Rozepia

Rozepia's tricolour, featuring a variant of its emblem

Rozepia's signature emblem, featuring a stag enveloped by two strands of wheat on both sides on a green background.

### Head of state

The Grand Huntress, Tesarina

**Rozepia** is a nation in Central Kanita, bordering Catsbourg to the South and The Republic of Illjika's province of Svinčina to its Northwest, with vast swaths of officially unclaimed lands to its North and East. It has a predominantly boreal-continental climate, and a population of around 80,300. Rozepia's capital and largest city is Aitarük, with the nation's regions being nominally split into lands of Halüsk, Kwiatai and Wodokai cultures.

The Pilk – one of Kanita's largest rivers rises in the Halasai Mountains and flows throughout the entire eastern side of Rozepia. The Halasai Mountains cross its southern border, including its highest point, Sporüt Peak at an altitude of 2,744 metres (9,002 ft).

Rozepia's land is perpetually surrounded by a phenomenon called the Erdfog – a destructive, primal veil which seperates it from the modern world. It's an underdeveloped and largely untamed land in which its inhabitants are afflicted with a strange mutation-inducing condition connected to the Erdfog and the pantheon of gods that oversee the lands within, which the Rozepians worship as the Household (Domostho).

Rozepia was formed in 2049 through a mutual pact between the heirs of the lands of the Halüski, Kwiat and Wodok cultures. The newly formed union unified its lands shortly after through shrewd diplomacy and bloody conquest of opposing tribes.

As of 2049, It is one of the least developed countries in the world. Its existence is widely unknown and only a handful of neighbouring nations have began to recognize Rozepia as civilized state. The majority of Rozepia's population are ethnic Halüski, Kwiats and Wodoks, with a minority of ethnic Gryfs and religiously identify with the Domostho faith, speaking a developing language known as Rozepian Gwar, with the Gryfin ethnicity retaining a unique, distinct language dubbed Gryfin Gwar – both being identified as Slavic-adjacent languages.

## Etymology

The native Rozepian name for Rozepia is *Rozeipesai*. This term is derived from the union between the people of its lands, being called an armstice, or a *rozeip*. This word stems from the common adjective *rozen* meaning together.

## History

### Prehistory and protohistory

Several petrified remains of what is speculated to be human involvement in Rozepian lands traces back to 13,000 BCE, when the glaciers of northern Kanita started melting away, with neolithic excavations and traces of monuments and settlements indicated development in Rozepian lands beginning from as far as 7,000 BCE.

The early Rozepians were speculated to have arrived around 6,000 BCE and were most likely of Ikan or early Slavic descent. worshipped animalistic spirits and various ancestors depicted in totemic-like structures and cave murals. They have adorned garbs of animals they hunted and conducted rituals dedicated to spirits associated with them. These garbs slowly started to symbolize different groups that would later form distinct tribes.

At one point between 5,500-4,500 BCE, an event with no current consensus of its origin occured that brought about the Erdfog and started transforming the inhabitants of modern-day Rozepia into their bestial forms. A period of anarchy ensued that broke apart any traces of unity within the lands, and it is speculated that most of the people either died or transformed.