Gilded War Interregnum

Military action

The Gilded War interregnum was a widespread economic collapse resulting from the decay of the Nedhiwars and their surrounding civilizations. This collapse was likely a direct impact of the ban on literacy and the written word which plunged the world into a cataclysmic series of wars between the illiterate workers and the wealthy semi-literate nobles left behind by the disastrous ban on literacy enforced throughout Hilgar and Bhabolek in the Age of River Kings.

The Gilded War interregnum was a widespread economic collapse resulting from the decay of the Nedhiwars and their surrounding civilizations. This collapse was likely a direct impact of the ban on literacy and the written word which plunged the world into a cataclysmic series of wars between the illiterate workers and the wealthy semi-literate nobles left behind by the disastrous ban on literacy enforced throughout Hilgar and Bhabolek in the Age of River Kings. As the complex trade routes collapsed along with the Nedhiwars, dynastic merchant-nobles who presided over highly specialized guilds and institutions maintained enclaves of luxury, including collections of books which were spared from Sebab Gartu's pyres. As the means to upkeep Sebab's Nedhiwars passed into obscurity along with the Arcane schools and their vast libraries, and soon the Nedhiwars deteriorated. Eventytually only the wild Haru tribes were willing to transit the treacherous portals, learning circuitous and bizarre routes through Geron's waterways through trial and error. The Haru river people remain masters of Altan's pictographic and gestural replacement for the written word to this day, some claiming to still ply the scattered remains of Sebab's rivers to this day. Hungry separatists eventually clashed with the wealthy but starving navies, over the last few portals connecting the Four Rivers, destroying them and trapping many of the Haru navigators in distant lands.