Nafa

**"The world will accept the truth of the eclipse, very soon"** -Syadon Noy, Nafa's founder.

**“This is the end. Only one of us gets out of here alive Urbaxa.”**-Nafa, before the War of Titans.

The Nafan Empire was a nation that formed out of the Helvania of Stroktur. Their origins trace back to the first and only election in Stroktur's history, of which was won by the native Kachic people of the region, led by Syadon Noy. After that, the helvania was imediatly canceled and the country became a monarchy once more, this time with the name of "Nafa", meaning "The homeland" in the kachic language.

Nafa quickly expanded during its history, taking advantage of the instability in the Gomic Region, eventually coming to conquer all area around it, with the exception of the city of Quanex which was still controlled by The Crown City. They had a great rivalry Urbaxan Empire, something that would lead to the War of Titans and, eventually, Nafa's downfall.

It is important to consider the relevance of Jzoet in Nafa's history, something that started from the first Syadon Noy, evolving into an official alliance after they took all of the Gomic but eventually souring as Jzoet started to support Urbaxa. Also, Nafa for most of its history was thought to have only one leader, Syadon Noy, the one who won the elections. While the people believed that he was immortal, in reality, what happened is that all Nafan leaders were named Syadon, with the death of the previous one never being announced publicly.

They made a great in Famana's history, with the modern calendar being used and named after them (With the year 1 starting in the year of Nafa's formation, 291). They also brought the Vanoman technology into the gomic and other regions. Nafa also greatly impacted the Estali way of thought.

## History

### The origins of Nafa

Nafa's origins can be traced back to the first Kachic settlements in that region long ago. These people were later expelled of some southern lands as Moxon created a colony near Jasua as a way to facilitate trade between the two nations. The colony grew kinda prosperous, but Moxon's poor treatment of it caused unrest within it, something that Oppia took advantage during the Jasuan-Oppian War. So with that Bohora declared its independence from Moxon in 139, joining the war on the oppian side. They were later occupied by Jasua, but as Oppia won the war, Bohora managed to become independent as an oppian vassal state.

Bohora grew disappointed with oppian rule and eventually contacted Moxon in 168 and helped them to get access to the vanomatis. With that, the two nations kinda reconnected and led to the maxans managing to convince Bohora to revolt against Oppia during the Great Gomic War, but the oppians were prepared and imediatly shut down the government and killed the king, transforming Bohora into an anarchy zone. After Oppia got defeated, their lands were partioned between the bohorans that wanted to rejoin Moxon and the ones that wanted to remain independent, therefore forming the Kingdom of Stroktur in 178, with Stroktur meaning "The free rule" in the Maxan language.

As time passed, Stroktur grew prosperous and accepted Lathvy as its official religion in 196, leading to closer ties with Kapolia. And so they slowly grew closer and closer with the jasuans, eventually joining the war against Moxon with them in 211. Stroktur got really devastated by the yomtanians of Moxon but managed to recover in the following decades. The next big thing that happened on Stroktur's history was with the Fashran invasion of West Jasua in 283, with Kinvirel, Ghaloya and Kapolia surrendering in the following year, leaving Stroktur alone.

Kinvirel's last wish to Stroktur was for them to become a Helvania, something that they did, becoming one in 285. But the first election only happened in 291, when the last king of the nation died. A few parties participated in the elections, but the winning one was the party composed by the native people of the region, the Kachics. The bohorans discovered that the Kachics had a lot of wisdom in their traditions, with this being what the Kachics mainly offered to them when running in the elections. The bohorans loved these ideas and thus elected the Kachics as the leaders of their country, with Syadon Noy being the man elected to power. One of Syadon's first action was to cancel the Helvania and establish a monarchy once more, renaming the country from Stroktur to "Nafa", a word that means "The homeland" in the Kachic Language. And so the Nafan Empire was established.

### Early History

Nafa slowly grew its power, vassalizing Tyarda in 294, pulling a surprise invasion of Elwait in 297 and even invading the Union of Xolnomarka on their own in 310, the last one was due to Nafan spies finding the plans of Fashros to invade the UOX and invading them 2 years before the fashrans wanted to, causing them to also invade the UOX ahead of the scheduled time, eventually causing Fashros's collapse on the long term. Nafa also invaded Poxa in 317 and managed to win in just a few days, later forcing Ini and Vava to join them in 323, therefore uniting all of East Emastalia. Having united all of this region, Nafa changed its capital to the city of Syadona, built on top of Tyarda and named after the great Nafan founder and supposed imortal ruler.

But Nafa only became a big power when they invaded and conquered the newly formed Kisholi Tonxara in 331, annexing almost all of the jasuan region lands. They also invaded some aresian nations in 339 and later pulled a great invasion of Vanoma and the other aresian nations in 348, this giving them access to the advanced vanoman technology. Their next big expansion happened in 360, when the Jafxoi Tonxara accepted their offer of annexation, as they were about to collapse. Nafa also intervined in the Oppian War in 380, annexing Thalmoria, and Vaxidaria before invading the Oppian nations and destroying Ossor and Restema while also creating the vassal states of Laglon and Nutia-Roplea.

