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16.9% [[Vulpine]] <br/>

12.6% [[Species_of_The_East_Pacific|Other]]

** 12% [[Religion_in_Emberwood_Coast#New_Liberation_Church_of_Obedite|Liberal Paxism]]

** 10% [[Paxism|Melkezedekite Paxism]]

** 1% other [[Paxism#Sects_(leKamif)|Other Denominations]]

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'''The Free Land of Emberwood Coast''', typically called Emberwood Coast (ˈem:bər:wo͝od kōst), is a nation on the northeastern coast of the [[Aurora|Auroran Continent]]. It has land borders with the [[Axdel|Federation of Axdel]] (including [[Lyrevale]] and [[Korstazia]]) to the east and [[Nyerr]] to the south. Its capitol (and largest city) is Aura, which is home to almost 43 million people. The country is highly industrialized, featuring a robust research sector as well as a relatively advanced Space Administration. The large lake in the southwest, Mapleleaf Lake, is home to a vast array of temperate wildlife. Most of the nation is cooler due to the nation's low latitude, and oceanic currents often develop multi-day long rainstorms over the capitol, Aura. Aura is home to the headquarters of the [[United Nations of the Auroran Continent]].

In 2019 a political realignment was accompanied by a democratically flag redesign that saw a departure from the lotus symbol and an embrace of [[History of Emberwood Coast|triple bar]] imagery as [[Wikipedia:Syndicalism|syndicalist]] groups retook government for the first time in two decades. The current design is credited to [[Cilantro (Vexillologist)|Cilantro]], a professor at Kaleidoscope University.

===Early Settlements and Agriculture===

The first recorded evidence of sentient habitation is traced to Stone Age dark-skinned humans from central Aurora who are the ancestors of today's Native Emberitians. Archaeological digs dated to 6500 BCE indicate they lived in small, nomadic, and pastoral tribes and spread over the northwestern coast of the peninsula and the forested highlands to the south. As west Auroran cavan civilizations consolidated around the city states of Laqytia, these nomadic peoples were constrained towards the northern coast, limiting their spread to the northwest coast of the western peninsula. Semi-permanent settlements existed in a novel format, cultivating semi-organized fields of grains that were shared between traveling groups in an arrangement that still exists (albeit in a more motorized format) in current day Aurora as the Nyerrian peoples. Civilization was, at least until the 6th century CE, limited to small villages. The most advanced of these utilized bronze tools, and sparse steel implements from more advanced empires that had filtered through the mountains separating the coastal highlands from the Lyr Valley. By the 7th century BCE, these groups had unified into a loose coalition under the name "Aronia".

As other human civilizations expanded across the continent, other species including [[Species#Usprian Elves|uspalrians]] and [[Vulpine|vulpines]] were forced from their lands as ethnic human empires began to solidify to the east. These ethnic groups settled and intermingled with the semi-nomadic cultures to form more permanent cities. Irrigated farms and contemporary aqueducts helped support larger settlements, spurring a further population boom. This boom was further compounded after the expanding Kormistazic empire suffered defeats to Solto and Teban armies. This, coupled with decline of established empires allowed for steady growth of local city-states, the strongest of which was the city of [[Aurelia]] near modern day Aymes around the early 2nd century BCE. In the 2nd century CE, the Kormistazic empire began to encroach on Aronian land, seeing its potential value as a new province. The few existing cities formed small armies to counter imperial incursions, and resisted being conquered by the Kormistazic for over a century. Due to resistance by the Soltics and other unruly satellite civilisations, the Kormistazic were unable to devote enough resources to conquering the Aronian at the time. However, in the 1st century CE, the Kormistazic defeated these civilizations including the Aronians. Continued raids by [[Axdel|Kormistazic]] forces slowly eroded the city's infrastructure and military strength until, in 122 CE, it was conquered. Further campaigns brought the remainder of the region, save for a few small towns, into Kormistazm rule.

Later, however, the collapse of Kormistazm and eruption of Mount Tore in 512CE allowed the region to develop independently once more, now with significantly more advanced technology from under Kormistazic rule. The region's unique geography lent itself to a somewhat reduced impact from the disaster, helping the area "catch up" in technological development with its larger neighbors. Valerian refugees brought further new technologies including the compass, spinning wheel, and carding machines; as well as leading to advancements like wood-pulp paper in 611CE, and wind-powered grain mills in the late 770s CE. These discoveries coupled with advancements in steelworking, archery, and military science allowed the alliance to remain free of outside rule nearly until the end of the millennium. With that time, small but growing cities were establishing identities as centers of refugee and immigrant life, leading to extensive democratic structures and forestalling inroads of capitalism significantly. Worker's councils oversaw production of grain and steel, construction and maintenance of infrastructure, even staffing and administration of a contemporarily advanced public education network. This lead to the largest of the cities in that age, [[Kaleidoscope#History|Vale]] (modern day Kaleidoscope), having a population in excess of 100,000 people in 804CE. In total, the current land area of Emberwood Coast was estimated to be home to over 300,000 people in the year 800 CE, almost a full third of which having genealogies originating outside the region or continent. In 913, however, the militaristic and expansionist second Kormistazic Empire made significant inroads into the region. Numerous battles slowed but failed to stop this advance, leading to the reconquest of the area and it's settlement by Kormistazic nationals. Interestingly, only a partial reconstruction of the region took place, leading to abandonment of some population centers (including Aurelia, Birdsong, and Imi). This lead to a resurgence of agrarian and pastoral lifestyles, capitalized upon by Kormastazic leadership in the form of grain quotas and mandatory exports in order to fuel its eastern expansion. While this did strengthen the military efforts in campaigns like Staynicca, it severely reduced quality of life in the Aronian province. Cavan settlers from Kormistazic territory occasionally evicted and killed human, vekaiyun and uspalrian farmers with the help of local forces. Strained imperial forces held the Aronian land despite efforts of democratic agitators and independence movements until the late 10th century, when weakening central leadership allowed for the organization of a number of underground organizations as well as the further development of proto-syndicalist ideology. Kormistazic rule was never fully broken, however, and the reformation of the country as the Third Kormistazic Empire only further solidified the authoritarian policies enacted on the land.