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The Bonn Hotel Bombing was a terror attack committed on June 23rd, 1956, by a radical Gaelic supremacist cell of the GaelWind political party in [[Faneria]]. It left several dozen dead and over a hundred injured, and instigated a large number of police raids and trials of known and suspected members of the political party GaelWind.  
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[[File:Petroglyphs in Victorville.JPG|thumb|Rock art produced by the Wod͡ʒagat people, a critically endangered Urom tribe]]
'''''Urom''''' are a heterogeneous category of non-Coscivian peoples native to [[Great Kirav]], distinguished from the other non-Coscivian minorities of the island continent (termed “National Minorities”) by their {{wp|tribe|tribal mode of social organisation}}, historical ''umpéa'' status under Imperial law, lack of integration into mainstream Kiravian society, and special developmental concerns. Collectively, they represent 2.1% of the Kiravian population, around 24 million people.


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Urom peoples, having many cultural characteristics in common with {{wp|indigenous peoples}} on other continents and beset with similar socio-economic and political challenges, are often included in [[Occidental]] discourse on {{wp|Indigenous rights|indigenous issues}}. In the [[Coscivian civilisation|Coscivian world]], however, ''Uromkor'' is understood as a function of socio-cultural {{wp|Other (philosophy)|otherness}} rather than {{wp|Autochthon (ancient Greece)|autochthony}} and colonial displacement, and Urom peoples are generally not regarded as being any more “indigenous” to Great Kirav than the National Minorities or Coscivian peoples, though claims to the contrary have been advanced by Urom activists.
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''Urom'' are not a single people, and ideas of a collective Urom {{wp|Panethnicity|panethnic}} identity have yet to extend beyond the context of political agitation. There is great diversity among the various Urom tribes in terms of ancestry, appearance, language, religion, and lifestyle.
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==Concept==
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The concept of ''Urom'' derives from the self-understanding of Coscivian civilisation and its origins. According to tradition, primitive agricultural Kirav was a violent and brutish environment characterised by near-constant {{wp|endemic war|endemic warfare}} between small tribal units, and widespread murderous practices such as {{wp|infanticide}} and {{wp|uxoricide}} within tribes due to both ritual demand and resource scarcity. Lifespans were extremely short, with the prelude to the [[Great Law Chant]] reminding Coscivians that "mere beards - not white but rich with ''[[Colour in Coscivian culture|ūmar]]'' were the mark of the elder; fortunate and few were those who survived to full manhood, for the earth was bathed in the young blood of hairless youth." It was only with the rise of the [[Marble_Emperor#Significance|Emperors]], through their imposition of the Four Laws and patronage of the Four Rites, that communities were able to know peace and order. During this nascent stage of Coscivian civilisation, sometimes known as the "lawful commonwealth", the "Empire" was a tribal confederacy rather than a proper state, without an administration or defined territory. The Four Laws and Four Rites spread by voluntary diffusion more so than conquest, and from this emerged a binary identity of Lawful tribes who accepted the Emperor's authority versus {{wp|Lucy Lawless|Lawless}} tribes who did not.
| date            = June 23rd-24th, 1956
 
| place            = [[Sethsport]], [[Faneria]]
The discovery of {{wp|Bronze Age|ærose metallurgy and other technologies}} that enabled the consolidation of stable political control over wider areas and facilitated the evolution of the Empire into a territorial entity complicated this binary, as the Emperor's authority was no longer limited to those communities that had accepted the Law and Rites voluntarily, and now extended to communities brought under his rule by conquest, bound by the Law but (initially) not admitted to the Rites. This engendered a trifurcate distinction between Subjects of the Emperor (ritually initiated), Subjects of the Land (lawful but uninitiated), and barbarians (lawless). Over time, many Subjects of the Land, either on a corporate or individual basis, undertook the Rites and adopted the emerging Coscivian identity. At several junctures, such as the Great Invitation of Emperor Kompūserv and Emperor Ṉspektadek's Naturalisation of the Land, these initiations occurred ''en masse'' and may have been less-than-voluntary. At any rate, the arc of Imperial Coscivian history was long, but it bent toward the convergence of Subjects of the Land with the Emperor's Subjects, and also toward territorial expansion and the closure of the frontiers, such that by [Milestone], few redoubts of ungoverned barbarians persisted, and most remaining Subjects of the Land were tribal peoples living on marginal lands, especially inaccessible mountains, dense forests, and malarial swamps.
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To Be Continued.
| goals            = Political Terrorism, Ethnic Supremacy
 
