Gorobese State

The Gorobese State is a democratic monarchy first made up of Sabira and Orako and founded by the Nasou Buatu State, once a small settlement they grew to become masters of fire as well as war and consequently create a sphere of influence in Vernolute.

## History

### Kalean State

In 6 A.E.G the Gorobese State was hit with heavy banditry against its trade caravans, many survivors of the attacks claimed a large bandit army. Militia was sent after militia but each one got destroyed so the Gorobese State began losing money. After some time Neviloruo (the state leader) and Aborsoruo began noticing that more caravans from Rubanla Sevura and Tusgase Lusveo had arrived safely only having to pay a fee while caravans from Nasou Buatu and Gonsua Tutela were always destroyed and completely looted. This made both leaders sucipicious and so they began meeting privately discussing who could possibly be trying to weaken them, fortunately and unfortunately for the secret Rubanla Sevura State Rebellion; The Gorobese State was approached by Rosoha formerly the commander of the Kalean military and now the leader of the Kalean State and joined a trading agreement. The Kalean State specifically Eastern Vathodosia in its birth was being attacked by bandits and so immediately began a joint-operation making allies with Neviloruo and Aborsoruo at Gonsua Tutela. After Rosoha was able to find the bandit camp he recieved a militia from Tusgase Lusveo reinforcing his unit and destroyed the bandit camp in an all out assault. Although after the destruction of the bandit camp a bandit army led by Osbaruo was quickly moving towards Rosoha which threatened to encircle him. Fortunately for Rosoha some of his scouts were able to report this to him and so quickly moved out of the bandit camp and towards Eastern Vathodosia, this move was going well until the bandit army caught Rosoha's force against the Vathos plateau forcing him to fight back. Due to the inexperience of the Tusgase Lusveo militia and Kalean scouts the allied forces were subject to a bloodbath. This slaughter threatened to route the allied forces but just as the bandits were about to break the allied line Rosoha swept in from the flank managing to take down many bandits and help his force push back the miscreants. As the bandits began falling one by one to the allied forces Rosoha was ambushed by Osbaruo and just as he was about to be slain Rosoha outskilled him and ended him as well as any bandit group's motivations of continuing to terrorize the War Road. Although this seemed like a great victory for Rosoha he would not be prepared for what was to come, upon the looting of the bandit camp Rosoha failed to meet the certain amount of money that was agreed upon by him and Neviloruo. This caused Neviloruo to grow unsatisfied with Rosoha, not only this but all of the Kalean warriors were slain in the battle which angered the Kalean people with Rosoha's leadership. Finally, to end the day off Rosoha recieved a message from the representative of Rubanla Sevura and Tusgase Lusveo informing him that he had to meet them at Rubanla Sevura.

### Conflict

After Rosoha met with both of the Gorobese Leaders they revealed to be part of the Rubanla Sevura State Rebellion and Rosoha was soon informed that he had destroyed their plans. It turns out that the bandit organization led by Osbaruo was being funded by the RSSR and was tasked with weakening the Gorobese State formerly the Nasou Buatu State. After this Rosoha made a deal with the Tuviloruo claiming that he would increase his relation with the State Leader and weaken them from the inside. A couple days later Rosoha would visit Gonsua Tutela and try to increase his relation with the State Leader but Neviloruo was still unsatified with the payment his state recieved from the bandit camp. After Rosoha and Neviloruo further discussed the matter their relation would only grow even more distant as when Rosoha asked what would happen if he refused to comply with a list of tasks and recompensations order by Neviloruo the State House would grow heated and after Neviloruo threatened to remove him from power Rosoha heatedly walked out the building with his hatchet clutched as hard as his fist was which raised concern among all representatives and nobles there. Unknown to Rosoha, Neviloruo having witnessed the capability of the Kalean military and incompetence of the Kalean Leader was secretely raising an army to invade Vathodosia and annex it. After a couple days Rosoha would then pay a visit to the RSSR again at the beginning of spring in Rubanla Sevura and then had a disagreement with the leadership of the rebellion. He asked for an amount of money that to Tuviloruo and his allies was a great fortune, this money was needed in order to properly pay Neviloruo but the RSSR argued that was his problem to take care of. After hours of constant arguing reaching no resolve Rosoha finally threatened to expose the leaders of the RSSR to the Gorobese State and claimed to have evidence. This angered Tuviloruo and brought in guards that would kill Rosoha at his command, Rosoha viewed this as the last straw and so he pulled his stone hatchet and after hitting Tuviloruo in the head he charged at the guards and was able to beat his way out of the representative house alongside Tayro but the rest of the Kalean assistants that had been accompanying him were killed by the guards. As Rosoha and Tayro ran from Rubanla Sevura the guards and the garrison catched up to them and forced them to fight. After a couple swings towards him Tayro would later flee in fear and the rest of the warriors would charge at Rosoha. This is where Rosoha would make a stand in Otoge oto Anaese (Lake of fish), here he would use a shield to block stones thrown at him and deflect swings of rock from the warriors who entered the water. Fortunately for Rosoha the Gorobese did not know how to swim and once the warriors stepped in the shallow water, their weight created potholes in the surface of the lake which caused some of them to drown and then route. In this time Rosoha was able to kill a dozen warriors armed with shields and Tavonu oto levoga (rope armor), although Rosoha was soon become exhausted and his wooden shield was close to cracking apart but just as death faced him; Tayro returned with a group of Kalean Warriors and helped him escape out of the lake. Now safe from immediate danger, Rosoha planned to expose the Rubanla Sevura State Rebellion but accidentally went to Nasou Buatu where he thought the State Leader and the rest of the State Council were. This was a grave mistake as it gave Tuviloruo time to alert Sauvuruo who then set up guards blocking the road to Gonsua Tutela which was where Rosoha was now heading. Upon facing the guards at the road Rosoha then ordered a charge in a futile attempt to make it through but his horse was soon wounded and so he fled back to Vathodosia where Tayro was awaiting him. Upon reaching his city he then ordered the rebuilding of the wall of Eastern Vathodosia, blocked its tunnel entrance and then set up defense positions on top of the plateaus comprising of cut down logs. The next day Teviloruo would inform the State Leader that he had been attacked by the Kalean State which upon hearing ordered the building up of an army in order to attack Kalea.

