Nabaiad

The Song of Nabāia or the Nabaia details the Tzibbian conquest of Nabaia.

The Song opens with the Tzibbian influence at the Nabaian court. Nabaia at the time was composed of various different competing city-states. Tzibbian merchants and mercenaries were widespread and two city-stated, one on Klifans, Olams(Holy in nabaian)(oflamas > oflams > olams) Island(Clay Fortress) and Ishikia(Ishik meaning victory) on Kiessa were two interconnected city states. Klifans was a Nabaian city and Ishikia was a Tzibbian one.

Their royal families were well integrated with each other and were present in positions of power at each others courts.

One day however, Mëfrén(Mofrēn), a Klifantine royal at the Ishikian court rises to prominence as right hand man of the Ishikian king after he helps King Matskamisao(Much measure) put down a rebellion. His daughter Foxapnis becomes Matskamisao’s wife and becomes pregnant. This angers the first son Ouapauall who is now second in line to the throne and he stages a rebellion with the High Priest Miksha to remove the Kilfantines.

This becomes known to Mofren who burns down the shrine of Wilis where they are at. This earns the ire of Wilis, the god of diseases, the wet earth and magic.

Miksha dies in the attack and Mofren has Matskamisao killed, taking over as regent on behalf of his unborn grandson.

Prince Ouapauall escapes and flees east to Qibohio where he was fostered in his youth and rallies with various Tzibbian kings, King Owissholo and his brother Prince Ētifa who ruled over Qibohio and King Tzibouall who ruled Foku Island.

The Three mustered their forces, they brought along many other Tzibbians as well who were fed up with the Nabaians and they marched west. They expelled the Nabaians from their cities. Meanwhile Mofren brought over a Nabaian contingent and fortified Ishikia for siege.

However hearing the vast numbers, Mofren retreated to Passali to his father Sokrar of Kilfanas, storms batting at his ship

The Tzibbians capture Ishikia and murder the Nabaian babe, Foxapnis having comitted suicide. The Tzibbians march south to Worazarma to cross the strait, nut the Gods are angered and blow back any ship that tried to cross the strait.

After months trying, the prophet Shytskapā(Bronze, shyts meaning green and copper) said that the only thing that would appease the gods was a sacrifice in kind. Ouāpauall’s daughter, Bahoria. He refused and the other commanders threatened to make Spirwall(great general) commander. Eventually he relented.

They set sail and resupplied at Gō island. There they sent an embassy composed of Spirwall and Tzibouall to Klifans to give them Mofren and they would return. But they were refused by King Sokrar of Klifans who had their tongues cut out and returned them in womens clothes.

They land on the eastern coast but the Kilfantines quickly push them out, Spirwall killed seven men but was slain by Mofren. The Tzibbians fled back to their ships and move north to the town of Gran(Green) sacred to the God Maistawarā(Poseidon/Susanoo) with its many temples. The Kilfantines burn the cty and Maistawara sends vicious storms and water diseases upon the Nabaians.

The Nabaians band together recognizing the Tzibbian threat against their homeland and angry at the expulsions.

Mofren and Sokrar move from Kilfanas to the more defensible Sīkopāka(lucky field) where the ghosts of the dead appear to Mofren

Sokrar  sent an army to the third landing site of the Tzibbians on the northern coast by the Fairmar(fire river) River. The army fears the Tzibbians and when a flock of birds rose at night, they fled.

The Tzibbians pursue the Nabaians towards Kilfanas. At this time Mofren falls ill and dies.

Tzibouall wins many battles and kills the governor dispatched by Sokrar to kill them.

The Nabaians send a new army north to meet Tzibouall. In his cleverness he elads them into a valley feigning retreat and the Nabaians are surrounded and are all slaughtered.

This event shocks Sokrar and the other Nabaians. They flee west towards Kaftira(from Caphtor) and towards the domed city of Sialno(Sialnë), ruled by Queen Hopu(Hop)(love in Nabaian), mother in law of Mofren

The Tzibbians take Kilfanas and shows delight in burning the city. Tzibouall is shown to rape people, burning houses destroying things.

A Nabaian contingent defeats Tzibouall. Ouapauall and the others are angered at Tzibouall and aims to capture him

As Tzibouall prepares to cross the straits to Solono, Owissholo attacks Tzibouall from the east. Tzibouall is forced to flee north.

