The Marquesian Alliance
Around the year 400 PD, an exploration vessel from the
distant land of Marquet was nearing the end of its provisions
when it reached the Swavain Islands. Discovered
and captured by the ever-watchful Ki'Nau, the desperate
explorers made trade offerings of foreign gold, spices,
and fine silks. This diplomatic approach won over the leaders of the Ki'Nau, and an alliance was made with
the Marquesian travelers to return with trade goods
and establish a Marquesian outpost, which was to be
named Damali.
During this time, a cruel seafaring culture called
the Vukan discovered the Ki'Nau and coveted their
lush homesteads and rich, sea-gathered jewelry. These
Vukan began a series of coordinated assaults on the
Ki'Nau, killing and kidnapping a number of them under
the shadow of night. The Marquesian guilds who had
sent the exploration ship agreed to offer naval support
to combat these attacks, but it was Uk'otoa whose fury
ultimately annihilated the Vukan at their home villages
and erased them from Exandria.
Having lost a portion of their fleet in these fights, the
surviving Marquesian naval ships remained to build
small settlements along the coast to aid in their trade
with the Ki'Nau. The Ki'Nau leader Tauan kept a tentative
peace with the foreign sailors, but Uk'otoa wanted
to dominate the new arrivals who refused to renounce
their old gods and bow to him. These tensions came to
a head when a secret sect of Marquesian worshipers of
the Cloaked Serpent Zehir were given a task by their
enraged god from beyond the Divine Gate: to destroy
Uk'otoa for his insolence. With the aid of a powerful cult
leader within an archeological guild known as the Allegiance
of Allsight, a series of temples built to Uk'otoa
were corrupted with Zehir's influence and used to seal
Uk'otoa deep beneath the rock of the ocean floor, robbing
the Ki'Nau of their patron.
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