Vasarean Legations

The Vasarean Legations were polities in Vasarea during the late Reign of Trials dominated by rulers holding the office of legate to Tarsia and the White Order. These developed from the Pracian kingdom of Calcaria, which deepened its affiliation with Tarsia in the Catian Union of 195 and became the first major Vasarean state ruled by legate titulature, after which beyond Vemia kingdoms in Madrina and Obaria also adopted it. Beginning in the 270s these were overthrown by calcatores who won fame elsewhere in the Tarsian empire as varshtanitans, and established themselves as Pastic governors based on the ideals of the Tissarathean reform. This initiated the era of a system that was both distinctly 'Vasarean' and 'legationary', sometimes known as the Calcatorian period. In the 5th century the legates broke from both political and religious subordination to Carsa in the Legate wars and thereon ceased identifying as such.

The distinctive features which the legates adopted and spread across Vasarea included the didascalic system of co-sovereignty between officials and religious establishments, the academy as the dominant form of the latter, and the acutor system. Although after the Legate wars they quickly dissolved back into culturally different rulers such as the Anamnestic chariarchs, these innovations proved durable and influential.