Atlas Elyden #48 - Anubia

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Also ‘the Desert-realm of Anubia’. Desert region in the N - E of Sammaea, S of Venthir, E of Sarastro,and W of Saragos. The vast area is populated by a culturally-linked people who share with each other little in the form of a unifying government, save the major city of Anubis, which exerts a degree of influence in the N - E.

Anubians are dark skinned nomads who traditionally moved their herds from oasis to oasis, living off the land in familial sects, each led by a Hougan (spirit-master). The shadow of a common ancestral people hangs over the people of this land. Known as the Lost Ones, who died out c. –200 RM, very little of them is known to outsiders and the Anubians are reticent of sharing their history with others, though it is thought by some that the ancient stone circles that are common in the deserts of Anubia were erected by the Lost Ones.

Relatively few permanent settlements exist in Anubia, and those that do are usually centred around the arable lands in the far S and N, which are largely cut off from each other, save for the occasional caravans that brave the deserts. The central desert, which stretches for over 1,600-miles to the S - E to the border with Saragos and Naareth, is the main feature of Anubia, and the largest stretch of it is known as the Malichari Desert, after the Archpotentate Malichar. It is a wasteland that covers over 750,000-square-miles and dominates the landscape of Anubia.

The region is united by its worship of what outsiders have come to call mkisih idols - creatures that were artificially created in ateliers in the W of Venthir and escaped, now roaming the deserts of Anubia, otherwise known as mkisihs. It is thought that the rel. is based on an older rel. (possibly belonging to the Lost Ones), that became corrupted when desert nomads first encountered the escaped mkisihs. In some cases the creatures have been captured and imprisoned in great stone temples, forced to witness the adulation of the Anubians. Upon death they are mummified, their bodies gilded, becoming idols that continue to be worshipped.