The Sacred Azunal Kingdom, often abbreviated to the SAK, is an elective theocratic monarchy that spans the vast majority of the main continent of Azunal. It is the oldest major power of the tripolar political system that inhabits the planet. The current monarch is the 2490 born Valeska Kalem, whose regressive technological policies and continuation of the policy of tribal assimilation are credited as the major reasons for the revolution by the Free Tajara Republic. The kingdom at the lower levels is entirely feudal, with noble families and influential clergy acting as district governors, and the average Tajaran is most likely to be a peasant serf or city labourer.
Server Relevant Information
This section will summarise some of the behaviours and pieces of information that are most typical of a Tajaran from the Sacred Kingdom who would be seen in the server’s setting. These are not hard rules, however they are highly advised to be loosely followed for the sake of a coherent story.
- Nobility, if seen on the server, would be petty rather than influential. The culture of excellence that surrounds the Tajara nobility creates a large demand for nobles to inhabit high ranking or influential roles if they do choose to leave Azunal space, lest they be subject to estrangement or disinheritance. Suggested jobs are paper-work heavy command roles, leadership roles such as captaincy or Head of Security, or “dignified” roles in scientific fields.
- Peasants that leave the planet are often sending money home, living in poverty relative to their coworkers in order to send enough money home that their family or tribe may be able to cover their tithe.
- Ornadi would only be spoken by nobility or clergy, with the exception of the servants of nobility which may speak enough to do their jobs. This is largely because of the seemingly sacred status of Ornadi as a language.
- Sacred Kingdom Tajara are typically very unfamiliar with common human gestures, taking an offered handshake as rude, albeit without reacting violently, and seeing refusing cigarettes as rude, if they even offer a non-Tajaran a cigarette.
- Both nobility and peasant alike are very prone to falling for common stereotypes about non-Tajarans, having become accustomed to the stock personalities of aliens in Tajara television. The major stereotypes are as follows:
- humans are greedy and manipulative, always willing to stab another in the back for power;
- unathi are primitive religious zealots who worship any suitably impressive superior as a god;
- dionae are just plants, barely sentient and able to mimic speech to feed off of other species;
- skrell are smug and technologically advanced, but often blind to the “truth” due to their over-reliance on science;
- IPCs are the slaves of humanity, coming for the average Tajaran’s job and maybe even their life;
- and Vaurca are creepy, mindless drones that have very little between the ears.