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Nadir (nuclear test)

2024-05-15T18:32:31Z

Unuvun Rain:

[[File:First_atomic_test.png|thumb|right|Aftermath of the Nadir detonation in the Antarctic Ocean.]]

'''Nadir''' was the code name of the first successful detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted in cooperation by [[Rokhtaera]] and the [[Nautical Peace]] on the uninhabited Chenrul Island near the South Pole at 86°S latitude. The test occurred a mere two weeks after an earlier detonation attempt by [[Meó]] in the [[Great Rift]] failed to ignite.

Due to a miscommunication, three Rokhtaeran scientists were present on the island during the detonation. Although they were far enough to avoid radiation from the blast, nuclear fallout from the event fell onto their campsite and one scientist suffered radiation burns after wind blew fallout into their tent.

The test remained top secret until after [[Operation Boil the Crab]], when both the [[Delezian Alliance]] and the [[Meó-Zandaera Alliance]] began using nuclear weapons in [[Windward War IV]].

Nadir (nuclear test)

2024-05-15T18:32:10Z

Unuvun Rain:

[[File:First_atomic_test.png|thumb|right|Aftermath of the Nadir detonation in the antarctic ocean.]]

'''Nadir''' was the code name of the first successful detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted in cooperation by [[Rokhtaera]] and the [[Nautical Peace]] on the uninhabited Chenrul Island near the South Pole at 86°S latitude. The test occurred a mere two weeks after an earlier detonation attempt by [[Meó]] in the [[Great Rift]] failed to ignite.

Due to a miscommunication, three Rokhtaeran scientists were present on the island during the detonation. Although they were far enough to avoid radiation from the blast, nuclear fallout from the event fell onto their campsite and one scientist suffered radiation burns after wind blew fallout into their tent.

The test remained top secret until after [[Operation Boil the Crab]], when both the [[Delezian Alliance]] and the [[Meó-Zandaera Alliance]] began using nuclear weapons in [[Windward War IV]].

Nadir (nuclear test)

2024-05-15T18:27:14Z

Unuvun Rain: Created page with "Aftermath of the Nadir detonation in the antarctic ocean. '''Nadir''' was the code name of the first successful detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted in cooperation by Rokhtaera and the Nautical Peace on the uninhabited Chenrul Island near the South Pole at 86°S latitude. The test occurred a mere two weeks after an earlier detonation attempt by Meó in the Great Rift failed to ignite. Due to a miscommunica..."

The Symphony

2024-05-15T18:08:11Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Third interwar period */

'''The Symphony''', also known as the '''Four Windward Wars''', was a turbulent period that began in 9,889 at the [[Naera Technological Exposition]] with the assassination of [[Emperor Fihano]] and ended in 9,970 with the signing of the [[Concert of Delezia]].

==Windward War I==
After the assassination of [[Emperor Fihano]] by Linyenian student [[Retaliz Hawina]], Rokhtaera and the Nautial Peace issued a joint declaration of war on the nation of [[Linyen]]. [[Zandaera]] aligns itself with Linyen, and [[Mæflara]] declares its neutrality, but joins the [[Delezian Alliance]] after being invaded by Zandaera. Lasting only a few short years, it ends with the ceding of large portions of southwestern Linyen to the alliance, as well as the creation of the [[Zaphæ]] buffer state between Zandaera and [[Veiivinis]].

==First interwar period==
A fierce arms race developed, as the Eastern Pact vowed to never again be humiliated by the Delezian Alliance.

==Windward War II==
Windward War II, also known as the '''Crimson Monsoon''', was the longest of the four Windward Wars. Lasting a brutal 6 years, the Delezian Alliance was forced to dig into the ground to defend against a dual declaration of war by both the Eastern Pact and the Meó Empire. It is estiamted that a combined 18 million people combined died on the Ivini and Delezian fronts of the war, with little territory exchanging hands by the time the armistice was signed.

==Second interwar period==
Another fierce arms race began, as the two sides of the war sought to develop new technologies that would make trench warfare obsolete. [[Lysteriokan Civil War]].

==Windward War III==
The development of tanks and airplanes during the eight year interwar period by both sides led to a fast-paced, deadly conflict in Ivinis and Delezia.
{{Pavalabox Military conflict
|title=Windward War III
|image=Iraq-m1 abrams.jpg
|image-caption=Forces from [[Rokhtaera]] cross the border into [[Meó]] during the [[Exorcism of the Imperial Ghost]].
|date=69 latter 9,945 — 132 former 9,952 Y
|location=[[Ivinis]], [[Htaevic Rouge]], [[Lysteriok]], [[Amaio]], [[Ganuo]]
|result=
[[Five Corners]] victory
* [[Quad-National Dominion]] cedes [[Herelle]] to [[Ethanthova]]
* Dismantlement of the [[Third Htaevic Empire]] and occupation of [[Shattered Islands]] by Meó and the [[Nautical Peace]]
* Space race and the beginning of the [[Haki Age]]
* Liberation of [[Linyen]]
|participants1=Five Corners
|participants2=Hakiist Crusaders
|leaders1={{flag|Nautical Peace}} Fihano Placeholder
{{flag|Meó}} [[Soinkot' Phlyi]]
{{flag|Dotruga}} Gen. Paul Sausage
{{flag|Rokhtaera}} Naru DXXIII
|leaders2={{flag|Quad-National Dominion}} CEO of Racism
{{flag|Nabors}} Exotic Naborsi Dude
{{flag|Zandaera}} Darvince
|casualties1='''Military dead:'''<br>Over 14,000,000
<br>'''Civilian dead:''' <br>Over 30,000,000
|casualties2='''Military dead:'''<br>Over 16,000,000
<br>'''Civilian dead:''' <br>Over 25,000,000
}}

==Third interwar period==
[[Nadir (nuclear test)]]

Everyone developed nuclear weapons and they were excited to try them out. Nobody really knew how horrible the devestation would be.

==Windward War IV==
''Main article: [[Windward War IV]]''

Windward War IV was the final and costliest war of the Symphony. On 9,958/68 Y, the Nautical Peace dropped an atomic bomb on the [[Holy Temple of Hakiism]], obliterating the immediate area and causing over 200,000 casualties, as well as destroying the world's largest wooden statue of [[Biplatza Sagpawej]].

==Post-war period==
Rockets

The Symphony

2024-05-15T18:08:05Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Third interwar period */

'''The Symphony''', also known as the '''Four Windward Wars''', was a turbulent period that began in 9,889 at the [[Naera Technological Exposition]] with the assassination of [[Emperor Fihano]] and ended in 9,970 with the signing of the [[Concert of Delezia]].

==Windward War I==
After the assassination of [[Emperor Fihano]] by Linyenian student [[Retaliz Hawina]], Rokhtaera and the Nautial Peace issued a joint declaration of war on the nation of [[Linyen]]. [[Zandaera]] aligns itself with Linyen, and [[Mæflara]] declares its neutrality, but joins the [[Delezian Alliance]] after being invaded by Zandaera. Lasting only a few short years, it ends with the ceding of large portions of southwestern Linyen to the alliance, as well as the creation of the [[Zaphæ]] buffer state between Zandaera and [[Veiivinis]].

==First interwar period==
A fierce arms race developed, as the Eastern Pact vowed to never again be humiliated by the Delezian Alliance.

==Windward War II==
Windward War II, also known as the '''Crimson Monsoon''', was the longest of the four Windward Wars. Lasting a brutal 6 years, the Delezian Alliance was forced to dig into the ground to defend against a dual declaration of war by both the Eastern Pact and the Meó Empire. It is estiamted that a combined 18 million people combined died on the Ivini and Delezian fronts of the war, with little territory exchanging hands by the time the armistice was signed.

==Second interwar period==
Another fierce arms race began, as the two sides of the war sought to develop new technologies that would make trench warfare obsolete. [[Lysteriokan Civil War]].

==Windward War III==
The development of tanks and airplanes during the eight year interwar period by both sides led to a fast-paced, deadly conflict in Ivinis and Delezia.
{{Pavalabox Military conflict
|title=Windward War III
|image=Iraq-m1 abrams.jpg
|image-caption=Forces from [[Rokhtaera]] cross the border into [[Meó]] during the [[Exorcism of the Imperial Ghost]].
|date=69 latter 9,945 — 132 former 9,952 Y
|location=[[Ivinis]], [[Htaevic Rouge]], [[Lysteriok]], [[Amaio]], [[Ganuo]]
|result=
[[Five Corners]] victory
* [[Quad-National Dominion]] cedes [[Herelle]] to [[Ethanthova]]
* Dismantlement of the [[Third Htaevic Empire]] and occupation of [[Shattered Islands]] by Meó and the [[Nautical Peace]]
* Space race and the beginning of the [[Haki Age]]
* Liberation of [[Linyen]]
|participants1=Five Corners
|participants2=Hakiist Crusaders
|leaders1={{flag|Nautical Peace}} Fihano Placeholder
{{flag|Meó}} [[Soinkot' Phlyi]]
{{flag|Dotruga}} Gen. Paul Sausage
{{flag|Rokhtaera}} Naru DXXIII
|leaders2={{flag|Quad-National Dominion}} CEO of Racism
{{flag|Nabors}} Exotic Naborsi Dude
{{flag|Zandaera}} Darvince
|casualties1='''Military dead:'''<br>Over 14,000,000
<br>'''Civilian dead:''' <br>Over 30,000,000
|casualties2='''Military dead:'''<br>Over 16,000,000
<br>'''Civilian dead:''' <br>Over 25,000,000
}}

==Third interwar period==
[[Nadir (nuclear test)]]
Everyone developed nuclear weapons and they were excited to try them out. Nobody really knew how horrible the devestation would be.

==Windward War IV==
''Main article: [[Windward War IV]]''

Windward War IV was the final and costliest war of the Symphony. On 9,958/68 Y, the Nautical Peace dropped an atomic bomb on the [[Holy Temple of Hakiism]], obliterating the immediate area and causing over 200,000 casualties, as well as destroying the world's largest wooden statue of [[Biplatza Sagpawej]].

==Post-war period==
Rockets

File:First atomic test.png

2024-05-15T18:03:42Z

Unuvun Rain: The first atomic bomb tested in the deep antarctic.

== Summary ==
The first atomic bomb tested in the deep antarctic.

Calendar

2024-02-18T05:26:00Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Htaevic Delezian Calendar */

Pavala has had a diverse array of calendars, many of which remain in use to the present day.

==Meta calendar==
The '''Meta calendar'' is the primary calendar used on this wiki. No actual Pavalan society uses the Meta calendar, but it is used to more intuitively keep track of time due to every year in the Meta calendar being approximately one Earth year. Present-day [[Pavala]] is around 10,000 Y, and each biennium (corresponding to a single 'Y') is composed of two Pavala-years: the first is known as the 'former' annum and the second as the 'latter' anum. For example, the first day of 9,000 Y would be written as ''1 former 9,000 Y'', while the last day of 9,000 Y would be written as ''168 latter 9,000 Y''.

* Bienniums are numbered beginning from 1.
** Biennium 1 is approximately the start of agriculture.
* There are 168 days in an annum, and two annums per biennium.
** The two annums are numbered from 1 to 2
** The 168 days are numbered from 1 to 168
** Every 7 annums a leap day is added.

* Dates are written ''BBBBB/A/DDD'', or alternatively, ''DDD [former/latter] BB,BBB''
** The 67th day of the 2nd annum of 7732 would be written ''7,732/1/66'', or alternatively, ''67 latter 7,732''
*** The leading zeroes are optional
* Day zero is the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere

Via the assumption that seasons begin at their equinoxes and solstices:
*'''Northern Hemisphere''':
**Spring is from days 1-42
**Summer is from days 43-84
**Fall is from days 85-126
**Winter is from days 127-168
*'''Southern Hemisphere''':
**Fall is from days 1-42
**Winter is from days 43-84
**Spring is from days 85-126
**Summer is from days 127-168

==Htaevic Delezian Calendar==
The ancient [[Hsuqlihta|Hsuqlihts]] used base-8 however they realized that if they used weeks that were 8-days long there would be 21 weeks in a year, which was not divisible by two. So instead they opted for a 6-day week with 28 such weeks in a year. They divided the year into two halves, Dry and Wet. After they conquered the Htaevics, they forced them to adopt their calendar. However, when their empire collapsed, the newly independent Htaevics established their own calendar, which was really the same calendar except they decided to mark Year 0 as the date they gained their independence.

The traditional format for writing Htaevic dates is YYYY-M-WW-D. For example, the last day of the year 2000 would be written as 2000-2-14-6. Leap-days exist outside the week-month system.
<div style="float: right; margin-left: 20px;">
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Htaevic Delezian Calendar
|-
! Original Season
! Week
! Features
|-
! rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;" | Dry
| Week 1
| Eclipse season (peaking); post-spring equinox
|-
| Week 2
| Eclipse season (weakening)
|-
| Week 3
| Eclipse season (ends)
|-
| Week 4
|
|-
| Week 5
|
|-
| Week 6
|
|-
| Week 7
|
|-
| Week 8
| Post-summer solstice
|-
| Week 9
|
|-
| Week 10
|
|-
| Week 11
|
|-
| Week 12
| Eclipse season (starts)
|-
| Week 13
| Eclipse season (strengthening)
|-
| Week 14
| Eclipse season (peak)
|-
! rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;" | Wet
| Week 1
| Eclipse season (peak); post-fall equinox
|-
| Week 2
| Eclipse season (weakening)
|-
| Week 3
| Eclipse season (ends)
|-
| Week 4
|
|-
| Week 5
|
|-
| Week 6
|
|-
| Week 7
|
|-
| Week 8
| Post-winter solstice
|-
| Week 9
|
|-
| Week 10
|
|-
| Week 11
|
|-
| Week 12
| Eclipse season (starts)
|-
| Week 13
| Eclipse season (strengthening)
|-
| Week 14
| Eclipse season (peaking)
|}
</div>
===Leap days===
Each Pavalan tropical year is '''168.1563''' days. In the era of the first Htaevic empire, it was not known to this precision. However they knew that if they added a leap day every 8 years, and a second leap day on top of that every 32 years, they could keep their calendar roughly in sync (0.156308129 - 1/8 - 1/32 = 0.000058129 days of drift per 32-year cycle). They usually occur at the end of the year and would be written as 2000-3-1-1. Years with two leap-days would have the second one be written as 2000-3-1-2.

===Week days===
The Htaevic calendar has six week days. Week days aren't named, since they are very regular and are subordinate to weeks themselves as a unit.

Calendar

2024-02-18T05:16:45Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Htaevic Delezian Calendar */

Pavala has had a diverse array of calendars, many of which remain in use to the present day.

==Meta calendar==
The '''Meta calendar'' is the primary calendar used on this wiki. No actual Pavalan society uses the Meta calendar, but it is used to more intuitively keep track of time due to every year in the Meta calendar being approximately one Earth year. Present-day [[Pavala]] is around 10,000 Y, and each biennium (corresponding to a single 'Y') is composed of two Pavala-years: the first is known as the 'former' annum and the second as the 'latter' anum. For example, the first day of 9,000 Y would be written as ''1 former 9,000 Y'', while the last day of 9,000 Y would be written as ''168 latter 9,000 Y''.

* Bienniums are numbered beginning from 1.
** Biennium 1 is approximately the start of agriculture.
* There are 168 days in an annum, and two annums per biennium.
** The two annums are numbered from 1 to 2
** The 168 days are numbered from 1 to 168
** Every 7 annums a leap day is added.

* Dates are written ''BBBBB/A/DDD'', or alternatively, ''DDD [former/latter] BB,BBB''
** The 67th day of the 2nd annum of 7732 would be written ''7,732/1/66'', or alternatively, ''67 latter 7,732''
*** The leading zeroes are optional
* Day zero is the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere

Via the assumption that seasons begin at their equinoxes and solstices:
*'''Northern Hemisphere''':
**Spring is from days 1-42
**Summer is from days 43-84
**Fall is from days 85-126
**Winter is from days 127-168
*'''Southern Hemisphere''':
**Fall is from days 1-42
**Winter is from days 43-84
**Spring is from days 85-126
**Summer is from days 127-168

==Htaevic Delezian Calendar==
The ancient Htaevics used base-8 however they realized that if they used weeks that were 8-days long there would be 21 weeks in a year, which was not divisible by two. So instead they opted for a 6-day week with 28 such weeks in a year. They divided the year into two halves, Dry and Wet. The traditional format for writing Htaevic dates is YYYY-M-WW-D. For example, the last day of the year 2000 would be written as 2000-2-14-6. Leap-days exist outside the week-month system.
<div style="float: right; margin-left: 20px;">
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Htaevic Delezian Calendar
|-
! Original Season
! Week
! Features
|-
! rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;" | Dry
| Week 1
| Eclipse season (peaking); post-spring equinox
|-
| Week 2
| Eclipse season (weakening)
|-
| Week 3
| Eclipse season (ends)
|-
| Week 4
|
|-
| Week 5
|
|-
| Week 6
|
|-
| Week 7
|
|-
| Week 8
| Post-summer solstice
|-
| Week 9
|
|-
| Week 10
|
|-
| Week 11
|
|-
| Week 12
| Eclipse season (starts)
|-
| Week 13
| Eclipse season (strengthening)
|-
| Week 14
| Eclipse season (peak)
|-
! rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;" | Wet
| Week 1
| Eclipse season (peak); post-fall equinox
|-
| Week 2
| Eclipse season (weakening)
|-
| Week 3
| Eclipse season (ends)
|-
| Week 4
|
|-
| Week 5
|
|-
| Week 6
|
|-
| Week 7
|
|-
| Week 8
| Post-winter solstice
|-
| Week 9
|
|-
| Week 10
|
|-
| Week 11
|
|-
| Week 12
| Eclipse season (starts)
|-
| Week 13
| Eclipse season (strengthening)
|-
| Week 14
| Eclipse season (peaking)
|}
</div>
===Leap days===
Each Pavalan tropical year is '''168.1563''' days. In the era of the first Htaevic empire, it was not known to this precision. However they knew that if they added a leap day every 8 years, and a second leap day on top of that every 32 years, they could keep their calendar roughly in sync (0.156308129 - 1/8 - 1/32 = 0.000058129 days of drift per 32-year cycle). They usually occur at the end of the year and would be written as 2000-3-1-1. Years with two leap-days would have the second one be written as 2000-3-1-2.

===Week days===
The Htaevic calendar has six week days. Week days aren't named, since they are very regular and are subordinate to weeks themselves as a unit.

History of Htaevic Rouge

2024-02-18T05:01:25Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y) */

==Ancient Htaevic Rouge==
===Alotsë dynasty (6,312-6,537 Y)===
====Development of writing====
It was during the short Alotsë dynasty that Hotsan Gget developed the ''hlunliw'' writing system, originally to write down the oral poetry passed down through generations of monarchs. This soon spread through the royal class and became the predominant writing system throughout the empire.

====Royal cannibalism====
It's unclear when the tradition of eating ones ruler upon their death began, however it was already an integral part of succession during the Alotsë dynasty. The heir to a given fief, shire, et cetera was supposed to eat the dead ruler in order to inherit the right to rule. In the rare case that they refused, they would pass down the right to do so to the person next in line of succession, and so on. Only noblemen were allowed to eat the brain, which was considered to be where good karma was stored. In fact, noblemen often requested that commoners engaging in ritual cannibalism send the brain to the castle, where the nobleman could consume it and gain karma, thereby gaining a sort of "mandate" to rule over his fief. Nobody was allowed to eat the intestines, which was considered to be where bad karma was stored.

While processing the deceased ruler, shaman-chefs were employed to divinate fortunes from the arrangement of the ruler's internal organs, especially the idiosynchratic bends and curves of the intestines.

Traditionally, people were only allowed to eat one to three parts of the body depending on how close they were to the deceased. Fingers were eaten to increase ones dexterity, while the foot and liver were eaten in order to gain the 'wisdom' of the deceased. Choice cuts such as the thighs, biceps, calves, etc. were in general just considered to bring good health.

====Settlements====
In this era, the most important cities were:
* Baestamiw (present day [[Xol]]), located at the southern edge of the great rift, and the easternmost major city of the Alotsë.
* Cilawlyawre, located on the [[Yot]] river not too far from the Alotsë's border with the Hsuqlihts. This was the capital of the Alotsë dynasty and where they first experimented with building traditional ''Wzeliwhacan'' shrines.
* Renzhilyarë, a city located inland near a large aquifer and the largest gold mine in the world at the time.

===Riwnë dynasty (6537-6670 Y)===
The Riwnë ('faithful') dynasty was the shortest of all dynasties, lasting just 133 years. It ended due to extreme inbreeding within the family of ruling monarchs, resulting in ruler Tsahotë Riwnë having just 2 biological great grandparents, who themselves were first cousins. He died aged 14, royal legends stating 'a flood of evil spirits infested his lungs'. Modern historians suspect it was pulmonary oedema. The following dynasties developed a taboo on sibling, parent-child, and uncle-niece/aunt-nephew relationships. Cousin marriages did not develop a taboo.

===Burë dynasty (6,670-6,804 Y)===
The Burë dynasty saw the expansion of wzeliwhacan shrines across Htaevic territory, and the growth of political power in the priest class. Priest Kazhiw Lmget of the Lmtsahacan shrine said that, during one of his prayer sessions (likely using traditional psychedelics) the Messenger of Sin '''Lmtsa''' came to him and told him that the so-called 'Elder Beings of Haki' have recently acquired a divine power that they wish to bestow upon a chosen monarch on Pavala. He relayed this message to Emperor Stanzhi Burë who asked Kazhiw Lmget to head the [[Order of the Elder Beings]], a society of priests and scholars dedicated towards finding out more about these divine beings and figuring out how to grant the Burë line their secret powers.

==First Htaevic Empire (6,804-7,005 Y)==
Gradually, this order became more and more powerful until eventually they ruled the Htaevic empire in all but name; while they would grant the current Burë ruler the 'divine right' to rule over all of the Htaevic realm, the order would use its large bureaucracy to get its way in any disagreement with the imperial household. As the Htaevic's religious identity continued to strengthen they would eventually go to war against their northern neighbors, the Hsuqlihts, who followed the heretical [[Herlucc]] religion. This would eventually lead to the downfall of the First Htaevic Empire as the Hsuqlihts were more powerful and able to launch counter-invasions.

It was during the First Htaevic Empire that ironworking became widespread in the region. The First Htaevic Empire also drove out the native [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] inhabitants of the [[Shattered Islands]], known primarily for separating into clans based on their purple and green hair. The purple-haired inhabitants decided to migrate northwards into the Meó basin, while the green-haired inhabitants migrated southwards into Unuvun and displaced the native Konod people.

===City layout===
As the first Htaevic Empire spread throughout the [[Shattered Islands]], they established hundreds of new port cities, following a common city plan. There was a harbor, from which run a ''harbor road'' a kilometer or more inland until it reached the castle. The castles themselves were mostly built from mud or clay brick, supplemented with the limited wood nearby as needed.

Villas for the nobility were constructed in between the castle and the port, and were often surrounded by the ''inner wall''. Outside this wall was where the majority of the city's population lived. Wealthier cities oftentimes had a ''public wall'' constructed around the entire city. The Htaevics were a polytheistic people, and originally had a suite of generic gods for concepts like the rain, sun, wind, etc. They worshipped these gods by building '''wzeliwhacans''', a long stone row supported by stone columns, like Stonehenge but in a line instead of a circle. This stone row would be oriented perpendicular to Haki, so that all of the stones were visible from the planet. They would paint murals dedicated to individual gods on each of these massive stones in bright colors, and plant specific flowers and plants around each stone.

===Tsiriwn===
Over generations, much of the nobility of the Htaevic Empire became victims of a prion disease known as '''tsiriwn'''. This is because the nobility ate a lot of brain, which was where the prion disease would concentrate. The Order of the Elder Beings outlawed the consumption of diseased individuals, and instead began burning them, beginning a tradition of human cremation. However the disease still continued to spread through the nobility, incapacitating the ruling class of the empire and contributing to its downfall against the Hsuqlihts.

===Collapse to Hsuqlihta===
The First Htaevic Empire would gradually expand its holdings up the [[Yot River]] and into the [[Shattered Islands]] until its collapse during the [[Hsuqlihta]]n invasions.

==Hsuqlihtan rule (7,005-7,224 Y)==
The Hsuqlihts greatly influenced the development of Htaevic culture, spreading the octal number system, the [[Herlucc]] religion and their rudimentary democratic politics.

===Spread of Herlucc===
After conquering the Htaevic Empire, Hsuqlihta sought to spread their native Herlucc religion throughout the prosperous region. They decided upon a policy of synthesizing Herlucc with the native Htaevic polytheistic religion.

===End of cannibalism===
The new ruling Hsuqliht class strongly disapproved of cannibalism, however it was an integral part of Htaevic culture. Unrest grew in the various Htaevic tributaries, as the ruling Hsuqlihts would refuse to eat the human brains that they sent as tribute. The Hsuqlihts side stepped this controversy by hiring dedicated "brain eaters" to sit on the aristocratic court and eat all the brains sent as tribute. This satisfied most of the Htaevics. The Hsuqlihts became alarmed as, over the decades, these brain eaters became the only people in the aristocracy to die from tsiriwn.

As Herlucc spread throughout the former Htaevic Empire, a karmic crisis ensued over the practice of cannibalism. It had been common practice noble Htaevics to eat the brains of their deceased subjects in order to accumulate good karma, however under the principles of Htaevic Herlucc, accumulating too much good karma was viewed as a bad thing. Some began eating the intestines (traditional home of the "bad karma") alongside the brain in order to balance good and bad karma, however this failed to become widespread. Eating intestines was still considered highly taboo, and the nobility had a difficult time convincing the common folk to supply them an adequate amount of intestines (intestinal cremation was traditionally the second thing done upon somebody's death, after conducting divination). Additionally, it became common knowledge that the only people in the Hsuqliht aristocratic courts who died from tsiriwn were the ones who ate brains, so many began theorizing that tsiriwn was caused by cannibalism.

So both the Htaevic nobility and the Hsuqlihtan aristocracy agreed to end the practice of cannibalism, instead mandating that all bodies be burnt so that both the good karma from the brain and the bad karma from the intestines can be released back into Kanea. The bones and ashes were kept as a unique source of "neutral kanea" for various projects.

===Incorporation of Htaevic gods===
To gain legitimacy, the Hsuqlihts incorporated the Htaevic pantheon into Herlucc. They split the Htaevic pantheon into two based on karma, and ordered a rebuilding of all wzeliwhacans to incorporate this change. Wzeliwhacans were to be split in two - on the left of Haki would be gods of good karma, while on the right of Haki would be gods of bad karma. A dirt or cobblestone ''kanea road'' would run between these two sets of gods. Larger wzeliwhacans in major cities were adapted by removing the horizontal stones that ran atop the stone columns, and then carving the stone columns into moai-like heads.

==Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y)==
After the split of the Hsuqliht Empire in 7,224 Y, Emperor Lucclucc of the Southern Hsuqliht Empire declared that he had recieved divine right from the [[Elder Beings of Haki]] to conquer the entirety of Pavala in their name. He orchestrated great reforms to Htaevic Herlucc, declaring that, after passing the temples to the gods, the Kanea road would be briefly forked into two, and a temple devoted to the Southern Hsuqliht imperial family would be built. This symbolized how the imperial family had recieved their divine right from the Elder Beings of Haki. Emperor Lucclucc waged massive wars of conquest against the Meó, the Northern Hsuqliht Empire, and even parts of Nokhta.

He also established the [[Calendar#Htaevic_Delezian_Calendar|Htaevic-Delezian Calendar]], marking year 0 as the year that the Htaevics split off from the rest of the Hsuqliht Empire.

===Establishment of the Haki Republic===
Emperor Lucclucc's wife gave birth to triplets, and it was never specified in what order they were born in. This caused controversy as the Southern Succlythian Empire now had no clear line of succession. Indeed, as the years passed all three children grew to be stunningly intelligent and articulate, further compounding the issue of choosing an heir. After the sudden death of Emperor Lucclucc, the three children and the governors of the empire's various territories convened to choose a successor. It was decided that they would vote for the next monarch. The votes showed a clear preference for Kuhnèi, since he spent a lot of time painting his 'visions' of the Elder Beings of Haki. He was proclaimed the first ''consul'' of the new '''Haki Republic'''.

During the Haki Republic, the language of [[Classical Htaevic]] flourished and eventually became a lingua franca across much of Delezia. The Htaevic script solidified into [[Classical Hlunliw]].

===Consuls of the Haki Republic===

{| class="wikitable"
! Consul !! Years !! Lineage !! Notes
|-
| Kuhnèi the Troubled || 7,249 - 7,268 (19 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || The first consul. Descended into schizophrenia in his later years.
|-
| Ofqùl/Wargël the Steady || 7,268 - 7,278 (10 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || Brother of Kuhnèi. Continued the expansion of the Haki Republic.
|-
| Rse Htë Loric || 7,278 - 7,284 (6 years) || House of Rse Htë || Influential merchant who made his fortunes taking control of the great gold mines of [[Hvalozd]]. Embezzled funds for years before enraged aristocrats ousted him and established the tradition of impeachment.
|-
| (...) || (...) || (...) || (...)
|-
| Fòsoja || 7,438 - 7,451 (13 years) || House of Meó || The first Meóese Consul. Well-known for being assassinated.
|-
| Tsapöt the Purple || 7451 - 7472 (21 years) || House of Sömblaw || First ethnically Hkamisëbiwmtë Consul. The government did not like that he, as an outsider, became leader and thus stripped away much of the power of the Consul. This and other events during Tsapöt's tenure would sow the seeds for the later civil war known as The Shattering. He was killed by a meteorite.
|-
| Hkancùtùsqòn the Dull || 7472 - 7485 (13 years) || House of Meó || Second cousin of Fòsoja. He was known for giving the Palace Court much more power, and stripping away much of the Consul's remaining powers. His rule marked the further decline of the Consul. He was generally unpopular to the Htaevic people and perceived as incompetent.
|-
| Hroljuje the Stern || 7485 - 7500 (15 years) ||House of Meó || Son of Hkancùtùsqòn. Hroljuje despised his father, and attempted to gain back power for the Consul, which he was somewhat successful in. The republic flourished under his reign, though it was authoritarian. He had a keen interest in the arts and cultural institutions of the republic and established many theatres.
|-
| Dan the Helpless || 7,500 - 7,520 (20 years) || House of Meó || The last consul, son of Hroljuje. He tried to implement reforms to give the rapidly growing Meó region more power within the Haki Republic government. But his reign was marked by incredible partisan gridlock, and after his assassination, the government was unable to choose a new heir and a civil war began.
|}

===Decline of the Haki Republic===
====Invasion of Unuvun====
{{CrossReference|History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace}}
The invasion of Unuvun by the Haki Republic is generally regarded as marking the beginning of the nation's troubled decline. As the republic became overstretched managing its many other conquests, such as Meó and Hvalozd, its army declined in quality and the ranks became corrupt. Originally thought to be an easy target, the backwater [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] states of Unuvun put up a courageous fight and exacted heavy casualties on the invading Republican forces. Though the Haki Republic was eventually able to assert control over the island, it was undeniably a Pyrrhic victory that still left the Unuvi with great autonomy.

====Assassination of Consul Fòsoja====
Consul Fòsoja's highest ranking servant, Bèje, plotted to assassinate Fòsoja and seize the throne for himself. The Consul's closest military advisor Klentkuf, however, exposed that Bèje had assassinated Fòsoja, at the same time as he was framing Fòsoja for planning to assassinate the Religious Minister Buwrët. This information enraged Buwrët as he felt it treasonous and detested the suggestion that Fòsoja would assassinate him, and did not believe that Consul Fòsoja's closest servant Bèje were to be capable of assassinating Fòsoja, as they were intimate friends beyond their consul-servant relationship. He then allied himself with Bèje, recognising him as the new Consul, and pressured the Palace Justice Demli into banishing Klentkuf into 'foreign lands'. Klentkuf was ultimately sent into the unruly Hkamisëbiwmtë lands south of the Htasei basin that had recently been the site of much violence and unrest, Justice Demli choosing such a place in an attempt that perhaps Klentkuf would be able to bring greater Hsuqliht influence there through his ruling prowess, despite the fact the Palace had found him treasonous. While in the lands, Klentkuf became allies with local rebel chief Tsapöt. After consolidating much power within the local region, Klentkuf and Tsapöt lead a small army to the Palace to attempt to burn it down, however the army was quashed by Buwrët's Order (an order of religious knights charged with defence of the palace). Palace Justice Demli then betrayed Buwrët, allying with Klentkuf and killing Bèje. This lead to a fight between Klentkuf and Demli in which they both killed each other, leaving Tsapöt to take control.

Despite being named after the Meó region, members of the House of Meó typically spoke Ancient Hsuqliht as a first language, and were of Hsuqliht or mixed ethnic background. Dan the helpless was one of the few members of the House of Meó to be of significant Meó descent, with his mother being ethnically Meó.

==Middle Ages (7,520-8,666 Y)==
===The Shattering (7,520-7,625 Y)===
After the death of Consul Dan in 7,520 Y, the regents' council tried and failed five times to elect a new consul due to deep factional polarization. Meó and Hvalozd then issued a joint declaration of independence in 7,521 Y, forming the [[First Rift Alliance]]. The First Rift Alliance quickly advanced towards the coasts of their respective regions, however they were unable to push inwards and pincer the Yot river basin.

In 7,523 Y, the Unuvi states declared independence, and together with the Nokhtan [[Second Zankhti League of Cities and Islands]] began a campaign of piracy along the southern Shattered Islands.

<wip>somehow the rest of the haki republic needs to shatter</wip>

===The 1,024 Year Spring===
The time period after the Shattering is commonly known as the [[1,024 Year Spring]] – a time of relative peace from approximately 7,625 Y to 8,650 Y during which the many former states of the Haki Republic flourished culturally and politically. It ended with the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into the region, killing over 40% of Htaevic Rouge's population. The self-proclaimed prophet [[Dropo]] gained a cult following and, after invoking divine right, reconquered much of Htaevic Rouge to form the [[Second Htaevic Empire]], of which he declare himself king (beneath the Elder Beings of Haki). The Second Htaevic Empire would last for an astonishing four hundred years until it fell to an expansionist Nokhta in 9,089 Y.

The emperor of the Second Htaevic Empire would flee to Unuvun, where he was welcomed and continued to rule as "emperor" of the Htaevic realm if only in name.

After a string of failed revolts in the 92nd century, as well as a series of famines and minor plagues, the monk [[Biplatzë Sagpawë]] developed the basic tenets of the [[Hakiism]] religion, which blamed the Elder Beings of Haki for all the suffering Htaevic Rouge's peoples had endured in the past centuries. The religion spread quickly throughout the poor serf class in Htaevic Rouge and Nokhta, and was subsequently banned in Unuvun and Meó. It was this religious fervor that would become the driving force behind the mass exodus of millions to Ivinis, where they would be "beyond the Elder Beings' cursed gaze".

History of Htaevic Rouge

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==Ancient Htaevic Rouge==
===Alotsë dynasty (6,312-6,537 Y)===
====Development of writing====
It was during the short Alotsë dynasty that Hotsan Gget developed the ''hlunliw'' writing system, originally to write down the oral poetry passed down through generations of monarchs. This soon spread through the royal class and became the predominant writing system throughout the empire.

====Royal cannibalism====
It's unclear when the tradition of eating ones ruler upon their death began, however it was already an integral part of succession during the Alotsë dynasty. The heir to a given fief, shire, et cetera was supposed to eat the dead ruler in order to inherit the right to rule. In the rare case that they refused, they would pass down the right to do so to the person next in line of succession, and so on. Only noblemen were allowed to eat the brain, which was considered to be where good karma was stored. In fact, noblemen often requested that commoners engaging in ritual cannibalism send the brain to the castle, where the nobleman could consume it and gain karma, thereby gaining a sort of "mandate" to rule over his fief. Nobody was allowed to eat the intestines, which was considered to be where bad karma was stored.

While processing the deceased ruler, shaman-chefs were employed to divinate fortunes from the arrangement of the ruler's internal organs, especially the idiosynchratic bends and curves of the intestines.

Traditionally, people were only allowed to eat one to three parts of the body depending on how close they were to the deceased. Fingers were eaten to increase ones dexterity, while the foot and liver were eaten in order to gain the 'wisdom' of the deceased. Choice cuts such as the thighs, biceps, calves, etc. were in general just considered to bring good health.

====Settlements====
In this era, the most important cities were:
* Baestamiw (present day [[Xol]]), located at the southern edge of the great rift, and the easternmost major city of the Alotsë.
* Cilawlyawre, located on the [[Yot]] river not too far from the Alotsë's border with the Hsuqlihts. This was the capital of the Alotsë dynasty and where they first experimented with building traditional ''Wzeliwhacan'' shrines.
* Renzhilyarë, a city located inland near a large aquifer and the largest gold mine in the world at the time.

===Riwnë dynasty (6537-6670 Y)===
The Riwnë ('faithful') dynasty was the shortest of all dynasties, lasting just 133 years. It ended due to extreme inbreeding within the family of ruling monarchs, resulting in ruler Tsahotë Riwnë having just 2 biological great grandparents, who themselves were first cousins. He died aged 14, royal legends stating 'a flood of evil spirits infested his lungs'. Modern historians suspect it was pulmonary oedema. The following dynasties developed a taboo on sibling, parent-child, and uncle-niece/aunt-nephew relationships. Cousin marriages did not develop a taboo.

===Burë dynasty (6,670-6,804 Y)===
The Burë dynasty saw the expansion of wzeliwhacan shrines across Htaevic territory, and the growth of political power in the priest class. Priest Kazhiw Lmget of the Lmtsahacan shrine said that, during one of his prayer sessions (likely using traditional psychedelics) the Messenger of Sin '''Lmtsa''' came to him and told him that the so-called 'Elder Beings of Haki' have recently acquired a divine power that they wish to bestow upon a chosen monarch on Pavala. He relayed this message to Emperor Stanzhi Burë who asked Kazhiw Lmget to head the [[Order of the Elder Beings]], a society of priests and scholars dedicated towards finding out more about these divine beings and figuring out how to grant the Burë line their secret powers.

==First Htaevic Empire (6,804-7,005 Y)==
Gradually, this order became more and more powerful until eventually they ruled the Htaevic empire in all but name; while they would grant the current Burë ruler the 'divine right' to rule over all of the Htaevic realm, the order would use its large bureaucracy to get its way in any disagreement with the imperial household. As the Htaevic's religious identity continued to strengthen they would eventually go to war against their northern neighbors, the Hsuqlihts, who followed the heretical [[Herlucc]] religion. This would eventually lead to the downfall of the First Htaevic Empire as the Hsuqlihts were more powerful and able to launch counter-invasions.

It was during the First Htaevic Empire that ironworking became widespread in the region. The First Htaevic Empire also drove out the native [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] inhabitants of the [[Shattered Islands]], known primarily for separating into clans based on their purple and green hair. The purple-haired inhabitants decided to migrate northwards into the Meó basin, while the green-haired inhabitants migrated southwards into Unuvun and displaced the native Konod people.

===City layout===
As the first Htaevic Empire spread throughout the [[Shattered Islands]], they established hundreds of new port cities, following a common city plan. There was a harbor, from which run a ''harbor road'' a kilometer or more inland until it reached the castle. The castles themselves were mostly built from mud or clay brick, supplemented with the limited wood nearby as needed.

Villas for the nobility were constructed in between the castle and the port, and were often surrounded by the ''inner wall''. Outside this wall was where the majority of the city's population lived. Wealthier cities oftentimes had a ''public wall'' constructed around the entire city. The Htaevics were a polytheistic people, and originally had a suite of generic gods for concepts like the rain, sun, wind, etc. They worshipped these gods by building '''wzeliwhacans''', a long stone row supported by stone columns, like Stonehenge but in a line instead of a circle. This stone row would be oriented perpendicular to Haki, so that all of the stones were visible from the planet. They would paint murals dedicated to individual gods on each of these massive stones in bright colors, and plant specific flowers and plants around each stone.

===Tsiriwn===
Over generations, much of the nobility of the Htaevic Empire became victims of a prion disease known as '''tsiriwn'''. This is because the nobility ate a lot of brain, which was where the prion disease would concentrate. The Order of the Elder Beings outlawed the consumption of diseased individuals, and instead began burning them, beginning a tradition of human cremation. However the disease still continued to spread through the nobility, incapacitating the ruling class of the empire and contributing to its downfall against the Hsuqlihts.

===Collapse to Hsuqlihta===
The First Htaevic Empire would gradually expand its holdings up the [[Yot River]] and into the [[Shattered Islands]] until its collapse during the [[Hsuqlihta]]n invasions.

==Hsuqlihtan rule (7,005-7,224 Y)==
The Hsuqlihts greatly influenced the development of Htaevic culture, spreading the octal number system, the [[Herlucc]] religion and their rudimentary democratic politics.

===Spread of Herlucc===
After conquering the Htaevic Empire, Hsuqlihta sought to spread their native Herlucc religion throughout the prosperous region. They decided upon a policy of synthesizing Herlucc with the native Htaevic polytheistic religion.

===End of cannibalism===
The new ruling Hsuqliht class strongly disapproved of cannibalism, however it was an integral part of Htaevic culture. Unrest grew in the various Htaevic tributaries, as the ruling Hsuqlihts would refuse to eat the human brains that they sent as tribute. The Hsuqlihts side stepped this controversy by hiring dedicated "brain eaters" to sit on the aristocratic court and eat all the brains sent as tribute. This satisfied most of the Htaevics. The Hsuqlihts became alarmed as, over the decades, these brain eaters became the only people in the aristocracy to die from tsiriwn.

