Talk:Konig des Menschen Chapter V (Map Game)/@comment-27999170-20191222221646

Powhatan Exiles

 * Government: pseudo-anarchic decentralized clan confederation (no real government, social cohesion limited to following Usquehannatoco and their own unofficial "clan chief")
 * "Leader": Usquehannatoco (b.1231)
 * Capital: N/A (nomadic/in exile)
 * Economy: Not much; people live off of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and trade is limited to sporadic exchanges of Elysian weapons and horses for food, shelter, and goodwill towards the clan or tribe the Exiles are forced to intrude on.
 * Demographics: 
 * Population: 1,100
 * Religion: 76% Pocahontism (12% Orthodox Pocahontism, 51% Incarnationism, 37% Trialism), 23% traditional Native American religions
 * Ethnicity: 75% Powhatan, 10% Cherokee, 6% Chickasaw, 4% Appalachee, 3% Creek, 1% Choctaw, 1% Miktos
 * Military:
 * Army: no real army, ~600 able-bodied men but only ~150 with military experience (tribal warriors/exiled Powhatan troops)
 * Navy: N/A
 * Wars and Conflicts: N/A
 * Events:
 * The Banishment, the Trail of Tears, and the Great Migration, pt.2: The Exiles continue to traverse the continent, attracting attention and enticing the avid adventurers and social outcasts of clans and tribes who know about them to join, too. By 1280, the Exiles would be in the vicinity of OTL St.Louis, Missouri. When asked of the final destination of their travels, Usquehannatoco replied: "I do not know, little one, but I honor the word of my brother, even if he is a traitor to our culture. He asked me to travel as far away from him as my legs would allow, and so I intend to travel in the opposite direction of the rising sun for as long as I live".
 * The Plague Strikes Back: A fable dating back from the Great Migration goes as follows: One cold winter morning, the Exiles chanced upon two Chickasaw villages: a large and prospering one, and a small and stuggling one. The large, prosperous village refused to let the Exiles in, even though they had more than enough food to sustain all of them, but the small, struggling one let them in, even though they barely had enough food for themselves, let alone the Exiles. For as long as the Exiles stayed in the small village, the food stocks of the small village would replenish every sunset, so that there was always enough food for the people of the village and the exiles. However, the other village displeased the gods, so Pocahontas decided to rain the Accursed Plague down upon that village. Thus, every man, woman, and child in the large but selfish village died, while no harm would come upon the small but kindhearted village. Although this fable merely uses the Accursed Plague to reinforce its message of kindness and charity, the Powhatan Migration was historically one of, if not the main vector of spread of Old World diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and measles into the interior of Olympia. Several historians even cite the Powhatan Migration as a major indirect cause of the fall of the Mississippian moundbuilding societies.
 * Spreading Literacy: Several shamans, scribes, and the few Miktos exiles have begun teaching basically anyone who listens how to read and write. In this way, the Great Migration spread writing into the interior of the Olympian continent, and also cemented the Barbaroi script as the main script for writing native languages in general.