Island of Quall (History)

The Island of Quall is a large, secluded island located in the midst of the Remax Sea, belonging to numerous amounts of different governments and land ownerships, as well as wars happening inside the island.

## History

### Before 5,000 BR

Many people of different ethnicities (North Afrostan, Norwedian, Middle Strip, Nefarian) sailed the Remax Sea, and stumbled upon the island of Quall, home to many different tribes. These ethnicities would mix, creating the Quallian race.

### Hargonian Rule (1606-1551 BR)

Although there would be many tribes which would not have prominent ruling over the island, living in mostly peace, the Hargonian tribe began to grow in numbers from the previous decades, developing more efficient tools and weapons, as well as higher quantities of food and agriculture.

Soon, the tribe was the most populated and developed in the island, and with tensions among other tribes heating up (mainly due to territorial divisions and prominence of trade), the Hargonians set out on a conquest to take control of the entire island, in an effort to secure resources and control all ports.

After many centuries of peace, the Hargonians engaged in violence with other tribes, demanding their land and resources. These tribes fought back, but with inferior tools and supplies, often faltered fairly easily. In only a decade, they gained control of the entire island, ruling under a newly established council, who would make all the decisions on the island. The island did see improvements, such as widespread agriculture and farming for all peasants, but the island still revolved around its own resources on the island, not engaging in very much trade outside due to the vast sea surrounding the island.

Following up to the 1550's decade, despite the initial success of the council, there were power struggles that came along with the council system. Many thought that one person should be in charge, but nobody could decide whom. All members of the council grew frustrated and in disagreement, and eventually caused a split. The island was divided into 8 different sectors, with one person in the council ruling each, graduating into royalty and extreme wealth on those parts of the island.

### Divided Rule (1550-830 BR)

For the upcoming centuries, there would be countless wars and attempts to unite the island under one rule once more, but all would fail. At any given time, 4-8 powerful kingdoms would rule different areas and battle for land, in an attempt to establish dominance and cause countless preventable deaths.

During this time, many resources were found on the island, including coal, iron, and silver. As well as a struggle for power, these plentiful newly discovered resources were crucial in the lust for power of each area. These kingdoms on the island continued to develop their areas, but often found destruction due to warfare and battles for rule of the entire island.

### Peace Between 3 Kingdoms (830-718 BR)

By 830 BR, only three large kingdoms remained on the island, sharing about equal territories: the Mendogines, the Kidolites, and the Eologumes. These kingdoms established peace for more than 100 years, engaging in trade, and drawing territorial lines, including a treaty that forbid passing of these lines by soldiers, or else the other two kingdoms would attack and be outnumbered.

This treaty was successful for more than 100 years, finally allowing a period of peace and trade with these 3 kingdoms. These kingdoms grew about equal in wealth and resources, and still did not trade with outside nations. Mining became an important profession on the island, and many families would earn their wage digging underground for resources and selling them for food, houses, horses, and crops. These three nations prospered, but tensions would unfortunately rise due to an imbalance of resources, causing catastrophic war.

### Quallian Tri-Kingdom War (718-694 BR)

The kingdom located in the north, Kidolite Kingdom, faced a shortage of resources (more would later be discovered along the hills and mountains in the north, but there would be a shortage at the time). The Kidolites found themselves importing from the other two kingdoms more than they exported, and in return found themselves imbalanced and losing other forms of resources.

The Kidolites knew this would be unsustainable, and soon, even their own citizens felt the shortage. The king assured this would not go on much longer, and demanded more resources for a cheaper price from the other two kingdoms, in which they refused. After more trade tensions heated, the Kidolites sent soldiers into southern territories, looting villages and farms, and taking resources. As the other two kingdoms, the Mendogines in the west, and the Eologumes in the east, found out about this breaking of the treaty, war was declared, and soon more troops were sent out to fight the pillaging Kidolite troops.

For 24 years, bloody war occurred over resources, with the Kidolites destroying villages, killing innocents, and sexually assaulting women from enemy peasantry. As the Mendogine and Eologume alliance closed into Kidolite territories, winning the war, the Mendogines eventually backed out, without the knowledge of the Eologumes and breaking the treaty, as the Kidolites and Eologumes continued their fight in the east. Many, many people were massacred as both sides pushed through their fronts, and farms and resources on the two sides were destroyed, heavily weakening both sides. The Eologumes noticed that the Mendogines pulled out in helping them in the war, and were furious, but could do nothing about it, as both sides were in full war and heavily impeded each other's farms, resources, buildings, mines, and infrastructure. After many years, the Kidolites were severely weakened and ran out of resources, with its citizens starving due to the war, and often resorting to eating bugs, rats, dirt, and even resorting to cannibalism. The Eologumes also faced the same problems, but to a lesser extent with all the more resources it had. As the Kidolites were weakened, the Eologumes finally began pushing forces back into its own territories, and the government collapses, ending the war initially with a Eologume victory, which would not last long.

