Nations/Amihan

The Amihan Empire
The Amihan Empire is a state that was founded in the year 323 CE after the Proclamation of the Continental Hegemon by Dakilang Panginoon Taimtim II. It is a very large state that encompasses the land from the Pasol Islands in the Western Kalinawan Sea to Sudea under its vassal, the Crown of Sudea which reigns from Solarium. Its population is largely Koist and is ethnically homogenous in the home islands, while it is more ethnically diverse in Hawayiki.

History
The history of the Amihan Empire can trace its roots back to the likely mythical Pre-Archaic Era, which spans from the reign of terror of Bakunawa to the establishment of the House of Dakilangtalim, which spans from roughly 2,400 BCE to 900 BCE. The Pre-Archaic Era is the foundation of the Amihan and Kalinawan State as a whole, and after it followed the Archaic Era, which lasted from 900 BCE to 8 BCE.

Pre-Archaic Era
He who reigned terror from above, and below

the roars of the sky, the jaws of death,

the menace of moons, the eater of worlds

Bakunawa, he who rules the sky, he who reigns from the seas

the last of the moons which hath not died,

saved from the jaws of the dragon by her sister

Haliya, goddess and warrior, sister and mother, slayer and protector,

savior of the people, sealer of the dragon, and the creator of the Pillar of Men

-Poem about Bakunawa, Makagago Mangtimang 433 BCE

The Pre-Archaic Era was an era in which the Kalinawan Islands were not yet polities, but simply tribal people who lived a neolithic lifestyle. The Sea Dragon Bakunawa terrorized the islands in these times, and the people lived in fear of it. In the dawn of time, there were seven moon goddesses, but Bakunawa, in his fury, lust, and gluttony, raped and ate six of the moon goddeses and the moons they begot.

The last of the Moon Goddesses, Mayari, called upon her sister, the warrior goddess Haliya, who fought an epic battle against the Sea Dragon in what would be called the Bay of Seals. As Bakunawa was too powerful to be killed, Haliya banished him to the depths of the Bay of Seals, and sealed him in his dark watery tomb.

To guard the tomb for all of time, Haliya entrusted the duty of guarding the Tomb in life and death for all eternity to a humble but virtuous man named Kahan. She granted him her blood and seal of power, the Blade of Haliya to legitimize the man in his duty. She also bore him a son, named Panganiban. Afterwards, Haliya returned to the heavens, and was given the duty of guarding her sister, Mayari. This is when the House of Dakilangtalim was formed, literally meaning House of the Supreme Blade, taking their legitimacy from the Blood and Blessing of Haliya, and her sword.