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Jelbo-Tukaric Migrations
Jelbs invade
Date c. 40 BCE and c. 80 CE.
Location East and Central Majatra
Result
Belligerents
Jelb banners Jelbo-Tukaric Tribes Qedarite flag Cildanian Empire Banner of the Alsamites Colsamian Empire
Commanders
Khan Asparukh
Khan Batbayan
Khan Timur
Krum
Omurtag
Shophet Shipitbaʿl Nimr
Shophet Ashmonʿazor Mijdil
Tibniit ʿAyn
Anonbaʿl Mekir
Adon Mutah
Alexandros Pelles
Marcus Iulius Scaevola
King Ayranad III
Meryad I


The Jelbo-Tukaric Migrations was a population movement that led to the migration of the Jelbo-Tukaric people from Central Seleya into Majatra. The migrations led to the downfall of the Cildanian Hegemony, already greatly weakened by the wars against the Colsamian Empire and the Great Plague, and the settlement of the Jelbo-Tukarics, the ancestors of today's Jelbics, Turjaks, and Disuvans. The Migrations also allowed for the spread of the Majatran people throughout East and Central Majatra from their ancestral lands in South Badara and the communities they had established in Kafuristan, opting to side with the Jelbo-Tukarics to free themself from the Cildanian yoke. For a brief period, between 16 CE and 44 CE, the Jelbo-Tukaric tribes were unified within a single large empire under Timur Khan of the Yelb tribe, controlling an empire centred in modern Kafuristan extending in the territory of contemporary Kafuristan, Solentia, Kalopia, Deltaria, Jakania, and Jelbania. Timur's empire, a decentralized nomadic confederation, crumbled after his death and the tribes under his rule continued their migration westward.

History[]

The Jelbo-Tukaric peoples were a migratory population speaking a number of closely related languages who were among the many nomadic peoples in the vast steppes of northern Seleya. For centuries the Jelbo-Tukarics would launch raids against the Kemokian Empire, which successfully resisted conquest. However, once many of these Jelbo-Tukaric tribes were united by a single paramount chief, they managed to defeat the Kemokian Empire and invade it, establishing the Varigosian Kingdom in 302 BCE. After the Great Plague began to spread in Seleya around 90 BCE (the same plague that few decades later will hit Majatra), weakening the Varigosian Kingdom, an Aldegarian revolt overthrew the Varigosians, who were persecuted and driven out. Many of the Jelbo-Tukaric tribes who failed to follow their kinsmen north to their ancestral homelands began migrating instead westward to the islands of the nearby Majatran continent, pursuing rumors about lands as rich and abundant as those of the old Empire.

Thus the Jelbo-Tukaric peoples moved to Majatra in large numbers between 40 BCE and 50 CE. The invaders first landed in mass on Cildania and Badara, taking advantage of devastation of the Great Plague which preceeded their arrival, but also finding a key ally in the Majatrans living in Badara, who wished to join efforts with the Jelbo-Tukaric peoples in overthrowing the Cildanians, who had harshly oppressed the Badaran islands for centuries. The native Majatrans had been banned from leaving their islands and were forced to pay a yearly a tribute in spices, perfumes, aromatic essences, and young boys to serve in the Cildanian armies. Facing a continent suffering from the Great Plague and a failing Cildanian Hegemony, the Jelbo-Tukaric people were able to easily cross the sea and put their foot in Majatra. From there, first of all the Jelbo-Tukarics and their Majatran allies tried to attack the island of Cildania, closer and attracted by the richness of the Cildanian city-states. The whole island was put to fire and iron but the Cildanian city-states eventually resisted, mainly thanks to their fleets, although struggling enormously to defend themselves and definitively losing control over most of the rest of the continent, with the last Cildanian armies leaving Selucia, their last external possession, in 22 CE, event which marks the fall of the Cildanian Hegemony.

Given the failed subjugation of Cildania, The Jelbo-Tukaric people allied with the Majatrans turned to the south: landing in Kafuristan, the Colsamian armies suffering the loss due to the Great Plague didn't resisted the invasions forced to retreat south of the Salvena Range and west of the Nayar, while the Kalopian and Selucian colonies and city-states in the area, equally affected by Plague and also previously by the wars between Cildania and Colsamia, fell one after another. The Colsamian King Ayranad III, gathered all the possible forces of the Kingdom and trying to take advantage of the divisions among the tribes of the newcomers, marched against the enemy trying to clash the individual tribes separately and actually easily defeating them one after the other. The Colsamian armies marched violently also against the Majatran cities in Kafuristan to punish them for their alliance with the Jelbo-Tukarics. It was then that one of the leaders of the Jelbo-Tukarics emerged as the supreme leader, Timur Khan, who united all the tribes and led them against the Colsamites with whom they clashed in 28 CE at the exit of the Great Valley of the Ba'al (how the great valley in Solentia that from south open to the north on the Great Plain of the Nomads was known at the time): it was a victory for Timur, the Colsamian Empire was forced to retreat to the Nayars and the Jelbo-Tukaric people expanded flooding westward. Between 28 and 44 the Jelbo-Tukaric Khanate conquered a territory going from the easternmost lands of Deltaria and Jakania in the west to the Nayar Range in the east.