As Herlucc spread throughout the former Htaevic Empire, a karmic crisis ensued over the practice of cannibalism. It had been common practice noble Htaevics to eat the brains of their deceased subjects in order to accumulate good karma, however under the principles of Htaevic Herlucc, accumulating too much good karma was viewed as a bad thing. Some began eating the intestines (traditional home of the "bad karma") alongside the brain in order to balance good and bad karma, however this failed to become widespread. Eating intestines was still considered highly taboo, and the nobility had a difficult time convincing the common folk to supply them an adequate amount of intestines (intestinal cremation was traditionally the second thing done upon somebody's death, after conducting divination). Additionally, it became common knowledge that the only people in the Hsuqliht aristocratic courts who died from tsiriwn were the ones who ate brains, so many began theorizing that tsiriwn was caused by cannibalism.

So both the Htaevic nobility and the Hsuqlihtan aristocracy agreed to end the practice of cannibalism, instead mandating that all bodies be burnt so that both the good karma from the brain and the bad karma from the intestines can be released back into Kanea. The bones and ashes were kept as a unique source of "neutral kanea" for various projects.

===Incorporation of Htaevic gods===
To gain legitimacy, the Hsuqlihts incorporated the Htaevic pantheon into Herlucc. They split the Htaevic pantheon into two based on karma, and ordered a rebuilding of all wzeliwhacans to incorporate this change. Wzeliwhacans were to be split in two - on the left of Haki would be gods of good karma, while on the right of Haki would be gods of bad karma. A dirt or cobblestone ''kanea road'' would run between these two sets of gods. Larger wzeliwhacans in major cities were adapted by removing the horizontal stones that ran atop the stone columns, and then carving the stone columns into moai-like heads.

==Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y)==
After the split of the Hsuqliht Empire in 7,224 Y, Emperor Lucclucc of the Southern Hsuqliht Empire declared that he had recieved divine right from the [[Elder Beings of Haki]] to conquer the entirety of Pavala in their name. He orchestrated great reforms to Htaevic Herlucc, declaring that, after passing the temples to the gods, the Kanea road would be briefly forked into two, and a temple devoted to the Southern Hsuqliht imperial family would be built. This symbolized how the imperial family had recieved their divine right from the Elder Beings of Haki. Emperor Lucclucc waged massive wars of conquest against the Meó, the Northern Hsuqliht Empire, and even parts of Nokhta.

===Establishment of the Haki Republic===
Emperor Lucclucc's wife gave birth to triplets, and it was never specified in what order they were born in. This caused controversy as the Southern Succlythian Empire now had no clear line of succession. Indeed, as the years passed all three children grew to be stunningly intelligent and articulate, further compounding the issue of choosing an heir. After the sudden death of Emperor Lucclucc, the three children and the governors of the empire's various territories convened to choose a successor. It was decided that they would vote for the next monarch. The votes showed a clear preference for Kuhnèi, since he spent a lot of time painting his 'visions' of the Elder Beings of Haki. He was proclaimed the first ''consul'' of the new '''Haki Republic'''.

During the Haki Republic, the language of [[Classical Htaevic]] flourished and eventually became a lingua franca across much of Delezia. The Htaevic script solidified into [[Classical Hlunliw]].

===Consuls of the Haki Republic===

{| class="wikitable"
! Consul !! Years !! Lineage !! Notes
|-
| Kuhnèi the Troubled || 7,249 - 7,268 (19 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || The first consul. Descended into schizophrenia in his later years.
|-
| Ofqùl/Wargël the Steady || 7,268 - 7,278 (10 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || Brother of Kuhnèi. Continued the expansion of the Haki Republic.
|-
| Rse Htë Loric || 7,278 - 7,284 (6 years) || House of Rse Htë || Influential merchant who made his fortunes taking control of the great gold mines of [[Hvalozd]]. Embezzled funds for years before enraged aristocrats ousted him and established the tradition of impeachment.
|-
| (...) || (...) || (...) || (...)
|-
| Fòsoja || 7,438 - 7,451 (13 years) || House of Meó || The first Meóese Consul. Well-known for being assassinated.
|-
| Tsapöt the Purple || 7451 - 7472 (21 years) || House of Sömblaw || First ethnically Hkamisëbiwmtë Consul. The government did not like that he, as an outsider, became leader and thus stripped away much of the power of the Consul. This and other events during Tsapöt's tenure would sow the seeds for the later civil war known as The Shattering. He was killed by a meteorite.
|-
| Hkancùtùsqòn the Dull || 7472 - 7485 (13 years) || House of Meó || Second cousin of Fòsoja. He was known for giving the Palace Court much more power, and stripping away much of the Consul's remaining powers. His rule marked the further decline of the Consul. He was generally unpopular to the Htaevic people and perceived as incompetent.
|-
| Hroljuje the Stern || 7485 - 7500 (15 years) ||House of Meó || Son of Hkancùtùsqòn. Hroljuje despised his father, and attempted to gain back power for the Consul, which he was somewhat successful in. The republic flourished under his reign, though it was authoritarian. He had a keen interest in the arts and cultural institutions of the republic and established many theatres.
|-
| Dan the Helpless || 7,500 - 7,520 (20 years) || House of Meó || The last consul, son of Hroljuje. He tried to implement reforms to give the rapidly growing Meó region more power within the Haki Republic government. But his reign was marked by incredible partisan gridlock, and after his assassination, the government was unable to choose a new heir and a civil war began.
|}

===Decline of the Haki Republic===
====Invasion of Unuvun====
{{CrossReference|History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace}}
The invasion of Unuvun by the Haki Republic is generally regarded as marking the beginning of the nation's troubled decline. As the republic became overstretched managing its many other conquests, such as Meó and Hvalozd, its army declined in quality and the ranks became corrupt. Originally thought to be an easy target, the backwater [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] states of Unuvun put up a courageous fight and exacted heavy casualties on the invading Republican forces. Though the Haki Republic was eventually able to assert control over the island, it was undeniably a Pyrrhic victory that still left the Unuvi with great autonomy.

====Assassination of Consul Fòsoja====
Consul Fòsoja's highest ranking servant, Bèje, plotted to assassinate Fòsoja and seize the throne for himself. The Consul's closest military advisor Klentkuf, however, exposed that Bèje had assassinated Fòsoja, at the same time as he was framing Fòsoja for planning to assassinate the Religious Minister Buwrët. This information enraged Buwrët as he felt it treasonous and detested the suggestion that Fòsoja would assassinate him, and did not believe that Consul Fòsoja's closest servant Bèje were to be capable of assassinating Fòsoja, as they were intimate friends beyond their consul-servant relationship. He then allied himself with Bèje, recognising him as the new Consul, and pressured the Palace Justice Demli into banishing Klentkuf into 'foreign lands'. Klentkuf was ultimately sent into the unruly Hkamisëbiwmtë lands south of the Htasei basin that had recently been the site of much violence and unrest, Justice Demli choosing such a place in an attempt that perhaps Klentkuf would be able to bring greater Hsuqliht influence there through his ruling prowess, despite the fact the Palace had found him treasonous. While in the lands, Klentkuf became allies with local rebel chief Tsapöt. After consolidating much power within the local region, Klentkuf and Tsapöt lead a small army to the Palace to attempt to burn it down, however the army was quashed by Buwrët's Order (an order of religious knights charged with defence of the palace). Palace Justice Demli then betrayed Buwrët, allying with Klentkuf and killing Bèje. This lead to a fight between Klentkuf and Demli in which they both killed each other, leaving Tsapöt to take control.

Despite being named after the Meó region, members of the House of Meó typically spoke Ancient Hsuqliht as a first language, and were of Hsuqliht or mixed ethnic background. Dan the helpless was one of the few members of the House of Meó to be of significant Meó descent, with his mother being ethnically Meó.

==Middle Ages (7,520-8,666 Y)==
===The Shattering (7,520-7,625 Y)===
After the death of Consul Dan in 7,520 Y, the regents' council tried and failed five times to elect a new consul due to deep factional polarization. Meó and Hvalozd then issued a joint declaration of independence in 7,521 Y, forming the [[First Rift Alliance]]. The First Rift Alliance quickly advanced towards the coasts of their respective regions, however they were unable to push inwards and pincer the Yot river basin.

In 7,523 Y, the Unuvi states declared independence, and together with the Nokhtan [[Second Zankhti League of Cities and Islands]] began a campaign of piracy along the southern Shattered Islands.

<wip>somehow the rest of the haki republic needs to shatter</wip>

===The 1,024 Year Spring===
The time period after the Shattering is commonly known as the [[1,024 Year Spring]] – a time of relative peace from approximately 7,625 Y to 8,650 Y during which the many former states of the Haki Republic flourished culturally and politically. It ended with the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into the region, killing over 40% of Htaevic Rouge's population. The self-proclaimed prophet [[Dropo]] gained a cult following and, after invoking divine right, reconquered much of Htaevic Rouge to form the [[Second Htaevic Empire]], of which he declare himself king (beneath the Elder Beings of Haki). The Second Htaevic Empire would last for an astonishing four hundred years until it fell to an expansionist Nokhta in 9,089 Y.

The emperor of the Second Htaevic Empire would flee to Unuvun, where he was welcomed and continued to rule as "emperor" of the Htaevic realm if only in name.

After a string of failed revolts in the 92nd century, as well as a series of famines and minor plagues, the monk [[Biplatzë Sagpawë]] developed the basic tenets of the [[Hakiism]] religion, which blamed the Elder Beings of Haki for all the suffering Htaevic Rouge's peoples had endured in the past centuries. The religion spread quickly throughout the poor serf class in Htaevic Rouge and Nokhta, and was subsequently banned in Unuvun and Meó. It was this religious fervor that would become the driving force behind the mass exodus of millions to Ivinis, where they would be "beyond the Elder Beings' cursed gaze".

History of Htaevic Rouge

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==Ancient Htaevic Rouge==
===Alotsë dynasty (6,312-6,537 Y)===
====Development of writing====
It was during the short Alotsë dynasty that Hotsan Gget developed the ''hlunliw'' writing system, originally to write down the oral poetry passed down through generations of monarchs. This soon spread through the royal class and became the predominant writing system throughout the empire.

====Royal cannibalism====
It's unclear when the tradition of eating ones ruler upon their death began, however it was already an integral part of succession during the Alotsë dynasty. The heir to a given fief, shire, et cetera was supposed to eat the dead ruler in order to inherit the right to rule. In the rare case that they refused, they would pass down the right to do so to the person next in line of succession, and so on. Only noblemen were allowed to eat the brain, which was considered to be where good karma was stored. In fact, noblemen often requested that commoners engaging in ritual cannibalism send the brain to the castle, where the nobleman could consume it and gain karma, thereby gaining a sort of "mandate" to rule over his fief. Nobody was allowed to eat the intestines, which was considered to be where bad karma was stored.

While processing the deceased ruler, shaman-chefs were employed to divinate fortunes from the arrangement of the ruler's internal organs, especially the idiosynchratic bends and curves of the intestines.

Traditionally, people were only allowed to eat one to three parts of the body depending on how close they were to the deceased. Fingers were eaten to increase ones dexterity, while the foot and liver were eaten in order to gain the 'wisdom' of the deceased. Choice cuts such as the thighs, biceps, calves, etc. were in general just considered to bring good health.

====Settlements====
In this era, the most important cities were:
* Baestamiw (present day [[Xol]]), located at the southern edge of the great rift, and the easternmost major city of the Alotsë.
* Cilawlyawre, located on the [[Yot]] river not too far from the Alotsë's border with the Hsuqlihts. This was the capital of the Alotsë dynasty and where they first experimented with building traditional ''Wzeliwhacan'' shrines.
* Renzhilyarë, a city located inland near a large aquifer and the largest gold mine in the world at the time.

===Riwnë dynasty (6537-6670 Y)===
The Riwnë ('faithful') dynasty was the shortest of all dynasties, lasting just 133 years. It ended due to extreme inbreeding within the family of ruling monarchs, resulting in ruler Tsahotë Riwnë having just 2 biological great grandparents, who themselves were first cousins. He died aged 14, royal legends stating 'a flood of evil spirits infested his lungs'. Modern historians suspect it was pulmonary oedema. The following dynasties developed a taboo on sibling, parent-child, and uncle-niece/aunt-nephew relationships. Cousin marriages did not develop a taboo.

===Burë dynasty (6,670-6,804 Y)===
The Burë dynasty saw the expansion of wzeliwhacan shrines across Htaevic territory, and the growth of political power in the priest class. Priest Kazhiw Lmget of the Lmtsahacan shrine said that, during one of his prayer sessions (likely using traditional psychedelics) the Messenger of Sin '''Lmtsa''' came to him and told him that the so-called 'Elder Beings of Haki' have recently acquired a divine power that they wish to bestow upon a chosen monarch on Pavala. He relayed this message to Emperor Stanzhi Burë who asked Kazhiw Lmget to head the [[Order of the Elder Beings]], a society of priests and scholars dedicated towards finding out more about these divine beings and figuring out how to grant the Burë line their secret powers.

==First Htaevic Empire (6,804-7,005 Y)==
Gradually, this order became more and more powerful until eventually they ruled the Htaevic empire in all but name; while they would grant the current Burë ruler the 'divine right' to rule over all of the Htaevic realm, the order would use its large bureaucracy to get its way in any disagreement with the imperial household. As the Htaevic's religious identity continued to strengthen they would eventually go to war against their northern neighbors, the Hsuqlihts, who followed the heretical [[Herlucc]] religion. This would eventually lead to the downfall of the First Htaevic Empire as the Hsuqlihts were more powerful and able to launch counter-invasions.

It was during the First Htaevic Empire that ironworking became widespread in the region. The First Htaevic Empire also drove out the native [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] inhabitants of the [[Shattered Islands]], known primarily for separating into clans based on their purple and green hair. The purple-haired inhabitants decided to migrate northwards into the Meó basin, while the green-haired inhabitants migrated southwards into Unuvun and displaced the native Konod people.

===City layout===
As the first Htaevic Empire spread throughout the [[Shattered Islands]], they established hundreds of new port cities, following a common city plan. There was a harbor, from which run a ''harbor road'' a kilometer or more inland until it reached the castle. The castles themselves were mostly built from mud or clay brick, supplemented with the limited wood nearby as needed.

Villas for the nobility were constructed in between the castle and the port, and were often surrounded by the ''inner wall''. Outside this wall was where the majority of the city's population lived. Wealthier cities oftentimes had a ''public wall'' constructed around the entire city. The Htaevics were a polytheistic people, and originally had a suite of generic gods for concepts like the rain, sun, wind, etc. They worshipped these gods by building '''wzeliwhacans''', a long stone row supported by stone columns, like Stonehenge but in a line instead of a circle. This stone row would be oriented perpendicular to Haki, so that all of the stones were visible from the planet. They would paint murals dedicated to individual gods on each of these massive stones in bright colors, and plant specific flowers and plants around each stone.

===Tsiriwn===
Over generations, much of the nobility of the Htaevic Empire became victims of a prion disease known as '''tsiriwn'''. This is because the nobility ate a lot of brain, which was where the prion disease would concentrate. The Order of the Elder Beings outlawed the consumption of diseased individuals, and instead began burning them, beginning a tradition of human cremation. However the disease still continued to spread through the nobility, incapacitating the ruling class of the empire and contributing to its downfall against the Hsuqlihts.

===Collapse to Hsuqlihta===
The First Htaevic Empire would gradually expand its holdings up the [[Yot River]] and into the [[Shattered Islands]] until its collapse during the [[Hsuqlihta]]n invasions.

==Hsuqlihtan rule (7,005-7,224 Y)==
The Hsuqlihts greatly influenced the development of Htaevic culture, spreading the octal number system, the [[Herlucc]] religion and their rudimentary democratic politics.

===Spread of Herlucc===
After conquering the Htaevic Empire, Hsuqlihta sought to spread their native Herlucc religion throughout the prosperous region. They decided upon a policy of synthesizing Herlucc with the native Htaevic polytheistic religion.

===End of cannibalism===
The new ruling Hsuqliht class strongly disapproved of cannibalism, however it was an integral part of Htaevic culture. Unrest grew in the various Htaevic tributaries, as the ruling Hsuqlihts would refuse to eat the human brains that they sent as tribute. The Hsuqlihts side stepped this controversy by hiring dedicated "brain eaters" to sit on the aristocratic court and eat all the brains sent as tribute. This satisfied most of the Htaevics. The Hsuqlihts became alarmed as, over the decades, these brain eaters became the only people in the aristocracy to die from tsiriwn.

As Herlucc spread throughout the former Htaevic Empire, a karmic crisis ensued over the practice of cannibalism. It had been common practice noble Htaevics to eat the brains of their deceased subjects in order to accumulate good karma, however under the principles of Htaevic Herlucc, accumulating too much good karma was viewed as a bad thing. Some began eating the intestines (traditional home of the "bad karma") alongside the brain in order to balance good and bad karma, however this failed to become widespread. Eating intestines was still considered highly taboo, and the nobility had a difficult time convincing the common folk to supply them an adequate amount of intestines (intestinal cremation was traditionally the first thing done upon somebody's death). Additionally, it became common knowledge that the only people in the Hsuqliht aristocratic courts who died from tsiriwn were the ones who ate brains, so many began theorizing that tsiriwn was caused by cannibalism.

So both the Htaevic nobility and the Hsuqlihtan aristocracy agreed to end the practice of cannibalism, instead mandating that all bodies be burnt so that both the good karma from the brain and the bad karma from the intestines can be released back into Kanea. The bones and ashes were kept as a unique source of "neutral kanea" for various projects.

===Incorporation of Htaevic gods===
To gain legitimacy, the Hsuqlihts incorporated the Htaevic pantheon into Herlucc. They split the Htaevic pantheon into two based on karma, and ordered a rebuilding of all wzeliwhacans to incorporate this change. Wzeliwhacans were to be split in two - on the left of Haki would be gods of good karma, while on the right of Haki would be gods of bad karma. A dirt or cobblestone ''kanea road'' would run between these two sets of gods. Larger wzeliwhacans in major cities were adapted by removing the horizontal stones that ran atop the stone columns, and then carving the stone columns into moai-like heads.

==Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y)==
After the split of the Hsuqliht Empire in 7,224 Y, Emperor Lucclucc of the Southern Hsuqliht Empire declared that he had recieved divine right from the [[Elder Beings of Haki]] to conquer the entirety of Pavala in their name. He orchestrated great reforms to Htaevic Herlucc, declaring that, after passing the temples to the gods, the Kanea road would be briefly forked into two, and a temple devoted to the Southern Hsuqliht imperial family would be built. This symbolized how the imperial family had recieved their divine right from the Elder Beings of Haki. Emperor Lucclucc waged massive wars of conquest against the Meó, the Northern Hsuqliht Empire, and even parts of Nokhta.

===Establishment of the Haki Republic===
Emperor Lucclucc's wife gave birth to triplets, and it was never specified in what order they were born in. This caused controversy as the Southern Succlythian Empire now had no clear line of succession. Indeed, as the years passed all three children grew to be stunningly intelligent and articulate, further compounding the issue of choosing an heir. After the sudden death of Emperor Lucclucc, the three children and the governors of the empire's various territories convened to choose a successor. It was decided that they would vote for the next monarch. The votes showed a clear preference for Kuhnèi, since he spent a lot of time painting his 'visions' of the Elder Beings of Haki. He was proclaimed the first ''consul'' of the new '''Haki Republic'''.

During the Haki Republic, the language of [[Classical Htaevic]] flourished and eventually became a lingua franca across much of Delezia. The Htaevic script solidified into [[Classical Hlunliw]].

===Consuls of the Haki Republic===

{| class="wikitable"
! Consul !! Years !! Lineage !! Notes
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| Kuhnèi the Troubled || 7,249 - 7,268 (19 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || The first consul. Descended into schizophrenia in his later years.
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| Ofqùl/Wargël the Steady || 7,268 - 7,278 (10 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || Brother of Kuhnèi. Continued the expansion of the Haki Republic.
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| Rse Htë Loric || 7,278 - 7,284 (6 years) || House of Rse Htë || Influential merchant who made his fortunes taking control of the great gold mines of [[Hvalozd]]. Embezzled funds for years before enraged aristocrats ousted him and established the tradition of impeachment.
|-
| (...) || (...) || (...) || (...)
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| Fòsoja || 7,438 - 7,451 (13 years) || House of Meó || The first Meóese Consul. Well-known for being assassinated.
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| Tsapöt the Purple || 7451 - 7472 (21 years) || House of Sömblaw || First ethnically Hkamisëbiwmtë Consul. The government did not like that he, as an outsider, became leader and thus stripped away much of the power of the Consul. This and other events during Tsapöt's tenure would sow the seeds for the later civil war known as The Shattering. He was killed by a meteorite.
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| Hkancùtùsqòn the Dull || 7472 - 7485 (13 years) || House of Meó || Second cousin of Fòsoja. He was known for giving the Palace Court much more power, and stripping away much of the Consul's remaining powers. His rule marked the further decline of the Consul. He was generally unpopular to the Htaevic people and perceived as incompetent.
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| Hroljuje the Stern || 7485 - 7500 (15 years) ||House of Meó || Son of Hkancùtùsqòn. Hroljuje despised his father, and attempted to gain back power for the Consul, which he was somewhat successful in. The republic flourished under his reign, though it was authoritarian. He had a keen interest in the arts and cultural institutions of the republic and established many theatres.
|-
| Dan the Helpless || 7,500 - 7,520 (20 years) || House of Meó || The last consul, son of Hroljuje. He tried to implement reforms to give the rapidly growing Meó region more power within the Haki Republic government. But his reign was marked by incredible partisan gridlock, and after his assassination, the government was unable to choose a new heir and a civil war began.
|}

===Decline of the Haki Republic===
====Invasion of Unuvun====
{{CrossReference|History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace}}
The invasion of Unuvun by the Haki Republic is generally regarded as marking the beginning of the nation's troubled decline. As the republic became overstretched managing its many other conquests, such as Meó and Hvalozd, its army declined in quality and the ranks became corrupt. Originally thought to be an easy target, the backwater [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] states of Unuvun put up a courageous fight and exacted heavy casualties on the invading Republican forces. Though the Haki Republic was eventually able to assert control over the island, it was undeniably a Pyrrhic victory that still left the Unuvi with great autonomy.

====Assassination of Consul Fòsoja====
Consul Fòsoja's highest ranking servant, Bèje, plotted to assassinate Fòsoja and seize the throne for himself. The Consul's closest military advisor Klentkuf, however, exposed that Bèje had assassinated Fòsoja, at the same time as he was framing Fòsoja for planning to assassinate the Religious Minister Buwrët. This information enraged Buwrët as he felt it treasonous and detested the suggestion that Fòsoja would assassinate him, and did not believe that Consul Fòsoja's closest servant Bèje were to be capable of assassinating Fòsoja, as they were intimate friends beyond their consul-servant relationship. He then allied himself with Bèje, recognising him as the new Consul, and pressured the Palace Justice Demli into banishing Klentkuf into 'foreign lands'. Klentkuf was ultimately sent into the unruly Hkamisëbiwmtë lands south of the Htasei basin that had recently been the site of much violence and unrest, Justice Demli choosing such a place in an attempt that perhaps Klentkuf would be able to bring greater Hsuqliht influence there through his ruling prowess, despite the fact the Palace had found him treasonous. While in the lands, Klentkuf became allies with local rebel chief Tsapöt. After consolidating much power within the local region, Klentkuf and Tsapöt lead a small army to the Palace to attempt to burn it down, however the army was quashed by Buwrët's Order (an order of religious knights charged with defence of the palace). Palace Justice Demli then betrayed Buwrët, allying with Klentkuf and killing Bèje. This lead to a fight between Klentkuf and Demli in which they both killed each other, leaving Tsapöt to take control.

Despite being named after the Meó region, members of the House of Meó typically spoke Ancient Hsuqliht as a first language, and were of Hsuqliht or mixed ethnic background. Dan the helpless was one of the few members of the House of Meó to be of significant Meó descent, with his mother being ethnically Meó.

==Middle Ages (7,520-8,666 Y)==
===The Shattering (7,520-7,625 Y)===
After the death of Consul Dan in 7,520 Y, the regents' council tried and failed five times to elect a new consul due to deep factional polarization. Meó and Hvalozd then issued a joint declaration of independence in 7,521 Y, forming the [[First Rift Alliance]]. The First Rift Alliance quickly advanced towards the coasts of their respective regions, however they were unable to push inwards and pincer the Yot river basin.

In 7,523 Y, the Unuvi states declared independence, and together with the Nokhtan [[Second Zankhti League of Cities and Islands]] began a campaign of piracy along the southern Shattered Islands.

<wip>somehow the rest of the haki republic needs to shatter</wip>

===The 1,024 Year Spring===
The time period after the Shattering is commonly known as the [[1,024 Year Spring]] – a time of relative peace from approximately 7,625 Y to 8,650 Y during which the many former states of the Haki Republic flourished culturally and politically. It ended with the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into the region, killing over 40% of Htaevic Rouge's population. The self-proclaimed prophet [[Dropo]] gained a cult following and, after invoking divine right, reconquered much of Htaevic Rouge to form the [[Second Htaevic Empire]], of which he declare himself king (beneath the Elder Beings of Haki). The Second Htaevic Empire would last for an astonishing four hundred years until it fell to an expansionist Nokhta in 9,089 Y.

The emperor of the Second Htaevic Empire would flee to Unuvun, where he was welcomed and continued to rule as "emperor" of the Htaevic realm if only in name.

After a string of failed revolts in the 92nd century, as well as a series of famines and minor plagues, the monk [[Biplatzë Sagpawë]] developed the basic tenets of the [[Hakiism]] religion, which blamed the Elder Beings of Haki for all the suffering Htaevic Rouge's peoples had endured in the past centuries. The religion spread quickly throughout the poor serf class in Htaevic Rouge and Nokhta, and was subsequently banned in Unuvun and Meó. It was this religious fervor that would become the driving force behind the mass exodus of millions to Ivinis, where they would be "beyond the Elder Beings' cursed gaze".

Calendar

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Pavala has had a diverse array of calendars, many of which remain in use to the present day.

==Meta calendar==
The '''Meta calendar'' is the primary calendar used on this wiki. No actual Pavalan society uses the Meta calendar, but it is used to more intuitively keep track of time due to every year in the Meta calendar being approximately one Earth year. Present-day [[Pavala]] is around 10,000 Y, and each biennium (corresponding to a single 'Y') is composed of two Pavala-years: the first is known as the 'former' annum and the second as the 'latter' anum. For example, the first day of 9,000 Y would be written as ''1 former 9,000 Y'', while the last day of 9,000 Y would be written as ''168 latter 9,000 Y''.

* Bienniums are numbered beginning from 1.
** Biennium 1 is approximately the start of agriculture.
* There are 168 days in an annum, and two annums per biennium.
** The two annums are numbered from 1 to 2
** The 168 days are numbered from 1 to 168
** Every 7 annums a leap day is added.

* Dates are written ''BBBBB/A/DDD'', or alternatively, ''DDD [former/latter] BB,BBB''
** The 67th day of the 2nd annum of 7732 would be written ''7,732/1/66'', or alternatively, ''67 latter 7,732''
*** The leading zeroes are optional
* Day zero is the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere

Via the assumption that seasons begin at their equinoxes and solstices:
*'''Northern Hemisphere''':
**Spring is from days 1-42
**Summer is from days 43-84
**Fall is from days 85-126
**Winter is from days 127-168
*'''Southern Hemisphere''':
**Fall is from days 1-42
**Winter is from days 43-84
**Spring is from days 85-126
**Summer is from days 127-168

==Htaevic Delezian Calendar==
The ancient Htaevics used base-8 however they realized that if they used weeks that were 8-days long there would be 21 weeks in a year, which was not divisible by two. So instead they opted for a 6-day week with 28 such weeks in a year. They divided the year into two halves, Dry and Wet. The traditional format for writing Htaevic dates is YYYY-M-WW-D. For example, the last day of the year 2000 would be written as 2000-2-14-6. Leap-days exist outside the week-month system.
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! Original Season
! Week
! Features
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! rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;" | Dry
| Week 1
| Eclipse season (peaking); post-spring equinox
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| Week 2
| Eclipse season (weakening)
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| Week 3
| Eclipse season (ends)
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| Week 4
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| Week 8
| Post-summer solstice
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| Week 11
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| Week 12
| Eclipse season (starts)
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| Week 13
| Eclipse season (strengthening)
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| Week 14
| Eclipse season (peak)
|-
! rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;" | Wet
| Week 1
| Eclipse season (peak); post-fall equinox
|-
| Week 2
| Eclipse season (weakening)
|-
| Week 3
| Eclipse season (ends)
|-
| Week 4
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| Week 5
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| Week 6
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| Week 7
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| Week 8
| Post-winter solstice
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| Week 9
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| Week 10
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| Week 11
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| Week 12
| Eclipse season (starts)
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| Week 13
| Eclipse season (strengthening)
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| Week 14
| Eclipse season (peaking)
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===Leap days===
Each Pavalan tropical year is '''168.1563''' days. In the era of the first Htaevic empire, it was not known to this precision. However they knew that if they added a leap day every 8 years, and a second leap day on top of that every 32 years, they could keep their calendar roughly in sync (0.156308129 - 1/8 - 1/32 = 0.000058129 days of drift per 32-year cycle). They usually occur at the end of the year and would be written as 2000-3-1-1. Years with two leap-days would have the second one be written as 2000-3-1-2.

===Week days===
The Htaevic calendar has six week days. To gain mass appeal they designed it such that each week day honored a part of Delezia.
[[File:Delezian calendar lore.png|thumb|left|Caption]]

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Pavala has had a diverse array of calendars, many of which remain in use to the present day.

==Meta calendar==
The '''Meta calendar'' is the primary calendar used on this wiki. No actual Pavalan society uses the Meta calendar, but it is used to more intuitively keep track of time due to every year in the Meta calendar being approximately one Earth year. Present-day [[Pavala]] is around 10,000 Y, and each biennium (corresponding to a single 'Y') is composed of two Pavala-years: the first is known as the 'former' annum and the second as the 'latter' anum. For example, the first day of 9,000 Y would be written as ''1 former 9,000 Y'', while the last day of 9,000 Y would be written as ''168 latter 9,000 Y''.

* Bienniums are numbered beginning from 1.
** Biennium 1 is approximately the start of agriculture.
* There are 168 days in an annum, and two annums per biennium.
** The two annums are numbered from 1 to 2
** The 168 days are numbered from 1 to 168
** Every 7 annums a leap day is added.

* Dates are written ''BBBBB/A/DDD'', or alternatively, ''DDD [former/latter] BB,BBB''
** The 67th day of the 2nd annum of 7732 would be written ''7,732/1/66'', or alternatively, ''67 latter 7,732''
*** The leading zeroes are optional
* Day zero is the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere

Via the assumption that seasons begin at their equinoxes and solstices:
*'''Northern Hemisphere''':
**Spring is from days 1-42
**Summer is from days 43-84
**Fall is from days 85-126
**Winter is from days 127-168
*'''Southern Hemisphere''':
**Fall is from days 1-42
**Winter is from days 43-84
**Spring is from days 85-126
**Summer is from days 127-168

==Htaevic Calendar==
Each Pavalan tropical year is '''168.1563''' days. In the era of the first Htaevic empire, it was not known to this precision. However they knew that if they added a leap day every 8 years, and a second leap day on top of that every 32 years, they could keep their calendar roughly in sync (0.156308129 - 1/8 - 1/32 = 0.000058129 days of drift per 32-year cycle). The ancient Htaevics used base-8 however they realized that if they used weeks that were 8-days long there would be 21 weeks in a year, which was not divisible by two. So instead they opted for a 6-day week with 28 such weeks in a year. They divided the year into two halves, Dry and Wet.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Htaevic Calendar
|-
! Original Season
! Week
! Features
|-
! rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;" | Dry
| Week 1
| Eclipse season (peaking); post-spring equinox
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| Week 2
| Eclipse season (weakening)
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| Week 3
| Eclipse season (ends)
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| Week 4
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| Week 5
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| Week 6
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| Week 7
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| Week 8
| Post-summer solstice
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| Week 9
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| Week 10
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| Week 11
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|-
| Week 12
| Eclipse season (starts)
|-
| Week 13
| Eclipse season (strengthening)
|-
| Week 14
| Eclipse season (peak)
|-
! rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;" | Wet
| Week 15
| Eclipse season (peak); post-fall equinox
|-
| Week 16
| Eclipse season (weakening)
|-
| Week 17
| Eclipse season (ends)
|-
| Week 18
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| Week 19
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| Week 20
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| Week 21
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| Week 22
| Post-winter solstice
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| Week 23
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| Week 24
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| Week 25
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| Week 26
| Eclipse season (starts)
|-
| Week 27
| Eclipse season (strengthening)
|-
| Week 28
| Eclipse season (peaking)
|}

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[[File:Haki.png|thumb|right|400px|Haki as viewed from the surface of Pavala, during an eclipse.]]
The '''Pavhaki''' universe is an attempt to answer one very big question: what if, since the dawn of humanity, there had been a large, habitable planet hanging in the sky waiting to be explored? The canon of this universe has been in continuous refinement since July of 2016. It is the spiritual successor to the Universalis project, which began in 2012 and whose wiki can be found [http://paladinofstorms.net/w/index.php?title=Main_Page here]
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= Recommended reading =
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'''Please learn the timekeeping units of the Pavhaki wiki before jumping into the topics below. You can find the timekeeping units in the [[Wiki Tour]].'''

* [[Cultures]]
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* [[Timeline]]
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==Engineering==

* [[Strawberry-5]]
* [[Transportation in the Nautical Peace]]

==Histories==

* [[History of Edeto]]
* [[History of Kareŋ]]
* [[History of Amalthea]]
* [[History of Ganuo]]
* [[Hacese History|History of Hac]]
* [[Nichan History|History of Nicho]]
* [[History of Idiba]]
* [[History of Meó]]
* [[History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace]]
* [[History of Htaevic Rouge]]
* [[History of Nokhta]]
** [[Rokhtaera#History|History of Rokhtaera]]
* [[History of Succlythia]]
** [[Succlythia]]
* [[History of industrialization]]

* [[Exploration of Ivinis]]

* [[List of disasters by cost]]
* [[Geologic time scale]]

===Measurement===
* [[Calendar]]

===Religions===

* [[Hakiism]]
* [[Siela|Cziela]]
* [[Herlucc]]
* [[Raiwlawism]]

===Events===

* [[Sophoratigh Extraction]]

==People==
* [[List of Unuvunese people]]

* [[Artsa Arye]]

==Lists==

* [[List of countries by population]]
* [[List of metropolitan areas by population]]
* [[Global Cities]]
* [[List of islands by area]]
* [[List of lakes by area]]
* [[List of continents by area]]
* [[List of writing systems]]
* [[List of exceptionally influential people]]
* [[List of diseases]]

==Meteorology==
✿ Kalassak's stuff

* [[Guide:Tropical cyclone basins]]
* [[Tropical cyclone scales]]
* [[Tropical cyclone naming]]
* [[Amalthea Meteorological Collaboration]]
* [http://paladinofstorms.net/w/index.php?title=19614_South_Uqe_cyclone_season WRF Test 1 & 2 (March 2018)]
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=Attire=
==Bird masks==
{{CrossReference|History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace}}
During the 75th century, Unuvun was under the rule of the Haki Republic. Birds, common in Unuvun due to the island's many trees, became a symbol of resistance for the Raiwlawbiwmtë people, and began playing a part in secret Raiwlawbiwmtë gatherings. Even after the collapse of the Haki Republic and subsequent flourishing of the independent Unuvi states, birds remained a key motif in religious ceremonies. In the 80th century a priestess named Fushigë was obsessed with birds and began making her disciples wear simple bird masks over their eyes and nose that were based off the different birds that she kept in her aviary. Then in the 81st century, when the <wip>Imperial Plain</wip> civilization began establishing its <wip>university-monasteries</wip>, they appointed Fushigë's disciple Robolon into a key position and he used his influence to make sure that students wore <wip>bird masks</wip> during prayer.

As these university-monasteries became more important in Imperial Plain society, the practice spread from them to other parts of the upper class such as the nobility. Bird masks soon became a key signal of loyalty to the imperial government and only became more important after the unification of Unuvun in the 82nd century. The tradition trickled down to the lower classes and commoners became accustomed to wearing bird masks when interacting with the nobility, or when visiting shrines and temples.

Bird masks gradually fell out of favor during the mid-late 9th millenium, before suddenly being revived in the 94th century with the ascension of Fihano Pazhil to the throne. Bird masks resumed most of their previous functions and even gained some new ones. Chena Tise mandated that bird masks be worn for oral interviews for bureaucratic positions as this would help reduce bias. Chena Tise was disfigured around the eyes and very self conscious about it, believing that her career was negatively impacted.

When one was sick, and during pandemics in general, it became standard practice to wear a full-face bird mask somewhat like a plague doctor's mask. The beak was extended and filled with material that happened to make it harder for diseases to transmit, although they didn't really know what they were doing back then. As technology advanced including the development of surgical mask materials, the full-face bird masks were optimized and noses shortened back to be closer to their previous length. There also exist combination bird mask-green wigs, which those without green hair can opt to wear outside instead of dyeing.

Unuvi gas masks have a signature bird look to them. Gatherings such as birthday parties often include disposable bird masks. Modern day bird masks often only cover the lower part of the eye in order to show the eyebrow and better convey facial expressions, although this comes at the cost of anonymity. On the other hand, it is not strange at all to wear a full-face bird mask in a public space, and indeed people often wear these while committing crimes to preserve their anonymity.

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{{Place
| name = Unuvun
| location = [[Htaevic Rouge]]
| part of = [[Unuvi Archipelago]]
| adjacent water = [[Forbidden Sea]]<br />[[Green Sea]]
| area = 129,000 sq. km
| width = 15-200 km (80km avg.)
| highest elevation = 3302 m
| highest point = [[Mount Durime]]
| country = [[Nautical Peace]]
| largest settlement = [[Yuuvei]] (pop. 73,000,000)
| population = 114,000,000
| ethnic groups = [[Unuvi]]
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The island of '''Unuvun''' is the principal island in the [[Unuvi Archipelago]]. Located on the southern rim of [[Delezia-Hazele]], its climate is dominated by the global circumpolar current, which bring torrential amounts of rain to the western plains of the island. It is one of the [[Cultural Hearths of Pavala|cultural hearths of Pavala]] as it was here that the [[Ancient Unuvun|Udàshe]] developed.

== Etymology ==

The name Unuvun is an endonym, derived from the Old [[Unuvi Language|Unuvi]] phrase ''un u vun'' (lit: 'land at corner'). Though, it is technically an exonym as the literal translation was adapted from the name commonly used by other states in the [[Htaevic Rouge]].

== Geology ==

[[File:Unuvun_Tectonic_Evolution.png|thumb|left]]The Unuvun archipelago has a complex geological history. It began as an island chain accreting off the southern coast of Delezia. A large terrane split off from Nokhta and began traveling in the direction of the young Proto-Unuvun. At around the same time, a back-arc basin formed and the volcanic arc of Proto-Unuvun migrated westwards. The Nokhtan terrane then made contact with Proto-Unuvun around modern-day Yuuvei and around its southern end, forming the Pacific Lake and the western mountain range. The north of Unuvun's left peninsula is still dominated by active volcanoes fueled by the subducting ancient oceanic crust of the Unuvun plate. Meanwhile, the Hsuvei Plain is overriding the Delezian plate and closing the Pacific Lake. Should current trajectories continue, the Pacific Lake will cease to exist and The Flow may continue to widen slightly.

=== Pacific Lake ===

The Pacific Lake has an unusual origin as it is the product of a back-arc basin and thus has a seafloor bottom. In its southern portion it reaches a maximum depth of 1942 meters.
== Ecology ==

The island can be mainly divided into three separate sections: The flat southwest, hilly north-central and fjord-carved east. The southwest plains, mainly the [[Hsuvei Plain]], have long been developed into an agricultural heartland. However, forests of indigenous <redwood trees> still remain in the hilly north and central regions, reaching upwards of a hundred meters in height. The vast majority of the trees on the island are evergreen, and there are numerous different species of fruits trees that have been cultivated.

== History ==
''Main article: [[History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace]]''

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Unuvun has been inhabited by tool users for more than 100,000 years. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of stone tools as well as ''[[Homo unuvifelis]]'' ("Unuvi cat-man") dating back to approximately 120,000 B.Y. Homo unuvifelis was then displaced by an initial wave of ''Homo sapiens'' from southern [[Nokhta]] approximately 45,000 years ago, who then combined with another wave of humans from Hsuqlihta approximately 25,000 years ago and yet another wave of humans from [[Lysteriok]] 18,000 years ago. These three ancient groups of people together form the Memba people, who inhabited Unuvun for the subsequent 23,000 years until their displacement around 6,800 Y by the green-haired [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] people from the [[Shattered Islands]]. Genome research shows that modern Unuvi people inherit approximately 90% of their genome from the Raiwlawbiwmtë people, and the remaining 10% from the Memba people.