Unlike the Kidolites and Eologumes, the Mendogines did see strength and had numerous resources from pulling out of the war. With the Eologumes being severely weakened, and needing the Mendogines help to pull themselves back up and be prominent trade partners, the Mendogines once again refused and betrayed them, leaving them severely weakened and its people starving. Seeing the opportunity, the Mendogines declaired war on the Eologumes, and with a strong refurbished military, easily defeated the Eologumes in battle, until it arrived in all of its territories, capturing and killing its leaders, and finally establishing full control of the island.

### Mendogine Rule (794-531 BR)

Following the Quallian Tri-Kingdom War, the Mendogines took power of the entire island, and rebuilt all that was lost due to the wars. It took a while, but all buildings and farms were rebuilt, those starving were fed, and soon, people began to mine resources again, sell crops, work for others, and make a living in the island of Quall.

After the brutal war, the Mendogine Kingdom also made advances in redeveloping Quallian culture. During this time, the first writing system in Quallian language was introduced, and the island nation began to trade with other countries outside the Remax Sea. Merchants from outside would trade for all the coal, iron, copper, silver, and other rich minerals fond on the island, in exchange for gold, wood, jewelry, more crops, and many other resources. Less than 100 years after the war, the population of the island was on a huge burst, and forseen the greatest population boom, as conditions improved, trade and peace was met under one dominant kingdom. Trade with other countries also introduced many religions to the island, and mass amounts of culture.

However, despite its successes, the monarchs found themselves caring less and less about the people, and saw a growing disconnect with the general population. As a new economic system was introduced in the 600's, and a growing population with surplus materials, many found themselves working for others instead of themselves, either at shops, farms, mines, and shoe/clothes making. Even though most on the island still grew crops for themselves, primitive companies emerged on the island, which would import products from other nations and sell them for a lot less than what ordinary people would produce, essentially making individual sale worthless. However, these companies would employ people to work on farms, mines, shops, and other enterprises, paying them slightly more than what they would make per day. On the island, working for others became even more popular than growing or mining materials yourself, and other small businesses not associated with external trade were put out of business due to their prices being higher, and not being able to afford selling at low prices that other outside primitive corporations were selling at.

After decades of this happening, most were employed, and though most grew their own food, farming, mining, and other work would be done while employed at these companies, and workers would no longer own the value they produce. A select few became very rich on this island, while these corporations began to pay their workers less and give longer hours. Many were unhappy with this new lifestyle, preferring their old ones, and decided not to work, living with their own food they have produced, and not paying other expenses, with private property laws not being a thing. As more and more stopped working for these companies, the owners and managers became upset, and needed to do something about it.

The king of Mendogine in 531 BR, King Manuoso III, did not care about any of the economic struggles and lived in his own luxurious paradise reality, living in a fancy hut on the beach side, eating lots of food, and having sexual intercourse with countless prostitutes on a daily basis, having mass amounts of wealth. He was also the heaviest ruler in human history, weighing 468 lbs at most. With an uprising in corporate oppression, many revolted against these businesses, and the future of these corporations were uncertain. With King Manuoso III not even knowing what was happening in Quall outside of his secluded area, he was convinced to hand power over to Jakari Minastry, a wealthy corporate boss that lived on the island, who would now make the laws and command the military in exchange for more women and gold supplied to Manuoso in his secluded area.

### Minastry Rule (531-522 BR)

The next 9 years on Quall would be some of the most oppressive and deadly in the island's entire history. Jakari Minastry, having ultimate dictatorial status, first made moves to establish a new large Quallian military, treating them as upper-class citizens and offering lots of gold and other forms of wealth to even the lowest ranking soliders. Under Minastry, the newly founded military would be told narratives and fed propaganda to perceive them as superior to their lower-class peers, and that resisting the new Minastry Rule would be betrayal of order of the land, and to take personal crops from all citizens and force them to work and mine.

By 530 BR, the Minastry Genocide had begun. Those who refused to work in these farms, factories, mines, and shops were killed. Workdays were long, spanning up to 18 hours. Many citizens, as a result, developed sleep disorders, and grew very ill to work, and as a result, were killed by military forces. Trade continued with other nations, under the rule of Jakari Minastry. Many people died, older and injured people were murdered, and despite many fleeing and escaping the island, those who were not found had their family members killed on the island.

