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[[File:1892 Baku cholera outbreak.jpg|220px|thumb|An hospital room during the "Swamp Fever" outbreak of 1910]]
[[File:Ajax kayamuca 1300 map.png|200px|thumb|the Kayamucan world in 1300. In purple, the Latin Empire. In light purple, its client-states. In dark green, the Mutul. In light green, the Mutul's allies. In yellow, the Kayamuca remnants. Dark red arrow : the {{wp|Quechua people|Kayans}} migration]]
The '''Nine Epidemies''' ({{wp|Mayan languages|Mtl}}: "B'olon Okanil") is the name given to nine different outbreaks of {{wp|infection|infectious diseases}} that struck the [[Mutul|Divine Kingdom]] during the last decades of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. They participate to a general climate of social and political turmoil during this period, taking places during the [[Belfro-Mutulese war of 1911|Great Arms Race]], the [[Belfro-Mutulese war of 1911]], the [[Belfro-Mutulese War of 1928]], and the [[Orientalism (Mutul)|Orientalist Regeneration]]. The Nine Epidemies are generally divided into three categories : the '''Three Fevers''' ({{wp|Mayan languages|Mtl}}: "Ox Katan") (The {{wp|Yellow fever}} of 1897, {{wp|Malaria|Swamp Fever}} of 1910, and the {{wp|Visceral leishmaniasis|Black fever}} of 1940), the '''Three Dengues''' ({{wp|Mayan languages|Mtl}}: "Ox Tok'") (of 1901, 1933, and 1950), and the '''Three Influenzas''' ({{wp|Mayan languages|Mtl}}: "Ox Yabil") (Of 1889, the [[Mutulese Flu]] of 1915, and the {{wp|Influenza A virus subtype H1N1|Reze Flu}} of 1940).


==History==
This article describe the '''Kayamucan World''' during the 14th century both on {{wp|Civilization|civilizational}} and {{wp|Geostrategy|Geostrategical}} standpoints.
===Influenza of 1889===
The '''1889 Flu''' was a deadly epidemy that affected around 15% of the population of the [[Mutul]] at the time. Researchers have managed to identify the virus as a subtype H3 of the Influenza A, possibly the {{wp|Influenza A virus subtype H3N8|H3N8 subtype}} which may have been carried to the Mutul through infected dogs from [[Mutulese Ochran|Scipia]]. It is estimated that between 250,000 and 500,000 people died of the Flu thourough the year, 0,2% of the Divine Kingdom's total population at the time. It is generally remembered as the first of the "Three Influenzas", but is obscured by the following [[Mutulese Flu]] which killed around 2% of the total population of the Mutul.


===Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1897===
The Kayamuca Sea was so named after the [[Kayamuca Empire]], which controlled all of its islands and shorelines. The sea link three continents together: [[Ajax|Norumbia]], [[Ajax|Oxidentale]], and since the arrival of [[Latium|Latins]] during the 11th century: [[Ajax|Belisaria]].  
The Yellow fever probably first appeared in Oxidentale in the aftermath of the [[Sante Reze|Rezeses expeditions to Scipia]] during the 9th and 10th centuries AD. The relative isolation of communities at the time limited the spread of the disease, which mean that it only became noteworthy in the [[Mutul]] following the establishment of [[Mutulese Ochran]] and was first called "Xekik", "blood vomit". The Outbreak of 1897 was especially deadly, affecting not only sugar plantations and western portuary cities, but almost every major settlements of the country as well, once again helped by modern transports and rail networks. It was the last large-scale outbreak of the disease as afterward, extensive sanitary measures were taken, until the fever was reduced to pocket of jungles and other isolated areas where it survived in population of {{wp|howler monkeys}} and other primates from where it periodically spread in small outbreaks to this day.


