Kilar

A state on the northern edge of the Nakalani, Kilar rose in the wake of the destruction of the Kratoan Empire. The Uggor republic had conquered several smaller states, advancing eastward to the boundaries of the Zyeshu city-states. These lands it held until it finally collapsed in a spectacular civil war that led to their destruction and the foundation of the Holy Moti Empire. For their part, though, the Moti never firmly established control over the east. In turn, a small outpost of native peoples created a kingdom organized similarly to the old Uggor clans, named Kilar; this state expanded in all directions to become one of the most powerful little kingdoms of the south. Narrowly escaping destruction at the hands of the Kothari Exatai, it pursued a course of careful independent, closely linked to its southern neighbor, Jipha. All that planning and cooperation went out the window when the Jiphans shocked their northern neighbors by assassinating the Kilari royal family and invading in great numbers. The Kilari turned the invasion back, but only with the assistance of the Kothari, who annexed Jipha as a protectorate, and now surrounded Kilar.
The Kilari Kingdom would during the crisis of the seventh century play a notable, if minor part in the wars with the Karapeshai Exatai, with its armies ferociously defending the Kiyaj valley in the Battle of Khead, where the Karapeshai army was severely bloodied at the cost of much of the Kilari host and the nations King. Although fortunately the region was spared widespread damage as the Karapeshai army was broken by the Kothari Exatai before the walls of Opios.
The Kingdoms days however were numbered, with the Kothari Exatai in the ascendant, having annexed Bysria in the fall of the Holy Moti Empire. Eventually it came to pass, as part of a resolution of a political dispute between Church and State in the Kothari Empire, that the Church gave de-facto permission for the Exatai to conquer Kilar, resulting in the end of that Kingdom as a sovereign state.
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