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Nemo of Utopia: /* The Usurpation */ BOOM! Content!

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‎The Usurpation: BOOM! Content!

Nemo of Utopia: /* Bibwit Heart */

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‎Bibwit Heart

Nemo of Utopia: /* Meroka Jin */

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‎Meroka Jin

Nemo of Utopia: /* Lissom Shining Spring */

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‎Lissom Shining Spring

Nemo of Utopia: /* Garion Cromarch */

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‎Garion Cromarch

Nemo of Utopia: /* The Broad */

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‎The Broad

Nemo of Utopia: /* The Iconographers */

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‎The Iconographers

Nemo of Utopia: /* The Iron Raptors */

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‎The Iron Raptors

Nemo of Utopia: /* Geography */

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‎Geography

Nemo of Utopia: /* Xufuwne Onuke */

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‎Xufuwne Onuke

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	== The Usurpation ==		== The Usurpation ==
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		+	Amarana had no real part to play in the opening phases of the Usurpation, but it's new overlord, the young and inexperienced Twilight Caste [[User:Nemo of Utopia/StormCrownedGwenneth\|Storm Crowned Gwenneth]] (who had spent the last few years leading up to the usurpation going through her predecessor's notes and weeping in frustration that she could understand the barest handful of the data therein), had still not settled on a school of sorcery to ascribe to, and as such, she wasn't at the big banquet in Meru and in-point-of-fact managed to survive the opening phases of the Usurpation, and the window-of-opportunity for being trapped in the jade-prison, eventually being brought down just over 50 years later in the depths of the southern Wyld near The Elemental Pole of Fire while attempting to reach a laboratory/workshop base of her former incarnation.

	== The Shogunate ==		== The Shogunate ==

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 === Bibwit Heart ===
-[[Nemo of Utopia/BibwitHeart|Bibwit Heart]]: The 'least' god of Amarana's central manse, Bibwit is uncomfortable with the cult worshiping him as they do. He has seen many least gods that have found themselves at the center of cults growing arrogant and ultimately becoming starmetal and is afraid this will happen to him. He has survived both the fall of the solars and the shogunate by being small and unobtrusive, keeping his manse functional and active while the rest of the city fell apart and he is not going to change that strategy. Still, he is an important god in the city, and as such they venerate him. Bibwit takes the form of an anthropomorphized rabbit with white fur and a tailored coat. He carries a pocket watch that lets him make flurry attacks up to his DEX score with no penalty.
+[[Nemo of Utopia/BibwitHeart|Bibwit Heart]]: The 'least' god of Amarana's central manse, Bibwit is uncomfortable with the cult worshiping him as they do. He has seen many least gods that have found themselves at the center of cults growing arrogant and ultimately becoming Starmetal and is afraid this will happen to him. He has survived both the fall of the solars and the shogunate by being small and unobtrusive, keeping his manse functional and active while the rest of the city fell apart and he is not going to change that strategy. Still, he is an important god in the city, and as such they venerate him. Bibwit takes the form of an anthropomorphized rabbit with white fur ice-blue eyes and a tailored green-silk coat that acts as a buff-jacket with no fatigue or mobility penalty. He carries a pocket watch that lets him make flurry attacks up to his DEX score with no penalty for one mote once per scene as part of his 'divine panoply'. This pocket watch could be lent to someone else in a sufficiently desperate emergency but if not returned to Bibwit within one cycle of the moon the city's central manse will begin to have its various functions shut down, and once all of them shut down, "essence build-up" begins.
 === Cela Dinarius ===

