Kragenmoor, officially the Kingdom of Kragenmoor, is an island nation located in the south-western Oestean Ocean which is in the region of Pohlmania. It is roughly one and a half thousand kilometers east of Commonwealth of Saint Andrews Island and around a thousand kilometers south of New Tollana which as colony of the Republic of Kelwona.
Arrival of Moori People The first humans to arrive in Kragenmoor were the Moori people who arrived from what is now New Tollana around 1200 CE, the exact year cannot be determined since the Moori people did not possess any form of written language so there are no written records from that period in history. From archaeological evidence compiled over the past fifty years it is now believed that a large group, approximately a thousand, landed at several places along the north-eastern coast of the north island. This massive migration was caused by a volcanic eruption which forced the Moori people to leave their homeland for what is now Kragenmoor. Each of the settlements that emerged formed the first tribes.
Moori Tribal Period Over the next three hundred years each of the tribes began to spread, claiming many new lands and establishing new tribes as well as sub-tribes. In the early fifteenth century a new land to the south, now known as the South Island, was discovered by the Moori tribe from which the people get their name. From information passed down through verbal communication it is believed that the tribal chief, Tokanod, kept information about the newly discovered island close and began colonization for his own tribe to prevent any other tribe from gaining the island which would make his tribe very powerful among the others. Over the next one hundred years the tribe quickly spread over the southern island without any of the other tribes even knowing about it.
Moori Kingdom and Expansion When his father died, Tokanod II proclaimed himself King of the tribe and announced the South Island's existence to the other tribes. His new Kingdom stretched from what is now Stuart Island to just north of what is now Wellington making it the largest, most populated and most powerful in the two islands.
The secrecy and quick accession to a seat of power angered the other tribes who in turn attacked the Moori Kingdom. The Moori Kingdom did possess a larger force of warriors but had to spread them out which meant that at first the other tribes had an advantage, this meant the conflict continued to the reign of King Tuariki I when it finally ended in the early seventeenth centaury. It had been a long period of sporadic fighting but the Moori Kingdom, which spread across all of what is now Kragenmoor, achieved victory and wiped out the other tribes.
Civiltan Discovery In 1642 the Vetherlandish explorer Orbel Wasen discovered the Moori Kingdom and established contact with a small village located on the north-western coast of the South Island. The visit was short but important, the village leader told Wasen that the people were called the Moori. It was for this reason that Wasen later marked the new land on a map as Kragenmoor which was a crude combination of the name of his family's estate and the Moori people. King Tuariki II was never informed of the meeting.
Kragenmoor was not revisited by Civiltans until 1769 when Captain James Fry who mapped the majority of the Kragenmooran coastline. When Fry met with the monarch at the time, Queen Atairangikaahu, he told her of Orbel Wasen's naming of the nation. She liked to sound of the name so declared that the Moori Kingdom to be renamed the Kingdom of Kragenmoor.
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by Kragenmoor » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:04 pm