Writing first spread into Unuvun during [[1024 Year Spring]], when various merchantile states in the southern [[Shattered Islands]] began trading with the Unuvi people in the 82nd century, as well as establishing small colonies along the northern half of Unuvun. This exchange of culture and technology would last until the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into Unuvun during the 87th century, after which [[Emperor Akuush]] expelled all foreigners from Unuvun and took control over the Htaevic colonial ports. Unuvun would then repel several attempted invasions by the [[Second Htaevic Empire]] throughout the next several centuries until the collapse of the Second Htaevic Empire to an expansionist Nokhta in the 91st century. It was during the 9th millenium that Unuvi culture flourished in a period known as Udarshe civilization. Udarshe civilization would gradually decline due to cultural stagnation and infighting in the 92nd and 93rd centuries, and the island was invaded by [[Idetka]] in the 94th.

=Raiwlawbiwmtë civilization=

==Migration into Unuvun==
The Raiwlawbiwmtë had been visiting Unuvun and trading with the native Memba people since the mid-7th millenium. They established many small settlements along the northern half of the island, though they were hindered by the unusually cold and rainy climate of Unuvun, which proved unsuitable to many of the crops they brought with them from the Shattered Islands. But in the seaside villages that did exist, the residents began experimenting with the domestication of crops such as '''fusave''', a rice-like grain. Indeed, by approximately 6,700 Y fusave grain had been sufficiently domesticated to replace gathering and fishing as the main means of nutrition for the Raiwlawbimtë settlers.

A century later, in 6,800 Y, the Htavic Empire began their invasion of the Raiwlawbiwmtë's homeland, the Shattered Islands. The Raiwlawbiwmtë were outmatched and hundreds of thousands of them migrated to Unuvun over the century, completely displacing the native Memba population and turning the once backwater island into a thriving bronze age civilization. The largest of the Raiwlawbiwmtë settlements was called '''Re''', and it was located in the large coastal plain on the northeastern coast of Unuvun. Though the Raiwlawbiwmtë had an unusually flat hierarchy back in the Shattered Islands, when they migrated to Unuvun the most powerful and influential clans all migrated to the area around Re, creating a power imbalance that quickly centralized Raiwlawbiwmtë civilization in the early-mid 8th century.

The Raiwlawbiwmtë that migrated to Unuvun were predominantly the green-haired ones, and some Raiwlawbiwmtë became obsessed with turning their hair even more green than it already was, leading to the development of the first permanent green hair dyes. As this new invention spread among the upper class, it soon became a requirement in order to hold political office or own land.

Their complex oral tradition known as the Raiwlaw had long been decentralized, but the growing influence of Re and its surrounding villages gradually strained it until in the 7200s, with the introduction of writing from the Haki Republic, the legal component was transformed into the written '''Tsakka Code'''. The Tsakka Code was painted onto large wooden boards and transported to villages throughout Unuvun. Every year, clan heads would travel to Re in order to attend the yikt - a week long ceremony in which they all attended various affairs such as judging trials, suggesting new laws, and resolving disputes. Clan heads also brought their clan shaman with them for religious rites. At the end of the yikt, they would debate amendments to the Tsakka Code. And at the end of every eight years, a new Tsakka code with all the amendments would be finalized and shipped off to all of Unuvun's villages.

==Invasion by the Haki Republic (7,394-7,523 Y)==
{{CrossReference|History of Htaevic Rouge}}
The Haki Republic launched their invasion of Unuvun in 7,394 Y, however by then the Raiwlawbiwmtë states had grown prosperous due to centuries of peace and trade, and were able to field moderate armies that repelled the first few waves of highly mismanaged Republican invasion. However, the sheer quantity of Republican soldiers eventually overwhelmed the Raiwlawbiwmtë and Unuvun soon came under Republican control. The Haki Republic tried to assert its rule over the Unuvi by forcing them to burn and bury their Tsakka codes, however in protest the Unuvi began building large stone monuments over the remnants of their old Tsakka codes, as well as returing to their old oral tradition of having anonymous shamans memorize and recite the Tsakka code. The Unuvi ran a parallel underground legal system, and used cues such as fluency in Unuvi and green hair in order to secretly be more lenient on people tried for crimes that were illegal under Republican law but permissible under Unuvi law. In the late 7,400s, they began to mix in the ashes of esteemed clan members (often executed by the Republicans) into the stone monuments that they built over the Tsakka code's remnants.

==Pyramid Age (7,523 Y -)==
As the Raiwlawbiwmtë spread into the rest of Unuvun under Republican rule, several large competitors to the city of Re began to spring up. These included the city of Zhavei on the imperial plain, and the city of Nuevë towards the eastern edge of the island. While Re was still the most prestigious city on the island, these other cities wanted to showcase their growing power and as a result began to construct increasingly large pyramids. One famous pyramid, the '''Cataracts Pyramid''' in Zhavei, took over twenty years to construct and housed the ashes of over five thousand Zhavei citizens. It was surrounded by two moats filled with water from the Pacific lake, which in turn was surrounded by a massive shrine complex to pay respects to those buried inside of the pyramid.

To showcase the dedication and astuteness of their citizens, many of the pyramids in Nueve were staffed by the '''Haki Watchmen'''. They were required to face towards Haki at all times, standing atop the pyramid. A series of messengers asked the watchmen for status updates once per hour, and the watchmen were required to reply "Nothing to report" or, if in the case of an eclipse, "Bolek gathers his men".

= The Fractured Era =
As the other settlements of Unuvun continued to grow in power relative to Re, tension began to build since the vast majority of the island's political power remained concentrated in Re. The tribal chiefs of Re attempted to compromise by hosting a yikt in Zhavei, closer to the geographic center of the island. However at the Zhavei yikt a fight broke out due to an ex-marital affair in which two tribal chiefs from Re were killed, causing the yikt to be abandoned. A second yikt was scheduled later in Re, however the chiefs of Zhavei refused to show up and claimed that their yikt at Zhavei was legitimate. The next year, three yikts were hosted. One in Zhavei, one in Re and one <wip>somewhere else</wip>. And then the year after, five concurrent yikts were hosted, fracturing the island further into many individual states. Over the ensuing centuries these individual states began to develop their own unique identities.

=== 77th and 78th centuries ===
* The Re League leaned into a sea-fairing, merchantile identity and became synonymous with trade in the southern half of the Htaevic sea. It became something of a plutocracy dominated by merchants descended from the old clan heads.
* The Imperial Plain claimed to be the most legitimate of the successor states, becoming a highly centralized state that valued the construction of massive monuments. They formalized [[Raiwlawism]] by writing down the then-traditionally oral Raiwlawbiwmtë religion. They established a system of high priests, monks and more.
* The small, isolated states of Unuvun's southern and south-eastern coasts were more laid back, as the land was colder and less fertile here. Villages were smaller, and on the south-eastern coast often tucked deep into isolated fjords. There was a string of famous mathematicians who re-derived knowledge that rivalled and surpassed what could be found in the libraries of the Shattered Islands.

=== 79th century ===
* The <wip>Re league</wip> gradually became more and more centralized under the power of a single merchant family who eventually declared themselves royalty.
* The Imperial Plain continued to grow and prosper, and expanded southwards to integrate some of the isolated fjord states.
* The eastern peninsula of Unuvun was taken over by the Sinchuknu sea peoples.
* The southern fjord dwellers made great advances in astronomy, navigating beyond Haki's gaze to the islands south and west of Unuvun.

=== 80th century ===
* The <wip>Re League</wip> lost a lot of territory after its Shattered Islands holdings were scooped up by more powerful states in the area. They decided to start trading with the Nokhtans after they struck literal gold.
* The Imperial Plain had by this time integrated most of the isolated fjord states, and those who were unhappy with the new management used their mathematics to go colonize the fringe islands away from Unuvun to the south and west. A really famous philosopher with green hair from somewhere in Meó decided to move to Unuvun, and his disciples became really inspired and had a lot of very impressive thoughts. Some of these thoughts included the idea that (1) we should be more willing to accept foreigners as long as they dye their hair green (2) there is a correct order in which to do almost every task. They also began wearing shoulder pads.
* the Sinchuknu sea peoples kinda just vibed and started doing Sinchuknu things in the eastern peninsula

=== 81st century ===
* The <wip>Re League</wip> spent a lot of manpower and money scooping up islands in between them and Nokhta. They almost finished doing it when another more powerful state tried to take them over again. They got pissed off and used their Nokhtan connections to make sure that state would never be able to challenge them again.
* Imperial Plain established this thing that was kinda like a university-monastery. They had more thinkers and also sent people to the Shattered Islands to do some thinking together and spread Raiwlawism. They were kind of over their pyramids phase so they started building cool gardens with small temples. The thinkers thought in the garden and the monks prayed in the temple. Then they had these dialogues.
* The big Sinchuknu sea peoples empire fractured into a bunch of pieces and the eastern peninsula gained its independence, though under the rule of a dirty brown hair.

= First Unification =

=== 82nd century ===
* The Reconquest of Unuvun begins in earnest as the Imperial Plain and Re League team up in order to subjugate the eastern peninsula. Afterwards, they give the brown haired Sinchuknu people citizenship if and only if they dye their hair green<ref>https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/why-rome/</ref>.
* Re is weakened in a series of wars where it tries to defend its Shattered Islands territories from other aggressors. Imperial Plain state takes the opportunity to subjugate Re, and the merchant monarchy moves off to some random Shattered Islands island.

=== 83rd century ===
* The Imperial-Plain <wip>Jason the Infertile</wip> is unable to produce a heir, and as a result various factions vie for dominance. Backed by powerful Htaevic states, <wip>Gwynne the Blinded</wip> from the eastern peninsula ascends to the throne, and moves the capital to the eastern peninsula. This is the first time it's ever been there.

=== 84th century ===
* As a compromise, the capital is moved a bit westward to Fihano by <wip>Howard the Sickly</wip>.
* <wip>Howard II</wip> implements sweeping reforms that, among other things, establish a national road and ferry system. He also leads the conquest of many islands between Unuvun and Sinchuknu.

=Age of Exploration=

==Establishment of the Imperial Capital (~9,200)==

In the late 91st century, the green-haired [[Emperor Hkämman]] of the Second Htaevic Empire fled to Unuvun, accompanied by a small army. At the time Unuvun was divided between several warring factions, and two of the largest ones threw their support behind Hkämman and helped him conquer the island. Afterwards, he settled down in Zhavei and commissioned the construction of the Green Imperial Palace (in direct reference to the famous [[Crimson Imperial Palace]] on the Yot river.

Emperor Hkämman decided that, in order to establish full control over Unuvun, he should marry one of the leading dynasties of the island. Many speculated that he would marry Akamuhanatä, Merchant Princess of Re, as the Re dynasty was the largest and most powerful in Unuvun. Additionally, as the merchantile republic was so heavily intertwined with trade in the Shattered Islands, they played a major part in helping Emperor Hkämman escape to Unuvun. Furthermore, the decision to base his rule out of Zhavei as opposed to the republic's capital city of Re had already angered the dynasty. However, Hkämman was overcome by the beauty of the young Queen Shena of Pazhil, who ruled a small yet influential city-state on the western shore of [[The Flow]]. The two married in what was known as the [[Verdaqua]] Wedding, establishing the Pazhil imperial family as an offshoot of the Htaevic imperial family. At the Verdaqua wedding, <wip>something bad happens.</wip>

==Invasion by Idetka (9,315-9,334 Y)==

===Invasion years (9,315-9,321)===

After the [[Great Famine of 9,312]], the [[Pazhil Dynasty]] was significantly weakened. It was during this time that Prince [[Saeran]] of [[Idetka]] launched his invasion of the island. Saeran's invasion lasted 6 brutal years, during which he was aided by [[Piracy in the Htaevic Rouge|mercenaries and privateers]] from throughout the Shattered Islands and even Meó.

The invasion ended in the near-complete destruction of the Pazhil imperial line, with the royal family being almost completely wiped out with the exception of Princess [[Rzame]], who was saved from the gallows and dramatically escorted from Unuvun to the island of [[Suvi]].

===Eight Years of Suffering (9,322-9,329)===

During her exile on [[Suvi]], Rzame sought to amass an invasion force capable of removing prince Saeran from power in Unuvun. She was able to do so under the promise of abdicating from the royal throne, thus ending the Pazhil Dynasty's rule over Unuvun, and allowing the Htaevic King [[Arbin]] to take the title of emperor. Ever since ascending to the throne, the ambitious Arbin had wanted to reclaim the title of emperor for the Htaevic dynasty, in hopes of one day reforming the ancient [[Htaevic Empire]].

===Thunder on the Imperial Plain (9,330-9,334)===

On 9,330/1/50, Prince Saeran was assassinated by Pazhil loyalists, causing Idetkan-ruled Unuvun to fall into a chaotic period known as '''The Thunderstorm'''. Idetka quickly named a successor, [[Siho Endaya|General Siho Endaya]], however he was killed by Pazhil loyalists mere weeks after Saeran's assassination during the [[Storming of the Imperial Octagon]].

On 9,330/1/83, Princess Rzame returned to Unuvun accompanied by Arbin, and many Pazhil loyalists were unsatisfied with her calls for peace, as they did not believe that Arbin had the legal right to take the Unuvi throne. Some of the more radical ones even split off into their own faction, the [[Sayammians (Unuvun)|Sayammians]], a reference to the ancient democratic city state of [[Sayamm]] that existed in the 9th millenium. In their [[New Constitution]], the Sayammians demanded democratic checks and balances on Arbin's power, with some of the more radical revolutionaries calling for the eradication of the monarchy altogether.

After the routing of the Idetkans, the fighting lasted for two more years until the Sayammians finally surrendered in the [[Compromise of 9,334]]. Emperor Arbin, exhausted from war, allowed for the formation of a parliament headed by a handpicked ambassador of his choice, much like the system that already existed in the [[Third Htaevic Kingdom]].

==War of the Crab Prince (9,349-9,358 Y)==

===Crab Prince Incident===

After Emperor Arbin began to consolidate his power over Unuvun, tensions between his imperial cabinet and the powerful razuku that controlled much of Unuvun's land began to rise. Arbin was taking every opportunity possible to dismantle the control that the razuku had over their territory, and had managed to end several of the most ancient dynasties.

One razuku who had managed to keep control over his princedom was [[Prince Suekasui]] (sway-kaw-swee). He ruled over the small city-state of [[Rvarshen]] (ruh-var-shen), located on the northern edge of Unuvun, close to mainland [[Delezia]]. As a result, Rvarshen had experienced significant piracy over the past few centuries. Its convenient location made it a common stopping point for foreign envoys on their way to Zhavei.

In 9,349 Y, [[Vahkètto|Prince Vahkètto]] of the [[First Meó Empire]] stopped at Rvarshen on his trip to Zhavei, where he was to discuss his recent conquests in the [[Shattered Islands]] with Emperor Arbin. During the early morning of 9,349/1/69 Y, mere hours before the Meó delegation was set to arrive, Suekasui and his male harem all passed away in [[The Orgy at Rvarshen Castle|a massive sexual orgy]]. Shortly before falling into unconsciousness, Suekasui called in his royal court in order to name an heir. In his delirious state, Suekasui declared that his pet crab [[Azu]] would be the new heir to the Rvarshen throne.

After his death, his closest royal advisors fiercly debated whether or not they could actually follow through on his appointment. The legality of appointing a crab was unclear, but it was unlikely that it could be challenged, according to the castle lawyer Ufshi Kije. He referenced the Rat Family of Ggethe as an example where

After Prince Suekasui's death, the royal advisors debated whether or not they could legally appoint the crab Azu as Prince of Rvarshen. Castle lawyer Ufshi Kije brought up the fact that there have been several instances in Unuvi history where an animal was in fact appointed as a temporary regent. In the case of the ''Rat Family'', a rat named Poa inherited the title of Duke of Hpanik. After Poa's death his vicious son, Wikti, ruled over the city of Hpanik and bit anyone who approached him. Though marriage between human and animal was forbidden, a local knight named Mezhen was, with the backing of the emperor at the time, able to secure a marriage license between him and vicious rat Wikti. Wikti would die of natural causes a year later and then Mezhen ascended to the throne.

Though it was unlikely emperor Arbin would grant anyone a marriage license with crab Azu, the Rvarshen royal court decided to go through with the appointment regardless. Suekasui had no close relatives that could be appointed to the throne, and he had no eligible children of his own either. The Rvarshen royal court determined that Arbin would have bulletproof pretext for appointing a Htaevic puppet as the new razuku of Rvarshen, and that the only way to stop this would be to indeed follow through and grant the title of Prince to the crab.

Kije drafted a message to Arbin and stamped it with the Imperial Seal of Rvarshen. He reasoned that Arbin would have no choice but to accept the coronation of Azu onto the Rvarshen throne, as rejecting it would be rejecting the will of an Imperial Seal and would greatly harm Arbin's legitimacy as emperor, and possibly give the remaining razuku a rallying cry for rebellion. The message was sent off on the fastest [[kiya]] the royal court could find, in order to beat any other rumors of Suekasui's death.

During the night of Suekasui's death, a tavern worker, [[Hina Kenachetu]], was hired to help clean up the disastrous mess left behind by the orgy. She had recently moved to Rvarshen, having fled [[Fihanoshai]] after murdering her step-father, step-sister, grandmother and the local shaman, and as such had no knowledge of Prince Suekasui's royal crab. She picked up Azu and dropped him off in a bucket in the kitchen, not knowing what else to do with him. Later in the morning, Kije and his fellow members of the royal court attempted a desperate search for Azu, but none were able to find him. They got news of Vahkètto's arrival in Rvarshen, and as such decided to have him dine first while they attempted to find the crab.

As many of the chefs had been in Suekasui's harem and had passed away alongside him several hours prior, several chefs from the Rvarshen city docks were drafted to make a meal for the whole royal court to enjoy alongside the envoy from Meó. One of these chefs, [[Rejirvei Sasual]], specialized in cooking crabs and decided to boil Azu, conveniently placed in the kitchen, as the main course of the dinner. Sasual would use his notoriety to later found the [[Nautical Ihyai Company]], one of the most powerful corporations to ever exist.

During the unveiling of the main course, several members of the royal court allegedly began to feel extremely nauseous, realizing that Suekasui had forbidden crab from being served in the castle ever since an incident several years prior. However, none of them spoke up as Vahkètto began to devour Azu's royal flesh. One quickly found pretext to get up and ran over to the kitchen, and spotted Azu's intricate crab armor near the stove. The dinner was artificially lengthened as the royal court secretly conversed, trying to figure out how to best handle this disastrous turn of events. It was decided that a castle gardener known as [[Sayesa Sayesan]] would deliver the bad news. Sayesan explained to Vahkètto that, not only did he commit regicide, but also technically cannibalism. Vahkètto became enraged, as his father had committed both regicide and cannibalism in order to inherit the Meó throne, and the prince had desperately seeked to distance himself from his father. He pulled out his sword and beheaded Sayesan on the spot in one, clean swipe.

''The Declination of Crab'' is a tradition carried out when a foreign head of state visits the Nautical Peace. At formal dinner, a plate of crab is placed on the table. To show that the two nations are at peace, both the Emperor and the foreign head of state decline to eat the crab. In Unuvi culture, to "steam the crab" is to threaten conflict, while to "decline the crab" is to try and defuse a tense situation. When someone is unknowingly tricked or deceived into doing something against their personal morals, they are said to have "eaten the crab." Something and/or someone who is used against their will to further the agenda of someone else is termed a "crab."

===War===

And so began the [[War of the Crab Prince]]. The city of Rvàshen was bombarded by the Meó prince’s fleet, and the Unuvi princedoms responded in kind with a coordinate attack on Meo holdings along the coast of the supercontinent. The pirates tried to get in on the action, but were caught between both sides and utterly annihilated for being on neither of them. They would later learn their lesson and go on to rent their services to both sides to maximize profit.

===Aftermath===

With a total of over 100,000 green-haired casualties in the [[War of the Crab Prince]], the jusha class of Unuvi society was exhausted by war. Htaevic Emperor Arbin carefully tried to rein in the princedoms under a new feudal state with the declaration of the [[Second New Constitution]], a document that gave him the power to hand-select the powerful [[razuku]], that controlled much of Unuvun's land. Additionally, the document expressly forbid the 'appointment of crabs and all other animals into positions of power.'

Arbin's calculated risk greatly angered many of the razuku and he called in the army of his [[Second Htaevic Empire]] to Yuuvei in hopes of being able to quash revolutionary fervor. It was during this time that the Sayammians regrouped and infiltrated the Htaevic government over Unuvun in a number of key positions, including several very high ranking parliamentary roles.

===Restoration of the Imperial Line===

On 9,357/0/12, Htaevic officials raided parliament seat-holder [[Chena Tise]]'s house under the suspicion that she was aiding the revolutionary cause. Although Sayammian arsonists set fire to the house, they were able to recover key documents that held a list of Sayammians active in the city of [[Racheinu Chihyu]]. Emperor Arbin apprehended many of these individuals and declared a public day of execution the following week. In an event known as [[Foiled Execution]], several dozen Kiya-riding Sayammians accompanied by several hundred rogue [[jusha]] and over one thousand peasants revolted at the scene of the execution, overcoming the Htaevic troops and preventing the death of all but two prisoners.

Simultaneously, the Sayammians wrote and released a document called [[Declaration of a Nautical Peace]] that called for the installment of 23-year old Fihano Pazhil onto the throne of Unuvun in order to 'usher in a nautical peace in which the green-haired folk of this maritime island shall become naïve to the horrors of war.' Thus began the '''Second Thunderstorm''', a year-long revolt during which almost the entirety of Unuvun rose up against Emperor Arbin. Arbin, unable to quash the rebellion, fled the island from the port of [[Serzilea]] and returned to the [[Shattered Islands]]. After Emperor Fihano rose to the throne of Unuvun, he collaborated with his Sayammian supporters to draft the [[Unuvunese Constitution]], a document that incorporated many revolutionary ideas such as a unified measurement system, as well as many old ideas derived from the governmental system of Sayamm and other similar democracies.

===Establishment of Rvaneok Politics===
For centuries, the Unuvi warrior caste, the jusha, maintained internal order via the ''rvaneok'' system. Rvaneok was a leaderboard system with different leagues of jusha warriors. Jusha warriors would be constantly ranked against each other during skirmishes and tests of culture and strategy. Once a year, top performers would be promoted to the next highest league, and bottom performers would be relegated to the next lowest league. This system of promotion and relegation would gradually influence the culture of Unuvun, spreading into other parts of society such as universities and sports.

It was natural that the Unuvunese, when trying to overhaul their political system, began to think along Rvaneok lines. Many argued about its efficacy and potential unwanted effects, but the idea that the best would rise to the top, creating a meritocracy, was so alluring that in the end, Emperor Fihano directed that the new political system be a Rvaneok one. Some of the other reasons that Fihano wanted the Rvaneok system implemented was because he believed it would cause rabid political infighting and help him maintain a strong grip over the island.

The newly developed Unuvunese Constitution stipulated that the centralized legislative body of the country be separated into two leagues: a provincial league and a national league. Provinces were allowed to further subdivide their provincial leagues as they deemed fit, while the national league would be divided into three houses (lower, middle and higher). Promotion and relegation between the three houses of the national league would happen once a year. Promotion and relegation between the provincial and national league would happen once every two years.

The specific method used to promote and relegate politicians is described as follows: during the promotion and relegation period, the bottom quartile of politicians are put on probation if not already, and any politician in this bottom quartile who is on probation is immediately dismissed into the lower league.

Politicians are ranked via a counsel of 11 rankers. Six national rankers are picked by the emperor, and five voted into office by the parliament that they are ranking. For provincial rankers, provinces may choose to assign rankers however they wish. Most chose to decide all 11 rankers initially by parliamentary vote.

===The Incentive System===
In ancient Sayamm, common folk could contribute to society in order to earn the right to do things such as own property and vote in local elections. Actions they could take included passing proctored exams, serving in the military, creating great works or art and literature, or displaying acts of heroism.

==Exploration of Ivinis (9,368- Y)==
''See: [[Exploration of Ivinis]]''

===Initial exploration and settlement===
[[File:Vzhani.png|thumb|right|Vzhani's three voyages to Ivinis]]
In 9,368 Y, explorer [[Arnppe Vzhani]] left the port of [[Rae]] and begun sailing westwards towards the continent of [[Ivinis]]. At the time, Ivinis had begun to become filled with various [[Nokhta]]n settlements up and down its eastern seaboard. No indigenous peoples had been found, however there had been a wealth of new animals, plants and insects discovered in the preceding century. As such, Vzhani was granted funding by the Nautical Peace to chart out the southwestern coast of Ivinis in order to find potential places that the Nautical Peace could build settlements.

In 9,375 Y, the first colony ships were sent to the island of [[Rvitaria]]. Gradually, more and more were sent until the port of [[Yuechua]] was well-established as an Unuvunese foothold in Ivinis. It would later become the hub for further expansion deeper into Ivinis.

===Settlement of the Vie river basin===

Discovered for the Unuvi by [[Flicha Fihano]], the massive [[Vie]] river captured the imagination of the Unuvunese. The Nautical Peace soon began sending colonists to secure the mouth of the Vie, and rapidly begun constructing a large port at [[Daifihanoshai]] as the true extent of the river system became known. Rivalling many of the large, fertile river basins on [[Pangaea]], the Vie watershed would become the focus of Unuvunese colonization efforts for the next several centuries. As Nokhtan colonies began to sprout up to the northeast of the Vie, the Unuvunese began work on the grand [[Daifihanoshai Castle]], one of the largest traditional Unuvunese castles still in existence.

===Lasletsa===

'''[[Lasletsa Declaration]]''', also known as the '''Green Gate Declaration''', was an imperial declaration in 9,435 Y that asserted both that Hakiism was punishable by the death penalty and that citizenship required green hair. The term "Green Gate" is a reference to the famous [[Lasletsa]] temple complex in Unuvun, the main place of worship of Haki in traditional Unuvi mythology, and a place where only green-haired people have been traditionally allowed to visit.

===Discovery of Lavaank===
ensnared in the forbidden fifties -- an Unuvi merchant ship on the way to Edeto is caught in a horrendous storm and sent flying past the subcontinent, coming upon a new, virgin land called Lavaank by the local Tana people.

== The Dream of Democracy ==

'''The Autumn Fall.''' In late autumn, the Imperial family gathered in the court for a family portrait. Unbeknownst to them, disloyal nobles in cooperation with Veiivinis revolutionaries had placed dozens of barrels of gunpowder nearby, which exploded and killed many members in the line of succession of the Imperial family except for young Prince Hau and his older brother, Prince Imrahen. The botched coup attempt led to the dismantlement of the Hatluyi royal house and made Prince Hau despise the nobility. Imrahen would later inherit the throne and pursue policies of reconciliation with the nobility.

'''The Western Rebellion'''. Much of Veiivinis revolts from Nautical Peace control and forms their own independent nation known as the Veiivinis Alliance, leaving only the city of [[Daifihanoshai]] and outlying regions in Unuvunese control.

'''The Prince of Determination.''' Prince Hau grew to despise Emperor Imrahen for how leniently he treated the nobility and the Veiivinis Alliance. With the assistance of his right hand man, [[Ventus the Second Obliterator]], he orchestrated the assassination of his elder brother and successfully pinned the blame on the [[Berjuda]] royal family. Emperor Hau subsequently ascended to the [[Ocean Throne]] and began preparations to invade Veiivinis. Ventus had convinced his aging father, General Blotz, to hand control of the Imperial Army over to him.

'''The Butchering of Chancellor Pig.''' [[Emperor Hau]], looking to grow Unuvun's power in the face of Rokhtaera's meteoric rise, deposes the head of parliament and replaces her with a pig. Parliament continues to refuse to launch an invasion of [[Veiivinis]], which prompts Hau to butcher [[Chancellor Pig]] and demand that each member of parliament either eat a strip of its bacon or vote in favor of declaring war on the Veiivinis states. The declaration of war subsequently passes parliament by 43-0 vote, cementing Emperor Hau's dominance over the Nautical Peace.

'''The Eight Handed Tactician.''' Under the command of Ventus the Second Obliterator, the Nautical Peace launches its invasion of Veiivinis. Over the next five bloody years, over two million people died in the fighting as the Nautical Peace threw their entire weight into reconquering their former colonial holdings. Ventus' strategic brilliance allowed the Nautical Peace to effectively attack Veiivinis on multiple fronts at once, earning him the fearsome title of the "eight handed tactician."

'''The War Behind the Castle Walls.''' It was no secret that Emperor Hau was a strong believer in [[Sayammians (Unuvun)|Sayammian]] democratic ideals. Growing up, he witnessed first hand many of the atrocities the nobility committed behind the scenes. Though he cooperated with the aristocracy in order to focus on conquering Veiivinis, afterwards he began a decade long power struggle against the nobility during which hundreds of assassinations occurred on both sides. In the end, the nobility was dismantled and replaced with a mostly democratic system with strong checks and balances.

'''To Every Man a Golden Throne.''' Also known as the 'Heroic Age,' this time period after the reconquest of Veiivinis saw the rapid industrialization of the Nautical Peace in order to catch up with Rokhtaera and Meó, as well as radical political reform. Some policies, such as the establishment of the Official System of Units, and the creation of a comprehensive system of rural districts and national parks, were highly successful policies that continue to this day. Other policies, such as the abolishment of marriage and the outlawing of dinosaurs, provoked significant civil unrest until compromise was reached. Though the dismantlement of the aristocracy was highly disruptive to Unuvi life, Emperor Hau put so much political capital behind the goal that it became a third rail which no political opponent of his could touch.

'''Obliterator in the Octagon.''' The last Unuvunese royal family, the Enares, stormed the [[Imperial Octagon]] and attempted to bargain with Emperor Hau for their royal line's survival. Enraged by the killing of his daughter, Emperor Hau ordered the storming of the Octagon and the "obliteration of the last vestige of the monster of nobility." Obliging, Ventus the Second Obliterator led the charge into the Imperial Octagon and personally killed Prince Vralu, Queen Ferzi and Duchess Sayiŋa, ending the Enare royal bloodline once and for all.

ROUTE 1:

'''The Emperor Machine.''' Near the end of his life, Emperor Hau announced that he would step down as ruler of the Nautical Peace. He feared that the Imperial Court had grown far too powerful, and that the Nautical Peace could repeat history by slowly devolving into aristocracy once more. To prevent this, Hau commissioned the creation of the Emperor Machine, a large, eighty foot tall anthropomorphic machine resembling an Unuvi shaman. In collaboration with parliament, he passed legislation that stipulated the emperor of the Nautical Peace be chosen as follows: each party member of parliament may write the name of one person on a ballot card and place it inside of the Emperor Machine. The Emperor Machine will then shuffle the cards and select one at random, with the person whose name is on the selected card being crowned the next emperor of the Nautical Peace -- with an eight year term limit.

Legally, the Emperor Machine is the regent of the Nautical Peace. The chosen 'emperor' is legally an assistant who is expected to carry out the will of the Emperor Machine until one day "the Machine shall become advancèd enough such that it shall attain the collective consciousnèss of the Unuvunese people and rule over the Nation itself in a sublime singularity." This power is known as the '''Mandate of the Machine''', and in recent years it has become hotly debated as artificial intelligence continues to grow in power exponentially.

'''The Black Rose.''' The [[First Ganuoan-Unuvunese War]] is often used to mark the end of the Unuvunese Heroic Age. The Nautical Peace hastily attempted to block Ganuoese expansion deeper into the interior of Edeto, provoking a long, five year conflict with more than 200,000 deaths during which little territory traded hand. The conclusion of the war saw northern Edeto remaining firmly in the Ganuoan sphere of influence, while the Nautical Peace was left dealing with major revolts in southeastern Edeto that led to them eventually pulling out from that region altogether. The Nautical Peace shifted their focus towards investing in Ivinis after the discovery of large coal, oil and gold deposits in the Ivini Backbone.

ROUTE 2:

'''something something edgy.''' emperor hau assassinated at world's fair, son ascends to throne and convinces the peace to launch a war against country that did assassination, etc

=Second Age of Exploration=

'''"We Come in Peace, from the Peace".''' The Samtlie-6 Mission was the first manned landing on Haki by the Nautical Peace. Hundreds of millions of people watched worldwide as the lander crashed into the Yešče Plain, starting a firestorm that surrounded Captain Lufain and Commander Mahkika as they climbed out of the lander. With almost all supplies lost, Lufain and Mahkika would become the first humans to attempt to consume Haki flora and fauna as they would need to wait for at least three weeks for supplies to arrive from Pavala.

'''Do Me a Favor.''' The Samtlie-7 Mission launched in great haste, seeking to rescue the two men left stranded on Haki during the Samtlie-6 mission. Many had speculated about what exactly would happen to a human being were they to take their mask off on Haki. It was already known that Haki's atmosphere was theoretically breathable, however it was unknown how Hakese bacteria would affect a human being over the long term, as well as whether or not Hakese plant and animal life were digestible. After a successful landing, the world was shocked to discover that bother Lufain and Mahkika were alive, having survived off Hakese megafauna in the three weeks since their crash landing. The two astronauts returned to Pavala on the Samtlie-7 lander, bringing some of their foraged food with them.

'''The Master Ship.''' The Master Project was a top secret rocketry project led by the Naborsi engineering prodigy [[Shimh Hâo]] and the Unuvunese industrial magnate [[Tehchuka Flaneybi]]. Nabors and the Nautical Peace generously poured tens of billions of dollars a year into the development of a sub $100/kg transportation system to Haki. The result was a two staged reusable rocket system to get to Haki, with the upper stage being able to return to Pavala by itself due to Haki's lower gravity. Thanks to the development of the Master Ship, the Nautical Peace was able to begin work on a large city on Haki to serve as a base of operations for its ulterior motive, to lay claim to large expanses of the planet. [Are we entering the future? Does Pavala canon stop here?]

the sibling crosser -- Dadu Ultraheavy Industries releases the Strawberry 5, the wildly successful commercial spaceplane that can take up to twenty people to Haki and back. With one-way tickets to Haki plumetting to $80,000, the Nautical Peace's spaceports are about to get a whole lot more crowded.

Verdaqua

2022-10-07T23:33:00Z

Unuvun Rain: Created page with "The '''Verdaqua''' is a flower native to Unuvun. It has a blue core with lime green zebra stripes that travel radially, and is surrounded by 9 lime green petals that end in st..."

The '''Verdaqua''' is a flower native to Unuvun. It has a blue core with lime green zebra stripes that travel radially, and is surrounded by 9 lime green petals that end in striking turquoise tips.

Unuvun

2022-10-07T23:23:50Z

Unuvun Rain: /* History */

{{Place
| name = Unuvun
| img2 = [[File:unuvun-detailed.png|thumb]]
| location = [[Htaevic Rouge]]
| part of = [[Unuvi Archipelago]]
| adjacent water = [[Forbidden Sea]]<br />[[Green Sea]]
| area = 129,000 sq. km
| width = 15-200 km (80km avg.)
| highest elevation = 3302 m
| highest point = [[Mount Durime]]
| country = [[Nautical Peace]]
| largest settlement = [[Yuuvei]] (pop. 73,000,000)
| population = 114,000,000
| ethnic groups = [[Unuvi]]
}}
The island of '''Unuvun''' is the principal island in the [[Unuvi Archipelago]]. Located on the southern rim of [[Delezia-Hazele]], its climate is dominated by the global circumpolar current, which bring torrential amounts of rain to the western plains of the island. It is one of the [[Cultural Hearths of Pavala|cultural hearths of Pavala]] as it was here that the [[Ancient Unuvun|Udàshe]] developed.

== Etymology ==

The name Unuvun is an endonym, derived from the Old [[Unuvi Language|Unuvi]] phrase ''un u vun'' (lit: 'land at corner'). Though, it is technically an exonym as the literal translation was adapted from the name commonly used by other states in the [[Htaevic Rouge]].

== Geology ==

[[File:Unuvun.png|thumb|left]][Southwest is terrane split off from Nokhta-Ivinis, rest is from subduction volcanic arc that got split into two by back arc basin]

[Off coast of Hsuvei plain is a big shelf - both of these regions are NOT karst/limestone but rather have more stable bedrock so i can have my massive subway systems]

== Ecology ==

The island can be mainly divided into three separate sections: The flat southwest, hilly north-central and fjord-carved east. The southwest plains, mainly the [[Hsuvei Plain]], have long been developed into an agricultural heartland. However, forests of indigenous <redwood trees> still remain in the hilly north and central regions, reaching upwards of a hundred meters in height. The vast majority of the trees on the island are evergreen, and there are numerous different species of fruits trees that have been cultivated.

== History ==
''Main article: [[History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace]]''

http://i.imgur.com/I31jDG1.png

Unuvun

2022-10-07T23:23:42Z

Unuvun Rain: /* History */

{{Place
| name = Unuvun
| img2 = [[File:unuvun-detailed.png|thumb]]
| location = [[Htaevic Rouge]]
| part of = [[Unuvi Archipelago]]
| adjacent water = [[Forbidden Sea]]<br />[[Green Sea]]
| area = 129,000 sq. km
| width = 15-200 km (80km avg.)
| highest elevation = 3302 m
| highest point = [[Mount Durime]]
| country = [[Nautical Peace]]
| largest settlement = [[Yuuvei]] (pop. 73,000,000)
| population = 114,000,000
| ethnic groups = [[Unuvi]]
}}
The island of '''Unuvun''' is the principal island in the [[Unuvi Archipelago]]. Located on the southern rim of [[Delezia-Hazele]], its climate is dominated by the global circumpolar current, which bring torrential amounts of rain to the western plains of the island. It is one of the [[Cultural Hearths of Pavala|cultural hearths of Pavala]] as it was here that the [[Ancient Unuvun|Udàshe]] developed.

== Etymology ==

The name Unuvun is an endonym, derived from the Old [[Unuvi Language|Unuvi]] phrase ''un u vun'' (lit: 'land at corner'). Though, it is technically an exonym as the literal translation was adapted from the name commonly used by other states in the [[Htaevic Rouge]].

== Geology ==

[[File:Unuvun.png|thumb|left]][Southwest is terrane split off from Nokhta-Ivinis, rest is from subduction volcanic arc that got split into two by back arc basin]

[Off coast of Hsuvei plain is a big shelf - both of these regions are NOT karst/limestone but rather have more stable bedrock so i can have my massive subway systems]

== Ecology ==

The island can be mainly divided into three separate sections: The flat southwest, hilly north-central and fjord-carved east. The southwest plains, mainly the [[Hsuvei Plain]], have long been developed into an agricultural heartland. However, forests of indigenous <redwood trees> still remain in the hilly north and central regions, reaching upwards of a hundred meters in height. The vast majority of the trees on the island are evergreen, and there are numerous different species of fruits trees that have been cultivated.

== History ==
''Main article: [[History of Unuvun and The Nautical Peace]]''

http://i.imgur.com/I31jDG1.png

Raiwlawbiwmtë

2022-10-07T23:06:20Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Bolek's Rapture */

The '''Raiwlawbiwmtë''' were a people that originated in the land to the west of Tebua and south of Hvalozd. A chance series of genetic mutations changed their hair color to be on a spectrum from [[Human#Hair_color|green to purple]]. This led to them developing a strong identity. Eventually migrating groups from other parts of [[Delezia-Hazele]] forced the Raiwlawbiwmtë to disperse westwards. Tribal chief Bolek made a courageous last stand against the invaders, however a freak tornado carried him away never to be seen again in an event known as '''Bolek's Rapture'''. After this biblical event, the Raiwlawbiwmtë began worshipping him and followed his son Jupetero westwards to the [[Shattered Islands]].

With the crops and domesticated animals they brought with them, they established a thriving civilization in the southern Shattered Islands and very quickly became adept at shipbuilding and navigation. They separated into clans based off of hair color, with people migrating between clans upon reaching adulthood based off their natural hair color. Although inter-tribal marriage was not forbidden, and indeed there are several oral tales passed down regarding the drama caused by a purple-haired princess marrying a green-haired prince, it was generally expected that people married and procreated with those of similar hair color.

Around 6,800 Y they were displaced again, this time by the Htaevic peoples. Many of the purple haired tribes migrated northwards into the Meó basin, while the green haired tribes migrated southwards into Unuvun. The purple-haired tribes mostly assimilated into ancient Meóese society, though a minority of them retained their traditions and dialects and formed the [[Hkamisëbiwmtë]], mostly in the southern reaches of the Miru river in the Htasei basin and along the coasts adjacent to it. The green-haired tribes overwhelmed the native Konods in Unuvun and claimed the island for themselves.

==Religion==
===Edetan Roots===
The Raiwlawbiwmtë’s homeland was located near Edeto, so their creation story and many themes in their religion have connections with [[Edetan Mythology]].

===Bolek's Rapture===
As the invaders occupied more and more Raiwlawbiwmtë territory, the clans lost hope and fled westwards. However one courageous clan leader, Bolek, refused to flee his village and rallied some of the neighboring clans to fight in the <wip>Battle of the Sunken River</wip>. As Bolek's army stared at the invaders from across the river, a large tornado formed and ripped through the area. Bolek ordered his army to retreat, but he stood his ground as the tornado approached him and flung him into the air, never to be seen again. Having witnessed this biblical event, his loyal clansfolk posited that he must have been taken to Haki, and that one day he would return and lead the reconquest of their homeland.

In accordance with Edetan Mythology, Bolek was thought to be a descendant of the Sky Father, with the power to return to Haki.