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 She takes the form of a cloud from which pour rays of sunlight.
-=== Meroka Jin ===
+=== Mereka Jin ===
 [[User:Nemo of Utopia/MerekaJin|Mereka Jin]]: the minister of romance and love in Amarana is actually an old pro at the role, having been the minister for the task in the old city and then for the Salaru tribes. He is corrupt as the day is long but adept at hiding his perfidy from anyone and everyone, including to a degree himself.
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 Mereka Jin takes the form of a vigorous adult man of the south with a rose in his teeth and a rakish smile. He often appears nude or in the robes worn for a wedding among the Salaru.
-Mereka is eternally locked in a bitter feud with his theoretical partner Sakarzi: minster of lust and attraction, who is constantly trying to break down the stable romantic relationships her 'partner' builds. For the moment they have reached a detente on the matter of the two factions in which they are most interested, If Sakarzi will do her job for the romantic relationships of the Solarians then Meroka will not try to pair off the Ancestor Cultists into mirages and leave Sakarzi to push them to rut in wild abandon. They have not agreed about what to do with the rest of the population which makes up more than 60%.
+Mereka is eternally locked in a bitter feud with his theoretical partner Sakarzi: minster of lust and attraction, who is constantly trying to break down the stable romantic relationships her 'partner' builds. For the moment they have reached a detente on the matter of the two factions in which they are most interested, If Sakarzi will do her job for the romantic relationships of the Solarians then Mereka will not try to pair off the Ancestor Cultists into marriages and leave Sakarzi to push them to rut in wild abandon. They have not agreed about what to do with the rest of the population which makes up more than 60%.
 === Bibwit Heart ===

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 === Lissom Shining Spring ===
-[[Nemo of Utopia/LissomShiningSpring|Lissom Shining Spring]]: a goddess of the local Oasis who temporarily holds two positions both in her old job and as the minster of all water sources within Amarana's sphere of influence. She is not perfidious in this role like Alhat who should not hold both the aegis of southern war god and god of cattle but is genuinely looking for a replacement to take over the role of goddess of springs and oasis: however she is a perfectionist and committed to finding a perfect candidate, which means that though she has interviewed over a hundred prospective applicants she has not found one that she feels is worthy of her longtime position. The Bronze Faction is willing to let her conduct further interviews, for now, but have made it clear that if she does not have a new spirit in the position by the end of next year she will be censured and the task of finding a replacement will be out of her hands. To this end, she has compiled what she calls her 'secondary list': those gods that she felt were 'almost' up to her lofty standards, and if she is running out of time will call them back for a second interview and chose the best one. She still hopes for a perfect applicant however and only has four names on her 'secondary list'.
+[[Nemo of Utopia/LissomShiningSpring|Lissom Shining Spring]]: a goddess of the local Oasis who temporarily holds two positions both in her old job and as the minster of all water sources within Amarana's sphere of influence. She is not perfidious in this role like Alhat who should not hold both the aegis of southern war god and god of cattle but is genuinely looking for a replacement to take over the role of goddess of springs and oasis: however she is a perfectionist and committed to finding a perfect candidate, which means that though she has interviewed over a hundred prospective applicants she has not found one that she feels is worthy of her longtime position. The Special Sub-Comity on Amarana is willing to let her conduct further interviews, for now, but have made it clear that if she does not have a new spirit in the position by the end of next year she will be censured and the task of finding a replacement will be out of her hands. To this end, she has compiled what she calls her 'secondary list': those gods that she felt were 'almost' up to her lofty standards, and if she is running out of time will call them back for a second interview and chose the best one. She still hopes for a perfect applicant however and only has four names on her 'secondary list'.
-Lissom Shining Spring's form is that of a large fish, but lately, she has been finding herself slipping into the form of a young woman in the suit of one of the city's hydro-engineering personnel who assists the Patron in making sure that all the pipes are sound before restoring the flow of water to a building. She is not sure she likes this.
+Lissom Shining Spring's form is that of a large fish, but lately, she has been finding herself slipping into the form of a young woman in the suit of one of the city's hydro-engineering personnel who assists the Patron in making sure that all the pipes are sound before restoring the flow of water to a building. She is not sure she likes this, in fact, she's fairly certain she ''doesn't'' so far. She would be willing to slip some jade and silver to someone who could figure out why it keeps happening and make it stop a few times annually in thanks for their help.
 === Sonari ===

