Nóta Scríta Maténeis
General introduction
The Nóta Scríta Maténeis are one of the travelogues written by Grópius Avenna Porrótor. It describes his earlier travels across the Sévo Mountains, which mainly led Grópius to the Madini, their steppes and deserts and to the shores of the Mukebahari Bay.
The document consists mainly of written accounts on the places he discovered and the people he met. Only in his later works he began to switch to drawings accompanied by notes and descriptions as a medium of documentation. This document, while not being revered as much as his later, more artistic works, is of special historical significance, though.
Content and reception
Grópius was the one to explore and describe the Paunis river in enough detail as to encourage the Tarrabaenians to cross the Sévo Mountains to the unknown East and extend their settlement area up to its shores. This also integrated the Paunis river into the naval defence system of the Tarrabaenians. Often Avenna Turillius Plurumus and his son Sidoneus Turillius Olturnus are credited with the rivers discovery. While it is true, that they took notion that the river is navigable - an aspect Grópius did not heed much attention to - and started the movement to incorporate the area between the Sévo Mountains and the Paunis into Tarrabaenia as a sefety measure and for access to more ressources to be used against their foes the Messelat Mdûlûn, Grópius is the factual discoverer of this river. In the year 1612 of the Era of the Earth, the decision to incorporate the fertile land east of the Sévo Mountains into the Tarrabaenian territory paid of, as if contributed not only to a major defeat of a Messelat Mdûlûn fleet in the Fourth War against the Southern Elves, but also, by this defeat, created a stable foothold for the Tarrabaenian navy.
One more aspect is the first mention of the Avenna's Oyster and its pearls, which introduced the pearls to the Tarrabaenians, leading to an unprecedented run for these luxurious commodities. Cushioned by the crushing defeat of the Mdûlûn, the Tarrabaenians found pleasure in luxury and started a hype especially around these pearls. This greatly influenced Tarrabaenian fashion and style, introduced new forms of art, which in turn influenced cultural habits as well as Tarrabaenian literature.
Type
Record, Logbook
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