Tamta
Tāmta was a nation founded by the Scorpions and whose population by 4195 consisted mostly of young Cold Men. Both the Scorpions and the Cold Men were child refugees who had fled on their own into Moonshine's pre-existing refugee territory of Hōki.
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Background
When the Thunder Empire signed a treaty with the Crystal Empire, together they formed the Lantern Empire. The Thunderers were the weaker of the two powers, and some Thunderers wanted to keep Crystals out of their side of the empire to protect them from being dominated. The state of Hōmoya was one Thunder state that allowed Crystal settlement, however.
When the empire collapsed, the state of Hōmoya became independent and was settled by Moonshine migrants fleeing their own defeat in a related war. Eventually, as Moonshine became a rising power, they incorporated Hōmoya into their empire, renaming it Hōki. It had retained its character, and the Moonshines declared that Hōki would become a safe state for refugees of all wars to flee into. They promised to protect Hōki's sovereignty, but made no promise to station Moonshine soldiers within Hōki; they warned refugees that they therefore could not prevent small-scale conflicts from erupting within Hōki if refugees from both sides of a war fled into Hōki and carried their battles with them.
Lakeside territory
The richest natural environment in Hōki was at the north end, the furthest from any foreign borders, where there was a very large lake, Tulip Lake. Newly arriving refugees here tended to settle in compact neighborhoods, with an entire nationality often confined to just a single street and a few avenues leading away from it. Over time, many of these newly arriving groups expected to marry into other groups and come to identify simply as citizens of Hōki; intermarriage tended to occur mostly among groups that had common cultural ties, even if they had come from opposite sides of a war. By contrast, language and cultural barriers often kept people apart in Hōki even if they had come from politically allied nations.
