, but the academies' influence was preserved, and in an early form of the didascalic system they became highly important in the legates' rule.

However, the Simonian intellectual upheaval was only the beginning of a wider tide that now challenged what were thought to be the indecisive speculations of traditional academics and the sterile legalism of Pastism, seeking mysticism and tangible paths to the absolute. Religious and fanatical fashions of all sorts led the public to defy Pastic law and legate rule; western Vasarea became notorious in the rest of the Pastic world as a center of heretical cults. In the 330s the foundation of Anamnestism by Cosmocles provided these movements with what would be their most potent iteration. Combined with cracks appearing in the Pastic and Tarsian systems themselves, this unleashed the cascading collapse of the White Order by the 390s with the appearance of Anamnestic rebellions, and legates were soon converting and rebranding themselves as chariarchs from the 410s in the Legate wars. Paradoxically, the dramatic cultural shifts under the chariarchs have been regarded as the conventional end of Lygene civilization; entirely different cultures now inhabited its premises, whether Anamnestic on the mainland or Nosatean in the Dytican islands.