Vithanama Empire

The Vithanama Empire is one of the numerous splinter states from the decline of the Dulama Empire, but unlike most of the others, it would be ruled chiefly by foreigners. In the latter days of the Dulama Emperor Cairl XVI, the Empire was invaded by the Hai Vithana, a northern steppe tribe who had long plagued that frontier. Breaking through the defenses, they poured onto the large central plain, the Taidhe. With the Empire divided between numerous claimants to the throne, the Hai Vithana, under their khagan Avralkha, smashed all resistance, and ended up securing most of the land between the River Abrea and River Thala. Taking the city of Tiagho as their capital, they quickly established themselves as one of the two most important of the Dulama successor states, alongside the rump empire in the west.
The Empire pulled them into an on-and-off border war, which weakened the remaining Dulama to the point where they were easy prey for the Trahana, who conquered the Dulama outright. So began a rivalry with the Trahana instead, one that was put on hold when an unprovoked invasion from the Holy Moti Empire forced them to shuffle their forces eastward, where, under their crown prince Satores, they captured the ancient city of Krato and successfully fended off a reprisal by Talephas of the Karapeshai Exatai. At that very moment, however, war with the Trahana reignited, and the Vithanama were pulled in two different directions at once.
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