Kejo kingdom

The Kejo kingdom is a country in northern Gongosis. Its a major power in Kosotheos and the place were most of the Kejo species lives. The kingdoms Capital is Jaspis.

## History

The kingdom has a long history of war and growth. It was founded in era 2 year 2,000,000,645 by king Scahass Mahrán.

### Beginnings

At the begin, the Kejo kingdom was rather small and unimportant on the northwestern edge of Gongosis. The much bigger desert kingdom took a leading role for all the different nations and intelligent species that once lived there. The Kejo kingdoms population though rose and rose and it quickly became a problem for other tribal nations on Gongosis. In a try to hold the Kejo population back, Ahni Gaba-il of the desert kingdom ordered a military invention to purge the Kejo settlers from other peoples land. The ruling Kejo king, Unkaga Mahrán of course disliked this and mobilized the settlers to defend themselves from the purging. He was very protective of his subjects and under his rule, the Kejo grew steady and pushed back the other nations of the land. This escalation soon lead to the "great unification of Gongosis" in which the Kejos fought back against the desert kingdom and its allies and made practically every other species go extinct. Eventually the day came were the desert kingdom fell and the Kejo kingdom became the biggest in Gongosis. They tried to expand further into the south but couldnt get past the allianced Pearluggs and Snegels. After 30 years of war against the enemies, the Kejos gave up and stayed were they where.

### the era of growth

The era of growth was a calm one for the Kejos. Their nation grew in influence and wealth and the kings of the Kejos now called themselves emperors. They also tied their first bounds to Kosythos and made their wealth go the highest on the northern world. They also had a lot of enemies because of their devastating war. Also the Haddhiddic religion was founded by the great prophet Ahnetasi. The emperor adapted the Haddhiddicism very quickly and the religion held the kingdom in a matter of months.

### the dark era

The Kejos gruesome "cleaning" of Gongosis now striked back in the form of the tropical Kejos in the upper north of Gongosis. The tropical Kejos were a bit different from the high Kejos for a while and feared the kingdom might erase them as well, if they continued to cause problems. They split off from the kingdom and made a new kingdom based on how they referred to themselves: the Omarnup. Therefore the Omarnu kingdom was made, which made the Kejo kingdom lose a lot of land. They tried to end the rebellion but failed due to dense jungles and bizarre and hostile animal-world. The kingdoms since then, battled often over various things, like the land that later became the coffee nation.

### the rising era

Under empress Hadisha Mahrán, the land culturally blew up. It heavily was inspired by the "kosythonic art revolution" not only got their capital Jaspis ahub for artists and artistic innovation to the likes of Blycia. Their fleets also distributed a lot to the discovery of Qwai´lee.

### the steam era

The Kejo kingdom was the latest kingdom to grab some parts of the southern world. They managed to get many western regions of Golemacz and Bravajon, Mostly of them they fought from Sketlatl. They also were one of the biggest slave trading nations, which led to a lot of Plachaqes and Tikis from Qwai´lee living in the kingdom. At the end it even was kind of colonized by Kosythos itself, because of their alliance with the coffee nation Kosythos saw as a great partner. In era 6 year 350, the Vulcanoid troops were fought back and the Kohunn of Kosythos backed away from the kingdom.

### the era of the war

After being heavy hit by the blockade of Sketlatl that started the claw war, they resigned all of their colonies in Breo and backed out of the war, trying to rebuild itself economically which they suceeded in.

## Culture

The kingdom is religiously dominated by the Haddhiddicism, that heavily divided the male and female people of the kingdom. In Haddhiddicism, the women are seen as more devoid of feelings but instead more calculating and not easy to manipulate while men are considered the feeling ones with devotions, romantic and all that. Therefore, the male Kejos were made, soldiers, artists and architects, while the women usally took the roles of politicians, traders and doctors.

### architecture

The Kejoan architects mostly made haddhiddic temples around the important cities to pray and worship in. They earlier builds were built out of sandstone while they later created temples out of ivory plaster. Characteristic for most buildings is the covered balcony on the flat houses roof. Noble castles are mostly made out of ancient greyrock and ivory plaster.

## Nature

The kingdom lies in a tropical climate zone and is mostly coverd by rocky desert. In the north, savannas begin to form and go over to jungle. The longest and most important river in the kingdom is the river Wadi, that also separates the cultural zone of the Kejo kingdom and the Omarnup.

### Animals

Predominantly elephants and desert-cornupton live in the desert regions, as well as hyenas, stealthlizards, falcon-owls and lions. The jungle parts of the kingdom is full with different colorful birds like Dhimis, flamingos or peacocks. The Kejos also keep a good eye on the population of the root bee, a red colored bee species that produces useful honey for the Kejos to use in their cuisine.

### Plants

Plants are very spare in the desert parts of the kingdom. There are mostly deadbushes but also great cactus-plains can be found. Over a 1.000 different cactus types can be found in these plains. Also there are simple palm trees growing everywhere were enough water can be found. The savanna features acacia and baobab trees as well as many natural growing spice plants like haddhiddic root, cinnamon or grashin.