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In 539 BCE, the Renequil army revolted, imprisoning members of the family and inviting Mariqo to claim Sekan-Aruqa. Facing little resistance, Mariqo took the capital and immediately set about uniting the lands of the confederacy under the Jakatei dynasty. He expanded the scope of the reforms introduced by his mother to every Kormistazic town and city to ensure their cohesion and loyalty. He also made the decision to pardon many of the remaining members of the Renequil, even granting them some governorship over their historic lands. A devout follower of Kozam, he further incorporated the religion into the government and promoted its worship as a unifying tenet of Kormistazic culture. He passed away a year later, his son Kalam Jakatei succeeding him. Like his father Kalam was enamoured by Kozam philosophy and took several years early in his reign to travel east to the Mona Valley and the Zycannes in order to seek divine inspiration. Upon his return in 533 BCE, he declared the reform of the still nominally Confederate government into an imperial executive supported by a council of Nobles and Kozam elders from every region of Kormistazm, and that he intended to unite the dozens of dividied states west of the Zycannes as equal territories under a single prosperous empire. Kalam then changed his name to Enullus Jakatei Kalamitas, beginning the Kalamitas Dynasty and the first incarnation of the Kormistazic empire.
==== Era of Rapid Kormistazic Expansion (532 - 310 BCE)====
[[File:Axdelian peninsula 400BCE.png|thumb|A map of the Axdelian peninsula in 400BCE showing various civilisations and their spheres of influence]]Upon Enullus' ascension to the position of Kormistazic emperor, he began a campaign of Northward expansion, incorporating the regions small Lordships and chiefdoms as provinces under his rule. Naval advances brought forth in earlier centuries now allowed faster and easier navigation of the Axdelian peninsular riverways. However the conflict endemic to the region had driven many people to banditry, and thus much of it could not be used safely for trade due to the risk of piracy. Thus as the Kormistazic empire used rivers to assert themselves across the southern plains, the loyalty of conquered people was often earned with the vanquishing of river pirates and the opening of free trade. With his children unwilling to take the throne, Ennullus named his cousin Ax̂ilo Kariqo Kalamitas as his successor in 485 BCE. Worried about the Kveshi, who had reacted to the new empire by heavily fortifying the city of Oceansend, Kariqo expanded Kormistazic control over the southern coast of the Axdelian peninsula. With the state religion of Kozam spread widely across the south of the peninsula and the imperial army violently crushing opposition where it arose, there was often little resistance to this initial phase of Kormistazic expansion. As the empires border expanded, so did it's military power and thus its ability to expand further, leading to increasingly aggressive manoeuvres. The Empires first major military victory would come after the Kassyr Chiefdom declared war on the empire in 458 BCE after incursions of Kormistazic soldiers into Kassyri territory. The [[South Teban War|First Kassyri Integral War]] lasted for over five years but resulted in a crushing defeat for The Kassyr, who were forced to cede all of their holdings outside of the Mona river valley to Kormistazm. Ax̂ilo was badly injured during the war and survived only six months before succumbing to an infection, being succeeded by his daughter Ñeya Yala Kalamitas, the first Kormistazic Empress.
By this point, civilisations north of Kormistazm were predominantly weak and stagnant, still recovering from the century long conflict that ravaged them after the environmental fallout of the Koriba eruption. The only exception to this was the Neo-Soltic Lordship, which had expanded into a vast empire and now almost completely dominated the states north of the Teba mountains enjoying a position of considerable military and economic influence. The Teba empire, after seemingly unending border conflict draining its resources and manpower, had been struggling with a falling population and weak government for decades, and so in 447 BCE the Teban Emperor Cerules II famously visited the recently incorporated Kassyri city of Zhaeqan to meet with the Kormistazic Empress Ñeya. Following several weeks in the city, Cerules publicly converted to Kozam and announced that the Teban empire was to enter a pact of friendship and defence with the Kormistazic empire. With the defence of the empire now bolstered by Kormistazic assistance, the reaction from the Teban populace was one of elation, however detractors claimed Ñeya had seduced Cerules in order to influence him. Cerules public conversion plus the close bond between the two empires also led to an explosion in Kozam worship, slowly supplanting existing pagan faiths.
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====Solto-Kormistazic Wars (309 - 70 BCE)====
Over time war between Kormistazm and the Soltic Lordship would flare up over the status of the Teba Empire and Northern Lyr Valley. Eventually the Lordship would slowly succumb to mounting losses against the more populous, industrious and fervent Kormistazic empire, and suffered debilitating territorial losses. Despite previous conflict, the Soltics attempted to form an alliance with the western kingdoms of the Maltervenian empire in order to counter Kormistazm. Distrusting the Soltics, this eventually resulted in an opportunistic conquest of the Molvian corridor by the Maltervenians which was only partly repelled. Despite this hardship, the open sea access afforded the Soltic empire strong trade links with Impelanza and Northeast Aurora which the less powerful Kormistazic navy had great difficulty intercepting, keeping their core territory strong for several centuries. After a watchful peace of approximately five decades, the newly coronated Empress X̂alinn led the fourth and final Solto-Kormistazic war in 75 BCE, rallying an enormous, well equipped army for the purpose. A fast, brutal campaign was launched with forces carving paths down the valleys towards the coast, converging on the major population centers such as the capital of Xoltaan and the trade hub of Aruliqea. X̂alinn personally lead the siege of Xoltaan, the city breaking after sustained bombardment from catapult forced a begrudging surrender from the Soltic emperor Iruta V. Aruliqea, however, withstood siege for years with supplies brought in reliably from the ocean along the Ueclid river. With strong footholds along the north coast, however, the Kormistazic navy gained a much stronger presence and was able to cut off the city from its supply lines, forcing its surrender in 70 BCE and marking the official end of the Soltic Empire. As part of the surrender and as a show of charity, some Soltic territory was divided into largely autonomous Kormistazic vassals.
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