===Dengue outbreak of 1901===
In 1163, the revolt of the Iroquoian speaking [[Atiwandaronk]] on the northern edge of the [[Kayamuca Empire]] triggered a series of event that led to the fracturing, weakning, and ultimately downfall of the Empire, although a rump state would survive in [[Ayeli]] and [[Tikal]], continuing to claim the imperial title. But the event that really marked the change of times was the [[Belfrasian Crusade]] from 1256 to 1261, where the [[Latium|Latin Empire]] led by the Ostian dynasty and the [[Ilok'tab Dynasty]] opposed one another for the control of Norumbia. The resulting treaty that divided the remnants of the Kayamuca Empire between the two powers served as the basis on which the 14th century Kayamucan World would be built on.
Like the yellow fever, Dengue reached Oxidentale sometime between the 9th and 10th centuries AD as Rezeses traders brought back the {{wp|Aedes aegypti}} from their travels to Scipia. The Dengue became a known and common disease in the [[Mutul|Divine Kingdom]] since the time of the [[Mutulese Ochran]] when growing international trades made epidemic outbreaks of various diseases easier. The existence of four different serotypes of dengue virus and a short-lived cross-immunity make Dengue outbreaks a recuring event in the Mutul: every six months or so.


As the sanitary precautions taken after the Yellow fever of 1897 had not yet been fully implemented while the {{wp|Rural flight}} to the major industrial hubs of the Mutul continued because of the ongoing "Arm-Race" with [[Belfras]], the 1901 Dengue outbreak had tragic consequences with the virus spreading far and wide through the slums and other lower class neighborhoods. The exact number of death is unknown, but is estimated to have been around 0.1 to 0.25 percents of the Divine Kingdom's total population. The perceived accelerated rate of viral epidemies caused by {{wp|Aedes aegypti}} led to the Divine Throne reinforcing the sanitary policies taken four years before, and launching vast a period of "Sanitary Fervour" among the population through propaganda.
==Western Latin World==


===Swamp Fever outbreak of 1910===
Between the 11th and 15th centuries, [[Latium]] was divided between two competing crowns, the Claudii dynasty of [[Duke of Adrianople|Adrianople]] and the Ostian dynasty in [[Ascanium (Latium)|Ascanium]]. However, by the 12th century, the Ostians had become the dominant of the two crowns, leading to their slow reconquest of the Latium. This included the consolidation of their markets into more attractive hubs than those of their rivals, and the reinforcement of their fleet, allowed the Ostian Emperors to start more advantageous, expensive, and lucrative enterprises. These included wars against the [[Holy Audonian Empire]], or their patronage of the mercantile expeditions crossing the Salacian Ocean to trade with the remnants states of the [[Kayamuca Empire]] in Norumbia. But under the rule of [[Theodora I Ostia|Empress Theodora I]], the Ostian dynasty took it a step further and managed to establish colonies and vassals in Norumbia in the aftermath of the [[Belfrasian Crusade]]. This victory boosted their prestige and, after a period of difficulty due to the expenses of the Crusade, allowed the Latins the control over most of the goods transiting in the Northern Salacian Ocean, adding massively to their wealth.
Documents made public by the Divine Throne revealed the existence of a Swamp fever outbreak during the year 1910. The disease was especially common in the Mutul due to the excellent climatic and ecologic conditions the virus can find there, with many tropical swamps and humid areas near, if not inside, large population centers such as [[K'alak Muul]]. The worsening political situation between the [[Mutul]] and [[Belfras]] led to the Divine Throne censoring all mentions of an outbreak even happening in the country, to not reduce public morale. It is possible that this silence worsened the situation, but the lack of hard numbers or written sources limit our understanding of the situation.


===Mutulese Flu===
===Expansion of the Latin Empire===
{{main|Mutulese Flu}}
But at the start of the 14th century, the Ostians had only implemented themselves seriously in Norumbia a mere 40 years ago. The Caesar had direct representative in the major trade hubs and some other portuary cities. These included the cities of [[Beikena]] where the Crusaders had first landed in 1256, or the newly established colony of [[Thessalona]]. These urban settlements, with their communities of traders and sailors dependent on commerce with Belisaria, had already been under the influence of {{wp|Missionary|missionaries}} since the 11th century, and had in their majority converted to their new hegemon' religion after the Crusades.
The 1915 Influenza Epidemic, or Mutulese Flu, was the most deadly influenza epidemic to have touched the Divine Kingdom with a third of the total population affected and leaving 2 millions casualties behind it which came on top of the lives lost during the [[Belfro-Mutulese war of 1911]]. The viral infection itself was not more deadly than any previous influenza, but the special circumstances of the epidemic (malnourishment, overcrowded medical camps and hospitals, poor hygiene) promoted bacterial superinfection that killed most of the victims, typically after a somewhat prolonged death bed.
 
