Pahonja

Pahonja was a league of different people, such as the Kapalanan, Tyrrhenus and Ivanians, under the Pahonjau isle. It is currently located in the sea Tengana, between Sorligste, Cymru and Sparwood, spreading close to Kronesian territories as well. 
== Prehistory ==
Long, longer, and longer ago, a people of the coastal Far South was sent unto a cold and harsh place by their Lord in search of refuge from a starry empire. Even in that waste, they made shelter. made homes and gathered the fish and berries that was aplenty in the sea and land. They grew many and made accords with the spirits, made one great, another decrepit and took them as Lords. Under the blessing of that Lord of Frost, they made the cold land truly their own. Yet all was not to pass, for the people of that land plotted their destruction, and in a catastrophic age, the Lord of Frost forever imprisoned itself in the depths of the earth with the avatar of the Solar Lord and the people was nearly eradicated from the cold lands. 
The people survived still in the isles beyond the reach of the cold people. Ages pass and even small territories was carved yet again in the cold lands, temples for the Lord of Frost made again and his claws and fangs gathered for a holy purpose. Yet all was not to pass for the Lord above saw all this and grew tempestuous, and when the Lord of Sea and Shrubbery searches the homeland, great rays of light fell, separating the Lords from their people and melting seas and souls both. The people was again led to ruin, ruin and darkness so deep that all was forgotten again and again.
== History ==
==== Founding ====
The nation originated from a mutual defense pact between the towns Tsalja on northern Pahonjau and Eskirija on southern Pahonjau, stirred into creation by fears of foreign encroachment and a small mediation from the Traveller. The weakening strength of both those encroaching powers led to an expansion of the Pact's territories throughout the Tengana, to protect the Kapalanic diaspora, and to the east, towards Vanapuo who previously was under the dominion of Petersburg, who had resettled south towards the Greenlandic Sea. 
Besides the Pact itself, Tsalja also played a role in being a stop-point for the colonists led by the Audaladae called EthanAG who would establish the Sorligste Confederation in the Valdic lands. 
==== Membership ====
Rumours of the saber-rattling Akratia looking south towards the isles was spread by travelers and merchants, and while Tsalja was focused on establishing groves and outposts in the still-developing Frostmarch (especially focused on the Ice River), Eskirija heard and managed to secure them and the Pact's entry into the Crescent Concordant. Still, Pahonja was practically only a member-in-name to the Concordant, only attending their meetings to further improve relations with Soumere and Frostmarch and not contributing anything during the Solsdom War and the withdrawal of Uldarash from the Concord. 
The disappearance of the Headman of Tsalja and the Soumerian political elite going into hiding after the Bombing led to a distancing of Pahonja to the Concord and they would quickly join the Defensive and Economic Association of Southern States (DE'ASS) founded by Kronesia and Frostmarch afterwards.
==== Changing Times ====
A formerly-wandering band of Valtyrionii led by a man called Alexpotter would return to the home isles as strife intensified in the west. There in the Soyuds, he managed to convince the Headman of Tsalja (the Headman of Eskirija was at this time presumed dead as well, with only the occasional rumours of him appearing in the depths of Eskirija) into supporting an independent nation out of the old Kizdaubarian territories, arguing a complete failure in Pahonja's part of developing the isles outside of Pahonjau. 
In the midst of a developmental focus spread throughout the outer isles in response to that (the forging of Vanapuo and Iwakavn into singular lands and a small expansion in Atahved largely happened around this time), the people of Kronesia would mysteriously vanish from Rathnir. Acting along with its continental allies, Pahonja would claim the islets northeast of Vsevograd, the old Petersburgian fort itself, and the plains of the Aatyeli to be under its Pact. The peninsula itself would be collectively claimed by the DE'ASS for a time, before people from Plagos, reminiscent of the Naverechy, migrated unto what they claimed to be their old homeland. They would then buy most of what is formerly continental Kronesia from the DE'ASS, resulting in a decent amount of profit to the Pahonjaun treasury. 
==== Unity ====
These people, whose name has been struck out of history, would be a thorn to the continent. Proposing tolls on roads they didn't build, unresponsive to diplomacy after the hospitality provided by the continent, and the Valdics even claim them a murderer of the Valdic diaspora within old Kronesia. Their subsequent end would bring about the end of peace within the continent, as warring foreigners that sought land banded with the Valdics and the Soumeri, now joined with the DEASS, drove them out. The sense of comradery imparted this time would lead to a closer bond for the Sorligstean nations, leading to the Union of Sorligste some years in the aftermath. 
==== Stagnancy ====
Even with the Union declared, nothing much happened. Pahonja would progress as before while within the Union. The only notable event that occurred within the isles were the settlement of the formerly Posavarian isles by the Ivanians and later, integration into the union under the region of Pahonja with their debts traded from Yimmu Audal, and the sale of the last Soyud outposts near Akratia to Eisenland. 
The continent would again, be troubled by the peninsula, as Osteria, a foreign people who aided the continent during the war, would first settle the mountains of Farnak claimed by the Frostmarch region, and threaten the Union with an invasion after the sending of an envoy to them. The Union's military at the time was at a decrepit state, only headed by a small retinue led by the Valdic Jarl, and so the Union would decide to join the Pirate Empire of Tortuga rather than risk being oppressed under a different sort of Magi.
