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By the 15th and 14th centuries BCE, however, Lapytia began a stage of rapidly decline. Records from the time indicate that a series of natural disasters occurred in the space of a single year, including a flood which caused a minor diversion of the Ueclid river. Subsequently, fears of a famine lead to an exodus of people from many of the outlying cities who depended on trade with the agricultural core. Some time after this, the city of Lapyta experienced widespread fire and looting, causing much of the city to be burned to the ground. The cause of this is debated, with the two dominant theories being either civil disturbance due to the population loss in the years prior, or an invasion by nomadic cultures from the north taking advantage of the defensive outlying towns and cities becoming mostly abandoned. Several other cities were burned in similar fashion and Lapytia collapsed, leading to its near entire abandoned. The Lapytian people migrated primarily north down to the lower Ueclid, south past the Teba Mountains and towards the numerous floodplains and the coast, and even beyond the Auric mountains to the site of modern Emberwood Coast.

 

With the the end of the 14th century BCE, many small kingdoms were founded along the length of the Ueclid river as a result of the power vacuum left by the sudden collapse of Lapytia. Texts at the time are infrequent and some remain unreadable due to writing in an undeciphered script, so the political landscape at the time is difficult to reconstruct but evidence suggests it was extremely tumultuous. Additionally a significant amount of the written material from the Lapytian period was lost in civil wars which razed remnant cities and towns across its former territory. This era has become known as the first dark ages.