### Kalean War

Winter was now over and it was the start of 7 A.E.G, Neviloruo recieved recruits from every settlement in the Gorobese State and began arming and building them up in Tusgase Lusveo, Aborsoruo and a nobleman named Atoberuo joined Neviloruo as commanders in search of glory and respect. Tuviloruo did not join as he exclaimed that he was still recovering from his injuries and Sauvuruo opted to stay as he had many important business matters in Gonsua Tutela. This left all of the secret RSSR leadership away from the fighting which was part of Tuviloruo's plan, at the start of the new year Neviloruo was still preparing his forces but news came that Rosoha who used a tunnel system unknown to the Gorobese single-handedly attacked Gonsua Tutela then killed a nobleman in the State House. This prompted Neviloruo to immediately attack Vathodosia in fear of another one of these attacks against the settlements. After marching on the War Road with his army and line of supply horses, Neviloruo was faced with the wall of Eastern Vathodosia which was thin and so it didn't take much time to break down for his men. At this point the city of Vathodosia was alerted and Rosoha took position on top of the plateaus where he threw rocks at a lightly armed force led by Aborsoruo which then took minimal damage as they simply blocked the stones with their wooden shields. As the Gorobese miners began pouncing at the tunnel entrance leading to Vathodosia, they were then surprise attacked by a group of workers scaling down the plateaus, having their guard down because of the light stones raining on them Aborsoruo's force suffered casaulties but was able to repel the untrained-unexperienced workers. After the Kalean Warriors were defeated they tried to flee but they couldn't climb the plateaus fast enough and were pulled down to where they were pummeled with stone hatchets. After this event the Kalean plateau positions did not try another attack and were in process of making a new plan until by the end of the day the tunnel entrance into Vathodosia had finally been opened up. Upon hearing this news Neviloruo charged his trained warriors who wielded the famous "spear of defense" in hopes of gaining all the glory for himself. Rosoha had not made any defensive positions at the tunnel entrance thinking his missile work would destroy the invading force and so all his trained warriors were caught by surprise when the spear-wielding warriors charged at them. This charge killed many of the Kalean warriors and even more due to the fact that the Gorobese spearmen had a better tool of war. As the Kalean warriors were about to be overwhelmed and Rosoha had joined the lines the Gorobese Spearman had stepped into the swamps of Vathodosia and sank in pitholes due to their weight. Because the Gorobese could not swim the once fearless Gorobese Spearmen panicked and subsequently drowned in the swamp valley. This gave Rosoha and his warriors a much needed morale boost and eventually after Aborsoruo was killed by a Kalean Warrior the entire Spearmen unit retreated. Seeing the spearmen retreat with no signs of Neviloruo, Aborsoruo then charged with his contingent of militia trying to pick off where Neviloruo left in hopes of seeing a weakened force of Kaleans but seeing how the Gorobese couldn't swim Rosoha positioned his men's backs towards the wall as far they could go. And once Aborsoruo's men walked into the trap they held off the Kalean Warriors who were trying to push them into the tricky swamps, seeing this Rosoha then swam across the body of water and faced Aborsoruo. In the fight between these 2 figures Rosoha was able to outduel Aborsoruo and just as his men noticed his fall they immedietely lost the struggle and were then pushed into the swamps where most of them drowned. This marked a great defeat for the Gorobese State and upon hearing news from the fleeing Gorobese warriors about Aborsoruo's death, Atoberuo then took his contingent of stone throwers and all the loot he could gather then retreated with his force all the way back to Tusgase Lusveo.

