Yonange

Yonange is a nation, originating in the northeastern wetlands of the eastern continent.
history
prehistory
long ago, the region that later became Yonange was inhabited by Terter tribes. Yonangans lived in the Apocan mountains. Both these people also inhabited the area of modern-day Lywahar. The Yonangan colony was mainly inhabited by Tyrcans, after which the region of Tirkane is named. There were nomadic people in the north, and Telklarians in the east (roughly east from Yonko).
Later the Yonangans started (not always peacefully) moving into Terter lands, where the climate wasn't as extreme. By the Yonangan Bronze Age, the Yonangans had completely left the mountains, and lived in an area roughly between the rivers Tōkōs and Posepo. Sunscythians had migrated from the southeastern peninsula into modern-day Gwerith, until the river Tōkōs.
early yonange
After a dark age (the cause of this dark age isn't clear), many nations had been founded. Lywahar was a nation of fish-people who had moved from the ocean to the area around the big bay in the northeast, Núsqu was the nation of the Terter, founded around the most of the river Nuseku'ōs, Yonange (land of the three rivers) around the coast near the rivers Apranōs, Narrenor and Posepo, Kenoa, settled by the Sunscythians and lying between the rivers Tatoso and Apranōs, doqnokarr north of Kenoa, and Kabve above Doqnokarr. (you can ask me for a map, I realize this is unclear)
In the following years, Otārene, led by the Karpa family, expanded by wars with Kenoa, and small surrounding city-states ruled by other families. They kept these families in power, but they did have to answer to them when asked. When they reached Núsqu, they realized it was too powerful for them to take over, so they started conquering more towards the mountains.
In these bloody years the Karpa's had one major competitor, the Pe'ans of Kasesano. this was a Terter family who, after the example of the Karpa's, became the regional power in a similar way as the Karpa's. After years of disagreement, a marriage solved the problems between the families, and united Otārene, Kasesano and the by them conquered regions into one nation, called Yonange. 
rise of yonange
Later, other northeastern nations such as Gwerith and Doqnokarr had started colonies in a mysterious other land. Having been made curious and jealous of the others' growing wealth, the Karpa decreed that there be a Yonangan colony founded. After a year of discovering and scouting the area, the colony was founded on a peninsula, in a forest-covered bay that functioned as a natural harbor. Here, a city was founded, which got called Na'ame Mulpes. Relations with the native Tyrcans were peaceful, since most of the region was uninhabited. The Tyrcans had declined in number after the dark age. 
The second city that was founded in the colony was Ngaye Wakes, on the river Nanomul. 
The yonangans started a war with Nusqu, believing all the Terter should live in 1 country, and assuming a victory would make relations between the three ethnic groups better. This war was unsuccessful, and the loss of many soldiers started a rivalry between Yonange and Nusqu.
golden age of yonange
This is when the golden age of Yonange started. Trade made Yonangans wealthy and interested in the world. This interest and search for wealth lead to the founding of another Yonangan colony in Fangia (northern coast of the western continent), and expansion of the other colony along the coast as well as to the north. In the new found lands up north a ruined Tyrcan city got reinhabited by Yonangans, getting called Kawlosemul. Due to the mysterious nature of these ruins, stories of this mysterious ancient city (sometimes about its glory, sometimes about theories that it was haunted by Tyrcans who wanted to take revenge on Yonangans who stole their city and land) spread around the colony almost immediately. The city that was founded to the east on the coast was called Ngaye kestrel, which later got famous for being Koso Xawri's birthplace, next to an older Kenoan trading post.
In Ngaye Keyrel the local leaders (The Xawri's) had a child. They named him Koso Xawri (Flower the Carpenter). This isn't a typical Yonangan name, in Yonange children are usually named after a word without meaning that the parents made up from the parent's initials. The name Koso came from the Xawris' interest in Kjeropan, where they strive for eternal joy, which the parent's thought was well represented by a flower. 
Koso Xawri shared his parent's interest in Kjeropan, and moved to Ponekoli when he was 19. In Ponekoli he quickly impressed the Kjeropani with his 'strange manners' and charm. He made a lot of friends, who later egged him on to get into the Janpeto, which he did. In the Janpeto his goal was to make Kjeropan more connected to other countries in the region, and especially his home country of Yonange. He proposed a deal where Kjeropan could colonize land for Yonange, in exchange for knowledge. this deal led to the founding of the cities Yonko and Ngaye Xaras. 
