Heteri History

Traditional Heteri cities and communities along the Blood Coast and Inland
Territories: Givos, Dlutuz, Sufesgai, Oshej, Glaivuf, Narrosh (along the Maldaer
border), Pegaigoth, Fokhei, Shaekzhul (near Mindat), Ghofeka (also near Mindat).
Ancient Heteri Cities (Second Epoch): Heter, Dubhe, Nukora, Phecta, Vulag
Historical Heteri Kings (Vehwul): Ogliard, Putuv, Irosk, Nefef, Gefef, Hugdosl, Bogog,
Lhekulot, Holok, Coweulz, Gevuv.

Ghikarnaggai: A modern Heteri nation in the Northern Rhait, bordering on

Argaevaligne and Nipend. Currently in the midst of a civil war.

Punluggai: In modern times, a political faction among the Heteri people. The faction
arose from a historical Heteri aristocratic lineage. The Punluggai ruled cities and small
kingdoms along the southern Blood Coast. They were the first to be conquered when the
Mindat Empire expanded north. Other factions allied with the Maldaer and Eschaltlin
forces to the north, the same peoples that invaded Heteri lands along the northern Blood
Coast centuries earlier. Seeing their kingdoms being destroyed and their fellow Heteri
allied with traditional enemies, the Punluggai moved to retake traditional lands, some of
which were being occupied by Heteri/Eschaltlin allied peoples.

Pulagesh: Former capitol city of the Heteri lord Fiemlilvev (Femervul) Kugol (of the
???-nonpunluugai Dynasty) during the Third Epoch. After the siege of 400 nights, the
city fell to Punluggai forces marking the end of the Third Epoch and the worship of the
Vapourous Host.

Nefef: An early Heteri leader from Fourth Epoch (modern times) whose lineage once
ruled the city of Ghofeka, the first Heteri kingdom to be conquered by the Mindat. Nefef
gathered followers of the Punluggai and returned to the southern lands in hopes of
regaining Heteri homelands. Nefaf and his followers were seen as allies of the Mindat
and their acts began the vilification of the Punluggai as traitors to the Heteri cause.

Gefef: Grandson of Nefef. Betrayed the treaty with the Mindat and fought to free
Ghofeka. As a backlash, Mindat forces flanked horseman patrolling the region to destroy
many towns in southern Heteri lands.

Religion: Legends tell of the ancient worship of the Vundaelad, the Great Serpent, in
Heteri and Maetah communities along the North Sea Coast. [metaphor for fishing/living
off the sea?] The use of the sea serpent image can be traced back through early
maetah/maldaer colonization, and is believed to be imagery and cosmology brough fro
their homeland [Salphanos?]

We later see this imagery later used by the renegade Heteri king, Sheiluch of Punluggai
(an aristocratic dynasty), in his attempts to reconquer traditional Heteri communities
along the Blood Coast from Eschaltlin forces. While other factions of the Heteri
nobilities supported his goals, rumours abounded about pacts with demons and the Great
Serpent. Ancient stories of fishermen appeasing spirits of the ocean were acceptable, but
offering the collective soul of the civilization provoked outrage amongst the remaining
kingdoms and tribes. None were surprised when Sheiluch vanished amidst a naval attack
on Noduan.