Arakhora

The Arakhora are an ancient race of bird-like humanoids native to the forests of Croatia, within Europe. The Arakhora have built themselves from a once beaten and enslaved race to perhaps the premier power in Croatia in the Kandor Empire, all through the determination of a self evolved sect within their race. The Arakhora are fast breeding, and this is one of the main reasons they have so dramatically grown in the time following the defeat of the Empire of Serbia. As one of the oldest races in existence they were originally designed by the Chaos God Tzeneech before he had fallen from the Noble Titans to the service of madness.

Like many of the other races and species of the world the Arakhora contain several different varients within their race of which the most noteable are the Parakhora of whome constitute well over seventy percent and are the Arakhora that most people know of. The second group are the Moonkhora of whom are an ancient sect of the Arakhora and have formed a segment of the Arakhora. The third and final are the Mennitrikhora of whom are immortal in their life spans and form the vast majority of the leadership caste of the Arakhora including the current Emperor but only about one to three percent of the population. There are also several variants of birds that are members of the Arakhora race but are for whatever reason not deemed as part of the main core of the species.

Tzeenech would create and dominate the Arakhora of whom formed the centerpiece of the realm of Tzeneech within the Fade. Tzeneech would forma piece of the vast city of Olympas into the personal abode of his Arakhora and it would be these uncorupted Arakhora of whom would survive the Civil War and form the eventual Kandor. At one point Tzeneech actually looked like the Arakhora but now he appears somewhat like a Corupted bird and less like the majestic Arakhora that he once looked like. Tzeneech continues to dominate a large portion of the Arakhora inside the Fade but these Arakhora are a darkish hewn and less like the Arakhora.

History

Early History

Creation

See Also : Tzeneech

The Arakhora are one of the earliest races on the planet with only the Lizardmen able to reasonably say they are more ancient then them. The Arakhora were created by the Titan Tzeneech in the long term hope that they would be his servents in the task of protecting and controlling the Fade.

When Tzeneech fell to Chaos, many of the Arakhora were released from the fade, and came to exist on the planet Earth.

Eternity War

Main Article : Eternity War

Long before the Arakhora were made into slaves by the humans they were a might Empire that controlled basically all of eastern modern day Croatia. They became embroiled into the eternity war with the Woses, Trolloc, and Murloc and were left destroyed and weak following their defeat.

Kandor

Main Article : Kandor

Goverment

Main Article : Kandor

The leadership of the Arakhora, and through extension the Empire of Kandor is basically a distinctly different grouping of three sections. The First section is the Talon King, who controls the laws, and growth of the Empire of Kandor, and acts much in the way a King of a normal Kingdom would. The second section are the Darkweavers, and they control the Arakhora industry, Magi, and the governing of the religion of the Arakhora. The final section is the Raven Lords, and they control the military of the Arakhora

Talon King

The Talon King is the Arakhora equivalent to a King or an Empire. The main difference is that he is not allowed to become involved in the religion of the Arakhora, or to interfere to much into the military of the Arakhora. In this way the Talon King is very much an administrator and those working in this section are mainly of the aristocratic part of the Arakhora.

The current Talon King of the Arakhora is Ikiss

Description

They have brightly feathered bodies in a veritable rainbow of colors, hooked beaks, clawed hands, taloned feet, and an erectile crest of feathers on their heads. They wear ragged cloaks about their bodies. Arakhora appear to also have "sage" (with ornate shoulder and head ornaments) and "warrior" (with a metal helm and mail epaulets) classes.

Unique Things

Arakhora breed a species of owl called "Kaliri", these owl like creatures have two heads of which is serviced by only one brain lobe, so their is only one contious mind going on inside it.

These Kaliri are created as a sort of shock troop for the Arakhora, and are so quickly breedable that in battle a force of Arakhora may unleash thousands of Kaliri at their enemies, and while the enemy deals with the Kaliri they are able to advance unstopped.

Noteable Members

Talon King Ikiss

Raven Lord Krisnee

Darkweaver Joulit

Darkweaver Kratillik

Darkweaver Ipix

Raven Lord Vekh

Religion

Most Arakhora worship the living Arakhora god Terokk. This influence holds true of basically 90% of the Arakhora population although a growing number are turning to Anzu and his beliefs.

Terokk the Living Arakhora God.

Terokk

Main Article : Terokk

Terokk is the religion worshipped by nearly the entire Arakhora race, and is of the most importance to Kandor. He is one the two living gods of the Arakhora and has a rivalry with the other living god Anzu.

Terokk is the god of the arakkoa. Isfar says Terokk was the arakkoa's greatest hero who built Skettis with his bare claws, then one day disappeared, and may have been the god Rukhmar. He has his "eyes" set at Veil Shienor and Veil Reskk, so he can watch over these colonies from Skettis and a Darkstone at Veil Skith.

He has also done acts perceived as evil by a group of arakkoa renegades led by Kirrik the Awakened and his apprentice, Rilak the Redeemed, who see Terokk as a false prophet who will lead their people to their doom. These evil doings include raising the spirits of the defenders of Veil Rhaze (destroyed by the explosion that all but obliterated Auchindoun and created the Bone Wastes) as well as setting his minions to corrupt avian hatchlings at Veil Lithic, and coordinating with his forward sages at Veil Shalas, where they wage war against the Light.

Anzu

Main Article : Anzu

"From the darkest night shall rise again the raven, shall take flight in the shadows, shall reveal the nature of its kind. Prepare yourself for its coming, for the faithful shall be elevated to take flight with the raven, the rest be forgotten to walk upon the ground, clipped wings and shame. {C}Steel your minds and guard your thoughts. The dark wings will cloud and consume the minds of the weak, a flock of thralls whose feet may never leave the ground. {C}The old blood will flow once again with the coming of the raven, the return of the darkness in the skies. Scarlet night, and the rise of the old. {C}The raven was struck down once for flying too high, unready. The eons have prepared the Dark Watcher for its ascent, to draw the dark cloak across the horizon."

-The Holy Rapture of Anzu

Anzu is a god worshipped by a small but increasingly growing number of Arakhora . Anzu is one of the two living gods of the Arakhora, and for this reason Anzu battles Terokk for control of the soul of the Arakhora.