During and after the [[Belfrasian Crusade|Crusade]], the Latins had confiscated the lands that had belonged to the warlords, tribes, or cities that had opposed them, as well as all of the old [[Kayamuca Empire]] "imperial lands" that hadn't been appropriated by other warring factions. These lands were redistributed among the natives allies of the Latins as rewards, but also granted to veterans and officers, re-creating the {{wp|Feudalism|Feudal system}} the Caesars of Ascanium oversaw back in their homeland. There was also the hope that, through the duties and obligations owed to their Caesars, these new landowners would help pay off the debts incurred by the Empire in the previous decades.
 
===Allied and Federated kingdoms===
Beyond their coastal bastions and portuary powerbases, the effective authority of the Latins quickly diminished. Instead, the Empire relied on {{wp|foederati}}, Client Kings who had been granted recognition of their previous titles as well as well as new lands from the Confiscations performed by the Crusaders in exchange for their conversion to [[Fabrianism]] and signature of a military alliance with the Latins.
 
These new allies proved a vital and necessary intermediary between the Natives and the Belisarians colonists. After the Crusade, foederati would represent the majority of troops the Empire could muster on the other side of the Salacian Ocean, colonists and settlers being too few to be solely relied upon despite harsher conscription laws for these populations, and the estimated cost of another Crusade remaining too high for it to be viable less than 50 years after the previous grand expedition.
 
Marriages between newly titled-crusaders and these kings also reinforced their ties with the Latins. The Ostians also implemented a "naturalization-program" for these loyal natives, offering the enviable status of citizen, either as a reward for military and political service or in exchange of a high fee. Because of its distance from Latium proper, citizenship-grants in Norumbia were dependent on the will of the Imperial representatives in Norumbia, and many of them used these grants to build up their network of clients. By the end of the century, these two pillars of the Latin rule in Norumbia had played their role and the division of the landowning aristocracy between "Settlers" and "Client Kings" had mostly disappeared, replaced instead by a multi-faceted but united oligarchy birthed from their union. Many of the most influential families in modern [[Belfras]] and [[Mocapaha]] can trace their roots back to this metis upper-class of the late 14th and 15th centuries.
 
==Mutulese Market Network==
After the [[Belfrasian Crusade]] and the final destruction of the [[Kayamuca Empire]], the [[Mutul]] led by the [[Ilok'tab Dynasty]] became an important player in the [[Ajax|Kayamuca Sea]], in a constant rivalry with the [[Latium|Latin Empire]].
 
The Crusade represent a real turning point for the Ilok'tab imperium. Despite their official propaganda presenting the Belfrasian campaign as a resounding success, establishing new allies and vassal states in Norumbia, the reality is that it failed its primary goal which was to drive the Latins out from Norumbia. What followed was a difficult period for the K'iche Dynasty : the [[Tecuman Plague]], [[Orun Redisus|Eastern Campaigns]], and [[Xuman Crusade]] were all events that tested the Mutul system and forced it to re-adapt itself to the new circumstances.
 
The Reformation process really peaked under [[Tecuman II|Ka K'uk'umam]], known as Tecuman II "the Wise" in Latin chronicles of the era. The symbols of this changing society was the move of the capital from [[K'umakah]] to [[K'alak Muul]] in 1318, crystalizing the changing goals of the Divine Throne now concerned mostly by the Kayamuca Sea and no longer constrained to the hinterlands of the Mutul, and the publication of the [[Bitzk'uh]] in 1326.
 
