Tantur Peoples

The history of Valerick's gentle giants on the continent of Gavis-Lune is a tragic and painful one to discuss up until recent years, one filled with racism, with prejudice, with acts of desipicable violence and vile mistreatment. Slavery, torture, abuse, forced internment, displacement, and even mass cullings. Only in the last century or so have things changed. Yet the children of Deat-Kra do not hold a grudge, somehow, some way, they endure, even displaced as they are now, their ancestral homeland, the cloud jungles of Naris lost to them, held by force and military prowess by the kingdom of the Skye Elves.

Upon the continent of Gavis-Lune, the place where they were most numerous, the peaceful titan bloodkin known as the Tantur peoples were heavily victimized and suffered a great deal of prejudice for most of the last 1400 years since the end of the Sundering, as 'civil' societies began to grow again. The kingdom of Valewyr were the main perpetrators, seeming bound and determined to claim the Opal rich mountains of Naris for their own. As with most despicable types of behavior, their government created and manufactured the fear and hatred, stoking it, crafting it with a careful and loving hand, all in the name of acquiring resources and power. What this eventually led to in the early 700s was a full scale invasion and the eventual slaughter, forced removal, deportation or escape of the Tantur peoples. The peoples of Deat-Kra, the god known as the Divine Judge, never expected such treatment. They were and are not generally a warlike or combative people. The invasion of Naris was swift, bloody and brutal, with reports of atrocious acts of every kind one can imagine a matter of Valewyrin public record. Forced en masse from their homeland, either enslaved, slaughtered or on the run, a bulk of the Tantur population did manage to escape, and made their way through the tangled jungles and swamplands at the southern edges of Valewyr and between Susma and Rohara, the other nations on the continent. Here eventually, with support from those two nations and the Suranthi navy from across the Sea of Sails, they were able to establish a new home, a new nation. Kang-Chorath.

To this day, it is unknown the true extent of the atrocities committed by the Valewyrin kingdom. Some estimates place the casualties north of 2 million. Others place the number more conservatively at around half that. Yet in truth the number is likely many times more for though the young state of Kang-Chorath had military allies, only the kingdom of Suranth truly gave them respect as equals, and even Rohara and Susma turned a blind eye, and even raided border settlements for stock of their own, as Valewyr would occasionally launch slave taking raids. Yet through it all, the Tantur people did not break the spirit of their Ascended ancestor, they have always been calm, and fair headed. They are the children of the Divine Judge, and as such, they did show that peace did not mean weakness, as the state grew in power, even under such trying circumstances, they started enforcing harsh sentences on slavers, even those with diplomatic value. Execution was always on the table, however they never tortured them, and they never kept the remains, always sending them back to the lands they came from.

To this day, their is a deep tension between Kang-Chorath and Valewyr, even as the Valewyrin empire makes small concessions, striking down laws of slave rights, striking down laws to allow people of Tantur heritage to hold public offices and to allow them to migrate back to Naris should they so wish. The Tantur people through all this hardship may hold no grudge, however they are also no fools. They'll never trust the Skye Elf empire again, and so at best an uneasy peace can exist. Never shall the nations be true allies, and never shall the Tantur people forget that Naris was stolen from them.