Bolek's charismatic son, Jupetero, skillfully used the rapture of his father as a tool to gain influence over all of the Raiwlawbiwmtë clans. Many began worshipping him and his raptured father. He married <wip>Remë the Green</wip> and <wip>Rama the Purple</wip>, daughters of two powerful clan heads, in order to consolidate his power over all the Raiwlawbiwmtë. And then he led a great migration westwards to the Shattered Islands. The saga of him and his father would become the bedrock of the Raiwlawbiwmtë oral religion, which gradually formalized into [[Raiwlawism]].

==Technology==

The Raiwlawbimtë were a bronze-age culture, and in fact their reliance on inferior bronze tools was one of the reasons they were displaced by the iron-using Htaevic culture.

==Culture==

The Raiwlawbimtë revered the colors green and purple, and considered them to be opposites of one another. They had a complicated system of stone monument construction; religious monuments would start their life cycle as stone circles, and once they had accumulated sufficient divine energy the stone would be harvested and used in the construction of much larger stone pyramids, topped with large bronze bells and rung out at sunrise and sunset in order to worship the divine spirits of their ancestors and unborn children who lived on Haki.

Raiwlawbimtë's funeral ceremonies made use of both cremation and of burial. Those judged to have lived a good life were cremated so that their spirit may float upwards to Haki, while those judged to have lived a bad life were buried as punishment so that their spirit would forever be trapped in Pavala and they would be unable to continue the natural cycle of existence by living their next life on Haki.

Raiwlawbiwmtë

2022-10-07T23:06:09Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Bolek's Rapture */

The '''Raiwlawbiwmtë''' were a people that originated in the land to the west of Tebua and south of Hvalozd. A chance series of genetic mutations changed their hair color to be on a spectrum from [[Human#Hair_color|green to purple]]. This led to them developing a strong identity. Eventually migrating groups from other parts of [[Delezia-Hazele]] forced the Raiwlawbiwmtë to disperse westwards. Tribal chief Bolek made a courageous last stand against the invaders, however a freak tornado carried him away never to be seen again in an event known as '''Bolek's Rapture'''. After this biblical event, the Raiwlawbiwmtë began worshipping him and followed his son Jupetero westwards to the [[Shattered Islands]].

With the crops and domesticated animals they brought with them, they established a thriving civilization in the southern Shattered Islands and very quickly became adept at shipbuilding and navigation. They separated into clans based off of hair color, with people migrating between clans upon reaching adulthood based off their natural hair color. Although inter-tribal marriage was not forbidden, and indeed there are several oral tales passed down regarding the drama caused by a purple-haired princess marrying a green-haired prince, it was generally expected that people married and procreated with those of similar hair color.

Around 6,800 Y they were displaced again, this time by the Htaevic peoples. Many of the purple haired tribes migrated northwards into the Meó basin, while the green haired tribes migrated southwards into Unuvun. The purple-haired tribes mostly assimilated into ancient Meóese society, though a minority of them retained their traditions and dialects and formed the [[Hkamisëbiwmtë]], mostly in the southern reaches of the Miru river in the Htasei basin and along the coasts adjacent to it. The green-haired tribes overwhelmed the native Konods in Unuvun and claimed the island for themselves.

==Religion==
===Edetan Roots===
The Raiwlawbiwmtë’s homeland was located near Edeto, so their creation story and many themes in their religion have connections with [[Edetan Mythology]].

===Bolek's Rapture===
As the invaders occupied more and more Raiwlawbiwmtë territory, the clans lost hope and fled westwards. However one courageous clan leader, Bolek, refused to flee his village and rallied some of the neighboring clans to fight in the <wip>Battle of the Sunken River</wip>. As Bolek's army stared at the invaders from across the river, a large tornado formed and ripped through the area. Bolek ordered his army to retreat, but he stood his ground as the tornado approached him and flung him into the air, never to be seen again. Having witnessed this biblical event, his loyal clansfolk posited that he must have been taken to Haki, and that one day he would return and lead the reconquest of their homeland.

In accordance with Edetan Mythology, Bolek was thought to be a descendant of the Sky Father, with the power to return to Haki.

Bolek's charismatic son, Jupetero, skillfully used the rapture of his father as a tool to gain influence over all of the Raiwlawbiwmtë clans. Many began worshipping him and his raptured father. He married <wip>Remë the Green</wip> and <wip>Ramë the Purple</wip>, daughters of two powerful clan heads, in order to consolidate his power over all the Raiwlawbiwmtë. And then he led a great migration westwards to the Shattered Islands. The saga of him and his father would become the bedrock of the Raiwlawbiwmtë oral religion, which gradually formalized into [[Raiwlawism]].

==Technology==

The Raiwlawbimtë were a bronze-age culture, and in fact their reliance on inferior bronze tools was one of the reasons they were displaced by the iron-using Htaevic culture.

==Culture==

The Raiwlawbimtë revered the colors green and purple, and considered them to be opposites of one another. They had a complicated system of stone monument construction; religious monuments would start their life cycle as stone circles, and once they had accumulated sufficient divine energy the stone would be harvested and used in the construction of much larger stone pyramids, topped with large bronze bells and rung out at sunrise and sunset in order to worship the divine spirits of their ancestors and unborn children who lived on Haki.

Raiwlawbimtë's funeral ceremonies made use of both cremation and of burial. Those judged to have lived a good life were cremated so that their spirit may float upwards to Haki, while those judged to have lived a bad life were buried as punishment so that their spirit would forever be trapped in Pavala and they would be unable to continue the natural cycle of existence by living their next life on Haki.

Yuuvei

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Unuvun Rain: /* Wards */

[[File:Yuuveiattempt.png|thumb|right|The [[Racheinu Chihyu]] ward of Yuuvei]]
'''Yuuvei''', officially the '''Metropolitan State of Yuune and Zhavei''', is the capital and largest metropolitan region of the Nautical Peace with more than 59 million inhabitants. The metropolis is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Pavala, with its most ancient buildings dating back to 7,000 Y. Located on the <wip>Imperial Plain</wip>, it is shielded from harsh circumpolar wind and water currents by the <wip>Steaming Mountains</wip>. Nevertheless, it experiences torrential amounts of rainfall during the year, earning it the nickname '''Petrichor City'''. The city has been the political center of Unuvun for many thousands of years, and has long dominated the economy, culture, and transportation around the island due to its central location.

The ward of Zhavei houses the imperial throne and parliament, while the imperial court is located in Ifa on the shore of the [[Pacific Lake]]. Also located on the Pacific Lake is Yuune, whose Lakeside Row has long been synonymous with Unuvunese banking. In recent decades, <wip>Lucky Cat</wip> has become the center of the Unuvunese tech sector thanks to the wealth of universities nearby. On the northern end of the metropolis, along the shore of the [[Midland Sea]], lies the special city of <wip>Bitter Side</wip> which handles much of the sea trade of the metropolis, as well as being one of the Nautical Peace's major biotech centers.

== Wards ==

===Lucky Cat Ward===
====Lucky Cat====
One of the world's great tech hubs. Salaries here are sky high. Has its own maglev stop, and employees are rich enough to commute by it.

====Coin Town====
Unuvunese center of finance. Salaries even higher than in Lucky Cat, but power has gradually waned as technology continues to eat the world.

===Central Ward===
====Cataracts====
One of the oldest neighborhoods of Yuuvei; built around the famous waterfall.
====West Island====
Location of the Imperial Palace... has been gradually eroding alongside the Cataracts, but should still be inhabitable for several thousand years.
====Toad Road====
The '''Toad Road''' neighborhood of Central Ward is named after the famous Toad Road which the parliament, national museum, and many embassies sit on the sides of. As a result, Unuvunese senators are nicknamed "toads".

===Riverside Ward===
====Little Sosena====
Referred to as a "colony of Nokhta", this district of Riverside ward is home to the largest Nokhtan population outside Ivinis.

===West Ward===
====Canalside====
Has a reputation for being one of the dirtiest parts of Yuuvei. Lots of illegal stuff going on here. Used to be pretty violent, but the metropolitan bureau of investigation obliterated all of the gangs after crime began leaking onto the subway and into richer neighborhoods.
====Little Yot====
Built around the southern canal. All the immigrants from the Yot River decided to come here for some reason. They brought their delicious cuisine with them, though. This was also where that little meteor hit and killed a few dozen people.
====Frogtown====
Built next to Little Yot, this area is home to Unuvun's largest concentration of ethnic Meó and [[Hkamisëbiwmtë]], and one of the oldest Meó/Hkamisëbiwmtë diasporas on Pavala. <wip>It contains the ancient vacation home of Prince Nakètha, built in Meó's Sóutan era.</wip>

===Cookie Ward===
One of the major wards of Yuuvei. Near the airport. the best restaurants, and bakeries, living up to its name. Also has a plethora of musical instrument shops.

==Transport==
===Spaceport===
The Yuuvei spaceport is located on the Pacific Lake, and is connected to the city via maglev and high speed rail. It is well-known for its distinctive boarding bridges, which use LED bulbs to create pulses of light that move either in the direction of embarking or disembarking. This adds a sense of life to the spaceport that is visible from far away. The spaceport is also well-known for having one of the largest <wip>coffee courts</wip> in the world, with dozens of coffee shops and a gigantic common seating area.

===Rail===
[[58 Latter Station]]
[[File:yuuvei-metro.png|thumb|left|Rail lines Yuuvei]]

==Data==
Population: [[Population::59,800,000]]

Continent: [[Continent::Delezia]]

Country: [[Country::Nautical Peace]]

[[Category:City]]

History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace

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Unuvun Rain: /* First Unification */

Unuvun has been inhabited by tool users for more than 100,000 years. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of stone tools as well as ''[[Homo unuvifelis]]'' ("Unuvi cat-man") dating back to approximately 120,000 B.Y. Homo unuvifelis was then displaced by an initial wave of ''Homo sapiens'' from southern [[Nokhta]] approximately 45,000 years ago, who then combined with another wave of humans from Hsuqlihta approximately 25,000 years ago and yet another wave of humans from [[Lysteriok]] 18,000 years ago. These three ancient groups of people together form the Memba people, who inhabited Unuvun for the subsequent 23,000 years until their displacement around 6,800 Y by the green-haired [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] people from the [[Shattered Islands]]. Genome research shows that modern Unuvi people inherit approximately 90% of their genome from the Raiwlawbiwmtë people, and the remaining 10% from the Memba people.

Writing first spread into Unuvun during [[1024 Year Spring]], when various merchantile states in the southern [[Shattered Islands]] began trading with the Unuvi people in the 82nd century, as well as establishing small colonies along the northern half of Unuvun. This exchange of culture and technology would last until the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into Unuvun during the 87th century, after which [[Emperor Akuush]] expelled all foreigners from Unuvun and took control over the Htaevic colonial ports. Unuvun would then repel several attempted invasions by the [[Second Htaevic Empire]] throughout the next several centuries until the collapse of the Second Htaevic Empire to an expansionist Nokhta in the 91st century. It was during the 9th millenium that Unuvi culture flourished in a period known as Udarshe civilization. Udarshe civilization would gradually decline due to cultural stagnation and infighting in the 92nd and 93rd centuries, and the island was invaded by [[Idetka]] in the 94th.

=Raiwlawbiwmtë civilization=

==Migration into Unuvun==
The Raiwlawbiwmtë had been visiting Unuvun and trading with the native Memba people since the mid-7th millenium. They established many small settlements along the northern half of the island, though they were hindered by the unusually cold and rainy climate of Unuvun, which proved unsuitable to many of the crops they brought with them from the Shattered Islands. But in the seaside villages that did exist, the residents began experimenting with the domestication of crops such as '''fusave''', a rice-like grain. Indeed, by approximately 6,700 Y fusave grain had been sufficiently domesticated to replace gathering and fishing as the main means of nutrition for the Railawbimtë settlers.

A century later, in 6,800 Y, the Htavic Empire began their invasion of the Raiwlawbiwmtë's homeland, the Shattered Islands. The Raiwlawbiwmtë were outmatched and hundreds of thousands of them migrated to Unuvun over the century, completely displacing the native Memba population and turning the once backwater island into a thriving bronze age civilization. The largest of the Raiwlawbiwmtë settlements was called '''Re''', and it was located in the large coastal plain on the northeastern coast of Unuvun. Though the Raiwlawbiwmtë had an unusually flat hierarchy back in the Shattered Islands, when they migrated to Unuvun the most powerful and influential clans all migrated to the area around Re, creating a power imbalance that quickly centralized Raiwlawbiwmtë civilization in the early-mid 8th century.

Rhe Raiwlawbiwmtë that migrated to Unuvun were predominantly the green-haired ones, and some Raiwlawbiwmtë became obsessed with turning their hair even more green than it already was, leading to the development of the first permanent green hair dyes. As this new invention spread among the upper class, it soon became a requirement in order to hold political office or own land.

Their complex oral tradition known as the Raiwlaw had long been decentralized, but the growing influence of Re and its surrounding villages gradually strained it until in the 7200s, with the introduction of writing from the Haki Republic, the legal component was transformed into the written '''Tsakka Code'''. The Tsakka Code was painted onto large wooden boards and transported to villages throughout Unuvun. Every year, clan heads would travel to Re in order to attend the yikt - a week long ceremony in which they all attended various affairs such as judging trials, suggesting new laws, and resolving disputes. Clan heads also brought their clan shaman with them for religious rites. At the end of the yikt, they would debate amendments to the Tsakka Code. And at the end of every eight years, a new Tsakka code with all the amendments would be finalized and shipped off to all of Unuvun's villages.

==Invasion by the Haki Republic (7,394-7,523 Y)==
{{CrossReference|History of Htaevic Rouge}}
The Haki Republic launched their invasion of Unuvun in 7,394 Y, however by then the Raiwlawbiwmtë states had grown prosperous due to centuries of peace and trade, and were able to field moderate armies that repelled the first few waves of highly mismanaged Republican invasion. However, the sheer quantity of Republican soldiers eventually overwhelmed the Raiwlawbiwmtë and Unuvun soon came under Republican control. The Haki Republic tried to assert its rule over the Unuvi by forcing them to burn and bury their Tsakka codes, however in protest the Unuvi began building large stone monuments over the remnants of their old Tsakka codes, as well as returing to their old oral tradition of having anonymous shamans memorize and recite the Tsakka code. The Unuvi ran a parallel underground legal system, and used cues such as fluency in Unuvi and green hair in order to secretly be more lenient on people tried for crimes that were illegal under Republican law but permissible under Unuvi law. In the late 7,400s, they began to mix in the ashes of esteemed clan members into the stone monuments that they built over the Tsakka code's remnants.

==Pyramid Age (7,523 Y -)==
As the Raiwlawbiwmtë spread into the rest of Unuvun under Republican rule, several large competitors to the city of Re began to spring up. These included the city of Zhavei on the imperial plain, and the city of Nuevë towards the eastern edge of the island. While Re was still the most prestigious city on the island, these other cities wanted to showcase their growing power and as a result began to construct increasingly large pyramids. One famous pyramid, the '''Cataracts Pyramid''' in Zhavei, took over twenty years to construct and housed the ashes of over five thousand Zhavei citizens. It was surrounded by two moats filled with water from the Pacific lake, which in turn was surrounded by a massive shrine complex to pay respects to those buried inside of the pyramid.

To showcase the dedication and astuteness of their citizens, many of the pyramids in Nueve were staffed by the '''Haki Watchmen'''. They were required to face towards Haki at all times, standing atop the pyramid. A series of messengers asked the watchmen for status updates once per hour, and the watchmen were required to reply "Nothing to report" or, if in the case of an eclipse, "Bolek gathers his men".

= The Fractured Era =
As the other settlements of Unuvun continued to grow in power relative to Re, tension began to build since the vast majority of the island's political power remained concentrated in Re. The tribal chiefs of Re attempted to compromise by hosting a yikt in Zhavei, closer to the geographic center of the island. However at the Zhavei yikt a fight broke out due to an ex-marital affair in which two tribal chiefs from Re were killed, causing the yikt to be abandoned. A second yikt was scheduled later in Re, however the chiefs of Zhavei refused to show up and claimed that their yikt at Zhavei was legitimate. The next year, three yikts were hosted. One in Zhavei, one in Re and one <wip>somewhere else</wip>. And then the year after, five concurrent yikts were hosted, fracturing the island further into many individual states. Over the ensuing centuries these individual states began to develop their own unique identities.

=== 77th and 78th centuries ===
* The Re League leaned into a sea-fairing, merchantile identity and became synonymous with trade in the southern half of the Htaevic sea. It became something of a plutocracy dominated by merchants descended from the old clan heads.
* The Imperial Plain claimed to be the most legitimate of the successor states, becoming a highly centralized state that valued the construction of massive monuments. They formalized [[Raiwlawism]] by writing down the then-traditionally oral Raiwlawbiwmtë religion. They established a system of high priests, monks and more.
* The small, isolated states of Unuvun's southern and south-eastern coasts were more laid back, as the land was colder and less fertile here. Villages were smaller, and on the south-eastern coast often tucked deep into isolated fjords. There was a string of famous mathematicians who re-derived knowledge that rivalled and surpassed what could be found in the libraries of the Shattered Islands.

=== 79th century ===
* The <wip>Re league</wip> gradually became more and more centralized under the power of a single merchant family who eventually declared themselves royalty.
* The Imperial Plain continued to grow and prosper, and expanded southwards to integrate some of the isolated fjord states.
* The eastern peninsula of Unuvun was taken over by the Sinchuknu sea peoples.
* The southern fjord dwellers made great advances in astronomy, navigating beyond Haki's gaze to the islands south and west of Unuvun.

=== 80th century ===
* The <wip>Re League</wip> lost a lot of territory after its Shattered Islands holdings were scooped up by more powerful states in the area. They decided to start trading with the Nokhtans after they struck literal gold.
* The Imperial Plain had by this time integrated most of the isolated fjord states, and those who were unhappy with the new management used their mathematics to go colonize the fringe islands away from Unuvun to the south and west. A really famous philosopher with green hair from somewhere in Meó decided to move to Unuvun, and his disciples became really inspired and had a lot of very impressive thoughts. Some of these thoughts included the idea that (1) we should be more willing to accept foreigners as long as they dye their hair green (2) there is a correct order in which to do almost every task. They also began wearing shoulder pads.
* the Sinchuknu sea peoples kinda just vibed and started doing Sinchuknu things in the eastern peninsula

=== 81st century ===
* The <wip>Re League</wip> spent a lot of manpower and money scooping up islands in between them and Nokhta. They almost finished doing it when another more powerful state tried to take them over again. They got pissed off and used their Nokhtan connections to make sure that state would never be able to challenge them again.
* Imperial Plain established this thing that was kinda like a university-monastery. They had more thinkers and also sent people to the Shattered Islands to do some thinking together and spread Raiwlawism. They were kind of over their pyramids phase so they started building cool gardens with small temples. The thinkers thought in the garden and the monks prayed in the temple. Then they had these dialogues.
* The big Sinchuknu sea peoples empire fractured into a bunch of pieces and the eastern peninsula gained its independence, though under the rule of a dirty brown hair.

= First Unification =

=== 82nd century ===
* The Reconquest of Unuvun begins in earnest as the Imperial Plain and Re League team up in order to subjugate the eastern peninsula. Afterwards, they give the brown haired Sinchuknu people citizenship if and only if they dye their hair green<ref>https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/why-rome/</ref>.
* Re is weakened in a series of wars where it tries to defend its Shattered Islands territories from other aggressors. Imperial Plain state takes the opportunity to subjugate Re, and the merchant monarchy moves off to some random Shattered Islands island.

=== 83rd century ===
* The Imperial-Plain <wip>Jason the Infertile</wip> is unable to produce a heir, and as a result various factions vie for dominance. Backed by powerful Htaevic states, <wip>Gwynne the Blinded</wip> from the eastern peninsula ascends to the throne, and moves the capital to the eastern peninsula. This is the first time it's ever been there.

=== 84th century ===
* As a compromise, the capital is moved a bit westward to Fihano by <wip>Howard the Sickly</wip>.
* <wip>Howard II</wip> implements sweeping reforms that, among other things, establish a national road and ferry system. He also leads the conquest of many islands between Unuvun and Sinchuknu.

=Age of Exploration=

==Establishment of the Imperial Capital (~9,200)==

In the late 91st century, the green-haired [[Emperor Hkämman]] of the Second Htaevic Empire fled to Unuvun, accompanied by a small army. At the time Unuvun was divided between several warring factions, and two of the largest ones threw their support behind Hkämman and helped him conquer the island. Afterwards, he moved the capital of Unuvun from Re to Zhavei and commissioned the construction of the Green Imperial Palace (in direct reference to the famous White Imperial Palace on the Yot river]].

To maximize popular support, Emperor Hkämman decided to marry influential noblewoman Shena Pazhil, head of the ancient and respected Pazhil family. Since Htaevic emperors traditionally did not have surnames, Hkämman decided to adopt Shena's last name in order to add an air of legitimacy to his rule.

==Invasion by Idetka (9,315-9,334 Y)==

===Invasion years (9,315-9,321)===

After the [[Great Famine of 9,312]], the [[Pazhil Dynasty]] was significantly weakened. It was during this time that Prince [[Saeran]] of [[Idetka]] launched his invasion of the island. Saeran's invasion lasted 6 brutal years, during which he was aided by [[Piracy in the Htaevic Rouge|mercenaries and privateers]] from throughout the Shattered Islands and even Meó.

The invasion ended in the near-complete destruction of the Pazhil imperial line, with the royal family being almost completely wiped out with the exception of Princess [[Rzame]], who was saved from the gallows and dramatically escorted from Unuvun to the island of [[Suvi]].

===Eight Years of Suffering (9,322-9,329)===

During her exile on [[Suvi]], Rzame sought to amass an invasion force capable of removing prince Saeran from power in Unuvun. She was able to do so under the promise of abdicating from the royal throne, thus ending the Pazhil Dynasty's rule over Unuvun, and allowing the Htaevic King [[Arbin]] to take the title of emperor. Ever since ascending to the throne, the ambitious Arbin had wanted to reclaim the title of emperor for the Htaevic dynasty, in hopes of one day reforming the ancient [[Htaevic Empire]].

===Thunder on the Imperial Plain (9,330-9,334)===

On 9,330/1/50, Prince Saeran was assassinated by Pazhil loyalists, causing Idetkan-ruled Unuvun to fall into a chaotic period known as '''The Thunderstorm'''. Idetka quickly named a successor, [[Siho Endaya|General Siho Endaya]], however he was killed by Pazhil loyalists mere weeks after Saeran's assassination during the [[Storming of the Imperial Octagon]].

On 9,330/1/83, Princess Rzame returned to Unuvun accompanied by Arbin, and many Pazhil loyalists were unsatisfied with her calls for peace, as they did not believe that Arbin had the legal right to take the Unuvi throne. Some of the more radical ones even split off into their own faction, the [[Sayammians (Unuvun)|Sayammians]], a reference to the ancient democratic city state of [[Sayamm]] that existed in the 9th millenium. In their [[New Constitution]], the Sayammians demanded democratic checks and balances on Arbin's power, with some of the more radical revolutionaries calling for the eradication of the monarchy altogether.

After the routing of the Idetkans, the fighting lasted for two more years until the Sayammians finally surrendered in the [[Compromise of 9,334]]. Emperor Arbin, exhausted from war, allowed for the formation of a parliament headed by a handpicked ambassador of his choice, much like the system that already existed in the [[Third Htaevic Kingdom]].

==War of the Crab Prince (9,349-9,358 Y)==

===Crab Prince Incident===

After Emperor Arbin began to consolidate his power over Unuvun, tensions between his imperial cabinet and the powerful razuku that controlled much of Unuvun's land began to rise. Arbin was taking every opportunity possible to dismantle the control that the razuku had over their territory, and had managed to end several of the most ancient dynasties.

One razuku who had managed to keep control over his princedom was [[Prince Suekasui]] (sway-kaw-swee). He ruled over the small city-state of [[Rvarshen]] (ruh-var-shen), located on the northern edge of Unuvun, close to mainland [[Delezia]]. As a result, Rvarshen had experienced significant piracy over the past few centuries. Its convenient location made it a common stopping point for foreign envoys on their way to Zhavei.

In 9,349 Y, [[Vahkètto|Prince Vahkètto]] of the [[First Meó Empire]] stopped at Rvarshen on his trip to Zhavei, where he was to discuss his recent conquests in the [[Shattered Islands]] with Emperor Arbin. During the early morning of 9,349/1/69 Y, mere hours before the Meó delegation was set to arrive, Suekasui and his male harem all passed away in [[The Orgy at Rvarshen Castle|a massive sexual orgy]]. Shortly before falling into unconsciousness, Suekasui called in his royal court in order to name an heir. In his delirious state, Suekasui declared that his pet crab [[Azu]] would be the new heir to the Rvarshen throne.

After his death, his closest royal advisors fiercly debated whether or not they could actually follow through on his appointment. The legality of appointing a crab was unclear, but it was unlikely that it could be challenged, according to the castle lawyer Ufshi Kije. He referenced the Rat Family of Ggethe as an example where

After Prince Suekasui's death, the royal advisors debated whether or not they could legally appoint the crab Azu as Prince of Rvarshen. Castle lawyer Ufshi Kije brought up the fact that there have been several instances in Unuvi history where an animal was in fact appointed as a temporary regent. In the case of the ''Rat Family'', a rat named Poa inherited the title of Duke of Hpanik. After Poa's death his vicious son, Wikti, ruled over the city of Hpanik and bit anyone who approached him. Though marriage between human and animal was forbidden, a local knight named Mezhen was, with the backing of the emperor at the time, able to secure a marriage license between him and vicious rat Wikti. Wikti would die of natural causes a year later and then Mezhen ascended to the throne.

Though it was unlikely emperor Arbin would grant anyone a marriage license with crab Azu, the Rvarshen royal court decided to go through with the appointment regardless. Suekasui had no close relatives that could be appointed to the throne, and he had no eligible children of his own either. The Rvarshen royal court determined that Arbin would have bulletproof pretext for appointing a Htaevic puppet as the new razuku of Rvarshen, and that the only way to stop this would be to indeed follow through and grant the title of Prince to the crab.

Kije drafted a message to Arbin and stamped it with the Imperial Seal of Rvarshen. He reasoned that Arbin would have no choice but to accept the coronation of Azu onto the Rvarshen throne, as rejecting it would be rejecting the will of an Imperial Seal and would greatly harm Arbin's legitimacy as emperor, and possibly give the remaining razuku a rallying cry for rebellion. The message was sent off on the fastest [[kiya]] the royal court could find, in order to beat any other rumors of Suekasui's death.

During the night of Suekasui's death, a tavern worker, [[Hina Kenachetu]], was hired to help clean up the disastrous mess left behind by the orgy. She had recently moved to Rvarshen, having fled [[Fihanoshai]] after murdering her step-father, step-sister, grandmother and the local shaman, and as such had no knowledge of Prince Suekasui's royal crab. She picked up Azu and dropped him off in a bucket in the kitchen, not knowing what else to do with him. Later in the morning, Kije and his fellow members of the royal court attempted a desperate search for Azu, but none were able to find him. They got news of Vahkètto's arrival in Rvarshen, and as such decided to have him dine first while they attempted to find the crab.

As many of the chefs had been in Suekasui's harem and had passed away alongside him several hours prior, several chefs from the Rvarshen city docks were drafted to make a meal for the whole royal court to enjoy alongside the envoy from Meó. One of these chefs, [[Rejirvei Sasual]], specialized in cooking crabs and decided to boil Azu, conveniently placed in the kitchen, as the main course of the dinner. Sasual would use his notoriety to later found the [[Nautical Ihyai Company]], one of the most powerful corporations to ever exist.

During the unveiling of the main course, several members of the royal court allegedly began to feel extremely nauseous, realizing that Suekasui had forbidden crab from being served in the castle ever since an incident several years prior. However, none of them spoke up as Vahkètto began to devour Azu's royal flesh. One quickly found pretext to get up and ran over to the kitchen, and spotted Azu's intricate crab armor near the stove. The dinner was artificially lengthened as the royal court secretly conversed, trying to figure out how to best handle this disastrous turn of events. It was decided that a castle gardener known as [[Sayesa Sayesan]] would deliver the bad news. Sayesan explained to Vahkètto that, not only did he commit regicide, but also technically cannibalism. Vahkètto became enraged, as his father had committed both regicide and cannibalism in order to inherit the Meó throne, and the prince had desperately seeked to distance himself from his father. He pulled out his sword and beheaded Sayesan on the spot in one, clean swipe.

''The Declination of Crab'' is a tradition carried out when a foreign head of state visits the Nautical Peace. At formal dinner, a plate of crab is placed on the table. To show that the two nations are at peace, both the Emperor and the foreign head of state decline to eat the crab. In Unuvi culture, to "steam the crab" is to threaten conflict, while to "decline the crab" is to try and defuse a tense situation. When someone is unknowingly tricked or deceived into doing something against their personal morals, they are said to have "eaten the crab." Something and/or someone who is used against their will to further the agenda of someone else is termed a "crab."

===War===

And so began the [[War of the Crab Prince]]. The city of Rvàshen was bombarded by the Meó prince’s fleet, and the Unuvi princedoms responded in kind with a coordinate attack on Meo holdings along the coast of the supercontinent. The pirates tried to get in on the action, but were caught between both sides and utterly annihilated for being on neither of them. They would later learn their lesson and go on to rent their services to both sides to maximize profit.

===Aftermath===

With a total of over 100,000 green-haired casualties in the [[War of the Crab Prince]], the jusha class of Unuvi society was exhausted by war. Htaevic Emperor Arbin carefully tried to rein in the princedoms under a new feudal state with the declaration of the [[Second New Constitution]], a document that gave him the power to hand-select the powerful [[razuku]], that controlled much of Unuvun's land. Additionally, the document expressly forbid the 'appointment of crabs and all other animals into positions of power.'

Arbin's calculated risk greatly angered many of the razuku and he called in the army of his [[Second Htaevic Empire]] to Yuuvei in hopes of being able to quash revolutionary fervor. It was during this time that the Sayammians regrouped and infiltrated the Htaevic government over Unuvun in a number of key positions, including several very high ranking parliamentary roles.

===Restoration of the Imperial Line===

On 9,357/0/12, Htaevic officials raided parliament seat-holder [[Chena Tise]]'s house under the suspicion that she was aiding the revolutionary cause. Although Sayammian arsonists set fire to the house, they were able to recover key documents that held a list of Sayammians active in the city of [[Racheinu Chihyu]]. Emperor Arbin apprehended many of these individuals and declared a public day of execution the following week. In an event known as [[Foiled Execution]], several dozen Kiya-riding Sayammians accompanied by several hundred rogue [[jusha]] and over one thousand peasants revolted at the scene of the execution, overcoming the Htaevic troops and preventing the death of all but two prisoners.

Simultaneously, the Sayammians wrote and released a document called [[Declaration of a Nautical Peace]] that called for the installment of 23-year old Fihano Pazhil onto the throne of Unuvun in order to 'usher in a nautical peace in which the green-haired folk of this maritime island shall become naïve to the horrors of war.' Thus began the '''Second Thunderstorm''', a year-long revolt during which almost the entirety of Unuvun rose up against Emperor Arbin. Arbin, unable to quash the rebellion, fled the island from the port of [[Serzilea]] and returned to the [[Shattered Islands]]. After Emperor Fihano rose to the throne of Unuvun, he collaborated with his Sayammian supporters to draft the [[Unuvunese Constitution]], a document that incorporated many revolutionary ideas such as a unified measurement system, as well as many old ideas derived from the governmental system of Sayamm and other similar democracies.

===Establishment of Rvaneok Politics===
For centuries, the Unuvi warrior caste, the jusha, maintained internal order via the ''rvaneok'' system. Rvaneok was a leaderboard system with different leagues of jusha warriors. Jusha warriors would be constantly ranked against each other during skirmishes and tests of culture and strategy. Once a year, top performers would be promoted to the next highest league, and bottom performers would be relegated to the next lowest league. This system of promotion and relegation would gradually influence the culture of Unuvun, spreading into other parts of society such as universities and sports.

It was natural that the Unuvunese, when trying to overhaul their political system, began to think along Rvaneok lines. Many argued about its efficacy and potential unwanted effects, but the idea that the best would rise to the top, creating a meritocracy, was so alluring that in the end, Emperor Fihano directed that the new political system be a Rvaneok one. Some of the other reasons that Fihano wanted the Rvaneok system implemented was because he believed it would cause rabid political infighting and help him maintain a strong grip over the island.

The newly developed Unuvunese Constitution stipulated that the centralized legislative body of the country be separated into two leagues: a provincial league and a national league. Provinces were allowed to further subdivide their provincial leagues as they deemed fit, while the national league would be divided into three houses (lower, middle and higher). Promotion and relegation between the three houses of the national league would happen once a year. Promotion and relegation between the provincial and national league would happen once every two years.

The specific method used to promote and relegate politicians is described as follows: during the promotion and relegation period, the bottom quartile of politicians are put on probation if not already, and any politician in this bottom quartile who is on probation is immediately dismissed into the lower league.

Politicians are ranked via a counsel of 11 rankers. Six national rankers are picked by the emperor, and five voted into office by the parliament that they are ranking. For provincial rankers, provinces may choose to assign rankers however they wish. Most chose to decide all 11 rankers initially by parliamentary vote.

===The Incentive System===
In ancient Sayamm, common folk could contribute to society in order to earn the right to do things such as own property and vote in local elections. Actions they could take included passing proctored exams, serving in the military, creating great works or art and literature, or displaying acts of heroism.

==Exploration of Ivinis (9,368- Y)==
''See: [[Exploration of Ivinis]]''

===Initial exploration and settlement===
[[File:Vzhani.png|thumb|right|Vzhani's three voyages to Ivinis]]
In 9,368 Y, explorer [[Arnppe Vzhani]] left the port of [[Rae]] and begun sailing westwards towards the continent of [[Ivinis]]. At the time, Ivinis had begun to become filled with various [[Nokhta]]n settlements up and down its eastern seaboard. No indigenous peoples had been found, however there had been a wealth of new animals, plants and insects discovered in the preceding century. As such, Vzhani was granted funding by the Nautical Peace to chart out the southwestern coast of Ivinis in order to find potential places that the Nautical Peace could build settlements.

In 9,375 Y, the first colony ships were sent to the island of [[Rvitaria]]. Gradually, more and more were sent until the port of [[Yuechua]] was well-established as an Unuvunese foothold in Ivinis. It would later become the hub for further expansion deeper into Ivinis.

===Settlement of the Vie river basin===

Discovered for the Unuvi by [[Flicha Fihano]], the massive [[Vie]] river captured the imagination of the Unuvunese. The Nautical Peace soon began sending colonists to secure the mouth of the Vie, and rapidly begun constructing a large port at [[Daifihanoshai]] as the true extent of the river system became known. Rivalling many of the large, fertile river basins on [[Pangaea]], the Vie watershed would become the focus of Unuvunese colonization efforts for the next several centuries. As Nokhtan colonies began to sprout up to the northeast of the Vie, the Unuvunese began work on the grand [[Daifihanoshai Castle]], one of the largest traditional Unuvunese castles still in existence.

===Lasletsa===

'''[[Lasletsa Declaration]]''', also known as the '''Green Gate Declaration''', was an imperial declaration in 9,435 Y that asserted both that Hakiism was punishable by the death penalty and that citizenship required green hair. The term "Green Gate" is a reference to the famous [[Lasletsa]] temple complex in Unuvun, the main place of worship of Haki in traditional Unuvi mythology, and a place where only green-haired people have been traditionally allowed to visit.

===Discovery of Lavaank===
ensnared in the forbidden fifties -- an Unuvi merchant ship on the way to Edeto is caught in a horrendous storm and sent flying past the subcontinent, coming upon a new, virgin land called Lavaank by the local Tana people.

== The Dream of Democracy ==

'''The Autumn Fall.''' In late autumn, the Imperial family gathered in the court for a family portrait. Unbeknownst to them, disloyal nobles in cooperation with Veiivinis revolutionaries had placed dozens of barrels of gunpowder nearby, which exploded and killed many members in the line of succession of the Imperial family except for young Prince Hau and his older brother, Prince Imrahen. The botched coup attempt led to the dismantlement of the Hatluyi royal house and made Prince Hau despise the nobility. Imrahen would later inherit the throne and pursue policies of reconciliation with the nobility.

'''The Western Rebellion'''. Much of Veiivinis revolts from Nautical Peace control and forms their own independent nation known as the Veiivinis Alliance, leaving only the city of [[Daifihanoshai]] and outlying regions in Unuvunese control.

'''The Prince of Determination.''' Prince Hau grew to despise Emperor Imrahen for how leniently he treated the nobility and the Veiivinis Alliance. With the assistance of his right hand man, [[Ventus the Second Obliterator]], he orchestrated the assassination of his elder brother and successfully pinned the blame on the [[Berjuda]] royal family. Emperor Hau subsequently ascended to the [[Ocean Throne]] and began preparations to invade Veiivinis. Ventus had convinced his aging father, General Blotz, to hand control of the Imperial Army over to him.

'''The Butchering of Chancellor Pig.''' [[Emperor Hau]], looking to grow Unuvun's power in the face of Rokhtaera's meteoric rise, deposes the head of parliament and replaces her with a pig. Parliament continues to refuse to launch an invasion of [[Veiivinis]], which prompts Hau to butcher [[Chancellor Pig]] and demand that each member of parliament either eat a strip of its bacon or vote in favor of declaring war on the Veiivinis states. The declaration of war subsequently passes parliament by 43-0 vote, cementing Emperor Hau's dominance over the Nautical Peace.

'''The Eight Handed Tactician.''' Under the command of Ventus the Second Obliterator, the Nautical Peace launches its invasion of Veiivinis. Over the next five bloody years, over two million people died in the fighting as the Nautical Peace threw their entire weight into reconquering their former colonial holdings. Ventus' strategic brilliance allowed the Nautical Peace to effectively attack Veiivinis on multiple fronts at once, earning him the fearsome title of the "eight handed tactician."

'''The War Behind the Castle Walls.''' It was no secret that Emperor Hau was a strong believer in [[Sayammians (Unuvun)|Sayammian]] democratic ideals. Growing up, he witnessed first hand many of the atrocities the nobility committed behind the scenes. Though he cooperated with the aristocracy in order to focus on conquering Veiivinis, afterwards he began a decade long power struggle against the nobility during which hundreds of assassinations occurred on both sides. In the end, the nobility was dismantled and replaced with a mostly democratic system with strong checks and balances.

'''To Every Man a Golden Throne.''' Also known as the 'Heroic Age,' this time period after the reconquest of Veiivinis saw the rapid industrialization of the Nautical Peace in order to catch up with Rokhtaera and Meó, as well as radical political reform. Some policies, such as the establishment of the Official System of Units, and the creation of a comprehensive system of rural districts and national parks, were highly successful policies that continue to this day. Other policies, such as the abolishment of marriage and the outlawing of dinosaurs, provoked significant civil unrest until compromise was reached. Though the dismantlement of the aristocracy was highly disruptive to Unuvi life, Emperor Hau put so much political capital behind the goal that it became a third rail which no political opponent of his could touch.

'''Obliterator in the Octagon.''' The last Unuvunese royal family, the Enares, stormed the [[Imperial Octagon]] and attempted to bargain with Emperor Hau for their royal line's survival. Enraged by the killing of his daughter, Emperor Hau ordered the storming of the Octagon and the "obliteration of the last vestige of the monster of nobility." Obliging, Ventus the Second Obliterator led the charge into the Imperial Octagon and personally killed Prince Vralu, Queen Ferzi and Duchess Sayiŋa, ending the Enare royal bloodline once and for all.

ROUTE 1:

'''The Emperor Machine.''' Near the end of his life, Emperor Hau announced that he would step down as ruler of the Nautical Peace. He feared that the Imperial Court had grown far too powerful, and that the Nautical Peace could repeat history by slowly devolving into aristocracy once more. To prevent this, Hau commissioned the creation of the Emperor Machine, a large, eighty foot tall anthropomorphic machine resembling an Unuvi shaman. In collaboration with parliament, he passed legislation that stipulated the emperor of the Nautical Peace be chosen as follows: each party member of parliament may write the name of one person on a ballot card and place it inside of the Emperor Machine. The Emperor Machine will then shuffle the cards and select one at random, with the person whose name is on the selected card being crowned the next emperor of the Nautical Peace -- with an eight year term limit.

Legally, the Emperor Machine is the regent of the Nautical Peace. The chosen 'emperor' is legally an assistant who is expected to carry out the will of the Emperor Machine until one day "the Machine shall become advancèd enough such that it shall attain the collective consciousnèss of the Unuvunese people and rule over the Nation itself in a sublime singularity." This power is known as the '''Mandate of the Machine''', and in recent years it has become hotly debated as artificial intelligence continues to grow in power exponentially.

'''The Black Rose.''' The [[First Ganuoan-Unuvunese War]] is often used to mark the end of the Unuvunese Heroic Age. The Nautical Peace hastily attempted to block Ganuoese expansion deeper into the interior of Edeto, provoking a long, five year conflict with more than 200,000 deaths during which little territory traded hand. The conclusion of the war saw northern Edeto remaining firmly in the Ganuoan sphere of influence, while the Nautical Peace was left dealing with major revolts in southeastern Edeto that led to them eventually pulling out from that region altogether. The Nautical Peace shifted their focus towards investing in Ivinis after the discovery of large coal, oil and gold deposits in the Ivini Backbone.

