Vau'sena/Castaña

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# History

## **Prehistory**

### **Pre-Reprodesic History**

Not much is known about the people’s of Castaña before the Reprodesic migrations, there lived some small-scale Notogiite tribes but no such evidence of large-scale civilization like cities or complex governmental structures.

### **Reprodesic Migrations**

The Reprodesic Migrations saw the first people in Castaña which have any sort of true link to the citizens here today. Hailing from what we know today to be south Rutherland. These mass migrations of peoples eventually culminated in the creation of proto-Castañol nation-states, eventually culminating in their formation of one Kingdom of Cañamares.

## **Kingdom Era**

### **Early Kingdom Era**

The early period of the Kingdom of Cañamares is looked back on today as a time of relative peace in comparison to the long era of the Feliman subjugation and the times of war and expansion that went with the Empire of Notogi, the Kingdom is mostly known today for establishing the scimitar as a national symbol for the country although it was not officially adopted by the nation’s government until much later in its history.

### **Middle Kingdom Era**

The Middle Kingdom Era today is mostly remembered for two things. One, establishing Castaña as a nation that would last through subjugation and defeat, it is known for unifying its people in its region and establishing for the most part the country's modern day borders. Two, contacting their longtime friends, the Dhrauls. Their encounters at this time were always peaceful, as the two were not in each other’s areas and they each did not have any real issues with each other, they had a sort of friendship that would continue until Dhraul’s eventual fall to the Rutherish.

### **Late Kingdom Era**

The Late Kingdom period could be categorized as being too naive, with their newfound friends the Dhrauls they had not seemed to realize the looming threat. Although, the swiftness by which the city of Felima had developed did not go unnoticed at the time but by the time they had started to pick up it was too late. Cañamares had only gone into military growth when it wanted to conquer small Notogiite tribes in the region they were in, and hadn't gone through any long scale wars. Their new neighbors Felima had done exactly what they had done, grow and conquer the lands in their region but then they kept going, and going. The Felima had gone to war with Pikanistan and the ruling class of Cañamares freaked out in preparation for what they (correctly) saw as an inevitable invasion. Felima invaded Cañamares and the Kingdom fell.

## **Feliman Empire**

Early Cañamaran subjugation under the Feliman empire was met with harsh resistance, the people of Cañamares were known for being warriors at the time (their main associated symbol being the scimitar after all) however, the nation eventually became complacent with their ruling class (although still resentful). The nation had embraced a lot of the militaristic elements of the Feliman Empire with its own twist, the Feliman Empire needing a large military to maintain itself transferred to its spiritual successor Notogi and was mostly carried by Castaña’s people.

### **Empire in Decline**

Some say the moment the Feliman Empire started it was doomed, it had bit off more than it could chew, the Empire had conquered bits of modern day Cosona, the Rutherland, St. Alain, Castaña, Sans Marino, Pikanistan, and Dhraul, an utterly ridiculous amount of land that no empire could rule for long. The fall began when the Feliman adopted Catulism, in its nature it was not necessarily a bad thing by itself, but religious leaders of Catulism and Mituism began seeking higher statuses in the empire and had caused the empire to tax them less and less causing the empire to lose more and more money. On top of that, Feliman had neglected trade for the large part and so after the Famines had hit there was no way that they could keep people fed.

### **Fall of the Empire**

Rutherish and Alainois peoples had attempted migrating into the northern part of Feliman seeking refuge from the increasing number of raids from the Norgon population; they had succeeded and now they would raid the richer parts of the Feliman Empire. Also at this time sightings of “sea-people'' had been popping up on the coastal cities of the Baemian, looting cities and capturing the peoples there for ransom, enslavement and other forms of subjugation. With all of this combined, and defeat after defeat from insurgents, The Feliman Empire had finally fallen and so the era of Notogi had begun.