Greater Calassy

The region of Calassy, or Pelomitrion, was also devastated by the Ōchian Collapses, but the Calassines were the beneficiaries of, rather than the victims of, this collapse. The ruins of city of Nous, the center of an early empire of the same name, lie beneath the city of Kimyarsal, where in the Noumesian Cycle of Calassine myth a hero named Kales rallied the nomadic, Calassine-speaking undercastes to topple the Noumesian god-king Sangasa. Thereafter, Calassy came under the rule of several Calassine-speaking peoples who formed large clans headed by Dorohats, the lords of massive herds, and unified against outsiders under Azet warlords. In that time, they routinely warred with their former social betters, the Noumesians, the Sasinthēnes, and the Talens, who, also being a nomadic people, at times inhabited parts of Calassy. At one point, there were even a handful of Talenic herders considered Dorohat, before ultimately being driven out during unification.

The Black Vanuko mythic cycle describes the unification of Calassy under an Azet named Hasaleh, who took the title of Galat, from ‘Kales’. Rulers over part or all of Calassy have variably taken that title, but there have been many interregna. Calassy has frequently leveraged its historical claims as a successor state to Nous to subjugate vast swathes of Noumesia, but following a protracted war in Sutthmar, unrest in Calassy erupted into the secession of Segouza, its vast mountainous hinterland. While Calassines think little of the legacy of Panarine, preferring instead the glories of their own history, practical concerns and an affinity with their diasporas in the Crown have seen them squared off against Cazia-Orod. It is fortunate, then, that though seceded, the placement of Segouza still acts as a bulwark to their southeastern flank.




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