Ruanika

Ruanika was one of the Reș pioneers who were the first to claim lands that lay in the south of the peninsula. This name is not one that he went by during his lifetime since it is from Risorese which descends from Early Meddió, the language of the first Reș to settle Vitsoresh. His name as he knew it was ("old tree"), this was calqued into Risorese as Ruanikaefinșe ("tree that is old") which is often shortened to just Ruanika.

=Early Life= Ruani was born in Meddiorn during the time when there was a great conflict between the people who followed Lesgveiskism and those who didn't. The followers commited a genocide in order to drive out "heathens" of which Ruani was one of. Ruani was 26 years old when he fled Meddiorn due to The Last Crusade and landed in modern day Vitsoresh as one of the early pioneers.

When Ruanika travelled south in search of land he found a rare gem in the form of a small peach forest nestled by some mountains and a lake. This little place was the only place in Malomanan where peach trees grew and it had gone unnoticed before Ruanika happened upon it. He tasted the curious fruit and found it so delicious that he was happy to quit his travels and claim this little portion of land and no more. Ruanika named the new fruit ostit ("delicious fruit") and began to sell it to people nearby. Ruanika's new produce was met with great desire, bringing many people, and the coins in their pouches, to the area to taste the new fruit. This brought great commerce but it also made Ruanika's newly found land a large target for other pioneers wishing for fortune. To answer this Ruanika offered the land just beyond the two mountains and forest to a number of young armed men, with some peaches thrown in to sweeten the deal, whose duty it would be to defend the peach forest from invaders. Over time the families of these young men intermarried and so formed the lineage of Otireostitm ("defending peaches""). Ruanika himself took the full name (Risorese: Ruanikaefinșe so Ostitm) ("Ruanika of the Peaches") and this name would be passed down to his descendants with an association of wealth and prosperity. Ruanika and his family carefully took care of the forest, getting rid of pests and copping the trees to boost the numbers, turning the forest into a tidy plantation. Eventually peaches would be introduced to other areas with similar climates and the wealth of the Ostitm family would grow even more.  All of this trade and commerce gave rise to a town nearby the forest named Ruaserașé.