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--- settings:cahyali:dahabu [2024/03/10 03:28] – quiddlesticks
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   * Treason: Execution or exile.
-Leviathan has a distinct pirates' code of laws:
+[[settings:cahyali:dahabu:leviathan|Leviathan]] has a distinct pirates' code of laws.
-  * [[settings:cahyali:dahabu:leviathan#ye_pirates_code|Ye Pirates Code]] (On [[settings:cahyali:dahabu:leviathan|Leviathan]])
 For more information on the history and culture of Dahabu, follow this link: [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JAVBGOQbAJ0dW75GBpmZ5ws8IfdwMgtnZ9uHXiMeYEw/edit?usp=sharing|Dahabu History & Overview]]
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-**[[settings:cahyali:dahabu:leviathan|Leviathan]]** {UNDER CONSTRUCTION}
+**[[settings:cahyali:dahabu:leviathan|Leviathan:]]** A city sitting in the Al-Kharshi Bay: a haven and mercantile hub for pirates and thieves of all sorts. Black markets run the place here, and a loose pirates' code, as well as the constant threat of retribution, is all that keeps the city in relative peace.
 **The Kharshi Collective:** An organization made up of several towns across the coast of the Al-Kharshi Bay, involved in trade with Ruefang and Ulos. Though it holds little power relative to Leviathan just off the coast, the Kharshi Collective acts as a check to Leviathan's ambitions and effectively keeps the pirates who run it from expanding further inland. Towns within the Collective include the villages of //Amactus, Envaruna, and Syraea//, among others.
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 === Witch-Queen's Gambit ===
 [[settings:cahyali:dahabu:wcg|Witch-Queen's Gambit]] is a popular card game, reportedly created by the last Pharaoh of the Empire. It plays somewhat similarly to the game of poker, played in Western Cahyali.
+==== Aihtaraq Sandtails ====
+Often living outside of the city-states in small nomadic bands or in large underground tunnel complexes, there are as many [[lore:races:lizards#desert_sandtails|sandtail]] tribes in the Aihtaraq Desert as there are stars in the sky. The nomadic tribes are often contracted as couriers as they drift along long, winding routes from city to city; much of Dahabu's nonmagical logistics is reliant on them. Though the specific culture of a sandtail tribe may differ wildly, many have common threads.
+  * Water is precious. In the desert, no resource is more valuable than water. To steal water is the highest of taboos and crimes, and it is even a common funerary rite to use spells to drain the water from a corpse for recycling.
+  * In stationary tribes, the dead are often buried in massive funeral mounds, the largest of which can be several stories of bones and naturally mummified remains. Many tribes believe these mounds lead the spirits of the dead to eternal communion, where they can reach out as one to speak with and guide the living.
+  * To do it yourself is to do it with confidence. Sandtail tribes help one another, and it is considered wasteful and arrogant to try and try on one task, rejecting help, in an attempt to improve solo or prove a point. There is little room for waste in the Aihtaraq.