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The archipelago has a suptropical/Mediterranean climate with altitudinal variation. The mountainous interiors of the three largest islands are home to dense temperate forests known as the [[Haunted Woods (forest)]]. | The archipelago has a suptropical/Mediterranean climate with altitudinal variation. The mountainous interiors of the three largest islands are home to dense temperate forests known as the [[Haunted Woods (forest)]]. | ||
==History== | |||
As early as they were described in writing by Occidental and Coscivian geographers, the islands that would one day be included in the Krasoa Colony were inhabited by Austronesian peoples related to the people of Takatta Loa. It is now believed that these seafaring Austronesian settlers displaced an earlier population when they migrated to the islands, whose descendants survive as the isolated indigenes of the Haunted Woods. | |||
The Krasoa Islands were frequented by merchants from Sarpedon and Kiravia to trade for their exotic botanical goods. They subsequently became contested between Pelaxia, Kiravia, Caphiria, etc<sup>?</sup> during the [[Kindred Wars]]. Kiravian-backed forces failed in their goal of conquering the entire archipelago, but did consolidate control of the southern four* or whatever islands. | |||
Initially, each island was governed as a separate colony, subject to the oversight of the Superintendant of Hāverma in [[Pribraltar]]. The islands were initially governed by the Bay Trading Company and the Kerēgulan Merchants of the Tropics under patent from the Kiravian government, but over time the Colonial College asserted greater and greater authority over the islands before finally declaring them a single colony under civil administration in [YEAR]. | |||
During Kirosocialist rule in Great Kirav, the Krasoas remained in the hands of the [[Kiravian Federal Republic (in exile)|Federalist rump state]] based on [[Æonara]]. | |||
==Politics & Governance== | ==Politics & Governance== | ||