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<h3>1645 — The Munkhâshi advance on Ctésifon</h3>
Munkhâsh renewed hostilities in 1641, invading Eretald from the south while the múrtani invaded from the west. The múrtani impressed no one, but they were a nuisance. Ervëa took the time to push them back across the mountains, then turned to the Munkhâshi.
<p>The Munkhâshi advanced relentlessly up the Svetla. The Caďinorians put up an impressive resistance, causing thousands of Eynleyni— and Caďinorian— deaths per <i>cemisa</i> gained; but still the Munkhâshi advanced. Ervëa sent orders to the armies in Aveilas to counterattack; but the commanders (distracted by a successful Munkhâshi attempt to isolate Gopando) hesitated, and lost the moment.
<p>Ctesifon was besieged in 1643; the siege was broken the next year, and the city reinforced; but the Munkhâshi, with seemingly endless reserves, encircled the city once again. Ervëa must have wondered if he had the strength to resist them.
<p>He got the break he needed in 1644, with the accession of Burudusi’s brother Adubum to the throne of Kurund. Adubum took the name <b><a href="Javascript:parent.al('Attafei');">Attafei</a></b>, “Almighty”, as a manifesto of his ambition, and reversed the immediate strategy of the Tžuro, invading Tyellakh in force. He dealt with his pagan supporters shrewdly (if by secular standards optimistically): he wagered them that Jippir existed. If he did, Munkhâsh would fall, and they must convert to Jippirasti. If not, he would abdicate, and they could advance on Skouras, or wherever they pleased.
<p>Lord Adesdanti of<b> Peligi</b> played the Tžuro threat for all it was worth: without swinging a sword at a Tžuro, he established a dictatorship over most of Skouras. The city of Guṭḷeli appealed for help to its ancient colony, <b>Gurdago</b>; and Gurdago responded— as much out of fear of exclusion from a Peligi-dominated Littoral as out of love for the liberty of Skouras. It took Minṭu in 1639 to safeguard its sea routes, and landed an expeditionary force at Guṭḷeli in 1641. Ironically, the only progress against the Tžuro was made by <b>Ṭisuram</b>, which rebelled in 1645, when some of the Tžuro armies had been withdrawn northward.
<p>Bijereis of Axunai rejected the Munkhâshi offer of alliance; but in 1635 <b>Neirimi</b>, the governor of <b>Moun</b> province accepted it, build the temple of Gelalh in his capital of Neiral, on the lower Puro, and received the promised army. He repudiated the overlordship of Weinexi and indeed took more than half the empire for himself, as well as Puroŋeli. Unfortunately for him, the Munkhâshi were obliged to withdraw their support when the Tej invaded Tyellakh.
<p>In Čeiy, <b>Amurineli</b> was slowly taking control of its seacoast from Axunai, as well as advancing northward against Moun.
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