Lenani
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The Lenani are a Lenani-Littoral people of Eastern Ereláe. They are militaristic nomads and hardline Jippirasti. In the modern day they control a half dozen separate states or teje.
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Early History
The Lenani emerged as a seperate group in the Lake Lenan region around the beginning of the first century Z.E. While the mountanous terrain around Lake Lenan did not support agriculture it appears to have encouraged a level of unity, and by the third century the Lenani had organised themselves into a kingdom, known as Lenan. This kingdom was shattered by the Čia-Ša kingdom of Javan in the fifth century, but over the next century, the Lenani successor state of Ingobra, on the unconquered southern coast of Lake Lenan succeeded in reuniting the Lenani kingdom. The revived kingdom remained relatively unchanged thereafter untill the Enev Clan came to power around 900 Z.E. The Enevids expanded into the Tžuro-occupied Burilenan steppe to the east, setting themselves up as some sort of dominating overlords ruling over areas mostly populated by Tžuro. The Tžuro did not prove submissive, and the stress of ruling them led the Enevids to retreat from Burilenan in the early eleventh century. The remaining Lenani organised themselves as the state of Turomai, but the Tžuro Princes had destroyed this state by 1150 and ended Lenani occupation of Burilenan.
Tžuro Domination
The Tžuro Princes continued to expand into Lenani territory over the following centuries, reaching the southern shore of Lake Lenan in the fifteenth century. The unification of the Tžuro under the Kurundasti Tej sped up this process, and the remained of Lenan was conquered by the Tžuro in the late sixteenth century. Under the Kurundasti Tej the Lenani were initially a core territory, and the formation of the city of Lanim would seem to testify to the prosperity of the Lenani within the Tej. The Lenani wholeheartedly adopted Jippirasti (of the Staji school) as their belief system. However, following the invasion of Skouras the focus of the Kurundasti Tej moved southward, and the Lenani found themselves increasingly marginalised.
Lenani Independance
In 1875, the antagonism between the increasingly urbane rulers of the Kurundasti Tej and the more traditional Tžuro of the steppes culminated in the creation of the new Buručandi Tej in the Tžuro homeland. The Lenani found themselves within this new Tej, but they rebelled against the Buruchandi in 1895, under the pretext of returning to orthodox Jippirasti. This state lasted only untill 2050 when the Carhinnoi occupied the Lenani Plateau. Many Lenani refugees crowded into the Eastern Pronel and Ediri Mountains regions within the Tžuro Naraji Tej, which attempted to assert its authority over the newcomers. The Lenani were having none of this; in the subsequent war the Naraji were completely defeated and their tej destroyed. The Lenani refugees thereafter declined into warlordism.
Tokruji Tej
Around 2150 the larger potion of the Lenani were organized by the warlord Tokruj into a new Tej. Jippirasti lays great stress on the unity of the believers, and the Tokruji Tej therefore took it as their sacred duty to conquer their neighbors to reclaim them for Jippir. The architect of the great Tokruji expansion was Žigral, who reigned from 2265 to 2304. Working at the union of the Jippirasti, he reclaimed the Lenani plateau from the Carhinnoi (2267-70), destroyed the Buručandi Tej (2271-75), and whittled down the Kurundasti to just the down to the valley of the Šinour (2279-2280). He was then ready to take on the unbelievers: the Sevisre (2281-82), the Axunashin of the upper Xengi (2284), Pronel (2287-90). His capital, Zhigralim on Lake Lenan, was filled with magnificent, half-empty palaces, and the treasures of his defeated opponents; the sight of his horsemen's banners massing on the horizon caused trembling from Weinexi to Jippirim to Carhinnia. Zhigral's Tokruji successors pursued the reduction of the Kurundasti Tej, and even attempted an invasion of Čeiy (2340); but they had not inherited his genius, and the offensive soon passed to the Tžuro, of the vigorous new Anajati Tej. The Tokruji had lost control of most of Skouras and the Sevisre by the end of the twenty-fourth century. Simultaneously Pronel was lost to the Sainor, the Karimi Steppe split off as the Ejiji Tej, and Lenan drifted into independance once more.
Modern Era
Around 2600 the new Burmiji Tej succeeded in conquering the Karimi, Burilenan and Upper Skouras regions. However, Sainor incursions from around 2700 saw the Tej begin to fracture. Eventually, however, the Sainor became embroiled with putting down rebellion in Skouras, and the Burmiji reoccupied Burilenan, in the thirieth century, cutting the Sainor empire in half. Within fifty years, however, the Burmiji tej was overthrown by the Bendasti, believers in a mystical and ecstatic form of Jippirasti. However, these new dynasts were unable to win the allegiance of the eastern chieftains, some of whom formed a new Karimi Tej. This had splintered by 3200 into Sakro and Bukural. The thirty fourth century saw the overthrow of the Bendasti Tej by the Lumbai Tej and the formation of Bamburitra Tej. This century has seen a dramatic increase in Dhekhnami influence in northern Lenani territories. They induced the northern portions of Lenan and Sakro to declare their independence, forming two new client states, Sejnihal and Gêsh. Lumbai and Bamburitra, retain their traditional ties to Skouras, and follow a very strict, traditional form of Jippirasti. Lenan itself, distrusted by the other Lenani states, has been forced to take a more international outlook, aligning itself Xurno.
Lenani States
- Lenan (200's-400's, 500's-c.900)
- Ingobra (400's)
- Enevids (c.900-1400's)
- Turomai (c.1000-c.1100)
- Lenan (1400's-c.1600)
- Lenani Tej (1895-c.2000)
- Tokruji Tej (c.2150-2500's)
- Ejiji Tej (c.2400-2500's)
- Lenani Tej (c.2450-Present day)
- Burmiji Tej (2500's-c.3025)
- Lihuri Tej (2500's)
- Karimi Tej (c.2800-3100's)
- Bendasti Tej (c.3025-c.3450)
- Bukural (3100's-Present day)
- Sakro (3100's-Present day)
- Bamburitra (c.3250-
- Lumbai (c.3250-Present day)
- Gesh (3400's)
- Sejnihal (c.3450-Present day)
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