| methods          = Terror Attacks, Arrests, Executions
==Cultures==
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===Heterodox Customs===
| result          = GaelWind political party banned, mass arrests and crackdown, counterterror operations reform in Faneria
The traditional narrative ascribes the ancestral Urom's refusal to assimilate into Coscivian society to their desire to retain customs that did not conform to the Four Laws or other defining norms of Coscivian culture. Commonly cited examples of such customs include marital norms, with many Urom peoples having practised (at least historically) forms of polygamy, or (especially in the case of hunter-gatherer groups) eschewing the marriage bond in favour of serial partnerships. Many Urom of the Southwest and the Western Highlands continue to (extralegally) observe customs obligating a married man to marry his brother's widow as an additional wife.
| side1            = [[GaelWind]]
 
| side2            = {{flagicon|Faneria}}[[Faneria|Fhainnin Government]], Frederick Bonn
To be continued with weirder stuff.
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===Languages===
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===Spirituality and Religion===
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==Contemporary Issues==
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===Demographic stability===
| howmany1        = 11 (plus 30+ support personnel)
Although the total Urom population has increased according to every census since the end of Kirosocialism, buoyed by growth among larger and more developed groups such as the Qódava, Xufur, and Wawa, most Urom peoples - particularly those with smaller populations to begin with - have suffered a decline in absolute numbers during the same period. The Oklʌsterbé, presently reduced to nine individuals with the youngest females in their late fifties, face complete extinction with the passing of the current generation. Other small tribes with collapsing age pyramids must reckon with looming cultural extinction as their populations will soon be too small to maintain community life and traditional continuity, even if their genetic lineage survives.
| howmany2        = 824 (Police, Special Forces)
 
| howmany3        = 1600+
The familiar compounding factors of poverty, poor health outcomes, and the pressures of assimilation and exogamy, as well as the disruption of traditional lifestyles and economies, are believed to contribute to this decline. However, there is also the phenomenon of "Late-Modern Urom Sterility" observed across an array of Urom peoples from different regions, characterised by precipitous declines in fertility beginning during Mid-Kirosocialism that are not evident among similarly-situated Coscivian or National Minority communities. The cause(s) of Late-Modern Urom Sterility are presumed to be environmental or socio-economic in nature, but the exact etiology remains an open question.
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==List of Urom peoples==
*23 dead (8 initially, 3 manhunts, 12 executions)
*'''Biznad͡ʒ''' - Native to [[Korlēdan]] and [[Argévia]].
*264 arrested
*'''Oklʌsterbé''' - Native to [[Lataskia]]; moribund with all 9 remaining Oklʌsterbé past reproductive age.
*64 incarcerated
*'''Pungōvak''' - Native to Inokarya and [[Ixikéa-Qihuxia|Qihuxia]], related to the Coscivian Kayakem.
| casualties2      = *4 (initially)
*'''[[Ethnic_groups_in_Kiravia#Qódavans|Qódava]]''' - Largest Urom tribe, with around four million members.
*1 (manhunts)
*'''Rifpito''' - Relatives of the Qódava.
| casualties3      = *73 dead
*'''Varekthari''' - Native to [[Metrea]].
*120 wounded
*'''Wawa''' - Native to [[Váuadra]].
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*'''Wisaya''' - Native to [[Sixua]] and known for their exotic marital norms.
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*'''Wod͡ʒagat''' - Native to [[Kensonia]], known for their distinctive and haunting geoglyphs.
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==Background==
'''Kiravian Uroms''' or '''Uroms''' are a polyphyletic group of peoples who are collectively considered the indigenous inhabitants of the island continent of [[Great Kirav]] and its surrounding islands, present there before the arrival of the  proto-[[Coscivian civilisation|Coscivians]].
 
