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Map of Buburu directions, centered at home of Ori’ti Awon, the first Saukan, or Grand Unifier. Oko is their equivalent of north.

The Settlements

The Buburu have been sailing on the lower land for hundreds of years. They were the first to populate the land after the Urryyhun villages ceased communication with one another. The land was flat, waters were calm, and fishing thrived.

However, about a hundred years after Buburu arrival, men from the Iyopo began bringing their own ships, building settlements on the land for themselves.

The Buburu didn’t mind this. The Iyopo, or Tekatans as they called themselves, mainly settled on the Kaku side of the land, while the Buburu stayed on the Omana side.

Sadly, good things can not last, after a little while, the Tekatans started becoming greedy, settling along the Omana land. This angered the Buburu, as the new people were stealing fish and other important goods. The Buburu tried to drive the Tekatans away, but their attemps were in vain, and the Tekatans stayed put with ignorant stupidity.

Gradually, more and more Tekatans settled on the land. They continued to fish more and more, leaving the Buburu with less and less food to sustain themselves. They were forced to evacuate their homes, and find a new life elsewhere.

Rise of the new Saukan

Adeg’ori Opeyeme never had any children. He simply rejected any women who approached him, and died with the Buburu and Ok’un lacking any leader or direction.

One of the immediate choices for the new Saukan was a cheerful-but-aging Ok’un man, who built houses for many of the Buburu, and wound up travelling across the mainland gaining trust and making friendships from all types of people, and even Adeg’ori called him “one of the most genuinely nice people I have ever met.”

Although he was challenged by several other people, such as Adeg’ori’s brother and one of the discoverers of Ilmenbuisun, everyone he met immediately felt he was a great choice for the title.

His name was Und’ėle Babat, and he was proclaimed Saukan several months after Adeg’ori’s death.

Death of the Saukan, Reign of his Son

Despite how much he was loved, Und’ėle was old, and died not even a year into his reign.

He was succeeded by his son, Ka’ėle Ife. He was a middle-aged, disgruntled man, who was permanently lame after being born with two club feet. To add to his pain, he fell off a roof while trying to build his first home, so he was unable to walk without y-shaped sticks he used as crutches.

While his father was out visiting the rest of the nation during the entirety of his youth, Ka’ėle lived with his mother- that is, until she was accidentally speared in the leg and bled to death. After that, he lived with his adoptive family- former fishers who used to live in the Omana, before moving to his small Ok’un village in a large migration of an entire town, in which ⅔ of the townsfolk died on the journey. Thus, he spent his whole life past age nine living with a family that constantly talked about the vileness of the Tekatans.

When he became Saukan, he immediately rounded up an army (with the help of one of the children of his adoptive family, Sola Mojis’kan, who became Ka’ėle’s right hand man), composed entirely of former fishers who were forced to abandon their lives because of the Tekatans.

The ‘army’ numbered about 500 and was led by Mojis’kan, and were armed with shortbows and Nzappa Zaps tipped with poison, along with spears and the occasional ceremonial knobkierie.

They stormed into the first coastal town they found, taking any person that couldn’t speak the Buburok’un language and sending them back to the homeland, likely to be used as slaves by Ok’un farmers.

They moved like this for a little while, making it about halfway through Omana in a couple days. Their goal was to repopulate the area with Buburu, and keep it that way for good.

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I'm using 1% of my population as my max military.

Edit: This is the territory I'm fighting for, for clarification.