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The '''Witz Machilob''' or '''Mountain Clans''' as they are known in [[Mutli]], but generally referred to as '''Puxtjay''' ("People of the Machete") by its members is an {{wp|Mixe people|Ayüükjä'äy}} - {{wp|Zoque people|O'de püt}} is an {{wp|Organized crime|criminal society}} originating from the [[Mutul]], in the hills and mountains separating the provinces of [[Yajawil of Joy Chan|Joy Chan]], [[Yajawil of Muynal|Muynal]], and [[Yajawil of Kanol|Kanol]] and dating to at least the 19th century. the Mountain Clans represent an especially secretive society which has proven especially difficult to infiltrate by the authorities. This is mostly due to their family-based recruitment, membership within the organisation is a purely dynastic affair, and only loose ties between Clans.
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|conflict = Nepantian Nurab War
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| caption    = A Nurab warrior
|date = 1530{{ndash}}1560
|place = primarily {{wp|Huasteca|Inik}} {{wp|Jalisco|Xalisco}}
|result = Tepanec victory
* Nurab driven off of [[portal:Artemis|Nepantia]]
* the {{wp|Huastec people|Teenek}} and {{wp|Western Peripheral Nahuatl}} are integrated into the {{wp|Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin|Tepanec Tlatholoyan}}
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The Clan form the basic unit of the organization. Each Clan consider itself sovereign over a given territory, generally a village or a neighborhood. In their territory, they practice {{wp|Racketeering}}, {{wp|Procuring (prostitution)|Prostitution}}, {{wp|Gambling}}, and {{wp|Usury}}.
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==History==
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The '''Nurab Holy Wars in Nepantia''' are a serie of campaigns started by [[Pavirata]] against the {{wp|Huastec civilization|Teenek kingdoms}} and {{wp|Western Peripheral Nahuatl|Nawal kingdoms}} at first, and then against the coalition led by [[Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin|Azcapotzalco]]. These campaigns had been thought by the Nurabs as "aggressive {{wp|Proselytism}} and its participants as both holy warriors and {{wp|missionary|missionaries}}. A more material goal was to gain an hold on lands and an access of rare ressources such as {{wp|chcoolate}}, {{wp|rubber}} and precious gems now that [[Pavirata]] was cut from the [[Thae Kaew Empire]]'s trade network.
The ''People of the Machete'' developed in the essentially tribal society of the 19th century western [[Mutul]]. The {{wp|Mixe people|Ayukjay}} and {{wp|Zoque people|O'de}} are two {{wp|Mixe–Zoque languages|closely related}} ethnic group, themselves covering a range of around sixteen or so dialects. Following traditional tales and archeologic evidences, these groups are often considered to be the modern successors of the ancient {{wp|Olmecs|Chakb'ah}} and {{wp|Epi-Olmec culture|Tzib’ah}} civilizations.


During the War, the Nurab would establish a few short-lived settlements and try to convert the local populations. But their violence and tendency for raids and plunders made these attempts fruitless. By the 1550, native rulers had called [[Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin|Azcapotzalco]] for help and, now that it had recovered from the [[Teltetzaltin Plague]], it was free to do so and sent armies to fight against the Nurab invaders. As such, while the Holy Wars failed to expand the Nurabinic world, it did allow for the weakened Tepanecs to reaffirm their dominant position and kickstart the [[Second Wave of Expansion]] of the Tlatholoyan, bringing the western Nahuatl and the Teenek into its orbit.
In the 18th century, Ayukjay and O'de people were mostly present in the highlands of the [[Yajawil of Yokok'ab]] and [[Yajawil of Muynal]]. Farming was their principal activity, producing raw materials for the artisans and enterprises of [[Yu]]. Poorer than their {{wp|Chontal Maya language|Yokot'an}} neighbors, many of these highlanders ended up migrating to [[Yu]], to serve among the [[Mutulese Ochran|Great Companies]] as sailors or marines. But after the 1750s, an economic crisis from which the Mutul never entirely recovered greatly reduced the economic opportunities across the Divine Kingdom. Ayukjay and O'de people especially suffered during this time as they ended up constantly sidelined in favour of their Yokot'an, {{wp|Mixtec|Nuu Davi}}, and {{wp|Ben Naa}} neighbors. These same ethnies would become core components of the [[Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale]] during the [[Sajal War]]. As a result, Ayukjay and O'de people would mostly side with the Royalists in that civil war, forming pockets of resistance against the Noble Republic' conscription and taxation. It's then that the expression "People of the Machete" first appeared.


