Feral Dogia

## History

Feral Dogia or Free Dogia is the ungovernable area of space inhabited by dogians who follow Ishta, the more 'savage' or free spirited of the two Dogian sister goddesses. The area was split from Tame Dogia following the death of Queen Katherine Sharikov at the hands of Ishta's son Aleksander. These events along with the founding of Feral Dogia are chronicled in the Dogian Triads.

## Clans

All feral dogians belong to a Clan, an interplanetary confederation of Dogian communities directed and lead by a matriarch. Each clan maintains its own culture and loose traditions, forming the backbone of what little politics the feral dogians have.

### Viccery

Viccery was founded as the first clan as Visky. It would be renamed Viccery after a Gath-Sakan Arms corporation which began dealing with Feral Dogia in the 540s. Viccery is the largest, best coordinated, best supplied, and most uniformed clan of feral dogia. Most feral dogian expatriates com from Viccery due to it's dealings with Gath-Sako.

### Prokorovka

The second of the feral dogian clans, Prokorovka is dominated by Korolevan influence, hearkening back to Ishta's lineage as the daughter of Anahita and Epirian. One of the larger clans, Prokorovkans are characteristically tough.

### Skiva

The 3rd feral dogian clan, the Skivans were depraved slavers and generally antagonistic towards their neighbors. Ultimately as a clan they were destroyed in the winnowing by clans Viccery, Prokorovka, and Ferl in 749.

### Chesca

The 4th clan was founded out of the union of feral dogians and Janue missionaries who attempted to integrate feral dogian veneration of Ishta into the holistic church.

### Ferl

The smallest of the feral dogian clans, Ferl are also the most literate, maintaining copies of Dogian lore, history and culture. They also attempt to 'convert' tame dogians and pass them to the other clans, seeing the advancement of feral dogian into tame dogia as their ultimate goal.

### Sevka

One of the smaller feral dogian clans, Sevka is devoted to 'authentic' feral dogian culture, and resisting any outside influence. They are generally viewed as the least agreeable apart from Skiva.

## Language

Due to its geographic proximity to common speaking regions the Korolevan, Heimater, and Janue languages are all extremely common within Feral Dogia. Due to their close involvement with Gath-Sako the vast majority of Clan Viccery Dogians speak both of the Ascal languages as do many other Dogians. Additionally, an archaic and old language known as Kunith is still spoken by mystics and esotericists.

## Culture

Feral dogian culture is overall loose knit, but revolves around small tight communities. Each community is part of its clan, but only so far, it is not unheard of for entire towns, settlements or villages to switch between clans, either by conflict or by politics. Courting rituals and family formation are also principle important to feral dogian culture, but the specifics of each vary from region to region. The most common element superficially are ribbons.

## Religion

The feral dogian religion venerates Ishta very heavily. Practices usually revolve around mystics and visions, with a wide variety of obscure, bizarre, and often rituals of unknown significance being performed. Many practices of Feral Dogian religion are borrowed wholesale from outside sources, sometimes with practices venerating other deities coming with them. Many dogians view the practice of venerating any deity other than Ishta as contemptuous and no clan officially endorses the practice. If a goddess is appropriated however, she will be depicted with dogian ears, but no tail.