Anubi

The Anubi were a race of dog-like humanoids who went extinct at least four millenia ago. The nerve center of their empire was located in what is now the Badlands, in Ancient Anubi. Though accounts vary, they were said to have possessed a high degree of technology and at one point controlled most of southern Galapygos. Explanations for their decline and extinction run the gamut from a global climate change to the intervention of the gods themselves.
==Physical Description==
All information known about what Anubi look like is taken from one image, recovered from a tablet found in Ancient Anubi. The image depicts a humanoid figure with a dog or jackal-like head. The Anubi is depicted as being taller than the pictures depicting its human slaves. This is consistent with the size of doorways and chairs found in Anubi ruins. Anthropologists have placed Anubi at being anywhere between 8 and 9 feet tall. 
While the picture depicts a jackal-headed Anubi, some scholars have put forth the theory that this does not disprove the idea that Anubi could have possessed multiple forms. 
==Culture and Customs==
What is known of Anubi culture comes from the vast array of literature left behind by the race. In 1410, translation of the scrolls finally became possible and a wealth of information about the Anubi was revealed.
Anubi kept humans (at the time, primitive and probably non-verbal) as slaves and used them as labor to construct their massive temple cities. Badlanders claim to be descended from these slaves, though this is disputed widely in the academic community. The prevelance of temples and the mention of god-kings in their texts suggests that Anubi held their leader in regard next to the gods, even building temples to worship him. Some religious scholars suggest that this is why the gods smote the kingdom of Ancient Anubi into ruin. 
Anubi are also suggested to have domesticated the kreen worm at some point in time, although this is often dismissed as a mis-translation since the kreen worm is nigh but un-trainable. The discovery of new pictograms depicting the worm with some sort of muzzle device in the past year have since once again thrown this claim into heated debate.
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