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The Salted Coast has been inhabited since at least the twenty-first millennium BCE by a combination of indigenous [[Species#Dwarves|dwarves]], [[Species#Ursines|ursines]], and a branch of the [[Species#Humans|human]] and [[Species#Elves|elven]] progenitors of the [[Fefsen people|Fefsen]]. Following developments in the rest of eastern Novaris, these differing groups began to coalesce around a common language beginning in the early {{wp|Metal Ages}}, and formed what is now known as the [[proto-Costalani]]. They, however, continued to remain individually distinct, eventually diverging into a myriad of steppe polities, coastal {{wp|emporium (antiquity)|emporia}}, and hinterland tribes. [[Abhailism]] arrived in the Salted Coast from [[Trinteria]] some time between the fifth and third century BCE, of which whose proselytization of much of the borderland tribes attracted [[Ymirodraeth]]'s interest to the region. After attempts to further consolidate the Salted Coast by [[Juksakka]] and later the [[Immartijans]] failed to achieve lasting unity, the proto-Costalani entered into a long stagnation in the face of bitter competition with Trinteria. The ultimate culmination came in the sixth century CE, when the subjugation of neighboring [[Teifi]] brought the Trinterians to violence with the Salted Coast, and led to it being invaded by forces under [[Aeron Cairrig]] in 537 CE. The Salted Coast finally succumbed to Cairrig after nearly a decade of campaigning, but proved resilient enough against Trinteria's efforts to secure a favorable peace which included significant deferment to the local power structures and Trinterian non-interference in internal politics. In exchange, the disparate proto-Costalani polities accepted consolidation under the [[Salted Coast Military Frontier]], its quasi-parliament, the [[People's High Government Junta|High Government Junta]], hosted in the site of what would become Citadel Azur.