The Ancient Ones

Washitaw were, generally, a peaceful people (though as with all gatherings of human beings, disagreements and occasional greed did occur). As an Empire, there was no military and no police force – only those designated to deal with the safety and security of the Empire.

With Columbus’ arrival, however, this peaceful Empire would be torn apart – but not destroyed.

The Europeans’ incursions into Emperial Territory began bloody and that bloodshed has not abated. Columbus himself began it with his mis-use and abuse of the indigenous people to support the Europeans’ greed for gold. This expanded with later “explorers” and “conquerors” who could never sate their lust for gold, new and rare woods, tobacco, furs and other goods found only within the Washitaw Empire. These “explorers” eventually even had the audacity to enslave the indigenous peoples and to start laying claim to these lands for the European Nations despite the fact that all the land was widely recognized as owned by the Empress of the Washitaw.

Eventually, European monarchs saw a way to rid themselves of some of their unwanted subjects. They would lay claim to a piece of Washitaw land (either by claiming a relatively empty piece of land – or more often murdering its indigenous inhabitants) and then empty their debtor’s prisons or chase away unwanted religious or other creatures. The Georgia colony (no relation to the location “claimed“ today), for example, was a penal colony – used to empty England’s debtor’s prisons. Other areas were settled by “Puritans” who left England because they could not expound their own brand of theology on all who surrounded them. These so-called colonies (limited to 50 square miles of land each) never owned the lands they were squatting on; and ALL were confined to the area then known as “New England”.

A few came because they saw a chance at quick wealth; and would get it no matter the cost to the lives of the indigenous native population or the land’s resources...which continues to this day.

These people and their Monarchs settled themselves and colonized these Washitaw lands without treating with the land-owner (The Empress of the Washitaw), without any formal agreement. They claimed, after the fact, to have bought land from the indigenous native populations, though they were well aware these populations didn’t even own the land themselves – they only leased it from The Empress, the Lawful land owner! More simply put, these “colonists” were the homeless, outcasts and outlaws of foreign continents who, having set up their tents and planted their flags on the Private Lands of the Empress of

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