Kotec Confederacy

Flag of Kotec

The Kotec Confederacy, known simply as the Kotec: is an alliance of Human tribes from the South East of the world in a region known as the Four River Valley. Kotec is west of the Confederacy of the Frontier south of the Kingdom of Pancakeia. The Kotec tribes lived for thousands of years in river valley around the four river's confluence known as the Pändoance. The civilization is centralized around rivers of East River, Sno River, North River, and West River. The Kotec themselves are made up of four distinct human tribes: the Riverfolk, and Shni, the Ki, and the Arun that share the animist religion of Poäd Dalut and a language, Shama’tasi.

### History

Storytellers talk of the clay of land forming into the life that exists around it. Humans are one such example. For thousands of years before the establishment of the Confederation, the Kotec fought with each other over the Four River Valley.

It is believed that a migrating tribe from the north traveled down the rivers to conquer and eventually settle the Four Rivers Valley believed to be the ancestors of the Riverfolk. Shamans believe this happened between 2,000-2,500 years ago. The location offered prime hunting grounds and fertile river valleys for agriculture. Which was able to support the influx of population.

It was only in Year 3 that the tribes of Kotec agreed to the Treaty of the Kotec Confederacy forming the Confederation. During Year 3 the Confederacy of the Frontier started to encroach on tribal lands of the Four River Valley by destroying sacred forests and sending settlers into the Confederacy's land.0 After the initial formation of the Kotec Confederacy the Arun tribe also joined the Confederacy and talks began on a local charter to make sure the the tribes have co-equal power in fear of Riverfolk control over the Confederacy.

### Government and Politics

The Confederation of Kotec is led by the leader Chief of the Riverlands who is currently Chaska of the Stream. The other two tribes agree to fight for the protection of their land and people through the written agreement of the Treaty of the Kotec Confederacy. The centralized force of the Confederacy is loose in practice. Most Kotec actions only happened if there was a census within the tribes.

The tribes prefer pacifism when it comes to war and the specific tribes are meant to steward their specific parts of the civilization. The north to the Riverfolk, the south to the Ki, and the middle to the Shmi.

### Geography

The region of Four River Valley made up of four main rivers the East River, the Sno River, the North River and the West River. The north, known as the Riverlands, is mostly semi-swampy floodplain with sparse forest. The west was the Sno Mountain Range. The south was a large flower field known as the Ki Flower Field. The soil is particularly saturated with slit and clay.  The Pändoance is a large rock formation on the confluence of the three rivers. Believed to be a part of the former Sno mountain range.

### Economy

The Economy of the Kotecs people have always been interconnected. They primarily are based on basically resource gathering of the local minerals, fishes, furs, and game. There is also a healthy amount of less developed agricultural industry. Tribesmen tend to specialize into some sort of gathering profession. With some also specializing into other more advanced forms of jobs such as Shamans, tasks with enchanting, and Warriors, tasked with defending the tribes.

The Kotec are masters of Aquaculture having discovered lot along how to nature their own isolated ponds of fish to easy catching. This has allowed the Kotec economy to support the demand for food for its large population. This has also made an industry of artisan crafts around fishes to help preserve them including, fermented fish sauces, smoked fish, and pickled fish.

Resources are distributed based on need with most gathered resources distributed to a public location for access by their local Community. The forests of the Four River Valley, while mostly unclaimed are covered in trails used by the Kotec for centuries and kept up by the tribes of the land to help in mutual trade. Most of the mayor settlements are connected.

### Demographics

The Riverfolk, the Shmi, the Ki, and the Arun are the primary tribes of the Kotec Confederacy and are also the primary ethnic groups of the nation. Racially the nation is almost all human. The Riverfolk and the Shmi being the largest tribes. There also exists another species including Shrubs.

Most of the population is centered around the Pändoance. However other settlements exist:

Streams End, Fi Flago, Arun, Snø, Ki , Antham

### Culture

Broadly speaking most folk are nomadic within their lands, with a main permanent settlement being located around the Pändoance and the rivers, with river huts, cottages, and stockpiles, offering a central location for social, political, and economic activity. Tribes have specific cultural traditions or architecture that might not be as nationwide There also exists a class of people called the Warriors, who serve and protect the lands and tribes of the nation with the strongest of this class being members of an order known as the Conclave of the Sword Saints.

#### Language

The Kotec Tribes are connected through central language known as Shama'tasti which is an influence of native people’s language developed from the broader language that existed in the region with influence from the ancient Riverfolk migrants with large part of the vernacular being from an older northern language making it into the Shama’tasi language.

#### Religion

The Tribes all manner of brings, seeing all ideas in their wholeness as gods. Kotec instead believe in call the Poäd Dalut, which is the word for Universe Knowledge. Around the Pändoance is one of the first significant architecture buildings which houses a Poäd Mäss of the Poäd Dalut folk religion. Philosophy the people of Kotec are pacifists believing in non-interference above all else. Largely speaking all of the tribes reject ambition and hold up nature above themselves.