Ancient Belenus

Other (Future) Citizen Species
The other Citizen Species at the time were too far away to be affected by The First Settlers while they were still on Tanrei Island, including Mertral in other parts of the continent.

Belenus Sunlings could be grouped into two different types of civilizations. In the Southeast southern hills area, which was controlled by Mertral, they were scattered into dozens of tribes, surviving in little villages in the mountains.

Belenus Sunlings in the Southeast near

The Suffolk of  the vast plains between Belenus and Foundland had been living in their City States for years, and consisted of about seven different tribes at this point. They were so largely untouched by the Kingdom of O'Sine that they have their own branch of historical study: Suffolk History.

Far North (above the Belenus Steppes)
At the beginning of the First Epoch, the Norfolk in the North were still in the midst of a 200-year-long civil war following several natural disasters that brought down the Icengrov Kingdom. Many individual clans tied to old family names battled each other for dominance of the land. None would have a clear advantage until hundreds of years later.

Belenus in the Steppe, in comparison, were doing quite well. The biggest nomadic tribes had formed a symbiotic relationship with Gedeg herds. While occasional territorial disputes rose up between Norfolk clans, Sunlings to the south and amongst each other, none were nearly as acrimonious as the Icengrov fallout and the tribes lived times of relative peace.

295 BKO

Icengrov Kingdom ends when the Crystal palace slips into The Mirror Lake.

North-East (between Goldriver of the North and River Amaranthine to the South)
Belenus Sunlings in the East had already developed a complex civilization of independently run, but grouped, city-states, each with its own ruler. Originally about 140 states, they were steadily consolidating power into larger and more organized territories.

By the time King Yu'he made first contact (around 260KO), there were eight recognized "states" organized under the Kingdom of Aviana - Goldstork, Greenfinch, Grayswallow, Whiteheron, Redhawk, Plumjay, Blackowl, and Bluegoose.

South-East
The Mertral on the South-East coast of Belenus  were divided into two factions at the time - The Or'ke'ke and The Jojo -  which were warring with each other over a long expanse of territory between what would later become Ere and the Southern edge of what would become Freemarsh.

South
Meanwhile the Mertral of the Southern Islands (What would become Rainshower) were still affiliated with the rule of the Uwiy Dynasty.