==Background==
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the [[Ilok'tab Dynasty]] wished to reward its partisans across the country, the Men of the Machete included. The idea of a "Witz Machilob" (''Mountaineers'') Vice-Kingdom was floated, but ultimately a different solution was prefered. Yokok'ab was divided in two, its highlands becoming the [[Yajawil of Joy Chan]], which was still dominated by a {{wp|Chontal Maya language|Yokot'an}} aristocracy despite the greater powers acquired by the Ayukjay and O'de at the provincial level. ALthough most of the O'de people lived in this new state, the bulk of the Ayukjay population would remain in the [[Yajawil of Kanol]] where they acquired provincial-level autonomy.  
The Nurab Wars took place in a context of political fragmentation all around the [[Portal:Artemis|Daeshan Ocean]]. The [[Thae Kaew Empire]] and [[Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin|Azcapotzalco]] had fought for over 20 years during the [[Totonac Wars]]. The displacements, troops movements, and death provoked by these wars led to the creation of the [[Teltetzaltin Plague]] which greatly weakened the Tepanecs. Hearing of the news, the [[Cheongmae|Thae]] prepared a new campaign against their Nepantian ennemy. But the collect of the funds and manpower required for such an expedition sparkled unrests in the populations that considered they were already overburdened by the taxes previously raised for the other millitaristic endeavors of the Empire. These unrests became riots and then rebellion. Among the succesful ones there was the [[Keiyan Revolution]], but also the [[Nurab Revolution]] that led to the independence of [[Pavirata]]. This revolution was sprear-headed by the [[Nurab]] warrior-societies and their {{wp|guru}}s. The resulting {{wp|theocracy}} quickly revitalized the non-theistic teachings of the religion, rejecting the numerous gods worshipped by the populations, including "foreign importations" such as {{wp|Quetzalcoatl}}.  


===Nepantia-Pavirata relations===
In Joy Chan, inter-community violences would become the norm between the Yokot'an and the O'de, to the point the former would give the latter the name of ''Ok'ol'', "''The Mud''". After the first wave of expropriation and redistribution of the lands that followed the Sajal War, during which Royalist troops played a key role in law enforcement, the region was left more-or-less to fend for itself by the royal authorities. In the void left, elites of both sides would recruit their own "companies-at-arms" to hunt down thieves, opposing bandits, and negotiate the return of stolen property. The O'de troops, obviously, were mostly made up of People of the Machete.
[[File:Sarpa-Kavu-3.jpg|125px|thumb|There are very few remnants of the Quetzacoatl cult in [[Pavirata]] left]]
Since before the [[Thae Kaew]], the kingdoms of today [[Pavirata]] and [[Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin|Calpullali]] had extensive trade contacts, leading to trader communities living in each others lands, slowly building up syncretic cultures where contacts were especially commons. The presence of the Thae and their control over trades had greatly diminished these contacts, but communities of {{wp|Huastec people|Teenek}} and {{wp|Western Peripheral Nahuatl|Nawals}} still existed in coastal cities of [[Pavirata]]. These communities had preserved the worship of their own gods, especially {{wp|Quetzalcoatl}}. Despite participating in the anti-Thae revolts, they were quickly targeted by the Nurab because of their "amoral practices" such as {{wp|bloodletting}} and {{wp|animal sacrifices}} and because of their refusal to convert. The following massacres are seen by some historians as a prelude to the following holy wars.


