Permechikan Empire
(For the geographic region, see Permechiko. For the language, see Permechikan. This article is specifically about the political entity called the “Permechikan Empire”.)
The Permechikan Empire was a vast empire, at times the largest in the world that existed from ~1400 until 2011. It was ruled by several dynasties of emperors over the years.
The Prins Empire gradually lost control of its foreign holdings as it spread itself too thin and crises in the homeland caused organization and loyalty to fall apart. The region of Zhon had the largest proportion of the Prins economy abroad. After it lost connection with the empire, it organized itself into a new state called Span. The Span Dynasty rapidly swept across the Permechikan lands of the former empire and established an order that upheld much of the Prinsi governing standards.
History
Prehistory
In the 4700’s BR (Before Rediscovery), the speakers of Hvasvan split into two groups. The Cahilan branch moved west of what we know as the Mississippi River towards the Pacific Ocean. The Sern Branch spread through the Gulf Coast and up through the Appalachians.
The Cahilan Family moved southward into Mexico, with many offshoots, including the Proto-Arodjun branch. By 1500BR, Proto-Arodjun speakers became divided in settlement between the Dedun Valley to the north, and the Fwonnel Peninsula to the south. The groups remained in contact but the Dedun people gradually isolated more and more until their language had diverged.
The Dedun Valley was a fertile canyon, a volcanic crack carved deep into what we call Mexico. The Proto-Permechikan Civilization that evolved in Dedun remained an isolated kingdom with a strong central government.
Early Documented History
Expansion occurred very gradually into the interior of the continent along the Dedun River and its tributaries. Through occasional trade with the Arojaunzans and nomadic desert and mountain tribes, rumour of a vast fertile plain and an eastern coast fueled further eastward growth.
Between 1100BR and 800AR, the Ancient Permechikan Civilization rotated between multiple dynasties as more tribes from the interior of the continent were incorporated into its sphere. As the First Fwonnel Empire reached the height of its power during the 500’s BR, an early form of the DjoPeidog writing system spread as a language of commerce through the continent, reaching the Dedun Valley by 300 BR.
A modified version of the script was developed to accommodate for the Permechikan language, leading to its viral spread across the nomadic groups of the interior and eventually to the Kaxxila civilization along the eastern coast of Mexico.
As the First Fwonnel Empire fell by 119BR, its former vassal states and dependent tribes came to depend more on Dedun. Its power began to increase in the region, but its focus remained on piety and order. This changed when Dedun settlers made contact with western Kaxxila in the fertile east coast that had been fabled for so long. The two civilizations shared a writing system and many cultural traits, and they both desperately wanted a unified trade route to cross the continent.
Unification of Dedun and Cahila
After a few small conflicts, the two civilizations amicably created a unified central government in 243AR in an event known as “The Day the Oceans Met.” Soon later a new capital city was constructed in the where the main Kaxxilan and Dedun roads met, which was named “Pemex Ung,” Kaxxilan for “City of Oceans,” the namesake for what would become known as Permechiko.
Permechiko was now an enormous kingdom, spanning millions of square miles and connecting the Gulf of California to the Gulf of Mexico. The Old Permechikan language was influenced greatly by Kaxxilan, and the former Kaxxilan civilization was gradually subsumed by the new (but Dedun-dominated) Permechikan culture.
From 400AR through 1200AR, a golden age of culture and literacy took place, and seeds of a rivalry with Fwonarodjun were sown.
Prins Conquest
The world order was upset with the Prins conquests of the 1270’s through 1390’s. While Permechiko was never fully conquered by the Prinsi, the influence was undeniable, and visible in the language in words of formality, technology, and economics.
Span Dynasty and Nulluth Dynasty
The Prinsi waned in the early 1400’s, and amidst the chaos and mass migration of this period, Permechiko came under the control of a Prins-speaking dynasty known as the Span.
Span Permechiko was much more imperialistic, and saw nations bordering the Great Desert such as Reuxalusia, Delshun, and Zhon as threats to the Permechikan hegemony. Over the 1500’s, it reorganized itself as an autocratic imperialist state.
After the War of the Pearl between the Permechikan Empire and a coalition of Fwonnel states, the Permechikans came to control the largest territory of any nation in known history, ruling the Fwonnel Peninsula from 1563 until 1847. As a multilingual empire, Permechikans never really forced their language on their colonies. It was used only by government officials and those trying to suck up to them.
After El Fwonk Casanosia gained independence and the Nashan Civilization expanded to the northeast, Permechiko declined until it had essentially fully collapsed by 2010AR. The language is still spoken by millions across the continent, though they mostly live in small decayed villages and semi-nomadic tribes.
