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===Hot Blooded, Cold Minded (5,000 years ago)=== | ===Hot Blooded, Cold Minded (5,000 years ago)=== | ||
The next era of Kalean history is comparable to Earth's middle ages, and no less terrifying in the utterly squalid conditions most of the population were faced with as the Feudal Lords sat upon their thrones and were granted total authority on how to deal with their individual populations. Justice only applied to Peasant on Peasant crimes, nobles were exempt and free to do as they pleased lest they were in direct conflict with the King or Queen of the land. This lack of balance keeping the nobles from harming the people further continued the tradition of Kalean Oligarchy. | |||
Brutal wars continued and the Hollows became the new battleground, filled with armies of conscripted farmers. The Kalean Lords did not understand the fact that they needed the farmers in order to keep their economy going and since women were religiously mandated to remain in the home, the land went uncultivated. Without a steady food supply thousands starved and eventually not even the nobles could find enough food to fill their halls. In this time the Lords made a deal with the Kalean religious sects to allow women to fill the places of their husbands, fathers, and sons out at war, a step in the right direction, but for all the wrong reasons. Historically this is the advent of famous Kalean gender equality and the expansion of gender roles, but the reasons for this change were based in greed and not doing right by the people. | |||
Eventually at the end of this period in their history the Hollows emptied their armies and were filled by colonists flooding in from the increasingly crowded surface to start a new life in the Hollows were new cities could be built, raw materials could be easily mined and fabulous new riches could be used to fund the ceaseless campaigns of the Kalean Lords. However with the advent of using Lazow's naturally abundant Crystals as a weapon material, all the Kingdoms of the Kaleans began a mass arms race in preparation for what would become one of the most brutal periods in their history. | |||
===The Drums of War (4,500 years ago)=== | ===The Drums of War (4,500 years ago)=== | ||