Montera

Montera is a nation and a branch of Korahai culture in northern Liruzon. They are a seafaring people who often do trade across the Gulf of Montera. The patron deity of Montera is Ramazir, the god of navigation.

History

This is transcluded from a short essay on Montera from the year 901 SR.

Intro

The history of Montera was defined by periods of unrest, prosperity, and a good helping of sneaky politics.

Montera's story began as a province of Korhision. "Montera" as an independent nation was established by 330 BF and gradually became a maritime power in the Ezeva cultural region, trading across what would come to be known as the Gulf of Montera to the north. Montera was visited by Tur-Myalvi colonists, who noted the Ezeva berserker warriors from the region.

Val-i-Roria and Montera's rise

However, early in its existence, by 77 SR, Montera would come under the rule of the king of Val-i-Roria, which additionally happened to be one of the few realms that would later adopt the Vainadiv, a set of Donnana practices that ended up horribly unsuited for Montera's environment and people. Many politicians from Montera were key players in the plot to topple Val-i-Roria, covertly attacking its king's legitimacy from several directions. Its true status as a local power did not begin until 202 SR with its autonomy and later full independence, and when it at that point even outclassed states like Halera, Valvar, and Dejat as the primary center of Korahai culture.

Cultural creep

However, the Korahai culture as a whole was being beaten back by two external forces throughout the following centuries: the first was the rise of the empire of Lucorshi in the east, subjugating and spreading its Donnana culture to surrounding regions, and the second was the slow creep of Panavic culture up the length of Liruzon, accelerated by the nature of the recently free Rahazun's cultural influence as of 572. While at the point of Montera's location, Lucorshi's influence was but a healthy cultural mingling (unlike with Valvar and Dejat), by 633, Montera was reformed into a county within the Rahazuna realm after a political crisis in which a count allegiant to King Ojgr was placed on the throne of Montera.

Siegetev

Siegetev, the king of Rahazun from 648 to 663, would make several organizational changes to Montera, utilizing its unique position of power to expand the Rahazuna influence throughout Korhision, and then carving Montera up to conform to Panavic organizational structure. Montera ultimately played a pivotal role in the war for Yarzon-Watershed, the High Kingdom of yarov which Montera had allied itself with due to trading relations with the lesser kingdom of Yarzon-Ezvelan. As it was obvious that Siegetev would not cease with the brutality of the invasion, Count Dalnun worked behind the back of Siegetev to facilitate the evacuation of a large portion of the yarov of Watershed to Ezvelan, sparing them from the terrible fate that Siegetev had ordained for them. This, as a result, established Yarzon-Ezvelan as the synthesis of the two realms, and thus the new High Kingdom (the only time the location of the High Kingdom has changed since the establishment of the concept in times ages past).

Modern times

In the aftermath, the following kings would leave the issues of Montera to fester; it was only after the problems associated with Ana-Kalvi's rule that an emperor would be chosen, Salfo, who would actually address Montera. Salfo and the following rulers were of the type who respected Rahazun itself as originally Ezeva; while its Panavic politics remained, a lot more support for Korahai expression was established. In the meantime, Lucorshi slowly fizzled out, as decreasingly restrictive policies on constituent nations induced by cultural strife within its borders resulted in its loss of authority. The state of Lucorshi technically exists in the modern day, but simply as a social and economic association between various Vanki, Donnana, and Ezeva realms.

Recently, the ruler Sarnelkh - a Seransai - has offered to the newest Count Ahadiran of Montera to fully relinquish Rahazuna political influence over Montera.