History Obviously, of the fae that settled in New Zealand, the sidhe were entirely absent. Even those that had remained behind after the shattering saw little reason to leave their European homelands for such a barbaric place as New Zealand. Of those that did arrive, the most populace of the kiths were the trolls, though they were soon evenly numbered against the redcaps. Why redcaps? The Maori were warlike, tribal, covered large areas of their bodies with tattooes and sported red hair amongst their generally dark haired people. This was a primal paradise to the broken spirited redcaps after the industrial revolution and more of their kind seemed to appear every year. The native fae forged an alliance with them, and the redcaps adopted the name Pakura (red head). Rulership of New Zealand, or more accurately to the fae 'The Empire of the Samite Mists' (A translation from Aotearoa which means also 'Land of the Long White Cloud'), was sporadic and prone to failure. The trolls set up the first seat of power in what is now known as Hawke's Bay, driving resident native fae and their redcap allies out of a glade of immense power. This act was somewhat covered up by the many land wars that dominated New Zealand throughout the 19th century but never forgotten by the native fae that survived. It continued to be a source of conflict for many decades until the arrival of the sidhe. Much of the fae structure in the early 1900's was so loose that there were no recognised kingdoms, baronies or earldoms at all. The only claim laid to one aprticular stretch of land was denoted by the boundaries that the mortal dwellers sketched or the territories of the prodigals that the fae did not interfere with. Despite this, Waikato became a key location for fae in the Empire to meet, simply because the North Island was more heavilly populated than the South and it was conveiniently centralised. By the time the first World War began it was becomming recognised as the seat of fae power in the Empire and boasted a (stolen) holding of equal power to that in Hawke's Bay. Of importance is an object of power, one of the great treasures of the native fae. It was a sphere of native greenstone (jade) the size of a troll's head and it was known as the Matakite Stone. Under the translucent green surface could be made out the form a slumbering Taniwha (native dragon), of great power. The exact purpose of the stone was entirely unknown, but it was rumoured to grant prophetic powers to the holder. In 1878 it was stolen from its resting place in a tapu (sacred) area belonging to the native fae by a weasle pooka by the name of John Roberts. The stone remained undiscovered for almost 50 years until it was found by a sluagh explorer who was scouting limestone caves in the far south of the empire - cradled by the skeleton of what could only have been Roberts. The native fae assumed that the visions from the stone had driven Roberts to his death, by showing him the terrors of the future.