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A little bit of a teaser for a potential project of an ASB world where only Australia+Papua+the Pacific exist, and the Maori develop civilization of their own.

Two traditional kingdoms- Ikamai (a contraction of Te Ika-a-Maui) and Wapanu (a contraction of Te Waipounamu) of four and five provinces each develop. Though initially not as advanced as the Tongans/Fijians/Samoans who visit them, the Maori develop their own ethno-religious identity and stave off numerically fewer but more advanced invaders from the sea. Unlike most of the world, which adopts writing from Tonga, the Maori cultures develop their own syllabic writing system. Though there's only a few syllables in the Maori languages, there are many glyphs made up of multiple syllables ('rohotoka' could potentially be written 'ro-ho-to-ka', 'roho-toka', 'ro-tohoka' etc.) and which glyph is used depends on convention (additionally, common grammatical words like pronouns and particles have their own glyphs).

Ikamai and Wapanu have a long complicated love-hate relationship with one another- while rarely going to war, and both frequently revealing in their Maori pride, there is quite a lot of mutual attempts to strong-arm the other into submission, but the two fairly equally matched.

Description
A little bit of a teaser for a potential project of an ASB world where only Australia+Papua+the Pacific exist, and the Maori develop civilization of their own.

Two traditional kingdoms- Ikamai (a contraction of Te Ika-a-Maui) and Wapanu (a contraction of Te Waipounamu) of four and five provinces each develop. Though initially not as advanced as the Tongans/Fijians/Samoans who visit them, the Maori develop their own ethno-religious identity and stave off numerically fewer but more advanced invaders from the sea. Unlike most of the world, which adopts writing from Tonga, the Maori cultures develop their own syllabic writing system. Though there's only a few syllables in the Maori languages, there are many glyphs made up of multiple syllables ('rohotoka' could potentially be written 'ro-ho-to-ka', 'roho-toka', 'ro-tohoka' etc.) and which glyph is used depends on convention (additionally, common grammatical words like pronouns and particles have their own glyphs).

Ikamai and Wapanu have a long complicated love-hate relationship with one another- while rarely going to war, and both frequently revealing in their Maori pride, there is quite a lot of mutual attempts to strong-arm the other into submission, but the two fairly equally matched.