Vischa

An enormous western steppe confederacy, the Vischa were a people who formed one of the most powerful empires in the known world by the late 5th century SR. The ancient Vischa were a rather minor steppe tribe on the fringes of the urbanized valley of the River Eskana. Conquering a series of city-states and growing rich off of their cotton trade, they steadily expanded in all directions, eventually playing rival to the Karapeshai Exatai and the Adanai Eshai. In the end, they would be destroyed from within, as a cruel and negligent khagan would be overthrown by an alliance of other chiefs. The Vischa broke up after this, into a variety of successor states -- the most notable being the Nevathi khagans and the Telha Exatai.
Falling into relative obscurity with their disunity, the Vischa would only rise to prominence again with the establishment of the Vischa Exatai some time after the conquest of the Nevathi by the Telha.
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