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'''Classical Era''' (in Chlouvānem ''lallapårṣire avyāṣa'') is the name given to the period of time, roughly lasting from 4750 to 5000 (i.e. 1670 to 1420 years ago), characterized historically by a level of very high relative prosperity and consolidation and expansion of the Chlouvānem lands (in the Near East, up to the western borders of the Plain, and across the Southern rainforests). During the Classical Era, the Lällshag civilization ultimately vanished and was absorbed by the Chlouvānem, and the focus of power became a number of independent realms (''sūmārghuṭai''), mostly in the Plain. These realms originally had a Chlouvānemized élite ruling over a mostly non-Chlouvānem population; during the Classical Era, the intermixing of ethnicities that formed the Chlouvānem one expanded to include most of these populations, however their languages became important substrata for the future local vernaculars, and most notably their cultures left marks on regional identities that still characterize those areas today.<br/>The Inquisition during this era deeply influenced the religious matters of the Yunyalīlti world and was therefore an important body, but its sovereignty as a temporal power was only established halfway through the era, in 4826, with the foundation of the city of [[Verse:Chlouvānem_Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa|Līlasuṃghāṇa]] on the shores of Lake Lūlunīkam, meant to be the political seat of the Inquisition. | '''Classical Era''' (in Chlouvānem ''lallapårṣire avyāṣa'') is the name given to the period of time, roughly lasting from 4750 to 5000 (i.e. 1670 to 1420 years ago), characterized historically by a level of very high relative prosperity and consolidation and expansion of the Chlouvānem lands (in the Near East, up to the western borders of the Plain, and across the Southern rainforests). During the Classical Era, the Lällshag civilization ultimately vanished and was absorbed by the Chlouvānem, and the focus of power became a number of independent realms (''sūmārghuṭai''), mostly in the Plain. These realms originally had a Chlouvānemized élite ruling over a mostly non-Chlouvānem population; during the Classical Era, the intermixing of ethnicities that formed the Chlouvānem one expanded to include most of these populations, however their languages became important substrata for the future local vernaculars, and most notably their cultures left marks on regional identities that still characterize those areas today.<br/>The Inquisition during this era deeply influenced the religious matters of the Yunyalīlti world and was therefore an important body, but its sovereignty as a temporal power was only established halfway through the era, in 4826, with the foundation of the city of [[Verse:Chlouvānem_Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa|Līlasuṃghāṇa]] on the shores of Lake Lūlunīkam, meant to be the political seat of the Inquisition. | ||
Literature of the Classical Era was linguistically characterized by the use of a uniform koiné language across the whole Yunyalīlti religious world: Classical Chlouvānem, mostly based on the earlier major works such as the Lileṃsasarum and most of the Holy Books. The importance of using a common language was greater than ever, as the vernaculars of the various areas had started to diverge, and some Yunyalīlti areas didn't even speak a Chlouvānem language at all.<br/>The only major difference between pre-Classical and Classical Chlouvānem is in the lexicon, as Classical Chlouvānem includes a far greater share of Lällshag loanwords than earlier forms of the languages do. | Literature of the Classical Era was linguistically characterized by the use of a uniform koiné language across the whole Yunyalīlti religious world: Classical Chlouvānem, mostly based on the earlier major works such as the Lileṃsasarum and most of the Holy Books. The importance of using a common language was greater than ever, as the vernaculars of the various areas had started to diverge, and some Yunyalīlti areas didn't even speak a Chlouvānem language at all. Some of the Classical era realms in the Plain occasionally wrote literature in their local languages (none of them related to Chlouvānem), such as Barṇāṣumi, Namaikehi ( bothfrom the upper course of the Lāmberah), and Vādhugarṣi (from an area along the middle Nīmbaṇḍhāra, more or less on the border between present-day Vādhātāraṣa and Raharjaiṭa. However, the vast majority of literature was written in Chlouvānem.<br/>The only major difference between pre-Classical and Classical Chlouvānem is in the lexicon, as Classical Chlouvānem includes a far greater share of Lällshag loanwords than earlier forms of the languages do; Lällshag remained influential also after the fall of its civilization, occupying a middle ground between Chlouvānem and the local languages of the various realms. | ||
Classical literature shows the development of Chlouvānem poetry from a spoken to a written genre, perhaps exactly because of the drift of the local varieties; while attested poetry from earlier times is sparse and often less precise, during the Classical Era various poems were written, helping codify the earliest Chlouvānem metres.<br/>Classical poems are often very long works, written in a mix of poetry and prose, with half-mythical and half-devotional subjects. Mythical subjects are sometimes taken from the Lileṃsasarum, but most commonly they are new in attested history and their use in these poems formed a new corpus of legends that survives in traditional culture up to the present day. Most likely, these subjects weren't just adopted by legends of the people in newly-Chlouvānemized areas, but were written in those exact cultural areas: it is widely accepted, for example, that the ''Yūrdhanehas'' (the Story of Yūrdham) was written by a certain Uruṣāvam, an ethnic Namaikehi, that is, from the central-northern part of the Plain, the mid- and upper Lāmberah valley, an area that was barely even known by the pre-Classical Chlouvānem but was rapidly Chlouvānemized in the space of a few centuries. | Classical literature shows the development of Chlouvānem poetry from a spoken to a written genre, perhaps exactly because of the drift of the local varieties; while attested poetry from earlier times is sparse and often less precise, during the Classical Era various poems were written, helping codify the earliest Chlouvānem metres.<br/>Classical poems are often very long works, written in a mix of poetry and prose, with half-mythical and half-devotional subjects. Mythical subjects are sometimes taken from the Lileṃsasarum, but most commonly they are new in attested history and their use in these poems formed a new corpus of legends that survives in traditional culture up to the present day. Most likely, these subjects weren't just adopted by legends of the people in newly-Chlouvānemized areas, but were written in those exact cultural areas: it is widely accepted, for example, that the ''Yūrdhanehas'' (the Story of Yūrdham) was written by a certain Uruṣāvam, an ethnic Namaikehi, that is, from the central-northern part of the Plain, the mid- and upper Lāmberah valley, an area that was barely even known by the pre-Classical Chlouvānem but was rapidly Chlouvānemized in the space of a few centuries. | ||