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+The first settlers in modern Faneria were the [[Fenni]], a pre-levantosarpedonic people who originally followed the coastlines around Levantia and settled along the freshwater coast of the [[Vandarch Sea]]. 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. 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 arrived as hunters and fishers, 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 coast 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 until the (gothic invasions name here).
+Next up: latinization in east ninerivers, introduction of christian missionaries, formation of daingean elective rulership, eleglass and first kmingdom+Gothic War
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