As the civil war brews, the Nabaians reoccupy Sikopaka.

Tzibouall is eventually killed as his horse is stuck in a muddy field and Owissholo strikes him down.

Ouapauall attacks Sikopaka, but Etifa comes in from a mountain pass and Sikopaka is burnt down. The Nabaians flee in all directions from the plateau. Some head for the ships and A Nabaian noblewoman holds up a fan daring the Tzibbians to shoot it which they do as the boats leave.

Ouapauall leads the Tzibbians west to Kaftira for a siege of Solono.

Owissholo and Etifa invade Solono’s allies and conquer many cities as they encircle the Domed City. Two noble daughters are taken by the two as concubines, one was the daughter of the High Priest of Rolaong and the other a princess of Shytskapalo

The Shytskapālo Peninsula is ruled by Sokrar’s son in law Balowall. Etifa invades him and he surrenders one of Sokrar’s sons who was his war, offering the Tzibbians land in his kingdom. He also gives his daughter to Etifa.

Queen Hopu invites Ouapauall into the city and aims to seduce him. Through the help of Rolaong, Ouapauall falls in love and the two remain together.

Owissholo and the others are maddened by this and Owissholo storms off.

Wilis however breaks the spell Rolaong put on Ouapauall and he manages to escape the city.

This brought the ire of the Goddess Rolaong who gave the Nabaians successes and managed to force the Tzibbians to their camps. Heroes fought each other but Sammama prevented Rolaong from taking the camp.

Meanwhile Etifa is killed by Mofren’s son Giranis(togetherness in Tzibbian). In his grief, Owissholo swears to kill Sokrar and the Nabaians and returns to the battle and kills Giranis.

He is however killed by one of Sokrar’s sons, Briaju(Breaju, wood) soon after.

The God Wilis leads the Tzibbians to a service tunnel and the Tzibbians break into the city at night. He turns off Rolaong’s defences and turns off power in the city. This earns him the ire of Rolaong.

Briaju fights Ouapauall in the city orchards and dies.

Sokrar is killed at Qiwang’s altar.

The Tzibbians set fire to the city and the Tzibbians divide the spoils. Ouapauall takes the prophetess Holono, wife of Mofren and daughter of Hopu as his bride. Queen Hopu commits suicide rather than be captured.

The Nabaians originated from the city of Utica on the mainland. They were survivors of the collapse and began their civilization with several colonies. They became a maritime civilization, integrated into Coscanean Civilization, a series of various coastal cities along the Coscanean Coast that shared culture with each other. They spoke various languages. Their main deity was Noé(nuwa)

in the Coscanean Plateau were the ancestors of the Valisians.(from valish - VALLEY people). to the south were the Araeans who would eventually conquer the entire coast.

the Nabaians expanded westwards, conquering the Koniki Islands, west to Tzibbia and Capthyre.

eventually the expansion of the Naebads(proto Valisians )in the first Coscanean Kingdom caused the center of the Nabaian city-states to head westwards to distant Caphtyre and Tzibbia, along the Straits of Nabaia.

They brought Coscanean Institutions such as accounting, conscription, settling people, terraced farming, gentleman scholars, calligraphy, ancestor worship, family importance, entertainer-prostitutes, maintained new year traditions, mooncakes, skull deformation, hole in skull surgery, earlobe stretching, cave worship, theatre, public games, gladiators, baths, banquet, slavery, royal examinations, forums, chariot racing, roman military, boxing, philosophy, imperial centralization, tribute in the form of labor (mita) for vairous jobs, road system with inn/forts/accounting centers, chariot racing, jade

