South Lands
24-04-2005, 21:02
In an effort to understand the different nations and the diversity that exists, The South Lands Confederacy has decided to start construction of the NS Largest Library. We ask for donations in the form of rare literature that reflects your nations diversity and literature maturity.
Once complete, South Land hopes that this will be used as a central knowledge base open for all.
Please post:
Title/author and brief description of the writings that you would be willing to donate. Any and all donations are welcome.
Thanks to all.
President Anaconda
The Confederacy of South Lands
Trolsk donates the following pieces:
Arthur Lee: The complete histories of Trolsk
Graham Mugambe: Zion: A total history
HRM Emperor David Thurlow: The Economy of NS's Stock Markets
HRM Emperor David Thurlow: Arms and Armistance: Wars throughout the Zion region
Ishida Ravenfang: Kazak-Karak, the young nation's rise (Our oldest book, around 1500 years old..)
And many literature pieces too numerous to describe.
OOC: I havent seen ViZions library for a while though.
IC: The Center for Education and History would be pleased to send a short essay explaining the history of Nscent to your library. The author of this essay is Alfred Jennings Bryant, a notable historian during the time of King Richard Oliver.
The history of the nation of Nascent could be summarized into a single word, turbulent. However, since that would not give future generations much to go on, I, Alfred Jennings Bryant, have written a history of Nascent from various manuscripts and other writings from the many historians of the times. This history will begin at the begging and end during the reign of the current ruler, his majesty King Richard Oliver.
Chapter One:
Discovery
The history of Nascent begins during the early 14th century during the time of Spain’s conquest of the Americas. The island that is now known as Nascent was originally landed on by Francisco Dantini, an Italian born explorer that was sponsored by the Spanish Court to explore the lands north of the Spanish held lands on what is now Central America. Dantini set sail from Cadiz in May of 1512 AD with four ships and around seven hundred soldiers. Dantini sailed for almost three months with no sight of land. Sometime in August of the same year Dantini decided to set sail for the Caribbean to get supplies for the voyage back to Spain. On his way he crossed into the path of a ferocious storm that sank one of his ships, killing all who were aboard and seriously damaged Dantini’s flag ship, the Poseidon. The storm also blew the ships several hundred miles off their course. Once the storm had passed Dantini noticed the outline of what seemed to be land to the west. Thinking that they were closer to the Spanish controlled Caribbean than they were, Dantini began sailing for the island. After a day of sailing Dantini noticed that there were no signs of any Spanish presence on the island. Dantini continued sailing towards the island, eventually getting close enough to send a small party of anywhere from fifty to one hundred men ashore to claim the island.
The island, which would later become the nation of Nascent, was very lush with several types of pines and coniferous trees, and several different types of game. Dantini sent one ship back to Spain with items from the island, while leaving the other undamaged ship and the damaged ship at the island to continue exploring the island. In all Dantini had around three hundred men left on the island. In need of shelter, Dantini used wood from the damaged ship and from the island to create a small settlement, naming it Columbia after Christopher Columbus, another Italian born explorer who had originally found the land which was New Spain. In October of the same year, Dantini, with the settlement largely finished, began sending several expeditions deeper into the island. In November, one group of explorers came across a small group of natives who were hunting. A small fight broke out after the natives attacked the explorers, ending only after every native had been killed. After the group returned to the settlement Dantini, along with fifty soldiers, began walking towards where the fight had taken place, and after walking almost an hour past where the fight had been Dantini and his men came across a very large native village.
Once inside Dantini was brought before the leader of the natives. After speaking with the village chieftain for several hours, Dantini and his men left. The talks had evidentially not been very prosperous in coming to a peace, because once Dantini returned; he gathered over one hundred fifty soldiers and began planning for an attack on the village, deciding to attack early the next morning. By the time the Dantini and his men reached the village the next morning the sun was just beginning to shine through the thick canopy of trees. Ordering half of his men to attack from the west, the soldiers in Dantini’s squad began firing into the village, taking still sleeping native by complete surprise, thus unknowingly beginning Spain’s departure from the newly found land.
The Elyks and the Uthorians:
The exact date the island of Nascent was first inhabited by its indigenous peoples is not know, but many historians agree that it was probably sometime during the late stages of the Bronze Age, or the early Copper Age. Before the Spaniards arrived, the island was dominated by two major tribes, one being the Elyk people, the other being the other being the Uthorian people. These tribes were fiercely competitive and would fight over anything be it respect and honor, to the best hunting and gathering areas, even fighting over women that their chieftains wanted to take as one of their many wives. Both tribes however seemed to share the same language, which consisted of various symbols, and both had developed a very advanced culture considering that they were isolated from any other know civilization.