==Definition==
The definition of 'Urom' that has guided Kiravian aboriginal policy since the [[Partholón Térunbuir|Térunbuir administration]] has been:
 
{{Cquote|ethno-social communities having;
* continuity in lineage and identity with the inhabitants of Great Kirav prior to the arrival of the Elutic and Cosco-Adratic peoples,
* some meaningful continuity in language, culture, lifestyle, or social organisation with the same,
* a history of political autonomy from Coscivian polities and social separation from the Emperor’s subjects, and
* economic and developmental disadvantages compared to neighbouring communities not so distinguished.
|author= [[Executive College]]
|source= ''Order in regard to the Recognition of Urom Peoples''
}}
 
This definition encompasses a diverse collection of people groups, many of them small-numbered, across different language families, traditional lifestyles, phenotypes, religious traditions, and degrees and manners of differentiation from Coscivian and Coscivian-adjacent society. Although components of the standard definition have been criticised on various grounds, it is nonetheless the most widely used definition by government and civil society alike. According to Rifpito activist and scholar Yefes Ayefsipti, the classification of groups as Urom or non-Urom can seem arbitrary and artificial to urban Coscivians and to Western observers, but in regions with established Urom populations the {{wp|Other (philosophy)|otherness}} of Uromity is an inescapable and deeply felt social reality. A point of agreement between the government and Urom leaders is that Uromity is fundamentally an attribute of peoples and tribes, and that individuals are only Urom by virtue of belonging to such a people.
 
In sociological and public policy discourse, usage of the term 'Urom' normally excludes the Scheduled Minorities (who maintain a separate identity from Coscivians but have long histories of statehood and civil integration), as well as groups such as the Kiorgians and Indokwéans who are of heavily Palæo-Kiravian descent but identify as Coscivians. However, these groups may considered Uroms in anthropological and historical contexts.
 
==History==
===Speculative Origins===
<!--** The ultimate origin of the Uroms remains a mystery. Genetic surveys have identified at least three distinct "founder populations" or "waves of settlement", depending on the model, but have been unable to reliably date the arrival of these groups or definitively match them with related populations elsewhere in the world. Archæological evidence, primarily the carbon-dating of biotic material embedded in primitive stone tools, seems to point to an arrival date for the earliest pioneers between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, though it remains unclear whether the makers of these tools were ''Homo sapiens'' or other hominids, and even less clear whether their genetic line continues in modern Uroms.
 
Kiravian historians and anthropologists categorise the time between the immigration of the last Urom "founder population" and the arrival of Arctic and Levantine peoples on Kiravian shores as the Isolation Period. The boundaries of this period are poorly defined, with the beginning date being purely theoretical and the end date rather vague due to lack of hard data. Nonetheless, the period of isolation has an upper bound of XXXX AD, as evidenced by findings of Celtic artifacts on the [[Mariava]] coast.** -->


The attack targeted the Hotel Bonn, a prominent business owned and run by a mixed Yonderine-Gothic immigrant family situated in the port city of Sethsport. Sethsport hosts a relatively large foreign population, including a large [[Aenglish people|Aenglo]] minority and several [[Coscivian]] and [[Gothic]] communities, as well as numerous localities with Gaelic subcultural elements. Hotel Bonn was a notable tourist destination made in traditional Yonderine fashion on the city's popular tourist area on the southern bank of the Deir River, and holds a prominent and visible spot for several miles from the north bank as well as a notable portion of the south bank due to the relatively few stories of the buildings immediately surrounding it (the average being 2-3 stories and the Hotel featuring eight floors).
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===Coscivian Migrations===
[Dark History]
[Deep History]
===Era 3===
===Modernity===
====Continental War====
====Era of Expansion====
===Kirosocialism===
===Post-Kirosocialism===


