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A New System and a New Age
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Ever since the founding of the Bagaroki Turfet, the merchant families had long controlled many aspects of Ban'so'garekan society. The people had formed around the coastal cities and the wealth garnered by the trade with peoples overseas, especially due to the lack of natural mineral wealth in their own lands. While their location on the Lakuiltum'labeisir granted them much wealth in regards to agriculture and their central position, they were virtually forced to the seas to progress their society. However, they found their cousins on the isle of Irs'kily and the Hasir'garekan, as well as the Maraskoka and Dzeri tribes that would quickly form a similar culture and respect as they shared much in common. This would push the merchants and explorers even farther, until they reached every corner of the known world, with stories of places even farther still.

These merchant families held great prestige in addition to their obvious wealth, and maintained that throughout the centuries of Ban'so'garekan society. However, an ambitious artisan in the city of Bagaroki outmaneuvered the merchant families when he overthrew the city's ilti'raretan [chieftain/governor] and then raised a grand army using his and the city's wealth to then unite the cities. Power was centralized into the hands of the new Turfe, and he would come to rule over the Ban'so'garekan. The merchant families would continue to be extremely influential in the governance of the Turfet, and would maintain their private systems of power and wealth, but they would forever be in the shadow of the Turfe.

However, as technology and societal restrictions limited the Turfe's power, the merchant families continued to expand and innovate new ways to increase their own respective positions. As they settled and provided new trade hubs around the Lakuiltum'labeisir and wealth poured in, they would increasingly use that leverage to chip away at the Turfe's own power, whether he was willing or not. This would culminate in their behind-the-scenes push for the war with the Canaanites, the absorption of the Canaanite merchant families, and then the creation of the Sin'Aikas. This would also lead to a "fealty system" that is believed to have originated with the integration of the Canaanite merchant families. This would come where a "family unit," or father and mother, would claim "fealty" to another "family unit" in return for material assistance and other benefits, like legal representation. In return, the "sponsor family" would receive both prestige and the manpower assistance of the "client family." This would automatically follow each families descendants until one would officially end the relationship, either due to some circumstance, the sponsor family is unable to support the client family anymore, or the client family does not need the current sponsor family anymore. This would be how the integration of the Canaanite merchant families would be brought under the guidance of the Bagaroki merchant families, as the merchant families divided up the Canaanite families to sponsor and therefore take partial control of their resources as well. This would quickly be adopted in Ban'so'garekan society as well, and would come to structure society formally around already informal rules.

However, as the Canaanite families fell into this structure and the war ended, many of the trading partners of the families were coming into strife due to changing climate and the limited trading volume due to the large war. This would come at an unfortunate time for the Turfe, for the current Turfe, named Kas'kil, would see the victory over the Canaanites and the destruction of their main trading rival as his own victory. He would spend lavishly on celebrations, and he would constantly degrade the reputation of the merchant families for their own degeneracy and lack of strength. He would even come to strike the wife of one such prominent merchant during a dinner party, claiming she had spoken against him and deserved it. Unsurprisingly, this blatant behavior by the Turfe was the final straw that broke the back of the growing obsolete Turfet. The Sin'Aikas would vote almost unanimously in favor, and in a moment that would come to be reminiscent of Asethon's own first overthrowing of the ilti'raretan of Bagaroki, they sent their own elite guards to the palace where they demanded the Turfe and his court admit to their crimes, and when they refused, murdered. The Sin'Aikas would claim legitimacy as the ruling body of the newly established Bagaroki Ors'ruic [Republic]. They would come to symbolize the new age of the Ban'so'garekan and the ever-increasing strength of the oligarchs of society. This would also be the first time that the Ban'so'garekan existed in a non-autocratic society since the days of hunter-gatherers, and the political strife that was taking over the Lakuiltum'labeisir.

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