Tinjar Confederation
City-States of Mursil
In the years after the Black Collapse, the Tinjar Confederation emerges among the seafaring city-states around the Mursil Sea(the modern Tobia's Gulf). The founding date of the Confederation is unknown. With origins most likely late in the Black Collapse. The Tinjan Annals state that migrations from the eastern lands, washed away the indigenous Maine tribes, establishing the cities that made up the Tinjar Confederation. The Annals are not clear on the dates, or if it was an invasion at all. Considering the Annals began in 4800sc, four centuries after the decline of the Confederation, it is understandable there information would be limited to hearsay and local legends. Modern scholars today believed that, more than likely, a trickle of migrations slowly happened over the centuries during the Collapse, integrating the old culture with the new, creating what is today the Tinjin people. The widespread accepted theory is that as the large eastern nations in the Novyum regions fell apart during the Black Collapse, many began migrating to new regions for food and safety. These new people coming in, brought with them the knowledge to help rebuild what was lost with the fall of the region’s powers and the departure of the Zalpula Elf.
The Tinjar Confederation didn’t last long, however. One of the major events recorded, and dated, in the Tinjan Annals is a series of brutal internal wars between the cities began in 4426sc, weakening the region and creating a deep divide between the tribal groups of Thoamaine Peninsula. A divide that plagues the region into the modern age. Thoamaine has suffered from an unending cycle of falling under the influence of whatever is the dominant power in the east, unable to offer up any real resistance to the incoming groups due to this ancient rivalry. The Tinjin of the peninsula have consistently been more willing to be subjugated by a foreign power, then to work with their bitter generational tribal rivals. This is not the case for all Farlands however. While bitter tribal warfare raged on the north side of the Mursil Sea, in the south, the lands that were once the old kingdom of Zalpula, a people known as Lhakamen were unifying into an allaince and developing a culture separate from their fallen allies to the north.
The south of Mursil had established two strong city-states sometime early after the Black Collapse. These dominated the southern Mursil coasts throughout the Confederation. These were the inheritors of control of the seas as the Confederation collapsed. Polis rested on the tip of the Thorn Horn. The Polinis were seafaring people that quickly seized upon the failing Confederation’s crumbling control to dominate the Mursil’s trade lanes. Polis’ sister city, Pampont, lay on the coast at the edge of the Pampont Plains, west of the Redhand River’s connection to the sea. Pampontians were an agricultural folk, maintaining large tracts of farms throughout the flatlands south of their city. The Lhakamen cities were rivals for much of the life of the Tinjar Confederation’s life, but as the north fell into war the two southern powers grew closer, forming the Lhakenwed, creating a strong alliance on the south side of the Mursil Sea that the northern powers, fractured and small, feared to challenge.
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