The modern incarnation of GaelWind was originally a fringe political party called the Steel Stars formed after the end of the [[Second Great War]], focusing on renewing claims to the former _____ and _____ regions in Fiannria as well as numerous minor revanchist claims across several other nations. The Steel Stars were a veterans' group originally, and made ties with several other similarly-minded organizations, including tacit ties to the more mainstream group GaelWind - a much older pan-Gaelic nationalist group that had fizzled out of popularity after Faneria's Central Republican Party formally adopted pan-Gaelicism as a platform element and absorbed most of its membership in 1924. Over the course of the late '40s and early '50s, the party was increasingly overtaken by Gaelic supremacists as the revanchists splintered off into the Starkist faction of the Republican Party, eventually leading to the Steel Stars merging with GaelWind, the Old Falcons, the New Ordered Faneria Society, and several other groups of varying repute to maintain a sense of coherency. GaelWind was easily the oldest of these, and the Stars adopted the name, forcing out the remnants of the original GaelWind leadership and undergoing an internal power struggle that saw the party council taken over by militant, virulent ethnic supremacists. After losing one of the its three seats in the national legislature (and keeping the remaining two partly through intimidation tactics), the party was in danger of losing its status as a recognized political party and coming under increasing surveillance by state security agencies.
==Culture==
Kiravite Uroms are a polyphyletic group, divided among five apparently unrelated language families (and three language isolates) and exhibiting considerable variation in appearance. Their traditional religious practices can differ greatly between tribes, encompassing shamanism, totemism, vitalism, monotheism, universism, animism, spiritism, and combinations thereof. Today, most Uroms practice some form of Christianity or Islam, usually in syncresis with their previous beliefs and traditions. There have also been efforts to formalise and institutionalise wholly native belief systems in order to perpetuate them in modernity.


An individual cell based in Srathlann planned and supplied the attack independently of the central GWP office, intending to use the attack as cover for the killing of the Bonn family, who were large figures in the city's immigrant community and thus prominent members of the immigrant community on the national level; in addition, the attack was intended to discourage foreign immigration and tourism and to terrorize the non-Gaelic community in Sethsport and surrounding Srathlann. This was not in and of itself unusual, as GaelWind members frequently harassed and assaulted lone Aenglos and others on the infrequent occasions they had the opportunity, but the relative smallness of GaelWind meant they could not effectively cow most minority communities, even in smaller cities. Furthermore, an uptick in gun ownership and a steady increase in policing effectiveness had made random violence far less safe to conduct and get away with than in the chaotic 1940s, whereas the Hotel Bonn had a strict no-weapons policy as a result of drug smuggling issues during the [[Second Great War]]. National intelligence circles were aware of the increasing militancy of GaelWind, but were both hesitant to rough up a formally recognized, albeit not well-respected, political party and unable to justify more than supporting police against individual actors.
==Contemporary Social Characteristics==
[Under reconstruction] -->


Due to poor communication and planning, as well as the personalities of the involved actors, the Southern Sethsport GaelWind cell organized a team of three operatives and an extraction team of two more, which ballooned to a team of eighteen personnel which rapidly lost cohesion and began planning operations independently. Two additional persons planned to join of their own accord but did not show up on the night of the attack; one changed his mind, and the other was hit and hospitalized when he ran a red light en route.
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==Attack==
'''Pro-Kiravian Tribes''', as well as tribes in the Aterandic mountains and eastern coastal regions that had been assimilated into or displaced by Coscivian civilisation early in history, also referred to as
Local police were alerted several days prior to the attack by the Counterterrorism Division of the national government, and planned along with GERB resources to raid the cell's headquarters and prevent the attack the day prior. The raid went off perfectly, with seven armed insurgents and another sixteen accomplices being quietly apprehended at 8:10 PM on the night of the 23rd. One of the prisoners revealed the existence of another group of three men who had been absent at the time of the raid, and police were sent to the Hotel Bonn to intercept them, successfully doing so. The scene was cleared by 11:21; six officers remained on site at the Hotel. Believing the threat to have been cleared, the Counterterrorism Management Officer present, ________, stood down the fourty-eight GERB operatives brought in to handle the situation.
''Treaty Tribes'', were rewarded with high political status after the war. They immediately received (or already held) full Kiravian citizenship, and considerable political autonomy under self-governing Tribal Authorities and Autonomous Countyships. Whether they integrated into Cosco-Kiravian society as new tuaþaya or opted for greater cultural autonomy, these tribes were well-positioned to retain many aspects of their cultural heritage while benefitting fully from Kiravian economic advancement. Today, their economic, housing, health, and education indicators are generally on-par with those of Coscivians living nearby, and even exceed them in select localities.