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 === Garion Cromarch ===
-[[User:Nemo of Utopia/GarionCromarch|Garion Cromarch]]: is the god of Amarana's police force, who has waited patiently these seven centuries and more since the loss of the city to the fair folk working unofficially as a P.I. in Yu-Shan and who is the author of Amarana’s rebirth, having convinced the Bronze Faction to engineer the events which have led to that happening. Garion is perhaps more involved in the doings of the city's police than he should be, often helping them out with 'gut feelings' and leading dreams, but so far his interference has not crossed the line of allowed behavior.
+[[User:Nemo of Utopia/GarionCromarch|Garion Cromarch]]: is the god of Amarana's police force, who has waited patiently these seven centuries and more since the loss of the city to the fair folk working unofficially as a P.I. in Yu-Shan and who is the author of Amarana’s rebirth, having convinced an awkward cabal of mixed members from every faction to engineer the events which have led to that happening. Garion is perhaps more involved in the doings of the city's police than he should be, often helping them out with 'gut feelings' and leading dreams, but so far his interference has not crossed the line of allowed behavior.
 Garrion's form looks like an idealized southern human male wearing Sentinel Defense Force armor blazoned with the symbol of Amarana, an eagle in flight wearing broken manacles.
 === Lissom Shining Spring ===

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 === The Broad ===
-Alone of the Salaru the Broad actually hate the Patron. The Broad was from the uttermost western areas of the Salaru and also alone among their number made a common practice of keeping slaves, but not so much for the purpose of having them work for the tribe but rather to sell to the guild. They ranged far among the sandy wastes waring with members of other tribes and capturing them to sell for the supplies they needed to survive and prosper. Many among their number were heroic mortals and with the exception of the Mantis Tribe and the Chosen of Fire they boasted the most members with awakened essence and/or god-blood. They also served as a dumping ground for the criminal and malcontents of the other tribes leading them to be less cordial with the rest of the Salaru than any other tribe. However, even the Broad wished to return to Amarana enough to give up their slave taking practices, at least, some of them did. When the Patron decreed all people of Amarana Free men and women shortly before the Guild arrived the Broad fractured over whether to return to their ancestral homeland or remain in the wastes and live as they had done for centuries. In the end, the tribe split 60/40 in favor of returning to Amarana and becoming part of the new society, but the 40% that remained in the wastes no longer consider themselves beholden to the Patron, Amarana, or even the Salaru. These people, called by their former associates The Red Broad are now considered outlaws brigands by the Isknadarian government and hunted whenever they stray close to the fifty-foot Glass Pillars that mark the borders of the Amaranaian lands. They are firmly in the camp of the Guild's Men and infiltrate the city regularly to capture and smuggle out valuable slaves that have escaped to Amarana from other lands.
+Alone of the Salaru the Broad actually hate the Patron. The Broad was from the uttermost western areas of the Salaru and also alone among their number made a common practice of keeping slaves, but not so much for the purpose of having them work for the tribe but rather to sell to the guild. They ranged far among the sandy wastes waring with members of other tribes and capturing them to sell for the supplies they needed to survive and prosper. Many among their number were heroic mortals and with the exception of the Mantis Tribe and the Chosen of Fire they boasted the most members with awakened essence and/or god-blood. They also served as a dumping ground for the criminal and malcontents of the other tribes leading them to be less cordial with the rest of the Salaru than any other tribe. However, even the Broad wished to return to Amarana enough to give up their slave taking practices, at least, some of them did. When the Patron decreed all people of Amarana Free men and women shortly before the Guild arrived the Broad fractured over whether to return to their ancestral homeland or remain in the wastes and live as they had done for centuries. In the end, the tribe split 60/40 in favor of returning to Amarana and becoming part of the new society, but the 40% that remained in the wastes no longer consider themselves beholden to the Patron, Amarana, or even the Salaru. These people, called by their former associates The Red Broad are now considered outlaws brigands by the Amaranaian government and hunted whenever they stray close to the fifty-foot Glass Pillars that mark the borders of the Amaranaian lands. They are firmly in the camp of the Guild's Men and infiltrate the city regularly to capture and smuggle out valuable slaves that have escaped to Amarana from other lands.
 The 60% of the tribe that has returned to the city are in the camp of the Death Cultists since the Broad were by and large ancestor worshipers before they returned to Amarana and see no reason to change that now. Calling themselves 'The Green Broad' they have no love for the patron but do love their city and will fight to the death to defend it. Most of them are now members of the city's military and are locked in a bitter feud with their former tribesmen. The members of this tribe that are not military mostly work as overseers for the small but growing cadres of 'indentured servants' kept by the city government in punishment for some of the most heinous crimes such as rape and enslaving another person.
 === The Western Salaru ===

