The Atha Empires

The Atha Empires were a collective of small empires during the Second Medieval Era.

* Atha is the given name of the empires in areas of Hranast and Vlahs during the Second Medieval Era. The empires are referred to as the Atha Empires and the Athámic Peoples and Cultures.

## Lounda and the Atha Empires

The empire to the north, Lounda, was given an honorable nickname Ocro-Atha. Though the Loundans were not a part of the Atha Empires, they got their nickname from the Atha Empires themselves because Lounda protected them from the empires of Rettus and Kitlirix.
Lounda told Rettus and Kitlirix Empires to stay away from the Atha empires or else they’d face a huge war that the two would eventually lose. This gave a lot of respect from the Atha Empires, and Lounda was given said honorary title. This also lead to some of the earliest rivalry between Lounda, and future Tylactan empires, and the Kitlirix Empire which lead to the Ord War in the Fourth Medieval Era.

All of the Atha empires are most comparable to the Germanic cultures, like Pomeranian, Prussian and Bavarian, from early Europe around the fall of Rome.

Even though they all shared a common name, Atha, they felt that their identities were not the same. Occasionally they considered themselves “one people”, but it didn’t phase anyone if they went to war against each other. There was a lot of boarder friction between them.,

## Government:

Their government was made up of a single king called the Kivell.

In the individual kingdoms, there were Dôn'háthiis who were basically Jarls.

## History:

The Atha empires were created when the Bergerner and Baetha empires absorbed each other.

Originally, the Atha Empires ruling class was from one unified guild spread far and loosely connected.

Historians are not sure where the name Atha came from, but the founder of the guild Donatro and the first and only Queen of the unified empire was Donatrii, of whom was nicknamed The Atha Mistress.

When Donatrii died in the year 223, there were a few months of peace before a year long civil war broke out. The year ended and the war over and the eight defined Atha Empires stood in the ash of the old empire.

In the year 351, the Atha-Evintis War occurred. It was Evintis that started a war in which Evintis tried to take the land from the Atha peoples. The war lasted three years before it ended with Atha victorious. The victory wasn't enough for the Atha Empires to take any land and so it turned into a cold war. During this war, the Atha Empires used their most well known warrior, the Battlesorrows.

Later, the Evintis Empire would turn into the Me-Ock Protectorate.

## Baetha's Expansion:

Baetha, the southernmost Atha Empire, in the era The Third Medieval era, year 54, launched a full campaign war with their goal of reaching the Kra-Atha Empire. They started with Egtha, taking a half a year to conquer them.

The war lasted this whole era and into the next. By the Fourth Medieval Era, they had conquered all but one of the Atha Empires, Stae was pushed back to the island of their titular, year 23. Unfortunately for Baetha, a huge rebellion hit them, supported by Stae, year 123. Baetha managed to keep their western lands together, but their southeastern lands separated and formed the Heltros Empire. Stae also took some mainland territory.