===Tecumanic Reformation===
 
Ka K'uk'umam was a patron of scholars and savants. At his new court, he maintained a number of theologians from across the Mutul and organized literary jousts and religious debates. Among his protegees were a small groups of [[Fabrian Catholic Church|Fabrians]] monks who were among the first to produce Mutli-latin dictionaries and chronicles about court life in the Mutul. It's probably inspired by the structure of the {{wp|Bible}}, and fearing a lack of religious unity would make the Mutul an easy prey for {{wp|Christianity|Sarpetic}} missionaries as it did in [[Belfras|Norumbia]], that K'uk'umam demanded that every temple across the Divine Kingdom send to K'alak Muul copies of every book and [[Ek'lib'|codices]] in their possession as well as at least one representative so that an Orthodoxy could be established. It's during this vast religious campaign that [[Printing in the Mutul|Uh Chichij]] was able to make the demonstration of his new {{wp|Woodblock printing|printing method}} to the royal court. This new press would be used by K'uk'uman to distribute across the Divine Kingdom the newly compiled [[Bitzk'uh]].
 
All in all, Tecuman II' rule is often considered by historians as the true birth of [[White Path]] as a coherent religion. The publication of the Bitzk'uh and the development of the state-sponsored Orthodoxy was followed by decade of persecutions against Shamanistic and Magic traditions that rejected the clerical structure of the White Path, but also of certain theologies considered a threat to the newly created State such as the Monadist movement, considered too close to Sarpetic religions to be tolerated.
 
===The Universal Market===
 
The [[Ilok'tab Dynasty|Ilok'tab]] had already seen the rebirth of the market-centered traditional system of the Mutul, which had been abandoned since the end of the [[Chaan Dynasty]]. The end of the [[Kayamuca Empire]] saw an economic boom for the trader-elite of the Divine Kingdom, adding new markets to its system where previously the strict state-controlled economy of the Kayamucans had meant trade between the Mutul and its closest neighbors had been limited to {{wp|smuggling}}, assimilated to piracy and {{wp|Casus belli|acts of war}}. Despite the continuous {{wp|Commerce raiding}} and {{wp|Proxy war}}s between the [[Latium|Latin Empire]] and [[Mutul|Divine Kingdom]] across the 14th century, trade boomed between the two and their vassals and allies. {{wp|iron}} tools, {{wp|steel}} weapons, {{wp|Mirror}}s, {{wp|glass}}, {{wp|wine}}, and Belisarian spices ({{wp|Cumin}}, {{wp|Saffron}}, {{wp|Coriander}}, {{wp|Anise}}...) were brought-in by Latin traders, or produced by Latin settlers, and exchanged for {{wp|platinum}}, {{wp|jade}} and {{wp|turquoise}}, {{wp|Maya blue|dyes}}, {{wp|cotton}}, and Oxidentale spices ({{wp|Chili pepper|Chili}}, {{wp|Cocoa bean|Cocoa}}, {{wp|Vanilla}}...).
 
The introduction of {{wp|Studio glass|glasswares}} in the Mutul proved to be an unexpected economic revolution. Chocolate could now be carried in its liquid state and more easily be controled, stamped, and taxed by authorities. Cocoa beans continued to be used for small transactions, but the rampant threat of fake-beans mixed in larger quantities of cocoa no longer constrained larger exchanges. In the early decades of the century Mutuleses {{wp|Slave raiding|Slave raiders}} were especially encouraged to bring back Latins artisans. Ironsmiths famously but, above all elses : Glass makers. The Royal Glass Factory of [[K'alak Muul]] was thus first established by enslaved Latin artisans bought by the [[Divine Throne]] for a fortune and then further equipped and maintained at high costs, just to help meet the new demand for bottles.
 
Constant expeditions across the Kayamuca Sea proved both costly and risky for lone entrepreneurs, even from the trader-nobility. As a result, the 14th century saw the development of {{wp|Share (finance)|shares}} and {{wp|Bond (finance)|bonds}} as financiary tools to help develop trade. To pay their expanding armies, the Ilok'tab ended up also adopting these new {{wp|Government bond|securities}} and either distributing them to their soldiery or selling them directly on [[K'alak Muul]] marketplaces. The development of securities and financial assests would continue and be refined thourough the century and the next, leading to the creation of [[K'uhul Wayib' K'iwik|dedicated marketplaces]] and of a financial world that would find its golden age 300 years later at the apex of the Mutul' [[Mutulese Ochran|Oversea Empire]].
 
