Suiyuu Viltis

Suiyuu Viltis
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Capital and	Yutarne
Official languages	Azawarecha
Ethnic groups (2016)	Karazawi Ö'ode Latino-Viltiseses
Demonym(s)	Viltiseses
Government	Constitutional monarchy
Legislature	Viltese Assembly
Suiyuu of Karazawa
Population
• 2019 estimate	2,000,000
• 2012 census	1,699,634

Viltis, officialy the Suiyuu Viltis, is a Province of Karazawa comprising the island of the same name, located in the south-west of the Claudian Sea, with Nameria to its west and south and Karazawa to its east. It’s the sixth largest island of the Lazarene Ocean, and the largest of the Claudian Sea. It has a population of around 3 millions inhabitants.

The oldest recorded civilization in Viltis was the Tumodii culture from the 4rth millenium to the subjugation of the island by the Palatinate in 20 BCE. Viltis was the last bastion of the culture, home to what the Palatins called the Odii Kingdoms; the last sovereign city-states of their civilization after the conquest of their mainland counterparts in 400 BCE by the city of Tula Prima. After the fall of the Palatinate, it will become part of the Kingdom of Nameria and then be one of the provinces of the Namerian Empire after its proclamation in 1202 CE. in 1870, during the Namerian Civil War, the Provincial authorities of Viltis decided to call the Caconziche Karazawi for help and protection. In 1875 both the Viltis Assembly and the Diet of Karazawa sign the treaty of annexation of Viltis which becomes a Karazawi Suiyuu the 26th of August of the same year.

The official language of Viltis is Azawarecha, with Ö’ode as a recognized regional language, taught in primary school and with its own bilingual traffic signs. But culturally, the island was deeply influenced by the Palatinate and even if it has kept a very local identity, it is considered part of the Romance world.

History

Tumodii period

A Werejaguar ceremonial axehead

The first humans colonized the island during the last glaciation era. These neolithic cultures utilised ground stone and shell tools and ornaments and lived a subsistence lifestyle based on fishing, hunting and collecting wild plants. It's around 1500 BC that agriculture arrived on the island. Sedentary settlements appeared and, shortly thereafter, megalithic construction marking religious sites. All of the artefacts left on the island from that period allow archeologists to say that the island was either integrated, subjugated, or colonized by the Tumodii culture that had appeared around a millenium ago on the mainland. Settlements were typical of that culture, being mostly religious and political site, but also castles in time of war, in which the population does not live all year round, only gathering during festivities, market days, political gatherings, or sieges. Religious practices seems to have revolved around the cult of the Werejaguar, and the island was already producing resines and latex, products that still makes the reputation of Viltis in modern days. Their diet was mainly made up of fruits and vegetables early on, but corn became increasingly important, following in that the dietetic evolution of the mainland. Despite the wide range of hunting and fishing available, midden surveys in San Lorenzo have found that the domesticated dog was the single most plentiful source of animal protein.

This period lasted 1100 years and was the last "free" part of the Tumodii world, up until the various polities were attacked and defeated by Tula Prima, a continental hegemon in what is modern day Nameria.

Tulaic period

A Viltisese statuette with typical Tulaic logograms.

The island's many cities would remain autonomous and keep their culture mostly intact, but had to pay tribute and help Tula in its war, notably serving as sailors. Tula's influence can nonetheless be felt, even if it itself takes great inspiration from the Tumodii. Tula's logograms became the new writing system, religious artefacts representing were-jaguar and transformatives figurines slowly became less and less common, while new stone works would represent religious leaders and chieftains in Tulaic clothings, rather than in costumes native to the island like their predecessors.

The population continued to grow, until the island was almost completely urbanized and/or transformed by human activities. Even so, wars continued to shake the various politicies, but now with the ever watchful eye of Tula Prima on them, ready to jump in to calm the situation if it became too heated and threatening to internationale trade, as the rubber, latex, and other resines or oil produced by the islanders was in high-demand on the mainland, and part of the tributes they had to pay to their hegemon. Like during the previous period, human sacrifices remained common, and so were ballgames, even if the exact rules changed depending on the settlements and eras. Tula's influence over Viltis would come to an abrupt end in 100 BC, when the hegemon-city was conquered by the Latins of the Palatinate. The islands city-states, now independent, became known as the Odii Kingdoms, surviving the fall of their protector for another eighty years until the Palatinate became the new master of the island in 20 BC after a decade long period of conflicts.