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== Lerasian Era ==
Indigenous hunter-gatherers first appeared in Aivintis over 10,000 years ago as they followed prey south to Serdemia and beyond, migrating from an unknown civilization in the north. The Proto-Aivintii, as they came to be known, began using earthenware and similar artifacts, few of which survive to the modern day. Farming appeared somewhere around the introduction of these new technologies, when oats, barley, pigs, cattle, sheep and goats became common. The settlers of this culture spread over the fertile plains of Aivinto-Serdemia, located in between a labyrinthine web of rivers, reaching as far north as Chernopolsk and as far south as Redmondburg. On a smaller scale, various settlers landed in exclaves around the smaller network of rivers in Grandys and Nisava. The most preserved relics of the era are tombs and religious monuments. The tombs were mostly collective, and largely chambered cairns, although some were long barrows. Religious monuments were mostly stone circles, sometimes located in the center of rudimentary settlements, believed to establish a closer connection with the gods. Soon, the early settlements became gradwalls, early fortified settlements constructed as a group of wooden houses surrounded by rings of walls made of earth or wood, a palisade, and/or moats. Gradwalls were usually founded on riverbanks, but sometimes on sacred sites around existing stone circles.
The Lerasian Empire began with the founding of the great Aivintian city Asluagh. Founded by a prophet of Lerasi, the Aivintii god, Asluagh was a holy city, and its farms were the most fertile in Aivintis. The ruler of Asluagh took the name of Lerasi as a replacement of his own, and as a title akin to Emperor or King. In this, Asluagh's ruler became a mortal incarnation of Lerasi. Asluagh grew quickly, eventually surpassing the other city-states of the Aivintii people, and began the first chronicle of history in Aivintis.
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