Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Nova Scotia | |
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| Capital and largest city | [[]] |
| Official languages | Stired (Nova Scotian) |
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| Demonym(s) | Nova Scotian |
| Government | Theocracy |
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| Legislature | Holyrood |
| Formation | |
• Founding of Nova Scotia | 17 May 2022 |
| Currency | [[]] |
| Driving side | left |
Nova Scotia is a country.
History
Origins
It is unknown how the Nova Scotians first came to this world. It is also unknown what their own world was like, though the people brought with them a long memory of ancient states wrapped in myth known as Scotland and Old Glasgow. However they got here, these people landed in a secluded area of highlands within the Air Nation. Although they mostly lived separately from the natives, many began to follow the teachings of Empyreanism. At some point, a push towards syncretism was orchestrated by a class of people known as Kenners. They claimed to understand the complex interplay between Empyrean and Old Glaswegian thought. At the heart of their philosophy was a distinction between Heaven and Earth, which had been in balance during Glasgow's past but was now awry.
Early Kennism was based on the charisma of an individual Kenner. They provided guidance across a few villages, exerting great influence on their communities, but always maintaining that their work was spiritual not temporal. After a while, some Kenners started to declare that they had found the heirs of Old Glasgow. Then, all over their little pocket of the Air Nation, warbands started to show up. They each had dual leadership between the Kenner and the claimed heir, known as a Ghost (from the Taoist concept of a xian). Together, they embodied the Sky/Substance dichotomy, with the Ghost handling temporal affairs, usually war, and the Kenner offering spiritual guidance and interpretation of the Ghost’s thoughts, in a practice known as confession. Scotian society in this time was highly warlike, and dominated by men.
As these warbands conquered more territory, a primitive civil service / clergy emerged, composed of underlings of the Kenners. As these underlings were not full Kenners they were permitted to deal in temporal affairs, which usually amounted to taxation. Whilst early administration could be characterised as nothing more than a protection racket, some Kenners eventually oversaw a complex system of extraction, which they usually reinvested in to the military. The power of the Kenners came to eclipse that of their partner Ghosts.
The expansionism of the Kenners brought them into frequent conflict with one another, with increasingly brutal fighting. When this inevitably spilled over into the rest of the Air Nation, the Scotians were put down quickly by their hosts. The Kenners started to agree with each other that they could not continue within the Nation. Thus, they came up with a plan to pool their resources, unite for the first time, and carve out a chunk of the Air Nation for themselves.
For a year, the Kenners travelled round their land, amassing an army. However, that Autumn a deadly blight struck the crops. The Ghosts urged the Kenners to allow the soldiers to come home and harvest what they could; the Ghosts were denied and locked in a stone chamber. As preparations went ahead, disquiet and desertion spread among the common people. They were spurred on by a group known as the Eleven Princes, children of the Ghosts, who argued that the Kenners had lost the Mandate of Heaven.
When the army was fully amassed, in the market town of Stirling, starving people came out onto the streets, demanding bread. A mass of emaciated bodies surged towards the Kenners on their stage in the centre of the market place. The army was ordered to stop the crowd, but the army turned their heads. In later stories of this event, it’s said that the Kenners were ripped apart at the limbs and eaten by the starving people. Whatever happened to them, the Kenners and their underlings lost all of their power that day, and the void was filled by the Elven Princes. The young rulers announced that the war was to be called off. In light of what had happened, they proclaimed that balance between Heaven and Earth could not be found in this land. Instead, they led a mass migration over the sea and to the west.
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