Kaskia

Kaskia was a civilization located in Sostria, eastern Hypocos, during the 6th to 14th centuries in the Reign of Urges.

History
The rise of the Kaskians succeeds the Sostrian Legation, the Pastic White Order regime established by varshtanitans in the 3rd century and in turn based out of the outposts established by the Voyage of Camathines in the 1st century. The poorly recorded legates dissolved into a vague class of Pastic rulers claiming both official power and religious-legal Expertise, the akhtakh. By the 6th century they existed primarily as the leaders of corporate social units known as nals, which coalesced into a wider landscape of city-states, warbands, and an agrarian hinterland all wielding variable degrees of influence over the others. Trade with Yozolan, Pytarus, and Varasan was well-established from the beginning.

While commercial growth in the 7th century fed the construction of larger cities, hydraulic works, and other impressive examples of infrastructure directed by dams of the Ramankha order, in the 8th century this role was assumed by less explicitly Pastic guilds of technicians, the akhpan, who also led a nativizing cultural movement. Politics became proceduralized and increasingly predictable, revolving around the management of hydropowered industry and commerce. By the 10th century the polycentric arrangement of Kaskian society had given way to corporate city-states defined as nals and led by a new elite known as the akhnal, characteristic of the wider Trust Revolution. Outward expansion was undertaken, at first with a mercantile character, but from the 980s a resurgence of Pastic devotion in the Hunar movement added an element of good works and upholding Arta to the drive. The 6 main Sostrian cities of Mihlob, Nahsihom, Batosho, Oshchak, Chanol, and Yashbalaha became major powers of the Lagaean Ocean, expanding commercial ventures into eastern Ausarea under the Octarchy, southern Roscia, and even Eremia; they also managed to defeat Preceptoral Pytarus and end the erralar's monopoly on trade around the Varasan Sea. The development of hydropower fuelled several other technological advances and considerable economic growth known as the Great Nourishment, making Sostria perhaps the wealthiest and most advanced region of the world in the 12th century.

By the 12th century, Hunar fanaticism had given way to the calculated maximization of the nal itself, the doctrine and system of tayalil. Paslil ideals of common gain and equal dignity moved the burgeoning Kaskian population to pursue gain on behalf of smaller social sections (if not as individuals) that reasserted themselves against the akhnal, who had been denounced as overbearing and forced to concede authority in political struggles. Mass, colonizing emigration established new hydraulic cities in Agastan and considerable Kaskian populations in Ausarea and Roscia; Hypocos was also dramatically deforested to provide farmland and supply industrial fuels. The entrenchment of paslil divisions and the underlying social conflicts rivening Kaskian society meant that effective solutions could be not be coordinated for either ecological problems or challenges from without. Political instability combined with ecological disaster to unleash the 13th-century crisis: turmoil caused the decline if not destruction of the great Kaskian cities. Into the 14th century Pytarene curators had taken over many cities as colonies if not curacies, which made up the constituents of the Sostrian Amalgamation.

Society
The most common and representative impressions of Kaskian society passed from fragmentation into mutually exclusive nals loosely held together by Pastism in the 6th to 9th centuries, to the immense, coordinated undertaking of collective but not necessarily collectivist endeavors as citizens of united nal-cities in the 9th to 12th centuries, and a rapid slide back to a patchwork look as smaller quasi-nal relationships and identities were freely constituted out of paslil in the 12th to 14th centuries, which coincided with social conflicts to undermine the greater nals. The definition of the nal a Kaskian was organic to played a central role in determining Kaskian life and ideas about it.