Southern District
The main thing that sets apart the Southern district is the giant exposed temple and an excess of beast stables.
The Chameleon Housing Unit
There are housing units in Klodorex that easily house double Klodorex's population of Skinks, Saurus, and Kroxigor. Sauri are not picky, but if given a choice, most prefer to share quarters with their spawning brothers and no one else, so most Saurus units are occupied, but half empty. Most Skink and Kroxigors prefer large crowds so about half the Skink and Kroxigor units are full or mostly full while the remainder are completely empty. No one expected the Chameleon Skinks to claim one of the empty housing units for themelves, but they did.
The Chameleon picked the one closest to the edge of the Kahoun near the narrowest portion of the Llama Fields for easy access to the jungle. Less than fifty Chameleon Skinks are using a housing unit intended to hold over two hundred Skinks. Most of the time, at least half of the Chameleon Skinks are outside the city hunting or patrolling, so why did they want a housing unit at all?
They took a housing unit in honor of Kaitar. Their preferred method was and is to just to hide along the fringes of society and show up when they felt they were needed. They served the Kahoun to the best of their bability but avoided taking direct orders from others. Kaitar shamed them into being more team oriented, so they maintain a housing unit where everyone knows the Chameleon Skinks are. That way, if another Lizardmen needs to talk to the Chameleon Skinks they know where they can go instead of the old method of loudly shouting “I wonder where the Chameleon Skinks are?” over and over until a Chameleon Skink approaches them.
As talented as Chameleon Skinks are at staying very still, they don’t like to stay still if they aren’t actually on a mission. When not on a scouting or hunting mission, they like to keep their hands busy. Their blowpipes are pretty much identical to the blowpipes made and used by other Skinks, but Chameleon Skinks prefer to craft their own weapons. They are perfectly capable of fashioning weapons and ammo in the deep jungle, but the Chameleon Skink housing unit is also the Chameleon Skink armory packed with dozens of extra blowpipes and hundreds and hundreds of hand crafted darts. When feasible they like to cure their own meat, weave their own rope and pretty much be as self-sufficient as possible.
The areas not occupied by sleeping Skinks are packed with supplies of various kinds. The supplies are not packed neatly. Piles of various things are strewn about everywhere. Even indoors, Chameleon Skinks like varied things to hide behind and in front of. Just because they are trying to make themselves more accessible to less stealthy Lizardmen doesn’t mean they don’t like to have fun surprising visitors to their home just to prove that they can.
The Entry Way
Klodorex is northwest of three out of four of the Big Four temple cities, and they are northwest of most occupied ruins and various kahoun too. Thus, friendly visitors usually come from the southeast. Klodorex built a small cluster of buildings to formally welcome guests. The Entry Way is a cluster of buildings, not a single structure.
Even visitors from the north, mainly Hexotal and Spektazuma, they will usuually swing around south out politeness if they aren’t in a particular hurry. There are horns and bells to announce visitors. Fires can be lit too. Basically the higher status the visitors, the more fanfare is made, and of course if the visitors are announced in advanced (or spotted by a Terradon patrol or other advance scout), more elaborate preparations can be made.
The entry way also contains a shrine to Uxmac. It is customary for Lizardmen on long journeys to make offerings to Uxmac before embarking on a long journey and to thank him for a safe journey upon reaching their destination and the shrine is used for both these types of prayers.
The Entry Way does have some watch towers, barracks, and a small armory. Klodorex wants their guests to know that they will be safe, but they aren’t above showing off their military prowess to their allies too. The fortifications are more than symbolic. The southern entry way overlooks the Llama Fields which arguably represent the most vulnerable approach to Klodorex for reasons that I will cover later.
Besides ceremonial and military buildings the Entry Way, there are some stables for visitors to keep their Stegadons and other beasts. Guests usually will sleep deeper into the kahoun (there are plenty of places to choose from!), but generally their animals get to wait outside so to speak.
Lots of Stables
As one would expect a region that overlooks a place called “the Llama Fields”, there are a lot of pens for llamas in the Southern District. Klodorex can stable hundreds of llamas at a time, but they don’t have enough hay and grain to feed hundreds of llamas indefinitely, so they are generally only stabled en masse during inclement weather, Cold One mating season, or when enemy armies make it too dangerous for the llama herders to let their charges roam freely and graze.
Assuming conditions are safe (or as safe as Lustria ever gets), Klodorex’s llamas usually range in and around the Spine of Sotek mountains south of Mount Klodor in the foothills of the Spine of Sotek. Llamas are pretty surefooted and they are relatively safer from predators but still have plenty of edible vegetation for themselves amidst the less densely forested hills.
Generally only a few llamas are in the stables. These are usually nursing mothers with young not strong enough for travel, llamas sticking around only long enough to be sheared, sick llamas being nursed back to health, and/or lamas awaiting their final journey to the meat houses.
Far away from the llama stables but still in the southern district are the Cold One stables. They are still relatively close to the llamas, but the Cold Ones are rarely far away from their Saurus riders who are pretty good at reining their impules in. The Cold Ones also like to exercise in the Llama fields (not the same time there is llamas there of course unless the herd happens to needs thinning and the Cold Ones are hungry).
There is a small set of beast enclosures that were built in the southern district during Klodorex’s construction boom. The big dinosaurs are usually stabled in the east, the Salamanders in the west and the Razordons in the north. Who does that leave that isn’t a llama? All of them. If a cold blooded beast is sick or injured and the Skinks are reasonably optimistic that said beast can recover they will often be quarantined in the Southern beast enclosures while enjoying lots of fresh llama meat. In other words this serves as the Klodorex Veterinary Hospital. If a beast can’t be saved. Well you got a bunch of trained llama butchers on hand to quickly put down the poor animal with a minimum of pain, and then carve it up for meat.
They have one more set of “stables.” Guinea pig pens. If you surveyed a thousand Sauri and Skinks and asked them their favorite foods were, guinea pig meat would probably not be in any Lizard’s top three favorite foods, so Klodorex usually only keeps about a couple hundred guinea pigs. Guinea pig meat is a backup source of protein. If there is a major shock to one of their more important food supply, they could potentially expand their guinea pig “herd” ten times over in a single year.
Holy Sites
I already covered Klodorex’s southern Uxmac shrine. In case it needs to be said every district has its own Itzl shrine or temple near wherever the cold blooded beasts are kept.
Klodorex is practically drowning in Sotek and Itzl shrines, but they only have one Caxautn shrine. A popular saying is that Caxautn’s proper temple is under the jungle canopy. There are almost no temples to Caxautn in any temple city or kahoun but most places have a shrine at least. Klodorex’s Caxautn shrine is off to the side the southeast border of the city proper.
The Caxautn idol is directly facing the main mountain pass between Mount Klodor and the big southern expand of the Spine of Sotek mountain range. That is appropriate because a lot of large dinosaurs regularly migrate across this pass. Also if you follow where the idol of Caxautn is looking really far you’ll hit the dead center of Lustria’s Great Jungle where the biggest and meanest predators dwell.
The Southern district has a shrine to the Old One Potec, exactly due south of the temple of Potec in the northern district. The idea, if you follow Lizardmen superstition, is to symbolically ward off Chaos from both the north and south poles. During Klodorex’s building boom a plot of ground south of the Shrine of Potec was leveled and prepared for a second full temple to Potec but they never even finished laying the foundation and when asked if they should finish it, after the reunification the Slann “it is unnecessary.”
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