### Gorobese Civil-War

Tuviloruo and Sauvuruo had been waiting at Tusgase Lusveo with a large army of warriors for Neviloruo's arrival and were expecting him to be weakened. But after hearing of the death of Neviloruo and Aborsoruo he was surprised to hear that his greatest competition was dead, Tuviloruo would then imprison Atoberuo and officially anounce the exsistence of the Rubanla Sevura State Rebellion to all settlements in the Gorobese State. This news previoulsy unknown of by Nasou Buatu and Gonsua Tutela immedietely forced both Gorobese settlements to ally and recuperate from their losses at the Siege of Vathodosia. Although they not only had one problem but two as Rubanla Sevura and Tusgase Lusveo was blocking the path between both settlements. At this point Rosoha had went to Nasou Buatu in search of a declaration of peace from his Gorobese counterpart believing that they had lost all their resources attacking the Kalean State. Fortunately for Nasou Buatu this was a sign of an ally and its elder which was supposed to be the State Leader according to Gorobese law asked for a peace treaty and Rosoha instead of ordering money for his allegiance gave 384 Emeralds to the Nasou Buatu settlement which was of dire need to the Gorobese State. Rosoha now understanding the factions and their enemies in the Vernolute soon gathered all his warriors and attacked Tusgase Lusveo 2 days later successfully defeating its garrison and taking control of the settlement. Tevilorou would consequently send a contingent of warriors in order to try and retake the settlement but Rosoha and his warriors would prevail defeating the RSSR warriors on the coastline of Tusgase Lusoveo. He would later rename Tusgase Lusveo 2 times finally settling on ¨Timasuna¨ (Tall-conquered in Kalean), then he would repurpose the settlement´s storage buildling into a place of worship. Finally, Rosoha would go to make a speech about why he was at war with the Gorobese State intially claiming he was betrayed and lied to despite his best efforts to plead for peace. Although, the people of Tusgase Lusveo had already known why they were at war and were angered by his lies, to finally set the people into protest they recieved word from traders of Gonsua Tutela that Rosoha had killed a loved prevelant nobleman in an attack before the Siege of Vathodosia. Rosoha would soon hand Tusgase Lusveo to his ally as was the terms and mangaged to avoid responsibility. As Timasuna was handed over to the Gorobese State its new rulers agreed to the demands of the angered people which included renaming it back to Tusgase Lusveo, destroying the useless place of Vathos worship, and not allowing any non-food trade between the Kalean State and Tusgase Lusveo. Now having Tusgase Lusveo back in their control, Etosoruo planned a joint attack on Rubanla Sevura alongside Rosoha in order to finally end the Rubanla Sevura State Rebellion. A week later Etosoruo's trained spearmen from Nasou Buatu would begin slowly marching towards Rubanla Sevura as Rosoha also brought his army and connected it with a militia from Tusgase Lusveo planning on meeting his forces alongside his ally. Although, Teviloruo and Sauvuruo had not been wasting all this time, they had an army of highly trained spearmen and skirmishers. Tuviloruo had spies in Tusgase Lusveo who informed him that their militia would be joining Rosoha's army. Upon hearing this Tuviloruo brought Sauvuruo and his army out of Rubanla Sevura and rushed to meet Rosoha's army taking position at a hill blocking the Eva Vebul road right before the sun came down. It is estimated by Betiloruo that Tuviloruo had about 20 warriors armed with wooden shields and stone hatchets reinforcing the center of the line made up of about 10 spearmen. Sauvuruo on the other hand was in charge of a group of stone throwers made up of about 15 men. The opposing army was made up of 18 Kalean Warriors armed with nothing but stone hatchets and wearing leather caps made of pig skin. They were reinforced by 10 warriors wielding wooden shields and stone hatchets from Tusgase Lusveo while Rosoha had a group of about 5 men all bearing stone hatchets and riding horses. Cavalry had previously been a concept never present in Gorobese history, horses were used to simply transport supplies but it was the Kalean State who first decided to ride the beasts into battle. As Rosoha moved his army to meet up at Rubanla Sevura he assumed that Tuviloruo's army was Etosoruo and therefore as Sauvuruo's stone throwers began raining down on the enemy infantry Rosoha and his horsemen moved right in order to avoid being stopped by the enemy line. Having seen the enemy in complete shock and disorganization Tuviloruo's infantry charged causing heavy casualites on the Kalean Volinos especially. Rosoha and his horsemen sucessfully avoided the infantry and were also able to outspeed the stones, Rosoha later moved to the right flank of the defenseless stone throwers and charged towards them killing every single one including Sauvuruo. Just as his infantry saw Rosoha's successful charge they began pushing Tuviloruo's infantry back. After his charge Rosoha then charged towards the enemy's rear flank causing devestating damage and forcing them to flee, at this point Tuviloruo also began to flee but he was slain alongside his men by the much faster Kalean horesmen. Rosoha had defeated the last army of the RSSR despite heavy losses on the Kalean side but he incorrectly assumed that he had only defeated a smaller army having not seen and remembered Tuviloruo or Sauvuruo on the bloody battlefield. Later that night he was able to meet Etosoruo's army outside Rubanla Sevura and discussed the attack plan. Immedietely Rosoha was preparing to charge towards the wooden walls of the seemingly abandoned settlement having had a growing hatred in him for the people of the Gorobese State. Although, Etosoruo was quick to stop Rosoha as this behavior was seen as too animalistic and violent and the Gorobese Leader was planning on causing the least amount of damage possible. Soon Betiloruo came up to the wooden gates to which Rosoha soon went to speak with him, Rosoha then demanded answers as to where the enemy army and Betiloruo was soon confused believing that Rosoha and his army were supposed to be destroyed by Tuviloruo. Rosoha then went to speak back to Etosoruo and wrongly guessed that Tuviloruo was going to attack Vathodosia so he retreated back and Etosoruo also retreated to Nasou Buatu just as Betiloruo was going to surrender the settlement out of fear. After finding nothing and recieving a message of advice from Etosoruo, Rosoha went back to the battlefield on the Eva Vebul and discovered Tuviloruo and Sauvuruo's dead bodies. He then brought his army back to Rubanla Sevura to where he once again connected with the Gorobese army and later took back control of Rubanla Sevura after Betiloruo surrendered seeing the dead bodies of his leaders. After the defeat of the RSSR Rosoha asked Etosoruo if he could keep Rubanla Sevura to which Etosoruo denied him and instead payed him 250 emeralds for his contribution. Etosoruo then began stabilzing his newly owned settlements and funding the pro-Gorobese people in Gonsua Tutela.

