Well I cannot find it menationed, but as Alex knows, sometimes I do miss things, so I read your orders yet again. You can pm me what you want to say.
5 you say? well Jacosgrad just might become famous....
BirdNES 2: Forge of Empires -- The Manonash
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5 you say? well Jacosgrad just might become famous....
JosefStalinator
Я буду снова здесь
Oh right, random number, I forgot! Gimme 23 bird, unless you already chose one for me.
The Manonash
Update Seven: Endless Wars
The wars of the southern Manonash continued as did the bitter rivalry between the Cantorians and the horse people of Nylarlak. For the most part the use of iron became wide spread as did the use of better ships and improved navigation by the seafaring nations. In fact, The Ryntner was well travelled by many nations and from north to south and coastal community to island haven trade goods found their passage. On land, the roads were increasingly dotted with villages and towns that connected the coast to the mountains and valleys of the interior. The Nylarlak were the only nation set apart from the ongoing commerce of the Manonash and that connection was tightly controlled by the Cantorians and Kiidorians. [Manonash becomes a single trading region] As the nations of the Manonash venture beyond the mountains that cradled their homelands, the desert that lay east of the mountains became well known if not well travelled, and to the north the vast steppe lands that stretched east of the sources of the Castellane were deemed to be home of the horse lords of Nylarlak. In the north, beyond the realms of the Kiidor and northern Nylarlak, there was little but more of the endless boreal forests. The southern realms were less well known and few had penetrated the dense forests south of the Vissarai or sailed those wild coasts. To the east in the land that had been known as Asmarth, the southern desert was bounded by more of the vast prairie.
The Wars of the Vissarai and Xochicalco
While the Vissarai had sought peace, they planned for war and were obliged by the Xochicalco whose previous setbacks had fueled the passion for revenge. Their three wars dominated the southern Manonash. In 345 the Xochicalco invaded the northern territories of Vissarai and with skillful use of their mounted archers captured much of those lands. The trading center along the Vissarai coast was besieged and when it fell, the Xochicalco razed it to the ground. In their zeal of victory the Xochicalco forces appropriated the mainland holdings of Cantoria who were preoccupied with troubles on their border with the Nylarlak. A troubled peace followed until 355 when the Xochicalco again invaded and pushed their holdings further south along the coast. By this time the weak and ineffective triumvirate of elected kings had been mercifully replaced by a single queen who would pass the throne on to her oldest daughter. Queen Cacauaxochitl commanded the troops of the second war and undertook many military reforms. Her attack on the Vissarai was coupled with major expansions to the east and north in which her troops swallowed the now vanished empire of the Asmarth.The queen’s opium addiction led to many rumors about her personal life and an effort to export the drug to neighboring nations. In 380 the Vissarai launched the third war, but rather than try to recapture land lost earlier, they sent their armies to the east and successfully brought Xochicalco and old Asmarth under their control. This success led to further Vissarai expansion to the south until their armies run up against stout resistance from well established warlord kingdoms.
Throughout the turmoil of the southland the Oracle of Wendar thrived. The Way of the Birds was completed and connected the north-south access to the Way of the Sun that ran east-west. As expected they met at the great city itself. As the city grew in power and influence so did its reach into the lands around it. Two more cities dedicated to Wendar and its Oracle were created by pilgrims. One was to the east and another many miles to the north in Xochicalco. Neither of these new centers of Wendar’s power tried to separate itself from their Vissarai or Xochicalco overlords, but by their very nature they were quite foreign to many of those who loved around them. It was in this period that the people of Wendar carved great cisterns from the living rock of the mountains to catch spring snowmelt and hold it for use later in the year or should an emergency supply of water be required.
