Reign of Lamps

The Reign of Lamps was a reign centred on the Confluent Seas from approximately the 20th to 8th centuries BCE, marked by the prominence of the Pagerians and later in particular Pemant as a powerful seafaring people distinguished by the practice of blinking codes, the light sources used in which give the era its name. A maritime trading network with the Carsan islands as its pivot directly connected Vasarea, Ausarea, and Hypocos. Technologically the reign attained a highpoint in mechanical craftsmanship, optics, navigation, and chemistry which easily superseded the understandings of the preceding Reign of Walls, and after it many advances were lost. The reign culminated in the Pemantian empire of Isnaria; following its collapse in the Isnarian Cataclysm the reign's key features rapidly unravelled and the civilized ecumene underwent a general decline. The Reign of Trials succeeded it in Carsa and Vasarea while in Hypocos a Reign of Urges was established.