The Elyks seemed to be a bit more advanced than the Uthorians, having more ornate villages and even building a rather extraordinary capital city which they called Illoit Te Pola, or City of the Heavens which can still be seen today in the western region of the island. The Elyk people also seemed to benefit from greater leadership, as many archeological digs have uncovered several artifacts that show a level of equality that surpassed that of Europe at the time. There have also been many claims that even women were given a more active job in society, doing jobs ranging from stone masonry, and wood working, to healers. The weaponry the Elyks used seemed to be of finer quality that that of the Uthorians, however, the Elyk’s were not very good warriors compared to the Uthorians, which, according to several historians, is the only reason they did not control the entire island themselves.
The Uthorians were almost the complete opposite of the Elyks. They tended to be more of a nomadic people, often fighting amongst themselves for control of the best hunting spots. The Uthorians usually never had villages that had more than one hundred people; however they outnumbered the Elyks almost one and a half people to one. The Uthorians did not have hardly any equality amongst themselves. If you were a man you were a warrior and a hunter but if a male Uthorian was disabled from something other than warfare, he would either be killed or given the jobs of a woman taking care of children and gathering food as well as cooking food. However, the Uthorian warriors were excellent fighters and would could easily take a force of fifty warriors and defeat a Elyk force of seventy-five, even though their weaponry was far inferior to that of the Elyk’s.
Probably the most mysterious part of these two tribes coexistence is the Tomb of Eternal Night. This tomb has yet to be fully explored, but has been estimated to be almost half explored. What makes this tomb an even bigger mystery is that some of the greatest warriors from both the Elyks and Uthorians were placed inside the tomb. Some historians believe that this is due in part to the location of the tomb. The tomb is situated almost directly in the middle of the island, which, according to some of the few records that have been uncovered from this period, was one of the most contested parts of the island due to its abundance of game and forage. However another belief is that after any great warrior fell in battle, both sides would place them inside to protect some sort of treasure that is housed in one of the many unexplored portions of the tomb, however, there is little evidence to support this belief. There is one legend that describes the purpose of this tomb that was found to be almost exactly the same from records of both tribes. It was translated completely only two years ago, and I was given the honor of being able to publish some of it with this history.
It is said that when the people of this island require the guidance of a great ruler, Cacifica the Great, along with the greatest warriors from both the Elyk and Uthorian tribes, will rise from deep within the Tomb of Eternal Night to smite whatever evil has consumed the land and return to power for eternity, leading the people to a new prosperity that will last for the entirety of his reign.
This legend has been passed through the few remaining citizens that can trace their lineage to the Elyk and the Uthorian tribes throughout the generations that have passed since its creation. The ruler mentioned in the legend is considered to be the last ruler of a unified island. It is said up until his death sometime during the tenth century, that the Elyks and the Uthorians were a united tribe, living in peace and prospering on the island. Once Cacifica died, a great power struggle ensued and eventually two men, the original chieftains of both tribes, emerged each with their own group of followers. Most people of modern day Nascent do not regard this legend as having any truth behind it, but many of the natives to the island continue to tell it as a small beacon of light in their bleak lives.
Fighting for Freedom:
After the attack on the native village, which just recently has been recognized as an Uthorian village, Dantini and his men had little trouble establishing a strong foothold on the island, even as the Uthorians staged sporadic attacks on the settlement, although the Spaniards had little trouble dealing with them. Over the next year, Dantini received several shipments from Spain, receiving supplies and more men to protect against the Uthorians. While the Spaniards were reinforcing their position on the island, talks between the two rival tribes on the island had been taking place. These talks focused on reaching a peace settlement between the two tribes who had been warring for nearly five hundred years. Finally in June of 1513 the talks ended with a fragile peace being agreed upon. The united forces of both the Elyk and Uthorian tribes are estimated at around seven thousand strong, out numbering the Spanish ten to one.
