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At the time of their discovery, the Sydona Islands were inhabited by a people or group of closely-related peoples called the ''Whateveriotes'' or "Eteosydonans". | At the time of their discovery, the Sydona Islands were inhabited by a people or group of closely-related peoples called the ''Whateveriotes'' or "Eteosydonans". | ||
Coscivian exploration and settlement of Ixnay, which began around 20212, or the turn of the second millennium ''anno Domini'', did not stop at Great Kirav, [[Koskenkorva]], and [[Wintergen]]. Coscivian mariners pressed westward toward to Crona, where they established settlements in what is now [[Amerigo]], [[Regions_of_Cronzcovina|Suderavia]], and [[Æonara]], southward into the Odoneru, and southeast as they charted the eastern coastline of [[Levantia]], down to Kedrya in the [[Melian Isles]]. | <strike>Coscivian exploration and settlement of Ixnay, which began around 20212, or the turn of the second millennium ''anno Domini'', did not stop at Great Kirav, [[Koskenkorva]], and [[Wintergen]]. Coscivian mariners pressed westward toward to Crona, where they established settlements in what is now [[Amerigo]], [[Regions_of_Cronzcovina|Suderavia]], and [[Æonara]], southward into the Odoneru, and southeast as they charted the eastern coastline of [[Levantia]], down to Kedrya in the [[Melian Isles]]. | ||
Coscivians first visited the Sydonas in 20282, when the caravel<sup>?</sup> ''Snékár Ilunabarsk'' under the command of Kavakón Varrada sighted the island of St. Xavier (though the name they gave it was ''Nív-////'', after a local saint from Lusēdan Province, Éorsa). Eager to replenish their supplies, they went ashore, and encountered the natives. The Eteosydonans were no stranger to the occasional visiting outlander, and provided Varrada's men with important information about the area. Learning that there were several other islands in the archipelago, Varrada located and circumnavigated all of them before moving westward and discovering the Raladur Peninsula and the [[Salesian Isles]]. Before embarking on their return voyage, the crew of the ''Snékár Ilunabarsk'' wintered ashore on the island that was later named for their captain, near the present-day town of Óstaldan. | Coscivians first visited the Sydonas in 20282, when the caravel<sup>?</sup> ''Snékár Ilunabarsk'' under the command of Kavakón Varrada sighted the island of St. Xavier (though the name they gave it was ''Nív-////'', after a local saint from Lusēdan Province, Éorsa). Eager to replenish their supplies, they went ashore, and encountered the natives. The Eteosydonans were no stranger to the occasional visiting outlander, and provided Varrada's men with important information about the area. Learning that there were several other islands in the archipelago, Varrada located and circumnavigated all of them before moving westward and discovering the Raladur Peninsula and the [[Salesian Isles]]. Before embarking on their return voyage, the crew of the ''Snékár Ilunabarsk'' wintered ashore on the island that was later named for their captain, near the present-day town of Óstaldan. | ||
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Over the following centuries, many more Coscivian farmers, fishermen, and merchants arrived in the archipelago. In fact, for many decades, Sydona was a much more attractive destination for Coscivian colonists due to its much milder climate and its safety from the [[Cromwelute Wars|Cromwelute depredations]]. In [YEAR], Lord Astorin, Governor of the Kiygrava Watershed, lamented that "while my predecessors had consistently reported to the Stanora and His Supremacy the Emperor that the Watershed of this Province was filling rapidly with new Homesteads, I have estimated that during my tenure, of the Passengers on the average Ship making Port in the [[Valēka|Isles of Valēkas]], but one-fifth have remained in this Province, while a second fifth have made for [[Niyasca|Niyaska]] or ventured out into the Interior, the remainder having sailed onward to the Austral Isles." While the early Coscivian settlers in North Ixnay were came primarily from the coastal fringes of Western Éorsa on the Aquaric Ocean, those who settled in the Sydonas came from a wider range of geographic and ethnic origins. Especially prominent among them were the X, Y, and Z. | Over the following centuries, many more Coscivian farmers, fishermen, and merchants arrived in the archipelago. In fact, for many decades, Sydona was a much more attractive destination for Coscivian colonists due to its much milder climate and its safety from the [[Cromwelute Wars|Cromwelute depredations]]. In [YEAR], Lord Astorin, Governor of the Kiygrava Watershed, lamented that "while my predecessors had consistently reported to the Stanora and His Supremacy the Emperor that the Watershed of this Province was filling rapidly with new Homesteads, I have estimated that during my tenure, of the Passengers on the average Ship making Port in the [[Valēka|Isles of Valēkas]], but one-fifth have remained in this Province, while a second fifth have made for [[Niyasca|Niyaska]] or ventured out into the Interior, the remainder having sailed onward to the Austral Isles." While the early Coscivian settlers in North Ixnay were came primarily from the coastal fringes of Western Éorsa on the Aquaric Ocean, those who settled in the Sydonas came from a wider range of geographic and ethnic origins. Especially prominent among them were the X, Y, and Z.</strike> | ||
==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||