Thread:CrimsonFire735/@comment-25890179-20170514212937/@comment-4960835-20171031163145

@All: With the fanatsy Toguna being squarely Polynesian-influenced, I've decdided to largely abandon the Polynesian angle on the Paradis Tekuiate to focus on their Melanesian-influenced aspects. Varied cultures enough to draw from.

I've also begun to flesh out the fantasy equivalent of the Dragowar I've come up with, with them being sea serpent semi-viking pirates rather than land dragon semi-roman legionaires. They're still massive warmongers though.

All this got me thinking and made me realise that most of our fanatsy stuff, despite stating out around plants, is nowadays centered around the seas. Then I made the comparison with this blue ball and naturally saw the simmilarity with the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

With the changes that happened to the Fernia Domain (Faz'ra being dead for quite a while and all that), I propose it to serve in a capacity simmilar to Taiwan - as the point of origin for the Togunda, Mendel, Zarusans, Paradisians and Herjon, who emigrate out of it. Since arid Sotrac can be linkened to Australia and lush mountainous Paradis to both Madagascar and New Guinea, they and the Paradiseans are perhaps the first group to leave -back when Faz'ra was still alive- over some sort of disagreement. As they journey south over the Mihesi island chain, both allied fleets are attacked by the Kraken fleets of the Serplundi (fantasy Dragowar) and lose horribly. The Paradisean fleet gets shipwrecked upon the coast Paradis island and to escape the Serplundi, they have to flee inland. The Herjon see their chance and escape even futher south, landing their ships upon Sotrac. They mess up eventually and the their Sotrac children drive them out, into the fanatsy-equivalent of New Zealand.

Meanwhile, the Viracholt Empire begins to rise in the volcanic mountains of fantasy-equivalent of Indonesia/Borneo, creating a north-south divide amongst both clades of Fernian-aborigines. Then Faz'ra dies.

As a result, the quality of the soil detoriates. the Mendel are hit worst, and invade the relatively rich lands of fanatsy Fillipines belonging to the Deutzlanian, driving them out and claiming this archipelago as their new homeland. The Deutzlanian eventually settle in the fantasy equivalent of the fantasy Archipelago Sea/Finnish-Russian lakeland and form the Empire of Zarusa. The Togunda also leave the region though they travel further southwards in search for an unhinhabitated island. Since they cannot find one, they set out into the wide ocean. The Fernian wood-sprits become more-or-less ecological treemen for hire, the Mendel expand ect.

Ages later, the Serplundi come across the Kingdom of Zarusa states. An alliance is formed. At this time, Serplundi are already allied with the Grunclaw Nomads of the fanatsy Adaman Islands and are also allied with (or rather, paid off) by the Herjon City States. The four descide to bundle their efforts against the Mendel, Sotracians and the Viracholts. The Serplundi have a virual monopoly on the sea at this point, which, coupled with the rather central location of the Herjon archipelago and the mayor roadblock that is Paradis, means that their opponents cannot unite.

This changes when the Togunda descide to return home. They beat the Serplundi at sea and manage to bring the Mendel into contact with the advanced Viracholt Empire first and foremost and then with the Sotracian Coalition. With the back of the Serplundi broken, the Zarusan-Herjon-Grunclaw fleets are pushed back to Paradis. Their armies march inland to escape the Mendel, Fernians, Sotracians and Viracholts, where they encounter the Paradisian Leks. Protected by the extensive mounatain ranges and thick jungles of their island, the Paradisians have remained primitive, though they still remember the Herjon and join their side, scaring off the Mendel-Sotracian-Viracholt armies by appearing trough vengful forest spirits. Only the Fernians, being forest spirits themselves, see trough this ruse, and bring the Sotracians into contact with the Leks. The Coalition leaders explain to the up-til-then isolated Leks what has been happening in the outside world, upon which the Leks, disgusted and angered that the Herjon struck an alliance with the Serplundi, switch sides. Trapped in an unfamilliar enviornment against a string oftribes who know it all to well, the Zarusan-Herjon-Grunclaw is massacled, with only the leaders getting away trough a last-ditch teleportation spell.

In the aftermath, the Ringship of the Treshold is formed to faciliate trade in the region.