Kolias Kape was a German explorer of Meridia from the Duchy of Saxony. His expedition was organised by Wolfgang, the Duke of Saxony, and later sponsored by the Hanseatic League; upon his arrival in the New World, he spent several years exploring, before coming into contact with the Iroquois Confederacy. He spent several years there, learning about their ways and their culture. Impressed, he declared himself "Ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy", and later developed what was known as the "Kape Plan", during his stay with the Iroquois and independently of his European sponsors, to incorporate the Iroquois Confederacy into the Holy Roman Empire. After convincing various Iroquois chiefs, and most important of all the High Chief Hiawatha (who was never seen, but rather communicated supposedly via the entrails of dead birds and the sun), Kape prepared a hastily compiled treaty, engraved onto a rock, to confirm the Iroquois Confederacy as a member-state of the HRE, and sailed back to Europe, with the "Iroquois ambassador to Europe", Chief Hochadler (one of the first native Meridians to set foot in Europe). He presented the treaty to the Holy Roman Emperor, who was initially confused but confirmed the Iroquois as part of his Empire, although subsequent Germans knew only vaguely of this, and did not of course affect German foreign policy much. Thanks to Kape, the Iroquois became friendly with German settlers (they had been taught to speak German by Kape), but Kape's Treaty, which was carelessly lost at some time during the late 16th century, did not save the Iroquois from colonization by more powerful nations and empires later on in the 17th and 18th centuries. Nevertheless, Kape's actions would later inspire the Empire's partially successful "New World Imperialization Scheme." His friend and companion, the Meridian Hochadler, went on to marry a European girl, but shortly after died of an unknown European disease. His daughter married the great-great-nephew of Benedikt Nietzche, and her grandson, Lolas Joch, became President of the Magi, 1703-1715.