===Inik kingdoms===
This proto ethnic war was ultimately won by the Yokot'an elites who secured the [[Yu]] - [[Sakulew]] {{wp|Rail transport|railroad}} and the [[S'aa River]] waterway.
At the start of the 16th century, the region known as '''Inik''' was divided in five kingdoms. The dominant ethnies was the {{wp|Huastec people|Teenek}}, but other ethnies living in these states were the {{wp|Pame people|Xiuy}}, the {{wp|Otomi|Ñuhmu}}, and the {{wp|Nahuatl}}. At first, the coastal kingdoms were the dominant power in the area, enjoying the profits of trans-Daeshan trade. But with the rise of the [[Thae Kaew]], their power waned in favour of more inland settlements such as [[Tamohi]], a religious center who greatly expanded during the 15th century. By the 16th century, its priest-kings had become the de-facto hegemons of Inik. This position however, was still unstable, contested by most of the other Teenek kingdoms and threatened by both Chichimecas incursions and [[Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin|Azcapotzalco]] raids.
 
===Nawal Kingdoms===
[[File:Xalixco color.svg|125px|thumb|Glyph-Emblem of Xalisco]]
The Nawal are a branch of {{wp|Nahuatl}} speakers that settled in the northwest of [[Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin|Calpullali]]. Contrary to their more central bretheren, quickly unified under the Tepanec banner, they remained a very divided people. However, by the 16th century, two main polities had emerged : Xalisco and Michuaco. Both were in competition over the control of the lucrative {{wp|salt}} market and had their respective networks of inland vassals and clients to fight alongside them. Densely populated for its time and well integrated to the larger maritime and continental traderoads, the Nawal had to face the [[Teltetzaltin Plague]] which had reached their kingdoms between 1525 and 1530.
 
 
==The War==
===First Campaign===
Though united through the religious [[Nurab Revolution]], the land of Pavirata was still politically divided among feuding Kings. By 1500, Thae-Kaew influence had fully ceded from Pavirata with the ongoing collapse of the empire. The Queen of the Vatram, [[Sanjukta]], ruled the land like a theocracy, becoming relatively close to the Nurabi and inviting them as council. With support of the Nurabi, warriors loyal to her across the land, Sanjukta led a conquest of much of Pavirata. Consolidating its power, Nurab religion spread across this new Vatram Empire during the revolution.
 
Politically, Empress Sanjukta needed to unite her diverse court and drive the revolution further. Economically, dominance could be attained by opening a new trade lane with the fall of Thae-Kaew, as well as new converts. Nepantia was rich in items such as chocolate and gems. The Nurabi already held contempt for what they broadly defined as "Nepantian religious practices". So in 1530, the Great Jathadar, Vivekbir, listened to Sanjukta's advice, calling for a new revolution against the "Demonic Pagans".
 
Sanjukta would personally lead the Nurabi, headed by her Vatram Army. A fleet of thousands would depart southern [[Jinhong Khem]], planned to strike Xalisco. The fleet would be mostly destroyed by a storm in the Daeshan, with Sanjukta having perished and the rest of the fleet led by second-in-command, Balchandra. He landed the battered fleet remnant's in Oxti, where he scouted the land. Balchandra now wanted to leave, stranded in a foreign land with little resources, against an enemy who surely outnumbered them.
 
====Battle of Labeth and alliance====
[[File:Tanding figure of an officer.jpg|175px|thumb|Supposed portrait of Balchandra made before the first Nepantian Holy War]]
At first, Balchandra planned to repair his fleet, and possibly to wait for signs of other ships that would've been dispersed by the storm. foraging parties were sent to seek wood for the repairs and food for the troops while they sat camp. After a few days, these expeditions would start fighting skirmishes with local warriors, the first signs of what was to come.
 