ROUTE 2:

'''something something edgy.''' emperor hau assassinated at world's fair, son ascends to throne and convinces the peace to launch a war against country that did assassination, etc

=Second Age of Exploration=

'''"We Come in Peace, from the Peace".''' The Samtlie-6 Mission was the first manned landing on Haki by the Nautical Peace. Hundreds of millions of people watched worldwide as the lander crashed into the Yešče Plain, starting a firestorm that surrounded Captain Lufain and Commander Mahkika as they climbed out of the lander. With almost all supplies lost, Lufain and Mahkika would become the first humans to attempt to consume Haki flora and fauna as they would need to wait for at least three weeks for supplies to arrive from Pavala.

'''Do Me a Favor.''' The Samtlie-7 Mission launched in great haste, seeking to rescue the two men left stranded on Haki during the Samtlie-6 mission. Many had speculated about what exactly would happen to a human being were they to take their mask off on Haki. It was already known that Haki's atmosphere was theoretically breathable, however it was unknown how Hakese bacteria would affect a human being over the long term, as well as whether or not Hakese plant and animal life were digestible. After a successful landing, the world was shocked to discover that bother Lufain and Mahkika were alive, having survived off Hakese megafauna in the three weeks since their crash landing. The two astronauts returned to Pavala on the Samtlie-7 lander, bringing some of their foraged food with them.

'''The Master Ship.''' The Master Project was a top secret rocketry project led by the Naborsi engineering prodigy [[Shimh Hâo]] and the Unuvunese industrial magnate [[Tehchuka Flaneybi]]. Nabors and the Nautical Peace generously poured tens of billions of dollars a year into the development of a sub $100/kg transportation system to Haki. The result was a two staged reusable rocket system to get to Haki, with the upper stage being able to return to Pavala by itself due to Haki's lower gravity. Thanks to the development of the Master Ship, the Nautical Peace was able to begin work on a large city on Haki to serve as a base of operations for its ulterior motive, to lay claim to large expanses of the planet. [Are we entering the future? Does Pavala canon stop here?]

the sibling crosser -- Dadu Ultraheavy Industries releases the Strawberry 5, the wildly successful commercial spaceplane that can take up to twenty people to Haki and back. With one-way tickets to Haki plumetting to $80,000, the Nautical Peace's spaceports are about to get a whole lot more crowded.

Haki

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'''Haki''' is the smaller of the two planets in the Pavala-Haki system, the larger being [[Pavala]]

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==Questions==
* Is it possible to start an industrial revolution with petroleum rather than coal?

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* [[History of Edeto]]
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==Meteorology==
✿ Kalassak's stuff

* [[Guide:Tropical cyclone basins]]
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* [[Amalthea Meteorological Collaboration]]
* [http://paladinofstorms.net/w/index.php?title=19614_South_Uqe_cyclone_season WRF Test 1 & 2 (March 2018)]
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==Ancient Htaevic Rouge==
===Alotsë dynasty (6,312-6,537 Y)===
====Development of writing====
It was during the short Alotsë dynasty that Hotsan Gget developed the ''hlunliw'' writing system, originally to write down the oral poetry passed down through generations of monarchs. This soon spread through the royal class and became the predominant writing system throughout the empire.

====Royal cannibalism====
It's unclear when the tradition of eating ones ruler upon their death began, however it was already an integral part of succession during the Alotsë dynasty. The heir to a given fief, shire, et cetera was supposed to eat the dead ruler in order to inherit the right to rule. In the rare case that they refused, they would pass down the right to do so to the person next in line of succession, and so on. Only noblemen were allowed to eat the brain, which was considered to be where good karma was stored. In fact, noblemen often requested that commoners engaging in ritual cannibalism send the brain to the castle, where the nobleman could consume it and gain karma, thereby gaining a sort of "mandate" to rule over his fief. Nobody was allowed to eat the intestines, which was considered to be where bad karma was stored.

While processing the deceased ruler, shaman-chefs were employed to divinate fortunes from the arrangement of the ruler's internal organs, especially the idiosynchratic bends and curves of the intestines.

Traditionally, people were only allowed to eat one to three parts of the body depending on how close they were to the deceased. Fingers were eaten to increase ones dexterity, while the foot and liver were eaten in order to gain the 'wisdom' of the deceased. Choice cuts such as the thighs, biceps, calves, etc. were in general just considered to bring good health.

====Settlements====
In this era, the most important cities were:
* Baestamiw (present day [[Xol]]), located at the southern edge of the great rift, and the easternmost major city of the Alotsë.
* Cilawlyawre, located on the [[Yot]] river not too far from the Alotsë's border with the Hsuqlihts. This was the capital of the Alotsë dynasty and where they first experimented with building traditional ''Wzeliwhacan'' shrines.
* Renzhilyarë, a city located inland near a large aquifer and the largest gold mine in the world at the time.

===Riwnë dynasty (6537-6670 Y)===
The Riwnë ('faithful') dynasty was the shortest of all dynasties, lasting just 133 years. It ended due to extreme inbreeding within the family of ruling monarchs, resulting in ruler Tsahotë Riwnë having just 2 biological great grandparents, who themselves were first cousins. He died aged 14, royal legends stating 'a flood of evil spirits infested his lungs'. Modern historians suspect it was pulmonary oedema. The following dynasties developed a taboo on sibling, parent-child, and uncle-niece/aunt-nephew relationships. Cousin marriages did not develop a taboo.

===Burë dynasty (6,670-6,804 Y)===
The Burë dynasty saw the expansion of wzeliwhacan shrines across Htaevic territory, and the growth of political power in the priest class. Priest Kazhiw Lmget of the Lmtsahacan shrine said that, during one of his prayer sessions (likely using traditional psychedelics) the Messenger of Sin '''Lmtsa''' came to him and told him that the so-called 'Elder Beings of Haki' have recently acquired a divine power that they wish to bestow upon a chosen monarch on Pavala. He relayed this message to Emperor Stanzhi Burë who asked Kazhiw Lmget to head the [[Order of the Elder Beings]], a society of priests and scholars dedicated towards finding out more about these divine beings and figuring out how to grant the Burë line their secret powers.

==First Htaevic Empire (6,804-7,005 Y)==
Gradually, this order became more and more powerful until eventually they ruled the Htaevic empire in all but name; while they would grant the current Burë ruler the 'divine right' to rule over all of the Htaevic realm, the order would use its large bureaucracy to get its way in any disagreement with the imperial household. As the Htaevic's religious identity continued to strengthen they would eventually go to war against their northern neighbors, the Hsuqlihts, who followed the heretical [[Herlucc]] religion. This would eventually lead to the downfall of the First Htaevic Empire as the Hsuqlihts were more powerful and able to launch counter-invasions.

It was during the First Htaevic Empire that ironworking became widespread in the region. The First Htaevic Empire also drove out the native [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] inhabitants of the [[Shattered Islands]], known primarily for separating into clans based on their purple and green hair. The purple-haired inhabitants decided to migrate northwards into the Meó basin, while the green-haired inhabitants migrated southwards into Unuvun and displaced the native Konod people.

===City layout===
As the first Htaevic Empire spread throughout the [[Shattered Islands]], they established hundreds of new port cities, following a common city plan. There was a harbor, from which run a ''harbor road'' a kilometer or more inland until it reached the castle. As the Shattered Islands was a very flat and water-rich region, castles usually included one or two ring moats. The castles themselves were mostly built from mud or clay brick, supplemented with wood as needed.

Villas for the nobility were constructed in between the castle and the port, and were often surrounded by the ''inner wall''. Outside this wall was where the majority of the city's population lived. Wealthier cities oftentimes had a ''public wall'' constructed around the entire city. The Htaevics were a polytheistic people, and originally had a suite of generic gods for concepts like the rain, sun, wind, etc. They worshipped these gods by building '''wzeliwhacans''', a long stone row supported by stone columns, like Stonehenge but in a line instead of a circle. This stone row would be oriented perpendicular to Haki, so that all of the stones were visible from the planet. They would paint murals dedicated to individual gods on each of these massive stones in bright colors, and plant specific flowers and plants around each stone.

===Tsiriwn===
Over generations, much of the nobility of the Htaevic Empire became victims of a prion disease known as '''tsiriwn'''. This is because the nobility ate a lot of brain, which was where the prion disease would concentrate. The Order of the Elder Beings outlawed the consumption of diseased individuals, and instead began burning them, beginning a tradition of human cremation. However the disease still continued to spread through the nobility, incapacitating the ruling class of the empire and contributing to its downfall against the Hsuqlihts.

===Collapse to Hsuqlihta===
The First Htaevic Empire would gradually expand its holdings up the [[Yot River]] and into the [[Shattered Islands]] until its collapse during the [[Hsuqlihta]]n invasions.

==Hsuqlihtan rule (7,005-7,224 Y)==
The Hsuqlihts greatly influenced the development of Htaevic culture, spreading the octal number system, the [[Herlucc]] religion and their rudimentary democratic politics.

===Spread of Herlucc===
After conquering the Htaevic Empire, Hsuqlihta sought to spread their native Herlucc religion throughout the prosperous region. They decided upon a policy of synthesizing Herlucc with the native Htaevic polytheistic religion.

===End of cannibalism===
The new ruling Hsuqliht class strongly disapproved of cannibalism, however it was an integral part of Htaevic culture. Unrest grew in the various Htaevic tributaries, as the ruling Hsuqlihts would refuse to eat the human brains that they sent as tribute. The Hsuqlihts side stepped this controversy by hiring dedicated "brain eaters" to sit on the aristocratic court and eat all the brains sent as tribute. This satisfied most of the Htaevics. The Hsuqlihts became alarmed as, over the decades, these brain eaters became the only people in the aristocracy to die from tsiriwn.

As Herlucc spread throughout the former Htaevic Empire, a karmic crisis ensued over the practice of cannibalism. It had been common practice noble Htaevics to eat the brains of their deceased subjects in order to accumulate good karma, however under the principles of Htaevic Herlucc, accumulating too much good karma was viewed as a bad thing. Some began eating the intestines (traditional home of the "bad karma") alongside the brain in order to balance good and bad karma, however this failed to become widespread. Eating intestines was still considered highly taboo, and the nobility had a difficult time convincing the common folk to supply them an adequate amount of intestines (intestinal cremation was traditionally the first thing done upon somebody's death). Additionally, it became common knowledge that the only people in the Hsuqliht aristocratic courts who died from tsiriwn were the ones who ate brains, so many began theorizing that tsiriwn was caused by cannibalism.

So both the Htaevic nobility and the Hsuqlihtan aristocracy agreed to end the practice of cannibalism, instead mandating that all bodies be burnt so that both the good karma from the brain and the bad karma from the intestines can be released back into Kanea. The bones and ashes were kept as a unique source of "neutral kanea" for various projects.

===Incorporation of Htaevic gods===
To gain legitimacy, the Hsuqlihts incorporated the Htaevic pantheon into Herlucc. They split the Htaevic pantheon into two based on karma, and ordered a rebuilding of all wzeliwhacans to incorporate this change. Wzeliwhacans were to be split in two - on the left of Haki would be gods of good karma, while on the right of Haki would be gods of bad karma. A dirt or cobblestone ''kanea road'' would run between these two sets of gods. Larger wzeliwhacans in major cities were adapted by removing the horizontal stones that ran atop the stone columns, and then carving the stone columns into moai-like heads.

==Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y)==
After the split of the Hsuqliht Empire in 7,224 Y, Emperor Lucclucc of the Southern Hsuqliht Empire declared that he had recieved divine right from the [[Elder Beings of Haki]] to conquer the entirety of Pavala in their name. He orchestrated great reforms to Htaevic Herlucc, declaring that, after passing the temples to the gods, the Kanea road would be briefly forked into two, and a temple devoted to the Southern Hsuqliht imperial family would be built. This symbolized how the imperial family had recieved their divine right from the Elder Beings of Haki. Emperor Lucclucc waged massive wars of conquest against the Meó, the Northern Hsuqliht Empire, and even parts of Nokhta.

===Establishment of the Haki Republic===
Emperor Lucclucc's wife gave birth to triplets, and it was never specified in what order they were born in. This caused controversy as the Southern Succlythian Empire now had no clear line of succession. Indeed, as the years passed all three children grew to be stunningly intelligent and articulate, further compounding the issue of choosing an heir. After the sudden death of Emperor Lucclucc, the three children and the governors of the empire's various territories convened to choose a successor. It was decided that they would vote for the next monarch. The votes showed a clear preference for Kuhnèi, since he spent a lot of time painting his 'visions' of the Elder Beings of Haki. He was proclaimed the first ''consul'' of the new '''Haki Republic'''.

During the Haki Republic, the language of [[Classical Htaevic]] flourished and eventually became a lingua franca across much of Delezia. The Htaevic script solidified into [[Classical Hlunliw]].

===Consuls of the Haki Republic===

{| class="wikitable"
! Consul !! Years !! Lineage !! Notes
|-
| Kuhnèi the Troubled || 7,249 - 7,268 (19 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || The first consul. Descended into schizophrenia in his later years.
|-
| Ofqùl/Wargël the Steady || 7,268 - 7,278 (10 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || Brother of Kuhnèi. Continued the expansion of the Haki Republic.
|-
| Rse Htë Loric || 7,278 - 7,284 (6 years) || House of Rse Htë || Influential merchant who made his fortunes taking control of the great gold mines of [[Hvalozd]]. Embezzled funds for years before enraged aristocrats ousted him and established the tradition of impeachment.
|-
| (...) || (...) || (...) || (...)
|-
| Fòsoja || 7,438 - 7,451 (13 years) || House of Meó || The first Meóese Consul. Well-known for being assassinated.
|-
| Tsapöt the Purple || 7451 - 7472 (21 years) || House of Sömblaw || First ethnically Hkamisëbiwmtë Consul. The government did not like that he, as an outsider, became leader and thus stripped away much of the power of the Consul. This and other events during Tsapöt's tenure would sow the seeds for the later civil war known as The Shattering. He was killed by a meteorite.
|-
| Hkancùtùsqòn the Dull || 7472 - 7485 (13 years) || House of Meó || Second cousin of Fòsoja. He was known for giving the Palace Court much more power, and stripping away much of the Consul's remaining powers. His rule marked the further decline of the Consul. He was generally unpopular to the Htaevic people and perceived as incompetent.
|-
| Hroljuje the Stern || 7485 - 7500 (15 years) ||House of Meó || Son of Hkancùtùsqòn. Hroljuje despised his father, and attempted to gain back power for the Consul, which he was somewhat successful in. The republic flourished under his reign, though it was authoritarian. He had a keen interest in the arts and cultural institutions of the republic and established many theatres.
|-
| Dan the Helpless || 7,500 - 7,520 (20 years) || House of Meó || The last consul, son of Hroljuje. He tried to implement reforms to give the rapidly growing Meó region more power within the Haki Republic government. But his reign was marked by incredible partisan gridlock, and after his assassination, the government was unable to choose a new heir and a civil war began.
|}

===Decline of the Haki Republic===
====Invasion of Unuvun====
{{CrossReference|History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace}}
The invasion of Unuvun by the Haki Republic is generally regarded as marking the beginning of the nation's troubled decline. As the republic became overstretched managing its many other conquests, such as Meó and Hvalozd, its army declined in quality and the ranks became corrupt. Originally thought to be an easy target, the backwater [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] states of Unuvun put up a courageous fight and exacted heavy casualties on the invading Republican forces. Though the Haki Republic was eventually able to assert control over the island, it was undeniably a Pyrrhic victory that still left the Unuvi with great autonomy.

====Assassination of Consul Fòsoja====
Consul Fòsoja's highest ranking servant, Bèje, plotted to assassinate Fòsoja and seize the throne for himself. The Consul's closest military advisor Klentkuf, however, exposed that Bèje had assassinated Fòsoja, at the same time as he was framing Fòsoja for planning to assassinate the Religious Minister Buwrët. This information enraged Buwrët as he felt it treasonous and detested the suggestion that Fòsoja would assassinate him, and did not believe that Consul Fòsoja's closest servant Bèje were to be capable of assassinating Fòsoja, as they were intimate friends beyond their consul-servant relationship. He then allied himself with Bèje, recognising him as the new Consul, and pressured the Palace Justice Demli into banishing Klentkuf into 'foreign lands'. Klentkuf was ultimately sent into the unruly Hkamisëbiwmtë lands south of the Htasei basin that had recently been the site of much violence and unrest, Justice Demli choosing such a place in an attempt that perhaps Klentkuf would be able to bring greater Hsuqliht influence there through his ruling prowess, despite the fact the Palace had found him treasonous. While in the lands, Klentkuf became allies with local rebel chief Tsapöt. After consolidating much power within the local region, Klentkuf and Tsapöt lead a small army to the Palace to attempt to burn it down, however the army was quashed by Buwrët's Order (an order of religious knights charged with defence of the palace). Palace Justice Demli then betrayed Buwrët, allying with Klentkuf and killing Bèje. This lead to a fight between Klentkuf and Demli in which they both killed each other, leaving Tsapöt to take control.

Despite being named after the Meó region, members of the House of Meó typically spoke Ancient Hsuqliht as a first language, and were of Hsuqliht or mixed ethnic background. Dan the helpless was one of the few members of the House of Meó to be of significant Meó descent, with his mother being ethnically Meó.

==Middle Ages (7,520-8,666 Y)==
===The Shattering (7,520-7,625 Y)===
After the death of Consul Dan in 7,520 Y, the regents' council tried and failed five times to elect a new consul due to deep factional polarization. Meó and Hvalozd then issued a joint declaration of independence in 7,521 Y, forming the [[First Rift Alliance]]. The First Rift Alliance quickly advanced towards the coasts of their respective regions, however they were unable to push inwards and pincer the Yot river basin.

In 7,523 Y, the Unuvi states declared independence, and together with the Nokhtan [[Second Zankhti League of Cities and Islands]] began a campaign of piracy along the southern Shattered Islands.

<wip>somehow the rest of the haki republic needs to shatter</wip>

===The 1,024 Year Spring===
The time period after the Shattering is commonly known as the [[1,024 Year Spring]] – a time of relative peace from approximately 7,625 Y to 8,650 Y during which the many former states of the Haki Republic flourished culturally and politically. It ended with the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into the region, killing over 40% of Htaevic Rouge's population. The self-proclaimed prophet [[Dropo]] gained a cult following and, after invoking divine right, reconquered much of Htaevic Rouge to form the [[Second Htaevic Empire]], of which he declare himself king (beneath the Elder Beings of Haki). The Second Htaevic Empire would last for an astonishing four hundred years until it fell to an expansionist Nokhta in 9,089 Y.

The emperor of the Second Htaevic Empire would flee to Unuvun, where he was welcomed and continued to rule as "emperor" of the Htaevic realm if only in name.

After a string of failed revolts in the 92nd century, as well as a series of famines and minor plagues, the monk [[Biplatzë Sagpawë]] developed the basic tenets of the [[Hakiism]] religion, which blamed the Elder Beings of Haki for all the suffering Htaevic Rouge's peoples had endured in the past centuries. The religion spread quickly throughout the poor serf class in Htaevic Rouge and Nokhta, and was subsequently banned in Unuvun and Meó. It was this religious fervor that would become the driving force behind the mass exodus of millions to Ivinis, where they would be "beyond the Elder Beings' cursed gaze".

History of Htaevic Rouge

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==Ancient Htaevic Rouge==
===Alotsë dynasty (6,312-6,537 Y)===
====Development of writing====
It was during the short Alotsë dynasty that Hotsan Gget developed the ''hlunliw'' writing system, originally to write down the oral poetry passed down through generations of monarchs. This soon spread through the royal class and became the predominant writing system throughout the empire.

====Royal cannibalism====
It's unclear when the tradition of eating ones ruler upon their death began, however it was already an integral part of succession during the Alotsë dynasty. The heir to a given fief, shire, et cetera was supposed to eat the dead ruler in order to inherit the right to rule. In the rare case that they refused, they would pass down the right to do so to the person next in line of succession, and so on. Only noblemen were allowed to eat the brain, which was considered to be where good karma was stored. In fact, noblemen often requested that commoners engaging in ritual cannibalism send the brain to the castle, where the nobleman could consume it and gain karma, thereby gaining a sort of "mandate" to rule over his fief. Nobody was allowed to eat the intestines, which was considered to be where bad karma was stored.

While processing the deceased ruler, shaman-chefs were employed to divinate fortunes from the arrangement of the ruler's internal organs, especially the idiosynchratic bends and curves of the intestines.

Traditionally, people were only allowed to eat one to three parts of the body depending on how close they were to the deceased. Fingers were eaten to increase ones dexterity, while the foot and liver were eaten in order to gain the 'wisdom' of the deceased. Choice cuts such as the thighs, biceps, calves, etc. were in general just considered to bring good health.

====Settlements====
In this era, the most important cities were:
* Baestamiw (present day [[Xol]]), located at the southern edge of the great rift, and the easternmost major city of the Alotsë.
* Cilawlyawre, located on the [[Yot]] river not too far from the Alotsë's border with the Hsuqlihts. This was the capital of the Alotsë dynasty and where they first experimented with building traditional ''Wzeliwhacan'' shrines.
* Renzhilyarë, a city located inland near a large aquifer and the largest gold mine in the world at the time.

===Riwnë dynasty (6537-6670 Y)===
The Riwnë ('faithful') dynasty was the shortest of all dynasties, lasting just 133 years. It ended due to extreme inbreeding within the family of ruling monarchs, resulting in ruler Tsahotë Riwnë having just 2 biological great grandparents, who themselves were first cousins. He died aged 14, royal legends stating 'a flood of evil spirits infested his lungs'. Modern historians suspect it was pulmonary oedema. The following dynasties developed a taboo on sibling, parent-child, and uncle-niece/aunt-nephew relationships. Cousin marriages did not develop a taboo.

===Burë dynasty (6,670-6,804 Y)===
The Burë dynasty saw the expansion of wzeliwhacan shrines across Htaevic territory, and the growth of political power in the priest class. Priest Kazhiw Lmget of the Lmtsahacan shrine said that, during one of his prayer sessions (likely using traditional psychedelics) the Messenger of Sin '''Lmtsa''' came to him and told him that the so-called 'Elder Beings of Haki' have recently acquired a divine power that they wish to bestow upon a chosen monarch on Pavala. He relayed this message to Emperor Stanzhi Burë who asked Kazhiw Lmget to head the [[Order of the Elder Beings]], a society of priests and scholars dedicated towards finding out more about these divine beings and figuring out how to grant the Burë line their secret powers.

==First Htaevic Empire (6,804-7,005 Y)==
Gradually, this order became more and more powerful until eventually they ruled the Htaevic empire in all but name; while they would grant the current Burë ruler the 'divine right' to rule over all of the Htaevic realm, the order would use its large bureaucracy to get its way in any disagreement with the imperial household. As the Htaevic's religious identity continued to strengthen they would eventually go to war against their northern neighbors, the Hsuqlihts, who followed the heretical [[Herlucc]] religion. This would eventually lead to the downfall of the First Htaevic Empire as the Hsuqlihts were more powerful and able to launch counter-invasions.

It was during the First Htaevic Empire that ironworking became widespread in the region. The First Htaevic Empire also drove out the native [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] inhabitants of the [[Shattered Islands]], known primarily for separating into clans based on their purple and green hair. The purple-haired inhabitants decided to migrate northwards into the Meó basin, while the green-haired inhabitants migrated southwards into Unuvun and displaced the native Konod people.

===City layout===
As the first Htaevic Empire spread throughout the [[Shattered Islands]], they established hundreds of new port cities, following a common city plan. There was a harbor, from which run a ''harbor road'' a kilometer or more inland until it reached the castle. As the Shattered Islands was a very flat and water-rich region, castles usually included one or two ring moats. The castles themselves were mostly built from mud or clay brick, supplemented with wood as needed.

Villas for the nobility were constructed in between the castle and the port, and were often surrounded by the ''inner wall''. Outside this wall was where the majority of the city's population lived. Wealthier cities oftentimes had a ''public wall'' constructed around the entire city. The Htaevics were a polytheistic people, and originally had a suite of generic gods for concepts like the rain, sun, wind, etc. They worshipped these gods by building '''wzeliwhacans''', a long stone row supported by stone columns, like Stonehenge but in a line instead of a circle. This stone row would be oriented perpendicular to Haki, so that all of the stones were visible from the planet. They would paint murals dedicated to individual gods on each of these massive stones in bright colors, and plant specific flowers and plants around each stone.

===Tsiriwn===
Over generations, much of the nobility of the Htaevic Empire became victims of a prion disease known as '''tsiriwn'''. This is because the nobility ate a lot of brain, which was where the prion disease would concentrate. The Order of the Elder Beings outlawed the consumption of diseased individuals, and instead began burning them, beginning a tradition of human cremation. However the disease still continued to spread through the nobility, incapacitating the ruling class of the empire and contributing to its downfall against the Hsuqlihts.

===Collapse to Hsuqlihta===
The First Htaevic Empire would gradually expand its holdings up the [[Yot River]] and into the [[Shattered Islands]] until its collapse during the [[Hsuqlihta]]n invasions.

==Hsuqlihtan rule (7,005-7,224 Y)==
The Hsuqlihts greatly influenced the development of Htaevic culture, spreading the octal number system, the [[Herlucc]] religion and their rudimentary democratic politics.

===Spread of Herlucc===
After conquering the Htaevic Empire, Hsuqlihta sought to spread their native Herlucc religion throughout the prosperous region. They decided upon a policy of synthesizing Herlucc with the native Htaevic polytheistic religion.

===End of cannibalism===
The new ruling Hsuqliht class strongly disapproved of cannibalism, however it was an integral part of Htaevic culture. Unrest grew in the various Htaevic tributaries, as the ruling Hsuqlihts would refuse to eat the human brains that they sent as tribute. The Hsuqlihts side stepped this controversy by hiring dedicated "brain eaters" to sit on the aristocratic court and eat all the brains sent as tribute. This satisfied most of the Htaevics. The Hsuqlihts became alarmed as, over the decades, these brain eaters became the only people in the aristocracy to die from tsiriwn.

As Herlucc spread throughout the former Htaevic Empire, a karmic crisis ensued over the practice of cannibalism. It had been common practice noble Htaevics to eat the brains of their deceased subjects in order to accumulate good karma, however under the principles of Htaevic Herlucc, accumulating too much good karma was viewed as a bad thing. Some began eating the intestines (traditional home of the "bad karma") alongside the brain in order to balance good and bad karma, however this failed to become widespread. Eating intestines was still considered highly taboo, and the nobility had a difficult time convincing the common folk to supply them an adequate amount of intestines (intestinal cremation was traditionally the first thing done upon somebody's death). Additionally, it became common knowledge that the only people in the Hsuqliht aristocratic courts who died from tsiriwn were the ones who ate brains, so many began theorizing that tsiriwn was caused by cannibalism.

So both the Htaevic nobility and the Hsuqlihtan aristocracy agreed to end the practice of cannibalism, instead mandating that all bodies be burnt so that both the good karma from the brain and the bad karma from the intestines can be released back into Kanea. The bones and ashes were kept as a unique source of "neutral kanea" for various projects.

===Incorporation of Htaevic gods===
To gain legitimacy, the Hsuqlihts incorporated the Htaevic pantheon into Herlucc. They split the Htaevic pantheon into two based on karma, and ordered a rebuilding of all wzeliwhacans to incorporate this change. Wzeliwhacans were to be split in two - on the left of Haki would be gods of good karma, while on the right of Haki would be gods of bad karma. A dirt or cobblestone ''kanea road'' would run between these two sets of gods. Larger wzeliwhacans in major cities were adapted by removing the horizontal stones that ran atop the stone columns, and then carving the stone columns into moai-like heads.

==Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y)==
After the split of the Hsuqliht Empire in 7,224 Y, Emperor Lucclucc of the Southern Hsuqliht Empire declared that he had recieved divine right from the [[Elder Beings of Haki]] to conquer the entirety of Pavala in their name. He orchestrated great reforms to Htaevic Herlucc, declaring that, after passing the temples to the gods, the Kanea road would be briefly forked into two, and a temple devoted to the Southern Hsuqliht imperial family would be built. This symbolized how the imperial family had recieved their divine right from the Elder Beings of Haki. Emperor Lucclucc waged massive wars of conquest against the Meó, the Northern Hsuqliht Empire, and even parts of Nokhta.

===Establishment of the Haki Republic===
Emperor Lucclucc's wife gave birth to triplets, and it was never specified in what order they were born in. This caused controversy as the Southern Succlythian Empire now had no clear line of succession. Indeed, as the years passed all three children grew to be stunningly intelligent and articulate, further compounding the issue of choosing an heir. After the sudden death of Emperor Lucclucc, the three children and the governors of the empire's various territories convened to choose a successor. It was decided that they would vote for the next monarch. The votes showed a clear preference for Kuhnèi, since he spent a lot of time painting his 'visions' of the Elder Beings of Haki. He was proclaimed the first ''consul'' of the new '''Haki Republic'''.

During the Haki Republic, the language of [[Classical Htaevic]] flourished and eventually became a lingua franca across much of Delezia. The Htaevic script solidified into [[Classical Hlunliw]].

===Consuls of the Haki Republic===

{| class="wikitable"
! Consul !! Years !! Lineage !! Notes
|-
| Kuhnèi the Troubled || 7,249 - 7,268 (19 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || The first consul. Descended into schizophrenia in his later years.
|-
| Ofqùl/Wargël the Steady || 7,268 - 7,278 (10 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || Brother of Kuhnèi. Continued the expansion of the Haki Republic.
|-
| Rse Htë Loric || 7,278 - 7,284 (6 years) || House of Rse Htë || Influential merchant who made his fortunes taking control of the great gold mines of [[Hvalozd]]. Embezzled funds for years before enraged aristocrats ousted him and established the tradition of impeachment.
|-
| (...) || (...) || (...) || (...)
|-
| Fòsoja || 7,438 - 7,451 (13 years) || House of Meó || The first Meóese Consul. Well-known for being assassinated.
|-
| Tsapöt the Purple || 7451 - 7472 (21 years) || House of Sömblaw || First ethnically Hkamisëbiwmtë Consul. The government did not like that he, as an outsider, became leader and thus stripped away much of the power of the Consul. This and other events during Tsapöt's tenure would sow the seeds for the later civil war known as The Shattering. He was killed by a meteorite.
|-
| Hkancùtùsqòn the Dull || 7472 - 7485 (13 years) || House of Meó || Second cousin of Fòsoja. He was known for giving the Palace Court much more power, and stripping away much of the Consul's remaining powers. His rule marked the further decline of the Consul. He was generally unpopular to the Htaevic people and perceived as incompetent.
|-
| Hroljuje the Stern || 7485 - 7500 (15 years) ||House of Meó || Son of Hkancùtùsqòn. Hroljuje despised his father, and attempted to gain back power for the Consul, which he was somewhat successful in. The republic flourished under his reign, though it was authoritarian. He had a keen interest in the arts and cultural institutions of the republic and established many theatres.
|-
| Dan the Helpless || 7,500 - 7,520 (20 years) || House of Meó || The last consul, son of Hroljuje. He tried to implement reforms to give the rapidly growing Meó region more power within the Haki Republic government. But his reign was marked by incredible partisan gridlock, and after his assassination, the government was unable to choose a new heir and a civil war began.
|}

===Decline of the Haki Republic===
====Invasion of Unuvun====
{{CrossReference|History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace}}
The invasion of Unuvun by the Haki Republic is generally regarded as marking the beginning of the nation's troubled decline. As the republic became overstretched managing its many other conquests, such as Meó and Hvalozd, its army declined in quality and the ranks became corrupt. Originally thought to be an easy target, the backwater [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] states of Unuvun put up a courageous fight and exacted heavy casualties on the invading Republican forces. Though the Haki Republic was eventually able to assert control over the island, it was undeniably a Pyrrhic victory that still left the Unuvi with great autonomy.

====Assassination of Consul Fòsoja====
Consul Fòsoja's highest ranking servant, Bèje, plotted to assassinate Fòsoja and seize the throne for himself. The Consul's closest military advisor Klentkuf, however, exposed that Bèje had assassinated Fòsoja, at the same time as he was framing Fòsoja for planning to assassinate the Religious Minister Buwrët. This information enraged Buwrët as he felt it treasonous and detested the suggestion that Fòsoja would assassinate him, and did not believe that Consul Fòsoja's closest servant Bèje were to be capable of assassinating Fòsoja, as they were intimate friends beyond their consul-servant relationship. He then allied himself with Bèje, recognising him as the new Consul, and pressured the Palace Justice Demli into banishing Klentkuf into 'foreign lands'. Klentkuf was ultimately sent into the unruly Hkamisëbiwmtë lands south of the Htasei basin that had recently been the site of much violence and unrest, Justice Demli choosing such a place in an attempt that perhaps Klentkuf would be able to bring greater Hsuqliht influence there through his ruling prowess, despite the fact the Palace had found him treasonous. While in the lands, Klentkuf became allies with local rebel chief Tsapöt. After consolidating much power within the local region, Klentkuf and Tsapöt lead a small army to the Palace to attempt to burn it down, however the army was quashed by Buwrët's Order (an order of religious knights charged with defence of the palace). Palace Justice Demli then betrayed Buwrët, allying with Klentkuf and killing Bèje. This lead to a fight between Klentkuf and Demli in which they both killed each other, leaving Tsapöt to take control.

Despite being named after the Meó region, members of the House of Meó typically spoke Ancient Hsuqliht as a first language, and were of Hsuqliht or mixed ethnic background. Dan the helpless was one of the few members of the House of Meó to be of significant Meó descent, with his mother being ethnically Meó.

==Middle Ages (7,520-8,666 Y)==
===The Shattering (7,520-7,625 Y)===
After the death of Consul Dan in 7,520 Y, the regents' council tried and failed five times to elect a new consul due to deep factional polarization. Meó and Hvalozd then issued a joint declaration of independence in 7,521 Y, forming the [[First Rift Alliance]]. The First Rift Alliance quickly advanced towards the coasts of their respective regions, however they were unable to push inwards and pincer the Yot river basin.

In 7,523 Y, the Unuvi states declared independence, and together with the Nokhtan [[Second Zankhti League of Cities and Islands]] began a campaign of piracy along the southern Shattered Islands.

<wip>somehow the rest of the haki republic needs to shatter</wip>

===The 1,024 Year Spring==
The time period after the Shattering is commonly known as the [[1,024 Year Spring]] – a time of relative peace from approximately 7,625 Y to 8,650 Y during which the many former states of the Haki Republic flourished culturally and politically. It ended with the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into the region, killing over 40% of Htaevic Rouge's population. The self-proclaimed prophet [[Dropo]] gained a cult following and, after invoking divine right, reconquered much of Htaevic Rouge to form the [[Second Htaevic Empire]], of which he declare himself king (beneath the Elder Beings of Haki). The Second Htaevic Empire would last for an astonishing four hundred years until it fell to an expansionist Nokhta in 9,089 Y.

The emperor of the Second Htaevic Empire would flee to Unuvun, where he was welcomed and continued to rule as "emperor" of the Htaevic realm if only in name.

After a string of failed revolts in the 92nd century, as well as a series of famines and minor plagues, the monk [[Biplatzë Sagpawë]] developed the basic tenets of the [[Hakiism]] religion, which blamed the Elder Beings of Haki for all the suffering Htaevic Rouge's peoples had endured in the past centuries. The religion spread quickly throughout the poor serf class in Htaevic Rouge and Nokhta, and was subsequently banned in Unuvun and Meó. It was this religious fervor that would become the driving force behind the mass exodus of millions to Ivinis, where they would be "beyond the Elder Beings' cursed gaze".

History of Unuvun and the Nautical Peace

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Unuvun has been inhabited by tool users for more than 100,000 years. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of stone tools as well as ''[[Homo unuvifelis]]'' ("Unuvi cat-man") dating back to approximately 120,000 B.Y. Homo unuvifelis was then displaced by an initial wave of ''Homo sapiens'' from southern [[Nokhta]] approximately 45,000 years ago, who then combined with another wave of humans from Hsuqlihta approximately 25,000 years ago and yet another wave of humans from [[Lysteriok]] 18,000 years ago. These three ancient groups of people together form the Memba people, who inhabited Unuvun for the subsequent 23,000 years until their displacement around 6,800 Y by the green-haired [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] people from the [[Shattered Islands]]. Genome research shows that modern Unuvi people inherit approximately 90% of their genome from the Raiwlawbiwmtë people, and the remaining 10% from the Memba people.

Writing first spread into Unuvun during [[1024 Year Spring]], when various merchantile states in the southern [[Shattered Islands]] began trading with the Unuvi people in the 82nd century, as well as establishing small colonies along the northern half of Unuvun. This exchange of culture and technology would last until the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into Unuvun during the 87th century, after which [[Emperor Akuush]] expelled all foreigners from Unuvun and took control over the Htaevic colonial ports. Unuvun would then repel several attempted invasions by the [[Second Htaevic Empire]] throughout the next several centuries until the collapse of the Second Htaevic Empire to an expansionist Nokhta in the 91st century. It was during the 9th millenium that Unuvi culture flourished in a period known as Udarshe civilization. Udarshe civilization would gradually decline due to cultural stagnation and infighting in the 92nd and 93rd centuries, and the island was invaded by [[Idetka]] in the 94th.

=Raiwlawbiwmtë civilization=

==Migration into Unuvun==
The Raiwlawbiwmtë had been visiting Unuvun and trading with the native Memba people since the mid-7th millenium. They established many small settlements along the northern half of the island, though they were hindered by the unusually cold and rainy climate of Unuvun, which proved unsuitable to many of the crops they brought with them from the Shattered Islands. But in the seaside villages that did exist, the residents began experimenting with the domestication of crops such as '''fusave''', a rice-like grain. Indeed, by approximately 6,700 Y fusave grain had been sufficiently domesticated to replace gathering and fishing as the main means of nutrition for the Railawbimtë settlers.

A century later, in 6,800 Y, the Htavic Empire began their invasion of the Raiwlawbiwmtë's homeland, the Shattered Islands. The Raiwlawbiwmtë were outmatched and hundreds of thousands of them migrated to Unuvun over the century, completely displacing the native Memba population and turning the once backwater island into a thriving bronze age civilization. The largest of the Raiwlawbiwmtë settlements was called '''Re''', and it was located in the large coastal plain on the northeastern coast of Unuvun. Though the Raiwlawbiwmtë had an unusually flat hierarchy back in the Shattered Islands, when they migrated to Unuvun the most powerful and influential clans all migrated to the area around Re, creating a power imbalance that quickly centralized Raiwlawbiwmtë civilization in the early-mid 8th century.

Rhe Raiwlawbiwmtë that migrated to Unuvun were predominantly the green-haired ones, and some Raiwlawbiwmtë became obsessed with turning their hair even more green than it already was, leading to the development of the first permanent green hair dyes. As this new invention spread among the upper class, it soon became a requirement in order to hold political office or own land.

Their complex oral tradition known as the Raiwlaw had long been decentralized, but the growing influence of Re and its surrounding villages gradually strained it until in the 7200s, with the introduction of writing from the Haki Republic, the legal component was transformed into the written '''Tsakka Code'''. The Tsakka Code was painted onto large wooden boards and transported to villages throughout Unuvun. Every year, clan heads would travel to Re in order to attend the yikt - a week long ceremony in which they all attended various affairs such as judging trials, suggesting new laws, and resolving disputes. Clan heads also brought their clan shaman with them for religious rites. At the end of the yikt, they would debate amendments to the Tsakka Code. And at the end of every eight years, a new Tsakka code with all the amendments would be finalized and shipped off to all of Unuvun's villages.

==Invasion by the Haki Republic (7,394-7,523 Y)==
{{CrossReference|History of Htaevic Rouge}}
The Haki Republic launched their invasion of Unuvun in 7,394 Y, however by then the Raiwlawbiwmtë states had grown prosperous due to centuries of peace and trade, and were able to field moderate armies that repelled the first few waves of highly mismanaged Republican invasion. However, the sheer quantity of Republican soldiers eventually overwhelmed the Raiwlawbiwmtë and Unuvun soon came under Republican control. The Haki Republic tried to assert its rule over the Unuvi by forcing them to burn and bury their Tsakka codes, however in protest the Unuvi began building large stone monuments over the remnants of their old Tsakka codes, as well as returing to their old oral tradition of having anonymous shamans memorize and recite the Tsakka code. The Unuvi ran a parallel underground legal system, and used cues such as fluency in Unuvi and green hair in order to secretly be more lenient on people tried for crimes that were illegal under Republican law but permissible under Unuvi law. In the late 7,400s, they began to mix in the ashes of esteemed clan members into the stone monuments that they built over the Tsakka code's remnants.

==Pyramid Age (7,523 Y -)==
As the Raiwlawbiwmtë spread into the rest of Unuvun under Republican rule, several large competitors to the city of Re began to spring up. These included the city of Zhavei on the imperial plain, and the city of Nuevë towards the eastern edge of the island. While Re was still the most prestigious city on the island, these other cities wanted to showcase their growing power and as a result began to construct increasingly large pyramids. One famous pyramid, the '''Cataracts Pyramid''' in Zhavei, took over twenty years to construct and housed the ashes of over five thousand Zhavei citizens. It was surrounded by two moats filled with water from the Pacific lake, which in turn was surrounded by a massive shrine complex to pay respects to those buried inside of the pyramid.

