Talk:Konig des Menschen Chapter V (Map Game)/@comment-27999170-20191226023132

Powhatan Exiles

 * Government: pseudo-anarchic, proto-democratic decentralized clan confederation (no real government, social cohesion limited to following Usquehannatoco and their own unofficial "clan chief", "clan chiefs" advise Usquehannatoco, and have begun to be elected)
 * "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: 1,700
 * Religion: 60% Pocahontism (12% Orthodox Pocahontism, 51% Incarnationism, 37% Trialism), 40% traditional Native American religions
 * Ethnicity: 59% Powhatan, 8% Cherokee, 7% Chickasaw, 5% Pawnee, 5% Osage, 3% Appalachee, 2% Creek, 1% Miktos, 10% other (assorted Native American groups; including Choctaw, Tamaroa, Missouri, Kansa, Oto, Iowa, Omaha, Yankton, Wichita, and Arapaho)
 * Military:
 * Army: no real army, ~850 able-bodied men but only ~170 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.3: The Great Migration would continue at much the same pace as it did before, as the Exiles traversed the Great Plains, living off of hunting the large bison herds all over the Plains. By 1290, the Exiles were present around the OTL Nebraska-Colorado border.
 * E Pluribus Unum: Over the past few years, many men and women of many different tribes, itching to get away from whatever dire problems they are facing in their lives, have joined the Exiles in their inexorable trek westwards. Over this time, a common identity has emerged amongst all the Exiled, regardless of tribe, clan, social rank, gender, or any distinction. All are considered equal, and when introducing themselves to people they meet along the way, many have begun identifying themselves as an Exile rather than their tribal or clan affiliation. The Exiles have started to evolve into a tribe of their own right, one that sees no boundaries set along language, nationality, or creed, but only of merit and personality, ready to take in any that are not welcomed in others' lands.
 * The Land of Opportunity: By this point in the Migration, many people have begun to believe that only upon the death of Usquehannatoco ("I intend to travel as long as I live") will the Exiles be allowed to settle, and that the gods (whether the Pocahontic pantheon [itself heavily inspired by the Hellenic pantheon] or the assorted spirits and native gods of other tribes and nations) would only take Usquehannatoco's life once they arrived at a veritable paradise, where they would be free to settle peacefully. Usquehannatoco would be "taken by the gods" in the autumn of 1295,
 * The Beginnings of Democracy?: In these final stretches of the Great Migration, the unofficial "strongman" system would begin to coalesce into entirely new clans, often determined by tribal affiliation, religion, or even simple friend groups. A proto-democratic system would also begin to evolve, with several clan chiefs who died being replaced by an election process, where everyone in the clan (including women and even children) would have a say in the matter. Many clan chiefs were elected and governed via popular rule, and if the people did not like their clan chief anymore for some reason, they would simply spontaneously call for another election to determine a new clan chief. This system was haphazard, unorganized, and not encoded into law, but it was a democratic system nonetheless, and one of the first in the New World.
 * The Olympian Calendar: Around this time, what would become known as the Olympian Calendar evolved. Heavily based on the Julian calendar of the Elysians, the Olympian Calendar, however, would mark "Year 0" as the year of the beginning of the Exile (1264 in the Julian/modern Gregorian calendar), and the date of the beginning of the Exile (December 20th) used as the date of the New Year. Although the Olympian Calendar would fall out of civil use in the 1800s, replaced by the modern Gregorian calendar, it is still used for certain religious ceremonies.