Evernesia

**Brief explanation of the History of Evernesia**

**The First Epoch**

The first traces of Everindian culture began around 1000 BWA(Before Winter Ash) as a loose group of people in the equatorial east coast of east continent migrating to the coast. Overtime these peoples would develop a fishing and seafaring culture in rivers and along the coast where they would trade. Slowly these people spread overtime until they would spread across the entire east coast in several coastal or river settlements. However before any major civilization could emerge and before bronze metallurgy could fully integrate among them the Volcanic Ash event occurred.

The eternal winter destroyed their tropical rainforest homelands which had 0 adaptations for winter and their trade networks leaving only small isolated pockets of Everindian settlements left. To make matters worse due to the winter many inland peoples migrated to the coast or other sources of water to either raid the settlements there or migrate there to fish. This forced the Everindians to mainly only stay on islands off the coast most of which were at the southeast. Eventually after several decades the volcanic winter passed which allowed the establishment of several different nations and kingdoms in the southeast especially as bronze metallurgy was starting to appear in nations near the mainland aswell as a few minor settlements on islands near the east coast of the east continent.

**The Second Epoch**

The Second Epoch also known of the "Era of Rebirth" was when the first major civilisations and nations appeared. These nations included the Chevrans, Sete Molau and more. These nations were either independent island city states, a loose coalition of said city states or in the case of the Chevrans maritime trading kingdoms. Overtime these peoples would develop their navigation skills even further to travel across their islands which combined with their past development of their seafaring skills eventually led to them discovering more islands to the east.

Gradually these islands would be settled overtime due to many reasons such as new lands and opportunities, more coastal fishing regions and more one of the main ones that boosted it being another major volcanic eruption occurring in the archipelago which led to an increase to migration to said islands eventually leading to the rise of the Rū’ī Molau’ka aswell as the discovery of the islands of Mōi'ika

**The Third Epoch**

"The Third Epoch" also known as the "Era of Death" was an Era marked by civil war, plagues and wars. Thus due to the chaotic nature of this era and the fact that some of the records only come from traditional myth and legends through oral history the specifics of the situation are rather vague. According to current interpretations of the Evernesian Legends its believed that the rise of Rū’ī Molau’ka was due to a series of bloody wars, raids and pillages and the leaders of the Nean Dynasty later had a tyrannical rule over the nations. This inevitably led to the rise of rebels across the country which left the nation in an unstable state, after a series of mediocre rulers eventually a child Head Chieftain was born. The Chieftains advisor "Etë Haka" took this opportunity to practically take all the power from the Head Chieftain. This led the regional chieftains to declare war on Haka until eventually the Ohēna family captured the capital from Haka who surrendered.

However the Ohēna family corrupted by greed declared them themselves new Head Chieftain family. This along with the already existing instability caused an all out civil war among the regional chieftains. This is considered by many as the starting point of the Era of Death as a civil war raged on for decades, in the middle of the chaos the Nean family fled and followed migrating birds east where they found some more islands and a strange land... what they found was the Western continent.

After several years however the war eventually came to standstill as the old chieftains of the Ohëna and Tā’kā clans died and their young became more interested in staying in their manors and relaxing instead of the war. As such the surviving Nëan Loyalists who had gotten iron weapons from the new continent and Küne clans worked together to reunite the country. However soon the Küne clan got offended from how little they were appreciated by the Nëan family and thus later back stabbed them and took the throne ending the civil war.

But with the discovery of the west continent brought a tide of diseases to seep into both continents causing plagues in several nations. This led to the decline of many nations and tribes along with the slow down of trade aswell as many predictions of the end of the world or other ideas by religious leaders.

Meanwhile in the west the Nevrasin declared war on the Sinka Moro tribes of the southern islands due to them consistently raiding and pirating the Nevrasins. In reality this is because the king was advised to do this by a powerful chief named "Kanah Medah" as their nation was in decline due to the plague and needed something to distract the peoples from the failing government. The General of the operation, Kanah Medah attacked the islands with mercenaries which were hired from the Pāre-Het peoples. Due to the fact that the Sinka Moros were largely fragmented they were not able to communicate effectively and form any sort of good defense against the enemy allowing them to swiftly take over the islands and take the pirates and raiders as war prisoners.

However when Kanah Medah in reality this was all part of a scheme of his. Since he was the one to hire the mercenaries, they were loyal to him not the leader and due to having the successful campaign he also had the support of the people. As such when he arrived back to the capital he attacked the palace and forced the royal family along with their loyalist to flee to neutral Pāre-Het and ending the Wunah’s reign of Nevrasins.

Soon Kanah Medah would become greedy for power as he funded rebels in the Niaur islands of the Chevrans in an attempt to retake them from the Chevrans who took said islands in a war in the past. In the side the former Head Chief family of the Nevrasins the "Wuhun" began spreading its influence among loyal nobles or nobles who dislike the ruling of the Medah family aswell as buying mercenaries from the Pāre-Het peoples. The Chevrans eventually found about Kanah Medah's plot and sent an ultimatum to them to stop or they will be "punished".

However instead of accepting the demands Kanah Medah denied it and instead declared war on the Chevrans and Wuhun Loyalist afterwhich they sent a fleet to take the already unstable Niaur islands preventing the Chevrans from doing a quick respond as they didnt have any other major islands near the Nevrasins to launch an attack. No longer fighting a two front war the Nevrasins finally pushed back the Wuhun Loyalist and Pāre-Het mercenaries, but in a twist was assasinated causing the Nevrasins to split up into various local tribes or city states some joining together like the Niaur islands or some joining other nations like the Sete Molau and Pāre-Het peoples.