Ensam

Ensam (Ensamite: Wiyrte) is a Republic in the northern Atlantic home to the Ensamite people who desend from Indo-European Sailors believed to have originated from the Baltic. Ensam is surrounded totally by sea but it shares sea borders with the UK and Ireland. Its highest point is Mount Rockall and lowest is the Oyfland Marshes. Ensam is currently a world leader in Economics and Military as its massive supply of Oil and Fish make its a very powerful nation on the world stage. Ensam is also known as: Fjalland, Nowland and Rockall.

History
Ensam was originally empty but the Ensamites landed around 10,000 BCE and settled along the Northern and Western Coasts, they eventually moved inland where they divided and split into various tibes all speaking different dialects of Ensamite.

After around 11,000 years the Gaelic Hermits settled on the southern coast near modern day Terswiy'n they eventually died out but their works remain in the Ensam Museum in the capital: Brophen. The Next visitors were Norsemen who raided the southern coast and eventually settled again around modern day Terswiy'n founding the Triple City Alliance where the cities of Stórrstad, Flóðstad and Eyvindstad, only Eyvindstad remains today as a hamlet on the coast but its name changed to the Ensamite spelling Eiyrntad. The Vikings eventually intergrated with the native population bringing modern technologies such as viking sailing, art and literiture, the led to the forming of three kingdoms: Kiyw, Wowr and Tofzhr. Kiyw became the most dominant as it owned most of the northern half of the island from modern day Brophen to the Nurt Isles.

Tiyw began to flourish under Lhikket the Great who lead many battles into the south finally conquering the eastern coast leaving the south-east corner alone to the Wowr and Tofzhr. Lhikket also drained the Oyfland Marshes and founded his capital Nwyshen on the reclaimed land. Nwyshen became a cultural centre and religious centre with the traditional Pagan religion having its Grand church there but this would all change in the comming years.

In 1377 the Sailor Alistar Maclean of Skye discovered Ensam he sent numerous missionaries to convert the population, they were slaughtered in Wowr and Tofzhr but in Kiyw they adopted the new Christian Religion and began to fight holy war against the two opposing kingdoms. The war wasn't very successful and Lhikket died in the Battle of Ruun Hill (Ruun is Ensamite for Wren and thats why the bird is a national symbol). The war eventually turned unprofitable for the Kings of Kiyw so they gave up and left the pagan kingdoms.

By the 1400's Ensam had become a major trading partner for Scotland, England and Sweden providing much income for the island but the Moors and other Islamic kingdoms had also been trading with the Pagans as they both wanted to destroy christendom, however this was not a major threat for Kiyw as its people were ready to fight for christendom. The Kiydr-Kyne or Petty Wars lasted another centuary until the Protestant Revolution when the Kings of Wowr and Tofzhr merged and became protestant, this led to a situation much like Ireland in modern times where they were both fighting for supremacy the war continued for centuarys blocking projects such as colonisation etc.

By the 1800's the Protestants looked on the verge of defeat until a supprise last minute agreement led to the formation of the Kingdom of the Two Ensams. The KOTTW eventually came to peace with small anarchist groups fighting another Petty war against the system. The Ensams eventually became involved in world politics again with much a supply of resources they began to modernise and form alliances with UK and Sweden leading to Neutral Allied leaning stance in WW1 and WW2. The KOTTW eventually became a republic in 1997 after the last king Biyr abdicated and made the republic what it is today. Recently religious violence flared up again in the south and a car bombing in Brophen led to the armed involvment in the region of a joint Anglo-Ensamite Force.