===Norumbian partners and protectorates===
 
Following the Belfrasian Crusade not all [[Kayamuca Empire|Kayamucan Norumbia]], then known as ''Tekamora'', fell under Ostian rule. Modern southern [[Belfras]], such as the modern state of [[Eunos]], remained independent. The inhabitants of these lands were {{wp|Muskogean languages|Anumpa speakers}} who probably settled the region centuries before the {{wp|Cherokee|Tsalagi}} migration of the late Tekamoran era (6th - 7th century CE ?) who became the dominant ethnies of the regions to their northeast under the Kayamucans.
 
Under the Kayamucans, the Anumpa people were separated into clans, which mostly respected the pre-conquest social groupings, and then regrouped under Kayamucans leaders nominated from [[Gadu]]. Because of the nature of the Empire' economy, the Anumpas remained a mostly rural people, expanding their farmlands deeper inland each generation than form urban settlements silently discouraged by the Kayamucans. The only cities of note were thus coastal ports settled by Tsalagi and, increasingly, {{wp|Quechua people|Runakuna}} people, the dominant ethnies of the Empire. Each of these ports would become its own warlord state with the slow collapse of the Kayamucans.
 
It's on the side of these city-states that the [[Mutul]] intervened during the [[Belfrasian Crusade]]. They would quickly integrate their patron' Market Network and grow as trade hubs between the [[Latium|North]] and the [[Mutul|South]]. Beside trade, Latins and Mutuleses also sent religious missions, the later wanting to spread their newly compiled [[Bitzk'uh]] as Orthodoxy while the former wished to convert, and potentially subvert, the people.
 
These clients were used thourough the 14th and 15th centuries as a launching point for further expeditions northward against the Latins. While the 14th century was thus marked mostly by a long lasting {{wp|Commerce raiding|naval warfare}} between the two hegemonic power, with periodic raids on coastal settlements and even sieges and ranged land battles to contest the control of import ports, islands, and borderlands, it's only later in the 15th century that the attention of both power would shift westward with the Mutuleses and their Norumbians allies trying to stop, or at least slow down, the Latin colonisation of these new territories. Once the Latins and their allies became dominant on both coast, the Mutul and its client-states were forced into a defensive posture as they faced an intensification of the Latium' war efforts in Norumbia. After a series of naval and land victories, the Latins were free to steadily conquer southern Belfras, one city after the other. It would take them another century of effort to truly push their control deeper inland, but by the 17th century the attention of the Mutul was firmly set on [[Mutulese Ochran|westward]] and thus the Latium remained unchallenged in Norumbia.
 
===New Conquests in Oxidentale===
 
Profiteering from the collapse of the Kayamuca Empire, the Mutul paracheived its conquests of the deceased empire' Oxidentalese holdings. In 1314 [[Gadu]], the last capital of the Kayamucans, was destroyed during the [[Runakuna Revolt]], an uprising of the Runakuna settlers who, despite having been displaced from Norumbia to the southern borderland, had retained a strong identity and now dealt the final blow to the dying empire. The Runakuna would form a new enemy for the Mutul, who campaigned annually against them between 1315 and 1325. Ultimately, the Runakuna were defeated and forced south of the [[Ucayare river]]. The Mutul integrated all the land up until roughtly [[Gadu]], leaving the rest to tributaries, generally ethnic leaders from other Kayamucan minorities who helped the Mutul against the Runakunas. The [[Orun Redisus|Kingdom of Redisus]] find its roots from this era.
 
The Runakuna would remain a concern for the Mutul for the rest of the century, as they followed closely their migration south-eastward, intervening multiple time to prevent them from settling in the Nojwitz mountains. Their migration would continue on until they reached the [[Kayahallpa|Antis region]] and end up establishing their own Empire there, Kayamucha, in 1434.
 
==Other forces==
===Ayeli and Kayamuca remnants===
===Atiwandaronk and their successors===

Latest revision as of 21:04, 5 May 2022

the Kayamucan world in 1300. In purple, the Latin Empire. In light purple, its client-states. In dark green, the Mutul. In light green, the Mutul's allies. In yellow, the Kayamuca remnants. Dark red arrow : the Kayans migration

This article describe the Kayamucan World during the 14th century both on civilizational and Geostrategical standpoints.

