Lore and Legends of the Dezzyverse

Even before the Fall of Vakra, the Tralfolk had already been changed by their Sorcerous masters. Through a combination of sorcery and cultivation, the thralls of the Vakra were developed to serve the needs and desires of their Vazdeg patricians. The Fall of Vakra exaggerated the traits that were bred into the thralls, mutating them into Tralfolk.

The principal social unit Tralfolk community organization were formed around the klaarg, groups in which descent was reckoned through common parental lineages. Klaarg (both singular and plural), were named often for the founding families and the oldest such stretch back for centuries. Communities were commonly referred to by the klaarg of their Verkovgi (Tralspek for “chief” or “lord”).

Ethnicities of the Tralfolk

Beihtral: The Beihtral were companions for Vazdeg sporting hunts. They were cultivated for their feral instincts and sharpened senses. After the Fall of Vakra, they developed into beast-headed humanoids of two different clans, the wolf-headed Tier, and boar-headed Tohr.

Fyhrtral: Vakra used the ancestors of the Fyhrtral to assist with the cultivation and husbandry of the native flora and fauna in their realm. They were exposed to the most powerful wells of natural magic discovered by the sorcerers of Vakra for generations. The catastrophe of the Fall of Vakra changed the Fyhrtral, the powerful magics of the deep wild places took them and remade them. They were tall and graceful, Fyhrtral men grow proud horns from their heads like stags, their legs were jointed like deer, ending in cloven hooves and made them swift runners and strong leapers. Their bodies were covered in a pelt of short, soft fur, and they grew short, furry tails at the base of their spines.

Glaztral: The Glaztral were robust thralls, cultivated to thrive in high and cold altitudes found in the Kymric Mountains. After the fall, the developed to large people, covered in a thick pelt of white or pale fur across their shoulders, arms and legs.

Gundtral: Gundtral were among the most privileged thralls, serving as assistants to the Vakran sorcerers. The Gundtral were selected for their natural talents with magic and intellect, but not might or strength. They suffered most during the Fall, emerging from the devastation only half the size of most other peoples and cursed with an impish seeming. Without the privilege of their masters’ favor, the Gundtral have dropped to nearly the bottom of Tralfolk society. Still, they have retained their inherent magic and high intelligence, traits which help them to survive despite their physical frailties.

Orgtral: Physically largest of the Tralfolk, Orgtral are larger than even their Glaztral cousins. Their thick limbs and broad trunks affoard them all the physical advantages that the Gundtral lack. Their ancestors were cultivated by the Vazdeg for physical labor and service as soldiers and bodyguards. This heritage, and their size has made the Orgtral phenomonally strong when compared to other peoples.

Rukhtral: The Tralfolk people were capable of producing multiethnic offspring, both with other Tralfolk, and wih other humanoid peoples. The result of these mixed lineages had stabilized into the youngest of Tralfolk peoples, the Rukhtral. The Rukhtral carried many of the best traits from their parentage, though to a lesser degree. They were strong, but not as strong as the Orgtral, they were clever, but not as clever as the Gundtral, they felt a deep connection to the land, but not to the same extent as the Fyhrtral. Rukhtral were of average height and build of most humanoid peoples of Fahr Ryasc, with pointed ears and small horns growing from their foreheads.

Svakktral: The Svakktral when they were thralls of Vakra were used as miners and workers of stone and metal. They explored the Underworld of Fahr Ryasc and sought its treasures for their Vakran masters. After the Fall of Vakra, the thralls who retreated into their vast underground strongholds became Svakktral. The Svakktral were short and broad, thick limbed and strong as the mountains they lived beneath

Vaktral: The Vaktral as thralls, were born of a Vashdeg parent and a thrall. This did require sorcery as the Vashdeg were giants, and in the case of a thrall mother, that sorcery needed to be applied until birth. The children of this mixed parentage enjoyed an elevated status in Vakran socity, above the other thralls, but below Vakran citizens. They also were able to produce a stable ancestry of hybrid children among themselves. They, like the Gundtral, were highly intelligent and magically powerful. They were, by most cultural definitions, beautiful to look upon. Even after the Fall of Vakra, the Vaktral only became moreso. Their sorcerous prowess, inherited from their Vashdeg ancestery made them mighty sorcerers, but their numbers were very few, and they isolated themselves, preferring solitude to the harsh realities of life among others.

Language

The Tralfolk communities spoke Tralspek, a derivative form of Vakran. Over the long centuries following the Fall of Vakra, the Tralfolk continued to use their own casual dialect of Vakran until it became a distinct language of its own. Tralspek did not have a written form, most Tralfolk were illiterate, but the few who have kept written records over the centuries used the Vakran alphabet and symbology to preserve their histories, stories and culture. But, the writings made were unique to each author. No single written interpretation of Tralspek has emerged, and none was widely adopted.

Relations

The Old Xjinn Empire: The Empire considered the Tralfolk to be uncultured barbarians at best, and at worst, more beasts than people. From how the Tralfolk live to their language, worship, even their art and culture were all deemed inferior to the Old Xjinn Empire.

Bryndffolk: The Bryndffolk have been competitors for land in the north with Tralfolk since the Fall of Vakra. Longer if one considers the Bryndffolk’s struggle with Vakra pre-Fall. While the two peoples have been intermixed for centuries, and minorities of each people lived amongst the communities of the other, there was always competition for land, rescources, and survival.

The Sea Cities: The rise of the Sea Cities held many of the same prejudices that the Old Xjinn Empire had. Influenced by the Bryndffolk when their trading ships sailed north, they held the view of the Tralfolk as barbarian pirates looking for plunder rather than commerce.