This later form of Coscanean Civilization was in its infancy during the Nabaian expansiom. at the time the Nabaians brought only **boxing, accounting, terraced farming, ancestor worship, cave worship, family importance, theatre, baths, slavery, jade and philosophy**

the Nabaians influenced the autochtonous Tzibbians who lived on the northern and central portions of Tzibbia. they introduced Nabaian traditions to them and Coscanean culture and urbanism

the Nabaian government at the time was divided into various clans ruled by lords. these were then arranged into provinces ruled by governors which were ruled by kings. a high king was chosen at times to lead the federation of city states, but he nominally did not have power outside his kingdom,. land was held communally or by wealthy landowners. the clans were less of a political organization but a federation. they convened in elaborate meeting houses

as the Tzibbians increasingly grew more urbanized, they adopted Nabaian institutions and eventually grew to resent the Nabaians whom they viewed as foreigners

eventually the Nabaians were ousted from Tzibbia proper and the Shytskapalo Peninsula

they grew more rural and lost some institutions but they retained a literary culture as Tzibbia fell into infighting from the unsuccessful unification and subsequent overthrow of the Tzibbian kingdom

literary culture was retained only by the priests of the Nabaians while Nabaian law was lost. society devolved into petty kingdoms.

eventually some of these petty kingdoms in the west would unite into larger kingdoms, ocassionaly recognizing a high king

the old fortified palaces devolved into little more than hill forts

in the east, the old Koniki and eastern Tzibbian Nabaians were conquered in the new fervor of the Tzibbians expanding after expelling the Nabaians from the straits

(people did not like the Tzibbian expansion and the cruelty of their new overlords. soon after, the people rebelled against the Tzibbians and ushered in a period of ruralization in Tzibbia. southeastern Tzibbia, then settled by Nabaians, was settled by a new wave of Tzibbian immigrants during the kingdom time. these people would be regarded as foreigners and a different ethnic group in later times as people saw these areas as barbaric due to the stigma held towards the kingdom and its institutions. the different people together plus the military slang caused ethnogenesis and a shift. they created a new dialect of Tzibbian)

As the colonies expanded further west, the people migrated westwards and settled Salmera, a back migration from the island assimilated the Nabaians of Caphtyre following the collapse of the first Tzibbian Empire(Bulgarian Empire but not an empire. they migrated like slavs due to depopulation)

Some Salmerans expanded northwards to Lipospia and settled there

this led to many Salmeran kingdoms being founded, even in Caphtyre.

However a resurgence led by the emperor Sholonis(Justice, Justinian) led to the reconquest of western Caphtyre and reinvigoration of the Tzibbian population there.

Nabaian populaitons in Caphtyre soon dwindled and became surrounded by Tzibbians save in Nampionoke where Salmeran remains the dominant language

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eventually the Tzibbians would expand westwards and found many colonies throughout the Iaponia Sea

these colonies would be united under a single emperor, a king from Hoktira. the first empire expanded northwards into Urkesa and the aftermath of the empire led to several kingdoms being founded.

in the far south Madrissa was settled by refugees fleeing the expansion of the empire. it would be united under a league of city states that eventually was conquered by the descendants of the earlier Valisians under a later king and people

the first Tzibbian Empire was quick to adopt Araean culture and instituted theatres, etc. as the Araeans were a prestige culture in the region and their institutions would serve as the foundation for the empire.

the empire lasted for a few centuries, being a prosperous time for the Tzibbians, but eventually civil war caused the collapse of the empire into various Tzibbicized Kingdoms

to the east, the Araeans were overthrown by a new dominant power, the Valisians, distant descendants of the Naebads.

the Valisians would conquer Madrissa and create a powerful empire that waged wars against the Tzibbian Emperors

eventually the Valisians too would collapse

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History of the Coscanes

many diff cultures like Nabaians in north, Naebads in Highland, Araeans in south. all were city states and confederacies

first kingdom was Naebad based, expanding south from the highlands into Nabaian territory, causing the Nabaian expansion west.

other Naebad descendants founded highland kingdoms, to the south the Araeans established a League of City States

the many kingdoms would be united by a Naebad descendant, the Valisians

Tzibbia is influenced by Coscanean culture as the Nabaians introduced formal institutions to the islands

## Prologue

The witch gazed at the glass screens that lined the walls of her home. They glistened with visages of realms long past and worlds beyond her own. She recognized those of her own, back in the days of the Steelborn when she herself was born, fully-grown with neither father nor mother; a child of steel and glass.

She shook her head. Nearing the gates to her home were the nobles of the nearby city, on horseback and decked in fine silks, jade and gold. They convened before the gates, the *sharokha* of the king of Ishikia. With them was the king himself, wrapped in a cloak and in clothes far finer than the rest. His face reeked of arrogance and contempt. His foreign bride stood beside him, adorned in the fashions of her western homeland.