Around 3 generations of Yonangan inhabition of Kawlosemul, the city got more and more secluded from the rest of Yontara, until nobody knew where it was exactly anymore. Decades of isolation had made the stories of Kawlosemul far worse than reality, getting people to believe Kawlosemul was a massive city of a scale unlike any cities in the world, inhabited by angry, warlike Tyrcans, plotting their revenge on the colonizers from the west. According to the stories, these Tyrcans were able to collect spirits of the dead, and harness their power to get the strength of 2. Due to these stories, nobody dared to look for the city for years. 
Until, fascinated in stead of scared by these stories, Jaga Tohla (a discoverer from a Kenoan village on the Tahal that had done scouting work for the Karpa's for years) set out to (once again) rediscover Kawlosemul. In his years traveling through the forested hills of northern yontara, he wrote his adventures down in his journal. When he finally found the lost city of Kawlosemul, its citizens had evolved an own dialect of Asēna, its own clothing, and their culture differed a bit from the rest of yontara. Tohla went to Ngaye Wakes and published a book about his travels, which became a famous work of Yonangan (country) literature. A wave of migrants went to Kawlosemul, in hope to find the legendary Tyrcan riches, or to find better circumstances for their family, due to the good economy those riches would have made. Due to the fact that conditions were worse for Kenoans, most of these migrants were Kenoan, making Kenoan a widely spoken language in northern yontara. 
Under influence of Koso's ideals, Yonange became co-founder of Otino, a union between countries of the northwest and ones on the western continent.
after Koso got voted out of the Janpeto he returned to Ngaye Keyrel, where he spent his years uniting the Yonangan colony by building infrastructure, and he became ruler of Tirkane. in his last years Koso (and therefore the flower) became a symbol of the Yonangan Golden Age, and he caused a shift in priorities for Yonange. Where Yonange used to be primarily interested in discovering the world and founding colonies to gain as much wealth as possible, it now became more interested in developing and connecting the nation itself. The Karpa's didn't match this change in mentality, and got overthrown by the cotra's.
fall of yonange
The Terter and Kenoans especially supported this change, having felt left out of development and wealth for generations, but the promised development didn't come to many areas outside of Yonangan areas, and when it did it was very limited. The terter and Kenoans thus started to trust the government less and less. This caused a period of instability in the country, in which power changed hands constantly and distrust grew. 
In Halēsel, Sadda Ablēl had started a community of extremist Kenoans, who disagreed with everything Yonange stood for. in her eyes, Yonange didn't have right to any of the land it possessed. After all, Yonange grew by conquering surrounding areas. Inspired by Koso Xawri's ideals (Koso was in her eyes the only Yonangan that deserved his power), and Jaga Tohla's bravery, she vowed to restore power to the Kenoans, and create a deeper connection in the region than ever before. In the community, dubbed the Sadda's, they planned to, once in power, leave Otino, since doqnokarr is it's leader (the Sadda's were very xenophobic against non-human people), but also because Kjeropan did as well, and Kjeropan (due to some nearly mythical tales) had become a role model country for the Sadda's.
Another reason many people didn't want to be in Otino anymore, was because in the Great War Kjeropan was at war with Doqnokarr. because of this, the inhabitants of Yonange started to like Doqnokarr even less. After all, their role model Kjeropan was at war with them. 
Many Kenoans weren't as extreme as the Sadda's in their beliefs, but did agree with some core points of their philosophy. For example, most Kenoans believed they were the rightful people to be in charge, that they should leave Otino, and become more similar to Kjeropan (in striving eternal joy, and growing toward a utopia). Most Kenoans also believed Yonangans were just arrogant, rich people who didn't know how hard life could be. Another secret community got founded, the Sutém. they were less extremist, smaller, and consisted of more intelligent people who had studied at a university. They devised a plan to use the Sadda's, without them knowing. Their plan was to have the Sadda's grow in number, tipping them off on where Yonangans kept weapons etc. 
