Outermost hills
Within the skat'ra, there aren't any ethnicities. This reduces the number of issues other nations have within their species. However, the skat'ra are not far from resenting each other. This enmity is happening between the inner hills and the outermost hills.
Scholars call it rolling animosity. The rolling nature of this opposition comes from the fact that whenever an outermost hill becomes an inner hill because new hills were founded next to it, the behavior of the hill takes a 180-degree turn and treats the new hills like the inner hills treated it earlier.
While one nation, in skat'ra society, every hill fends for itself. However, the queens of the outermost hills feel that they are not respected as equals, and their hills have more tasks than the inner hills. They are the ones who protect the skat'ra lands, mostly from tobzoshkuh swarms and hordes but from other animals and monsters who dare not enter the skat'ra planes' inner parts. Because they are full of new workers and warriors, they must send more of them than their share for joint tasks. The new queens still need to be seasoned in their roles. And from time to time, they even have to fight an inner hill if the queen of that hill thinks that the newly founded hill is closer than she would like to.
Some of the outermost hills are in a more precarious position. These are the ones that are at bordering the continent or Dominion. All of these hills were founded in the past. In theory, they should be inner hills by now. But because new hills can't be based next to them, they are still treated as outermost hills. They handle the additional border protection tasks and supervise the various caravans entering or leaving the skat'ra fields.
Of course, because of the complete control of the queens over their subjects, everything depends on how the queens treat each other. However, the Queens' Assembly could not solve these issues in the past centuries.
Listening to the queens' quarrel is so much fun
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