She preferred these people back when they were primitive woodbangers who feared to venture beyond their ancient towers. Now they troubled her so with random matters and cries to come worship at the old bunker that was now her home. *Marythys,* they called it    —   the womb of the woods.

Shytskapa stood and walked through the chrome hallways of her ancient home towards the main hall to welcome these unwelcome intruders.

She called upon her mark, her *smatai*, and performed a complicated sign with her hands to commune with the ancient gates. They opened slowly, the moist and mossy scent of the forest wafting into the halls as they did.

“Prophetess.” The consul told her as he bowed before her.

“What is it?” She asked the man.

“We seek your aid. We ask you for the help of Wilis of the Woods, Lord in this sanctuary.” He replied. “The king seeks a child.”

Shytskapa wondered why they did not just go to the sickrooms in their towers, but helping these men afforded her certain comforts so she went along with it.

“A child is not guaranteed, and your queen may bear four or five children from this.” She warned them.

“So long as she bears a child.”

Shytskapa nodded and beckoned them inside.

She called upon her mark once more and made their weapons hot to the touch. The men dropped their swords and guns. The witch did not fear these men, but she could not be too careful. Neither did she wish to clean up any mess they might make in her halls.

“The Lord does not want weapons in his sanctuary.” She declared.

In truth, Wilis could care less. Marythys was not under his protection, but he visited the place now and then, no doubt drawn by the throngs of worshippers banging at her doors.

“I offer you grain and water.” She told the king and his wife. “You and your men are under my protection, and that of the Lord Wilis while you remain within these halls.”

“We accept your invitation.” The king Maskamiso responded.

Shytskapa had long familiarized herself with the customs of these people. She had seen how they had built themselves up in the years since the Great Burning and had followed through on their progress since then. Still, she longed for others of her kind. The Steelborn had long turned to dust in their graves.

She jerked her head at the kitchen and soon the pots and pans were busy flinging themselves around and mixing together spices and all manner of ingredients, making dishes from beyond the great black seas. She had no need for food, but the Steelborn had wrought these enchantments long ago and they could still prepare food as they used to.

The Ishikians were impressed by the whole affair. *It seems as though this brand of magic had long faded from their towers* — Shytskapa thought.

When they had eaten their fill, Shytskapa waved their plates away with her hand, chrome fingers dropping in from all over the place to clean up the place.

The witch led the king and his wife out into the halls, guiding them through the walkways towards the old sickrooms.

“We do not have ancient ruins like these in Olamas.” Said the queen Foxapnis in her native Nabaian.

*Olamas*. Apparently that was what they were calling the place now.

“You do not have rust wells there?” She asked.

“We do, just not that many.” She replied. “None like this. There the years have turned the steel to stone.”

“Sibele is blessed with these ancient ruins.” Maskamiso said.

Shytskapa indulged these beliefs. The Sibelians would not benefit from the truth, and neither would she.

The old sickrooms occupied an entire wing in the compound. The place had long been unused, but some of the equipment remained useable.

She led them through the ancient halls, its walls adorned with adages from times long past. She remembered when these halls were frequented by the physicians of old, curing patients with ancient gems and lichlice.

At last they came to the birthing room.

She instructed Foxapnis to lie down on one of the beds and gave a cup to Maskamiso for his seed.

“Are you well trained for this?” The queen asked her.

“I assure you, my dear queen, I have delivered many a babe in all my years in this realm.” She said.

“You’re a wittwight, aren’t you?” She asked her.

Shytskapa simply smiled at the question.

“I assure you the process will not be painful. I trust you are past your bleeding?”

“Yes.”

“Then all will be well.”

The witch called the litchlice to her; the walls of the room hummed with power as the spirits within awakened for the first time in centuries. She called upon the shadows to infest the little creatures as they crawled all-over her flesh from their ancient chests. Rope restrained the queen in her bed and she watched in horror at the scene that unfolded before her. The witch smiled as she beckoned the insects into the queens womb.

**iyai**

Rialōn(Rialë) Of the moon

Homna(Sën Mama) of the sun

The Sibelians divide themselves accordingly by which tribe/arcology their ancestors came from. These are further subdivided into clans(more like tribe) which is thenndivided into households