To showcase the dedication and astuteness of their citizens, many of the pyramids in Nueve were staffed by the '''Haki Watchmen'''. They were required to face towards Haki at all times, standing atop the pyramid. A series of messengers asked the watchmen for status updates once per hour, and the watchmen were required to reply "Nothing to report" or, if in the case of an eclipse, "Bolek gathers his men".

= The Fractured Era =
As the other settlements of Unuvun continued to grow in power relative to Re, tension began to build since the vast majority of the island's political power remained concentrated in Re. The tribal chiefs of Re attempted to compromise by hosting a yikt in Zhavei, closer to the geographic center of the island. However at the Zhavei yikt a fight broke out due to an ex-marital affair in which two tribal chiefs from Re were killed, causing the yikt to be abandoned. A second yikt was scheduled later in Re, however the chiefs of Zhavei refused to show up and claimed that their yikt at Zhavei was legitimate. The next year, three yikts were hosted. One in Zhavei, one in Re and one <wip>somewhere else</wip>. And then the year after, five concurrent yikts were hosted, fracturing the island further into many individual states. Over the ensuing centuries these individual states began to develop their own unique identities.

=== 77th and 78th centuries ===
* The Re League leaned into a sea-fairing, merchantile identity and became synonymous with trade in the southern half of the Htaevic sea. It became something of a plutocracy dominated by merchants descended from the old clan heads.
* The Imperial Plain claimed to be the most legitimate of the successor states, becoming a highly centralized state that valued the construction of massive monuments. They formalized [[Raiwlawism]] by writing down the then-traditionally oral Raiwlawbiwmtë religion. They established a system of high priests, monks and more.
* The small, isolated states of Unuvun's southern and south-eastern coasts were more laid back, as the land was colder and less fertile here. Villages were smaller, and on the south-eastern coast often tucked deep into isolated fjords. There was a string of famous mathematicians who re-derived knowledge that rivalled and surpassed what could be found in the libraries of the Shattered Islands.

=== 79th century ===
* The <wip>Re league</wip> gradually became more and more centralized under the power of a single merchant family who eventually declared themselves royalty.
* The Imperial Plain continued to grow and prosper, and expanded southwards to integrate some of the isolated fjord states.
* The eastern peninsula of Unuvun was taken over by the Sinchuknu sea peoples.
* The southern fjord dwellers made great advances in astronomy, navigating beyond Haki's gaze to the islands south and west of Unuvun.

=== 80th century ===
* The <wip>Re League</wip> lost a lot of territory after its Shattered Islands holdings were scooped up by more powerful states in the area. They decided to start trading with the Nokhtans after they struck literal gold.
* The Imperial Plain had by this time integrated most of the isolated fjord states, and those who were unhappy with the new management used their mathematics to go colonize the fringe islands away from Unuvun to the south and west. A really famous philosopher with green hair from somewhere in Meó decided to move to Unuvun, and his disciples became really inspired and had a lot of very impressive thoughts. Some of these thoughts included the idea that (1) we should be more willing to accept foreigners as long as they dye their hair green (2) there is a correct order in which to do almost every task. They also began wearing shoulder pads.
* the Sinchuknu sea peoples kinda just vibed and started doing Sinchuknu things in the eastern peninsula

=== 81st century ===
* The <wip>Re League</wip> spent a lot of manpower and money scooping up islands in between them and Nokhta. They almost finished doing it when another more powerful state tried to take them over again. They got pissed off and used their Nokhtan connections to make sure that state would never be able to challenge them again.
* Imperial Plain established this thing that was kinda like a university-monastery. They had more thinkers and also sent people to the Shattered Islands to do some thinking together and spread Raiwlawism. They were kind of over their pyramids phase so they started building cool gardens with small temples. The thinkers thought in the garden and the monks prayed in the temple. Then they had these dialogues.
* The big Sinchuknu sea peoples empire fractured into a bunch of pieces and the eastern peninsula gained its independence, though under the rule of a dirty brown hair.

= First Unification =

=== 82nd century ===
* The Reconquest of Unuvun begins in earnest as the Imperial Plain and Re League team up in order to subjugate the eastern peninsula. Afterwards, they give the brown haired Sinchuknu people citizenship if and only if they dye their hair green<ref>https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/why-rome/</ref>.
* Re is weakened in a series of wars where it tries to defend its Shattered Islands territories from other aggressors. Imperial Plain state takes the opportunity to subjugate Re, and the merchant monarchy moves off to some random Shattered Islands island.

=== 83rd century ===
* The Imperial-Plain <wip>Jason the Infertile</wip> is unable to produce a heir, and as a result various factions vie for dominance. Backed by powerful Htaevic states, <wip>Gwynne the Blinded</wip> from the eastern peninsula ascends to the throne, and moves the capital to the eastern peninsula. This is the first time it's ever been there.

=== 84th century ===
* As a compromise, the capital is moved a bit westward to Fihano by <wip>Howard the Sickly</wip>.

=Age of Exploration=

==Establishment of the Imperial Capital (~9,200)==

In the late 91st century, the green-haired [[Emperor Hkämman]] of the Second Htaevic Empire fled to Unuvun, accompanied by a small army. At the time Unuvun was divided between several warring factions, and two of the largest ones threw their support behind Hkämman and helped him conquer the island. Afterwards, he moved the capital of Unuvun from Re to Zhavei and commissioned the construction of the Green Imperial Palace (in direct reference to the famous White Imperial Palace on the Yot river]].

To maximize popular support, Emperor Hkämman decided to marry influential noblewoman Shena Pazhil, head of the ancient and respected Pazhil family. Since Htaevic emperors traditionally did not have surnames, Hkämman decided to adopt Shena's last name in order to add an air of legitimacy to his rule.

==Invasion by Idetka (9,315-9,334 Y)==

===Invasion years (9,315-9,321)===

After the [[Great Famine of 9,312]], the [[Pazhil Dynasty]] was significantly weakened. It was during this time that Prince [[Saeran]] of [[Idetka]] launched his invasion of the island. Saeran's invasion lasted 6 brutal years, during which he was aided by [[Piracy in the Htaevic Rouge|mercenaries and privateers]] from throughout the Shattered Islands and even Meó.

The invasion ended in the near-complete destruction of the Pazhil imperial line, with the royal family being almost completely wiped out with the exception of Princess [[Rzame]], who was saved from the gallows and dramatically escorted from Unuvun to the island of [[Suvi]].

===Eight Years of Suffering (9,322-9,329)===

During her exile on [[Suvi]], Rzame sought to amass an invasion force capable of removing prince Saeran from power in Unuvun. She was able to do so under the promise of abdicating from the royal throne, thus ending the Pazhil Dynasty's rule over Unuvun, and allowing the Htaevic King [[Arbin]] to take the title of emperor. Ever since ascending to the throne, the ambitious Arbin had wanted to reclaim the title of emperor for the Htaevic dynasty, in hopes of one day reforming the ancient [[Htaevic Empire]].

===Thunder on the Imperial Plain (9,330-9,334)===

On 9,330/1/50, Prince Saeran was assassinated by Pazhil loyalists, causing Idetkan-ruled Unuvun to fall into a chaotic period known as '''The Thunderstorm'''. Idetka quickly named a successor, [[Siho Endaya|General Siho Endaya]], however he was killed by Pazhil loyalists mere weeks after Saeran's assassination during the [[Storming of the Imperial Octagon]].

On 9,330/1/83, Princess Rzame returned to Unuvun accompanied by Arbin, and many Pazhil loyalists were unsatisfied with her calls for peace, as they did not believe that Arbin had the legal right to take the Unuvi throne. Some of the more radical ones even split off into their own faction, the [[Sayammians (Unuvun)|Sayammians]], a reference to the ancient democratic city state of [[Sayamm]] that existed in the 9th millenium. In their [[New Constitution]], the Sayammians demanded democratic checks and balances on Arbin's power, with some of the more radical revolutionaries calling for the eradication of the monarchy altogether.

After the routing of the Idetkans, the fighting lasted for two more years until the Sayammians finally surrendered in the [[Compromise of 9,334]]. Emperor Arbin, exhausted from war, allowed for the formation of a parliament headed by a handpicked ambassador of his choice, much like the system that already existed in the [[Third Htaevic Kingdom]].

==War of the Crab Prince (9,349-9,358 Y)==

===Crab Prince Incident===

After Emperor Arbin began to consolidate his power over Unuvun, tensions between his imperial cabinet and the powerful razuku that controlled much of Unuvun's land began to rise. Arbin was taking every opportunity possible to dismantle the control that the razuku had over their territory, and had managed to end several of the most ancient dynasties.

One razuku who had managed to keep control over his princedom was [[Prince Suekasui]] (sway-kaw-swee). He ruled over the small city-state of [[Rvarshen]] (ruh-var-shen), located on the northern edge of Unuvun, close to mainland [[Delezia]]. As a result, Rvarshen had experienced significant piracy over the past few centuries. Its convenient location made it a common stopping point for foreign envoys on their way to Zhavei.

In 9,349 Y, [[Vahkètto|Prince Vahkètto]] of the [[First Meó Empire]] stopped at Rvarshen on his trip to Zhavei, where he was to discuss his recent conquests in the [[Shattered Islands]] with Emperor Arbin. During the early morning of 9,349/1/69 Y, mere hours before the Meó delegation was set to arrive, Suekasui and his male harem all passed away in [[The Orgy at Rvarshen Castle|a massive sexual orgy]]. Shortly before falling into unconsciousness, Suekasui called in his royal court in order to name an heir. In his delirious state, Suekasui declared that his pet crab [[Azu]] would be the new heir to the Rvarshen throne.

After his death, his closest royal advisors fiercly debated whether or not they could actually follow through on his appointment. The legality of appointing a crab was unclear, but it was unlikely that it could be challenged, according to the castle lawyer Ufshi Kije. He referenced the Rat Family of Ggethe as an example where

After Prince Suekasui's death, the royal advisors debated whether or not they could legally appoint the crab Azu as Prince of Rvarshen. Castle lawyer Ufshi Kije brought up the fact that there have been several instances in Unuvi history where an animal was in fact appointed as a temporary regent. In the case of the ''Rat Family'', a rat named Poa inherited the title of Duke of Hpanik. After Poa's death his vicious son, Wikti, ruled over the city of Hpanik and bit anyone who approached him. Though marriage between human and animal was forbidden, a local knight named Mezhen was, with the backing of the emperor at the time, able to secure a marriage license between him and vicious rat Wikti. Wikti would die of natural causes a year later and then Mezhen ascended to the throne.

Though it was unlikely emperor Arbin would grant anyone a marriage license with crab Azu, the Rvarshen royal court decided to go through with the appointment regardless. Suekasui had no close relatives that could be appointed to the throne, and he had no eligible children of his own either. The Rvarshen royal court determined that Arbin would have bulletproof pretext for appointing a Htaevic puppet as the new razuku of Rvarshen, and that the only way to stop this would be to indeed follow through and grant the title of Prince to the crab.

Kije drafted a message to Arbin and stamped it with the Imperial Seal of Rvarshen. He reasoned that Arbin would have no choice but to accept the coronation of Azu onto the Rvarshen throne, as rejecting it would be rejecting the will of an Imperial Seal and would greatly harm Arbin's legitimacy as emperor, and possibly give the remaining razuku a rallying cry for rebellion. The message was sent off on the fastest [[kiya]] the royal court could find, in order to beat any other rumors of Suekasui's death.

During the night of Suekasui's death, a tavern worker, [[Hina Kenachetu]], was hired to help clean up the disastrous mess left behind by the orgy. She had recently moved to Rvarshen, having fled [[Fihanoshai]] after murdering her step-father, step-sister, grandmother and the local shaman, and as such had no knowledge of Prince Suekasui's royal crab. She picked up Azu and dropped him off in a bucket in the kitchen, not knowing what else to do with him. Later in the morning, Kije and his fellow members of the royal court attempted a desperate search for Azu, but none were able to find him. They got news of Vahkètto's arrival in Rvarshen, and as such decided to have him dine first while they attempted to find the crab.

As many of the chefs had been in Suekasui's harem and had passed away alongside him several hours prior, several chefs from the Rvarshen city docks were drafted to make a meal for the whole royal court to enjoy alongside the envoy from Meó. One of these chefs, [[Rejirvei Sasual]], specialized in cooking crabs and decided to boil Azu, conveniently placed in the kitchen, as the main course of the dinner. Sasual would use his notoriety to later found the [[Nautical Ihyai Company]], one of the most powerful corporations to ever exist.

During the unveiling of the main course, several members of the royal court allegedly began to feel extremely nauseous, realizing that Suekasui had forbidden crab from being served in the castle ever since an incident several years prior. However, none of them spoke up as Vahkètto began to devour Azu's royal flesh. One quickly found pretext to get up and ran over to the kitchen, and spotted Azu's intricate crab armor near the stove. The dinner was artificially lengthened as the royal court secretly conversed, trying to figure out how to best handle this disastrous turn of events. It was decided that a castle gardener known as [[Sayesa Sayesan]] would deliver the bad news. Sayesan explained to Vahkètto that, not only did he commit regicide, but also technically cannibalism. Vahkètto became enraged, as his father had committed both regicide and cannibalism in order to inherit the Meó throne, and the prince had desperately seeked to distance himself from his father. He pulled out his sword and beheaded Sayesan on the spot in one, clean swipe.

''The Declination of Crab'' is a tradition carried out when a foreign head of state visits the Nautical Peace. At formal dinner, a plate of crab is placed on the table. To show that the two nations are at peace, both the Emperor and the foreign head of state decline to eat the crab. In Unuvi culture, to "steam the crab" is to threaten conflict, while to "decline the crab" is to try and defuse a tense situation. When someone is unknowingly tricked or deceived into doing something against their personal morals, they are said to have "eaten the crab." Something and/or someone who is used against their will to further the agenda of someone else is termed a "crab."

===War===

And so began the [[War of the Crab Prince]]. The city of Rvàshen was bombarded by the Meó prince’s fleet, and the Unuvi princedoms responded in kind with a coordinate attack on Meo holdings along the coast of the supercontinent. The pirates tried to get in on the action, but were caught between both sides and utterly annihilated for being on neither of them. They would later learn their lesson and go on to rent their services to both sides to maximize profit.

===Aftermath===

With a total of over 100,000 green-haired casualties in the [[War of the Crab Prince]], the jusha class of Unuvi society was exhausted by war. Htaevic Emperor Arbin carefully tried to rein in the princedoms under a new feudal state with the declaration of the [[Second New Constitution]], a document that gave him the power to hand-select the powerful [[razuku]], that controlled much of Unuvun's land. Additionally, the document expressly forbid the 'appointment of crabs and all other animals into positions of power.'

Arbin's calculated risk greatly angered many of the razuku and he called in the army of his [[Second Htaevic Empire]] to Yuuvei in hopes of being able to quash revolutionary fervor. It was during this time that the Sayammians regrouped and infiltrated the Htaevic government over Unuvun in a number of key positions, including several very high ranking parliamentary roles.

===Restoration of the Imperial Line===

On 9,357/0/12, Htaevic officials raided parliament seat-holder [[Chena Tise]]'s house under the suspicion that she was aiding the revolutionary cause. Although Sayammian arsonists set fire to the house, they were able to recover key documents that held a list of Sayammians active in the city of [[Racheinu Chihyu]]. Emperor Arbin apprehended many of these individuals and declared a public day of execution the following week. In an event known as [[Foiled Execution]], several dozen Kiya-riding Sayammians accompanied by several hundred rogue [[jusha]] and over one thousand peasants revolted at the scene of the execution, overcoming the Htaevic troops and preventing the death of all but two prisoners.

Simultaneously, the Sayammians wrote and released a document called [[Declaration of a Nautical Peace]] that called for the installment of 23-year old Fihano Pazhil onto the throne of Unuvun in order to 'usher in a nautical peace in which the green-haired folk of this maritime island shall become naïve to the horrors of war.' Thus began the '''Second Thunderstorm''', a year-long revolt during which almost the entirety of Unuvun rose up against Emperor Arbin. Arbin, unable to quash the rebellion, fled the island from the port of [[Serzilea]] and returned to the [[Shattered Islands]]. After Emperor Fihano rose to the throne of Unuvun, he collaborated with his Sayammian supporters to draft the [[Unuvunese Constitution]], a document that incorporated many revolutionary ideas such as a unified measurement system, as well as many old ideas derived from the governmental system of Sayamm and other similar democracies.

===Establishment of Rvaneok Politics===
For centuries, the Unuvi warrior caste, the jusha, maintained internal order via the ''rvaneok'' system. Rvaneok was a leaderboard system with different leagues of jusha warriors. Jusha warriors would be constantly ranked against each other during skirmishes and tests of culture and strategy. Once a year, top performers would be promoted to the next highest league, and bottom performers would be relegated to the next lowest league. This system of promotion and relegation would gradually influence the culture of Unuvun, spreading into other parts of society such as universities and sports.

It was natural that the Unuvunese, when trying to overhaul their political system, began to think along Rvaneok lines. Many argued about its efficacy and potential unwanted effects, but the idea that the best would rise to the top, creating a meritocracy, was so alluring that in the end, Emperor Fihano directed that the new political system be a Rvaneok one. Some of the other reasons that Fihano wanted the Rvaneok system implemented was because he believed it would cause rabid political infighting and help him maintain a strong grip over the island.

The newly developed Unuvunese Constitution stipulated that the centralized legislative body of the country be separated into two leagues: a provincial league and a national league. Provinces were allowed to further subdivide their provincial leagues as they deemed fit, while the national league would be divided into three houses (lower, middle and higher). Promotion and relegation between the three houses of the national league would happen once a year. Promotion and relegation between the provincial and national league would happen once every two years.

The specific method used to promote and relegate politicians is described as follows: during the promotion and relegation period, the bottom quartile of politicians are put on probation if not already, and any politician in this bottom quartile who is on probation is immediately dismissed into the lower league.

Politicians are ranked via a counsel of 11 rankers. Six national rankers are picked by the emperor, and five voted into office by the parliament that they are ranking. For provincial rankers, provinces may choose to assign rankers however they wish. Most chose to decide all 11 rankers initially by parliamentary vote.

===The Incentive System===
In ancient Sayamm, common folk could contribute to society in order to earn the right to do things such as own property and vote in local elections. Actions they could take included passing proctored exams, serving in the military, creating great works or art and literature, or displaying acts of heroism.

==Exploration of Ivinis (9,368- Y)==
''See: [[Exploration of Ivinis]]''

===Initial exploration and settlement===
[[File:Vzhani.png|thumb|right|Vzhani's three voyages to Ivinis]]
In 9,368 Y, explorer [[Arnppe Vzhani]] left the port of [[Rae]] and begun sailing westwards towards the continent of [[Ivinis]]. At the time, Ivinis had begun to become filled with various [[Nokhta]]n settlements up and down its eastern seaboard. No indigenous peoples had been found, however there had been a wealth of new animals, plants and insects discovered in the preceding century. As such, Vzhani was granted funding by the Nautical Peace to chart out the southwestern coast of Ivinis in order to find potential places that the Nautical Peace could build settlements.

In 9,375 Y, the first colony ships were sent to the island of [[Rvitaria]]. Gradually, more and more were sent until the port of [[Yuechua]] was well-established as an Unuvunese foothold in Ivinis. It would later become the hub for further expansion deeper into Ivinis.

===Settlement of the Vie river basin===

Discovered for the Unuvi by [[Flicha Fihano]], the massive [[Vie]] river captured the imagination of the Unuvunese. The Nautical Peace soon began sending colonists to secure the mouth of the Vie, and rapidly begun constructing a large port at [[Daifihanoshai]] as the true extent of the river system became known. Rivalling many of the large, fertile river basins on [[Pangaea]], the Vie watershed would become the focus of Unuvunese colonization efforts for the next several centuries. As Nokhtan colonies began to sprout up to the northeast of the Vie, the Unuvunese began work on the grand [[Daifihanoshai Castle]], one of the largest traditional Unuvunese castles still in existence.

===Lasletsa===

'''[[Lasletsa Declaration]]''', also known as the '''Green Gate Declaration''', was an imperial declaration in 9,435 Y that asserted both that Hakiism was punishable by the death penalty and that citizenship required green hair. The term "Green Gate" is a reference to the famous [[Lasletsa]] temple complex in Unuvun, the main place of worship of Haki in traditional Unuvi mythology, and a place where only green-haired people have been traditionally allowed to visit.

===Discovery of Lavaank===
ensnared in the forbidden fifties -- an Unuvi merchant ship on the way to Edeto is caught in a horrendous storm and sent flying past the subcontinent, coming upon a new, virgin land called Lavaank by the local Tana people.

== The Dream of Democracy ==

'''The Autumn Fall.''' In late autumn, the Imperial family gathered in the court for a family portrait. Unbeknownst to them, disloyal nobles in cooperation with Veiivinis revolutionaries had placed dozens of barrels of gunpowder nearby, which exploded and killed many members in the line of succession of the Imperial family except for young Prince Hau and his older brother, Prince Imrahen. The botched coup attempt led to the dismantlement of the Hatluyi royal house and made Prince Hau despise the nobility. Imrahen would later inherit the throne and pursue policies of reconciliation with the nobility.

'''The Western Rebellion'''. Much of Veiivinis revolts from Nautical Peace control and forms their own independent nation known as the Veiivinis Alliance, leaving only the city of [[Daifihanoshai]] and outlying regions in Unuvunese control.

'''The Prince of Determination.''' Prince Hau grew to despise Emperor Imrahen for how leniently he treated the nobility and the Veiivinis Alliance. With the assistance of his right hand man, [[Ventus the Second Obliterator]], he orchestrated the assassination of his elder brother and successfully pinned the blame on the [[Berjuda]] royal family. Emperor Hau subsequently ascended to the [[Ocean Throne]] and began preparations to invade Veiivinis. Ventus had convinced his aging father, General Blotz, to hand control of the Imperial Army over to him.

'''The Butchering of Chancellor Pig.''' [[Emperor Hau]], looking to grow Unuvun's power in the face of Rokhtaera's meteoric rise, deposes the head of parliament and replaces her with a pig. Parliament continues to refuse to launch an invasion of [[Veiivinis]], which prompts Hau to butcher [[Chancellor Pig]] and demand that each member of parliament either eat a strip of its bacon or vote in favor of declaring war on the Veiivinis states. The declaration of war subsequently passes parliament by 43-0 vote, cementing Emperor Hau's dominance over the Nautical Peace.

'''The Eight Handed Tactician.''' Under the command of Ventus the Second Obliterator, the Nautical Peace launches its invasion of Veiivinis. Over the next five bloody years, over two million people died in the fighting as the Nautical Peace threw their entire weight into reconquering their former colonial holdings. Ventus' strategic brilliance allowed the Nautical Peace to effectively attack Veiivinis on multiple fronts at once, earning him the fearsome title of the "eight handed tactician."

'''The War Behind the Castle Walls.''' It was no secret that Emperor Hau was a strong believer in [[Sayammians (Unuvun)|Sayammian]] democratic ideals. Growing up, he witnessed first hand many of the atrocities the nobility committed behind the scenes. Though he cooperated with the aristocracy in order to focus on conquering Veiivinis, afterwards he began a decade long power struggle against the nobility during which hundreds of assassinations occurred on both sides. In the end, the nobility was dismantled and replaced with a mostly democratic system with strong checks and balances.

'''To Every Man a Golden Throne.''' Also known as the 'Heroic Age,' this time period after the reconquest of Veiivinis saw the rapid industrialization of the Nautical Peace in order to catch up with Rokhtaera and Meó, as well as radical political reform. Some policies, such as the establishment of the Official System of Units, and the creation of a comprehensive system of rural districts and national parks, were highly successful policies that continue to this day. Other policies, such as the abolishment of marriage and the outlawing of dinosaurs, provoked significant civil unrest until compromise was reached. Though the dismantlement of the aristocracy was highly disruptive to Unuvi life, Emperor Hau put so much political capital behind the goal that it became a third rail which no political opponent of his could touch.

'''Obliterator in the Octagon.''' The last Unuvunese royal family, the Enares, stormed the [[Imperial Octagon]] and attempted to bargain with Emperor Hau for their royal line's survival. Enraged by the killing of his daughter, Emperor Hau ordered the storming of the Octagon and the "obliteration of the last vestige of the monster of nobility." Obliging, Ventus the Second Obliterator led the charge into the Imperial Octagon and personally killed Prince Vralu, Queen Ferzi and Duchess Sayiŋa, ending the Enare royal bloodline once and for all.

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'''The Emperor Machine.''' Near the end of his life, Emperor Hau announced that he would step down as ruler of the Nautical Peace. He feared that the Imperial Court had grown far too powerful, and that the Nautical Peace could repeat history by slowly devolving into aristocracy once more. To prevent this, Hau commissioned the creation of the Emperor Machine, a large, eighty foot tall anthropomorphic machine resembling an Unuvi shaman. In collaboration with parliament, he passed legislation that stipulated the emperor of the Nautical Peace be chosen as follows: each party member of parliament may write the name of one person on a ballot card and place it inside of the Emperor Machine. The Emperor Machine will then shuffle the cards and select one at random, with the person whose name is on the selected card being crowned the next emperor of the Nautical Peace -- with an eight year term limit.

Legally, the Emperor Machine is the regent of the Nautical Peace. The chosen 'emperor' is legally an assistant who is expected to carry out the will of the Emperor Machine until one day "the Machine shall become advancèd enough such that it shall attain the collective consciousnèss of the Unuvunese people and rule over the Nation itself in a sublime singularity." This power is known as the '''Mandate of the Machine''', and in recent years it has become hotly debated as artificial intelligence continues to grow in power exponentially.

'''The Black Rose.''' The [[First Ganuoan-Unuvunese War]] is often used to mark the end of the Unuvunese Heroic Age. The Nautical Peace hastily attempted to block Ganuoese expansion deeper into the interior of Edeto, provoking a long, five year conflict with more than 200,000 deaths during which little territory traded hand. The conclusion of the war saw northern Edeto remaining firmly in the Ganuoan sphere of influence, while the Nautical Peace was left dealing with major revolts in southeastern Edeto that led to them eventually pulling out from that region altogether. The Nautical Peace shifted their focus towards investing in Ivinis after the discovery of large coal, oil and gold deposits in the Ivini Backbone.

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'''something something edgy.''' emperor hau assassinated at world's fair, son ascends to throne and convinces the peace to launch a war against country that did assassination, etc

=Second Age of Exploration=

'''"We Come in Peace, from the Peace".''' The Samtlie-6 Mission was the first manned landing on Haki by the Nautical Peace. Hundreds of millions of people watched worldwide as the lander crashed into the Yešče Plain, starting a firestorm that surrounded Captain Lufain and Commander Mahkika as they climbed out of the lander. With almost all supplies lost, Lufain and Mahkika would become the first humans to attempt to consume Haki flora and fauna as they would need to wait for at least three weeks for supplies to arrive from Pavala.

'''Do Me a Favor.''' The Samtlie-7 Mission launched in great haste, seeking to rescue the two men left stranded on Haki during the Samtlie-6 mission. Many had speculated about what exactly would happen to a human being were they to take their mask off on Haki. It was already known that Haki's atmosphere was theoretically breathable, however it was unknown how Hakese bacteria would affect a human being over the long term, as well as whether or not Hakese plant and animal life were digestible. After a successful landing, the world was shocked to discover that bother Lufain and Mahkika were alive, having survived off Hakese megafauna in the three weeks since their crash landing. The two astronauts returned to Pavala on the Samtlie-7 lander, bringing some of their foraged food with them.

'''The Master Ship.''' The Master Project was a top secret rocketry project led by the Naborsi engineering prodigy [[Shimh Hâo]] and the Unuvunese industrial magnate [[Tehchuka Flaneybi]]. Nabors and the Nautical Peace generously poured tens of billions of dollars a year into the development of a sub $100/kg transportation system to Haki. The result was a two staged reusable rocket system to get to Haki, with the upper stage being able to return to Pavala by itself due to Haki's lower gravity. Thanks to the development of the Master Ship, the Nautical Peace was able to begin work on a large city on Haki to serve as a base of operations for its ulterior motive, to lay claim to large expanses of the planet. [Are we entering the future? Does Pavala canon stop here?]

the sibling crosser -- Dadu Ultraheavy Industries releases the Strawberry 5, the wildly successful commercial spaceplane that can take up to twenty people to Haki and back. With one-way tickets to Haki plumetting to $80,000, the Nautical Peace's spaceports are about to get a whole lot more crowded.

History of Htaevic Rouge

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==Ancient Htaevic Rouge==
===Alotsë dynasty (6,312-6,537 Y)===
====Development of writing====
It was during the short Alotsë dynasty that Hotsan Gget developed the ''hlunliw'' writing system, originally to write down the oral poetry passed down through generations of monarchs. This soon spread through the royal class and became the predominant writing system throughout the empire.

====Royal cannibalism====
It's unclear when the tradition of eating ones ruler upon their death began, however it was already an integral part of succession during the Alotsë dynasty. The heir to a given fief, shire, et cetera was supposed to eat the dead ruler in order to inherit the right to rule. In the rare case that they refused, they would pass down the right to do so to the person next in line of succession, and so on. Only noblemen were allowed to eat the brain, which was considered to be where good karma was stored. In fact, noblemen often requested that commoners engaging in ritual cannibalism send the brain to the castle, where the nobleman could consume it and gain karma, thereby gaining a sort of "mandate" to rule over his fief. Nobody was allowed to eat the intestines, which was considered to be where bad karma was stored.

While processing the deceased ruler, shaman-chefs were employed to divinate fortunes from the arrangement of the ruler's internal organs, especially the idiosynchratic bends and curves of the intestines.

Traditionally, people were only allowed to eat one to three parts of the body depending on how close they were to the deceased. Fingers were eaten to increase ones dexterity, while the foot and liver were eaten in order to gain the 'wisdom' of the deceased. Choice cuts such as the thighs, biceps, calves, etc. were in general just considered to bring good health.

====Settlements====
In this era, the most important cities were:
* Baestamiw (present day [[Xol]]), located at the southern edge of the great rift, and the easternmost major city of the Alotsë.
* Cilawlyawre, located on the [[Yot]] river not too far from the Alotsë's border with the Hsuqlihts. This was the capital of the Alotsë dynasty and where they first experimented with building traditional ''Wzeliwhacan'' shrines.
* Renzhilyarë, a city located inland near a large aquifer and the largest gold mine in the world at the time.

===Riwnë dynasty (6537-6670 Y)===
The Riwnë ('faithful') dynasty was the shortest of all dynasties, lasting just 133 years. It ended due to extreme inbreeding within the family of ruling monarchs, resulting in ruler Tsahotë Riwnë having just 2 biological great grandparents, who themselves were first cousins. He died aged 14, royal legends stating 'a flood of evil spirits infested his lungs'. Modern historians suspect it was pulmonary oedema. The following dynasties developed a taboo on sibling, parent-child, and uncle-niece/aunt-nephew relationships. Cousin marriages did not develop a taboo.

===Burë dynasty (6,670-6,804 Y)===
The Burë dynasty saw the expansion of wzeliwhacan shrines across Htaevic territory, and the growth of political power in the priest class. Priest Kazhiw Lmget of the Lmtsahacan shrine said that, during one of his prayer sessions (likely using traditional psychedelics) the Messenger of Sin '''Lmtsa''' came to him and told him that the so-called 'Elder Beings of Haki' have recently acquired a divine power that they wish to bestow upon a chosen monarch on Pavala. He relayed this message to Emperor Stanzhi Burë who asked Kazhiw Lmget to head the [[Order of the Elder Beings]], a society of priests and scholars dedicated towards finding out more about these divine beings and figuring out how to grant the Burë line their secret powers.

==First Htaevic Empire (6,804-7,005 Y)==
Gradually, this order became more and more powerful until eventually they ruled the Htaevic empire in all but name; while they would grant the current Burë ruler the 'divine right' to rule over all of the Htaevic realm, the order would use its large bureaucracy to get its way in any disagreement with the imperial household. As the Htaevic's religious identity continued to strengthen they would eventually go to war against their northern neighbors, the Hsuqlihts, who followed the heretical [[Herlucc]] religion. This would eventually lead to the downfall of the First Htaevic Empire as the Hsuqlihts were more powerful and able to launch counter-invasions.

It was during the First Htaevic Empire that ironworking became widespread in the region. The First Htaevic Empire also drove out the native [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] inhabitants of the [[Shattered Islands]], known primarily for separating into clans based on their purple and green hair. The purple-haired inhabitants decided to migrate northwards into the Meó basin, while the green-haired inhabitants migrated southwards into Unuvun and displaced the native Konod people.

===City layout===
As the first Htaevic Empire spread throughout the [[Shattered Islands]], they established hundreds of new port cities, following a common city plan. There was a harbor, from which run a ''harbor road'' a kilometer or more inland until it reached the castle. As the Shattered Islands was a very flat and water-rich region, castles usually included one or two ring moats. The castles themselves were mostly built from mud or clay brick, supplemented with wood as needed.

Villas for the nobility were constructed in between the castle and the port, and were often surrounded by the ''inner wall''. Outside this wall was where the majority of the city's population lived. Wealthier cities oftentimes had a ''public wall'' constructed around the entire city. The Htaevics were a polytheistic people, and originally had a suite of generic gods for concepts like the rain, sun, wind, etc. They worshipped these gods by building '''wzeliwhacans''', a long stone row supported by stone columns, like Stonehenge but in a line instead of a circle. This stone row would be oriented perpendicular to Haki, so that all of the stones were visible from the planet. They would paint murals dedicated to individual gods on each of these massive stones in bright colors, and plant specific flowers and plants around each stone.

===Tsiriwn===
Over generations, much of the nobility of the Htaevic Empire became victims of a prion disease known as '''tsiriwn'''. This is because the nobility ate a lot of brain, which was where the prion disease would concentrate. The Order of the Elder Beings outlawed the consumption of diseased individuals, and instead began burning them, beginning a tradition of human cremation. However the disease still continued to spread through the nobility, incapacitating the ruling class of the empire and contributing to its downfall against the Hsuqlihts.

===Collapse to Hsuqlihta===
The First Htaevic Empire would gradually expand its holdings up the [[Yot River]] and into the [[Shattered Islands]] until its collapse during the [[Hsuqlihta]]n invasions.

==Hsuqlihtan rule (7,005-7,224 Y)==
The Hsuqlihts greatly influenced the development of Htaevic culture, spreading the octal number system, the [[Herlucc]] religion and their rudimentary democratic politics.

===Spread of Herlucc===
After conquering the Htaevic Empire, Hsuqlihta sought to spread their native Herlucc religion throughout the prosperous region. They decided upon a policy of synthesizing Herlucc with the native Htaevic polytheistic religion.

===End of cannibalism===
The new ruling Hsuqliht class strongly disapproved of cannibalism, however it was an integral part of Htaevic culture. Unrest grew in the various Htaevic tributaries, as the ruling Hsuqlihts would refuse to eat the human brains that they sent as tribute. The Hsuqlihts side stepped this controversy by hiring dedicated "brain eaters" to sit on the aristocratic court and eat all the brains sent as tribute. This satisfied most of the Htaevics. The Hsuqlihts became alarmed as, over the decades, these brain eaters became the only people in the aristocracy to die from tsiriwn.

As Herlucc spread throughout the former Htaevic Empire, a karmic crisis ensued over the practice of cannibalism. It had been common practice noble Htaevics to eat the brains of their deceased subjects in order to accumulate good karma, however under the principles of Htaevic Herlucc, accumulating too much good karma was viewed as a bad thing. Some began eating the intestines (traditional home of the "bad karma") alongside the brain in order to balance good and bad karma, however this failed to become widespread. Eating intestines was still considered highly taboo, and the nobility had a difficult time convincing the common folk to supply them an adequate amount of intestines (intestinal cremation was traditionally the first thing done upon somebody's death). Additionally, it became common knowledge that the only people in the Hsuqliht aristocratic courts who died from tsiriwn were the ones who ate brains, so many began theorizing that tsiriwn was caused by cannibalism.

So both the Htaevic nobility and the Hsuqlihtan aristocracy agreed to end the practice of cannibalism, instead mandating that all bodies be burnt so that both the good karma from the brain and the bad karma from the intestines can be released back into Kanea. The bones and ashes were kept as a unique source of "neutral kanea" for various projects.

===Incorporation of Htaevic gods===
To gain legitimacy, the Hsuqlihts incorporated the Htaevic pantheon into Herlucc. They split the Htaevic pantheon into two based on karma, and ordered a rebuilding of all wzeliwhacans to incorporate this change. Wzeliwhacans were to be split in two - on the left of Haki would be gods of good karma, while on the right of Haki would be gods of bad karma. A dirt or cobblestone ''kanea road'' would run between these two sets of gods. Larger wzeliwhacans in major cities were adapted by removing the horizontal stones that ran atop the stone columns, and then carving the stone columns into moai-like heads.

==Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y)==
After the split of the Hsuqliht Empire in 7,224 Y, Emperor Lucclucc of the Southern Hsuqliht Empire declared that he had recieved divine right from the [[Elder Beings of Haki]] to conquer the entirety of Pavala in their name. He orchestrated great reforms to Htaevic Herlucc, declaring that, after passing the temples to the gods, the Kanea road would be briefly forked into two, and a temple devoted to the Southern Hsuqliht imperial family would be built. This symbolized how the imperial family had recieved their divine right from the Elder Beings of Haki. Emperor Lucclucc waged massive wars of conquest against the Meó, the Northern Hsuqliht Empire, and even parts of Nokhta.

===Establishment of the Haki Republic===
Emperor Lucclucc's wife gave birth to triplets, and it was never specified in what order they were born in. This caused controversy as the Southern Succlythian Empire now had no clear line of succession. Indeed, as the years passed all three children grew to be stunningly intelligent and articulate, further compounding the issue of choosing an heir. After the sudden death of Emperor Lucclucc, the three children and the governors of the empire's various territories convened to choose a successor. It was decided that they would vote for the next monarch. The votes showed a clear preference for Kuhnèi, since he spent a lot of time painting his 'visions' of the Elder Beings of Haki. He was proclaimed the first ''consul'' of the new '''Haki Republic'''.

During the Haki Republic, the language of [[Classical Htaevic]] flourished and eventually became a lingua franca across much of Delezia. The Htaevic script solidified into [[Classical Hlunliw]].

===Consuls of the Haki Republic===

{| class="wikitable"
! Consul !! Years !! Lineage !! Notes
|-
| Kuhnèi the Troubled || 7,249 - 7,268 (19 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || The first consul. Descended into schizophrenia in his later years.
|-
| Ofqùl/Wargël the Steady || 7,268 - 7,278 (10 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || Brother of Kuhnèi. Continued the expansion of the Haki Republic.
|-
| Rse Htë Loric || 7,278 - 7,284 (6 years) || House of Rse Htë || Influential merchant who made his fortunes taking control of the great gold mines of [[Hvalozd]]. Embezzled funds for years before enraged aristocrats ousted him and established the tradition of impeachment.
|-
| (...) || (...) || (...) || (...)
|-
| Fòsoja || 7,438 - 7,451 (13 years) || House of Meó || The first Meóese Consul. Well-known for being assassinated.
|-
| Tsapöt the Purple || 7451 - 7472 (21 years) || House of Sömblaw || First ethnically Hkamisëbiwmtë Consul. The government did not like that he, as an outsider, became leader and thus stripped away much of the power of the Consul. This and other events during Tsapöt's tenure would sow the seeds for the later civil war known as The Shattering. He was killed by a meteorite.
|-
| Hkancùtùsqòn the Dull || 7472 - 7485 (13 years) || House of Meó || Second cousin of Fòsoja. He was known for giving the Palace Court much more power, and stripping away much of the Consul's remaining powers. His rule marked the further decline of the Consul. He was generally unpopular to the Htaevic people and perceived as incompetent.
|-
| Hroljuje the Stern || 7485 - 7500 (15 years) ||House of Meó || Son of Hkancùtùsqòn. Hroljuje despised his father, and attempted to gain back power for the Consul, which he was somewhat successful in. The republic flourished under his reign, though it was authoritarian. He had a keen interest in the arts and cultural institutions of the republic and established many theatres.
|-
| Dan the Helpless || 7,500 - 7,520 (20 years) || House of Meó || The last consul, son of Hroljuje. He tried to implement reforms to give the rapidly growing Meó region more power within the Haki Republic government. But his reign was marked by incredible partisan gridlock, and after his assassination, the government was unable to choose a new heir and a civil war began.
|}

===Decline of the Haki Republic===
====Invasion of Unuvun====
The invasion of Unuvun by the Haki Republic is generally regarded as marking the beginning of the nation's troubled decline. As the republic became overstretched managing its many other conquests, such as Meó and Hvalozd, its army declined in quality and the ranks became corrupt. Originally thought to be an easy target, the backwater [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] states of Unuvun put up a courageous fight and exacted heavy casualties on the invading Republican forces. Though the Haki Republic was eventually able to assert control over the island, it was undeniably a Pyrrhic victory that still left the Unuvi with great autonomy.