[[Tsemelon]], king of Oxti, had gathered an important army to repell the Nurabi and the foragers had battled against its scouts. With the approach of the main army, Balchandra and his men were forced to quickly fortify their camp and get ready to withstand a siege with only the meager ressources they had managed to gather beforehand. The Battle of Labeth, named after the landing point of the Nurabi army, ended up quicker than either side predicted. Balchandra's men were heavily outnumbered but had the advantage of having {{wp|annon}}s, a new weapon lacking in the Teenek arsenal. Impressed by these and the Nurabi resilience, Tsemelon ended up sending emissaries to the encircled force, to negociate with them.
 
Following the advices of his guru, Balchandra agreed and met Tsemelon outside of the fort. Ultimately, after much explanations of both men's positions, they came to an agreement: Tsemelon would offer food and shelter to the Nurabi, allowing them to move through his lands. In exchange, they would fight alongside the Oxti troops in their war against [[Tamohi]]. Balchandra was all the more willing to accept as he possibly didn't wish to return to [[Pavirata]] empty-handed, nor either he or his guru had yet entirely given up on the idea of fostering a "Revolution" against the Nepantians polytheists. It is possible that the Teenek played on this by outlining the nature of Tamohi as an important religious center for the kingdoms of the region.
 
====Battle of Pop Batan====
Balchandra's cannons helped Oxti take over a few Tamohi border fortifications and reach the mountains that encircled the plateau on which the holy city was built. A serie of fortified passes protected the most direct route between Oxti and Tamohi and the combined Nurab-Oxti forces planned to force their way through and force the reddition of their adversary. Even with the support of the Nurabi artillery, the battle proved very difficult and after many cannons were lost, either to malfunction, mistake, or ennemy assaults, they were forced to retreat back to their pre-campaign positions. Nonetheless, Tsemelon had obtained what he wished for and was able to begin negociations with Tamohi's leadership as an equal and not as a potential tributary.
 
====Battle of Oxti-city====
Returning from this campaign with little gains beyond the pension Tsemelon was giving them alongside the freedom to continue working on repairing their ships, the Nurabi's morale was low. News of the negotiations between their "allies" and Tamohi reached them and both Balchandra and his advisors started to fear what could Tsemelon do once he no longer had a use for them. Rumours of a secret clause being discussed by the two party where Oxti's king would turn the Nurabi in to Tamohi and its clergy especially scared them. Unwilling to take the risk of waiting to know if these rumours were true or not, Balchandra ordered his troops to rush to Oxti's capital and capture Tsemelon and to keep him as an hostage alongside as much of his court as possible.
 
Through their surprise assault, the Nurabi were able to quickly overrun the defenders of the capital and take control of the palace. They then presented their demands to the Teenek king: he was to immediately supply the wood and manpower required for the full repairs of the Nurabi fleet, to continue to provide for the foreigners' food and equipment for as long as they were present in his kingdom, and to deliver them three charriots full of gold and luxury goods taken directly from his treasury by the Nurabi.
 
As the "negotiations" stalled, the Nurabi started their pillage of the city. First it was the palace that was searched for gold or any objects of value. They notably killed the High-priest and a number of clergymen and holy women alongside him, destroyed the idols of {{wp|Quetzalcoatl}}, and plundered the treasures kept in the Palace's temple. From the palace, the plundering then expanded to the rest of the city and once again the Nurabi ended up torching a number of pagan temples and kill both clergymen and civilians opposing them.
 
