Kalokei

"*Kill, kill, kill, KILL! All humanity is sin, given form and given to sin! Kill and eat! Kill and eat!*" - a surviving recording collected from a ruined Kalokei fortress.

The **Kalokei** were an army of Ontemazei, surviving soldiers of the Ontemazei Empire.

## History

The Kalokei were the soldiers and brutes of the Ontemazei Empire who were stored in various hidden fortresses scattered all over southern Porashon and northern Sevestrana. Long ago, many of those vaults were cleared, their prisoners indoctrinated (or deradicalised) and recruited by the Porasonids or some Sevestranian regiments, but they did not expect many more to be hidden behind the jungles and mountains.

The Kalokei were unleashed during the Tornarin invasions, after the latter bombarded the continent. While much of the southerly region was shielded from the Bombardment, the Tornarins managed to break through the laser shields and pillage their way eastward. They captured many ruined Ontemazei fortresses, seeking to set up bases in their wars against Porashon and its neighbours, but in doing so they accidentally awoke the Kalokei, who slaughtered many of their forces.

The Kalokei were extremely furious at the sight of Porasonids fighting alongside the very people they were designed to slaughter, denouncing their civilised kin as "traitors". Thus began what was known by the Porasonids as the Ravanalila War, a great campaign of ruin and hubris where they confronted their ancestral sins embodied in hate and rage.

Although the Porasonids were able to defeat the initial Kalokei outbreak at first, the surviving Kalokei retreated southwards into uninhabited jungles in Sevestrana, where they built more fortresses and cloned more armies. Centuries later, the Kalokei marched northwards, their mission being the extermination of Porashon and its human allies.

The Kalokei were almost able to seize Imasela, the capital of Porashon, when they turned south to repel a Wannaenid attack. The Wannaenids burned much of their armies and enslaved the survivors.

A female Kalokei warlord who led her forces as far south as Rabydos waged war on Shaunetor, and she was defeated by the latter's Ontemazei regiments. She cursed the Ontemazei of Shaunetor's guardians as she died of her wounds.

Some Kalokei were among the hostile Ontemazei frozen and stored in the vaults of Barandon Castle. Those Ontemazei were defeated by Azdortil. Some of the survivors joined him and made him their commander, and even worshipped him as a heavenly being.

## Military

The Kalokei continued the organisation of their former Imperial masters, but in their hatred their order collapsed into nothing more than reckless cannibalism in battle.

The Kelunne and later clones were among their ranks, made as nothing more than thoughtless brutes.

## Society

The Kalokei were a far cry from the near-civilisation of their Imperial Ontemazei masters, No longer would they build thriving cities, as they were totally focused on war and destruction. They were a militarised society, where the weak were killed, eaten, or sacrificed brutally to the Ontemazei gods.

They continued the savagery of their makers, focusing all of their energies on brutality and extermination.

The bygone rulers of the Kalokei, the Ontemazei imperial government, were known as the Dasju or Dosju, after the Dasyu demons of the Rig Veda scriptures. Like the Dasyu of old, the Imperial Ontemazei used to build massive cities while they waged ruinous wars against the world.

## Religion

See also: Ontemazei mythology

The Kalokei considered themselves as loyalists, subjects of the Ontemazei Empire. They venerated Mithura, the state goddess of their empire, with war, killing, murder, and death. The Kalokei believed that their mission was the dominance and slaughter of the whole world and universe to punish everyone's sins.

Prisoners were cut into pieces on altars to Mithura, and Porasonid prisoners were brutally torn to pieces and eaten, and then sacrificed to the very gods that the latter loved and worshipped to curse them. The Porasonids, for their support for humans and their lack of cruelty, were the most hated of all enemies to the Kalokei.

The Kalokei were known as the "Blasphemous Horde", because of their hatred of the Porasonids' gods. Out of their hatred, they were notorious for mocking the Porasonids' faith and kindness, by murdering their prisoners in captured temples, defiling those sanctuaries with the blood of the innocent. The Porasonids believed that when the Kalokei murdered people as mocking, blasphemous sacrifices to the former's gods, they were worshipping Yatana, the demonic deity of hate and cruelty. And when the Kalokei did so, the gods would only be very angry at such great desecration.