====Assassination of Consul Fòsoja====
Consul Fòsoja's highest ranking servant, Bèje, plotted to assassinate Fòsoja and seize the throne for himself. The Consul's closest military advisor Klentkuf, however, exposed that Bèje had assassinated Fòsoja, at the same time as he was framing Fòsoja for planning to assassinate the Religious Minister Buwrët. This information enraged Buwrët as he felt it treasonous and detested the suggestion that Fòsoja would assassinate him, and did not believe that Consul Fòsoja's closest servant Bèje were to be capable of assassinating Fòsoja, as they were intimate friends beyond their consul-servant relationship. He then allied himself with Bèje, recognising him as the new Consul, and pressured the Palace Justice Demli into banishing Klentkuf into 'foreign lands'. Klentkuf was ultimately sent into the unruly Hkamisëbiwmtë lands south of the Htasei basin that had recently been the site of much violence and unrest, Justice Demli choosing such a place in an attempt that perhaps Klentkuf would be able to bring greater Hsuqliht influence there through his ruling prowess, despite the fact the Palace had found him treasonous. While in the lands, Klentkuf became allies with local rebel chief Tsapöt. After consolidating much power within the local region, Klentkuf and Tsapöt lead a small army to the Palace to attempt to burn it down, however the army was quashed by Buwrët's Order (an order of religious knights charged with defence of the palace). Palace Justice Demli then betrayed Buwrët, allying with Klentkuf and killing Bèje. This lead to a fight between Klentkuf and Demli in which they both killed each other, leaving Tsapöt to take control.

Despite being named after the Meó region, members of the House of Meó typically spoke Ancient Hsuqliht as a first language, and were of Hsuqliht or mixed ethnic background. Dan the helpless was one of the few members of the House of Meó to be of significant Meó descent, with his mother being ethnically Meó.

==Middle Ages (7,520-8,666 Y)==
===The Shattering (7,520-7,625 Y)===
After the death of Consul Dan in 7,520 Y, the regents' council tried and failed five times to elect a new consul due to deep factional polarization. Meó and Hvalozd then issued a joint declaration of independence in 7,521 Y, forming the [[First Rift Alliance]]. The First Rift Alliance quickly advanced towards the coasts of their respective regions, however they were unable to push inwards and pincer the Yot river basin.

In 7,523 Y, the Unuvi states declared independence, and together with the Nokhtan [[Second Zankhti League of Cities and Islands]] began a campaign of piracy along the southern Shattered Islands.

<wip>somehow the rest of the haki republic needs to shatter</wip>

===The 1,024 Year Spring==
The time period after the Shattering is commonly known as the [[1,024 Year Spring]] – a time of relative peace from approximately 7,625 Y to 8,650 Y during which the many former states of the Haki Republic flourished culturally and politically. It ended with the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into the region, killing over 40% of Htaevic Rouge's population. The self-proclaimed prophet [[Dropo]] gained a cult following and, after invoking divine right, reconquered much of Htaevic Rouge to form the [[Second Htaevic Empire]], of which he declare himself king (beneath the Elder Beings of Haki). The Second Htaevic Empire would last for an astonishing four hundred years until it fell to an expansionist Nokhta in 9,089 Y.

The emperor of the Second Htaevic Empire would flee to Unuvun, where he was welcomed and continued to rule as "emperor" of the Htaevic realm if only in name.

After a string of failed revolts in the 92nd century, as well as a series of famines and minor plagues, the monk [[Biplatzë Sagpawë]] developed the basic tenets of the [[Hakiism]] religion, which blamed the Elder Beings of Haki for all the suffering Htaevic Rouge's peoples had endured in the past centuries. The religion spread quickly throughout the poor serf class in Htaevic Rouge and Nokhta, and was subsequently banned in Unuvun and Meó. It was this religious fervor that would become the driving force behind the mass exodus of millions to Ivinis, where they would be "beyond the Elder Beings' cursed gaze".

Hakiism

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'''Hakiism''' is a widespread religion that was developed by Biplatzë Sagpawë and his followers during the 92nd century. It blamed the hard times of the preceding centuries in the Htaevic Rouge on the [[Elder Beings of Haki]].

==Tenets==

The idea behind Hakiism is that multiple astronomical "cycles" are bad. At the lowermost level, planets that orbit Yakei directly are said to have only one "cycle", rendering them Pure. Moons orbiting planets, or Pavala and Haki orbiting each other, are said to have two "cycles" and thus are impure. It is this impurity that created the Elder Beings of Haki, whose powerful gaze (represented in the occasional hurricanes that wander the surface of Haki) casts a bad omen over Pavala.

Other consequences of the Rule of Purity are that it is considered inauspicious whenever Evonir's moons are visible in the sky.

In [[The Haki Manifesto]], the authors call for a rejection of the Elder Beings of Haki by means of a 'collective human migration as a species' to Ivinis, which lies beyond the [[terminator]] and is 'safe from Haki's haunting, wicked reflection of Yakei's holy and pure light rays through the Cosmic Ether'. In addition, the authors further suggest that God had placed humans on Pangaea in order to test their greed; if 'Man were as pure as God has hoped his Creations would be', they would all collectively agree to give up the valuable land of [[Delezia-Hazele]] and move to Ivinis to 'live simpler lives in confidence of having passed the Test of Faith and Morals'.

The authors even go as far as to suggest that all animals and plants be purged from Delezia-Hazele in order to 'leave the land barren and boring so that the Eye of Haki shall gaze upon nothing but the reflection of its innermost, deepest soul-less self'.

==Symbols==

[[File:Hakiism.png|thumb|right|The symbol of Hakiism]]

The symbol of Hakiism, shown on the right, is a circle with a smaller circle inside of it. The larger circle represents Pavala, while the smaller circle represents Ivinis. In this way, Ivinis is thought of as a "world within a world", protected by Pavala from "the unnatural, degenerate influence of Haki's eye" by "Pavala's mighty, supple and earthen flesh". Ironically, the symbol itself somewhat resembles an eye, a controversy that resulted in the creation of [[Hopelessism]], a religion that believes both Pavala and Haki are corrupting influences and that one must wear shoes at all times, never sit on the ground, and pray for a speedy demise via asteroid impact from Sokata's Herd, among other things.

==Influence in Ivinis==

===The Exiled Folk===

The Exiled Folk is a major sub-religion of Hakiism, and is the predominant religion in [[Betaliz]]. The Exiled Folk are bound by a pact of death to never venture beyond the terminator and see Haki with their own eyes. People who have been to Delezia-Hazele are viewed with distrust, and food and objects imported from those regions are considered tainted and special tea must be ingested afterwards in order to cleanse one's self. The [[Betaliz-Nautical Peace Agreement of 9,824]] allows all Betaliz citizens to recieve a travel visa to [[Aahrus]] in order to visit the island of [[Lancha Jue]], the closest landmass to the [[Antihaki Point]] and by extension the furthest landmass on Pavala from Haki.

===Pure Hakiism===
Pure Hakiism is a sub-religion of Hakiism. The Pure Hakiists recognize that God had placed humans on Pangaea to test their greed, and that God used sexual desire as a motivator to keep humankind rooted on Delezia-Hazele. Pure Hakiists consider any sexual thoughts concieved under the light of Haki to be corrupted and sinful, and look down upon any humans concieved on Delezia-Hazele as byproducts of a sinful act. Followers of Pure Hakiism who lived on Delezia-Hazele practice what is known as ''Clear Masturbation'', where they "maintain an empty mind while masturbating so that no cursed, depraved Thoughts from Haki take root in his head, and upon orgasm release His seed into his empty brain so that he is Filled only with the purest, most biological desires."

History of Htaevic Rouge

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==Ancient Htaevic Rouge==
===Alotsë dynasty (6,312-6,537 Y)===
====Development of writing====
It was during the short Alotsë dynasty that Hotsan Gget developed the ''hlunliw'' writing system, originally to write down the oral poetry passed down through generations of monarchs. This soon spread through the royal class and became the predominant writing system throughout the empire.

====Royal cannibalism====
It's unclear when the tradition of eating ones ruler upon their death began, however it was already an integral part of succession during the Alotsë dynasty. The heir to a given fief, shire, et cetera was supposed to eat the dead ruler in order to inherit the right to rule. In the rare case that they refused, they would pass down the right to do so to the person next in line of succession, and so on. Only noblemen were allowed to eat the brain, which was considered to be where good karma was stored. In fact, noblemen often requested that commoners engaging in ritual cannibalism send the brain to the castle, where the nobleman could consume it and gain karma, thereby gaining a sort of "mandate" to rule over his fief. Nobody was allowed to eat the intestines, which was considered to be where bad karma was stored.

While processing the deceased ruler, shaman-chefs were employed to divinate fortunes from the arrangement of the ruler's internal organs, especially the idiosynchratic bends and curves of the intestines.

Traditionally, people were only allowed to eat one to three parts of the body depending on how close they were to the deceased. Fingers were eaten to increase ones dexterity, while the foot and liver were eaten in order to gain the 'wisdom' of the deceased. Choice cuts such as the thighs, biceps, calves, etc. were in general just considered to bring good health.

====Settlements====
In this era, the most important cities were:
* Baestamiw (present day [[Xol]]), located at the southern edge of the great rift, and the easternmost major city of the Alotsë.
* Cilawlyawre, located on the [[Yot]] river not too far from the Alotsë's border with the Hsuqlihts. This was the capital of the Alotsë dynasty and where they first experimented with building traditional ''Wzeliwhacan'' shrines.
* Renzhilyarë, a city located inland near a large aquifer and the largest gold mine in the world at the time.

===Riwnë dynasty (6537-6670 Y)===
The Riwnë ('faithful') dynasty was the shortest of all dynasties, lasting just 133 years. It ended due to extreme inbreeding within the family of ruling monarchs, resulting in ruler Tsahotë Riwnë having just 2 biological great grandparents, who themselves were first cousins. He died aged 14, royal legends stating 'a flood of evil spirits infested his lungs'. Modern historians suspect it was pulmonary oedema. The following dynasties developed a taboo on sibling, parent-child, and uncle-niece/aunt-nephew relationships. Cousin marriages did not develop a taboo.

===Burë dynasty (6,670-6,804)===
The Burë dynasty saw the expansion of wzeliwhacan shrines across Htaevic territory, and the growth of political power in the priest class. Priest Kazhiw Lmget of the Lmtsahacan shrine said that, during one of his prayer sessions (likely using traditional psychedelics) the Messenger of Sin '''Lmtsa''' came to him and told him that the so-called 'Elder Beings of Haki' have recently acquired a divine power that they wish to bestow upon a chosen monarch on Pavala. He relayed this message to Emperor Stanzhi Burë who asked Kazhiw Lmget to head the [[Order of the Elder Beings]], a society of priests and scholars dedicated towards finding out more about these divine beings and figuring out how to grant the Burë line their secret powers.

==First Htaevic Empire (6,804-7,005 Y)==
Gradually, this order became more and more powerful until eventually they ruled the Htaevic empire in all but name; while they would grant the current Burë ruler the 'divine right' to rule over all of the Htaevic realm, the order would use its large bureaucracy to get its way in any disagreement with the imperial household. As the Htaevic's religious identity continued to strengthen they would eventually go to war against their northern neighbors, the Hsuqlihts, who followed the heretical [[Herlucc]] religion. This would eventually lead to the downfall of the First Htaevic Empire as the Hsuqlihts were more powerful and able to launch counter-invasions.

It was during the First Htaevic Empire that ironworking became widespread in the region. The First Htaevic Empire also drove out the native [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] inhabitants of the [[Shattered Islands]], known primarily for separating into clans based on their purple and green hair. The purple-haired inhabitants decided to migrate northwards into the Meó basin, while the green-haired inhabitants migrated southwards into Unuvun and displaced the native Konod people.

===City layout===
As the first Htaevic Empire spread throughout the [[Shattered Islands]], they established hundreds of new port cities, following a common city plan. There was a harbor, from which run a ''harbor road'' a kilometer or more inland until it reached the castle. As the Shattered Islands was a very flat and water-rich region, castles usually included one or two ring moats. The castles themselves were mostly built from mud or clay brick, supplemented with wood as needed.

Villas for the nobility were constructed in between the castle and the port, and were often surrounded by the ''inner wall''. Outside this wall was where the majority of the city's population lived. Wealthier cities oftentimes had a ''public wall'' constructed around the entire city. The Htaevics were a polytheistic people, and originally had a suite of generic gods for concepts like the rain, sun, wind, etc. They worshipped these gods by building '''wzeliwhacans''', a long stone row supported by stone columns, like Stonehenge but in a line instead of a circle. This stone row would be oriented perpendicular to Haki, so that all of the stones were visible from the planet. They would paint murals dedicated to individual gods on each of these massive stones in bright colors, and plant specific flowers and plants around each stone.

===Tsiriwn===
Over generations, much of the nobility of the Htaevic Empire became victims of a prion disease known as '''tsiriwn'''. This is because the nobility ate a lot of brain, which was where the prion disease would concentrate. The Order of the Elder Beings outlawed the consumption of diseased individuals, and instead began burning them, beginning a tradition of human cremation. However the disease still continued to spread through the nobility, incapacitating the ruling class of the empire and contributing to its downfall against the Hsuqlihts.

===Collapse to Hsuqlihta===
The First Htaevic Empire would gradually expand its holdings up the [[Yot River]] and into the [[Shattered Islands]] until its collapse during the [[Hsuqlihta]]n invasions.

==Hsuqlihtan rule (7,005-7,224 Y)==
The Hsuqlihts greatly influenced the development of Htaevic culture, spreading the octal number system, the [[Herlucc]] religion and their rudimentary democratic politics.

===Spread of Herlucc===
After conquering the Htaevic Empire, Hsuqlihta sought to spread their native Herlucc religion throughout the prosperous region. They decided upon a policy of synthesizing Herlucc with the native Htaevic polytheistic religion.

===End of cannibalism===
The new ruling Hsuqliht class strongly disapproved of cannibalism, however it was an integral part of Htaevic culture. Unrest grew in the various Htaevic tributaries, as the ruling Hsuqlihts would refuse to eat the human brains that they sent as tribute. The Hsuqlihts side stepped this controversy by hiring dedicated "brain eaters" to sit on the aristocratic court and eat all the brains sent as tribute. This satisfied most of the Htaevics. The Hsuqlihts became alarmed as, over the decades, these brain eaters became the only people in the aristocracy to die from tsiriwn.

As Herlucc spread throughout the former Htaevic Empire, a karmic crisis ensued over the practice of cannibalism. It had been common practice noble Htaevics to eat the brains of their deceased subjects in order to accumulate good karma, however under the principles of Htaevic Herlucc, accumulating too much good karma was viewed as a bad thing. Some began eating the intestines (traditional home of the "bad karma") alongside the brain in order to balance good and bad karma, however this failed to become widespread. Eating intestines was still considered highly taboo, and the nobility had a difficult time convincing the common folk to supply them an adequate amount of intestines (intestinal cremation was traditionally the first thing done upon somebody's death). Additionally, it became common knowledge that the only people in the Hsuqliht aristocratic courts who died from tsiriwn were the ones who ate brains, so many began theorizing that tsiriwn was caused by cannibalism.

So both the Htaevic nobility and the Hsuqlihtan aristocracy agreed to end the practice of cannibalism, instead mandating that all bodies be burnt so that both the good karma from the brain and the bad karma from the intestines can be released back into Kanea. The bones and ashes were kept as a unique source of "neutral kanea" for various projects.

===Incorporation of Htaevic gods===
To gain legitimacy, the Hsuqlihts incorporated the Htaevic pantheon into Herlucc. They split the Htaevic pantheon into two based on karma, and ordered a rebuilding of all wzeliwhacans to incorporate this change. Wzeliwhacans were to be split in two - on the left of Haki would be gods of good karma, while on the right of Haki would be gods of bad karma. A dirt or cobblestone ''kanea road'' would run between these two sets of gods. Larger wzeliwhacans in major cities were adapted by removing the horizontal stones that ran atop the stone columns, and then carving the stone columns into moai-like heads.

==Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y)==
After the split of the Hsuqliht Empire in 7,224 Y, Emperor Lucclucc of the Southern Hsuqliht Empire declared that he had recieved divine right from the [[Elder Beings of Haki]] to conquer the entirety of Pavala in their name. He orchestrated great reforms to Htaevic Herlucc, declaring that, after passing the temples to the gods, the Kanea road would be briefly forked into two, and a temple devoted to the Southern Hsuqliht imperial family would be built. This symbolized how the imperial family had recieved their divine right from the Elder Beings of Haki. Emperor Lucclucc waged massive wars of conquest against the Meó, the Northern Hsuqliht Empire, and even parts of Nokhta.

===Establishment of the Haki Republic===
Emperor Lucclucc's wife gave birth to triplets, and it was never specified in what order they were born in. This caused controversy as the Southern Succlythian Empire now had no clear line of succession. Indeed, as the years passed all three children grew to be stunningly intelligent and articulate, further compounding the issue of choosing an heir. After the sudden death of Emperor Lucclucc, the three children and the governors of the empire's various territories convened to choose a successor. It was decided that they would vote for the next monarch. The votes showed a clear preference for <wip>Ken</wip>, since he spent a lot of time painting his 'visions' of the Elder Beings of Haki. He was proclaimed the first ''consul'' of the new '''Haki Republic'''.

During the Haki Republic, the language of [[Classical Htaevic]] flourished and eventually became a lingua franca across much of Delezia. The Htaevic script solidified into [[Classical Hlunliw]].

===Consuls of the Haki Republic===

{| class="wikitable"
! Consul !! Years !! Lineage !! Notes
|-
| Ken the Troubled || 7,249 - 7,268 (19 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || The first consul. Descended into schizophrenia in his later years.
|-
| Wargël the Steady || 7,268 - 7,278 (10 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || Brother of Ken. Continued the expansion of the Haki Republic.
|-
| Rse Htë Loric || 7,278 - 7,284 (6 years) || House of Rse Htë || Influential merchant who made his fortunes taking control of the great gold mines of [[Hvalozd]]. Embezzled funds for years before enraged aristocrats ousted him and established the tradition of impeachment.
|-
| (...) || (...) || (...) || (...)
|-
| Fòsoja || 7,438 - 7,451 (13 years) || House of Meó || The first Meóese Consul. Well-known for being assassinated.
|-
| (...) || (...) || (...) || (...)
|-
| Dan the Helpless || 7,500 - 7,520 (20 years) || House of Meó || The last consul. He tried to implement reforms to give the rapidly growing Meó region more power within the Haki Republic government. But his reign was marked by incredible partisan gridlock, and after his assassination, the government was unable to choose a new heir and a civil war began.
|}

<wip>Consul Fòsoja's highest ranking servant, Bèje, plotted to assassinate Fòsoja and seize the throne for himself. The Consul's closest military advisor Klentkuf, however, exposed that Bèje had assassinated Fòsoja, at the same time as he was framing Fòsoja for planning to assassinate the Religious Minister Buwrët. This information enraged Buwrët as he felt it treasonous and detested the suggestion that Fòsoja would assassinate him, and did not believe that Consul Fòsoja's closest servant Bèje were to be capable of assassinating Fòsoja, as they were intimate friends beyond their consul-servant relationship. He then allied himself with Bèje, recognising him as the new Consul, and pressured the Palace Justice Demli into banishing Klentkuf into 'foreign lands'. Klentkuf was ultimately sent into the unruly Hkamisëbiwmtë lands south of the Htasei basin that had recently been the site of much violence and unrest, Justice Demli choosing such a place in an attempt that perhaps Klentkuf would be able to bring greater Hsuqliht influence there through his ruling prowess, despite the fact the Palace had found him treasonous. While in the lands, Klentkuf became allies with local rebel chief Tsapöt. After consolidating much power within the local region, Klentkuf and Tsapöt lead a small army to the Palace to attempt to burn it down, however the army was quashed by Buwrët's Order (an order of religious knights charged with defence of the palace). Palace Justice Demli then betrayed Buwrët, allying with Klentkuf and killing Bèje. This lead to a fight between Klentkuf and Demli in which they both killed each other, leaving Tsapöt to take control.</wip>

==Middle ages==
The Haki Republic lasted for several centuries until the death of Consul Dan in 7,520 Y, after which it descended into civil war in a period known as the [[Shattering]], from which the Shattered Islands receive their name. The time period after the Shattering is commonly known as the [[1024 Year Spring]] – a time of relative peace from approximately 7,625 Y to 8,650 Y during which the many former states of the Haki Republic flourished culturally and politically. It ended with the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into the region, killing over 40% of Htaevic Rouge's population. The self-proclaimed prophet [[Dropo]] gained a cult following and, after invoking divine right, reconquered much of Htaevic Rouge to form the [[Second Htaevic Empire]], of which he declare himself king (beneath the Elder Beings of Haki). The Second Htaevic Empire would last for an astonishing four hundred years until it fell to an expansionist Nokhta in 9,089 Y.

The emperor of the Second Htaevic Empire would flee to Unuvun, where he was welcomed and continued to rule as "emperor" of the Htaevic realm if only in name.

After a string of failed revolts in the 92nd century, as well as a series of famines and minor plagues, the monk [[Biplatza Sagpawej]] developed the basic tenets of the [[Hakiism]] religion, which blamed the Elder Beings of Haki for all the suffering Htaevic Rouge's peoples had endured in the past centuries. The religion spread quickly throughout the poor serf class in Htaevic Rouge and Nokhta, and was subsequently banned in Unuvun and Meó. It was this religious fervor that would become the driving force behind the mass exodus of millions to Ivinis, where they would be "beyond the Elder Beings' cursed gaze".

History of Htaevic Rouge

2022-06-04T22:35:55Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y) */

==Ancient Htaevic Rouge==
===Alotsë dynasty (6,312-6,537 Y)===
====Development of writing====
It was during the short Alotsë dynasty that Hotsan Gget developed the ''hlunliw'' writing system, originally to write down the oral poetry passed down through generations of monarchs. This soon spread through the royal class and became the predominant writing system throughout the empire.

====Royal cannibalism====
It's unclear when the tradition of eating ones ruler upon their death began, however it was already an integral part of succession during the Alotsë dynasty. The heir to a given fief, shire, et cetera was supposed to eat the dead ruler in order to inherit the right to rule. In the rare case that they refused, they would pass down the right to do so to the person next in line of succession, and so on. Only noblemen were allowed to eat the brain, which was considered to be where good karma was stored. In fact, noblemen often requested that commoners engaging in ritual cannibalism send the brain to the castle, where the nobleman could consume it and gain karma, thereby gaining a sort of "mandate" to rule over his fief. Nobody was allowed to eat the intestines, which was considered to be where bad karma was stored.

While processing the deceased ruler, shaman-chefs were employed to divinate fortunes from the arrangement of the ruler's internal organs, especially the idiosynchratic bends and curves of the intestines.

Traditionally, people were only allowed to eat one to three parts of the body depending on how close they were to the deceased. Fingers were eaten to increase ones dexterity, while the foot and liver were eaten in order to gain the 'wisdom' of the deceased. Choice cuts such as the thighs, biceps, calves, etc. were in general just considered to bring good health.

====Settlements====
In this era, the most important cities were:
* Baestamiw (present day [[Xol]]), located at the southern edge of the great rift, and the easternmost major city of the Alotsë.
* Cilawlyawre, located on the [[Yot]] river not too far from the Alotsë's border with the Hsuqlihts. This was the capital of the Alotsë dynasty and where they first experimented with building traditional ''Wzeliwhacan'' shrines.
* Renzhilyarë, a city located inland near a large aquifer and the largest gold mine in the world at the time.

===Riwnë dynasty (6537-6670 Y)===
The Riwnë ('faithful') dynasty was the shortest of all dynasties, lasting just 133 years. It ended due to extreme inbreeding within the family of ruling monarchs, resulting in ruler Tsahotë Riwnë having just 2 biological great grandparents, who themselves were first cousins. He died aged 14, royal legends stating 'a flood of evil spirits infested his lungs'. Modern historians suspect it was pulmonary oedema. The following dynasties developed a taboo on sibling, parent-child, and uncle-niece/aunt-nephew relationships. Cousin marriages did not develop a taboo.

===Burë dynasty (6,670-6,804)===
The Burë dynasty saw the expansion of wzeliwhacan shrines across Htaevic territory, and the growth of political power in the priest class. Priest Kazhiw Lmget of the Lmtsahacan shrine said that, during one of his prayer sessions (likely using traditional psychedelics) the Messenger of Sin '''Lmtsa''' came to him and told him that the so-called 'Elder Beings of Haki' have recently acquired a divine power that they wish to bestow upon a chosen monarch on Pavala. He relayed this message to Emperor Stanzhi Burë who asked Kazhiw Lmget to head the [[Order of the Elder Beings]], a society of priests and scholars dedicated towards finding out more about these divine beings and figuring out how to grant the Burë line their secret powers.

==First Htaevic Empire (6,804-7,005 Y)==
Gradually, this order became more and more powerful until eventually they ruled the Htaevic empire in all but name; while they would grant the current Burë ruler the 'divine right' to rule over all of the Htaevic realm, the order would use its large bureaucracy to get its way in any disagreement with the imperial household. As the Htaevic's religious identity continued to strengthen they would eventually go to war against their northern neighbors, the Hsuqlihts, who followed the heretical [[Herlucc]] religion. This would eventually lead to the downfall of the First Htaevic Empire as the Hsuqlihts were more powerful and able to launch counter-invasions.

It was during the First Htaevic Empire that ironworking became widespread in the region. The First Htaevic Empire also drove out the native [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] inhabitants of the [[Shattered Islands]], known primarily for separating into clans based on their purple and green hair. The purple-haired inhabitants decided to migrate northwards into the Meó basin, while the green-haired inhabitants migrated southwards into Unuvun and displaced the native Konod people.

===City layout===
As the first Htaevic Empire spread throughout the [[Shattered Islands]], they established hundreds of new port cities, following a common city plan. There was a harbor, from which run a ''harbor road'' a kilometer or more inland until it reached the castle. As the Shattered Islands was a very flat and water-rich region, castles usually included one or two ring moats. The castles themselves were mostly built from mud or clay brick, supplemented with wood as needed.

Villas for the nobility were constructed in between the castle and the port, and were often surrounded by the ''inner wall''. Outside this wall was where the majority of the city's population lived. Wealthier cities oftentimes had a ''public wall'' constructed around the entire city. The Htaevics were a polytheistic people, and originally had a suite of generic gods for concepts like the rain, sun, wind, etc. They worshipped these gods by building '''wzeliwhacans''', a long stone row supported by stone columns, like Stonehenge but in a line instead of a circle. This stone row would be oriented perpendicular to Haki, so that all of the stones were visible from the planet. They would paint murals dedicated to individual gods on each of these massive stones in bright colors, and plant specific flowers and plants around each stone.

===Tsiriwn===
Over generations, much of the nobility of the Htaevic Empire became victims of a prion disease known as '''tsiriwn'''. This is because the nobility ate a lot of brain, which was where the prion disease would concentrate. The Order of the Elder Beings outlawed the consumption of diseased individuals, and instead began burning them, beginning a tradition of human cremation. However the disease still continued to spread through the nobility, incapacitating the ruling class of the empire and contributing to its downfall against the Hsuqlihts.

===Collapse to Hsuqlihta===
The First Htaevic Empire would gradually expand its holdings up the [[Yot River]] and into the [[Shattered Islands]] until its collapse during the [[Hsuqlihta]]n invasions.

==Hsuqlihtan rule (7,005-7,224 Y)==
The Hsuqlihts greatly influenced the development of Htaevic culture, spreading the octal number system, the [[Herlucc]] religion and their rudimentary democratic politics.

===Spread of Herlucc===
After conquering the Htaevic Empire, Hsuqlihta sought to spread their native Herlucc religion throughout the prosperous region. They decided upon a policy of synthesizing Herlucc with the native Htaevic polytheistic religion.

===End of cannibalism===
The new ruling Hsuqliht class strongly disapproved of cannibalism, however it was an integral part of Htaevic culture. Unrest grew in the various Htaevic tributaries, as the ruling Hsuqlihts would refuse to eat the human brains that they sent as tribute. The Hsuqlihts side stepped this controversy by hiring dedicated "brain eaters" to sit on the aristocratic court and eat all the brains sent as tribute. This satisfied most of the Htaevics. The Hsuqlihts became alarmed as, over the decades, these brain eaters became the only people in the aristocracy to die from tsiriwn.

As Herlucc spread throughout the former Htaevic Empire, a karmic crisis ensued over the practice of cannibalism. It had been common practice noble Htaevics to eat the brains of their deceased subjects in order to accumulate good karma, however under the principles of Htaevic Herlucc, accumulating too much good karma was viewed as a bad thing. Some began eating the intestines (traditional home of the "bad karma") alongside the brain in order to balance good and bad karma, however this failed to become widespread. Eating intestines was still considered highly taboo, and the nobility had a difficult time convincing the common folk to supply them an adequate amount of intestines (intestinal cremation was traditionally the first thing done upon somebody's death). Additionally, it became common knowledge that the only people in the Hsuqliht aristocratic courts who died from tsiriwn were the ones who ate brains, so many began theorizing that tsiriwn was caused by cannibalism.

So both the Htaevic nobility and the Hsuqlihtan aristocracy agreed to end the practice of cannibalism, instead mandating that all bodies be burnt so that both the good karma from the brain and the bad karma from the intestines can be released back into Kanea. The bones and ashes were kept as a unique source of "neutral kanea" for various projects.

===Incorporation of Htaevic gods===
To gain legitimacy, the Hsuqlihts incorporated the Htaevic pantheon into Herlucc. They split the Htaevic pantheon into two based on karma, and ordered a rebuilding of all wzeliwhacans to incorporate this change. Wzeliwhacans were to be split in two - on the left of Haki would be gods of good karma, while on the right of Haki would be gods of bad karma. A dirt or cobblestone ''kanea road'' would run between these two sets of gods. Larger wzeliwhacans in major cities were adapted by removing the horizontal stones that ran atop the stone columns, and then carving the stone columns into moai-like heads.

==Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y)==
After the split of the Hsuqliht Empire in 7,224 Y, Emperor Lucclucc of the Southern Hsuqliht Empire declared that he had recieved divine right from the [[Elder Beings of Haki]] to conquer the entirety of Pavala in their name. He orchestrated great reforms to Htaevic Herlucc, declaring that, after passing the temples to the gods, the Kanea road would be briefly forked into two, and a temple devoted to the Southern Hsuqliht imperial family would be built. This symbolized how the imperial family had recieved their divine right from the Elder Beings of Haki. Emperor Lucclucc waged massive wars of conquest against the Meó, the Northern Hsuqliht Empire, and even parts of Nokhta.

===Establishment of the Haki Republic===
Emperor Lucclucc's wife gave birth to triplets, and it was never specified in what order they were born in. This caused controversy as the Southern Succlythian Empire now had no clear line of succession. Indeed, as the years passed all three children grew to be stunningly intelligent and articulate, further compounding the issue of choosing an heir. After the sudden death of Emperor Lucclucc, the three children and the governors of the empire's various territories convened to choose a successor. It was decided that they would vote for the next monarch. The votes showed a clear preference for <wip>Ken</wip>, since he spent a lot of time painting his 'visions' of the Elder Beings of Haki. He was proclaimed the first ''consul'' of the new '''Haki Republic'''.

During the Haki Republic, the language of [[Classical Htaevic]] flourished and eventually became a lingua franca across much of Delezia. The Htaevic script solidified into [[Classical Hlunliw]].

===Consuls of the Haki Republic===

{| class="wikitable"
! Consul !! Years !! Lineage !! Notes
|-
| Ken the Troubled || 7,249 - 7,268 (19 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || The first consul. Descended into schizophrenia in his later years.
|-
| Wargël the Steady || 7,268 - 7,278 (10 years) || Southern House of Hsuqliht || Brother of Ken. Continued the expansion of the Haki Republic.
|-
| Rse Htë Loric || 7,278 - 7,284 (6 years) || House of Rse Htë || Influential merchant who made his fortunes taking control of the great gold mines of [[Hvalozd]]. Embezzled funds for years before enraged aristocrats ousted him and established the tradition of impeachment.
|-
| (...) || (...) || (...) || (...)
|-
| Fòsoja || 7,438 - 7,451 (13 years) || House of Meó || The first Meóese Consul. Well-known for being assassinated.
|-
| (...) || (...) || (...) || (...)
|-
| Dan the Withered || 7,500 - 7,520 (20 years) || House of Meó || The last consul. He tried to implement reforms to give the rapidly growing Meó region more power within the Haki Republic government. But his reign was marked by incredible partisan gridlock, and after his assassination, the government was unable to choose a new heir and a civil war began.
|}

<wip>Consul Fòsoja's highest ranking servant, Bèje, plotted to assassinate Fòsoja and seize the throne for himself. The Consul's closest military advisor Klentkuf, however, exposed that Bèje had assassinated Fòsoja, at the same time as he was framing Fòsoja for planning to assassinate the Religious Minister Buwrët. This information enraged Buwrët as he felt it treasonous and detested the suggestion that Fòsoja would assassinate him, and did not believe that Consul Fòsoja's closest servant Bèje were to be capable of assassinating Fòsoja, as they were intimate friends beyond their consul-servant relationship. He then allied himself with Bèje, recognising him as the new Consul, and pressured the Palace Justice Demli into banishing Klentkuf into 'foreign lands'. Klentkuf was ultimately sent into the unruly Hkamisëbiwmtë lands south of the Htasei basin that had recently been the site of much violence and unrest, Justice Demli choosing such a place in an attempt that perhaps Klentkuf would be able to bring greater Hsuqliht influence there through his ruling prowess, despite the fact the Palace had found him treasonous. While in the lands, Klentkuf became allies with local rebel chief Tsapöt. After consolidating much power within the local region, Klentkuf and Tsapöt lead a small army to the Palace to attempt to burn it down, however the army was quashed by Buwrët's Order (an order of religious knights charged with defence of the palace). Palace Justice Demli then betrayed Buwrët, allying with Klentkuf and killing Bèje. This lead to a fight between Klentkuf and Demli in which they both killed each other, leaving Tsapöt to take control.</wip>

==Middle ages==
The Haki Republic lasted for several centuries until the death of Consul Dan in 7,520 Y, after which it descended into civil war in a period known as the [[Shattering]], from which the Shattered Islands receive their name. The time period after the Shattering is commonly known as the [[1024 Year Spring]] – a time of relative peace from approximately 7,625 Y to 8,650 Y during which the many former states of the Haki Republic flourished culturally and politically. It ended with the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into the region, killing over 40% of Htaevic Rouge's population. The self-proclaimed prophet [[Dropo]] gained a cult following and, after invoking divine right, reconquered much of Htaevic Rouge to form the [[Second Htaevic Empire]], of which he declare himself king (beneath the Elder Beings of Haki). The Second Htaevic Empire would last for an astonishing four hundred years until it fell to an expansionist Nokhta in 9,089 Y.

The emperor of the Second Htaevic Empire would flee to Unuvun, where he was welcomed and continued to rule as "emperor" of the Htaevic realm if only in name.

After a string of failed revolts in the 92nd century, as well as a series of famines and minor plagues, the monk [[Biplatza Sagpawej]] developed the basic tenets of the [[Hakiism]] religion, which blamed the Elder Beings of Haki for all the suffering Htaevic Rouge's peoples had endured in the past centuries. The religion spread quickly throughout the poor serf class in Htaevic Rouge and Nokhta, and was subsequently banned in Unuvun and Meó. It was this religious fervor that would become the driving force behind the mass exodus of millions to Ivinis, where they would be "beyond the Elder Beings' cursed gaze".

History of Htaevic Rouge

2022-06-04T06:59:27Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Royal cannibalism */

==Ancient Htaevic Rouge==
===Alotsë dynasty (6,312-6,537 Y)===
====Development of writing====
It was during the short Alotsë dynasty that Hotsan Gget developed the ''hlunliw'' writing system, originally to write down the oral poetry passed down through generations of monarchs. This soon spread through the royal class and became the predominant writing system throughout the empire.

====Royal cannibalism====
It's unclear when the tradition of eating ones ruler upon their death began, however it was already an integral part of succession during the Alotsë dynasty. The heir to a given fief, shire, et cetera was supposed to eat the dead ruler in order to inherit the right to rule. In the rare case that they refused, they would pass down the right to do so to the person next in line of succession, and so on. Only noblemen were allowed to eat the brain, which was considered to be where good karma was stored. In fact, noblemen often requested that commoners engaging in ritual cannibalism send the brain to the castle, where the nobleman could consume it and gain karma, thereby gaining a sort of "mandate" to rule over his fief. Nobody was allowed to eat the intestines, which was considered to be where bad karma was stored.

While processing the deceased ruler, shaman-chefs were employed to divinate fortunes from the arrangement of the ruler's internal organs, especially the idiosynchratic bends and curves of the intestines.

Traditionally, people were only allowed to eat one to three parts of the body depending on how close they were to the deceased. Fingers were eaten to increase ones dexterity, while the foot and liver were eaten in order to gain the 'wisdom' of the deceased. Choice cuts such as the thighs, biceps, calves, etc. were in general just considered to bring good health.

====Settlements====
In this era, the most important cities were:
* Baestamiw (present day [[Xol]]), located at the southern edge of the great rift, and the easternmost major city of the Alotsë.
* Cilawlyawre, located on the [[Yot]] river not too far from the Alotsë's border with the Hsuqlihts. This was the capital of the Alotsë dynasty and where they first experimented with building traditional ''Wzeliwhacan'' shrines.
* Renzhilyarë, a city located inland near a large aquifer and the largest gold mine in the world at the time.

===Riwnë dynasty (6537-6670 Y)===
The Riwnë ('faithful') dynasty was the shortest of all dynasties, lasting just 133 years. It ended due to extreme inbreeding within the family of ruling monarchs, resulting in ruler Tsahotë Riwnë having just 2 biological great grandparents, who themselves were first cousins. He died aged 14, royal legends stating 'a flood of evil spirits infested his lungs'. Modern historians suspect it was pulmonary oedema. The following dynasties developed a taboo on sibling, parent-child, and uncle-niece/aunt-nephew relationships. Cousin marriages did not develop a taboo.

===Burë dynasty (6,670-6,804)===
The Burë dynasty saw the expansion of wzeliwhacan shrines across Htaevic territory, and the growth of political power in the priest class. Priest Kazhiw Lmget of the Lmtsahacan shrine said that, during one of his prayer sessions (likely using traditional psychedelics) the Messenger of Sin '''Lmtsa''' came to him and told him that the so-called 'Elder Beings of Haki' have recently acquired a divine power that they wish to bestow upon a chosen monarch on Pavala. He relayed this message to Emperor Stanzhi Burë who asked Kazhiw Lmget to head the [[Order of the Elder Beings]], a society of priests and scholars dedicated towards finding out more about these divine beings and figuring out how to grant the Burë line their secret powers.

==First Htaevic Empire (6,804-7,005 Y)==
Gradually, this order became more and more powerful until eventually they ruled the Htaevic empire in all but name; while they would grant the current Burë ruler the 'divine right' to rule over all of the Htaevic realm, the order would use its large bureaucracy to get its way in any disagreement with the imperial household. As the Htaevic's religious identity continued to strengthen they would eventually go to war against their northern neighbors, the Hsuqlihts, who followed the heretical [[Herlucc]] religion. This would eventually lead to the downfall of the First Htaevic Empire as the Hsuqlihts were more powerful and able to launch counter-invasions.

It was during the First Htaevic Empire that ironworking became widespread in the region. The First Htaevic Empire also drove out the native [[Raiwlawbiwmtë]] inhabitants of the [[Shattered Islands]], known primarily for separating into clans based on their purple and green hair. The purple-haired inhabitants decided to migrate northwards into the Meó basin, while the green-haired inhabitants migrated southwards into Unuvun and displaced the native Konod people.

===City layout===
As the first Htaevic Empire spread throughout the [[Shattered Islands]], they established hundreds of new port cities, following a common city plan. There was a harbor, from which run a ''harbor road'' a kilometer or more inland until it reached the castle. As the Shattered Islands was a very flat and water-rich region, castles usually included one or two ring moats. The castles themselves were mostly built from mud or clay brick, supplemented with wood as needed.

Villas for the nobility were constructed in between the castle and the port, and were often surrounded by the ''inner wall''. Outside this wall was where the majority of the city's population lived. Wealthier cities oftentimes had a ''public wall'' constructed around the entire city. The Htaevics were a polytheistic people, and originally had a suite of generic gods for concepts like the rain, sun, wind, etc. They worshipped these gods by building '''wzeliwhacans''', a long stone row supported by stone columns, like Stonehenge but in a line instead of a circle. This stone row would be oriented perpendicular to Haki, so that all of the stones were visible from the planet. They would paint murals dedicated to individual gods on each of these massive stones in bright colors, and plant specific flowers and plants around each stone.

===Tsiriwn===
Over generations, much of the nobility of the Htaevic Empire became victims of a prion disease known as '''tsiriwn'''. This is because the nobility ate a lot of brain, which was where the prion disease would concentrate. The Order of the Elder Beings outlawed the consumption of diseased individuals, and instead began burning them, beginning a tradition of human cremation. However the disease still continued to spread through the nobility, incapacitating the ruling class of the empire and contributing to its downfall against the Hsuqlihts.

===Collapse to Hsuqlihta===
The First Htaevic Empire would gradually expand its holdings up the [[Yot River]] and into the [[Shattered Islands]] until its collapse during the [[Hsuqlihta]]n invasions.

==Hsuqlihtan rule (7,005-7,224 Y)==
The Hsuqlihts greatly influenced the development of Htaevic culture, spreading the octal number system, the [[Herlucc]] religion and their rudimentary democratic politics.

===Spread of Herlucc===
After conquering the Htaevic Empire, Hsuqlihta sought to spread their native Herlucc religion throughout the prosperous region. They decided upon a policy of synthesizing Herlucc with the native Htaevic polytheistic religion.

