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Of a total of 1,161 chiefs in the Kingdom of Tavaris at time of the start of the war, only 9 of them remained loyal to Tavaris in their entirety. These 9 chiefs took their loyal citizens, as well as loyalists from other chiefdoms, and left the island of Avnatra for the east. Tavari historians refer to this event as "the exile" because they hold that leaving Avnatra was the only option presented to them without converting faiths. Acronian historians generally hold that the Tavari voluntarily emigrated.
The Tavari left Avnatra by boat and migrated east to the coast of mainland Gondwana. Because the jungle on the mainland is very dense, it took the Tavari three attempts and 68 years to establish a settlement that could sustain them. They named the settlement Good Harbor, and the official date of establishment is considered to be December 14th, 1567. Good Harbor is located on the eastern coast of the Strait of Vultuca, north and west of the Danvreas Range. Over the course of time, the Tavari expanded their holdings further east to the coast of Lake Unar. On the shore of the lake they established the city of Nuvrenon, which would become the political capital of the country. The government agreed to divide the country into nine regions that would each fall under the control of one of the nine chiefdoms that remained loyal to Tavaris. These chiefdoms remain in place today as divisions of the state of Tavaris, nominally controlled by a hereditary chief descended directly from the nine original loyalist chiefs. Tavaris had several different constitutions over time, and in 1963 adopted a constitution that named the state "the Tavari Union."
===Good Harbor Agreement===
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[[File:Bana flag.png|thumb|left|200px|The flag of the State of Bana.]]
[[File:New new bana wiki.png|right|thumb|300px|The location of Bana within the Tavari Union.]]
Bana is a primarily human nation with significant elven populations in the northern and eastern regions. It is bounded by the Danvreas Range to the east, the Miku River in the north, and the Loko River to the south. Both populations are considered to be indigenous to the region. The polity of Bana was established as a city-state on the coast of the Strait of Vultuca in the seventh century AD and became the seat of a powerful human kingdom that conquered nearby human states. Bana saw significant periods of war with both the elves and the felines in the region for hundreds of years until the felines began to decline in the 16th century. By the 17th century, the elven tribes in the region were largely incorporated into Bana, but there was significant unrest in the region until they were granted a form of autonomy by a Constitution passed in 1910.
Bana had long been the major economic power in the region, more powerful even than Tavaris, with a broad economic base in agriculture, manufacturing, and trading. Their control of two rivers from the interior of the continent to the Strait of Vultuca, the Miku in the north and the Loko to the south, meant they could command far more resources in trade than Tavaris, and Bana even began to rival the Acronian economy. Bana became famous worldwide for bananas, a tropical fruit they are credited with introducing into international trade. However, in 1939, a civil war broke out between the nationalist government of the time and a communist uprising supported in part by the more rural west and some of the elven tribes.
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