At 11:54, an hour and twenty-four minutes after the intended time of the attack, an independently operating group of nine GaelWind members entered the Hotel from a side entrance, moving through the building's east wing and planting explosives in several empty rooms. The Hotel only a token security staff, making infiltration easier as the group killed several staff members quietly and cut the local landline. The broken landline was noticed immediately, and the manager on shift, 54 year-old co-owner Frederick Bonn, went to investigate the lines outside for damage at 11:59, initially suspecting a tree he had neglected to cut had fallen.
'''Neutral Tribes''' that avoided taking sides in the Continental War, as well as those living in more remote mountain and inland regions of the West who were uninvolved in the conflict, constitute the middle caste of Uroms. After the war, most were gradually confined to less-autonomous reservations or forced to adopt private landholding. Marginalised and generally ignored by Cosco-Kiravian society, they preserved much of their culture through relative isolation, but were also left behind as the Kiravian economy developed. Today, they are generally poorer than neighbouring Coscivians, have lower (oftentimes wholly premodern) standards of living. The Neutral Tribes of the northern West Coast and Northwest Isles are an exception, being more or less on par with Coscivians living in those areas in terms of economic and social status.


The team of GW paramilitaries entered part of the main floor's extended, winding lobby space at 12:02 on the 24th, firing several rounds in the air and screaming at people to get on their stomachs in Fhasen. The police stationed outside responded immediately, but two were killed by gunfire from the paramilitaries immediately and the others took positions near the entrance. Two of the terrorists repulsed them with a fragmentation grenade, killing one more and wounding two of the remaining officers as the others began firing on panicking guests and visitors, many of whom were tourists who did not speak Fhasen fluently and could not understand the commands given to them. This caused chaos, and rounds hit several compliant hostages, leading several to try and rush to safety or to batter the terrorists. One terrorist suffered a concussion and another was grazed by a pistol round during a scuffle in which several hostages were killed attempting to take their weapons. Afterwards, two men went to 'clear' the west wing, while two others continued attempting to wire support columns with small explosive charges beginning in the east wing floor level.
'''Defeated Tribes''' were the founding tribes of Drail and their allies. After the war, they were evicted from their lands to make room for Coscivian settlement, denied citizenship, and lived as captured enemy aliens for generations, often being subjected to forced labour and migration. They were only granted Kiravian nationality in 21073 and limited citizenship in 21126. Due to their landlessness, they are highly urbanised, making up a plurality of Uroms living in Metropolitan Core regions according to the KF Census. They suffer from generational poverty, weak family structures, social breakdown, high crime rates, drug abuse, and abysmal educational attainment rates. ** -->


The Sethsport PD was immediately made aware of the attack by radio, and scrambled all available units in the northern half of the city starting at 12:03, with the GERB unit present being alerted and scrambling at 12:05. The Sethsport Naval Garrison was alerted at 12:10 and dispatched an active patrol boat to the shoreline near the Hotel.
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===Population===
As of the latest census, Uroms numbered just over 34.4 million people, accounting for about three percent of the total population of the Kiravian Federacy. 62% of Uroms live in West Kirav.


At 12:09, the terrorists herded several hostages into a corner of the lobby, their exfiltration plan being completely ruined by the rapid reaction of police. One terrorist attempted to leave the building through a back entrance and was tackled by the hotel manager, who successfully beat him unconscious prior to police arrival and took one of the terrorists' weapons, entering the building and engaging the remaining GaelWind members at 12:18. By 12:20 AM, the building was quarantined, with an increasingly large number of police attempting to restrain and contain the fleeing people cramming the local streets, most of whom were unaware of the reason behind the panic but were swept away by the crowd. Police confirmed a large number of people escaping the building through fire escapes and alternative exits. This foot and vehicle traffic restricted PD and GERB access to the site considerably, and one team of twelve GERB operatives flagged down the Navy patrol boat a half-mile down the river with a flare and boarded at 12:24.
==Political Status==
Today, all Urom Kiravians are citizens of the Kiravian Federacy, with the four Draili tribes being the last to gain citizenship in 21126. Previously, the civil status of Uroms varied by the political favour in which their tribe was held, usually entailing lower grades of status such as metics, mere nationals, or [[subjects of the land]].