### Nafan Hegemony

Nafa invaded the Ordican Empire in 394, annexing most of their gomic lands and dividing the rest into Vamanya, East Ordis and Kolya. They also annexed other nations like Pomlen and Hitea and created a new vassal state called Yuvia Canal. With the fall of Ordica, there was no other nation in the region that could possibly contest the Nafan Hegemony of the Gomic, and so they remained in a state of relative peace until 402, when the Urbaxan Empire expanded north and the two nations finally met.

Fearing that Urbaxa would annex the oppian states, Nafa ended up annexing most of them, with the exception of Umzatia and the city of Quanex that remained in the control of The Crown Kingdom, now The Crown City. Nafa's influence inside the TCC was great, growing as each year passed, with one of the Syadon's having many conversations with Sar's leader, which ended up driving him insane. Nafa remade the borders of the Glazian area in 416, annexing Laglon and half of Greater Walara, with the rest going to its vassal of the Yuvia Canal, now named Mea Yuvia.

In 428, the nation of Okus accepted the Urbaxan faith and joined their empire, with Urbaxa taking this opportunity to expand its borders east. Nafa saw that and took the opportunity to pull a surprise guerilla attack in 429, something that forced Urbaxa to give up the Oppian coast and allowing Nafa to form another vassal state, Lina.

### Fall

With that attack in 429, it was inevitable that another military conflict would erupt between the two empires. And that happened on 436, when Urbaxa invaded Nafa and started what would be called "War of Titans". Nafa started by fighting the urbaxans really hard, insisting that they were preventing them from fullfilling their real purpose on Famana.

Kolya saw the Nafan armies going south and invaded them along with Qubare in 438, being the only nations brave enough to do it. As Nafa started to fight both south and north, Urbaxa managed to gain control of most of their Oppian territory, with Nafa responding with an attempt to invade the urbaxan beaches in Qamon. Nafa started to greatly lose the war in 440, with Urbaxa occupying most of their western gomic territories and the feniki nations joining alongside Northern Umzat against Nafa, although the nafans did manage to capitulate Qubare. Nafa also attacked and exiled Jzoet when they started to support Urbaxa. With Nafa losing really hard, many rebels appeared in its and Mea Yuvia's territories. Nafa also invaded Kolya in 441, but the urbaxans finally launched a final attack by naval invading the Emastalian coast on the same year, reaching near Syadona and making Nafa's downfall inevitable.

And so Nafa lost the war and was completely disbanded in 442. Urbaxa annexed all its territories from Oppia to the Xalnish Peninsula and divided into the states of Reyel, Drubikia, Glaziod, Ranpixa, Maldikom, Holy Binnativ, Emastaly, Gorfrek, Amaxras, Hoxoi Coast, Zablata, Rumay, Ufela, Jimkalin Em'mi, Legenia, Gatria and Degzool, with Mea Yuvia becoming a independent nation. And so the history of Nafa ended.

Also, before their final demise, Nafa sent a part of their army to kill Hasia in an attempt to stop Jzoet from contacting them. The mission succeded and Nafa ended up collapsing, resulting in these legions establishing a country of their own there, the Rin Order. They were primarily formed by 4 large units, including one that was trained by the jzoetese to be able to kill yomtanians, this was the unit that formed what would be the "dynasty" of the nation. They were ruled by generals and therefore very militaristic. Also, they carried most Nafan beliefs and philosophies, eventually merging them with Lathvy's ones. They joined Episol's war against the naravamis in 554 and became kind of a big nation in western estal. Their own demise started in 772, when Kvodril invaded and conquered all of their mainland estali lands, leaving them only with the hasian island. The last remnants of the nation were conquered by the Feniki-Glasian Commonwealth in 878.

## Religion and Beliefs

The Nafan Philosophy can be resumed in "The world must be united in order to find the truth". Nafa allowed pretty much everyone to belief in whatever they wanted to because they thought that all of this religions saw some part of the greater truth, and only uniting them would result in the complete one. And so, for a long time, the nafan faith was that "everyone has part of the truth, therefore has to be united, to get the complete truth". They also believed that technological advance would greatly contribute to this finding.

Lastly, they reached a new conclusion in their final years. They combined all the information they found and started to study some patterns, finding that many things don't make sense at all, reaching the conclusion that they weren't real, that Famana wasn't real. This conclusion didn't live long because it was considered madness and basically dissipated after Nafa collapsed, with the Rin Order being the one who kinda continued believing in those Nafan philosophies. Although the nafan influence in sar was great enough for these ideas to spread to them and stick it, with the TCC being the other nation that knew the truth about their reality.

## Trivia

* Nafa's national symbol was the Eclipse.