Meanwhile, in Nusku (renamed Núsqu, and Nusku had come to mean all primarily Terter lands), uprisings were also brewing. Except here, the Terter looked back on history, and realized Yonange had been oppressing them for ages. Thus, in Nusku, contrary to Kenoa, the Terter wanted independence of Yonange entirely. Terter ideals became to, for the first time in known history, have a united empire.
Since the Kenoans are pacifist, they didn't use the weapons for a violent overthrow of Yonangan rule, but in stead kept them so the Yonangans could hardly do anything if the Sadda's just walked into Otārene. And they did. they were in power for about a month, while the Sutém got ready for the last overthrow. They did so by secretly going to prisons, and promising assassins their freedom if they did one last job for them and then leave the country forever. This job, of course, was to assassinate the Sadda's. It worked, and the Sutém took power by having their leader, Cado Farâghe run for president in the first election in the newly established nation of Kenwar (I'll make a separate page on Kenwar). They won, but some say the Sutém might've had something to do with the results.
culture
will add later
religion
There are 2 religions in Yonange, Olangism and Matrunism. 
Matrunism:
Matrunism is the religion of the Kenoans. It's a religion with a base of peninsular religions, which was heavily influenced by northeastern religions, especially Olangism. Matrunic gods are spirits, living as planets and stars and occasionally visiting earth as birds. Thus, birds are sacred in Matrunic communities, and eating birds or their eggs is not allowed. Matrunic places of worship are towers with a garden (called Ghentâ Wâzwo in old kenoan), in which a sacred fire is always kept on. Around the fire there are statues of deities. Offerings are made to these statues in the form of jewelry. 
Clergies, priests and priestesses wear a blindfold during rituals, and more important religious figures do so for around 8 hours a day, and some outliers even swear an oath of Matrun, declaring they give up their sight in the name of the faith.
major deities are:
-Wadwa, the eagle of order
-Dunlán, the weaverbird of community an family
-Khwiven, the raven of knowledge and innovation
-Bándre, the goose of economy and trade
-ōlwéfro, the grebe of chaos and war 
-Wizá, the crake of the oceans and seafaring
-Ruráoq, the owl of farming and rain
on top of these there are a lot of small deities.
Olangism:
Olangism is the primary religion of the Terter and Yonangans. They believe the planet is entirely an ocean, with enormous turtles as the land. These turtles are said to have all the knowledge available. 
languages
All 3 of Yonange's main peoples have their own language. 
-The Kenoans speak Kenoan, a sunscythian language.
-The Yonangans speak Asēna, a language isolate.
-The Terter speak Soavde, a language part of a local language family that isn't well documented and largely died out. 
more languages spoken in Yonange are: 
-Ofrith, near gwerith.
-Doqnokarran languages in the west.
-Isho, a Doqnokarran-Kenoan creole spoken between the rivers Tōkōs and Abrāsor in what used to be a part of mainland Doqnokarr.
-D'onja and Kafuk, both languages spoken in Kabve, are also spoken in Zhirran, a part of the rainforest in the Northwest of Yonange.
-Kjeropan, in the by Kjeropan colonized areas of the Yonangan colony.
the main language in the colony is Asēna. in regions along the coast there are Kenoan speakers, and Kenoan is the main language in much of the peninsula of the colony.
other information
Otārene:
Otārene was the capital of Yonange. It was founded in a river valley of the Narrenor river, Next to the Kewensipor volcano. According to a myth it was founded by Xa'a Hatange after he got knocked out fighting the sun god. He floated down the Narrator river until he woke up and settled down in the location of modern-day Otārene. It quickly became a city-state similar to those surrounding it. After a devastating volcanic eruption, much of the city was destroyed. One of the more important buildings that were destroyed was the palace of Otārene, and the ruling family, the Hatange's, with it. 
This opened up a place for another family to become the next dynasty. After a bloody period of people trying to grab power, the Karma's ended up getting the spot. During Karpa rule it became clear that the eruption had good effects as well. For example, the region became very fertile, allowing for a quick population growth. It had also 'cleared up' a lot of the city to be rebuilt, which was done keeping defensiveness of other cities, ease of travel and hygiene in mind. This allowed Otārene to become a powerful city in the region. 
After the city was rebuilt, the power-hungry Karpa's wanted to rule all of the cities in the region. They started going to war with the city-states around them, and founded Yonange.