Exalai Sartashai

The Exalai Sartashai, or Princedom of the Shield, is a Satar state in the Rhon valley, one of the splinters of the Karapeshai Exatai. As the Karapeshai weakened in early the 7th century RM, the Tephrans broke away, and for a time the Shield Princes successfully played both sides, switching allegiances between the Tephrans and the slowly dying Karapeshai according to where the most benefit lay. This dance wore thin after a while, and the Shield Princes declared their independence from both powers, touching off the War of the Burning Pines. This conflict would rage for fifty years without conclusion, and its intensity was only slightly lessened by the appearance of a Zalkephis; even the Third War of Prophecy wasn't enough to make the Tephrans and Shield Princes forget each other. When the Third War of Prophecy and War of the Burning Pines finally ground to a halt, leaving all the combatants bloodied and exhausted, the Shield Princedom stood independent, but with its territory reduced and the Zalkephai worryingly close to Alusille. 
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