Continent: Ilaros
Region: The Sea of Grass
Government Type: Semi-Feudal Oligarchy with despotic overtones
Ruling Bodies: the K’ra Cha!tl
Current Leaders:
Tla•athtl’ Chrik (NE Thri-Kreen Psychic Warrior 12)
!G’sh’kal (LE Thri-Kreen Shaper 10)
Siłich !ri (LE Thri-Kreen Seer 11)
Chirik Chalgan (N Dromite Nomad 12)
Economic Type: Decentralized and varried
Colonial Type: None
Currency: Mixed
Population: about 16,000,000
Species Demographics: 50% Dromite, 15% gnome, 10% Thri-Kreen, 10% Bhuka, 10% Other
Capital: Sh’aathalkta (population 84,000)
Largest City: Har Gyanish (population 2,580,020)
Religion: no official religion, but more on this later
Symbols: A three-bladed knife
Major Languages: Gad’jak’, Yorgle, Utashe, Parjen
Nominal Alignment: LE
A note on the Thri-Kreen languages
The native language of the Thri-Kreen is technically impossible for mammalian humanoids (and similar peoples) to pronounce correctly for they lack the proper mouthparts. However it is possible to crudely approximate their speech with the use of various clicks, ejectives, and several sounds not normally found in humanoid languages. Orthographically, these sounds are represented by a variety of diacritics, special characters, and the like; here follows a key to reading the Thri-Kreen orthography.
Consonant or Consonant cluster marked with <’>: ejective
<ł > lateral click (approximates a mandible clack)
<ŧ> dental click
<!> alveolar click
<•> glottal stop
General Description
Yagjadat is the ancestral home of the Thri-kreen and it is here in the steppes and deserts of the high plateau that they are most at home. At first glace, Yagjadat is little more than a vast, rugged grassland stretching off into seeming infinity broken only by the hive-spires of the Dromites, the spires of the Architect Bugs, and small clusters of twisted and windswept trees or the odd windcarved canyon. The climate is harsh and dry with little to redeem the place in the eyes of those more used to less arid locations. Nevertheless, the land is fertile and possess a certian bleak and windswept beauty. The populus of Yagjadat are starkly divided between the settled population, mostly of dromites and pentagja gnomes, and the semi-nomadic thri-kreen ruling elite.
Political Structure
In many ways Yagjadat is organized in a manner not wholly disimilar to the various caste systems found in other parts of the world. The Thri-kreen rule, the dromites act as everything from advisors to slave laborers (according to what colony they belong), the Pentagja farm and raise livestock, and the rest are pushed aside like so many untouchables. For many centuries the Thri-Kreen have controled the country, relying on a combination of shere physical prowess and subtle psionic manipulation to control the many dromite colonies that exist within the country. Most of the dromite queens are under the domination of thri-kreen telepaths or made addicted to certian substances that only the mantismen can supply as thus the whole coloney is subjugated to the will of the masters.
These thri-kreen handlers are themselves servants to small groups of particularly powerful thri-kreen called Cha!tli or Circles which hold absolute control over a particular set of colonies and the area around them. The areas that the Cha!tli control are generally not contiguious but rather represent a collection of colonies with related economic output. Thus one Cha!tl holds power over all of the miners and metal smiths, another over farmers and still another over paper makers. Yet even these Cha!tli are not the supreme rulers of Yagjadat for they serve at the pleasure of the K'ra Cha!tl the Completed Circle. This body meets in the city of Sh'aathalkta, in the Labyrinthine Canyon, and rules over the other Cha!tli and often its members use the lower Cha!tli as pawns in their own machinations.
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