Godherja Encyclopedia

Utyalid (culture)

The Utyalid are the almost entirely nomadic people of the harsh deserts of east Sarradon. Hardy men and women only managing to eke out a meagre existence in the best of times, they are known as desert warriors without equal, their understanding of the surrounding sandy wastes unparalleled by any other culture.

Quite naturally, this skill was honed by centuries of raiding their settled neighbors for plunder, and generally making themselves a perennial thorn in the side of whatever the current dominant power of the region was. Their incursions most frequently strike Kekhenemhat, but the Gonan road is also a fairly popular target, and some ambitious chieftains have even went so far south as the lands of the Mogowai.

Traditionally Wardenite to the bone, they once dominantly followed the Harfi'a creed, but conversion efforts over the centuries have reduced it to only the most backwards of tribes deep in the desert interior.