Heleyara Despotate

The **Heleyara Despotate** was a former realm of the Phero Ecumene, which existed from its formation to the conclusion of the Regency Crisis in 153 BNE, and comprised the present-day Ecumene prefectures of Yan Kythre (then called Heleya), Caesura, Lacuna, and Rutilant. Similar to the modern Caishiwara Despotate, it was a continuation of the **Kingdom of Heleyara** as a subject of the Ecumene—though the Heleyaran monarchs were permitted to retain the titles of King and Queen.

## History

### Dark Age

The Heleyaran monarchs could trace their national identity back to before the Makhairan Empire, as the Aoshanti lords of the minor planet Heleya. It had been something of a satellite world of Caishiwa before the Fall of Abzu, and was lost to the Solarium province during the Tesar invasion—a hostage of the Druxic Horde until it successfully rebelled in the 4,000s PR.

During the Amrathan reconstruction and early Makhairan crusades, the Volydin were rediscovered on the world of Rutilant. The Solar of this Volydin colony became the protectorate of the Heleyan king.

### Makhairan Empire

In the 6,000s, it was one of the first Aoshanti polities to submit to Makhaira, and thus one of the earliest polities to be subject to the Makhairans' heavy racial and cultural integration policies. However, the Heleyaran lords of the Arkamad dynasty would carve out a place of significant power through their loyalty and commitment to the Empire, becoming the overlords of the Asharos province—which ruled over the Eovinjai.

### Kingdom of Heleyara

The lord of Asharos would lose significant territory to the rebelling Eovinjai during the Makhairan Collapse, and its remnants evetnually pledged fealty to the Kingdom of Heleyara. The Duchy of Asharos remained a highly autonomous part of the Kingdom for many years, ruled by the Arkamads-Ashara, a cadet branch of the Heleyaran royal family.

In 10,688 PR, the rise of the Solar Monad would see many Volydin whipped up in fanatic spirit across the Solarium, including on Rutialnt, which rebelled against Heleyaran rule with the Monad's backing.

#### Tvolin-Ataraxic Wars

During the 11,100s PR, the Asharosians would enter into marriage alliances with both an Ataraxic vassal family and the Dylastrov Royal Family, becoming a keystone part of the network that would give rise to the Elegy League. Meanwhile, the Heleyaran crown was moving in the opposite direction, looking to increasingly centralize economic and political power in the capital, advised by technocrats trained in the civic schools of its new ally: the Tvolai Technocracy. This friction would eventually lead to Asharos rebelling in 11,192 PR, bringing the two alliances to blows and seeing the two branches of the family severing ties. Asharos's independence was successfully backed by the Elegy League, and a truce signed.

The alliances would again go to war in 11,223 PR, this time with Ataraxis as the aggressor. Heleyara was struck early on in the conflict, effectively occupied by the Asharosians and Eovinjai until 11,229. The Technocracy would eventually secure a victory in part thanks to their negotiation of the Solar Monad's entry into the war on the side of the Tvolin League, promising to help settle remaining Aoshanti claims on Volydin space. However, while Dylastrova and Trielum acceded to this demand, Heleyara refused, maintaining an outstanding claim of Rutilant despite Tvolai's efforts to solidify West Concourse's borders—souring the relationship of both with the Monad.

#### Tvolin Golden Age

The Kingdom of Heleyara would come under the rule of the Pyriad dynasty during the time of the Tvolin Empire.

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