The Jelbo-Tukaric people under the Khanate of Timur conquered a territory that extended from Jelbania and Deltaria until the coasts of the Sea of Lost Souls, keeping the Colsamites behind the Nayars. Under Timur also the Majatrans spread across the eastern parts of the continent from Badara, where the Majatran peoples developed from the original qedarite population who settled in the area: if in Cildania emerged the Cildanians, in Badara emerged the Majatrans. Cildania developed faster, the population in their city-states exploded thanks to the better condition for agriculture in Cildania and once they began to expand their Hegemony, the Badaran island were mong the first lands to fall under the control of the Cildanian city-states. Under the Cildanian Hegemony, however, the Majatrans in Badara were influenced by the more advanced cildanian civilization, also in Badara and Kafuristan many majatran tribes began to leave their nomadic life building cities, practicing agriculture, taming and channeling the waters (becoming very experienced), enriching themself in trading with neighbors products from their islands (blessed by the presence of some plants arrived from the very nearby Seleyan coasts of modern Saridan, such as incense, aromatic gums and oils, etc...) and also in Badara soon the population experienced a rapid growth. However, the mainly desertic lands of Badara and then Kafuristan became overpopulated unable to support an ever growing population. Under the Hegemony, as mentioned, the Cildanians exploited largerly the Majatrans within their armies, achieving to have very loyal troops in promising and actually rewarding soldies and even tribal lords and their clans for their loyalty in allowing them to settle outside the Badaran islands, but in general, about all the other Majatrans, the Cildanians tried always to limit their expansion, trying to limit any possible competitor like they were doing with Selucia. The arrival of the Jelbo-Tukaric people changed everything: the Majatrans smell the opportunity to join the new powerful newcomers and, as mentioned, they joined them in their conquest of Majatra.

Timur Khan died in 44 and once the news spread, the Colsamian Empire knew that that was its opportunity to take its revenge: King Meryad I unleashed the Colsamian armies in a military campaign which lasted for almost 10 years, fighting alongside the Selucian colonies and Kelopian city-states city-states the now once again fragmented Jelbo-Tukaric tribes, which relationship with the Majatrans deteriorated under the rule of Timur. Eventully the Jelbo-Tukaric people were defeated and chased from east Majatra forcing them to continue their migration westward. The war, however, left devastated much of Solentia, Kafuristan and east Kalopia: these lands had become depopulated, cities were deserted and failing in ruins, lands were no more cultivated, infrastructures were totally destroyed, etc... Meryad I needed people to populate these lands and given the fact that the among the Colsamian armies fought also several heavy cavalry divisions formed by Majatrans defecting from the rule of Timur Khan, he offered them and their relatives and kins to repopulate those lands becoming loyal subjects of the Colsamian Kings. The Majatrans too, in fact, had suffered a lot the devastating Colsamian-Jelbic Wars, most of their cities and lands were destroyed, many of their warriors had died, but from the still overpopulated Badara people continue to arrive and Colsamia, trying to exploit this huge population and at the same time aimed to make revive the lands of Solentia and Kafuristan, took them as its subjects redeploying directly or allowing thousands and thousands of Majatrans to spread across the rest of east Majatra, and from there started the secular expansion of Majatran ethnic groups across the continent.

The defeat against Colsamia forced the Jelbo-Tukaric people to migrate further west, spreading like the Majatrans across the continent although, unlike the Majatrans, settling in lands where they imposed themself as the ruling elites. Their further migration westward led to the settlement of the Jelbo-Tukaric peoples especially in the area now covered by Pontesi, Barmenia, Vanuku, Jelbania, Deltaria, and Jakania. A number of territories of the Cildanian Hegemony in the west of Majatra, most notably the Kingdom of Leucopolis, managed to avoid conquest by the Jelbo-Tukarics.

Mythology[]

Abstjomekadés Tale[]

According to several tribes in Majatra of Jelbic ethnicity, the Jelbics did not in fact cross the sea from Seleya to Majatra using boats. Historians have often pondered exactly how the mainly nomadic Jelbics would be able to create boats able to travel such distances, considering they are not known to have a maritime tradition and are more known to stay inland.

These tribes maintain that that a great leader, Grzkai Abstjomekadés (the great king who abandoned hell), was inspired by divine intervention from an ancient spirit who told him to stand at a site referred to as ‘Baoarshfluz’ (believed to be a now dried-up river in Mondalat, Alduria) and wait for divine help in crossing the ocean. He brought with him, according to the legend, many Jelbic warlord under his command and his people, and stood at the water’s edge as promised.

At the site he was directed to, Abstjomekadés was struck to find that nothing happened, so he ordered a camp to be made at the mouth of the river. There, the Jelbic people settled for 4 nights and 4 days. As this was a particularly long period of time for a nomadic people to settle - especially for Jelbics - there was uproar and many of the warlords were close to rebellion. However, during a ritual of unknown form, Abstjomekadés foresaw what he needed to do, and received a second visit from the spirit.

Following the advice of this spirit, the entire Jelbic horde lay down stomach-up for two hours repeating prayers and chants to show their devotion to their ancestors, the spirits and the deities of their culture. Within seconds of the event, known as the Geikgrna (minute of glory) , the waters parted and the Jelbics fell to tears in awe - including the great king himself.

Abstjomekadés and his assembled horde walked across the ocean, as tuna and sharks followed either side but could do no harm to the Jelbic people and eventually abandoned them - leaving the Jelbics alone with the peaceable waves and fish to pleases the Jelbic children. The people arrived at the other side after four days of constant travel, during which the spirits are said to have given them resistance to fatigue and hunger, to find a horrified congregation of Qederites, who were unable to comprehend the event.

There are various accounts within the tribes of what then happened, including suggestions that the entire Jelbic tribe was given safe passage by the Qederites, who feared that stopping them would only worsen the signs they took to be apocalyptic. Other accounts say that the entire Qederite military and people ran away crying and urinating. Regardless, this saga, known as the Abstjomekadés Tale, is still carried on in those tribal mythologies.

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