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Nation: Ayiti
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History: The Haitian nation could not take the end of the old world well. The hard lashing waves that thrashed the shores of the island nation and much of the Caribbean from the tremendous tsunamis caused by the fall of one of many thousands of meteorites that struck the world washed the shores clean of the modern industrial world and sewed tumult in the already poor nation. As the dust of the apocalypse settled the Haitian people awoke to a greater world that had gone silent.
Those foreign aid organizations that had been on the island found themselves as stranded as the other Haitians with the boats and ships that would carry them to the mainland or other islands smashed against the shores and the airplanes lost to the rubble. Holding out, the Haitian government in Port-au-Prince tried to hold out on what little they had as they sought to re-establish communications with other communities. But no response came as the phones lay dead, internet connections destroyed, and little power to operate radios for long. As the last bits of oil reserve went dry the nation slipped away into the primitive dark.
As the moon overhead was engulfed by its alien cousin and the tides rose heavier and the chaos of the end times carried into the weather as clouds rolled in from both the north and south as well as the seasonal hurricane winds from he far-east the fragile nation finally collapsed.
With no international community to work with, or be helped by the poor workers of the nation found themselves poor and destitute with the factories silent and no more foreign aid coming into the country to feed them. Angry and desperate the people of Haiti turned to fighting. First among themselves as they battled the weak government forces and throwing the country into a period of civil war. Then over the borders into the Dominican Republic as raiding parties equipped with sharpened sticks and machetes attacked the scattered under-defended western towns and villages of the Eastern Hispaniola nation.
The situation was entirely one-way as the favor was returned with cross-border retaliation by this communities acting on their own, embroiling the island into chaos.
A generation of conflict bred from both nations societies of warriors spurned to seek glory in raiding and combat by the New World religious movements they followed. The priests, the houngan of the faiths of Haitian and Dominican Vodou relaying messages of further glorified warrior sacrifice and treasure taking.
In Haiti, the prominence of the hougan became more prominent. As a society, the hougans were revered as the local wise-man notable for their education in not only spiritual matters but secular matters such as governance, the economy, and some medicine. As the hougans seemingly encouraged fighting against the Dominicans they met among themselves to reconstruct Haiti. Ultimately, fifty years after the meteor storm pummeled Earth the elected the nation's first true president from their own ranks.
With the weight of the priest hood behind his appointment, Emmanuel LeCroix assumed the role of president at the age of 65. He brought together many of the Haitian communities through the influence and respect of the hougans. Those communities who spurned his authority were forced to kneel through military force.
LeCroix's first issues was to pacify the threat of Dominican raiders now emboldened to continue to seek revenge against the Haitians for blood spilled and the Haitians like-wise. With a rabble army armed with the same implements as they had been raiding with marched into the Dominican highlands. LeCroix's belief was a total destruction of the land along the borders would be such a show of violence and force it would turn away further raids. Occupying several towns along the border to expand Haitian territory LeCroix's army moved through the island and slaughtered many more, turning rural communities into graveyards.
Confident and appeased, LeCroix removed his forces and brought them home.
While using the limited resources of the nation LeCroix sought to turn the Haitians attention elsewhere. The first of which to re-open the port of the reborn capital of Port-au-Prince. While much of the lower city was regularly flooded by the new tides the rest of the city was nestled along higher altitudes and into the highlands that covered much of Haiti. Though LeCroix initiated the efforts to renew Port-au-Prince as a safe port for commerce and travel he passed away before he could see it happen at the age of eighty-eight.
His successors would see out the end of his legacy, though they were not always nearly as restful and inward as their first president.
Each one claiming the title President-for-life a history of presidential dynasties emerged from the elected class the priesthood had made, powerful aristocrat and powerful city and rural families, or simply influential priests themselves found themselves eligible to rule until their deaths.
Port-au-Prince was inevitably restored and turned into a thriving port of commerce and activity. Legitimate merchants plied their trade from the city helping to turn over the islands valuable sugar, tobacco, and chocolate crop in addition to the herbs plied for luxury perfumes or snake oils. But at the same time the port is used by adventurers who sail out from the relative safety of Port-au-Prince to the greater Caribbean in search of wealth and fame as effective pirates.
Haiti's history for raids began with the first adventurers sailing to the shores of Jamaica or Cuba. As these islands lost the luster and unique riches they went further, reaching Central America and then South and North America. Those who return from the north or south bring home stories and legends of a land whose smokey and mysterious interiors are graced with powerful and terrifying things.
