Family Crest: Twisted trees sprout from a layer of skulls. Above the trees, a large bird with jagged wings devours a smaller bird.
The family colours are black on green, and soldiers and items often are decorated with ornate crests of blue-green feathers.
Lord's Name: Algarius
>Lady's Name: Volia
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Starting Traits:
Strong
Fortunate
//Faithless
Starting Skill:
Combat
The Ketari Kingdom is a nation of conflict. A nation of steep hills and thick forests.
It used to be a land of dragons, but they have passed from the world.
The bones of the past dragons can be found all over, snarled in the roots of the mightiest trees, lying forgotten in caves, or bones dug out in the mines so old they've turned to stone. It is after the legendary fierceness of the dragons that the nation models itself. The war-priests tell us that the bird-goddess, Ketar, saw the gold-scaled beasts as an affront to bird-kind, and so slew them with a spear pointed with their own teeth.
The Ketari royal family, such as it is, places great import on combat. It is traditional for suitors to the monarch to best them in a duel before the marriage can go ahead, though this ranges from actual life and death struggles (well, for the suitor, at least) to formal displays choreographed like a dance.
THe Ketarian people favour strong, stone dwellings,
of thick blocks put together with no mortar. Often, they build down rather than up, making compex cave-cities in the hills. The land outside is sculted into terraces, or used to graze the hardy llamas that provide meat, leather, wool and milk to the people.
The warriors have plenty of metal from the mines in the hills, but few cavalry due to the thick forests. Every warrior has his fang: a weapon much like a
Macuahuitl, with blades of obsidian, steel, or even dragon's teeth. In addition, every warrior carries a shield and javelins. To lose your fang is a mark of shame, and many fangs have been passed through families for generations. Soldiers decorate their armour with large crests of feathers, animal skins, and fiercely carved or forged masks.