The Kayamuca Sea was so named after the Kayamuca Empire, which controlled all of its islands and shorelines. The sea link three continents together: Norumbia, Oxidentale, and since the arrival of Latins during the 11th century: Belisaria.

In 1163, the revolt of the Iroquoian speaking Atiwandaronk on the northern edge of the Kayamuca Empire triggered a series of event that led to the fracturing, weakning, and ultimately downfall of the Empire, although a rump state would survive in Ayeli and Tikal, continuing to claim the imperial title. But the event that really marked the change of times was the Belfrasian Crusade from 1256 to 1261, where the Latin Empire led by the Ostian dynasty and the Ilok'tab Dynasty opposed one another for the control of Norumbia. The resulting treaty that divided the remnants of the Kayamuca Empire between the two powers served as the basis on which the 14th century Kayamucan World would be built on.

Western Latin World

Between the 11th and 15th centuries, Latium was divided between two competing crowns, the Claudii dynasty of Adrianople and the Ostian dynasty in Ascanium. However, by the 12th century, the Ostians had become the dominant of the two crowns, leading to their slow reconquest of the Latium. This included the consolidation of their markets into more attractive hubs than those of their rivals, and the reinforcement of their fleet, allowed the Ostian Emperors to start more advantageous, expensive, and lucrative enterprises. These included wars against the Holy Audonian Empire, or their patronage of the mercantile expeditions crossing the Salacian Ocean to trade with the remnants states of the Kayamuca Empire in Norumbia. But under the rule of Empress Theodora I, the Ostian dynasty took it a step further and managed to establish colonies and vassals in Norumbia in the aftermath of the Belfrasian Crusade. This victory boosted their prestige and, after a period of difficulty due to the expenses of the Crusade, allowed the Latins the control over most of the goods transiting in the Northern Salacian Ocean, adding massively to their wealth.

Expansion of the Latin Empire

But at the start of the 14th century, the Ostians had only implemented themselves seriously in Norumbia a mere 40 years ago. The Caesar had direct representative in the major trade hubs and some other portuary cities. These included the cities of Beikena where the Crusaders had first landed in 1256, or the newly established colony of Thessalona. These urban settlements, with their communities of traders and sailors dependent on commerce with Belisaria, had already been under the influence of missionaries since the 11th century, and had in their majority converted to their new hegemon' religion after the Crusades.

During and after the Crusade, the Latins had confiscated the lands that had belonged to the warlords, tribes, or cities that had opposed them, as well as all of the old Kayamuca Empire "imperial lands" that hadn't been appropriated by other warring factions. These lands were redistributed among the natives allies of the Latins as rewards, but also granted to veterans and officers, re-creating the Feudal system the Caesars of Ascanium oversaw back in their homeland. There was also the hope that, through the duties and obligations owed to their Caesars, these new landowners would help pay off the debts incurred by the Empire in the previous decades.

Allied and Federated kingdoms

Beyond their coastal bastions and portuary powerbases, the effective authority of the Latins quickly diminished. Instead, the Empire relied on foederati, Client Kings who had been granted recognition of their previous titles as well as well as new lands from the Confiscations performed by the Crusaders in exchange for their conversion to Fabrianism and signature of a military alliance with the Latins.

These new allies proved a vital and necessary intermediary between the Natives and the Belisarians colonists. After the Crusade, foederati would represent the majority of troops the Empire could muster on the other side of the Salacian Ocean, colonists and settlers being too few to be solely relied upon despite harsher conscription laws for these populations, and the estimated cost of another Crusade remaining too high for it to be viable less than 50 years after the previous grand expedition.

Marriages between newly titled-crusaders and these kings also reinforced their ties with the Latins. The Ostians also implemented a "naturalization-program" for these loyal natives, offering the enviable status of citizen, either as a reward for military and political service or in exchange of a high fee. Because of its distance from Latium proper, citizenship-grants in Norumbia were dependent on the will of the Imperial representatives in Norumbia, and many of them used these grants to build up their network of clients. By the end of the century, these two pillars of the Latin rule in Norumbia had played their role and the division of the landowning aristocracy between "Settlers" and "Client Kings" had mostly disappeared, replaced instead by a multi-faceted but united oligarchy birthed from their union. Many of the most influential families in modern Belfras and Mocapaha can trace their roots back to this metis upper-class of the late 14th and 15th centuries.

