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== Prehistory and Early Antiquity == | |||
Modern Faneria was first inhabited by hunter-gatherer societies reliant on late mammoth and deer herds during the {{Wp|Paleolithic}} era, and is believed to have first been populated by groups following migratory patterns of mammoths north prior to the extinction of those prey. Several of these cultures left behind cave art, stone spearheads, and other materials, most notably the {{Wp|Neanderthals|Boreli}} culture, an Neanderthal genogroup extant from 1.27-0.73 million years BC, and the [[Packer Culture]], a group of tribes who were the first to process kelps and algae mats that grow natively in the [[Vandarch Sea]] into storable foods as evidenced by primitive stone presses similar to pestles, many of which are carved into standing rocks and were until the 1840s mistaken as pagan religious sites. | |||
The first permanent settlements in modern Faneria were colonies established by the [[Fenni]], a {{Wp|Neolithic}} pre-levantosarpedonic people who originally followed the coastlines around Levantia and settled along the freshwater coast of the [[Vandarch Sea]] c. 6000-5000 BC. The Fenni were long thought to have been an early Celtic offshoot, but recent archeology has definitively proven that the Fenni were their own people group, diverging into tribes around northern Levantia from unclear stock, possibly a mix of [[Coscivian]] and proto-[[Finnic]] peoples fleeing other migratory groups. Some of the oldest Fenni remains discovered preserved in bogs and marshes additionally bore at least marginal common ancestry with [[Audonia|Audonian]] [[Tatrgr]] peoples, suggesting the Fenni may have been composed of several groups which intermixed early into the first settlement of the region they came to inhabit, though the causes behind this remain unclear. The Fenni also brought pottery and bowmaking to the region, and either absorbed or destroyed the entirety of the peoples already present in the Vandarch Basin, with remaining tribes existing in peripheral regions for indeterminate periods of time. | |||
The Fenni arrived as skilled potters, fishers, and trappers, and came to rely on the Vandarch and its tributary rivers heavily, developing rituals of burning their dead and pouring their ashes into rivers. These practices coincided with ancestral worship practices to form a polytheistic faith centered around freshwater, and as a result early Fenni settlements featured comparatively extensive earthworks as part of their settlements to both control access to the water bodies most settlements were based around as well as to provide defensive advantages. These would adapt into hillforts similar to those used by early Celtic and Gothic peoples, though Fenni architectural practices adopted more traits from Coscivian peoples whom they traded with across the [[Kilikas Sea]] and included stone walls long before other native Levantine peoples would begin to do so. This along with advanced ironworking allowed the richer Fenni societies in the Northern Vandarch Basin, who were more heavily integrated in early sea trade via Coscivian cultures, to weather waves of Gothic migration in the 10th-8th Centuries BC which destroyed the Fenni peoples living along the southern coast of the Vandarch. However, they were unable to similarly weather Celtic invaders who arrived from the east from the 8th-6th Centuries BC, leading to the northern Vandarch being overrun primarily by a Celtic tribe known as the [[Oestrynetes]]. Another major Celtic tribe, the Yetes, similarly invaded but were pushed further west by the Oestrynetes across the Ereglasian Isthmus into modern Gothica; similarly, the Leuomes and Alloverni who followed in the early 5th Century BC were forced to stall in the Eastern Vandarch Basin and scatter into the mountainous interior, respectively, although many of the Alloverni eventually made their way to the western and northern coasts of modern Faneria and became the early Sheafhainn people. | |||
Unlike the Goths, the Oestrynetes and Alloverni ruled over the Fenni statelets they conquered, with the Fenni language being extinguished and its religious practices absorbed into Celtic ones even as they adopted many practices such as writing and stoneworking. Already skilled ironworkers, they benefited greatly from trade with Coscivians, which lead to the discovery of steel (though at the time simply considered a 'hard iron') production in small quantities. This mixed culture varied greatly from the Celts forced into the mountains and remaining in the east, and came to be known as the first recognizably Fhainnin cultures, with many Gallic practices and [[Fhainnin civilization#Early Art|artistry]] underlaid by the practices of the first peoples they absorbed. Similarly to the late Fenni culture, the early Fhainnin were heavily invested in trade and working the land, creating a system of skirmish warfare mainly centered on vassalage rather than outright conquest. This served perfectly against the similar tactics of the other, less organized Celtic peoples, and allowed Fhainnin cultures to grow rapidly prior to the arrival of Latin ''exploratores''. | |||
