Knight of Keuta

An Ushaverican Knight of the Kingdom of Keuta in Ushaenor during the second war of the power.

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THE HUMANS OF USHAENOR

The Ushavericans was the name given to the humans that settled in the continent of Ushaenor, during the Age of Invasions or Early Human Age, around the VI century of that age.

There existed many Ushaverican nations and ethnic groups, but they divided in two main groups: the Ushavericans and the Latavericans.

The Latavericans

The
Latavericans arrived earlier from Zarhuy, crossing the ocean from Viborg and landing in the shores of M'adhai around the end f the V
century and early VI Century. Unlike in Aels Zarhuy and Hieyoks, where the migrating humans encountered with weakened High Elven colonies -weakened by previous invasions, diseases and internal turmoil-, as they landed in Ushaenor there was still as a significative power within the continent the High Elven Empire of the Whide Axis.

At first, some Latavericans groups where accepted to settle by the High Elves, who hoped for more workforce for their empire -and to use them as well, against other humans groups who may migrate after them-: but as the numbers of the Latavericans humans began to grow, the high elves of M'adhai began to be suspicious of them: and so, they forced most of the humans to the now deserted borderlands:

The once rich lands, that after the Elfic Wars between the High Elves and Hake Dark elves had remained deserted:
As vassals of the Whide Axis, the Latavericans where to keep far away, with jungles, steppes, deserts and mountains away from the elven cities: And as well, to serve as a buffer state from the remnants of the once strong empire: the remaining Hake  kingdoms, who resisted until then all the High Elven campaigns: And so where settled the humans in Exemig, Humaid and Kopeng.

Far away from the High Elves, the vassals slowly became more independent, and the distant High Elven Emperor, just a nominal power, as the nations of mankind of the Latavericans raised and fell along the centuries: When finally after the First War of the Power the Emperor of the Whide Axis dissapeared, almost all apparience of subyugation to the high elves dissapeared.

The Ushavericans

The Ushavericans instead migrated later on the VI Century: They where some of the Sea-faring Peoples, that had already settled in many of the shores and islands of Aels, expanding westwards:

They first apparitions in the shores of Ushaenor will be as sea raiders of High Elven settlements, which forced the states of the Empire of Whide Axis to try to reinforce their coastal defenses and armies: and while the High Elves did so, the waves of invasions and landing parties where becoming hard to defeat, as each time the Whide Axis deflected a wave of human invaders, other appeared, being described by the elven cronists as "locusts": because of this, many elven settlements and kingdoms of the eastern shores where abandoned, as their inhabitants prefeered to move inland, seeking for security.

However, the Sea-Faring peoples didn't had just as objective to plunder the High elven lands, as instead they where looking for lands to settle.  After yet another battle, and other defeat of the Sea-Faring peoples against the Imperial Forces of the Venerable Empire
of Whide Axis, the Emperor Azra'l I of the Whide Axis, seeing the state of his armies, determined that other victory like that one would
be fruitless, as only more humans will come after them: So instead of crushing the survivors, throwing them back to the seas, he made a treaty with the Sea-Faring leaders: He granted them the lands that had been already deserted by the High Elves for them to defend in the name of the empire:

And so the Sea-Faring peoples become vassals of the Venerable Empire of Whide Axis, and in the same time, they became known
as the Ushavericans.

The Tribal Federation of Murica

The Ushavericans where a very ethnically diverse people, with countless nations and peoples of all origins and beliefs. These very different tribes tried to form a single government and a nation: the Tribal Federation of Murica.

However, the High Elves feared how the numbers of humankind expanded, and so, they feel themselves threatened by the Muricans Federation of Tribes.

The lands the High Elves had granted the Ushavericans wasn't enough for their peoples, and as the Empire of Whide Axis still was strong, they keept the humans within the borders they have assigned them, threatening them with the armies of the Empire.

The scarce land began to be soon an issue between the tribes: but the High Elven traders and diplomats who where granted permission to enter in the human-lands, where instructed to plot and divide humans, using one tribe against other:

"Divide and Conquer": the Ushaverican humans, rather than uniting against the Empire, to seek expansion of their lands, fractioned
and fought each other: the Tribal federation of Murica collapsed around the 1950 a.a.H , and a collection of warring tribes remained, fighting over the limited resources. This situation was keept precisely by the High elves, who ensured the division of the Tribes of Murica due religion, ethnicity and resources, hindering the capability of the Ushavericans to develope both in a material-cultural and geo-political level.

The Kingdoms of Keuta and Momb

With the collapse of the Tribal Federation of Murica, at first the High Elves thought it would be easier to control the humans, but the fragmentation of the Ushaeverican human tribes proved to be very difficult to manage, and will become more common skirmishes and raids by human groups to High Elven lands: the High Elves needed a valid, legitime interlocutor rather than the weakened and divided tribes, so they will form the states of Momb and Keuta around the 2000's in the Alan Shores of Ushaenor, being them vassal states of the Empire of Whide Axis.