The Nylarlak had two goals. The first was to contain any incusion by the Cantorians into the steppe lands and second was to expand their territories north and east. To achieve the first they started an ongoing, low key, border war to push the Cantorians back into the passes of the mountains. From 349 to 361 the Nylarlak were effective in containing them and avoiding a pitched war. The border lands were in a state of constant turmoil and Nylarlak raiders regularly pillaged deep into Cantoria. Massive floods in the spring of 362 swept down the Castellane and destroyed much of what had been built in the contested areas. The devastation interrupted the low key war and as part of the rebuilding, the Cantorians constructed a series of forts and walls to protect the land they held. One by one the Cantorians closed off access points to their lands. When the barrier was breached, the Cantorians used new tactics learned in the years of failing to contain the Nylarlak, to effectively counter the horse based strategies. This long project slowly stopped the raids and within a decade, quiet had mostly returned. As their western war declined the Nylarlak pushed their borders to the east and north. Thousands of square miles of land were added to the empire and with that growth came difficulty. The weak central authority and dispersed civil control encouraged local resolution to local and problems. By the late 380s three essentially autonomous Visodyk (rulers) and councils ruled the vast empire. The northern region was ruled from the ancient capital and reached from the Castellane to the great lake and the lands of the Kiidor. A lesser chieftain ruled south of the river and even though he paid homage to his northern liege, for all practical matter he was lord and master of his lands. In the east it was similar and the people had a strong sense of separateness from Nylarlak proper.
For the Cantorians the Nylarlak wars were a distraction and annoying. They were busy with other matters. Their metal smiths were experimenting with adding charcoal to iron working with impressive results. Her sailors were exploring the boundaries of the known ocean and her fishermen were exploiting the rich fisheries around the Cantorian held islands at the great sea’s center. Miners were finding rich mineral deposits on those same islands. The loss of the mainland holdings in the south was unfortunate, but little could be done at the time to keep them.
In the north Kiidor’s lords were pushing their nation’s borders further and further into the great forest of evergreen trees. Part of this planned effort was the capture of all the Tekashen colonies that now dotted the coast and one by one, from 357-368, they fell to Kiidorian control. The struggle had few battles and never quite felt like a war except in 361 when the entire Kiidoran fleet was sunk or captured in the Straits of Teka. The victory did not stop the collapse of the ‘Tekashen Empire’, but it did give them complete control of the northern waters. The far flung Kiidorian nation relied on improved fortifications to provide a strong local presence that could be relied upon in case of an attack and their efforts in building with wood and stone were impressive and often copied, with less skill, by others.
In central Manonash the story was mostly slow decline through neglect. Razzak was the exception and benefitted from the weak kings and poor leadership of Liasou and Graznel. Razzak slowly assimilated the Graznel culture and people that lived in its southern lands and by 374 all those lands were absorbed into Razzak. On the mainland as Kiasou receded and turned its efforts inward, Razzak expanded and took control of the northern half of that failing nation. Like many others, Razzak sailors learned new boat building and navigation skills that improved their seamanship and the range of their seafaring. Graznel also benefited from the decline of Liasou and took control of many miles of new coastal lands. It was in the east, though, that Graznel too lost her influence. With the weakened authority of the kings many of the towns and people ar from the capital and heart of the nation simply drifted into obscurity and independence.
The Islands
As Tekashen lost it fledgling colonies on the mainland its efforts went into exploring and mapping its northern realms. Captains ventured to places never before sailed and brought new maps home for study. Once the Kiidorian navy was destroyed, the Tekashen enjoyed complete dominance of the northern waters and often restricted trade to the Kiidorian ports and any maritime connection to the rest of the Manonash. In the mostly closed nation of Ilosilletar, Yiithism was slowly taking hold and spreading from port enclaves to cities and towns in the country side. On their own the Ilosilletar introduced two innovations that held promise for the rest of the Manonash: gypsum based cement was discovered and used to build greatly improved masonry work and, of all things, their fervid celebrations that broke up otherwise boring, cheerless lives, produced short plays and skits of enormous popularity. Slowly as visitors came more frequently to these isolated islands, the plays were noted and the idea carried to the outside world. In Rynt things were not so serene. The Monarchist and Aristocrat factions went to war over who should rule: a king or council or lords. Flurr Shar led the lords in a conflict that stretched from the islands to the colonies on the mainland. The aristocrats goals was to demote the Ryntjin from his status as the embodiment of the Five Ideals (strength, intelligence, creativity, charisma, and wealth) and law-giver to that of an important man subject to the will of a council of nobles. Flurr Shar won the support of the navy and with the support of the mainland colonial cities, defeated the monarchists. Ryntjin Wher Vuyta was forced to abdicate and his most ardent supporter, the powerful Kraz Kobuk, forced to kneel in subjugation to Flurr Shar in the grand square of Jacosgrad. The scene was immortalized in low relief in the walls of the palace. In spite of the bloody civil strife Rynt sailors explored far and wide. Their mapmakers were the best in all the Manonash and became the standard that all tried to emulate or surpass, but few did. The most sought after map was one drawn by master mapmaker Ba Shie Pa of the known lands from Vissarai to the Straits of Teka. Across the center of the map Ba Shie lettered a nautical term taken from sailors using the steady southerly winds of summer: Rynt’s Reach. This charted course enabled captains to sail from Ryntgrad to Teka on a single tack. Soon Rynt’s Reach was used to describe not only the course, but also the area and by 385 many had reduced it to merely ‘the Reach’.
