Tarsia

Tarsia was a civilization in Carsa succeeding and inheriting the culture of Pemant. Its beginnings lie fuzzily at the end of the high Reign of Lamps in the 9th century BCE with the consolidation of post-Isnarian Pemantian culture in the Carsan isles. Tarsian history evolved through several reigns in the 'White', 'Black', and 'Green' periods before being diminuted after decline into the nation of Ansians.

White Tarsia
Although Pastism originated in Tarsia, even within Pastic civilization Carsa would for the most part play a secondary role to the Matolli empire of Omitipal in Hypocos. Tarsia itself was ruled by various dynasties descended from Isnarian vishes subservient to the dams of the White Order, who had tamed the paraphernes of late Isnaria and instilled a moralistic Pastic order in the islands. By the 4th century BCE, however, the Piscarids were throwing their weight behind the Vispasar Court as an independent Pastic center in the Game of Courts, and in the 3rd century the Gesnote migration destroyed Omitipal finally allowing for a Carsan resurgence. In the process, a strengthening Tarsian monarchy (beginning with the Artaustids) combined with a White Order rebasing itself to Carsa (the Databara movement) to bring about a gradual transition away from the post-Isnarian lethargy.

Black Tarsia
Although the Artaustid revolution was set back by a period of instability, the DIsarray of Porverea, by the end of the 1st century BCE the Artaphernids re-established control and saw the consolidation of major changes, as well as the more unambiguous restoration of Carsa to the pinnacle of world power, marked by the Voyage of Camathines. The White Order was used to leverage suzerainty over Vasarea, Varasan, and Hypocos through the varshtanitans and later the predominantly Vasarean legates, as well as the periodic initiation of druggan holy wars, which allowed Tarsia to surpass even Isnaria in its nominal influence by the 4th century CE.

The deposition of the Artaphernids by the legate Zargerdes in 327 CE caused turmoil in the form of the Dagger Pilgrimages ended by the ascension of the Dalmanids. Black Tarsia's decline then began with disputes over the powers and governance of the White Order, escalating with the rise of Anamnestism in Vasarea that challenged and displaced Pastism, and then the secession of Yozolan and Pytarus. Despite the marshalling of Pastic talent and will managing to reverse these setbacks on many occasions, by 520 Tarsia lost most of its overseas possessions and influence, and by 650 the Dalmanids had become reduced to figureheads dependent on noble or fanatic warlords of the sayas in Carsa itself.

Green Tarsia
Green Tarsia, situated in the Reign of Urges, was founded as the dominion of the Cavapatids by Perozgar in 831, who elaborately negotiated for powers of the monarchy by emphasizing the attainment of feats as its service to universal Pastism and a notionally surviving White Order, later described as Perozgarism. Mustering the last of varshtanitan and druggan energies it pursued ambitions through the Jangearean Missions in the 10th century, attempting to re-establish Pastism in the north by invading Vasarea. Tarsia managed to resist incursions by the erralar of Pytarus, but during the 13th-century crisis, after losing its Vasarean empire against the Instructionist Sede in 1266 it was abruptly conquered by grant entrepreneurs.