Nick014
Deposed Despot
And please feel free to complain/discuss anything. Educate me
Only a minor complaint, but hopefully you'll let my poor beleaguered peoples start recovering from the diseases soon. It'd very disappointing to have my cultures overrun by Europeans so easily just because it happened in the OTL.
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In the Nayota Empire, the native Panto populations began to rebuild their shattered lives. They slowly emerged from the Nightmare of disease and civil war, but found the horrors replaced by the cruelty of their Aarut "allies". As the empire sent more and more "peacekeeping" forces to their colonies, it became clear that the native population was viewed as little more than slave labor. Rumors of Aarut incursions into distant southern lands taking men and women from their homes never to return abounded, and natives were forced to labor constructing garrisons and fortifications for their Aarut masters. A rebellious resentment of the European state boiled under the surface.
This was not all the trouble faced in the newly formed state. The Aarut colonists themselves were seen as second class citizens to their brethren across the sea, being taxed for the large military expenses and not given any say in the matter. This resentment of their imperialist motherland was seen by some natives as an opportunity- an opportunity which they seized.
A charismatic Panto man, Nanato the Great, led the natives and colonists in rising up in an attempt to overthrow the imperialist garrisons and the Aarut's puppet emperor. The Mantahu Republic in the west, weakened though it was, assisted in whatever way it could- including knowledge of a new kind of gun, the rifle, developed by the Lantan monks in the Xante States. They succeeded in overthrowing the garrisons and unifying the Eastern and western Panto peoples into the United Panto Republic. Although he had secured his people's independence from Europe for the time being, he was not satisfied to leave it at that. Having lived through the great plague and the "Great Nightmare", the Panto people were deeply mistrustful of the ancient established governmental systems that had failed to save them from disaster. So, Nanato did not seize control of his new empire as many expected, but he stunned the world in declaring that the nation would be ruled by the ordinary mass of the people. This state established a truly representative form of government not dominated by oligarchs and landowners, with checks in place to prevent the elected government from entrenching itself in power. Only time would tell if this new Republic could survive the ensuing Aarut retaliation...
In the Xante States, the Lantan faith was in a sharp decline. For the first time in history, their political leaders had more power than the High Priest. Although their traditions remained mostly unchanged, the church itself lost its ultimate authority and was diminished mostly to scientific pursuits and the maintenance of their ancient temples and monuments. The Xante kings themselves sent token support to help repel European imperialism (in the name of unity of the Lantan community), but spent this era mainly regrouping and rebuilding in the wake of the plagues.
The Antehauta Empire continued its efforts to regroup and modernize its military, fearing that they too might become targets of imperialist ambitions.
