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<h3>2490 — The Gelyet conquest of Axunai</h3>
<h4>Gelyet rising</h4>
The Naviu had always been better at fighting among themselves than at invasions. The headman or <i>anaraz</i> <b>Hiuraz</b> of the <b><a href="Javascript:parent.al('Gelyet');">Gelyet</a></b> tribe aimed to change all that. By 2470 he had established the primacy of the Gelyet over all the Naviu. He assembled the chieftains of his people on a plain overlooking Mešadi, in Bolon, and pointed out what riches and glory other tribes had won— the Sainor, the Meťelyi, the Bešbalicu. He proposed that the Naviu set themselves the goal of achieving such resplendence that they could never be surpassed. The chieftains gladly assented. Within twenty years they had made good Hiuraz’s goal, and were not done yet.
<p>They began by giving the Meťelyi a drubbing, driving them entirely out of the Svetla-Meuna watershed; they then quickly reduced the Bucair into submission, and finally poured into the Xengi valley. The Axunemi resisted valiantly, but the horsemen relentlessly advanced, burning crops and cities; in 2483 they entered <b>Inex</b>. What treasures they could carry they removed to their tents; they then set fire to the city. The death toll was not perhaps high— everyone who could had fled the city— but the cultural devastation was immense: palaces, temples, libraries, sculptures, gardens were lost, the flowering of 2300 years of culture.
<p>What the Gelyet bypassed fell to the <b>Sainor</b>. Expelled from of the middle Xengi by the Gelyet, they pushed south and east, occupying Rašageor, Van, and Zawi. The only Axunemi state still free was Dintarn, which liberated itself from the Gurdagor with the aid of Axunemi soldiers fleeing the Gelyet.
<p>Those Coruo who were not absorbed by the Gelyet pressed into other lands; one result is the organization of <b>Tyellakh</b> as a state.
<h4>Other developments</h4>
<p>The <b>Anajati Tej</b>, having liberated all of Skouras from the Tokruji, mopped up the Buŋkavi Tej to the east. As was typical among the nomads, a major defeat invited rebellion: the Lenani plateau repudiated Tokruji leadership. The northern elcari were able to push out the Tokruji as well.
<p>The Anajati were less lucky in the south, where <b>Čisra</b> advanced to the very edge of Skouras (2465). Rather than invading the Tej, it paused to conquer Gudlai (2470), which at least would serve as a forward base; less easy to explain was why the island of Šiji needed to be occupied (2484).
<p><b>Čeiy </b>had fallen on hard times. Its trade with Axunai collapsed with the Gelyet invasion, while the Čisrans increasingly excluded its merchants from the Littoral. And the southern city of Bal, ruled by wayward nobles, paid no heed to the central authority— for instance, entirely on its own, it fought and lost a war with Čisra (2488).
<p>The <b>Caďinorians</b> retook Ctesifon in 2472, with the essential aid of Velto Cänen, the mayor of Verduria and warlord of Arcaln. In gratitude the Emperor elevated Velto to the title of <i>sanno</i> (Lord), an honor which only confirmed the importance and virtual autonomy of the northern city. The genius of the Caďinorians is empire; that of the Verdurians, trade. Already their ships venture as far as Nan and Carhinnia.
<p>As a peripheral possession far from the seat of the empire, <b>Sarnáe</b> had languished; it showed surprising vigor as an independent state. It absorbed a third of Monkhay in 2480 and threatened to gobble up the coastal state of Mišicama as well.
<p>An influx of refugees overburdened the Irenja, and the <b>Suböyi</b> pushed north into the savanna. They advanced to the Rau, except in the delta where the terrain was difficult and the local population too dense.
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