- Knightly Orders of DakhomaKnightly Orders of DakhomaThe Gaisedai are the warrior class of Skyreach. Gaisedai are organized into schoficts, or fighting schools, which train soldiers on behalf of noble families and chiefs. All Gaisedai warriors are bound to a strict code of chivalric honor, and are said to have no fear of death in battle. But the greatest of all warriors are the Knights of Skyreach, who serve only their oaths and their orders.
Knights strive to be bastions of virtue, bestowing guidance, judgment, and retribution upon an imperfect
- Skyreachers (Skyreach Natives)
- WoodkennersWoodkenners"I am the hill and the valley. I am the rising and setting sun. I am the key and the door. I am the closed fist and open hand."
* from The Invocation of the World Tree, an old Skyreach "kenning" or spell
The woodkenners, a decentralized federation of druids, bards, and priests, are revered as spellcasters and spiritual experts among the indigenous tribes of the Skyreach mountains. These enigmatic figures work closely with the local hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists, sharing and preservin (Druids, bards, and nature-priests in Skyreach)
- Night FolkNight Folk"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
* An old Night folk kenning.
The Night Folk are an elusive and cryptic people who make their homes in warrens deep in the mountains. They are wise in magic and in mushroom lore, and they are friends of bats and frogs.
Origin
The woodkenners tell that long ago, when the dragons returned to Dakhoma, those ferocious reptiles became humanity's most fearsome predator. Humans adapted over time in several ways. The ancestors of the Common Folk built home (nocturnal, capricious cave-dwellers)
- Fair FolkFair FolkAges ago, the fair folk colonized the moon and eventually ruined it almost as bad as earth. Eventually going through their own end of days, they fled to Dakhoma in hopes of colonizing what by that point they didn't know was ever inhabited, and have spent the generations studying the planet and lost civilizations. As for the fair skin, maybe they make masks of polished metal(remnants of the past), thus making them look perfect and "fair" skinned (Angelic creatures who inhabit the heavens)
- Wierdkenners (Practitioners of rare and forbidden magics)
- Thingamajig Society (Magic Item Cult)
- Raven Hood's Men of Action (A gang of freedom fighters)
- Dark Sun FederationDark Sun FederationFar to the East, where the sun comes from, lies the Free City of Golmira. This teeming metropolis is the center of the Dark Sun Federation, a powerful alliance of three great city-states.
Treasure of the Sunken Library
Long ago, Annaeus the Prophet, by the guidance of the Great God Dzios, discovered a library buried beneath the waters of the Sea of Calamity. Within its hallowed archive he discovered a stone engraving of the Declaration of Independence, and a slightly water-damaged copy of the (A powerful, militant civilization to the East)