Yemil Empire

The Yemil were a militant and expansionary people originating around the area of modern day Kalsea.

The Yemil Empire was built through military conquest and the Yemil ended up ruling the whole of Garaksia with an iron fist.

The Yemil were famed horsemen and their lightning fast military maneuvers gave them the edge over their foes.

In order to prevent civil uprisings the Yemil had a policy of displacement, moving the peoples they conquered around the empire, breaking cultural loyalties and over time obliterating all memory of the cultures that had previously existed on Garaksia.

With Garaksia conquered the Yemil empire came to a crisis point. Its economic and political situation required an ongoing expansionary war effort and with no where left to expand the Yemili emperor found himself with a great many fighting men sitting around doing nothing, serious troubles were just around the corner.

The Crisis was avoided by the Yemili becoming a seafaring power. The Yemil built a large fleet of military vessels and set out to conquer the rest of the world. The Yemili sent armies to attack Caliskan and to capture the island chains that made up the worldspine islands.

While the Yemil were able to establish a number of towns and beachheads along the northern coast of Caliskan, the native Dwarves proved to be an indomitable foe. Yemili military tactics were not suited to raiding the Dwarves mountain homes.

The Caliskan campaign ground to a halt. The Dwarves were willing to tolerate the Yemil presence on the northern plains as they did not utilise that land anyway, and so they bunkered down, content to defend their mountain thanedoms. Over time tensions thawed and treaties were signed, the Yemil Empire held treaty territories along the north coast and ceased hostilities with the Dwarves.

Meanwhile the Yemil expansion along the Worldspine Islands brought them into conflict with the Mezzian Federation. The war between Mez and Yemil was a drawn out series of bloody battles, seeing the Mez able to deploy crack troops (using their portal network) to ensure they always had sufficient force to repel the Yemili invaders. Without the Mezzian conflict, the Yemil may have persisted in their attempts to conquer Caliskan, but their resources proved insufficient to wage war on both fronts, leading to the treaty situation with the Dwarves.

Eventually the Mezzian way won out and the Mez did what they do. The Yemili Emperor was offered the daughter of one of the highlords of Mez to wed as Empress and the Yemil-Mezzian Hegemony was born.