Namenazea

Namenazea placenames

Namenazea is region in northern Mocaczea which is inhabited by the non-Moca Naumes people.

=Origin= The original Namenazea territory was much smaller than it is in the present day. Originally it covered only the southern half of the Vȯta peninsula and some western shores of the Dhespɫo Sea and this was the stretch of the Naumes population for 600 years ever since their Sumnė ancestors drove out the earlier Tuurluosm inhabitants and incorporated the peninsula into Mӑgalsjo where previously it was part of Tuujjonsson.



=Name= The name is actually the anglicized form of its South Luabian name Ñamenazeá which is from the East Middle Moca Njamenazcjē which was form Old Moca Nāmenazcẹ̄vu ("place of the Naumes people"). The people themselves were named after their founding father Naumes whose name in the Old Naumes language was Nāmenas which is the form that Old Moca borrowed. That name was a name given to him later in life after his deeds which earned him his legacy. His original name was Termi (meaning "stubborn" in Old Sumrë) and the territory was called by the still Old Sumrë speaking people as Termaa dresja ("Termi's camp") which then became Tamādrazia in Old Naumes.

=First contact with the Moca= After the Sumric Golden Age the Sumric world became a lot less interconnected. As nomads started to seek out other ways of living after the Khyldau disease ravaged the local prey populations people started to live more sedentary lives and so populations no longer mixed and mingled and over the generations knowledge of other tribes was lost or at best a vague memory. The Moca had managed to seek an alternative lifestyle by farming with the slash-and-burn method which allowed them to grow and stock up on grains, as well as keeping some livestock. These early Moca farmers lost much of the knowledge of the world beyond their farms and forests besides the occasional run in with nomads and the occasional trade and conflict with the Tuurluosm peoples to the north. So it was quite a surprise when a small band of sickly men wandered onto a farm in Etejekme speaking a gibberish language sprinkled with vaguely familiar words (where the Old Moca speakers said lörel, mekọ, mọben for "river, world, mountain", these men had the words lalal, makhu, mubvān). The farmers that found them brought them to the attention of King Klesuker who took the men in and had them nursed back to health since they were all very malnourished. When the men were in good health there was still a language barrier. During the 2 years that the men spent with King Klesuker they picked up some of the Old Moca language and finally they were able to communicate who they were and where they came from. They revealed that they spoke Old Naumes, a sister language to Old Moca with both coming from Old Sumrë, and that they belonged to the Naumes people who lived several hundred miles north and east. The people there were struggling with the famine brought on by the Khyldau disease as they remained as hunter-gatherers and were struggling to find an alternative food source. The famine was so severe that these men had chosen to leave their families and seek out a life elsewhere so that the little food would go further with those who remained. King Klesuker took pity on the men for he had become greatly interested in them during their time with him. He was convinced by them to send some of his stockpiled food as aid to the starving Naumes people although his peers looked down upon giving up such a large amount of their stockpiles for strangers. So to win the favour of his peers King Klesuker made a deal with the Naumes men, that he would send aid only if the men were able to get other Naumes men to fight as mercenaries for the Etejekme Kingdom to which they agreed. The Naumes men and the king then made the long trip to the Naumes homeland with carts of food. When they reached their destination King Klesuker was fascinated with the people, and was glad when the men there also agreed to the deal. It was this deal that began the long history of the Naumes sustaining themselves by fighting as mercenaries for Moca kings and their culture was molded to become one proud of war and battle.