Andaluz

“Andaluz, oh Andaluz, my Andaluzia.~” - Popular Pan-Andaluziano sport chant.

Snowcaps are rare in the lands of the Andaluziano. These verdant equatorial lands, peninsulas and islands filled with a vast variety of terrain and dominated largely by jagged coasts, long verdant plains, and heat- both the equatorial balminess of the land and the passions of its peoples.

The Andaluziano are conquerors and guerrillas, and it was their land which faced the greatest incursions of non-western Danaan culture into their own. This may have caused the massive passion that is so stereotypically aligned with them- and it certainly infused their castles, their ruins, their place names, even their names- with the spice which the rest of the Danaan cultures so often associate them with.

It is a place for vacation, for enrichment, and for sport. The many nation-states and their component regions themselves are very passionate about their sport, about as passionate as those from Tibur are about their food- though the Tiburanos are counted amongst the pan-Andaluzian peoples, too.

It should be noted that the majority of Western Danaan Werelions and the only surviving community of werecattle of any sort (were-anarochs to be exact) hail from the Andaluzian nation-states.



There are dozens of nation-states within Andaluz at this point in time, some sovereign, some semi-sovereign, some only sovereign in name. But a few of the most notable include:

The Republic of Varga - While it started off as a small city, Varga is a powerful, passionate, and economically precise nation-state which has only suffered small periods of any real control over it by other Andaluzian nations. It is one of the longest standing republics in the world, and a traditional rival of Clacise. It should be noted that despite it's small size, the Varganos are the stereotyped as the most passionate of the lands in Andaluz, and they are certainly one of the most economically cautious and easy to send into a machine gun rant. Varga has one of the most temperate climates in the region.

The United Kingdom of Tizona and Colanda - An United Kingdom only in name, Tizona and Colanda, or as it is more commonly known by most Danaan peoples, Tizona- is a country which was once in a personal and total union with its sibling state, Colanda. Some centuries ago, the entirety of Colanda seceded from the united Kingdom in dispute over the choice of heir (at the end of one dynasty and replaced by another) and it became a noble confederation, and later parlimentary democracy which glares heatedly at Tizona often. Tizona shares the Andaluzian peninsula with Colanda and several smaller nations. Notably, old Tibur and large parts the northern Tiburan Peninsula states are ruled by Tizona, yet that is not apart of the United Kingdom in name or otherwise.

The Crown of Colanda - The crown of Colanda is a crown only in that. A federalized parlimentary republic where there are three legislative houses and the most of the power lays there. The crown of Colanda is tremendously protective of itself against Tizona, and it is this nation that people mean when they say 'Colanda'. Colanda is more verdant and temperate, as well as northern, than its more powerful sibling- and they both exist on the Andaluzian peninsula along with several smaller nations.

The Most Serene Republican Confederacy of Clacise - The true power in the Tiburan peninsula, the Clacise is a merchant power and has been since its earliest days. They have more in common with the rest of the tiburan peninsula states than the Tizonanos do, for sure- and for this reason they are rivals with them and the Varganos in many things. Clacise has the most successful history of colonization in Kayathna and Yanuto of any Andaluziano states. Clacise is red-topped villages and cities, verdant valleys, forests, plains and vinyards, farmland, and much rich coast.

More to come! As players make them.