![[khuzait banner.png]] # Uvait ## [[the-Grey-Falcon]]'s clan [[Urkhun]] Khan decreed a generation ago that all the [[Khuzait-Khanate]] must settle, to be conscripted and taxed. We refused. His men took our flocks, and we have since lived like beggars on the edge of the towns. I have resolved to go out and earn the money we need to buy new flocks, and then we shall go again into the great grass, beyond the reach of any tyrant or Khan. # Game Files / Developer Diaries [[the-Grey-Falcon]], lone survivor of a hunted steppe clan --> id="prebackstory.spc_wanderer_khuzait_6" text="{=8aEcRzM7}I will tell you. If you are a partisan of the Khan [[Urkhun]] and his brood, however, you may not like it." /> < id="backstory_a.spc_wanderer_khuzait_6" text="{=mSQSZyEF}You probably know that the [[Khuzait-Khanate]] once lived out on the open grass. But our khans became used to luxuries. They lived in cities, and wished to trade with and make war upon other kings. Khan [[Urkhun]], whom some call 'the Great' and others call 'the Cruel', decided the clans must live in fixed places, so he could count their warriors and levy them, and count their flocks and tax them. Thirty years ago Khan [[Urkhun]] ordered all the clans of the [[Khuzait-Khanate]] to claim land and live upon it, and the noyans to build castles. Most complied, for they had come to value their comforts more than their freedom." /> < id="backstory_b.spc_wanderer_khuzait_6" text="{=phhXgKRm}Some resisted. The [[Karakhergit]] - you may have heard of them. They still dwell in the steppes but they are outcast, raided for slaves by the others. My people were the [[Uvait]]. We were broken up - some bands were lured into the villages with silver, others were hunted down, defeated, and their sons taken as hostages. " /> < id="backstory_c.spc_wanderer_khuzait_6" text="{=TxQztLfy}I am one of those whose clan was hunted down a generation ago when they refused the decree of [[Urkhun]] Khan, that they must settle and be taxed. They took our flocks, and we have since lived like beggars on the edge of the towns. The far grass teases us with its beauty, but if we went there with no sheep, we would soon starve." /> < id="response_1.spc_wanderer_khuzait_6" text="{=TVQEb0MJ}Such a cruel decree..." /> < id="response_2.spc_wanderer_khuzait_6" text="{=YDPpShfF}Sensible man, that [[Urkhun]]. Nomads are the enemy of order." /> < id="backstory_d.spc_wanderer_khuzait_6" text="{=sbK6AEjB}I have scraped together a few coins. I will not say how, but they were enough to buy a sword. I am determined to earn enough to buy my people what was taken away from them - herds. I am sad to say I know little of the steppe, but I know much of the towns, of the back streets, of how to live in the gutters and shadows and grow strong." /> < id="generic_backstory.spc_wanderer_khuzait_6" text="{=BxJA6fS5}[[Urkhun]] Khan decreed a generation ago that all the [[Khuzait-Khanate]] must settle, to be conscripted and taxed. We refused. His men took our flocks, and we have since lived like beggars on the edge of the towns. I have resolved to go out and earn the money we need to buy new flocks, and then we shall go again into the great grass, beyond the reach of any tyrant or Khan." /> # Members [[the-Grey-Falcon]] Lone Survivor of Khuzait Clan, [[Uvait]] - Trying to Reclaim Lost Property