Bone Hunters

**Bone Hunters**, known in their own tongue **Yasnyqiid** and in Nealite as **Ostonigosa,** and less referred to as Galynkhun the Fire People, is a racial-culture of nomadic cavalry-riding religious arsonists who descend from the soldiers and citizens of the **Shan-Galyn Kingdom** ruled by the Element Lord of Fire Khaganyuu **Ezen Gälyn**. Many of the Ostonigosa nobility wear tall pointy helmets with masked face-plates (the helmets oft being decorated with metallic mustache folds, feathers, blackened bones, jewels, or all or others). They also wear lamellar and scaled armor plating with leather hide and bone decorations (many burnt); it is these bone decorations that give them their names. Those unable to afford such protection wear tall, thick hats of hide, those in the more sandy areas wrapping themselves in facial desert scarves.

The Bone Hunters occupy much of Bara Magna, including their steppe-savannah homeland of Zuunika, the plains of East Neala named Ruunika, much of Ani'Keyah, the remnants of Geneteira and the lands of the Central Wastes between the many Jarra'dine city-states. Their preferred mount is a vicious man-sized theropod known as a **chumariin**, or a rock steed (named as such for their scales). The Yasnychiid as a race are different from the mainline agori in the fact that they were modified under orders by Ezen Galyn via nanotechnology to become the best warriors and better unify his diverse people; this was done by inspiration of Shah'hi Jarra in his creation of the jarra'dine, though Ezen did not want his people to look like abominations. The changes includes: some enhanced senses (sight and smell), olive-brown skin with red-orange patterns all over their skin, and an ability to easily tame animals. It was this love of cavalry and their mass taming of the chumariin that allowed them to slowly dominate much of Bara Magna.

Founded by Ezen Galyn himself, the Bone Hunters follow a religion of spiritual arson called **Galytgel**, meaning Fire-Faith, which is centered around feeding the sky-god Tsenkher with the materialized soul-stuff we observe as smoke, all in order to hopefully gain his blessing for what you deserve (sometimes it isn't good, but the greedy don't think of that). As such, fire is both important to their religion and plays an important part in their symbology, including the colors red, orange, yellow, grey, black, and sometimes blue for the sky. The most holy animal of Galytgel is the mythical Fire Bird, which looks like a sun-serpent made out of flames, and it is thought to be Tsenkher himself visiting the world he watches.

During the existence of the Kingdom of Shan-Galyn (before and during the Core War), there were three armies, each reflecting a part of Galytgel (Red for the Flame, Black for the Smoke, and Blue for the Sky). there was:

* **The Vulkhanate**, the **Red Horde** - An entire army of elite scouts to go deep into foreign territory in campaigns commanded by generals, they wore face-plates bearing the simplified skull face representing their immortal Khaganyuu Ezen Galyn to show who they serve in the face of their enemies and citizens; this made them the most zealous and practiced live human sacrifice on prisoners fo war to feed their sky-god Tsenkher as commanded by Ezen Galyn. Were completely relentless in battle, infamous for sparing not even whole families. After burning his way through Bota Magna (the lava-lands of south Bota Magna being a remnant of a since-ruined fortress in that theater of war), Ezen Galyn had the Vulkhante that was traveling with him at that time split in half, one half to go back to Shan-Galyn in order to prepare for an ambitious assault on Thal Kastra to secure the river valley, the other half to march north with him and the entire Qojkhanate in an equally ambitious direct assault on the North Pole (capital of Isskulak), the Battle of the North Pole being the last great battle of the Core War and would lead to the end of the world. The half that went into Neateir would experience the Shattering (caused by the clash in the far north) while south of Atero, the cataclysm killing much of the soldiers. They would journey before Thal Kastra to see it in ruins and declared their purpose moot. It is unknown where they settled initially, but being soldiers in a desolate wasteland they and their descendents, as well as their Unxkhanate would come to be a plague upon Neateir by becoming a nomadic nation of raiders, taking from others to keep themselves surviving and in power. The inhabitants of Akkar, led by a stubborn last king, refused to pay tribute to them and the Vulkhanate completely destroyed the city, alter making their capital next to the ruins of Akkar witht he name Vulkhanyn. The Vulkhanate of Neateir, being of great influence and terror in the region, would prove unchecked (albeit save a brief time during the reign of Neronikus of Tesara) until the rise of Taiunus Magnus, who after crushing the Vulkhanate threat dirtily began the process of Nealizing Vulkhanyn as a replacement for Akkar until the city was renamed as Vulkanus. Despite efforts of Nealization, the skull-faced face-plates have remained a staple of Neateir fashion despite its religious meaning lost.

* **The Unxkhanate**, the **Black Horde** - The largest of the three armies, their helmet's face-plates would be like their faces but the face below the mouth covered by multiple 'mustache' folds. Protected the Homeland of what is now named Zuunika as well as being involved in every battle of the Core War for Fire in some degree, they sent a sizeable force west into Neateir to assist a portion of the Vulkanate in their planned assault on Thal Kastra, these Ruunics as they came to be called being the controllers of Ruunika in east Neateir, their capital cities being **Khot-Khad**, **Zar-Daguu**, and **Tsaiz-Kuluu**. The Zuunics back in the homeland have the ancient holy capital of **Shan-Galyn** to control but others have risen since the Shattering. The Unxkhanate Ruunics were briefly united by the aspiring war-leader **Fero**, but they are now beginning to be truly united by the returned Ezen Galyn, who is preparing to journey with a reformed proper army to retake his ancient capital of Shan-Galyn in the Zuunika.
* **The Qojkhanate**, the **Blue Horde** - The smallest yet most elite army personally led by Ezen Galyn, this army had boxy-helmets, with their armor having ornate raptor-bird decorations (eagle heads, wing and fiery feather engravings) and colored blue with red-and-yellow fire trimming; this was done in symbolization of the sacred mythical Fire Bird, the totem incarnation of the sky-god Tsenkher as taught by Ezen Galyn. The Qojkhanate served next to Ezen Galyn throughout the 300 year time-span of the Core War, and was there with half of the Vulkhanate to see the close victory of Ezen Galyn of the Battle of the North Pole. This victory led to the planetary cataclysm known as the Shattering once Ezen Galyn attempted to interact with the Avhagnu angelic fluid. Since the Shattering and their Khaganyuu imprisoned by the Avhagnu of the planet's core, the descendants of the Qojkhanate have since joined with half of the Vulkhanate, calling themselves the **Tsaikhanate**, the **Twin Horde**. Due to having both red and blue armor decoarations (depending on which 'tribe' you come from), they are sometimes nicknamed as the Purple Horde, though they themselves do not like this.