Tumatre: A History

Dark Red, Pink, and Orange represent where the Tumatre population is spread out across. 

• Dark Red: 41% Tumatre with low growth by the year
  • Rhodoi puppet state of Thurred 
• Orange: 27% Tumatre and declining rapidly
  • Many various "states" run by the Rhodoii Gaz Modalog (Translates to Grand Marchers - The Rhodoii Army has a reputation for being able to march great lengths at swift pace). It is Rhodar's land in all but name.
• Pink: 91% Tumatre and growing at average pace
  • The last free Tumatre Kingdom, inhabited by the few free Tumatre that haven't left their ancestral homelands. 

The Tumatre were historically goat-herding nomads that lived high on top of the mountains that separate the men of the West from those of the East, descendants of the great and mighty Teucogens who themselves came from the North by river. 

Teucogens were a tall race of man standing eight feet tall; of fair skin and orange hair and great warriors. It was their strength in arms that made them legendary, and for three hundred years they spread across the mountains, bringing death and mayhem to the then-primitve Rhodoi and the then-horseless Boaxo tribes, and they were hated and feared by all of their neighbors. Their thirst for blood and conquest grew without hindrance until all of their neighbors had fled or been broken and no one else could they fight. Thus they turned against each other in their moment of unrest, for war was all that the Teucogens could love. Only fifteen years after their disastrous infighting, it had seemed the last Teucogens had finally killed themselves, and the Lesser Men that so feared the orange-haired giants returned and resettled. 

Note:

• Lesser Men is a term for more "recent" races of Mankind (in this setting) that do not have many gifts and are thus considered "lesser"
• Greater Men is a term for the older races of man, who happened to be better than their Lesser brethren in many different ways. Less common than the Lesser Men, though there are a good portion of the Lesser Men with some blood of Greater Men flowing through their veins

And by race I mean group, not skin color.

While the pure Teucogens had indeed killed each other in the absence of foes, their half-blooded relatives survived in the mountains. Cadraag wives many Teucogens took, leaving behind countless bastard sons and daughters as they went on more vicious campaigns against others and later on themselves. The growing number of bastards overtook and swallowed the Cadraag, of which none remain, and were the last surviving men of any blood connection to the Teucogens, naming themselves Tumatre. While the Teucogens were Greater Men, the Cadraag were Lesser Men so their offspring, the Tumatre, was a roughly even mix of the two; not as truly gifted as their Northern forefathers yet still superior in several ways to Lesser Men. Much of the Teucogen culture was somewhat bastardized in this period and interpreted in odd fashions, for the Tumatre had not a great lust for war, being connected to their mountain goats. The Tumatre expanded slowly, carving out new goat-roads and passes though rarely settling in any "foreign" territory, for they were heavily connected to their home region and dared not leave it permanently.

Many of the mostly lost Teucogen architecture therefore survived and still can be seen in the Tumatre heartlands, which can be partially attributed to their long hesitance to move outwards and the inability for others to penetrate deep into the heartlands ever since. Several decades later, around the time that some of the Rhodoi had begun making their own mud huts over tents, the Tumatre finally moved outwards in large enough numbers - at first only along the mountains and nearby forests but soon they moved further shorewards onto the fertile grasslands of the (now-called) Lathargos Inlet (big inlet on map that looks like cursed new jersey). Their movements beyond their ancestral homelands were often sporadic, typically consisting of certain nobility bringing all of his subjects to unoccupied after being outcast or because he is the youngest and can inherit naught from his father. The unorganized settling of empty land or land the Tumatre took from others they killed (*) resulted in many small petty kingdoms which fought each other more than they fought other people. 

Petty kingdoms and the fragmented settling process dominated much of Tumatre migration (kind of like Greek City States[?]) for two centuries, with the homeland Tumatre unable to control the vast amounts of tiny kingdoms spread out everywhere at once. A select few were invested in to take control of their neighbors and send a stream of revenue back to the homeland, with mixed results. Many historians believe that if the Tumatre had only centralized expansion, rather than allowing numerous individuals to take charge, then the Tumatre peoples would not have been conquered by Rhodar and suffered four centuries of servitude, but history cannot rewrite itself. 