However, the creation of these weak tribal kingdoms was functional to Imperial High Elven policy rather than to humans, being a tool for control: The situation of the Ushaverican humans of stagment and tribal wars in a limited territory, with a stagnated if not dropping population will last at least until the First War of the Power: there, as the Venerable Empire of the Whide Axis prepared his armies to
cross the oceans, many Ushaverican warriors where called to serve under the Imperial Banners:

But as the war finished and the Emperor of Whide Axis dissapeared, the northwestern humans and High Elves of the Whide Axis began an alliance and commercial exchanges:

While trading, the northwestern humans will learn more about the presence of the Ushavericans humans in Ushaenor, and despise the attempts by High Elven autorities to minimize or ban the trade, there will be contacts and trade between the northwest of Aels and the Ushavericans, gradually lossing the high elves their predominance over the Ushaenor humans.

As a late attempt to avoid this, in the end of the XXIV century and early XXV century the High Elves of the Kingdom of Huen -member state of the Whide Axis- tried to forcefully regain this predominance with a military occupation of Momb, Keuta and other tribal lands of Ushavericans, exercising a harsh repression: however by then, the Empire of Whide Axis was but a shadow of it's former glory, as without an emperor any image of unity among the High Elven states was lost and the repression was fruitless and costly.

Because of the lack of cohesion -due an empty throne-, the High Elves where unnable to avoid Sargonic settlers from landing in the bay of Shae'Luth, and found at the 2420 a.a.H the Kingdom of Ne'Sargos under King Don Camilo II The Magnificent of Sargos. While Ne'Sargos was accepted as a vassal state of the Whide Axis, the power was shifting: No High elven state was able to contest the presence of the Sargonic settlers in Ushaenor when they landed: and as Ne'Sargos grew in force, there was no High elven state who could face them, when the Ne'Sargonic requested -backed by their armies- on the empty imperial halls of the Whide Axis to have transferred Keuta and Momb under their own tutelage.

Since
that moment, the history of the Ushavericans will be linked with the Ne'Sargonic: while under their rule ended the seemingly endless tribal and petty wars, and with the armies of Ne'Sargos backing them they finally had open the large hinterlands from where they once where banned, it come as well with a cost; because the Ushavericans weren't free, but changed of masters: masters who saw as heretic their syncretic christian religion, conversing many of them to the Northwestern christian faith.

During the Second War of the Power, they will have a limited role, either in the forces of the Empire of the Whide Axis -wich they still were considered to be part of as vassals- and in the Sargonic armies.

Later, they will become a part of the Holy Sargonic Empire, and their lands will become a teather of conflict during the Ne'Sargonic Wars, between Ne'Sargos and the Kadralor Confederation (2546-2560), after which most of the north of Ushaenor will become part of the Holy Sargonic Empire.

But the religious forcefully conversions and intolerance to local faiths will mean that in the 2586 the Ushavericans will largelly support the Emperor Camilo VIII The Apostate and his heressy during the Sargonic Religion Wars (2587-2629 a.a.H), where they will be caught between supporting the Apostate -Camilo VIII-, the Botanian Emperor Carlos Alfonso IV, the rebel Ne'Sargonic Camilo Jesué I and the Sukkeses invaders.

In the
Third War of the Power, the Dark Legion of Demons played precisely the religious situation of northern Ushaenor, and while the Dark Legion lacked navies to send their Dark Legions to northern Ushaenor, their agents raised cults and local armies in the campaign of the third war of the power known as the "war of the false prophets", that will be very destructive.

After the Cataclysm that ended the fantasy age and the Third War of the Power, the Ushavericans will continue to be subyugated to Aelian powers until late in the modern Aiers, but they population will keep expanding westwards, to ancient  elven lands.

In the post-cataclysmic south of Ushaenor, however, the Ushaverican Latavericans will see raise as empires in the modern age Soldarmia and Sao Azil: continental empires that occupied most of southern Ushaenor, but competing againts each other prevented them from proyecting in off-continent imperial ventures: empires that will last until the Anglasecuarnian Wars or First World War of Aiers, when from a collapsing Soldarmian empire several new republics will be born.

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Since long I had the idea of the human nations of Ushaenor to be descendants/sort of inspired of american nations (including USA), which is presented in the "Tribal Confederation of Murica" for example. The references weren't so direct, and aside of their origin, much of the history of the humans of Ushaenor changed -being under elven hegemony- to make them more or less indistinctable.

Until I stumbled in a drawing of :dveAngusMcleod: of a Civilization 5 medieval USA infantry, and I thought it looked awesome: so basically this is the equipment created and invented by AngusMcLeod.

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