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The crumbling of the Heterad on the mainland left Kalana devoid of a central authority, splitting the lands into a number of warring states along the coastlines, along with semi-nomadic pastoral tribes in the center of the island. The conditions of post-Heterad Kalana are much better defined than mainland states as, since Kalana did not face the Kaskadan migrations, the Heterad script was still in use and historical records from the time period are present. However, the devaluation of the tin trade did significantly impede Kalana's prosperity and many cities which were dependent on Auravasi trade crumbled. As many of these warring states were constantly engaged in conflict with each other, states would appear and disappear in rapid succession, and though Kalana would occasionally be mostly united under one power, these occasions were the exception rather than the rule.
In the 940s BCE, a leader named Tasirad assumesassumed control of a small state in southern Kalana. The origin of Tasirad is shrouded in mystery, but the leading theory is that Tasirad was a political exile of a rival state to the north and seized power during a succession crisis in the small state. Shortly after seizing power, Tasirad assembled an army and began moving forces into the central plains of the island, continuously recruiting warriors to fight alongside him, and he would eventually clash with a coalition force of 7 states, many of them rivals who had temporarily banded together, in the Battle of the 7 Kings. Though Tasirad's force was greatly outnumbered, the battle swung in his favor when five of the seven enemy kings would fall, causing a breakdown of army integrity and infighting as kings tried to assert command over rivaling armies, and many soldiers who had lost their leaders turned on their army. The coalition forces were completely routed and, eventually, the 7 kingdoms swore loyalty to Tasirad, uniting the island once again under a kingdom. It is theorized that the consolidation of Kalana and the reinvigoration of trade routes was the main driver of the Auravasi Revival.
==== Period of Urbanization ====
==== Rise of the Auravasi Confederation ====
Revolts continue to cripple the Edoic League and Dukalan lands, intensifying after the defeat at the hands of the Shviesist League. Throughout the next portion of the 4th century BCE, the Shviesist League would capitalize on the instability present in the newly independent reams to maneuver religious leaders sympathetic to the League to power. In 366 BCE, the membervarious statesleaders of the Shviesist League signed the ''TreatyAccord of Unification'', considered theone secondof the most important legal agreement in Auravasi history, prior todeclaring the Commonformation Eraof a unified authority over the League, afterknown as the EdictAuravasi ofConfederation Uravin,and unitingtherefore whatover the states in which the League had power. Although the Accord was anlargely alliancesupported intoby athe federationmembers withof the League, a centralminority governmentin the League who wanted to preserve their autonomy and many aristocratic families rose in revolt against the League, knownthough asthey were crushed by the AuravasiLeague's forces. The rapidly falling Urav would battle the Confederation in the ''War of Uravi Subjugation (362 BCE - 360 BCE)'', and thewhat leaderremained of theUrav's Confederationempire would be styledincorporated Leaderwithin the Confederation, uniting the polities of allmainland Auravas/Auravasi People. TheBy this time, the Confederation, woulddespite thenstill embarkdrawing ontheir aauthority campaignfrom toits imposereligious theirstatus, rulershiphad overbecome allmore secular in terms of Auravaspractical administration.
Similar to the defeat of the Tasirad Kingdom at the hands of the Dictrian Coalition, the defeat of Dukala at the hands of the League accelerated the internal conflicts that has intensified during the war as the member states of the Peace of the Vultures broke away from the Dukalan alliance, many of them backed by Confederation money. What would have spilled into a second long warring period was curbed by the expansionist sentimentsintervention of the Confederation , afterwhich onlysaw aan fewopportunity to extend its influence and safeguard its eastern seaboard and decadestrade, whoas hada inConfederation recentarmy yearsmoved turnedfrom theirthe ambitionssouth of the island to beyondthe north, forcing the peninsulapolities of the island into submission. ByThe 348nobles BCE,of Kalana had grown used to the autonomy they had built over the period fo Dukalan rule, andhowever, byso extensionthey allremained ofas relatively modernautonomous dayvassal Auravasstates, wassimilar unitedto bytheir relation to the Dukalan crown, rather than be completely dissolved and integrated into the Confederation as the mainland territories were. ▼The rapidly falling Urav would battle the Confederation in the ''War of Uravi Subjugation (362 BCE - 360 BCE)'', and what remained of Urav's empire would be incorporated within the Confederation, uniting the polities of mainland Auravas.
▲Similar to the defeat of the Tasirad Kingdom at the hands of the Dictrian Coalition, the defeat of Dukala at the hands of the League accelerated the internal conflicts that has intensified during the war as the member states of the Peace of the Vultures broke away from the Dukalan alliance, many of them backed by Confederation money. What would have spilled into a second long warring period was curbed by the expansionist sentiments of the Confederation after only a few decades, who had in recent years turned their ambitions to beyond the peninsula. By 348 BCE, Kalana, and by extension all of modern day Auravas, was united by the Confederation.
Though a united state, the Confederation retained large levels of devolution from its origins as a league of multiple nations, and this gave it a uniquely non-monarchical character, being governed by a body, known as the Federal Assembly, comprised of representatives from each member of the confederation. The executive body of the Federal Assembly was known as the Directorate, and was composed of 5 elected members of the Federal Assembly.
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