Guuduuruh Chuhtuhtuhthuk

Portrait of Guuduuruh at age 17; the only surviving one from the Llhun Chaauhqoh.

### Occupations

*De facto* leader of the Chaauhqoh Llhugkauh

## Physical description

### Eyes

Orange

**Guuduuruh Chuhtuhtuhthuk** was a member of the Yahtiitsis Gkauh, Matriarch of the state of Llhugkauh, and the leader of the settlement of Shhun Guhchuuru'un. Hailing from the long-lost city of Kuullhukuullhu, in the *Llhun Chaauhqoh,* she took her position as a leader of refugees as they escaped from the cataclysm that destroyed the *Llhun Chaauhqoh* and immigrated to Iaddithis before her death.

## Early Life

Guuduuruh was born 20 years before the *Kur Xa'akaakah* in the city Kuullhukuullhu. She, like most Gkauh, hatched from a clutch of 12 eggs, being the third to hatch of her siblings. She was an above-average student in school, and became skilled in natural and social philosophy as well as the practice of magic.

After reaching adulthood, she began to engage with the magic craft as an apprentice, and was able to publish writings kept in the Grand Library of Kuullhukuullhu. From these writings, she gained local fame, and had accumulated enough clout to gain sway over political and economic affairs in the city as a minor influencer.

## Surviving the Kur Xa'akaakah

This accumulated soft power, plus a bit of luck (she was down in an underground temple at the time of the Kur Xa'akaakah) allowed her to rescue and lead roughly 180 survivors from Kuullhukuullhu to survival in the ruins of the city. Her organizational and magical skills proved essential to the group's collective survival.

Raiding the mana supplies of the magicians' association in Kuullhukuullhu, Guuduuruh was able to create a portal by which the survivors could access a new home of some kind. The unknown new world was rejected by some of her peers, and as such they stayed behind. Only 167 followed into the new world- Iaddithis.

## Establishing Shhun Guhchuuru'un

Upon reaching Iaddithis, the Gkauh under Guuduuruh's leadership began a harsh trek across the land. Several died of disease and hunger on the way, and the Gkauh began raiding abandoned settlements to feed and house themselves. After several weeks of wandering the world, they stumbled upon an isolated peninsula covered in conifer forests, with plentiful plants reminiscent of the Llhun Chaauhqoh. Here, the settlement of Shhun Guhchuuru'un- "New Haven" was founded.

Guuduuruh led the Gkauh to farm the new world's plants, and to hunt game. This new diet was not taken lightly by many of the other Gkauh, but in those times of great hunger they could not eat any alternative. They were, however, able to build the large nest-houses of their old homeland.

Guuduuruh, after several attempts at divination, concluded that the old gods of Nu'u Tuunghuk had ceased to be alive, and her magic powers were all but gone. Many of the Gkauh were distraught, and despite her attempts to console them the group was uneasy at this thought. Two even committed suicide. Life in the new world was hard for all, but Guuduuruh was all the Gkauh had left with them.

## Becoming the Count of Gkauhitania

The first true interactions the Gkauh had with humans were with the people of the Republic of Ferea, a small merchant republic in the islands just off the coast of the Gkauh's settled land. Guuduuruh herself snuck around the city of Ferea itself, and after being confronted by one of its leaders she ran.

Her relations would normalize after representatives of the Empire of Ladinia learned to communicate with the Gkauh, and instructed the Gkauh that they had settled in their claimed territory. However, due to the region's low human population density, the Gkauh were given mostly free reign over the land, and Guuduuruh was put into a formal position of power in the Ladinian feudal system- at least on paper. While a formal count of Gkauhitania (or *Chaauhqoh Llhugkauh* in Tuulhut), she still kept a soft and fluid leadership position, only facilitating the distribution of resources and caring for diplomacy with the rest of the empire.

## Securing Independence

Ladinia suffered a coup d'etat not long after the establishment of the County, and from that Guuduuruh began pushing for an out to secure independence- she began to appear as a weak leader to her people. An opportunity came as the Fereans agreed to gain influence over the Sudetanian region during the crisis, and approached the Gkauh leader herself to sign an alliance. The treaty of Ferea officially made the Chaauhqoh Llhugkauh a *de jure* independent state for the first time. The new country joined the Garden Union, an alliance of states in the Qamari Gulf region, and remains a member.

She led the Chaauhqoh until she succumbed of disease at an unknown date, likely around May of 2022. She was succeeded by Tsiya Ru'uchiiru.