Reindeer Herders
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| Official language | Sámi, Nenets, Inuit |
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| Capital | Elkheim |
| Largest cities | Nordlighavn |
| Forum | Former forum |
| Number of citizens | 8 |
| Number of active citizens | 0 |
| Date founded | 1 December 2007 |
| Government | Chiefdom |
| National animal | Reindeer |
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| Map versions |
13.1.0–13.6.0, 13.7.5–13.7.8, 15.5.0–15.5.8 |
The Reindeer Herders are an indigenous assemblage of related ethnic groups traditionally located in the far north of Keltia. The Herders have appeared on official maps of Micras on three separate occasions; twice as an independent state known as the Nation of the Reindeer Herders either side of once being an autonomous region of Cerulea.
History
The Reindeer Herders were founded in early December 2007 and successfully claimed on Micras the following month. The Herders' original claim was sparsely populated, with only a small number of villages. Its first capital was Reindeer Mountain, while the northerly coastal city of Nordlighavn was its largest. The small settlements of Kotihem and Kalaallita were located in the south of the nation, with each acting as a focal point for different ethnic groups within the Herder grouping.
The initial incarnation of the Herders nation lasted on Micras for just under eight months, until its lands were transferred to the control of Tuatha Aontaithe. The Herders lived in relative peace with the Tuatha, with both peoples' lifestyles arranged around loosely-connected subsistence clans. Tuatha Aontaithe joined Cerulea shortly thereafter, in November 2008, and the Herders found themselves under the rule of their former neighbours.
The relationship with the Ceruleans saw a new autonomous region established for the Reindeer Herders, on the peninsula north of their original lands. Created in January 2009, the territory comprised a national park, a new capital of Elkheim—named after the former chieftain Elkheart—and the coastal village of Kotihavn, founded by the inhabitants of the old Kotihem. This settlement was shortly-lived, however, as Cerulea vacated its claims on Micras in February 2009.
Culture
The traditions of the Reindeer Herders have been preserved into the period of Natopian and Elwynnese rule over Normark, in spite of the upheavals of the War of the Harpy, by the politically opposed Reinherder Association and the Tuktuvut Confederation, with the association being noted for preserving the pacifist values of the Reindeer Herders whilst the Tuktuvut had responded to Haifan settlement in the region through recourse to greater militancy.
Famous herders
- Chief Elkheart: founder of the nation and two-time chieftain
- Martti Johánsson: one-time chieftain
- Angakkuq Nappaaluk: shaman
- Boris Ivanovich Serov: elder warrior
- Jacob Henderson: leader of Nordlighavn
- Lionel Kauppias: Cerulean royal
- Siérek Skal: wanderer
- Timo Bierrelaš: footballer