At some point in the intervening time, Frederick Bonn began to direct evacuation efforts and encountered two members of the strike team, who were attempting to clear floors and hunt down people who had not yet fled, and ambushed them in a hallway in the west wing. He successfully injured one and killed the other, but was hit twice in the chest and crawled into a room where he bled out over several minutes. Simultaneously, the twelve GERB officers who had flagged the patrol boat clambered ashore via an old rowboat dock at the waterline and ascended the steps along the bank. After tying the previously battered and unconscious attacker's hands and feet, they breached the building at 12:42.
Overall, 48% of Uroms live outside of tribal jurisdiction and are subject to the same laws as other Kiravian citizens. The 52% that live on tribal lands enjoy special autonomy and exemptions from state and federal laws that vary by the type of tribal jurisdiction they inhabit.


A short gunfight ensued, with the GERB troops killing all but one of the terrorists in the lobby at no loss to themselves. The explosives were set off by one of the terrorists in the east wing as they heard the fighting but failed to sufficiently damage the reinforced pillars, and the two attempted to flee but were shot when they tried to do so by cutting through part of the second floor of the lobby, which briefly brought them in sight of the rapidly advancing state security team due to the two-story lobby layout. The GERB team had been clearing the second floor and nearly missed the fleeing terrorists, but caught them as they attempted to exit on the ground level and fired down at them. One was killed and the other wounded; the wounded one was shot again by one of the GERB agents at range and expired. GERB cleared the building, taking the two injured and one uninjured captives into custody and sending the all-clear at 8:48 AM after the other teams arrived and conducted a full search of the premises. The site remained locked down with a presence of at least a dozen officers through to the end of the year before reconstruction was permitted.
<strike>The larger Treaty Tribes govern Tribal Authorities, defined by the Urom Affairs Code as “domestic, dependent, but autocephalous subjects of federal law”. Though they are not states themselves and have no independent input into federal politics as states, territories, and other federal subjects do, Tribal Authorities have the same standing as states under federal law. They exercise most administrative powers of states – levying taxes, operating police forces, issuing licences, and passing laws – within areas under their jurisdiction, which include both one or more autonomous counties and larger non-autonomous areas of states where the Tribal Authority’s jurisdiction is extraterritorial.


==Aftermath==
Smaller Treaty Tribes have Autonomous Countyships – Areas within a state that can operate internally as if they were their own state, but are not subjects of federal law.


====At Home====
Neutral Tribes, small Treaty Tribes in the East, and two Defeated Tribes have access to reservations. The nature and powers of reservations vary widely. Some are virtually indistinguishable from
The attack prompted an immediate crackdown by the _____ administration, which ordered a raid on the GaelWind Peoples' Headquarters in [[Teindún]] in which a large number of incriminating files were seized and several prominent members, including both the party's sitting representatives in the [[Joint Councils]] and the party president, were arrested. A state of martial law was maintained in Sethsport until the 26th, and the operatives of the government organization GERB launched a series of successive raids on known Gaelwind offices and members' homes, capturing upwards of six thousand weapons mostly of civilian make and use. In most cases the weapons were returned after their owners were cleared of involvement, though many of those people ended up on watchlists. In one instance, a GERB officer was killed, prompting a gunfight which saw three additional casualties accounted for as being due to paranoid gun nuts.
autonomous countyships, having a great deal of autonomy. Others have more limited powers, behaving much like ordinary countyships or municipal authorities, and still others are very weak, resembling mere planning districts and homeowner’s associations.</strike>


Public outcry was immense, and both state and private papers ran stories railing against GaelWind and calling for its dissolution as a legal party in Fhainnin politics shortly after the attack. On July 29th, the Joint Councils passed an act by a 86% margin to raise the bar for official party membership from 1% to 2.5% of the popular vote, effectively blocking the party from officially holding any seats outside of a coalition. This also made it considerably easier to prosecute GaelWind members and seize legal documents from their offices, as it removed some of the protections of the [[1952 Political Persecution Prevention Act]] afforded to recognized parties. The nay votes were largely from independents and fringe parties seeking to maintain their own statuses rather than out of support for GaelWind, but these votes still would become a contentious topic.
==Settlements==
[[Drail]] (Kiravic: ''Drayin'') is by far the largest Kiravian settlement with an Urom-majority population (78% of its 84,000 people in 21205), followed by [[Saɣuarśa]], the capital of the Xéoxƿém Tribal Authority in [[Transateranda]] (84% of its 46,000 people).


