Key Members
Khatun Xayana Ankhai
She is the Khatun and daughter of the last Khatun, Aldynay Ankhai. She onlyrecently became Khatun after proving to the previous Khatun that she was ready to take over.
Xayana has felt the need to break her tribe's isolation and seek new people in new lands, to learn more of the world outside. With famine growing likely once more, she wants to find a more sustainable future that allows them to grow.
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After her father's death, she joined her mother's side and learned from her and how to be strong like her. Rumour has it that she dived 50fulms deep in the Blind Frost when she was a young teenager, marking her resistance & fortitude as an Ankhai. She is rarely seen with a weapon, lending to legends of her surviving the wilds unarmed and earned respect for saving lives of Ankhai out in the wilds and how she was unafraid to speak her mind yet remain respectful, particularly with the former Khatun.
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She has attuned herself to land and sky and finds herself at one with nature through practices similar to geomancy and astromancy, which are among the reasons she is able to survive so well.
Aldynay Ankhai (Ex-Khatun)
Aldynay was the Khatun of the Ankhai Tribe. She served for around 20 years. She earned a reputation for ending the tribe's last famine, where she proved her unrivalled skill as a huntress. Since her time in power, food has been stable enough and conflict minimal. She was thus considered a good leader who has few legends about her. She has now gracefully retired to make way for her daughter to lead.
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The most popular legend involves her husband. He left the tribe to join the Garlean Empire when they invaded the lands of the tribe's western traders. It is said that Aldynay crossed to Ilsabard, and she tracked and hunted down her husband. On finding him she dragged him home by the horns, not letting go or stopping to rest for her rage was too strong. She then made an example of him to all members of the tribe. She insisted that the Garleans made him weak, that he lost the ways of his people, and reminded him what Garleans did to some of their people and allies.
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She then marched him to the ocean, where he used to swim, for he insisted that he was as strong as ever. At his wife's orders, he went in and never returned, confirming to her what she and her people had figured, that he had grown too weak to survive. From thereon she cemented the loyalty of the people and it instilled a pride in the people's strength, which sure called upon to help through through their hardest times, maximising on people's strengths and merits. And it is because of this story that Ankhai tend to believe that Garleans are weak.
Other Members
Player Characters
Kydaana
Saran
Non-Player Characters
Sayyna
Ayatas
Nariyana
Altaana