[[Great Levantia|Great Levantine]] traders and diplomats were aware of the Fhainnin states prior to the arrival of Latin troops to the Vandarch Basin immediately prior to the [[Gallian Wars]], but simply classified them as another Celtic tribe. Though Fhainnin peoples did not participate in the Gallic Confederation that fought against Great Levantia, several Legions invaded the eastern Vandarch and crushed the partly-Fennicised Leuomes only to be surprised by the well-fortified cities past the [[River Mor]]. While Latin troops initially had little trouble with Fhainnin forces fighting in the manner of most Celts, a local coalition under the King of Daingean, the largest Fhainnin state for much of the early modern history of the region, was able to form an army of mercenary Coscivian soldiers and local forces who defeated the 17th Legion decisively at the [[Battle of Kilglas]] in 20 AD, bringing an end to further attempts to invade the central and western Ninerivers. However, Latin rule would remain in former Leuomes territory for the majority of the millennium. | |||
== Late Antiquity == | |||
The first millennium, AD of Fhainnin history, similarly to pre-Latin conquests, largely centered on the fertile Vandarch Basin, with neighboring regions revolving around it in the periphery. The Vandarch itself served as an excellent source of food, trade and travel, and natural defense, allowing the development of strong trade between [[Great Kirav|the Coscivian heartland]] and [[Great Levantia]] in spite of strained relations between Fhainnin clans and Latin troops, including repeated large-scale slave revolts in the annexed province of [[Vandar Orientalis]], most notably in 83, 94, 265, 288, 330, 476, and 532 AD. This trade allowed individual clans and traders that dominated the primary coastal and overland routes to profit culturally, technologically, and economically, leading to the rise of a city-state mentality among many polities in the region as they vied for control of key chokepoints. These wars retained a large sense of the formality of previous vassalage warfare seen, but gradually escalated into intense state and mercenary army actions, typically over riverine access. Great Levantine troops made several incursions into the central Ninerivers in the century afterwards but were unable to either maintain their holdings or extract much additional wealth without marching down the entirety of the continent to reach Coscivian trade colonies on the far side of the [[Croilaen Mountains|Croilaen]] and [[Deamhain Mountains|Deamhain]] Mountains, leading to the region being regarded by many Emperors as difficult and unrewarding. | |||
As a result of these exchanges and exposure to Latin and Coscivian culture, the cities of Sydgewighh (modern [[Caileansdun]]) and [[Daingean]] in particular rose to prominence after the Second Century. Daingean in particular adopted a mercantile attitude and began to maintain a token tribute towards Great Levantia, and eventually after a long series of petty strongmen came to adapt its familial councils into a system of elected kingship (''rewatch athens and venice vids''). Sydgewighh, largely due to the 78-year long rule of the weak King Ugain Airches II, remained locked in tribal politicking and ultimately failed to develop the educated middle class necessary to compete. After Sydgewighh was crushed by an alliance of Daingean and its allied city-states in 486 at the [[Battle of Bleached Hill]], it too became a vassal city of Daingean, at which point the victors controlled every east-west trade route over the entire region from the borders of Great Levantia to the foothills of the Croilaens, as well as holding sway over the less developed westerlands beyond where most Coscivian merchants in the region made port. | |||
Daingean would enjoy several generations of opulence and domination over the area, only for its economic power to be shattered by the [[Crisis of the 6th Century]]. Gothic incursions into the eastern Vandarch eventually escalated into migratory invasion, and the Imperial province of Vandar Orientalis would cease to exist by 552, putting a final end to the great trade routes through the area and plunging most of Northern Levantia into chaos. Daingean was ultimately able to resist smaller incursions and pay off various Gothic peoples to fight among themselves rather than test the better-armed Fhainnin ''ardceiternn'', but lost much of its prestige, economic power, and authority in the process, leading to renewed fighting between states and local Fhainnin warlords. (''early christian missionaries here'') | |||
Next up: eleglass and first kingdom+Gothic War | |||
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== Antiquity == | == Antiquity == | ||
