Lost Isles- History of Naktul of Lost Isles


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	Naktul History .

	History among the Naktul is determined by those in power – historical records are a matter of state politics, and are written by the current government-sponsored scribal guild. As such, Naktul history is organized in Penak lists by dynasty, and is changeable with power fluctuations within elite society. First Hunters: 21,000-12,000 PT The first occupation of K’tumal is called the First Hunters period, and extends from the time of the earliest migrants in the area – from a location still under debate – until about 8,000 PT. During this era, people lived in tiny, nomadic bands, following a way of life centered on the hunting of now-extinct large game and on the collection of wild plant foods. Pre-Naktul: 12,000-7,000 PT During the subsequent period, ancestral naktul began to domesticate those food plants – above all, maize – upon which all subsequent development on the island depended. Tribal organization became territorially based, and outposts of continual tribal settlement arose. Naktul I: 7,000-6,500 PT The groups centered on Mt. Chiccuneca were the first to organize into a pan-tribal confederacy, establishing a common language (Proto-Tik), common calendar and common religious structure. This collection into a societal form inspired a push off-mountain, and the newly christened Naktul began moving across K’tumal. Naktul II: 6,500-5,500 PT Overall the naktul were joined into a single group – they shared language, calendar, religion and political structure. Vestiges of past tribalism remained, however, as regional city-centers began to emerge. Independently controlled, each city-state was governed by a Penak, and each Penak claimed to speak for the god, Penak-Naktul. This period saw the first true naktul versus naktul war, as Penaks raised regional religious armies in bids for overall island supremacy. Martial I: 5,500-4,500 PT Ultimately the city of Antubal was victorious in the religious wars, and the Penak of that city, Xuxa, became the first to oversee a confederated K’tumal. His forces remained as the standing national military, and his home city was declared the island capital, achieving a “first among equals” status. A series of military commanders controlled Antubal and the island, and the Naktul agenda was one of power, both domestically and foreign. S’aat Dynasty: 4,500-4,250 PT The S’aat Dynasty, composed of several mother to daughter inheritances, was a period of social reform. It was during this time that the naktul focused inward on structuring their society, prompting the first revisions to government and customs since the advent of the Penak War. Kanits’aat was the first female to hold the title of Penak. She seized control following the death of her military husband, who had been tapped for the position but never wore the title, effectively ending the sequence of army-dictated leadership. Greenstone Dynasty: 4,250-3,450 PT The Greenstone Dynasty was one of the longest in Naktul history. It was during the reign of the Greenstones that slavery began to rise into a sanctioned and ordered institution and began to be firmly integrated into all aspects of society. This corresponded with the legalization of the previously unregulated caste system. Martial II: 3,450-3,200 PT With the Greenstone Dynasty in ruins, a military command took over for some years. The naktul were ruled by a succession of elevated generals as the elite of society, the Tuluk, waged political wars upon one another for the throne. Caste Wars: 3,200-2,600 PT The petty political feuds of the Tuluk escalated into full-fledged violence as slaves were armed to fight in lieu of their owners. The buildup of slave armies culminated in a mass insurrection when owned turned against owners, breaking free of their captors and going loose over the island. Many acts of violence and atrocity were committed in their early days of freedom, and though a great deal of the blame was placed on the slaves, the Tuluk found themselves threatened politically for the carnage as well. Civil war broke out as Houses fought against one another and against armies and city-state governments in bitter hatred and strife. Naktul III: 2,600-1,025 PT After the betrayals of the Tuluk, and the horrors of the Caste and Slave Wars, K’tumal remained in chaos for many years. There was little central government and the city-states managed themselves independently and in small, constantly changing coalitions. Oaptun Dynasty: 1,025-125 PT The most famous deed of the Oaptun Dynasty was the reestablishment of control by Antubal over the other city-states of K’tumal. Trade expanded and shipping enclaves came to dot the coast of the island, trading freely between ports. Charach’ik Dynasty: 125 PT to 906 by the common calendar Though their predecessors were responsible for building up the Naktul fleets for domestic trading, it was Black Wax and his heirs that for the first time moved naktul goods off of K’tumal and into the markets of the rest of the archipelago. It is important to note, however, that the original intent of the Charach’ik’s was to conquer their neighbors, and only after failing at that did they begin to engage them in commerce. Serpenttooth Dynasty: 906 through 952, current year by the common calendar The last two rulers of K’tumal have come from the Serpenttooth line, Kan and his son Micca. Kan, or as he was commonly known, Serpent, was a ruler devoted to the consolidation of power and the spread of religion. He financed the priesthood into extravagance and began pushing the faith of Penak-Naktul to other islands, where it was met with much opposition and anger. His detractors make reference to “Kan’s Folly” and criticize his outisland dreams, but they do so quietly, as he also amassed a large personal army, separate from the army of the state. Serpent Serpenttooth left his kingdom richer than when he took it, and secured the throne for his dynastic line. His accidental death, at the hands of another Tuluk member, was an occasion of national mourning.