Mutulese Market Network

After the Belfrasian Crusade and the final destruction of the Kayamuca Empire, the Mutul led by the Ilok'tab Dynasty became an important player in the Kayamuca Sea, in a constant rivalry with the Latin Empire.

The Crusade represent a real turning point for the Ilok'tab imperium. Despite their official propaganda presenting the Belfrasian campaign as a resounding success, establishing new allies and vassal states in Norumbia, the reality is that it failed its primary goal which was to drive the Latins out from Norumbia. What followed was a difficult period for the K'iche Dynasty : the Tecuman Plague, Eastern Campaigns, and Xuman Crusade were all events that tested the Mutul system and forced it to re-adapt itself to the new circumstances.

The Reformation process really peaked under Ka K'uk'umam, known as Tecuman II "the Wise" in Latin chronicles of the era. The symbols of this changing society was the move of the capital from K'umakah to K'alak Muul in 1318, crystalizing the changing goals of the Divine Throne now concerned mostly by the Kayamuca Sea and no longer constrained to the hinterlands of the Mutul, and the publication of the Bitzk'uh in 1326.

Tecumanic Reformation

Ka K'uk'umam was a patron of scholars and savants. At his new court, he maintained a number of theologians from across the Mutul and organized literary jousts and religious debates. Among his protegees were a small groups of Fabrians monks who were among the first to produce Mutli-latin dictionaries and chronicles about court life in the Mutul. It's probably inspired by the structure of the Bible, and fearing a lack of religious unity would make the Mutul an easy prey for Sarpetic missionaries as it did in Norumbia, that K'uk'umam demanded that every temple across the Divine Kingdom send to K'alak Muul copies of every book and codices in their possession as well as at least one representative so that an Orthodoxy could be established. It's during this vast religious campaign that Uh Chichij was able to make the demonstration of his new printing method to the royal court. This new press would be used by K'uk'uman to distribute across the Divine Kingdom the newly compiled Bitzk'uh.

All in all, Tecuman II' rule is often considered by historians as the true birth of White Path as a coherent religion. The publication of the Bitzk'uh and the development of the state-sponsored Orthodoxy was followed by decade of persecutions against Shamanistic and Magic traditions that rejected the clerical structure of the White Path, but also of certain theologies considered a threat to the newly created State such as the Monadist movement, considered too close to Sarpetic religions to be tolerated.

The Universal Market

The Ilok'tab had already seen the rebirth of the market-centered traditional system of the Mutul, which had been abandoned since the end of the Chaan Dynasty. The end of the Kayamuca Empire saw an economic boom for the trader-elite of the Divine Kingdom, adding new markets to its system where previously the strict state-controlled economy of the Kayamucans had meant trade between the Mutul and its closest neighbors had been limited to smuggling, assimilated to piracy and acts of war. Despite the continuous Commerce raiding and Proxy wars between the Latin Empire and Divine Kingdom across the 14th century, trade boomed between the two and their vassals and allies. iron tools, steel weapons, Mirrors, glass, wine, and Belisarian spices (Cumin, Saffron, Coriander, Anise...) were brought-in by Latin traders, or produced by Latin settlers, and exchanged for platinum, jade and turquoise, dyes, cotton, and Oxidentale spices (Chili, Cocoa, Vanilla...).

The introduction of glasswares in the Mutul proved to be an unexpected economic revolution. Chocolate could now be carried in its liquid state and more easily be controled, stamped, and taxed by authorities. Cocoa beans continued to be used for small transactions, but the rampant threat of fake-beans mixed in larger quantities of cocoa no longer constrained larger exchanges. In the early decades of the century Mutuleses Slave raiders were especially encouraged to bring back Latins artisans. Ironsmiths famously but, above all elses : Glass makers. The Royal Glass Factory of K'alak Muul was thus first established by enslaved Latin artisans bought by the Divine Throne for a fortune and then further equipped and maintained at high costs, just to help meet the new demand for bottles.