Frederick Bonn was posthumously awarded a Civil Defense Medal along with two of the hostages who attempted to resist their killers; the GERB agent who executed one injured GaelWind member was formally reprimanded but not otherwise disciplined. The Bonn family was reimbursed for reconstruction as well as a seventy-five thousand Barra tax-free payout and the median estimate for lost revenue. After the attack, the immigrant community in Sethsport banded together and paid for many of the funerals required, with the remainder being partially reimbursed by the Fhainnin government in spite of its not being required to to so for foreign citizens, as many of the wounded and dead had been tourists.
Major Kiravian cities with large Urom populations include:
*[[Escarda]] (14.7%)
*[[Kaþedra]] (20.6%)
*[[Tetraliþka]] (23.3%)


Court cases went on for up to three years after the attack, with every survivor of the terror team that actually reached the Hotel being given the death penalty. The planners and members who had intended to take part but had been intercepted. including the hospitalized gunman who had been hit while driving to the meetup, were imprisoned for terms of fifty years to life depending on involvement. Several of these persons were later convicted of other crimes that had been known by the GWP central office, including politically motivated killings, which resulted in several more death sentences through 1975.
==List of Recognised Tribes==
*Draili - [[Devahoma]]
*[[Tapkek]] - [[Kiygrava]], [[Niyaska]]
*[[Hidenrek]] - [[Kastera]], [[Arkvera]]
*[[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Qódavans|Qódavas]] - Súneridan
*Rifpito - Súneridan
*Rofo - [[Váuadra]], [[Hanoram]], [[Ventarya]]
*Shyotse (Śêtsem) - [[Etivéra]]
*Síkuru - [[Kyllera]], [[Îkodha]]
*Yutuxno - Metrea, Ilfenóra
*Varekthari - Metrea
*Wawa (Váua) - [[Váuadra]], Etivéra (historically), Hanoram


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Revision as of 16:57, 1 December 2022

Rock art produced by the Wod͡ʒagat people, a critically endangered Urom tribe

Urom are a heterogeneous category of non-Coscivian peoples native to Great Kirav, distinguished from the other non-Coscivian minorities of the island continent (termed “National Minorities”) by their tribal mode of social organisation, historical umpéa status under Imperial law, lack of integration into mainstream Kiravian society, and special developmental concerns. Collectively, they represent 2.1% of the Kiravian population, around 24 million people.

Urom peoples, having many cultural characteristics in common with indigenous peoples on other continents and beset with similar socio-economic and political challenges, are often included in Occidental discourse on indigenous issues. In the Coscivian world, however, Uromkor is understood as a function of socio-cultural otherness rather than autochthony and colonial displacement, and Urom peoples are generally not regarded as being any more “indigenous” to Great Kirav than the National Minorities or Coscivian peoples, though claims to the contrary have been advanced by Urom activists.

Urom are not a single people, and ideas of a collective Urom panethnic identity have yet to extend beyond the context of political agitation. There is great diversity among the various Urom tribes in terms of ancestry, appearance, language, religion, and lifestyle.

Concept

The concept of Urom derives from the self-understanding of Coscivian civilisation and its origins. According to tradition, primitive agricultural Kirav was a violent and brutish environment characterised by near-constant endemic warfare between small tribal units, and widespread murderous practices such as infanticide and uxoricide within tribes due to both ritual demand and resource scarcity. Lifespans were extremely short, with the prelude to the Great Law Chant reminding Coscivians that "mere beards - not white but rich with ūmar were the mark of the elder; fortunate and few were those who survived to full manhood, for the earth was bathed in the young blood of hairless youth." It was only with the rise of the Emperors, through their imposition of the Four Laws and patronage of the Four Rites, that communities were able to know peace and order. During this nascent stage of Coscivian civilisation, sometimes known as the "lawful commonwealth", the "Empire" was a tribal confederacy rather than a proper state, without an administration or defined territory. The Four Laws and Four Rites spread by voluntary diffusion more so than conquest, and from this emerged a binary identity of Lawful tribes who accepted the Emperor's authority versus Lawless tribes who did not.

