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Powhatan Confederacy | Tsenacommacah | Omospondia Barbaroi

 * Government: Centralized tribal confederacy
 * Weroansqua: Pocahontas (b. 1204, r.1218-)
 * Capital: Croatan
 * Economy: Mainly based off fishing, hunting, and a minimal amount of corn farming. Suffering from some effects of European plagues.
 * Demographics:
 * Population: 1,400
 * Croatan: 265
 * Religion: 96% early Cult of Pocahontas, 4% Hellenism
 * Ethnicity: 98% Powhatan, 2% Elysian Greek
 * Military:
 * Army: no real standing army, although technically all adult men (~700) 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:
 * Beginnings of the Powhatan Confederacy: With a small but growing amount of other clans being absorbed into the Roanoke polity and God-Weroansqua Pocahontas' suzerainty, it is decided that rather than to attempt to integrate members of these other clans into the Roanoke Clan, it would instead be more prudent to allow the clans to remain extant, although united under Pocahontas. To solve the issue of how much power the weroances have, a Grand Council is created, with each clan leader having representation in the Grand Council. The creation of the Grand Council is usually regarded as the beginning of the Powhatan Confederacy.
 * The Olympian Exchange: As the main shaman of Croatan put it, "the white men changed our lives forever". With trade opening up with the Elysian polity, many never-before-seen commodities began flowing into the villages of the Powhatan Confederacy. Crops, metal weapons, livestock, and, most importantly of all, the horse, had found its way to the Confederacy. These new commodities revolutionized Powhatan life. Now, travel times could be massively cut between settlements, m as horses were much faster than going on foot or even in a canoe, and metal tools and animal husbandry removed the need for our people to hunt. The Elysians brought with them their religion too, which started influencing the already-volatile religious landscape of the Powhatan people...
 * The Cult of Pocahontas and the Beginnings of Hellenization: The religious landscape of the lands of the Powhatan was very volatile during the first half of the 13th century. With the Accursed Plague sweeping through the land, many turned to Pocahontas, the first to have been documented to have caught the Accursed Plague and survived, and began worshipping her as godhead. Now, with Elysian contact and the Olympian Exchange, the religious landscape of the Powhatan lands shifted once again. Hellenic influences have crept in to the native religion, and many now see the Greek gods as one and the same as the spirits of old, with Pocahontas ruling over them. The beginnings of the Cult of Pocahontas have now been set.
 * The Barbaroi Script: Pocahontas, as well as many elders of the Powhatan Confederacy, quickly saw the benefit in the written word that the Elysians used. In 1237, Pocahontas convened the shamans, clan chiefs, and several learned men from Elysian frontier villages, in order to help introduce the written word to the Powhatan Confederacy. The Council of Writing, as the event would later be known as, birthed the Barbaroi script, an adaptation of the Greek script to suit the native Olympian lexicon and grammar forms (for an OTL comparison, think Cyrillic crossed with Canadian Aboriginal syllabics). The Barbaroi script would be used to write the majority of native Olympian languages.
 * The Marriage of Worlds and the First Thanksgiving: After the Council of Writing, the Elysian scholars were invited to stay a week in Croatan, and experience Powhatan hospitality. During this week, Pocahontas and one of the Elysian scholars, Antonius Momus (who may or may not be a descendant of Pius Momus), fell in love, and decided to marry on the last day the scholars were in Croatan. After the marriage ceremony, there was a large feast meant to commemorate the marriage, but soon devolved into the Powhatans and the Elysians thanking each other for their contributions towards the other side. The Marriage of the Worlds and the first Thanksgiving would have a profound cultural effect on both the Elysian settlers and the Powhatan natives.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Nearby Powhatan tribes: join us, we are blessed by the spirits and gods, you will be healed from your diseases by Pocahontas, and also you will be able to retain your status as a distinct clan.