Galeshi

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   Galeshi Sand-tribes are a tribe of human, nomadic, free folk from the western deserts. They are known for their skills with scimitars and for being expert guides across the unforgiving deserts where they make home. For the nomadic sand-clansmen, calling someone a farmer was a deadly insult. To call a clansman something like that in front of his woman would leave him foaming. Many of them are allied with the Black Powder Rebels.

Galeshi have a tradition to sell their women to marriage, with the cost of the girl being refered to as a bride-price. The dustwinds of their homeland are blinding, worse than those of Caero. The few remaining Galeshi horses are one of the best in the Land, able to give the High Elven warhorses a run for their money.

## History

Darq the Corrupt masterminded the destruction of the Galeshi Ringed Cities through the use of a resurrected Orc champion named Kzar Rabahn – he now rules the western deserts in the name of the Dark Crusade. As result, his army of Galeshi vampire-warriors – the Moonborn – stand as a threat to both Empire, Revolutionary and Shadow Khan holdings in the western half of the Land.

In response to the Sect's destruction of the Ringed Cities, the Ribaya Ghosts were formed, who hunt down the Necropolis agents in pursuit of vengeance for their homeland.

434 Tz was a stunning year for the Orcs of The Fist. As a new Orc leader, Kzar Nabar, rose to power after defeating many of the tribal leaders in death challenges, his deal with the Galeshi peoples to provide them scouts and black powder weapons in exchange for swearing to never lead an attack against their people was a monumental event.

   The sudden surge of the Dark Crusade to the east and the bizarre arrangement between the free-willed Galeshi and Kzar Nabar has many Revolutionaries worried about the battles to come. While the Council of Merchants in Khamsin warned the Galeshi against their plan to make deals with the Orcs – and were ultimately unable to send aid to the Galeshi due to the siege of the Revolutionary capitol – many Galeshi have a bone to pick with their "so-called allies" in Khamsin and the Northlands. Only time will tell if this opening mark of freedom will stand, or fall once again to the tyranny of Atlantis or one of the larger factions.

News has reached the Orcs that the reanimated Orc hero, Kzar Rabahn, after slaughtering his hated Galeshi enemies, was attacked and slaughtered by the traitorous Darq the Corrupt. As result of this vile plan, the Orcs will destroy any of the Moonborn on sight, and killing the vile traitor Darq is seen as a quest of the greatest honor imaginable for an Orc warrior.

## Culture

The Galeshi can brew Potions of Dueling - a fermented tea crafted from a combination of herbs and sand-snake venom. While reputed to give the wielder both divine visions and unquelchable rage, much to the amusement of scholars, the potion might just bestow painful delusions of being covered with writhing scorpions.

A Cloak of the Dervish is bestowed to a Galeshi warrior when he or she comes of age. This cloak can be used for shelter, as camouflage, or even to harvest what little morning dew is available in the western deserts. For a young Dervish, this cloak is often the difference between living and dying.

The mythical Galeshi Sunsword bear relation to the tribe - only the greatest of warriors can wield such a legendary weapon; to even gaze upon the Sunsword burns the eyes of the unworthy.

### Names

Galeshi are known to bear names such as these:

* *Male:* Shedani
* *Female:*

### Religion

The Galeshi desert peoples, having long lived in the deserts of the Land, came to worship the Sun as a bringer of both life and death. In their harsh, nomadic culture, where a single mistake or stroke of bad luck can easily leave one to die of thirst in the desert wastes, making worship and sacrifice for the Sun Gods is an unchangeable way of life. While the Galeshi are not united by the Sun as other cultures are united behind the worship or reverence of their own gods, all of them do acknowledge that worship of the Sun Gods is a common way of life, and that only a non-Galeshi would be foolish enough to stand against the wrath of one who both gives and takes life with equal ease.

While the tales of the Galeshi have many parables of immoral warriors finding a due end at the hands of their dangerous deities, there are no recorded tales of actual sightings of the Sun Gods - only the words and whisperings that the most blessed of Priests receive at the end of a long desert walk, or a fast within one of the sacred, hidden oases secreted throughout the western deserts and the Blasted Lands.

## Notable

Notable Galeshi clansmen
 Tulwar Windfoot | *None* | Alive

***Sapient species***
 Alien to the Land

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2. ↑ Rebel Thunder (Bill McCay), Chapter 4
3. ↑ Rebel Thunder (Bill McCay), Chapter 11
4. ↑ Rebel Thunder (Bill McCay), Chapter 14
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