==== Piracy ====
After a brief period of Greenland being their representative and leader within the Tortugan Council, their exit would again involve Pahonja, now as a captaincy, to be involved with matters of Tortuga. Again, nothing much occured for a time. Osteria would be bought by Tortuga, and Sorligste was united. The First Dissolvement would bring with it the sale of the Pahonjan isle, east of the peninsula. The Second Dissolvement would see the continent mostly free from Tortuga. 
Pahonja would suffer an economic crisis between the Dissolvements as the Pahonjaun treasury was discovered to be near empty, mass chaos and looting ensued. Sailors from Kartek would take advantage of this and loot many things, from books collected since the beginning of Tsalja to a Heart of the Sea discovered beneath the sands. They would settle the hill made by the Eskirijan on the southern isle and trouble the Pahonjauns. A brief war was declared, and with the aid of mercenaries, the settlement was no more. The looted treasures were nowhere to be found, either destroyed with explosives and flame that came upon the settlement, or brought back to their homeland in Kartek, though that land fell into chaos shortly afterwards. 
Pahonja would suffer a minor decline from recovery of the war. The recent discovery of the Depths would alert the Pahonjans, as their hole to the Sea is closed with stone. The gold boom from mining the basins of the Depths would then fund the recovery afterwards, even managing to fund building the stone walls over the northern isle, replacing the former bamboo walls of which sacredness was broken for long. A new leader would be then announced.
==== Rebirth ====
After the Second Dissolvement, Akratian rebels in the Emerald Isle would be defeated by Tortugan forces. The island, which was at the time part of the region Rithann, would be assigned to Pahonja due to claim transfer reasons and would stay that way until its recent sellage to Valondor. A very large and populated squatter settlement of 20 folks, named Lost Paradise, would then appear in the Atahved Arcipelago, although they would be kicked shortly after. 
Tsalja would then begin recruiting, amassing 30 players in its claim. A few of them would go to govern the individual isles, specifically Vanapuo, Iwakavn and the Emerald Isle. In the end though, all those folks would go inactive. Real activity would begin when Huitcan emigrants, of the ethnic group known as Tyrrhenus, would meetup with Pahonjan leadership to settle an isle in Atahved. The place would later become known as Zama Isle, a roman styled town with truly astonishing architecture. The first election of the town would be won by two people: Aulus Tyrrhenus and Alexander Zodiac. One citizen of them would go settle Vanapuo once more, and the original keeper of Ivania during Posavarian Age would return to the once owned isle. 
Pahonja was promising at this point. An official form of government would be proposed, since the old one was unofficial and never written down. The original founders of Tsalja and Eskirija would be in the Council, and the 3rd Pactkeeper Alexander Zodiac and 4th Pactkeeper Aulus Tyrrhenus would rule at the top of the pyramid. A council for Islekeepers would be created too. 
==== Independence ====
Weeks would pass and the situation would remain the same. A change would happen when the Pirate Empire of Tortuga would receive a crushing defeat in the offensive battle against The Lorent, which would cause panic within the Captains and First Mates, as regions began asking independence from the Pirate Empire. Despite this, the Pahonjii Leadership's original plan was to remain with Tortuga for the second battle. 
This decision would, once again, change when the current Pirate Lord Fury Astaseul would sell, without their consent, part of their Atahved holdings to the squatters of Golfistan. This would enrage Pahonjan leadership, and due to this grave insult to the region, they would buy their independence for 150,000. Fury would accept the deal, and the Pact of Pahonja would begin to shine once more on the map. 
==== Confederated ====
After obtaining independence from Tortuga, the Pahonjii Leadership soon would realize that their safety and independence could not last long, as there were rumors spreading of a potential Lorentish invasion: these would force the nation to join the Black Flag Alliance - a military pact between a handful of former Tortugan states. 
However, this entente wouldn't work for long: the cause of this were the potential Lorentish invasions being planned, with other nation leaders not willing to get dragged into a war that didn't involve them directly, and Pahonja holding further diplomacy with their neighbours in the north: Eisenland. After the collapse of the Imperial Archonal Union of Tovarisha and Viodoxa, Eisenland was left with a griefed Capital, the loss of their southern territory of New Teschen, in Cymru, and a new headmen. 
After a couple of days and nights, both leaderships would meet in the metropolis of Maxstadt and come to an agreement: the creation of a dual confederation, the Konfederatzjon av Ejznlandt-Pahonja, headed by a common High Authority and the Pactkeeper position would be renamed to Thalassocrat. This would mark a new beginning for both Eisenland and Pahonja, as they would later form together, now with stronger bonds, an Empire: the Tengalan Iron Empire; The Tengalii Ejzen Kajzerryk has been stable ever since, and their tales are a story for another day...
== Government ==
The government of Pahonja is rather primitive. It involves around a diarchy, which members are two Thalassocrats, and a council of island headmen, the Pater Insulae. A council of Ministers, the Katatòn, would be later added, however this position has been gone since the Empire age.
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Category:Traveler's Era