==== [[Gallian Wars]] ==== | ==== [[Gallian Wars]] ==== | ||
==== | ==== The Great Confederation ==== | ||
== Eleglass' | ==== Christianization ==== | ||
== Eleglass' Kingdom == | |||
[[Eleglass of Cranwyrth]] first created the title of 'King of the Ninerivers' after his defeat of the Gothic overlords of the eastern Vandarch in the xxxth Century, but the title became largely irrelevant shortly after his death. As the title was elective in keeping with his method of attaining power through election to chiefdom of the city of [[Daingean]], it held little sway over much of modern Faneria. However, the First Kingdom's short span as a de facto authority did impart Eleglass' military governors established over portions of reclaimed land with the title of Princes, creating the foundation of what developed into a system of warring states which began to restrict trade and ossify into a parallel of southern Levantine serfdom. | |||
==== [[Gothic War]] ==== | ==== [[Gothic War]] ==== | ||
== Principalities Era == | == Principalities Era == | ||
==== The [[Great Plague]] (1347 to 1351) ==== | ==== The [[Great Plague]] (1347 to 1351) ==== | ||
== Kingdom of the Fhainn == | == Kingdom of the Fhainn == | ||
The Second Kingdom of the Ninerivers was founded in 1398 | |||
1364: Prince Ruaridh Màrtainn of Mhartainnvail inherits the titles of Connsmonann, Cheatharnaich, and Itheachan from an uncle and father killed in a hunting accident/skirmish/'highway robbery'; Initially a chance conglomeration of a few choice titles under a particularly lucky/skilled prince, who didn't particularly like the idea of having his territories not being contiguous; basically fumbled/scraped his way into a position where his only son could actually enforce a tentative claim to kingship | 1364: Prince Ruaridh Màrtainn of Mhartainnvail inherits the titles of Connsmonann, Cheatharnaich, and Itheachan from an uncle and father killed in a hunting accident/skirmish/'highway robbery'; Initially a chance conglomeration of a few choice titles under a particularly lucky/skilled prince, who didn't particularly like the idea of having his territories not being contiguous; basically fumbled/scraped his way into a position where his only son could actually enforce a tentative claim to kingship | ||
=== Founding Wars === | === Founding Wars === | ||
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== Fhainnin Popular Republic (1906-1917) == | == Fhainnin Popular Republic (1906-1917) == | ||
== Republic of the Fhainn == | == Republic of the Fhainn == | ||
== Decline and Militarism == | == Decline and Militarism == | ||
- Military particularly invested in theory of perpetual Revolution (sacred mission of the nation to destroy monarchism and imperialism globally - excepting Gaelic imperialism in pursuit of that goal) | - Military particularly invested in theory of perpetual Revolution (sacred mission of the nation to destroy monarchism and imperialism globally - excepting Gaelic imperialism in pursuit of that goal) | ||
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The militarists seized on Cananach's tenders to the Fiannrian government on the formation of a new, Gaelic federation and extrapolated from there to justify their own varying goals. Many of these were 'merely' Pan-Gaelic enthusiasts inspired by the doctrines of liberation and brotherhood expounded by early Republican thinkers; however, a variety of industrial profiteers, race-supremacists, and most pivotally the large revanchist groups in the country formed what was initially a loose coalition of factions within the National Assembly. The possibility of a new war with Fiannria had been on the table up until Cananach's round refusal of the idea in 1921, with the military buildup of the era intended as a bulwark against foreign aggression. | The militarists seized on Cananach's tenders to the Fiannrian government on the formation of a new, Gaelic federation and extrapolated from there to justify their own varying goals. Many of these were 'merely' Pan-Gaelic enthusiasts inspired by the doctrines of liberation and brotherhood expounded by early Republican thinkers; however, a variety of industrial profiteers, race-supremacists, and most pivotally the large revanchist groups in the country formed what was initially a loose coalition of factions within the National Assembly. The possibility of a new war with Fiannria had been on the table up until Cananach's round refusal of the idea in 1921, with the military buildup of the era intended as a bulwark against foreign aggression. | ||
== Second Great War (1935-1942) == | == Second Great War (1935-1942) == | ||
==== The Deric Run ==== | ==== The Deric Run ==== | ||
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==== The 21st Century ==== | ==== The 21st Century ==== | ||
==== Cronan Interventions ==== | ==== Cronan Interventions ==== | ||
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