Teolihullo

The Saurian Theocracy

The Saurian Theocracy is a country mostly inhabited by a species of highly intelligent bipedal lizards belonging to the Neocidae . It can be found beyond the Western mountains of Bera's Bracers in the highlands of Grubovot.
It is not known for certain when and how the Neocidae realm came to be, but it is speculated that some of the predecessors of The Callicant used their genetic knowledge to do so. They themselves insist to have inhabited their lands since the beginning of time, when the Mother Egg was pierced by Father Sun Scale. Whatever the case may be, the Saurian civilization has co-existed with those of humanity at least for the entire life span of the latter. The Caste System of the Saurian Theocracy has made it a very formidable foe for human civilizations in the past, as humans have had to contend with a highly organized and disciplined enemy, further made nigh fearless by their fanatic devotion to their religion. Hence, while conflicts between the species have been far between, they have invariably been bloody and closely contested, despite the Neocidae lower level of technology and reliance on mostly infantry and beasts.
Most of the time, however, the Neocidae have kept to their own devices outside of occasional trade missions. Even diplomatic contact has been quite rare and as such the goings on at any given time in the Saurian Theocracy are mostly a mystery to humans.
Things are not aided by the fact that the Neocidae can not produce human like speech, or humans Saurian like, due to their very different biologies. Because of this communication between the species has always been in written form only. Yet even this form of communication has not been common due to the difficulty of the language of each species to the other and the rarity of individuals with a mastery of both.
With these difficulties of communication between the species and their markedly different physical forms, the relationship between the Neocidae and the humanity remains distant and cautious. The next conflict is always but an error away.

Structure

The Saurian Theocracy is a highly stratified caste society lead by a priest caste formed by The Purple Touched. These are smaller than usual Saurians with a purple smudge of colour on their face scales. Newly born Saurians, male or female, bearing these marks are immediately sent to their nearest Temple of the Sun Scale by their mothers, to be raised into their future leadership role by other Purple Touched. Among the Purple Touched, the highest ranking one is known as the Sun Scale Paragon. This Saurian is the high priest of the Saurian religion and hence the leader of all the Saurians. It resides in the largest of the Saurian settlements, Sun On World, from where it passes its religious judgements and political decisions.
Right bellow the Purple Touched in the Saurian Theocracy's caste system, the Gold Scales can be found. These are golded scaled, significantly larger than average Saurians, trained from hatchlings in Saurian military academies, known as Schools of Blood. In these schools, the Gold Scales are trained in the art of combat until they come of age, when each cohort goes through The Trial of Death, duels to the the death between members of a cohort, leaving behind only the strongest and most cunning of their generation.
The Gold Scales are followed in the Saurian hierarchy by the Silver Scales. Silver Scales are much like any average Saurian except their scales are silvery in colour. This group is responsible for Saurian trade and science and highly intelligent even for their species. These Saurians go through the School of Silvers to eventually specialize in either trade or science.
After the Silver scales come the regular Saurians, the Green Scales. Green Scales are the most numerous of the Saurian castes and responsible for their food production, construction and other such every day endeavours. They get a modest education in Green Schools, just enough to function in the Saurian society. They mostly live unremarkable, but peaceful, lives outside of sometimes drafted to reinforce the Saurian military's Gold Scales as cannon fodder.
At the bottom of the Saurian hierarcy one can find the Mixed Scales. These are Saurians with scales of mixed colours. They are look down upon by the rest of the Saurian society and are treated as borderline slaves, toiling away in the heaviest, dirties and least thankful jobs while getting the worst land to live on and the worst scraps of food to feed themselves with. However, because of being seen as essentially expendable, Mixed Scales that show intellectual or physical promise are sometimes taken into Schools of Darkness. In these, they are trained into special strike units or individual assassins, to be sent to the most dangerous and demanding missions of the Saurian military - or to carry out the dirty work of ambitious Purple Touched.

Foreign Relations

Know to sometimes trade with The Black Rift offering food and receiving precious technological parts manufactured by the Senfid Aidarii. This trading is mostly regarded as illegal by the Ben Aidarii.

Type

Geopolitical, Country

Capital

Teolizest

Leader

Anakanak

Leader Title

The Sun Scale

Government System

Theocracy