Gesnote migration

The Gesnote migration occurred in the 4th to 3rd centuries BCE, involving the emigration of the Gesnotes from their Sadilite homeland along the Gandy river in north Varasan, their march westwards into Saria, and the crossing of the Rurynotes into Tuntal in northern Hypocos. Caused by an ecological and economic crisis after a massive shift of the Gandy's course, late Sadilite polities under the Sadurs (or at least their military aristocracy) undertook an organized migration, which relocations due to internecine wars in the harsh conditions even before the flood had prepared them for. They likewise systematically demanded nothing short of sovereignty over whichever destination they set upon. In dealing with the Sarian empire of Essegia, Gesnote bands formed confederacies to jointly confront it as the most threatening opponent to their movement; by 322 BCE they had destroyed Essegia, indirectly leading to the end of the Game of Courts in the Pastic world. From the 290s contestations over control of Saria forced Rurynotes over the Chavar Sea into Hypocos, and by 266 they had destroyed Omitipal to claim Tuntal for themselves. The migration established a string of Gesnotic peoples across Varasan (plus the Sennotes who remained in Sadilam), laid the foundations for Pytarus, and set off a massive disturbance to the world around the Confluent Seas often credited with the eventual rise of Tarsia and a transformation of the White Order.