## Society

### Food

#### Before the End of Gods

Before the End of Gods the Sabira used to grow wheat which they would later pile up and grind down in order to make flour for bread, this flour would be placed into a bowl made of Yellow Bricks and combined with water until it was a ball of wheat dough. At this point it would be placed on a stone which would then be placed on a campfire until it baked into a solid bread.

#### After the End of Gods

This diet cotinued to feed the Sabira and then Orako until the Fire Storm burned the plains and damaged the soil, this forced Vathos' children to find other sources of food. The early people of Rubanla Sevura ate fish which thrived in the River of Life while the early people of Nasou Buatu ate goat found in the plateaus and in caves. Fish would be carefully picked out of the water using long, yet light wooden spears; a specially designed sharp stick would then be inserted into the face of the fish until it went out the other end and they would be placed over fires in order to be cooked and later eaten. Ebato/ the mountain goat would outpace the Nasou Buatu people until they began using sticks layered with packs of wheat straw and then tied together by wheat rope which when lit up would be used as a torch. These torches would be used to ward off mountain goats until a herd of them was surrounded by torchmen and then charged upon with hatchets in order to be killed. The dead Ebato would then be carried home and skinned using specially sharpened stone knifes, the skin would be cleaned and then dried; upon drying the goat skin would be used to cover the straw roofs of their homes or protect other equipment from being worn out by water. The meat would be cut into pieces then pierced through with a sharpened stick and put over a fire to cook. The horns of the goat would be used as knifes and would often be sharpened and used as tools to perform more surgical tasks like cutting the wool off the goat's skin in order to make clothing.

#### 10 A.E.G

Following the continued, massive growth of Gonsua Tutela the food culture of the Gorobese State would once again grow. Vene Sela was a plant that yielded bulbs filled of sugar and they tasted sweet to the Gorobese people. Acknowledging that their bland and stale bread needed flavor the people of Gonsua Tutela decided to add sugar to the dough and then baked it. The result was a brown-colored bread that tasted sweet and quickly became one of the most produced foods in Gonsua Tutela thanks to its Vene Sela plantations.

## Territory

Throughout its history Gorobese has conquered many settlements through fierce warfare and strategizing.

* Settlements
	+ Nasou Buatu
	+ Rubanla Sevura
	+ Tusgase Lusveo
	+ Gonsua Tutela
* Trade Routes
	+ Eva Vebul