As you are no doubt aware, the Alunyans have been prolific weavers over the millennia, with numerous tapestries recording their history in what have been inexplicably described by others as "those hideous wall coverings." Nevertheless, by examing the types of knots and, to a lesser extend, the die color of both warp and weft, most historic scholars are familiar enough with this form of recording that a significant body of knowledge exists about the various tribes, chiefdoms, clans, empires, kingdoms, principalities, leagues, syndicates and faiths throughout the known world. As a consequence, Alunyan records are a prolific source for early history for the last ten millennia. Records prior to that tend to be spotty, but do go back to roughly 10,800 BC.
These records were spared the ravages of time by several factors. As growers of flax and cotton, and herders of sheep, llamas and alpacas, Alunyans have always had ample material with which to weave and also repair their tapestries. They were early inventors of an alphabet, and their language has remained relatively stable. Their homeland has seldom been conquered, and on the few occasions when this happened, the conquerors either did not recognize the value of Alunyan records and destroy them, or when they did, wisely continued their preservation. Those enemies that Alunyans conquered (and there are many) were themselves never able to return the favor, which also aided historical preservation. Alunyans themselves never succumbed to the temptation to destroy the tapestries of the elders. And Alunyans lack of relatively attractive resources like gold, silver or gems meant that few others were even interested in acquiring Alunyan territory.
As a brief synopsis, the Fourth Punitive Expedition (approximately 1488 to 1582) pressed westwards across the continent known then as Osvidarsa, in the area between modern Floresque and Scandigrad. This drove a number of tribes and refugees before the Alunyan armies, and created intense population pressures upon the native tribes of the western coasts. Amongst the displaced peoples forcibly crowded onto the western peninsulas were the Yshvanipurr, the Gharvanispurr, and the Nivistanipurr (as the Alunyans knew them), all savage and militaristic races whom the Alunyans were hard-pressed to drive from their respective homelands.
Poems woven in the Alunyan record by merchants to the western coast of Osvidarsa tell of internecine conflict within the camps of the Gharvanispurr, and how the band led by Uichet Jkeloran (believed to be the origin of the surname
Glorn) sought to defeat the more powerful faction led by Teasich Khraghen by allying with the native tribes of the area. In the winter of 1576, Jkeloran's revolt was finally crushed, and Khraghen set upon the deceased warlord's native allies with a vengeance. These tribes included the Pherthanapurr, the Chevodipurr, the Cerivanipurr, and the Rithanipurr (again, Alunyan names for these tribes); an epic poem exists about the misfortune befalling each of those tribes.
The Rithanipurr were driven north from their homeland and forced up against the camps of the Nivistanipurr who, threatened with an unwanted flood of refugees, turned against them. This forced the Rithanipurr west to the coast, where, trapped between two hostile armies, they sought a means of escape from what was perceived to be a coming massacre (as had befallen the Chevodipurr.) The poem relates how, afraid to signal their location to the marauding forces, and pressed for time, the Rithanipurr were unable to burn out hollows for their war canoes to make good their getaway. They observed the tarsiers of the forest swinging from strong vines, and instead hastily fashioned rafts of logs lashed together.
It is said that when Khragen's warriors finally overran the Rithanipurr's last encampments and overpowered the rearguard of old men, they emerged onto the beaches to an amazing sight. The strong men of the Rithanipurr sat astride logs, long strands of vines clenched in their teeth, towing rafts full of women and children out beyond the surf. And it is said that both afloat and from aloft in the trees, that tarsiers were laughing at the hapless Gharvanispurr. But of course, this is from an Alunyan tale, and allowance must be made for poetic license.
Much else of what you have written corresponds well with Alunyan records of the Kingdom of Plembobria. While the period of slavery was certainly shameful, it was by no means uncommon in those days. And while we might have chosen to emphasize the predations of the Rethenite pirate Red Hands upon commerce in the Sevosian Sea, and the Royal Alunyan Navy's indiscriminate shelling and razing of several small towns that had provided the marauder and his crew with safe haven, it must be admitted that this was a minor affair in the great scheme of things.
May this be of assistance to you.
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