The history of Fennia, chapter I
The hunter-gatherer Finno-Ugrian tribes had been travelling from central Russia towards east; as food ended in one places, these stone-aged food-seekers had to move along, either following the animal crowds or hoping to find something new to gather. They were not Finns, Estonians and Karelians as the word "Finno-Ugrian" is understood nowdays; they were Fennians, and they spoke Fennian, as all Finno-Ugrian people seemed to during these days. They were the ancestors of all Estonians, Tavastians, Karelians and Finns.
But the more they travelled, the less food they found; the propable reason for this seems to be the simple fact that they were mostly travelling towards the north and the colder it got the less food they found.
For hundreds of years these hunter-gatherer tribes travelled, and when they finaly reached the Neva river in the eastern end of Gulf of Bothnia, it all seemed lost; they couldn't go back as there was no food left from where they had left, and they couldn't keep on walking forward as the norther they travelled the harder it seemed to find new food. The Neva river area, especially, was very swampy, and not many tribes wanted to travel anymore.
Legend says that it was a man called Brahe, a leader of a moderately small Finno-Ugrian tribe known as Koivisto, who originally came up with the idea that they could actually grow food from the ground. Before this he had already received a message from "Ukko Ylijumala", the highest god of all gods, that the Fennians should gather together and create lasting settlement in the Neva river area, as gods would protect them, but nobody wanted to follow Brahe's lead in this until he got food growing out of dirt. Then people started believing that perhaps Brahe really was a chocen one who could lead the Finno-Ugrians into a lasting civilization.
And so it happened; a few tribes gathered in a place in Neva river and decided to stay at that spot, creating a community that called themselves "Fennians", to separate themselves from other Finno-ugrian tribes who they from now on considered pagan and barbaric. Many of these other tribes would also soon decide to join Fennia...
And the spot where they gathered was named "St. Brahesburg", to honour Shaman Brahe who was chocen by Gods. That spot then became the capital of Fennia - and so, the seeds of an empire had been cropped...