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Chiefdom of Roanoke | Roanoke Clan

 * Government: Clan Chiefdom
 * Chief/Chieftess: Tomaskiske (b. ~1170s, r.~1190s-1217), Pocahontas (b. 1204, r.1218-)
 * Capital: Croatan (OTL New Bern, NC)
 * Economy: Mainly based off fishing, hunting, and a minimal amount of corn farming. Currently reeling from the Accursed Plague.
 * Demographics:
 * Population: 920 (previously 1,560 before the Accursed Plague)
 * Croatan: 260 (previously 420)
 * Religion: 100% Native American totemist or shamanist religions
 * Ethnicity: 100% Powhatan
 * Military:
 * Army: no real standing army, although technically all adult men (~400) are expected to fight if needed, clashes between nearby clans were historically fought with around 20-50 men.
 * Navy: no real military-focused navy, 14 primitive canoes (serving as fishing boats)
 * Wars and Conflicts: N/A
 * Events:
 * Ever Heard of Those Strange White Men From the Sea?: Rumors have reached us of strange white men from the sea, who have invaded and settled in the lands of the Monahtanuk. We do not know what this means for us...
 * The Accursed Plague: Our people have been ravaged by a sickness so deadly and so evil that our great elders, in all their wisdom, cannot name a worse time for us. It has killed almost half of our people, and broken the spirits of the rest, for they do not know what evil has brought this sorrow upon us, and why we have been ravaged so. We have tried to appease the gods, by offering sacrifices of the belongings of the plague-stricken, but to no avail. (Modern historian here, this was a smallpox outbreak, the first of many European-introduced plagues to impact the native populations of North America.)
 * The One That Lives: In the sixth year of the Accursed Plague, our beloved Chief Tomaskiske, and all of his kin, had come down with the strange sickness. All of them eventually succumbed to the Accursed Plague and died, all except one. Three weeks after the death of Chief Tomaskiske, the people of Croatan would finally enter the Chief's wigwam, in order to burn their belongings to appease the spirits, and to give the Chief and his family a respectable burial. Inside, they found young, 13 year old Pocahontas, the Chief's youngest daughter and overall child, hiding in a corner, scared, but otherwise perfectly healthy, even though the town remembered she, too, came down with the Accursed Plague. Previously, Pocahontas had started to become known for her blinding beauty, sharp wit, humorous disposition, and wisdom far beyond her years. People had already thought of her as "blessed by the gods and spirits". Now, she, the first known to have survived the Accursed Plague, became the new Chief, and was held to have become somewhat of a god. Later that winter, when 5 of her closest friends, too, caught and survived the Accursed Plague, Pocahontas was cemented as a god by all of the Roanoke clan. The shamans now sung prayers and brought offerings to her, and her reputation was even starting to spread to other clans. By the end of the decade, as the Accursed Plague had spread throughout the rest of the Powhatan, half of the coast, from Roanoke itself all the way to the swamps of the OTL Virginia Tidewater, prayed to Pocahontas, the One That Lived, to deliver their family and friends from fiendish plague, and sang praises to her when they were cured.
 * Diplomacy: N/A