(*): The Tumatre did not completely disinherit their Teucogen spirit. There were many primitive grasslands dwelling tribes and a few small civilizations of in themselves which were essentially wiped out completely by the Tumatre settlers with their cultural/etc artifacts and whatnot destroyed. Contrast with Rhodar and their unified mode of colonization, Tumatre conquerors of this period were largely acting under individuals. Only in the final years of Tumatre glory and unification did they unite under the Eagle-King Galthaun for a period of twenty-eight years before the Rhodoi conquered them.

For four hundred years the Tumatre were forced from being conquerors to being the conquered. Their blood ran strong in their mountains and hills they had came from but dwindled more and more the further away they were. Looking at the map (see figure above), the Tumatre had gone from the mountains (pink) across the grasslands (dark red + orange) and nearly reached Rhodar (light red). Far more numerous were the Rhodoii, and far quicker did they sire babes than did the Tumatre and so they swiftly overtook the Tumatre in number where they could (orange and dark red regions). Thousands of goats were slaughtered, for they ate Rhodoi crops and were considered a dirty beast, and they (the Rhodoii) named the land Thurred, a Rhodoi word which loosely meant little brother for they claimed, falsely, that Rhodoi had long mastered the Teucogens and that the Tumatre had been fed a one-sided narrative, and they were destined to be reunited as master and servant - which was the other translation of Thurred. Just this infuriated the Tumatre greatly, for theirs was a storytelling peoples who prided themselves on their ancient tomes - which the Rhodoi essentially spat and defecated on. Many a young man occasionally attacked Rhodoi settlers with pitchforks and torches and many a young man hung on the tree branches. Every fourteen or so years, enough resentment would boil up and the Tumatre would revolt across entire provinces, spreading havoc on Rhodar's garrisons and the Rhodoii settlers who stole their land. Many ended quickly, and some lasted long, drawing great focus; all failed in one way or the next, and much blood was spilt afterwards. The last and greatest of them all was the Three Years War. 

In the Jorolchoran (Tumatre name for their specific parts of the mountains they inhabit) Galthuan's sons and their son's sons and so on waited for years upon years to strike at Rhodar. As the Rhodoii Empire rose and fell, they patiently gathered forces and strategized for years on end - for Galthuan had never surrendured and none of his sons had ever thought of such a notion - Jorolchoran was simply too far from the Rhodoi for them to attack, not to mention the great craftsmanship of the Teucogen fortresses which stood and stand to this day. Several generations had passed since Rhodar lost its great empire and steadily declined, yet the greater portion of many Tumatre remained subjects of Rhodar, even when many other subjects had won their freedom. The Three Years War had started two years too early as Galthuan's descendants were forced to act due to the growing number of peasant rebellions all across Thurred. Three years of one of the bloodiest conflicts Rhodar had seen so close to its borders before the momentum had died down with the death of Magrelon the "Prince of the Peasants" outside the Rhodoii capital city, where no rebellion had ever managed to get to. Nearly a quarter of Tumatre had been killed in the war and the subsequent massacre of Tumatre settlers that followed, yet it ignited the patient lords of Jorolchoran to openly resist completely, as the Kingdom of Jorolchoran broke free of Rhodoi rule, which was all in name only, and became a rallying point for all Tumatre to resist and break free of Rhodar's yoke: "The Fat Rhodoi stumbles" was written in cow blood all around Thurred, while Rhodar herself was dealing with the unexpected assault of her capital which had never occurred for 120 years. Already weak from corruption and complacency, Rhodar barely mustered three thousand mercenaries who failed to contain the free Tumatre. 

• Before the Three Years War, many of the Tumatre population had actually walked their way back to the mountains and further south of Jorolchoran to find another life and home, essentially giving up on their lands. Jorolchoran represents the hopeful Tumatre that still have the urge to fight, believing that the spirit of the Teucogens is with them. 

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