Political event
Following The Rampage of the Nightmare King the nation of Ravil engaged in a series of wars and political overtures that lead to several city-states and small nations being conquered or voluntarily joining with the Ravilian empire as the new mageocratic nation asserted its dominance in the region.
Most of those territories that joined willingly did so for the resources that Ravil could offer them to rebuild and for the protection the mages offered. However there were several smaller states that were conquered through military force under thinly-veiled pretenses.