Constant expeditions across the Kayamuca Sea proved both costly and risky for lone entrepreneurs, even from the trader-nobility. As a result, the 14th century saw the development of shares and bonds as financiary tools to help develop trade. To pay their expanding armies, the Ilok'tab ended up also adopting these new securities and either distributing them to their soldiery or selling them directly on K'alak Muul marketplaces. The development of securities and financial assests would continue and be refined thourough the century and the next, leading to the creation of dedicated marketplaces and of a financial world that would find its golden age 300 years later at the apex of the Mutul' Oversea Empire.

Norumbian partners and protectorates

Following the Belfrasian Crusade not all Kayamucan Norumbia, then known as Tekamora, fell under Ostian rule. Modern southern Belfras, such as the modern state of Eunos, remained independent. The inhabitants of these lands were Anumpa speakers who probably settled the region centuries before the Tsalagi migration of the late Tekamoran era (6th - 7th century CE ?) who became the dominant ethnies of the regions to their northeast under the Kayamucans.

Under the Kayamucans, the Anumpa people were separated into clans, which mostly respected the pre-conquest social groupings, and then regrouped under Kayamucans leaders nominated from Gadu. Because of the nature of the Empire' economy, the Anumpas remained a mostly rural people, expanding their farmlands deeper inland each generation than form urban settlements silently discouraged by the Kayamucans. The only cities of note were thus coastal ports settled by Tsalagi and, increasingly, Runakuna people, the dominant ethnies of the Empire. Each of these ports would become its own warlord state with the slow collapse of the Kayamucans.

It's on the side of these city-states that the Mutul intervened during the Belfrasian Crusade. They would quickly integrate their patron' Market Network and grow as trade hubs between the North and the South. Beside trade, Latins and Mutuleses also sent religious missions, the later wanting to spread their newly compiled Bitzk'uh as Orthodoxy while the former wished to convert, and potentially subvert, the people.

These clients were used thourough the 14th and 15th centuries as a launching point for further expeditions northward against the Latins. While the 14th century was thus marked mostly by a long lasting naval warfare between the two hegemonic power, with periodic raids on coastal settlements and even sieges and ranged land battles to contest the control of import ports, islands, and borderlands, it's only later in the 15th century that the attention of both power would shift westward with the Mutuleses and their Norumbians allies trying to stop, or at least slow down, the Latin colonisation of these new territories. Once the Latins and their allies became dominant on both coast, the Mutul and its client-states were forced into a defensive posture as they faced an intensification of the Latium' war efforts in Norumbia. After a series of naval and land victories, the Latins were free to steadily conquer southern Belfras, one city after the other. It would take them another century of effort to truly push their control deeper inland, but by the 17th century the attention of the Mutul was firmly set on westward and thus the Latium remained unchallenged in Norumbia.

New Conquests in Oxidentale

Profiteering from the collapse of the Kayamuca Empire, the Mutul paracheived its conquests of the deceased empire' Oxidentalese holdings. In 1314 Gadu, the last capital of the Kayamucans, was destroyed during the Runakuna Revolt, an uprising of the Runakuna settlers who, despite having been displaced from Norumbia to the southern borderland, had retained a strong identity and now dealt the final blow to the dying empire. The Runakuna would form a new enemy for the Mutul, who campaigned annually against them between 1315 and 1325. Ultimately, the Runakuna were defeated and forced south of the Ucayare river. The Mutul integrated all the land up until roughtly Gadu, leaving the rest to tributaries, generally ethnic leaders from other Kayamucan minorities who helped the Mutul against the Runakunas. The Kingdom of Redisus find its roots from this era.

The Runakuna would remain a concern for the Mutul for the rest of the century, as they followed closely their migration south-eastward, intervening multiple time to prevent them from settling in the Nojwitz mountains. Their migration would continue on until they reached the Antis region and end up establishing their own Empire there, Kayamucha, in 1434.

Other forces

Ayeli and Kayamuca remnants

Atiwandaronk and their successors