===End of cannibalism===
The new ruling Hsuqliht class strongly disapproved of cannibalism, however it was an integral part of Htaevic culture. Unrest grew in the various Htaevic tributaries, as the ruling Hsuqlihts would refuse to eat the human brains that they sent as tribute. The Hsuqlihts side stepped this controversy by hiring dedicated "brain eaters" to sit on the aristocratic court and eat all the brains sent as tribute. This satisfied most of the Htaevics. The Hsuqlihts became alarmed as, over the decades, these brain eaters became the only people in the aristocracy to die from tsiriwn.

As Herlucc spread throughout the former Htaevic Empire, a karmic crisis ensued over the practice of cannibalism. It had been common practice noble Htaevics to eat the brains of their deceased subjects in order to accumulate good karma, however under the principles of Htaevic Herlucc, accumulating too much good karma was viewed as a bad thing. Some began eating the intestines (traditional home of the "bad karma") alongside the brain in order to balance good and bad karma, however this failed to become widespread. Eating intestines was still considered highly taboo, and the nobility had a difficult time convincing the common folk to supply them an adequate amount of intestines (intestinal cremation was traditionally the first thing done upon somebody's death). Additionally, it became common knowledge that the only people in the Hsuqliht aristocratic courts who died from tsiriwn were the ones who ate brains, so many began theorizing that tsiriwn was caused by cannibalism.

So both the Htaevic nobility and the Hsuqlihtan aristocracy agreed to end the practice of cannibalism, instead mandating that all bodies be burnt so that both the good karma from the brain and the bad karma from the intestines can be released back into Kanea. The bones and ashes were kept as a unique source of "neutral kanea" for various projects.

===Incorporation of Htaevic gods===
To gain legitimacy, the Hsuqlihts incorporated the Htaevic pantheon into Herlucc. They split the Htaevic pantheon into two based on karma, and ordered a rebuilding of all wzeliwhacans to incorporate this change. Wzeliwhacans were to be split in two - on the left of Haki would be gods of good karma, while on the right of Haki would be gods of bad karma. A dirt or cobblestone ''kanea road'' would run between these two sets of gods. Larger wzeliwhacans in major cities were adapted by removing the horizontal stones that ran atop the stone columns, and then carving the stone columns into moai-like heads.

==Haki Republic (7,224-7,520 Y)==
After the split of the Hsuqliht Empire in 7,224 Y, Emperor Lucclucc of the Southern Hsuqliht Empire declared that he had recieved divine right from the [[Elder Beings of Haki]] to conquer the entirety of Pavala in their name. He orchestrated great reforms to Htaevic Herlucc, declaring that, after passing the temples to the gods, the Kanea road would be briefly forked into two, and a temple devoted to the Southern Hsuqliht imperial family would be built. This symbolized how the imperial family had recieved their divine right from the Elder Beings of Haki. Emperor Lucclucc waged massive wars of conquest against the Meó, the Northern Hsuqliht Empire, and even parts of Nokhta.

===Establishment of the Haki Republic===
Emperor Lucclucc's wife gave birth to triplets, and it was never specified in what order they were born in. This caused controversy as the Southern Succlythian Empire now had no clear line of succession. Indeed, as the years passed all three children grew to be stunningly intelligent and articulate, further compounding the issue of choosing an heir. After the sudden death of Emperor Lucclucc, the three children and the governors of the empire's various territories convened to choose a successor. It was decided that they would vote for the next monarch. The votes showed a clear preference for <wip>Ken</wip>, since he spent a lot of time painting his 'visions' of the Elder Beings of Haki. He was proclaimed the first ''consul'' of the new '''Haki Republic'''.

During the Haki Republic, the language of [[Classical Htaevic]] flourished and eventually became a lingua franca across much of Delezia. The Htaevic script solidified into [[Classical Hlunliw]].

<wip>Consul Fòsoja's highest ranking servant, Bèje, plotted to assassinate Fòsoja and seize the throne for himself. The Consul's closest military advisor Klentkuf, however, exposed that Bèje had assassinated Fòsoja, at the same time as he was framing Fòsoja for planning to assassinate the Religious Minister Buwrët. This information enraged Buwrët as he felt it treasonous and detested the suggestion that Fòsoja would assassinate him, and did not believe that Consul Fòsoja's closest servant Bèje were to be capable of assassinating Fòsoja, as they were intimate friends beyond their consul-servant relationship. He then allied himself with Bèje, recognising him as the new Consul, and pressured the Palace Justice Demli into banishing Klentkuf into 'foreign lands'. Klentkuf was ultimately sent into the unruly Hkamisëbiwmtë lands south of the Htasei basin that had recently been the site of much violence and unrest, Justice Demli choosing such a place in an attempt that perhaps Klentkuf would be able to bring greater Hsuqliht influence there through his ruling prowess, despite the fact the Palace had found him treasonous. While in the lands, Klentkuf became allies with local rebel chief Tsapöt. After consolidating much power within the local region, Klentkuf and Tsapöt lead a small army to the Palace to attempt to burn it down, however the army was quashed by Buwrët's Order (an order of religious knights charged with defence of the palace). Palace Justice Demli then betrayed Buwrët, allying with Klentkuf and killing Bèje. This lead to a fight between Klentkuf and Demli in which they both killed each other, leaving Tsapöt to take control.</wip>

==Middle ages==
The Haki Republic lasted for several centuries until the death of Consul Dan in 7,520 Y, after which it descended into civil war in a period known as the [[Shattering]], from which the Shattered Islands receive their name. The time period after the Shattering is commonly known as the [[1024 Year Spring]] – a time of relative peace from approximately 7,625 Y to 8,650 Y during which the many former states of the Haki Republic flourished culturally and politically. It ended with the spread of [[Blinding Plague]] into the region, killing over 40% of Htaevic Rouge's population. The self-proclaimed prophet [[Dropo]] gained a cult following and, after invoking divine right, reconquered much of Htaevic Rouge to form the [[Second Htaevic Empire]], of which he declare himself king (beneath the Elder Beings of Haki). The Second Htaevic Empire would last for an astonishing four hundred years until it fell to an expansionist Nokhta in 9,089 Y.

The emperor of the Second Htaevic Empire would flee to Unuvun, where he was welcomed and continued to rule as "emperor" of the Htaevic realm if only in name.

After a string of failed revolts in the 92nd century, as well as a series of famines and minor plagues, the monk [[Biplatza Sagpawej]] developed the basic tenets of the [[Hakiism]] religion, which blamed the Elder Beings of Haki for all the suffering Htaevic Rouge's peoples had endured in the past centuries. The religion spread quickly throughout the poor serf class in Htaevic Rouge and Nokhta, and was subsequently banned in Unuvun and Meó. It was this religious fervor that would become the driving force behind the mass exodus of millions to Ivinis, where they would be "beyond the Elder Beings' cursed gaze".

Animals

2022-06-04T06:54:51Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Animals */

There are lots of animals, food, and both on Pavala.

=Animals=

==Overview and cladogram==
'''Seraltans''', six-legged egg-laying animals, are the dominant native fauna of Ivinis. In Pangaea, '''paraves''' dominate most niches with the remaining being filled by '''mammals'''. The dominant native fauna of [[Ihyai]] are '''ziflo''', six-legged placental animals.

On Ivinis, six-legged egg-laying '''obis''' dominate the land. The [[jakeyl]] [[iviniking]] towers tens of meters above the ground, and various species of [[asolenvii]] roam the continent hunting for prey. Fierce tetrapod amphibians dominate the rivers and shallow waters, hunting any small terrestrial creature that wanders too close.

On Pangaea, the obis that rode via Nokhta were outcompeted by the existing '''paraves''' that had come to dominate the supercontinent. The protojihau split into the prokóvi, which would lead to kóvi, birds and kiyas, and the jihau, which split into the bipedal bijihau and the quadrupedal quadjihau.

1. '''Protojihau''' were bipedal animals that resembled early theropods with feathers, antorbital fenestra, and four toes.

2. '''Prokóvi''' are marked by the appearance of a postorbital fenestra.

3. '''Jihau''' are marked by the loss of their fourth toe.

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==Mammalia==
Mammals are a much smaller group on Pavala than they are on Earth.
===Crabbits===
'''Crabbits''' have a cat-like facial structure with forward-facing eyes. However, they have large rabbit ears and large hind legs which allow them to hop towards their prey and make them locomote closer to how rabbits do. Their large ears are used as a mating signal and the larger the ear the more dominant the crabbit in its troupe. They are highly social and make barking noises. They have large claws but domesticated crabbits don't scratch and bite humans as much as cats do.

==Blockheads==
Blockheads are a diverse array of animals, ranging from the hammerhead lion, to the hammerhead cow, to the hammerhead monkey. The lot of them like to use their heads to joust, and have horns, scales, other sorts of wild decorations on it. The head is king for these animals. Got lots of different mating signals on it, like feathers sometimes too. Eyes usually spaced far apart on the head. This helps the carnivorous lot of them hunt, and the herbivorous lot of them see to their sides. Gives some extra room for the brain, too, since these guys don't got very compact brain matter (unlike birds and humans). A lot of them have trunks, some both long necks and trunks (like a weird hammerhead elephant giraffe, if your mind can hold that).

==Hexapedal Amphibians==

The '''samsui''' is a small amphibian found in the Unuvi marshes, with six legs. It is small, like a computer mouse, however it has a large, rotund rear supported by two pairs of hind legs that it uses to jump much like a frog. It generally has bog-like coloring with undecipherable patterns.

There is a larger, crocodile-like animal (by convergent evolution) except it has six legs and [https://i.imgur.com/9kmJqHM.jpg looks cuter].

==Quadrupeds==

===Human===

The [[Human]] is a very intelligent animal capable of complex thought and emotion. As of the present day, humans dominate Pavala.

===Kiya===
The kiya is the primary pack animal and mount of Pavala. Its carrying capacity and top speed are both somewhat less than the equivalent horse, however the kiya is considered to be one of the most intelligent and social animals on Pavala and can be extensively trained to carry out tasks on its own. Kiyas have been bred over thousands of years and have various derivatives maximized for strength, speed, endurance, et cetera with a diverse array of color patterns. A Kiya kind of looks like a Utahraptor except herbivorous.

===Knont===
[[File:Shirn.png|thumb|left|An [[Unuvi]] knont bends over to graze while its shepherd looks on]]
The knont (Unuvi: ''Hshila'') is a two-legged creature, much like an orinthopod, with the milk production capabilities of a cow and the wool-growing capabilities of a sheep. They make a high pitched, croaking neigh from their long snouts and are not shy to spit on anything they find annoying. Underneath their massive cloud of wool is a lithe build which makes them generally unfit for meat cultivation compared to other domesticated animals. Their very ingrained herd mentality is augumented by their use of patterning in their wool to help identify members of social groups; their wool can have a wide range of both patterns and colors, but the quintessential knont has green-brown zebra-like stripes.

Being bipedal, knonts must bend over both to graze and to be milked. Their milk, is famed for its deliciously sweet, thick and creamy taste, though it is unsuitable to be refined into processed dairy products such as cheese because it does not easily separate.

===Kóvi===

[[File:Kóvi as pets.jpg|thumb|right|A pet kóvi being walked.]]

Kóvi are bird-like species of the clade Paraves, closely related to birds. They are slender paravians with long legs and large beaks. Kóvi are typically predatory carnivores, preying on smaller species of paravians and hexavians, while others are omnivorous and even herbivorous. Some species, like the Amalthean akhiluŋi, can be very intelligent, with a similar cognitive ability to dogs. As a result, some species are kept as pets. Most species are flightless.

===Shirn===
The shirn is a [[Hexapod|six-legged]] beast that is around the scale of a cow, but flatter and laying closer to the ground. It has a long snout that it uses to graze, and the sound it makes is similar to that of a bassoon. It has a long tail which it uses for primitive social cues with other members of its herd. Shirns grow thin brown / black wooly coats which are difficult to shave off. They are most prized for their meat production.

==Obis==
Obis are an exceedingly diverse group of hexapods of the clade '''Obia'''. Obis include the largest living land animal, the 80-ton [[fihanobi]], as well as some of the smallest land animals.

===Iviniking===
The '''Iviniking''', with a maximum recorded weight of 95 tons and a maximum recorded length of 40 meters, was the largest known land animal species until the discovery of [[Gigantic King]] on [[Haki]]. They are endemic to southern Ivinis, inhabiting the coniferous forests that span the border between Nautical Ivinis, [[Rokhtaera]] and [[Linyen]].

===Asolenviis===
'''Asolenviis''' ('people eaters'), are a class of carnivorous obis that range in size from a small child to a T-Rex. Unlike most hexapods, asolenviis are bipedal. About half of all asolenviis have four arms used to more easily capture and devour their prey. In other asolenviis, the middle pair of arms have evolved a more wing-like structure utilized in complex mating rituals as well as for heat dissipation. Some of the most famous asolenvii species include the [[kiya killer]], [[crazy blue]] and [[unuvi deluxe]]. Some asolenvii, such as the unuvi deluxe (also known as the 'epi'), are highly intelligent and have been domesticated over the past several thousand years.

====Asolenviis in Pangaea====

The '''Robust Demon''' was a massive carnivorous asolenvii upwards of 11 meters long that went mysteriously extinct around 0 Y.

====Asolenviis in Unuvun====
The island of Unuvun has been isolated in the southern [[Forbidden Sea]] ever since the [[Unuvi terrane]] first broke off of the ancient [[Ivinokhta]] continent some 60 million years ago. Since then, the asolenviis that existed on the island have thoroughly diversified and now include several very distinct orders of species, such as the [[epi]] and [[hyukei]].

'''Epis''', rawr.
[[File:Feathercat.png|thumb|right|A feathercat in the wild]]
'''Hyukeis''' are separated from other asolenviis primarily by the evolution of thick fur coatings as well as a superficial resemblance to many mammals, with a cat-like facial structure as well as a reversion to four limbs. Unlike mammals, however, and like other asolenviis, hyukeis give birth via egg.
* The feathercat family is a very common type of hyukei, with many of its species resembling a streamlined, cat-like griffin. The wild common feathercat is a forest animal that hunts in packs, swooping down from perches in trees in a coordinated effort to take down larger prey. Domesticated feathercats are very social, much like an Earth dog, with thousands of years of breeding across [[Pavala]] having produced a diverse array of breeds in all sorts of shapes, sizes and flight capability.

====Domesticated Feathercat====
The domesticated feathercat, colloquially known simply as the feathercat, is a very social creature much like the domesticated dog. Thousands of years of breeding across [[Pavala]] have produced a diverse array of breeds, with feathercats coming in all sorts of shapes, sizes and flight capability.

The most common breeds in [[Unuvun]] are the [[htuha feathercat]] and the [[kae|kae feathercat]], commonly known simply as the kae.
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/25281/anatomically-correct-griffins

===Domesticated Phaselones===
Small breeds of feathercat-dog hybrids with a feathery tail running the length of their back. https://i.gyazo.com/9c86fee472deeab70e7818a2b06d16fd.png

==Hexavians==
Hexavians, meaning "hexapodal avians", are all the species of flying bird-analogues that are descended from [[hexapod]]al ancestors. The main types of hexavians are:

* '''Tetrawings''': hexavians that have two sets of wings (either separate or conjoined), and one set of legs.
* '''Quirds''': for ('quadrupedal birds'), hexavians that have one set of wings and two sets of legs.
* '''Hexawings''': hexavians that have three sets of wings/fins (either separate or conjoined), and no limbs. Hexawings are rare and generally rely on snake-like locomotion or are adapted to swim.

===Squird===
The squird is a type of flightless quird which has many amphibious characteristics, having adapted to using its two sets of limbs as tentacles to propel itself underwater, and its set of vestigial wings as fins to help stabilize its swimming.

==Tinmiles==
The tinmile class are a class of [[hexapod]]s distinct from other classes by their mammal-like characteristics, including hair and giving live birth. They also contain [[tinmilary glands]] which secrete a substance analogous to that of milk for their offspring. Tinmiles are widespreaad throughout [[Delezia-Hazele]] but are absent from Ivinis, having originally evolved on [[Edeto]] and spread to the rest of Delezia-Hazele after Edeto's collision with the supercontinent. Many tinmiles, including the [[zonk]] and the [[loop eater]] are highly intelligent and exhibit characteristics similar to dolphins and elephants on Earth.

===Loop Eater===
The loop eater (Unuvi: ''dumtui'') primarily feasts on [[loop]]s, a small type of bug common throughout Pavala. Their frontmost pair of legs have evolved to have long, ladle-like structures known as [[loop scoops]] on the end which they use in order to dig into the ground and locate loops to eat with their long snout. Their appearance is superficially similar to that of a wild boar, with large amounts of hair across their entire body. Loop eaters are generally passive animals but will use their loop scoops to defend themselves from predators if provoked, and several species have evolved to have sharp tips on the end of their loop scoops.

Loop eaters are very social animals and males will joust against each other with their loop scoops in a sort of pseudo-fencing match in order to claim mates. Some loop eaters have even been observed burying their dead relatives.

===Zonk===

The zonk is a massive hexapod that could be mistaken for a dinosaur except it has fur and also there were never dinosaurs on Pavala. It has an extremely elongated neck like a giraffe which it uses to feast on the forest canopy. Zonks also have huge tusks which are prized throughout Pavala for their beauty. Edeto is famed for its long tradition of using [[war zonks]] in battle.

===Mako===
The Mako is a six legged cat, ranging in size from a small rabbit to a large rabbit. It has sharp canines with the ability to secrete venom, to kill and partially digest its prey. Its two front legs have the ability to produce a type of silk, it uses this to construct nets to catch its prey. The Mako is found mostly within the Meo Basin/Succlythia and neighbouring areas. It was domesticated in the Meo Basin and is a staple in the cultural iconography of the Meo people, where they are widely kept as agricultural helps to produce silk and eat pests, and also as domestic animals. The venom is not fatal to humans, although it may cause severe pain/illness to those that are allergic. Mako rarely bite humans, as they do not use their venom for defence. Antivenom is widely available, regardless.

===Fishing Cat===
Fishing cats are cats that have adapted to an semi-aquatic life style. They have webbed feet to help swim, and those that live near colder waters have thick fur like an otter. Their native range is throughout the Malaeze sea, and they live in both salt and freshwater, close to land, their range extends as far north as Aesanma. Some were domesticated by the Htaevic empire.

==Hexphins==

Hexphins are the [[hexapod]]al analogue of dolphins, and are widespread across Pavala's temperate waters. Unlike regular dolphins, hexphins generally have two sets of fins. They are highly social which makes them very well suited for [[dolphin racing]]. Though genetically distant from dolphins, convergent evolution has led to hexphins being considered a type of dolphin in popular culture.

===Unuvi Hexphin===

speedy

Animals

2022-06-04T06:42:26Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Overview and cladogram */

There are lots of animals, food, and both on Pavala.

=Animals=

==Overview and cladogram==
'''Seraltans''', six-legged egg-laying animals, are the dominant native fauna of Ivinis. In Pangaea, '''paraves''' dominate most niches with the remaining being filled by '''mammals'''. The dominant native fauna of [[Ihyai]] are '''ziflo''', six-legged placental animals.

On Ivinis, six-legged egg-laying '''obis''' dominate the land. The [[jakeyl]] [[iviniking]] towers tens of meters above the ground, and various species of [[asolenvii]] roam the continent hunting for prey. Fierce tetrapod amphibians dominate the rivers and shallow waters, hunting any small terrestrial creature that wanders too close.

On Pangaea, the obis that rode via Nokhta were outcompeted by the existing '''paraves''' that had come to dominate the supercontinent. The protojihau split into the prokóvi, which would lead to kóvi, birds and kiyas, and the jihau, which split into the bipedal bijihau and the quadrupedal quadjihau.

1. '''Protojihau''' were bipedal animals that resembled early theropods with feathers, antorbital fenestra, and four toes.

2. '''Prokóvi''' are marked by the appearance of a postorbital fenestra.

3. '''Jihau''' are marked by the loss of their fourth toe.

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==Blockheads==
Blockheads are a diverse array of animals, ranging from the hammerhead lion, to the hammerhead cow, to the hammerhead monkey. The lot of them like to use their heads to joust, and have horns, scales, other sorts of wild decorations on it. The head is king for these animals. Got lots of different mating signals on it, like feathers sometimes too. Eyes usually spaced far apart on the head. This helps the carnivorous lot of them hunt, and the herbivorous lot of them see to their sides. Gives some extra room for the brain, too, since these guys don't got very compact brain matter (unlike birds and humans). A lot of them have trunks, some both long necks and trunks (like a weird hammerhead elephant giraffe, if your mind can hold that).

==Hexapedal Amphibians==

The '''samsui''' is a small amphibian found in the Unuvi marshes, with six legs. It is small, like a computer mouse, however it has a large, rotund rear supported by two pairs of hind legs that it uses to jump much like a frog. It generally has bog-like coloring with undecipherable patterns.

There is a larger, crocodile-like animal (by convergent evolution) except it has six legs and [https://i.imgur.com/9kmJqHM.jpg looks cuter].

==Quadrupeds==

===Human===

The [[Human]] is a very intelligent animal capable of complex thought and emotion. As of the present day, humans dominate Pavala.

===Kiya===
The kiya is the primary pack animal and mount of Pavala. Its carrying capacity and top speed are both somewhat less than the equivalent horse, however the kiya is considered to be one of the most intelligent and social animals on Pavala and can be extensively trained to carry out tasks on its own. Kiyas have been bred over thousands of years and have various derivatives maximized for strength, speed, endurance, et cetera with a diverse array of color patterns. A Kiya kind of looks like a Utahraptor except herbivorous.

===Knont===
[[File:Shirn.png|thumb|left|An [[Unuvi]] knont bends over to graze while its shepherd looks on]]
The knont (Unuvi: ''Hshila'') is a two-legged creature, much like an orinthopod, with the milk production capabilities of a cow and the wool-growing capabilities of a sheep. They make a high pitched, croaking neigh from their long snouts and are not shy to spit on anything they find annoying. Underneath their massive cloud of wool is a lithe build which makes them generally unfit for meat cultivation compared to other domesticated animals. Their very ingrained herd mentality is augumented by their use of patterning in their wool to help identify members of social groups; their wool can have a wide range of both patterns and colors, but the quintessential knont has green-brown zebra-like stripes.

Being bipedal, knonts must bend over both to graze and to be milked. Their milk, is famed for its deliciously sweet, thick and creamy taste, though it is unsuitable to be refined into processed dairy products such as cheese because it does not easily separate.

===Kóvi===

[[File:Kóvi as pets.jpg|thumb|right|A pet kóvi being walked.]]

Kóvi are bird-like species of the clade Paraves, closely related to birds. They are slender paravians with long legs and large beaks. Kóvi are typically predatory carnivores, preying on smaller species of paravians and hexavians, while others are omnivorous and even herbivorous. Some species, like the Amalthean akhiluŋi, can be very intelligent, with a similar cognitive ability to dogs. As a result, some species are kept as pets. Most species are flightless.

===Shirn===
The shirn is a [[Hexapod|six-legged]] beast that is around the scale of a cow, but flatter and laying closer to the ground. It has a long snout that it uses to graze, and the sound it makes is similar to that of a bassoon. It has a long tail which it uses for primitive social cues with other members of its herd. Shirns grow thin brown / black wooly coats which are difficult to shave off. They are most prized for their meat production.

==Obis==
Obis are an exceedingly diverse group of hexapods of the clade '''Obia'''. Obis include the largest living land animal, the 80-ton [[fihanobi]], as well as some of the smallest land animals.

===Iviniking===
The '''Iviniking''', with a maximum recorded weight of 95 tons and a maximum recorded length of 40 meters, was the largest known land animal species until the discovery of [[Gigantic King]] on [[Haki]]. They are endemic to southern Ivinis, inhabiting the coniferous forests that span the border between Nautical Ivinis, [[Rokhtaera]] and [[Linyen]].

===Asolenviis===
'''Asolenviis''' ('people eaters'), are a class of carnivorous obis that range in size from a small child to a T-Rex. Unlike most hexapods, asolenviis are bipedal. About half of all asolenviis have four arms used to more easily capture and devour their prey. In other asolenviis, the middle pair of arms have evolved a more wing-like structure utilized in complex mating rituals as well as for heat dissipation. Some of the most famous asolenvii species include the [[kiya killer]], [[crazy blue]] and [[unuvi deluxe]]. Some asolenvii, such as the unuvi deluxe (also known as the 'epi'), are highly intelligent and have been domesticated over the past several thousand years.

====Asolenviis in Pangaea====

The '''Robust Demon''' was a massive carnivorous asolenvii upwards of 11 meters long that went mysteriously extinct around 0 Y.

====Asolenviis in Unuvun====
The island of Unuvun has been isolated in the southern [[Forbidden Sea]] ever since the [[Unuvi terrane]] first broke off of the ancient [[Ivinokhta]] continent some 60 million years ago. Since then, the asolenviis that existed on the island have thoroughly diversified and now include several very distinct orders of species, such as the [[epi]] and [[hyukei]].

'''Epis''', rawr.
[[File:Feathercat.png|thumb|right|A feathercat in the wild]]
'''Hyukeis''' are separated from other asolenviis primarily by the evolution of thick fur coatings as well as a superficial resemblance to many mammals, with a cat-like facial structure as well as a reversion to four limbs. Unlike mammals, however, and like other asolenviis, hyukeis give birth via egg.
* The feathercat family is a very common type of hyukei, with many of its species resembling a streamlined, cat-like griffin. The wild common feathercat is a forest animal that hunts in packs, swooping down from perches in trees in a coordinated effort to take down larger prey. Domesticated feathercats are very social, much like an Earth dog, with thousands of years of breeding across [[Pavala]] having produced a diverse array of breeds in all sorts of shapes, sizes and flight capability.

====Domesticated Feathercat====
The domesticated feathercat, colloquially known simply as the feathercat, is a very social creature much like the domesticated dog. Thousands of years of breeding across [[Pavala]] have produced a diverse array of breeds, with feathercats coming in all sorts of shapes, sizes and flight capability.

The most common breeds in [[Unuvun]] are the [[htuha feathercat]] and the [[kae|kae feathercat]], commonly known simply as the kae.
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/25281/anatomically-correct-griffins

===Domesticated Phaselones===
Small breeds of feathercat-dog hybrids with a feathery tail running the length of their back. https://i.gyazo.com/9c86fee472deeab70e7818a2b06d16fd.png

==Hexavians==
Hexavians, meaning "hexapodal avians", are all the species of flying bird-analogues that are descended from [[hexapod]]al ancestors. The main types of hexavians are:

* '''Tetrawings''': hexavians that have two sets of wings (either separate or conjoined), and one set of legs.
* '''Quirds''': for ('quadrupedal birds'), hexavians that have one set of wings and two sets of legs.
* '''Hexawings''': hexavians that have three sets of wings/fins (either separate or conjoined), and no limbs. Hexawings are rare and generally rely on snake-like locomotion or are adapted to swim.

===Squird===
The squird is a type of flightless quird which has many amphibious characteristics, having adapted to using its two sets of limbs as tentacles to propel itself underwater, and its set of vestigial wings as fins to help stabilize its swimming.

==Tinmiles==
The tinmile class are a class of [[hexapod]]s distinct from other classes by their mammal-like characteristics, including hair and giving live birth. They also contain [[tinmilary glands]] which secrete a substance analogous to that of milk for their offspring. Tinmiles are widespreaad throughout [[Delezia-Hazele]] but are absent from Ivinis, having originally evolved on [[Edeto]] and spread to the rest of Delezia-Hazele after Edeto's collision with the supercontinent. Many tinmiles, including the [[zonk]] and the [[loop eater]] are highly intelligent and exhibit characteristics similar to dolphins and elephants on Earth.

===Loop Eater===
The loop eater (Unuvi: ''dumtui'') primarily feasts on [[loop]]s, a small type of bug common throughout Pavala. Their frontmost pair of legs have evolved to have long, ladle-like structures known as [[loop scoops]] on the end which they use in order to dig into the ground and locate loops to eat with their long snout. Their appearance is superficially similar to that of a wild boar, with large amounts of hair across their entire body. Loop eaters are generally passive animals but will use their loop scoops to defend themselves from predators if provoked, and several species have evolved to have sharp tips on the end of their loop scoops.

Loop eaters are very social animals and males will joust against each other with their loop scoops in a sort of pseudo-fencing match in order to claim mates. Some loop eaters have even been observed burying their dead relatives.

===Zonk===

The zonk is a massive hexapod that could be mistaken for a dinosaur except it has fur and also there were never dinosaurs on Pavala. It has an extremely elongated neck like a giraffe which it uses to feast on the forest canopy. Zonks also have huge tusks which are prized throughout Pavala for their beauty. Edeto is famed for its long tradition of using [[war zonks]] in battle.

===Mako===
The Mako is a six legged cat, ranging in size from a small rabbit to a large rabbit. It has sharp canines with the ability to secrete venom, to kill and partially digest its prey. Its two front legs have the ability to produce a type of silk, it uses this to construct nets to catch its prey. The Mako is found mostly within the Meo Basin/Succlythia and neighbouring areas. It was domesticated in the Meo Basin and is a staple in the cultural iconography of the Meo people, where they are widely kept as agricultural helps to produce silk and eat pests, and also as domestic animals. The venom is not fatal to humans, although it may cause severe pain/illness to those that are allergic. Mako rarely bite humans, as they do not use their venom for defence. Antivenom is widely available, regardless.

===Fishing Cat===
Fishing cats are cats that have adapted to an semi-aquatic life style. They have webbed feet to help swim, and those that live near colder waters have thick fur like an otter. Their native range is throughout the Malaeze sea, and they live in both salt and freshwater, close to land, their range extends as far north as Aesanma. Some were domesticated by the Htaevic empire.

==Hexphins==

Hexphins are the [[hexapod]]al analogue of dolphins, and are widespread across Pavala's temperate waters. Unlike regular dolphins, hexphins generally have two sets of fins. They are highly social which makes them very well suited for [[dolphin racing]]. Though genetically distant from dolphins, convergent evolution has led to hexphins being considered a type of dolphin in popular culture.

===Unuvi Hexphin===

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Yuuvei

2022-05-31T17:27:53Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Rail */

[[File:Yuuveiattempt.png|thumb|right|The [[Racheinu Chihyu]] ward of Yuuvei]]
'''Yuuvei''', officially the '''Metropolitan State of Yuune and Zhavei''', is the capital and largest metropolitan region of the Nautical Peace with more than 59 million inhabitants. The metropolis is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Pavala, with its most ancient buildings dating back to 7,000 Y. Located on the <wip>Imperial Plain</wip>, it is shielded from harsh circumpolar wind and water currents by the <wip>Steaming Mountains</wip>. Nevertheless, it experiences torrential amounts of rainfall during the year, earning it the nickname '''Petrichor City'''. The city has been the political center of Unuvun for many thousands of years, and has long dominated the economy, culture, and transportation around the island due to its central location.

The ward of Zhavei houses the imperial throne and parliament, while the imperial court is located in Ifa on the shore of the [[Pacific Lake]]. Also located on the Pacific Lake is Yuune, whose Lakeside Row has long been synonymous with Unuvunese banking. In recent decades, <wip>Lucky Cat</wip> has become the center of the Unuvunese tech sector thanks to the wealth of universities nearby. On the northern end of the metropolis, along the shore of the [[Midland Sea]], lies the special city of <wip>Bitter Side</wip> which handles much of the sea trade of the metropolis, as well as being one of the Nautical Peace's major biotech centers.

== Wards ==

===Lucky Cat Ward===
====Lucky Cat====
One of the world's great tech hubs. Salaries here are sky high. Has its own maglev stop, and employees are rich enough to commute by it.

====Coin Town====
Unuvunese center of finance. Salaries even higher than in Lucky Cat, but power has gradually waned as technology continues to eat the world.

===Central Ward===
====Cataracts====
One of the oldest neighborhoods of Yuuvei; built around the famous waterfall.
====West Island====
Location of the Imperial Palace... has been gradually eroding alongside the Cataracts, but should still be inhabitable for several thousand years.
====Toad Road====
The '''Toad Road''' neighborhood of Central Ward is named after the famous Toad Road which the parliament, national museum, and many embassies sit on the sides of. As a result, Unuvunese senators are nicknamed "toads".

===Riverside Ward===
====Little Sosena====
Referred to as a "colony of Nokhta", this district of Riverside ward is home to the largest Nokhtan population outside Ivinis.

===West Ward===
====Canalside====
Has a reputation for being one of the dirtiest parts of Yuuvei. Lots of illegal stuff going on here. Used to be pretty violent, but the metropolitan bureau of investigation obliterated all of the gangs after crime began leaking onto the subway and into richer neighborhoods.
====Little Yot====
Built around the southern canal. All the immigrants from the Yot River decided to come here for some reason. They brought their delicious cuisine with them, though. This was also where that little meteor hit and killed a few dozen people.
====Frogtown====
Built next to Little Yot, this area is home to Unuvun's largest concentration of ethnic Meó and [[Hkamisëbiwmtë]], and one of the oldest Meó/Hkamisëbiwmtë diasporas on Pavala. <wip>It contains the ancient vacation home of Prince Nakètha, built in Meó's Sóutan era.</wip>

==Transport==
===Spaceport===
The Yuuvei spaceport is located on the Pacific Lake, and is connected to the city via maglev and high speed rail. It is well-known for its distinctive boarding bridges, which use LED bulbs to create pulses of light that move either in the direction of embarking or disembarking. This adds a sense of life to the spaceport that is visible from far away. The spaceport is also well-known for having one of the largest <wip>coffee courts</wip> in the world, with dozens of coffee shops and a gigantic common seating area.

===Rail===
[[58 Latter Station]]
[[File:yuuvei-metro.png|thumb|left|Rail lines Yuuvei]]

==Data==
Population: [[Population::59,800,000]]

Continent: [[Continent::Delezia]]

Country: [[Country::Nautical Peace]]

[[Category:City]]

Yuuvei

2022-05-31T17:27:47Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Spaceport */

[[File:Yuuveiattempt.png|thumb|right|The [[Racheinu Chihyu]] ward of Yuuvei]]
'''Yuuvei''', officially the '''Metropolitan State of Yuune and Zhavei''', is the capital and largest metropolitan region of the Nautical Peace with more than 59 million inhabitants. The metropolis is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Pavala, with its most ancient buildings dating back to 7,000 Y. Located on the <wip>Imperial Plain</wip>, it is shielded from harsh circumpolar wind and water currents by the <wip>Steaming Mountains</wip>. Nevertheless, it experiences torrential amounts of rainfall during the year, earning it the nickname '''Petrichor City'''. The city has been the political center of Unuvun for many thousands of years, and has long dominated the economy, culture, and transportation around the island due to its central location.

The ward of Zhavei houses the imperial throne and parliament, while the imperial court is located in Ifa on the shore of the [[Pacific Lake]]. Also located on the Pacific Lake is Yuune, whose Lakeside Row has long been synonymous with Unuvunese banking. In recent decades, <wip>Lucky Cat</wip> has become the center of the Unuvunese tech sector thanks to the wealth of universities nearby. On the northern end of the metropolis, along the shore of the [[Midland Sea]], lies the special city of <wip>Bitter Side</wip> which handles much of the sea trade of the metropolis, as well as being one of the Nautical Peace's major biotech centers.

== Wards ==

===Lucky Cat Ward===
====Lucky Cat====
One of the world's great tech hubs. Salaries here are sky high. Has its own maglev stop, and employees are rich enough to commute by it.

====Coin Town====
Unuvunese center of finance. Salaries even higher than in Lucky Cat, but power has gradually waned as technology continues to eat the world.

===Central Ward===
====Cataracts====
One of the oldest neighborhoods of Yuuvei; built around the famous waterfall.
====West Island====
Location of the Imperial Palace... has been gradually eroding alongside the Cataracts, but should still be inhabitable for several thousand years.
====Toad Road====
The '''Toad Road''' neighborhood of Central Ward is named after the famous Toad Road which the parliament, national museum, and many embassies sit on the sides of. As a result, Unuvunese senators are nicknamed "toads".

===Riverside Ward===
====Little Sosena====
Referred to as a "colony of Nokhta", this district of Riverside ward is home to the largest Nokhtan population outside Ivinis.

===West Ward===
====Canalside====
Has a reputation for being one of the dirtiest parts of Yuuvei. Lots of illegal stuff going on here. Used to be pretty violent, but the metropolitan bureau of investigation obliterated all of the gangs after crime began leaking onto the subway and into richer neighborhoods.
====Little Yot====
Built around the southern canal. All the immigrants from the Yot River decided to come here for some reason. They brought their delicious cuisine with them, though. This was also where that little meteor hit and killed a few dozen people.
====Frogtown====
Built next to Little Yot, this area is home to Unuvun's largest concentration of ethnic Meó and [[Hkamisëbiwmtë]], and one of the oldest Meó/Hkamisëbiwmtë diasporas on Pavala. <wip>It contains the ancient vacation home of Prince Nakètha, built in Meó's Sóutan era.</wip>

==Transport==
===Spaceport===
The Yuuvei spaceport is located on the Pacific Lake, and is connected to the city via maglev and high speed rail. It is well-known for its distinctive boarding bridges, which use LED bulbs to create pulses of light that move either in the direction of embarking or disembarking. This adds a sense of life to the spaceport that is visible from far away. The spaceport is also well-known for having one of the largest <wip>coffee courts</wip> in the world, with dozens of coffee shops and a gigantic common seating area.

==Rail==
[[58 Latter Station]]
[[File:yuuvei-metro.png|thumb|left|Rail lines Yuuvei]]

==Data==
Population: [[Population::59,800,000]]

Continent: [[Continent::Delezia]]

Country: [[Country::Nautical Peace]]

[[Category:City]]

Yuuvei

2022-05-31T17:27:34Z

Unuvun Rain: /* Transport */

[[File:Yuuveiattempt.png|thumb|right|The [[Racheinu Chihyu]] ward of Yuuvei]]
'''Yuuvei''', officially the '''Metropolitan State of Yuune and Zhavei''', is the capital and largest metropolitan region of the Nautical Peace with more than 59 million inhabitants. The metropolis is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Pavala, with its most ancient buildings dating back to 7,000 Y. Located on the <wip>Imperial Plain</wip>, it is shielded from harsh circumpolar wind and water currents by the <wip>Steaming Mountains</wip>. Nevertheless, it experiences torrential amounts of rainfall during the year, earning it the nickname '''Petrichor City'''. The city has been the political center of Unuvun for many thousands of years, and has long dominated the economy, culture, and transportation around the island due to its central location.

The ward of Zhavei houses the imperial throne and parliament, while the imperial court is located in Ifa on the shore of the [[Pacific Lake]]. Also located on the Pacific Lake is Yuune, whose Lakeside Row has long been synonymous with Unuvunese banking. In recent decades, <wip>Lucky Cat</wip> has become the center of the Unuvunese tech sector thanks to the wealth of universities nearby. On the northern end of the metropolis, along the shore of the [[Midland Sea]], lies the special city of <wip>Bitter Side</wip> which handles much of the sea trade of the metropolis, as well as being one of the Nautical Peace's major biotech centers.

== Wards ==

===Lucky Cat Ward===
====Lucky Cat====
One of the world's great tech hubs. Salaries here are sky high. Has its own maglev stop, and employees are rich enough to commute by it.

====Coin Town====
Unuvunese center of finance. Salaries even higher than in Lucky Cat, but power has gradually waned as technology continues to eat the world.

===Central Ward===
====Cataracts====
One of the oldest neighborhoods of Yuuvei; built around the famous waterfall.
====West Island====
Location of the Imperial Palace... has been gradually eroding alongside the Cataracts, but should still be inhabitable for several thousand years.
====Toad Road====
The '''Toad Road''' neighborhood of Central Ward is named after the famous Toad Road which the parliament, national museum, and many embassies sit on the sides of. As a result, Unuvunese senators are nicknamed "toads".

===Riverside Ward===
====Little Sosena====
Referred to as a "colony of Nokhta", this district of Riverside ward is home to the largest Nokhtan population outside Ivinis.

===West Ward===
====Canalside====
Has a reputation for being one of the dirtiest parts of Yuuvei. Lots of illegal stuff going on here. Used to be pretty violent, but the metropolitan bureau of investigation obliterated all of the gangs after crime began leaking onto the subway and into richer neighborhoods.
====Little Yot====
Built around the southern canal. All the immigrants from the Yot River decided to come here for some reason. They brought their delicious cuisine with them, though. This was also where that little meteor hit and killed a few dozen people.
====Frogtown====
Built next to Little Yot, this area is home to Unuvun's largest concentration of ethnic Meó and [[Hkamisëbiwmtë]], and one of the oldest Meó/Hkamisëbiwmtë diasporas on Pavala. <wip>It contains the ancient vacation home of Prince Nakètha, built in Meó's Sóutan era.</wip>

==Transport==
===Spaceport===
The Yuuvei spaceport is located on the Pacific Lake, and is connected to the city via maglev and high speed rail. It is well-known for its distinctive boarding bridges, which use LED bulbs to create pulses of light that move either in the direction of embarking or disembarking. This adds a sense of life to the spaceport that is visible from far away. The spaceport is also well-known for having one of the largest <wip>coffee courts</wip> in the world, with dozens of coffee shops and a gigantic common seating area.
[[58 Latter Station]]
[[File:yuuvei-metro.png|thumb|left|Rail lines Yuuvei]]

==Data==
Population: [[Population::59,800,000]]

Continent: [[Continent::Delezia]]

Country: [[Country::Nautical Peace]]

[[Category:City]]