Sakankra (culture)
There is no discussion of the Sakankra that does not mention the Kharadans. Atop massive hills and clinging to the faces of their home mountains, the Sakankra build massive temple-palaces that seem to touch the sky. Within, priest and lord sit on equal thrones, all decisions requiring a unanimous ruling from both to take effect. Crushed under the weight of their own priestly bureaucracy, the Sakankra have grown to be a patient and calm people, unwilling to let the stresses of their system bear down upon them.
The greatest crisis of the Sakankra came in the Chojakaan ka Ghatada, where the great mountain citadel of Dihothah, the most ancient seat of Sakankran kings, disappeared. The Sakankra were thrown into a series of small civil wars that devastated their once prosperous and peaceful land. At the end of the struggle, only a single line of the ancient nobility was left to rule, and the long meditations at the top of their skyward temples became tied to long bouts of weeping forever more.