The discovery of ærose metallurgy and other technologies that enabled the consolidation of stable political control over wider areas and facilitated the evolution of the Empire into a territorial entity complicated this binary, as the Emperor's authority was no longer limited to those communities that had accepted the Law and Rites voluntarily, and now extended to communities brought under his rule by conquest, bound by the Law but (initially) not admitted to the Rites. This engendered a trifurcate distinction between Subjects of the Emperor (ritually initiated), Subjects of the Land (lawful but uninitiated), and barbarians (lawless). Over time, many Subjects of the Land, either on a corporate or individual basis, undertook the Rites and adopted the emerging Coscivian identity. At several junctures, such as the Great Invitation of Emperor Kompūserv and Emperor Ṉspektadek's Naturalisation of the Land, these initiations occurred en masse and may have been less-than-voluntary. At any rate, the arc of Imperial Coscivian history was long, but it bent toward the convergence of Subjects of the Land with the Emperor's Subjects, and also toward territorial expansion and the closure of the frontiers, such that by [Milestone], few redoubts of ungoverned barbarians persisted, and most remaining Subjects of the Land were tribal peoples living on marginal lands, especially inaccessible mountains, dense forests, and malarial swamps.

To Be Continued.

Cultures

Heterodox Customs

The traditional narrative ascribes the ancestral Urom's refusal to assimilate into Coscivian society to their desire to retain customs that did not conform to the Four Laws or other defining norms of Coscivian culture. Commonly cited examples of such customs include marital norms, with many Urom peoples having practised (at least historically) forms of polygamy, or (especially in the case of hunter-gatherer groups) eschewing the marriage bond in favour of serial partnerships. Many Urom of the Southwest and the Western Highlands continue to (extralegally) observe customs obligating a married man to marry his brother's widow as an additional wife.

To be continued with weirder stuff.

Languages

Spirituality and Religion

Contemporary Issues

Demographic stability

Although the total Urom population has increased according to every census since the end of Kirosocialism, buoyed by growth among larger and more developed groups such as the Qódava, Xufur, and Wawa, most Urom peoples - particularly those with smaller populations to begin with - have suffered a decline in absolute numbers during the same period. The Oklʌsterbé, presently reduced to nine individuals with the youngest females in their late fifties, face complete extinction with the passing of the current generation. Other small tribes with collapsing age pyramids must reckon with looming cultural extinction as their populations will soon be too small to maintain community life and traditional continuity, even if their genetic lineage survives.

The familiar compounding factors of poverty, poor health outcomes, and the pressures of assimilation and exogamy, as well as the disruption of traditional lifestyles and economies, are believed to contribute to this decline. However, there is also the phenomenon of "Late-Modern Urom Sterility" observed across an array of Urom peoples from different regions, characterised by precipitous declines in fertility beginning during Mid-Kirosocialism that are not evident among similarly-situated Coscivian or National Minority communities. The cause(s) of Late-Modern Urom Sterility are presumed to be environmental or socio-economic in nature, but the exact etiology remains an open question.

List of Urom peoples

  • Biznad͡ʒ - Native to Korlēdan and Argévia.
  • Oklʌsterbé - Native to Lataskia; moribund with all 9 remaining Oklʌsterbé past reproductive age.
  • Pungōvak - Native to Inokarya and Qihuxia, related to the Coscivian Kayakem.
  • Qódava - Largest Urom tribe, with around four million members.
  • Rifpito - Relatives of the Qódava.
  • Varekthari - Native to Metrea.
  • Wawa - Native to Váuadra.
  • Wisaya - Native to Sixua and known for their exotic marital norms.
  • Wod͡ʒagat - Native to Kensonia, known for their distinctive and haunting geoglyphs.