Those that had fled the Varic Plateau were the Urapi's finest: the most resilient, the most faithful, the most militant. They were lead by the shamans of Shar, those who had tended to the Eternal Flames atop Vari's peak and in Edinn, and the Branded who had earned their eponymous brands through a combination of martial prowess and fervent belief.

The Northern Levant was a mishmash of peoples, a bastardised combination of the same mudborn who had thrown the present invaders out of Urapivarta so many centuries before, those of a cultural affinity with Old Canaan and various peoples who had been displaced and influenced by the surging power of the noble Palkha. Their unity was endearing after a fashion, as from their mishmash of identities they had proclaimed themselves as uniformly Riman or, to the Urapi, Rimanite.

The Rimanites practiced a policy of accommodation. Rarely forming armies of their own except in petty civil disputes, those that entered their lands from the mudborn north-west, the seaborne westerners, the Palkha easterners or the bedouin southerners they tended to simply pay off. This policy proved rather unfortunate when the Urapi came, for the new invaders were not willing to be paid off - they were seeking a new home.

The Urapi conquest of Riman did not occur all at once, but neither was it slow. The bulk of the migrant army was proceeded by scouts and shamans, who sought to see which settlements would be worthy of conquest and which might potentially see the light of Shar and open their gates voluntarily. In many cases they found the inhabitants surprisingly amenable to Shar, for they were in communion with the faith of the Palkha. Though not of the more orthodox variety that had recently developed following interfaith meetings between the Urapi and Palkha, they nevertheless had theological mists removed from their minds quite easily except where they favoured the Canaanite elements of their bastard pantheon.

Those that were not amenable to conversion were to be conquered or destroyed instead of assimilated. To aid conquest, the Urapi first sought out a settlement that was not of any particular size or importance and, after a siege, made entry and slaughtered the entirety of the inhabitants. They then proceeded to further settlements, carrying the bones and fire-cracked bricks of those places they had destroyed and posed a simple ultimatum - surrender, or face the same fate.

Many of the Rimanites succumbed, others held out. Though the middle steps were different, the final outcome was much the same - Urapi Branded and shamans were made leaders of the settled places.

Though it pained them to tolerate the false theological whimperings that they understood to be the influence of The Black Sun, the newly dominant Urapi did not immediately force orthodoxy on their new subjects. Instead they offered various incentives for those that publicly practiced the Sharite faith and joined the Sharites on raids into neighbouring territory. In this fashion they substantially increased the number of Sharite faithful and shored up their own dominance without prompting too much resistance from those they had conquered.