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Name: Kurtins
Capital City: Turling
Race: Humans
Theme: Tough Xenophobes
Bio: The Kurtins were possibly the unluckiest tribe in the great Empire. The Kurtins were a society of merely tribal-level humans that lived on rich land. They were strong, but merely average thinkers, and when one of the great Empires set it's sight on the Kurtin lands which had been undiscovered due to an intimidating mountain range, they used guile. The Kurtins were surprised at the arrival of men with what they called 'the fire tool'(guns) but the Kurtains being a race with few enemies besides the occasional harsh winter, they took to the strangers with open arms. Vast amounts of gold and silver(a common resource on this side of the mountain range) were traded for a few interesting Empire baubles, making the explorer Golgoath Vanigo one of the richest men on the Empire side upon his arrival. The greedy Viceroy who had sponsored Golgoath's exploration promptly hired a dozen companies of mercenary soldiers and sent them on their way for glory and gold.
Nearly ten companies perished in the dangerous mountain crossing due to horrible underfunding for supplies and lack of mountaineering skill. The dangerous mountain range was so vast it took nearly a month to cross, Golgoath desperately giving his soldiers the basic lessons of mountaineering while they scaled dangerous peaks. The Kurtains displayed an excellent skillset for surviving in the mountains, being tough and resourceful while having the farming skills to eke out small communities that were tucked away near the sky. The mountain range was intimidatingly vast, and it was only due to the promise of vast gold(not to mention Golgoath's penchant for brutality and constant threats of public executions) that made the soldiers across. Even with the army devastated, Golgoath conquered the Kurtain's in under a month, the troops laughing at the tribe's primitive weapons as they fired with their guns. The Kurtain Lands were completely occupied when a winding road was built with the riches plundered from the Kurtains. With most Kurtains becoming little more than slaves, the few free Kurtain were given garbage-choked plots of land to farm out a few wilting plants.
The Kurtain's primitive culture and society survived through numerous generations, and when the Age of Ash struck, the Kurtains promptly fled into the mountains, rapidly dusting off the skills their fathers had brought down through the generations. The Kurtains soon seeded the colossal mountain range with little villages and hideaways. The mountain range was shaken by the disasters that shook the rest of the world, but the Kurtain's only lost a few villages. The Kurtains lived in relative peace, adapting to the mountains while growing tough plants that could survive the rains of ash and arid mountain soil. The village elder met yearly in a large hut in the unofficial capital city of Turling, which is the largets village. Often the Elders would discuss little more than field conditions, smoke a few pipes filled with poignant herbs that were hidden in seams in the mountains, and swap a few old myths back and forth before returning to their villages. However, every once in a while, they would have important news to discuss. Flashes of fire in the distance, horrific floods that would creep up the mountains and drown villages on the lower peaks, and the occasional massive deformed beast that would enter the range and massacre a village, hunters returning with backpacks filled with small birds to villages of slaughtered Kurtains, the beast still prowling the deserted streets. These villages were forsaken as cursed. Other than those threats, the Kurtains lived lives of relative calm compared to the rest of the world, and now that the distance seems clear and there are less and less disasters, a few Kurtains think it is time to move out of the mountains and back into their homeland. Many argue against the few, however, as the Kurtain culture has turned xenophobic, fearful of what other civilization lay outside the mountains. The Elders agreed that all citizens who wished to leave to form their own villages were allowed to do so, but the Elders would not be organizing a migration any time soon.
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