Tamta

Tāmta was a nation founded by the Scorpions and whose population by 4195 consisted mostly of young Cold Men. Both the Scorpions and the Cold Men were child refugees who had fled on their own into Moonshine's pre-existing refugee territory of Hōki.

TIMELINE

• Tamta/4192
• Tamta/4193
• Tamta/4194
• Tamta/4195
• Tamta/4196
• Tamta/4197
• Tamta/4198

• Tamta/later history

Gazetteer

04:56, 24 April 2025 (PDT)

To keep track of the ever-changing names, both external and internal, in my writing, I am putting a list here. This will help reduce my need to constantly write embarrassments such as "Yāsauŋa, also known as Yāsaune" (because I changed the Play name). This applies to not just placenames, but also people's names, although for people I have preferred to use bynames (Desert Rose, Blue Sky) etc for a long time, mitigating this problem.

Ideally I will have a marking system to distinguish between at least three groups of names:

1. Names that are valid in their source language (usually Play), and currently valid in the timeline.
2. Names that are valid in their source language (usually Play), but currently disused in the timeline. For example, if I've found what I feel is a more clever Play name than my original idea, even though both names would make sense grammatically.
3. Names that depend on invalid source language roots, such as Raspara and even Pabappa, but which I've used so much that it would be highly inconvenient for me to change the names. These I often explain as being from "trade languages".

Placenames

• Rasparia, home of the Raspara.

• Pāppeni, meaning bush country, scrubland, a forest with more bushes than trees.

Background

When the Thunder Empire signed a treaty with the Crystal Empire, together they formed the Lantern Empire. The Thunderers were the weaker of the two powers, and some Thunderers wanted to keep Crystals out of their side of the empire to protect them from being dominated. The state of Hōmoya was one Thunder state that allowed Crystal settlement, however.

When the empire collapsed, the state of Hōmoya became independent and was settled by Moonshine migrants fleeing their own defeat in a related war. Eventually, as Moonshine became a rising power, they incorporated Hōmoya into their empire, renaming it Hōki. It had retained its character, and the Moonshines declared that Hōki would become a safe state for refugees of all wars to flee into. They promised to protect Hōki's sovereignty, but made no promise to station Moonshine soldiers within Hōki; they warned refugees that they therefore could not prevent small-scale conflicts from erupting within Hōki if refugees from both sides of a war fled into Hōki and carried their battles with them.

Lakeside territory

The richest natural environment in Hōki was at the north end, the furthest from any foreign borders, where there was a very large lake, Tulip Lake. Newly arriving refugees here tended to settle in compact neighborhoods, with an entire nationality often confined to just a single street and a few avenues leading away from it. Over time, many of these newly arriving groups expected to marry into other groups and come to identify simply as citizens of Hōki; intermarriage tended to occur mostly among groups that had common cultural ties, even if they had come from opposite sides of a war. By contrast, language and cultural barriers often kept people apart in Hōki even if they had come from politically allied nations.