Around this time, the Spanish ships going to and from the Americas were beginning to come under attack by English pirates, slowing the flow of supplies to the island. In July of the same year, two English ships sailed to the island, bombarding the Spanish settlement there. Seeing this, the natives attempted to make contact with the English, with the hope of allying with them to aid them with their struggle against the Spanish. They sent two men to meet with Henry Trotter the captain of the ships, to try to reach some sort of alliance. The natives promised Trotter gold in return for his aid in removing the Spanish from the island. Upon hearing of the gold the natives promised, he agreed, sailing to the other end of the island near Illoit Te Pola, and began unloading his privateers, as well as supplies that had could be spared, leaving behind a force of fifty men to serve as sort of collateral to insure that the English would return with more men.
In January of 1514 four English frigates appeared on the horizon of the island, each filled with English soldiers and supplies for the coming battles. Nearly three hundred English soldiers landed on the beaches of the island. In the following days, the natives began attacking the Spanish settlement more frequently; hoping to weaken the Spanish defenses enough for the English forces to storm the settlement. Two months after the English soldiers arrived, they began their assault on the settlement. Using the four frigates to keep the five Spanish ships sitting off shore from firing on the English troops as they attacked the settlement.
The attack began just after noon with the four frigates opening fire on the Spanish ships, almost immediately sinking one Spanish ship. At almost the same time a combined English and native force attacked the settlement, taking the Spanish by almost complete surprise. The battle lasted only one hour with the Spanish forces taking heavy casualties, with the natives and English suffering hardly any losses at all. Victorious and now with several chests now full of gold, the English commanders, on orders from the royal court of England, now set their sights on settling the island, and crushing any who stood in their way.
Chapter Two
A New Conqueror:
Almost as soon as the last Spaniard was driven from the island, the English soldiers turned on the natives of the island, killing hundreds with their weapons, and thousands with the diseases brought by the Spanish and English. Smallpox, influenza, and tuberculosis ravaged the island, killing almost seven eights of the native population, leaving only around one thousand of the original. While the natives died of these sicknesses the English began clearing the dense forests to make room for the flood of settlers coming from England. The remaining natives were forced into slave labor, doing everything from mining for the limited gold supply on the island to serving as the personal servants of the governor of the island, recently named New Canterbury by the English. The natives were forced to accept this fate as their numbers were not sufficient to drive the English from the island.
A forced peace settled on the island under British control until 1827, when a rebellion by the settlers of the island sought their freedom from the control of the English crown.
The Fight for Independence:
In the years after the British were defeated in the American Revolution, many on the island began to yearn for independence from the crown as well. In 1801, during a peaceful protest outside city hall in the capital of New Canterbury, Yorkshire, a battalion of British infantry began to fire into the crowd, killing thirty, and wounding seventy-three. Outraged, a mob formed outside the town, arming themselves with muskets and rifles. Just after midnight, the mob stormed a small outpost three miles outside of Yorkshire, brutally murdering every British soldier inside. Eventually, the members of the mob were caught, with every member of the mob being executed.
An uneasy peace followed for the next twenty-six years, but during this time, a man named Peter Oliver began claiming to be a descendant of the chieftains of Elyk and began gathering support for breaking away from the control of the English. In December of 1826, Oliver and several other men published a pamphlet declaring that they were now a free nation and that the English crown had no power over them any longer. These pamphlets were distributed throughout the country and several were sent to England. Upon reading the pamphlets, there was an unexpected response. Having already lost two wars to the Americans, the English Parliament, wary of what another war would do to the resources of the empire, voted to allow Nascent its independence. Over the next several months the number of British forces was scaled back, while a permanent government was set up for the people of New Canterbury.
However, Oliver did not agree with the way the discussions were going, leading more in favor of democracy than his vision of a monarchy. So, in 1830, Oliver announced himself the new king of the island, also renaming the island to its present day name, Nascent, which means great wealth in the native language of the island. Surprised, the citizens of Nascent accepted his appointment, and settled into several years of reforms until Oliver’s death in 1856.
The ways of the Nascentian government have not changed since their independence was granted by the British, but now in the year 2010, there is great unrest within the nation as the current ruler of Nascent, King Richard Oliver II, has began persecuting those of native Nascent decent. Many people are calling for a new ruler to step forward out of the shadows to lead Nascent into another era of peace and prosperity. There are even several large cults that have began awaiting for the rise of Cacifica the Great and his legion of warriors that have remained hidden for hundreds of years.
South Lands
25-04-2005, 02:03
We appreciate the input and donations from all of you and hope to gather more literature as times passes.
Regarding the existing library, there is nothing better to promote information and open mindedness then more libraries.
Again, Thanks for support.
Anaconda
The Confederacy of South Lands