Verse:Hmøøh/Wen Dămea

Early history

The earliest known agricultural settlement in Wen Dămea is known to have been settled by pre-Quame and pre-Lakovic settlers since 5000 years BP.

Quame speakers came from the east (Dodellia), and Lakovic speakers came by sea from the south, separated by an east-west mountain range down the middle; hence the northern Talmic area and the southern Lakovic area today.

Warring Period

The Warring Period (Wdm. fi Șicuaf Mătäng) was a turbulent 200-year period when the institutions of the nascent Windermere empire began to be established. The Talman sacred texts, the Latlaseekh and the Imθumăytil, were edited during this period.

Windermere Empire

The Mărotłites gained power and established the Windermere Empire (Classical Windermere: Soonuł Wen Dămee). The Empire was a theocracy with some separation of powers:

• the Mărotłite religious law as taught in the Pĭdaic texts such as the Imθumăytil, which served as the "constitution";
• the Supreme Pĭdaic Court, where a panel of pĭda-judges resolved disputes and interpreted laws;
• the Emperor (Nusoonuł) and his subjects, who did things like signing treaties, making war, taxing and budgeting, etc. but was subject to the above two.

House of Gweats (0 fT - 522 fT)

(Windermere: iec Gweats 'Gweats line/lineage')

House of Fnüeng (522 fT - ???)

(Windermere: iec Fnüeng) The printing press was invented in Skella by Lleemi Þrohd later this period. It was also a time when the Empire's hegemony was in decline and the government was perceived to be incompetent and corrupt.

Ngronaist Revolution (935-961 fT)

A few decades after, an Anbirese civil servant and writer by the name of Emisom Anjeodgan published his translations of the old Tigol writings and his protest politico-religious poems, which were widely disseminated thanks to the printing press.

The Windermere imperial authorities were of course none too pleased, and tried to suppress the spread of Anjeodgan's ideas. But it was too little, too late: Ngronaism had already provoked a firestorm of rebellious and nationalistic sentiment across the Talmic-speaking part of Talma.

Thus the imperial authorities made a compromise: they recognized the new religion, on the condition that it accept the legitimacy of the Empire's authority. Nevertheless suspicion still lingered.

TODO: how the war began

The war caused the Empire to lose much of its territory.