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This is the current understanding of the Correllendi, the dominant human 'race' in Correllendor. The history of the Correllendi generally succeeds the history of the Rokanoi, but both are entwined where they meet. This page gives the general history of Correllendor. Note that this is by-and-large OOC knowledge. Although stories abound and often carry the truth, very little is truly common knowledge beyond the fact that Correllendor has been a kingdom, under six successive monarchs, for 150 years. That was when the royal family united the various cities to repel an attack by treacherous Rokanoi in the south. Everyone will have further local knowledge. A Brief History of the CorrellendiThe Rokanoi lived in the land they called Rokanen ("The Given Land") for over a thousand years in relative seclusion before the coming of the Saradin. They had ruled the land for nearly 500 years, from the heroic closure of the Dark Age and the rise of the Great Clans through the Golden Age, when the first Sarad ship arrived. (For more, see the History of the Rokanoi) The Sarad first came overland from the east into the lands to the north of Rokanen, but there were great seafarers from the northern coasts among them. Some fled politics, some natural disasters such as drought and storm; many were simply looking for new and unpopulated land, which they found along the western coasts. Rokanen's quiet neighbors, the free port of Rothanport to the north and the kingdom Asmuden to the south, grew quickly with the migration-- too quickly. About 250 years before the current year, Saradin raiders began sacking the towns up and down the coast, and soon occupied the northern coast of the peninsula. At first the Saradin raided, and their large ships met little resistance from the small fishing vessels of the fading Rokanoi nation. They quickly took the coastal cities on the peninsula and turned their attentions to the southern river basin, where they settled along the coast and . Soon, however, the raids became as much migration as plundering; the generation of Sarad settlers that grew up in Rokanen settled and, where possible, traded and sought peace. Their families came down, and they adopted Rokanoi customs and knowledge as quickly as they lost the ways of the Old Country. Within a century, the Rokanoi Golden age was done and the Sarad had joined the Rokanoi in the new land of Correllendor. The transition was not nearly as peaceful as that summary might suggest, however. In the southern basin, which the ______ clan led from Deramura, the Rokanoi did not welcome the Sarad, and after a few years of settlement, many small wars broke out. Where Saradin settlements sprang up, the Rokanoi burned them down, and where the Rokanoi burned the Saradin fled and pillaged for what they lost. Both sides threw themselves at each other, town by town and village by village, until leaders appeared on both sides to organize the efforts. Thus began the Correllkragh ("War of the Low [People]"), as the Rokanoi called it. The war lasted, in fits and starts, for nearly 30 years before the two sides were exhausted. The Rokanoi had been pushed back into the great forests of the eastern highlands, and the Sarad, now called the Correll, ruled the land. Their cities took new or changed names: Dremeron from Deramura, Roteford from Rot-tefur, and their capital of Correllendor was built on the ruins of the port of Nagasukei. The ______ clan ruled the remaining Rokanoi lands from Ilmakei Teldrien. The northern basin (previously the Ilper) made the transition much more peacefully. Though tensions continually simmered, for the most part they were quieted by the true integration of the cultures. The settlers that moved up into the less populous Ilper basin did not have to fight for all the land; nor were the clans there as willing to turn to violence as their southern brethren Curiously, then, the dominant peacetime culture of Correllendor emerged from the frontier north toward the end of the Correll war. The Ilper settlers assimilated the nature-based druidic elements of Rokanoi faith into the superstitions of their own pantheon or their approach to the Earth Mother Deneb. They combined and conflated the deities of their own pantheon with the anti-deity ancestor-worship of the Rokanoi to form the currently popular humanistic belief in Aspects. That belief spread across the land through several great saint/sages (three of whom are Avatar-candidates themselves) who all came from the north. That belief has taken hold, but saying such is as informative as any generalization about religious belief; in some cities you will find active practicioners of druidry, in others monastic disciples of specific Aspects, and in others very deistic temples to "Avatars" that might as well be gods.
Organizations among the Correllendi
Religion among the Correllendi |