Kubu

thumb|95x95px|A Kubu Giff
The Kubu are an ethnicity of Giff recognizable by their double-breasted jackets and red sashes (see inset image). They are mainly worshipers of Marduk, but over time they have twisted his teachings from "the strong must protect the weak" to "the strong must lead the weak" creating a racial caste-based nation known as the Marmar Thalassocracy, sometimes referred to simply as The Government or Guvermul Marmar. The Marmar capital is named Rahm-Bassa.
== The Marmar caste system ==
Although the Marmars are Kubu supremacists. They don't have slavery, as this is explicitly against Marduk's teachings, as is gender discrimination. but there's a rigid class system (from highest to lowest status):
* Kubus
** Other Giff and high-status spirits (wise, powerful, beautiful etc) are ranked just under Kubu Giff
* Tabaxi - The cat-people are decent fighters, even if they are smaller than the giant hippo men.
** Beneath Tabaxi are other random humanoids, and spirits which are not considered "high status"
* Grippli - They're tiny (non-anthro) frog people. Slippery, good climbers
* Aarakocra
** Nobody is quite sure why the Kubu have such a low opinion of the Aarakocra, but it costs them dearly: the Aarakocra are the only non-spirits in the Feysky with natural windsight, forcing the Kubu navigators to use enchanted windsight monocles and Kubu gunners to rely on massive barrages to hit their targets purely by saturating the area with projectiles. This is a massive waste of sparkdust.
There is another (non-hierarchical) class structure which applies only to the Giff themselves; every Giff must choose a path (a Tova) for themselves when they come of age. But the traditionalist Kubu culture means that the Marmar treat this choice as far more rigid and permanent than even the other Giff societies. In many ways, a Kubu's Tova determines the path of the rest of their life - quite a harsh decision for a 14-year old to make.
== Other notes ==
The military is lead by the Windmarshal (in the time of TDDC, it is Windmarshal Amadou).
One of their latest and proudest technologies is the printing press, and as part of their quick-and-dirty rush to develop magitech, they are secretly trying to find ways to mass-manufacture low-level scrolls via the presses, and ways to build such scrolls into forms of ammunition.
Category:Races