The Commonwealth of Autuinica

# Commonwealth of Autuinica

## History

### Early Days in the Deep South

Many, many decades ago the Autui people lived in the 'Deep South'. The Deep South was a land far south of Ilistrus, it's history lost to time. The Autui lived in peace for many years, never making technological process as there was no need; life was perfect. The plants provided every nutrient needed for survival, hell it replaced meat, and the plants found in the deep south grew within weeks. Conflict, fighting, war, were unheard of. But, unkown to the Autui, to the far west lived a warlike people, their name lost to the sands of time. They were in a barren wasteland, and had to advance substantially to survive, making food out of the cacti. Life in a wasteland sucked, and thus they traveled east to a better land. However, people already lived in the lands they found, so they invented ways to forcefully expel a people. They created a terrifying machine, that could level a city in mere minutes. They pushed the people out of their lands, expelling them to an unknown fate. But, their people grew, and became greedy for land. They continued east, until stumbling upon the lands of the Autui.

### War and a Diaspora

The Autui were not ready for war. They didn't know how to hit someone, much less defend against a well prepared and powerful army. The first city was leveled and captured in an hour. However, word spread quickly, and the leaders of the people decided they must leave before the army arrived to the rest of the towns. And thus they left under cover of night. They left everything behind, with only the clothes on their back.

### The Refugees

The people migrated north. Here, the amazing plants that had kept them so easily fed no longer existed. And besides, they were moving every day, they couldn't afford to settle down and grow crops when they could still see the fires of the army. Their technology had to advance. They learned to hunt, how to cook food, and more. They would follow this hunt-cook-move lifestyle for over a year, until they made it so far north they hit the sea. They decided to settle down, and their leader Uchoźca drafted laws and a constitution.

### Early Days

The early days in settlement were extremely hard for the Autuis. The terrain was widely different, and food was scarcer. They had never worked with wood before, as the homes in the deep south were made out of mud bricks. Most slept outside until the smartest among the Autui could figure out how to make homes out of the wood. It took a few years of homelessness and starvation in the freezing cold boreal forests of the southeastern coast to finally learn how to make homes. From there however, they began to prosper. They learned how to grow the simple wheat found in the known world, and fashioned coats made of moss found in the region(sheep and therefore wool was not in the region, and thus they used moss instead) to keep them warm from the cold nights. And with progress, came politics. The Autuis adopted a monarchy, although of course they wouldn't use that name until they heard it from travelers.

The city, now named Gryfor, would become the capital city of the newly created nation of Autuinica. Once Gryfor became large enough, the king sent out explorers to explore and settle the region. They explored in two directions, down the Santosi Peninsula and created a settlement called Kaizen, and to the western river, and created a settlement called Nacromania. That would be the extend of their expansion for many years, until a neighbor to the north appeared called Varkan. Looking for protection, Varkan became a vassal of Autuinica.

### Looking to the sea

Autuinica had control over a territory stretching from the foot of the Great Autui River to the tip of the Santosi Peninsula, and it's vassal continued it's reach northward. They had nowhere left to expand via land, even though they could have expanded past the river, their culture had many stories about the horrors that lie in the riverland, beyond Nacromania, and thus no Autui dare step foot there. It seemed expansion was over, until one King Łódź had a brilliant idea; going out to the vast blue. It seemed impossible, even laughable before, the ocean was a place where all who entered it met their doom. However, King Łódź came up with a revolutionary technology: ships.