Murex Campaigns

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Murex Campaigns
Part of the Suvan-Vistari Wars, Krommetra colonization of North Arcturia
Date 12 May 1468 - 5 July 1529 Location North Arcturia, Krommentrum Result Vistari victory Treaties of Haasbaai and Boershol Vistari suzerainty over the Siertquil Peninsula VCC domination of dye trade Abandonment of Alvshina colonial ventures Territorial changes Establishment of the Kleurstofkust Protectorate
Belligerents
Vistari Empire Vistari Colonial Company Anti-Alliance Altepeme (Fourth)	Alvshina Khanate Indigo Valley Alliance (Third & Fourth)	Indigo Valley Alliance (Second)
Commanders and leaders
Aelbert I Pieter III Aelbert II	Xartsaga Khan Mizquitia	Mahuiyotl

The Murex Campaigns were a series of wars interspersed with minor conflicts in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Fought between the Vistari Empire and Alvshina, with varying involvement from the indigenous polities of the modern day Kleurstofkust, the two rival powers competed over influence and concessions in far Northern Arcturia, with the goal of gaining preferential status within the profitable dye trade.

While a fixed timeline of the conflicts has been heavily debated, with several periods of extended truce and the blurring together of different campaigns conventionally viewed as separate, contemporary historians generally divide the period into the two North Arcturian campaigns occurring during and directly following the Alvshina-Vistari War of 1468-1473, and the two later sets of campaigns occurring between 1509 and the eventual founding of a Vistari protectorate in the region in 1529.

While clearly a considerable economic asset, access to Murex dye was also a matter of cultural importance to the Alvshina Khanate, as use of the natural purple dye was linked to the legitimacy and providence of the current ruler. Following the collapse of the the Alvan Empire, the dye emerged on banners of the proclaimed successor Khuchar dynasty in modern day Suvania. This is due to the dye's cultivation in Arcturia, thus allowing it to become a symbol of wealth and the expanse of the Alvan Empire and its trade routes. While modern historians generally argue its role has been overstated, the loss of access to this dye at Vistari hands, and thus the loss of a legitimizing symbol, has been argued to have been a contributing factor to the overthrowing of the Khuchar dynasty and the eventual proclamation of a nativist Khanate of Suvania.