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 === The Iconographers ===
-Among the tribes of the Salaru, few can argue that the Iconographers are not among the most learned and civilized. Hailing from the cities northeast they have preserved an astonishing amount of lore from the low first age, especially on the subject of geomancy. Now almost universally employed by the Patron excavating and repairing manses they are well off and respected. The Iconographers place great store by erudition and knowledge, and gain position and prestige among their own via a set of grueling examinations conducted by their tribe's patron spirits once every ten years, and always in old realm. Because of these tests of knowledge, the tribe is led by its elders, who have had the most time to study and learn, and they are prone to contemplation and thoughtfulness. Among other advantages this has gifted them with is the possession of five small Manses outside the city, raised after the city's abandonment by their own hands. These manses have made their ancestral lands fertile and bountiful, making them one of the largest salaru tribes with 200 members in five small villages around the Manses before they emigrated to Amarana. Of all the tribes their desire to return to the city was among the greatest, but they did leave one family behind in each village to see to its welfare and upkeep in perpetration for their Descendents and those selected to join them by the Patron returning. The Iconographers in city number 175 or so and are very much in the Patron's camp. They are led by Sukiwara Madoka, a god blooded thaumaturge of advanced years and not inconsiderable skill.
+Among the tribes of the Salaru, few can argue that the Iconographers are not among the most learned and civilized. Hailing from the cities northeast they have preserved an astonishing amount of lore from the low first age, especially on the subject of geomancy. Now almost universally employed by the Patron excavating and repairing manses they are well off and respected. The Iconographers place great store by erudition and knowledge, and gain position and prestige among their own via a set of grueling examinations conducted by their tribe's patron spirits once every ten years, and always in old realm. Because of these tests of knowledge, the tribe is led by its elders, who have had the most time to study and learn, and they are prone to contemplation and thoughtfulness. Among other advantages this has gifted them with is the possession of five small Manses outside the city, raised after the city's abandonment by their own hands. These manses have made their ancestral lands fertile and bountiful, making them one of the largest salaru tribes with 200 members in five small villages around the Manses before they emigrated to Amarana. Of all the tribes their desire to return to the city was among the greatest, but they did leave one family behind in each village to see to its welfare and upkeep in perpetration for their Descendents and those selected to join them by the Patron returning. The Iconographers in city number 175 or so and are very much in the Patron's camp. They are led by [[User:Nemo of Utopia/SukiwaraMadoka|Sukiwara Madoka]], a god blooded thaumaturge of advanced years and not inconsiderable skill.
 === The Eisil ===