345 First Xoch-Vissarai war
348 Way of the Birds completed in Wendar
349-361 Cantorian-Nylarlak border wars
353 pilgrim city of Wendar is built in Xochiclaco
355-360 Second Xoch-Vissarai war
357-368 Kiidor expansion and colony war with Tekashen; destruction of Kiidorian fleet.
361 Razzak Ponmak Nokazth dies and Dagnan Nokazth becomes king.
362 Flooding of the Castellane
363 another pilgrim city of Wendar is built in eastern Vissarai
363-376 Fortification of eastern Cantoria
370 Civil war in Rynt colonies defect
374 -386 Nylarlak expansion east
380-381 Third Xoch-Vissarai war and disappearance of Asmarth
Map for update 7a:
Has anyone named the body of water enclosed by island nations and the Manonash coast yet? Ideas posted in the next few hours would be welcomed. 
The Rynt call that Ryntner, or "Ocean of Rynt". Although that might be a bit too ethnocentric.
If I din't get mostly ethnocentric suggestions, I would be disappointed.
More ideas are welcome.
human-slaughter
brand new year
We have used the Tekan Straits up top before. But I guess we will call it the Yiithic Sea. Since up here it is enclosed by the Yiithic Nations.
Abaddon
Deity
Also vote the Yiithic Sea.. but then noone south knows of it like that I assume.
Why not the Manonash Sea?
Why not the Manonash Sea?
So far:
The Ryntner (Ocean of Rynt)
Yiithic Sea
Manonash Sea
The Ryntner (Ocean of Rynt)
Yiithic Sea
Manonash Sea
Mhmmm maybe relating it to the Yiithist search for other worshippers (I.e. we would have a sea path and a land path), the sea could be seperated into an inner path (interior sea of the isles) and an outer sea of the isles. The land again could be seperated into an interior (mountains/coast) and an exterior also (Steppe).
Thus some name for path or journey and then attached some sense of Water or some sense of land and some sense of a well travelled path or a non-travelled path.
Pacisenti (peacful path)
Irasenti (angry path)
Just drawing some distinction between the two areas (inner = peacfull btw), and yes latinish.
Thus some name for path or journey and then attached some sense of Water or some sense of land and some sense of a well travelled path or a non-travelled path.
Pacisenti (peacful path)
Irasenti (angry path)
Just drawing some distinction between the two areas (inner = peacfull btw), and yes latinish.
The update is here:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=6830327&postcount=523
I'm trying to get the map posted, but again, I'm having toruble.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=6830327&postcount=523
I'm trying to get the map posted, but again, I'm having toruble.
Frozen In Ice
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I may have missed it, but I don't believe that the update mentioned what became of my southern colony, and I would like to know what happened to it.
~Darkening~
Weep, Mother.
The Imityane (Inner Waters) and the Imavacámane (Outer Waters); the prior the name given to the waters within the general sea.
Worth the wait.
Edit:
'On their own the Ilieon'.....
Worth the wait.
Edit:
'On their own the Ilieon'.....
You mean the one that disappeared from the map? It was swallowed up in the Xochicalco expansion. Sorry I forgot to mention it.
EDIT: Stats fixed!