The Kalokei especially hated Kali, the goddess of justice, simply for being a goddess worshipped by the humans and for her fearsome appearance. In their mockery of Her, they murdered Porasonid prisoners in Her sanctuaries, defiling them with Her children's and their allies' blood as they cried out to Her for justice.

Such vile acts are considered unforgivable by the Porasonids, who regarded murderous "sacrifices" to their Mother Goddess as among the greatest of all blasphemies, *against* Her and everything that is good. For that reason, the Porasonids' war against the Kalokei was a holy war, waged by the children of Kali to avenge all victims of the Ontemazei hosts.

In turn, captured Kalokei who were suspected of such ritual murders were burned alive, to give the desecrators a taste of what awaited them in the world beyond for their murderous acts. The Porasonids then rebuilt every temple and town that the Kalokei had destroyed. As they purified the sites, they invoked Kali to bring the victims' souls to Paradise.

## Kalokei characters

### Porashon

* Tôvesha - commander of the siege of Imasela, mass murderer. She had pink hair.
	+ During the Ontemazei War, she was the leader of an expedition that collected skulls for Mithura. She rose to a higher rank after she was a successful hunter, where she got the name Tovesha (Sanskrit: dvesha, "hate").
	+ She was notorious for her extreme blasphemies to show how powerful she was as an Ontemazei - from cannibalising those she slew in battle to cursing the gods of her human enemies, defiling the sanctuaries and holy sites of the land with the blood of her victims. Her headquarters - and her final location - was a former temple that she desecrated in a fit of arrogance.
	+ After the siege of Imasela was defeated, she cowardly fled with a portion of her warriors, while leaving the rest to be slain, executed, and scattered.
	+ She was finally defeated when a Sevestranian general shot her dead in battle. After her fortress was reclaimed by the Porasonids, that general was invited by the Porasonids to help them cleanse and rebuild the temple, which was a sanctuary of Kali. Although he was a Rodnover who worshipped Jarilo, he joined the Porasonids as they called upon Kali to bring the souls of Tovesha's victims to everlasting peace in Paradise.
* Manduroi - a lieutenant who tried to march north to Vozolaz in a separate campaign of extermination.
	+ She especially hated the Vozonids, seeking to plunge the land into savagery and hatred. She was Tovesha's rival, but she failed to kill her.
* Mârananda the Butcher, Mârondoz - the self-proclaimed "High Priest of Mithura", a theocratic emperor who ruled by murder and sadistic cannibalism.

### Bujan

* Chraevoka - a female slave who was hired by the aristocrat Dmitri Larausov as his personal executioner. She was infamous for making dresses out of entrails, hence her name being "Intestines". Killed during the Bujanski War of Independence, while she and her Yatani Slaughterers were fighting in the Royal Palace of Koscheigrad. Someone used a flamethrower to burn her and her warriors to ash, igniting the red carpet near the throne.

## Trivia

* The term "Kalokei" was derived from "kalakeya", a sort of demon from Hindu legends. The Kalokei themselves were inspired by the Dark Elves from Warhammer Fantasy and the Thuggee cult from Indiana Jones.
	+ The author considered basing their armour on asuras from Thai art, and the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Dynasty of northern India; to make it look regal but frightening.
	+ Mârananda was based on Mola Ram from Indian Jones. His name was from the Sanskrit words "marana" and "ananda", which together mean "joy in [causing] death".

* The Kalokei were meant to be a subversion of the Thuggee of Indiana Jones.
	+ While the Thuggee claim to worship Her to dominate the world, the Kalokei hate Her because She was worshipped by humans, their hated enemies.
	+ More likely, it was because Kali was the one Who stopped the Kalokei from destroying the world through reckless slaughter. She did so by using Her children, the Porasonids and their allies, ending the Kalokei threat once and for all.
* The Imperial Ontemazei, such as Chraevoka, were also inspired by horror movie monsters and the Cupcakes fanfic.