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 === The Iron Raptors ===
-Though founded by a group of outlaws and murderers the Iron Raptors are ironically a major component of Amarana's police force. Having originated as an inner-city gang during the last days of the shogunate the Iron Raptors turned their coats when the fair folk came calling at the end of the contagion. They took hundreds of people out of the city through hidden tunnels and other smuggling routes: people who became the founders of the other Salaru tribes. Since then they have slowly moved from running protection rackets over the other tribes, to actually protecting them, to being their main form of law enforcement and wandering justiciars. Now that Amarana is resettled they have taken up the role of their distant ancestors' worst enemies, an irony that is not lost on Garion Cromarch. The Iron Raptors’ central holdings were to the north of Amarana but they wandered freely among the other tribes and in fact still do, being welcome among any of the other Salaru. They worship Garion Cromarch as their patron deity, but also reviver a number of small gods of crime and larceny, propitiating them in recompense for reducing their portfolios and defeating their natural worshipers.
+Though founded by a group of outlaws and murderers the Iron Raptors are ironically a major component of Amarana's police force. Having originated as an inner-city gang during the last days of the shogunate the Iron Raptors turned their coats when the fair folk came calling at the end of the contagion. They took hundreds of people out of the city through hidden tunnels and other smuggling routes: people who became the founders of the other Salaru tribes. Since then they have slowly moved from running protection rackets over the other tribes, to actually protecting them, to being their main form of law enforcement and wandering justiciars. Now that Amarana is resettled they have taken up the role of their distant ancestors' worst enemies, an irony that is not lost on Garion Cromarch. The Iron Raptors’ central holdings were to the north of Amarana but they wandered freely among the other tribes and in fact still do, being welcome among any of the other Salaru. They worship Garion Cromarch as their patron deity, but also revere a number of small gods of crime and larceny, propitiating them in recompense for reducing their portfolios and defeating their natural worshipers.
 === The Kelderkin ===