Tens of thousands died, and after an initial uptick in production, many people could not work after daily abuse and hard labor, being paid little per day to produce and export goods, a sharp decline in production occurred. Soon, after the workers initially feared the members of the military, some of which were their own family members which betrayed them, people chose to stop working, and protested against these conditions. As a result, resisters were killed, and brutally tortured. Members of the military, being brainwashed by propaganda and narratives, usually did not care about the morality of their actions, and had their own fun torturing, raping, and killing members of their own kind, even for fun. However, as the genocide continued, they had to stop killing as much, due to a decline in labor.

By 524 BR, workers began to organize and talk in secret, planning a revolt to working conditions. Being desensitized to brutal killing and torture, the workers all advocated for a mass strike. Soon, everyone stopped working, and the workers began throwing rocks and using weapons against military forces. Many workers had already built their own weapons in secret, and used it for this very case.

In 522 BR, the revolution happened. Workers grabbed their own weapons, striking and using it against military forces, and with the sudden halt of production, the Minastry Rule felt the effects. With skirmishes between the workers and trained militants, lasting for several months, production came to a complete halt, causing many surviving workers to starve and run out of supplies. Many business owners had already fled by the time of the collapse, including former king Manuoso III, although Jakari Minastry decided to stay on the island, resulting in him being tracked down by rioting workers and killed. With no trade and a halt in food being produced, as well as the remaining crops being exported, the only people remaining on the island were the workers and militants, stuck in battle and warfare.

Upon arrival from fleeing business managers and owners, King Manuoso III, still morbidly obese and suffering many mental illnesses, disconnected from reality, was found useless and hideous, being murdered as a result.

### Anarchy and Famine (522-517 BR)

By 521 BR, a majority of those still on the island died to shortage of food. Fighting calmed down, and people began hunting others, regardless of whether they were workers or militants, engaging in cannibalism. Many people were forced to have a diet revolving around grass, leaves, bugs, rats, feces, and human meat. By 520, only several hundred remained, with most dying. Those few hundred were able to find a stable food source with the remaining crops on the island that hadn't been taken by the corporate overlords, still occasionally relying on cannibalism among fellow dead peers. Though there was still conflict, many had decided to work together and achieve peace, and though it was still anarchy and without rule, the people worked together to grow food, build houses, and obtain the resources needed to survive, even in these harsh, hot conditions.

### Republic of Quall (517-336 BR)

With the few hundreds still remaining on the island, and widespread crops and food supply not being an issue, the island had to start essentially from scratch in creating a new society. In 517, the Republic of Quall was established, along with a set of laws, constitution, leader, council, and economy. The market reverted back to its state before the corporations took over, where people would produce their own things, own what they make, and exchange with others for other necessary resources. By 510, most households had their own stable food source, and starvation was officially no longer a problem on the island. At this time, people already began mass amounts of reproduction, in need to fulfill the population that was either killed or starved, and a new society was being built rather quickly.

By 500, more than a thousand people inhabited the island. The population continued to grow in the next decades, and thousands more were born by the 300's BR.

At this point, the island became fully functional and induced in trade with other nations. However, there were fears of other emerging empires conquering the island around this time, wanting rich and vast resources. Several empires sent ships, causing the Quall Republic to build its own army, and defend attackers when they came. Due to lack of a supply chain because of the ocean, and mostly being outnumbered by Quall soldiers, invaders were mostly abandoned, had to flee the island on their own, and were usually captured, either killed or thrown in jail and forced to perform hard labor and slavery at no income.

The Republic of Quall rebounded surprisingly well, and even with a lesser population than Mendogine Rule, resources were still produced at good rates, and trade was performed with surrounding countries for even more resources. Soon, the population spread throughout the entire island, mineral mining became a large industry again, and it only added to the vast wealth that the island pertained; however, its resources would also attract powerful, emerging empires from dominating and colonizing the land for themselves.

### Rule under Zewittan Empire (336-251 BR)

The Zewitts, an emerging power in northeast Afrostar, had heavily engaged in trade with the Republic of Quall, and wanted the resources on that island. Feeling their large military could conquer the small island, the Zewitts set sail to the island in 336 BR, arriving and fending off Quall defenders. Many came in swarms, bringing lots of supplies and food for war, causing great threat to the people of Quall. As more troops arrived, Quallian defense forces were pushed back, and Zewitt troops simply outnumbered and were much more powerful than Quallian forces. In the same year, the island surrendered, being annexed as a colony under the Zewitt empire, and dismantling the previous government, killing every single one of its members.