Núam
The Núam is a peninsula of land on the south-western coast of Lestria to the east and south of the Bay of Nangen. It forms part of the wider region of Cunland, with the western coast generally being acccpted as part of the Garthemine Coast. The peninsula is broadly co-extensive with Leuonland, althiugh Leuon itself is spoken mainly in the region around the southern tip of Núam, with Cunnish becoming predominant as one travels north and Fai having soms small currency; the name Núam is itself of Cunnish origins as a daelicisation of the indigenous nyima, of unknown derivation.
Historically something of a backwater region, the Núam attained greater prominence during the 20th century, and is today one of the most strongly-developed parts of the south. This was largely as the result of Messenian commercial interests gaining footholds there – some of which could not make inroads further west in the Baygil Empire, with others being forced further afield after the mass expulsions which followed the Mjandalur War in the empire in 1912. The main involvement there has historically been from Odann and Zeppengeran, with both states utilising local muens as proxies at least as far back as the turn of that century as the Mokrole Wars sprawled over the region (mokrole itself, the local term for “machine gun”, being taken from early automatic weaponry such as the Maxime brought in by the Messenians.)1
The Zepnish emerged with a stronger hold after the work of the Jungbrecht Expedition in breaking Ráth’s grip in the later 1950s. The extent to which the Henver government could weigh in diminished during the Tumnaanperiod between 1959 and 1964 – after the withdrawal of Karl Jungbrecht and the bulk of his command – and while the Núam, and the Tsakhen League who control most of it, are regarded as “friendly to a point” – according to insiders in Henver – this has not prevented other powers’ commercial interests from regaining positions there.