However, after a few days, they found themselves trapped inside the palace. Slowly but surely, the city's inhabitants had organized and mobs of citizens began a siege of the city center. Tsemelon had yet to give in to the demands of his captors and they were starting to fear that their hostages were somehow communicating with the rioters outside. On the final night of the week, their fears were confirmed were Tsemelon and a few other nobles managed to escape and join the rioters. In response, Balchandra executed the remaining hostages. Then, he ordered his men to get ready for a sortie and to push through the rioters. They had no artillery with them, it had remained outsid of the city walls and had fled from the rioters back to their main base at the start of the uprising, but they were still better armed and equipped than their opponents. Ultimately, Balchandra was successful, even managing to cross the river that served as a natural moat despite the rioters destroying the bridges before hand. However, some of his men didn't manage to cross the water : slowed down by both their armors and the gold they had kept with them despite the advices of their officers and gurus, they were caught up by the Teenek and brought back to the city. Their fate remain unknown.
 
===Second Campaign===
==Aftermath and consequences==

Latest revision as of 18:43, 19 January 2022

The Witz Machilob or Mountain Clans as they are known in Mutli, but generally referred to as Puxtjay ("People of the Machete") by its members is an Ayüükjä'äy - O'de püt is an criminal society originating from the Mutul, in the hills and mountains separating the provinces of Joy Chan, Muynal, and Kanol and dating to at least the 19th century. the Mountain Clans represent an especially secretive society which has proven especially difficult to infiltrate by the authorities. This is mostly due to their family-based recruitment, membership within the organisation is a purely dynastic affair, and only loose ties between Clans.

The Clan form the basic unit of the organization. Each Clan consider itself sovereign over a given territory, generally a village or a neighborhood. In their territory, they practice Racketeering, Prostitution, Gambling, and Usury.

History

The People of the Machete developed in the essentially tribal society of the 19th century western Mutul. The Ayukjay and O'de are two closely related ethnic group, themselves covering a range of around sixteen or so dialects. Following traditional tales and archeologic evidences, these groups are often considered to be the modern successors of the ancient Chakb'ah and Tzib’ah civilizations.

In the 18th century, Ayukjay and O'de people were mostly present in the highlands of the Yajawil of Yokok'ab and Yajawil of Muynal. Farming was their principal activity, producing raw materials for the artisans and enterprises of Yu. Poorer than their Yokot'an neighbors, many of these highlanders ended up migrating to Yu, to serve among the Great Companies as sailors or marines. But after the 1750s, an economic crisis from which the Mutul never entirely recovered greatly reduced the economic opportunities across the Divine Kingdom. Ayukjay and O'de people especially suffered during this time as they ended up constantly sidelined in favour of their Yokot'an, Nuu Davi, and Ben Naa neighbors. These same ethnies would become core components of the Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale during the Sajal War. As a result, Ayukjay and O'de people would mostly side with the Royalists in that civil war, forming pockets of resistance against the Noble Republic' conscription and taxation. It's then that the expression "People of the Machete" first appeared.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Ilok'tab Dynasty wished to reward its partisans across the country, the Men of the Machete included. The idea of a "Witz Machilob" (Mountaineers) Vice-Kingdom was floated, but ultimately a different solution was prefered. Yokok'ab was divided in two, its highlands becoming the Yajawil of Joy Chan, which was still dominated by a Yokot'an aristocracy despite the greater powers acquired by the Ayukjay and O'de at the provincial level. ALthough most of the O'de people lived in this new state, the bulk of the Ayukjay population would remain in the Yajawil of Kanol where they acquired provincial-level autonomy.

In Joy Chan, inter-community violences would become the norm between the Yokot'an and the O'de, to the point the former would give the latter the name of Ok'ol, "The Mud". After the first wave of expropriation and redistribution of the lands that followed the Sajal War, during which Royalist troops played a key role in law enforcement, the region was left more-or-less to fend for itself by the royal authorities. In the void left, elites of both sides would recruit their own "companies-at-arms" to hunt down thieves, opposing bandits, and negotiate the return of stolen property. The O'de troops, obviously, were mostly made up of People of the Machete.

This proto ethnic war was ultimately won by the Yokot'an elites who secured the Yu - Sakulew railroad and the S'aa River waterway.

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