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 = Geography =
-Geographically Amarana lies at the point just before the sands of the deep desert begin to give way to the rocky foothills of the summer mountains. When the spring rains sweep in from the north it is prone to flooding and mud, while the heat of high summer brings the blazing Simoon roaring out of the deep desert and with it short tempers and sharp words that sometimes flare into brutal murders. Winter is a season of joy and happiness for the citizen's of Amarana, as the power of the elemental pole of Air waxes and the desert is cooled, allowing snow to briefly form in the nearby summer mountains which are trucked into Amarana by old roads and made into flavored sherbets and snow cones for those with the Patron's favor, especially small children, of whom The Patron is known to be quite fond. The foothills around Amarana abound with resources brewed up by the slowly retreating Wyld or pushed from deep within the earth by the strange forces by which creation renews itself over the centuries, including many veins of silver from which Amarana mints its currency. Meanwhile, the desert around Amarana is rich with fire dust and gem sand, especially during the nights of the new moon when the Wyld retreats for several miles further south and exposes a wide swath of 'tainted' land, especially where the city has been slowly pushing the Wyld back by infecting it with billions of grains of what is essentially Elemental Earth. This area is hazardous as well however because the tainted area is not just composed of valuable sands, but also dangerous ones, such as quicksand, shatter sand, and hungry sand. For every person from Amarana who strikes it rich mining firedust or gemsand in the tainted lands on the nights of the new moon, another finds themselves injured, killed, or mutated: in Amarana 'Firedust Miner' looks fair to rank among the top 5 'most dangerous professions' for the first year of recorded statistics in the city, right behind  'Rogue Spirit Protection Expert' and 'Pharmacist' but just ahead of 'Building Excavation Team Member' and 'Artifact Recovery Personnel'
+Geographically Amarana lies at the point just before the sands of the deep desert fully give way to the rocky foothills of the summer mountains. When the spring rains sweep in from the north it is prone to flooding and mud, while the heat of high summer brings the blazing Simoon roaring out of the deep desert and with it short tempers and sharp words that sometimes flare into brutal murders. Winter is a season of joy and happiness for the citizen's of Amarana, as the power of the elemental pole of Air waxes and the desert is cooled, allowing snow to briefly form in the nearby summer mountains which are trucked into Amarana by old roads and made into flavored sherbets and snow cones for those with the Patron's favor, especially small children, of whom The Patron is known to be quite fond. The foothills around Amarana abound with resources brewed up by the slowly retreating Wyld or pushed from deep within the earth by the strange forces by which creation renews itself over the centuries, including many veins of silver from which Amarana mints its currency. Meanwhile, the desert around Amarana is rich with fire dust and gem sand, especially during the nights of the new moon when the Wyld retreats for several miles further south and exposes a wide swath of 'tainted' land, especially where the city has been slowly pushing the Wyld back by infecting it with billions of grains of what is essentially Elemental Earth. This area is hazardous as well however because the tainted area is not just composed of valuable sands, but also dangerous ones, such as quicksand, shatter sand, and hungry sand. For every person from Amarana who strikes it rich mining fire-dust or gem-sand in the tainted lands on the nights of the new moon, another finds themselves injured, killed, or mutated: in Amarana 'Firedust Miner' looks fair to rank among the top 5 'most dangerous professions' for the first year of recorded statistics in the city, right behind  'Rogue Spirit Protection Expert' and 'Pharmacist' but just ahead of 'Building Excavation Team Member' and 'Artifact Recovery Personnel'
-Nearby Amarana are a number of Small Oasis, Hot Springs, and Geysers which have long provided the Salaru tribes with water. Though 90% of the tribesmen have returned to their ancestral home a few chose to stay out in the wastelands for one reason or another, and now gather into three new small tribes: the western, northern, and eastern Salaru.
+Nearby Amarana is a number of Small Oasis, Hot Springs, and Geysers which have long provided the Salaru tribes with water. Though 90% of the tribesmen have returned to their ancestral home a few chose to stay out in the wastelands for one reason or another, and now gather into three new small tribes: the western, northern, and eastern Salaru.
-To the west, the desert is hot by day and cold by night, with only trackless sand to greet your eyes, the Salaru who have stayed out in this wilderness journey mile upon mile between oasis that are often buried under the shifting sands and must be dug down to gather up their water. They survive by hunting snakes and lizards and trading fire dust and jewel sand with the Guild for added food and water. Though trade is their main source of contact with the outside they no longer must rely upon it or perish, with the total number of tribe's men in this region reduced by more than 95% they now can survive on their own without help, but it would be a spartan existence. Trade gives them luxuries and better equipment, which they put to good use. The western salaru do not keep herd beasts or in fact, any animals except hunting dogs, the land here is too harsh for this to be profitable. They worship many nature spirits, but few major deities except the Unconquered Sun, who is seen as a wrathful god of war and destruction, and Luna in her aspect as The White Navigator, who is seen as a benevolent and helpful deity. Though they honor the high holy days of the five maidens they are not much revered outside those times.
+To the west, the desert is hot by day and cold by night, with only trackless sand to greet your eyes, the Salaru who have stayed out in this wilderness journey mile upon mile between oasis that is often buried under the shifting sands and must be dug down to gather up their water. They survive by hunting snakes and lizards and trading fire dust and jewel sand with the Guild for added food and water. Though trade is their main source of contact with the outside they no longer must rely upon it or perish, with the total number of tribe's men in this region reduced by more than 95% they now can survive on their own without help, but it would be a spartan existence. Trade gives them luxuries and better equipment, which they put to good use. The western salaru do not keep herd beasts or in fact, any animals except hunting dogs, the land here is too harsh for this to be profitable. They worship many nature spirits, but few major deities except the Unconquered Sun, who is seen as a wrathful god of war and destruction, and Luna in her aspect as The White Navigator, who is seen as a benevolent and helpful deity. Though they honor the high holy days of the five maidens they are not much revered outside those times.
-To the north, the Salaru who have not returned to their city are primarily herders and gatherers, as the foothills of the summer mountains provide old lava tubes and other places to hide from the sun by day and keep flocks dry when the rains come. Their life is perhaps the least harsh of the three new tribes since they have kept the most of their population, with only about 80% going to live in the city and in all cases leaving a few family members to mind the herds and ancestral cave or rock-cut house. They also were the most numerous of the Salaru before the return to Amarana, having six of the 10 Salaru tribes living in their region. and now are by far and away the most populous of the three 'outside' tribes. They also still contribute a good chunk of Amarana's food supplies, which means that even the Patron must treat with them on their terms. On the other hand, they know that the Patron, while a patient man, does have his limits and that their families back in Amarana would suffer first and worst if they cut off the shipments of food and other goods to the city, so they treat the Amaranaians with a much respect as they expect in return: so far the city and the northern tribe have a strong alliance of mutual benefit and support. The northern Salaru frequently revere Atlhat, the southern god of war and cattle, in addition, they also revere the Celestial Incarna and Gaia as well as many nature spirits.
+To the north, the Salaru who have not returned to their city are primarily herders and gatherers, as the foothills of the summer mountains provide old lava tubes and other places to hide from the sun by day and keep flocks dry when the rains come. Their life is perhaps the least harsh of the three new tribes since they have kept the most of their population, with only about 80% going to live in the city and in all cases leaving a few family members to mind the herds and ancestral cave or rock-cut house. They also were the most numerous of the Salaru before the return to Amarana, having six of the 10 Salaru tribes living in their region. and now are by far-and-away the most populous of the three 'outside' tribes. They also still contribute a good chunk of Amarana's food supplies, which means that even the Patron must treat with them on their terms. On the other hand, they know that the Patron, while a patient man, does have his limits and that their families back in Amarana would suffer first and worst if they cut off the shipments of food and other goods to the city, so they treat the Amaranaians with as much respect as they expect in return: so far the city and the northern tribe have a strong alliance of mutual benefit and support. The northern Salaru frequently revere Atlhat, the southern god of war and cattle, in addition, they also revere the Celestial Incarna and Gaia as well as many nature spirits.
 The tribes to the east were always the most desirous to return to Amarana, for they could still see it's central tower sticking up out of the sand. However, when the time came, an influential leader named [[User:Nemo of Utopia/Sabris of the Two Spears|Sabris of the Two Spears]] convinced them that they should instead of all going back to the city leave some people behind and send their sons and daughters back into the summer mountains to live with those that stayed for two years as a right of passage. This has proved to their great advantage, for they now own the rights to much of the mineral wealth in the summer mountains near Amarana and have risen to be among the city's most wealthy families. The mountain Salaru were hunter/gatherers before Amarana's recovery and it is in this capacity that the children sent to the old mountain fastnesses must learn to survive when they are facing their Adavam Ordeal. The eastern Salaru mostly hold up a host of small gods for worship and revere the celestial Incarna on their high holy days. They are however the nearest things to atheists Creation has, feeling that if a person cannot survive without divine intervention then they are weaklings that must be excised from the gene pool. Many of them are swayed to a degree by the Immaculate faith but reject the idea that the Dragonblooded are creations, rightful rulers, their tribes have long memories and have heard the tales told by the Lunars of the perfidy of the Dragonblooded and the glory once created by the Solars, and twice in their exile have seen this glory first hand before the Dragonblooded showed up and ruined things.

