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The term Olmeria itself can first be seen in in writings from the Great Chieftain [[Marco Reud]] in 856. Reud writes about the loss off "Olmeria" in the national community, seemingly referring to unity or national spirit. His use of the postfix -eria is the first such recorded example outside of soldiers and their families. Presumably Reud had picked up the trend from his men (who he was famously close to) and was attempting encapture the idea of "oneness" or "feeling of being one" by using a postfix that had become so commonly associated with such abstract concepts. | The term Olmeria itself can first be seen in in writings from the Great Chieftain [[Marco Reud]] in 856. Reud writes about the loss off "Olmeria" in the national community, seemingly referring to unity or national spirit. His use of the postfix -eria is the first such recorded example outside of soldiers and their families. Presumably Reud had picked up the trend from his men (who he was famously close to) and was attempting encapture the idea of "oneness" or "feeling of being one" by using a postfix that had become so commonly associated with such abstract concepts. | ||
The concept of "Olmeria" was not regularly revisited over the next few centuries until it came to the official establishment of the nation sometime in XXXX. At this point, senior chieftains and intellectuals revisited Reud's work looking for inspiration from the nations history to embed into the [[The Early Constitution|early constitution]] (a fact easily noted by historians for the clear annotations in the margins of many copies of Reud's works). What they found instead was a solution to the long running debate over the name of the newly established nation, one which had been raging for almost 3 years as various historic tribes and families vied to have their titles acknowledged in the modern country (a fact which lead several early drafts of the nation name to be over 3 pages in length). The idea of "Olmeria" or "Oneness" appealed greatly to those leader and intellectuals who desperately craved a clean sheet from the simultaneously troubled, violent and stagnant early history of the land. | The concept of "Olmeria" was not regularly revisited over the next few centuries until it came to the official establishment of the nation sometime in XXXX. At this point, senior chieftains and intellectuals revisited Reud's work looking for inspiration from the nations history to embed into the [[The Early Constitution|early constitution]] (a fact easily noted by historians for the clear annotations in the margins of many copies of Reud's works). What they found instead was a solution to the long running debate over the name of the newly established nation, one which had been raging for almost 3 years as various historic tribes and families vied to have their titles acknowledged in the modern country (a fact which lead several early drafts of the nation name to be over 3 pages in length). The idea of "Olmeria" or "Oneness" appealed greatly to those leader and intellectuals who desperately craved a clean sheet from the simultaneously troubled, violent and stagnant early history of the land. In fact the contempary chronicler [[Loke Åberg]] (who was also a senior advisor in the Council of Chieftains) noted how "the incessant roar of conflict that have plagued these halls for so many months were, so suddenly, cut to silence by the shouts of one, junior, advisor, who cried at the topmost end of his voice that he had found the perfect solution". Little more is know about the exact events that immediately followed this but drafts of the constitution dated just a few days later began to use Olmeria in the title and text. suggesting the response was at least close to unanimously in favour of the new name. | ||
Many Olmerian historians argue the differences in meaning between "Olne" and " | Curiously, following the adoption of Olmeria as the nations title, the use of postfix -eria once again dropped of a cliff and is now rarely, if ever, seen in the modern Cordish language. | ||
As for which of the early words were the true predecessors to Olmeria, there are more schools of thought than people in the country to believe them. Many Olmerian historians argue the differences in meaning between "Olne" and "Olm" were substantial enough that, despite the phonetic similarities, it's impossible for the world to have evolved so quickly, thereby discounting Olne as a legitimate predecessor. They say it's plausible that the pronunciation of "Elmne" could have lead to a rapid change in spelling over just a few centuries with little change in meaning. | |||
However other historians argue that such a change in spelling is itself impossible, discounting "Elmne" as a legitimate predecessor. Many suggest that in the ancient world the meaning of "violent collision" would be closer than a contempary audience may imagine, given much of the religious imagery of the time focussed on worship by throwing rocks at idols to establish some sort of spiritual connection. While little is known about the old faiths to confirm this, it is plausible that the association between collision and spiritual worship allowed "Olne" to develop it's meaning faster than many other words at the time. Others suggest there was a reference to a senior deity as "The Great One" or similar, once again associating the two concepts. This is, however, contradicted heavily by the fact use of the word Olme to mean the numerical value one was not predominant in its early use, or in fact until much later in the 2nd millennia. | |||
Yet more historians are on the fence, claiming that the phonetics, meaning and spelling of both origins combined to eventually result in the world "Olm". They claim the lack of recordings from the time suggest a literacy rate so low that any level of meaningful change in the language would almost certainly be passed on verbally, suggesting the similarly sounding words could have become confused with each other, with the resulting term adopting the phonetically logical spelling "Olne" along with the unified meaning. Historians in this category still hold widely split views on what proportion of influence each word held over the final meaning. | |||
Some historians even argue that both words died out and were replaced by the new one with purely coincidental similarities, fabricated largely by historians in an attempt to explain the etymology more comprehensively. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||