Lingaoi

## Introduction

The Lingaoi are a unique race of Ghuls inhabiting the eastern mountains of Xyrillia. Although agressive and dangerous they compell their cannibalistic desires and rule their snowy peaks with a tight grasp.

## Known tribes

### Tribes of the Osho Mountains

* **Rash´ri-** The largest of Lingaoi tribes is known as Rash´ri. They are by far the most numerous and strongest of tribes. The Rash´ri possess several Bornlairs across the Osho Mountains, each of them heavily fortified and guarded. They are form a powerful Ghul empire founded in discipline and order untypical for the Unkin. Cannibalism is reserved for their Ghulkings while all those who serve them are satisfied with drinks of Bornwater. The Rash´ri Ghuls are by far the most intelligent, mostly walking upwards and wearing cloth and armor when. The Rash´ri are spread across the entire eastern mountains and the underworld below. Although they raid human lands from time to time, they usually try to live in peace with them as they focus on keeping their dwindeling race together.
* **Vorgan shadows-** This tribe of Ghuls holds close ties with the humans. They worship Vorg as their god and enact his will across the impervious mountains. The Keshen that make a pilgrimage to Kand often make offerings to this tribe for safe passage. Should these prove satisfactoy, the Ghuls will ensure an unharmed journey to the sacred vale, keeping beasts and pests away from the wanderers. Should the offerings be found insufficient the Ghuls might steal their supplies or prey on the pilgrims themselves.

* **Backbreaker tribe-** They reside in the mountain-chain that seperates Mulugai from the upper steppes. Their Bornlair lies in the caverns of the *Frozen Pinnacle*, a gigantic mountain that houses large Geungaoi colonies before the Backbreakers purged them from their warrens. This Ghultribe is particularly agressive as asserting dominance through increadibly violent means is an essential part of their culture. It is only through the constant efforts of the Morchen and the tribes of Olorg that these fiends are kept in their caves.
* **Dragonclaw tribe-** This tribe is ruled by a small group of ascendants, each of them of terrible strength and intellect. They have plundered the Geungaoi colonies in the mountainchain closest to *Osh Ka Kai* and learned their sorcercy to make use of their Lay-Stones. They use them not only to controll their smaller kin but also large beasts such as Xyrillian Dragons. This tribe avoids conflict with humans and prefers to remain in the mountains, fighting a perpetual war against the other tribes.
* **Spinegnawer tribe-** These Ghuls do not share the restrain in regards to cruel and cannibalistic practices. They have descended into a degenerated state of insatiable hunger and fight a constant war for survival. Once in a while a superior Ascendant emerges from this conflicts and leads the Spinegnawer tribe into the fruitful human lands to plunder and feast. The Spinegnawers worship *Zar´leth,* a void entity hidden inside *Heavens Notch*, a colossal snowclad mountain that towers high above his cousins. This creature lies in perpetual slumber while the spirits it has corrupted function as lower gods which work towards *Zar´leths* awakening, an act that requires the offering of a thousand untainted lifes.
* **Val´Chakai-** The Val´Chakai only inhabit the otherworldy mountains closest to Xyrillias edge. Their peaks and caverns are twisted by the influence of the Eather and stone itself has grown into a living being ruled by the spirits and void entities that settle in its hull. Like a parasite the *Val´Chakai*, the most dreaded of Ghultribes, inhabits these mountains. They are ruled by Mutator Priests which give voice to their twin panteon of malign Mountain spirits and Valakai. It is unkown how deep their influence strechtes but it is likely that their forces swarm the deepest caverns of Xyrillia, besieging the Silent Cities of the Garauth. Their largest Bornlair lies hidden and well guarded in the entrails of the *Mountain of Eyes*, the largest of its kind at the eastern fringe of the world. Only when the weather is perfectly clear can the terrible peak of this mountain be spottet from the steppes.

### Tribes of the Golgat Mountains

* **Golga´shar-** This tribe is amongst the powerful in the entire east. They inhabit the mountains and caverns of Golgat, constantly battling against the Geungaoi colonies under their feet. Towards humans they are mostly friendly exept for a few agressive Ascendants that engage in cannibalism and consumption of sapient things even though their faith condems it. They trade the Leystones they scavenge for food with the lower Dustfeather tribe, who again trades it to the humans.
* **Dustfeather tribe-** This tribe dwells in the offshots of the Golgat Mountains facing the Rattling desert. The have adapted themselves to the constant cycles of dying and regrowth that rules this desert, hunting dormedaries, rabbits and boars during the rain season and living from the stock of food they have amassed during this time when the desert dries again. Besides that they scavenge the small vales and caverns of the lower Golgat Mountains. This tribe is very peaceful, even trading with Keshen merchants as they crave objects of gold and silver with the magpie-like eyes.