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 === Xufuwne Onuke ===
-The leader of Isknadar's relatively large population of ghosts from the time of the fair folk invasion Onuke is frighteningly powerful but relatively easy going. He has outlasted Amarana's long dormancy and now looks forward to an era of joy and plenty for the city's dead. A dragon blooded warrior in life Onuke was killed battling the invaders from the wyld and in an odd twist of fate, they buried him with high honors. His tomb lies in the still sand-covered western half of the city at the center of a small park. In form, Onuke looks like a typical dragon blooded of the shogunate, dressed in power armor and wielding a Daiklave. He has subsisted by hunting plasmic creatures for most of 700 years but welcomes the changes of the reborn city. Onuke is the cult's equivalent of a war god, a role he shoulders without complaint but also without relish.
+The leader of Amarana's relatively large population of ghosts from the time of the fair folk invasion Onuke is frighteningly powerful but relatively easy going. He has outlasted Amarana's long dormancy and now looks forward to an era of joy and plenty for the city's dead. A dragon blooded warrior in life Onuke was killed battling the invaders from the wyld and in an odd twist of fate, they buried him with high honors. His tomb lies in the still mostly sand-covered western half of the city at the center of a small park and is one of the barest handful of areas in that region that have been excavated in advance of the main work. In form, Onuke looks like a typical dragon blooded of the shogunate, dressed in power armor and wielding a Daiklave. He has subsisted by hunting plasmic creatures for most of 700 years but welcomes the changes of the reborn city. Onuke is the cult's equivalent of a war god, a role he shoulders without complaint but also without relish.
 === Aruna the Defiant ===