Civilization: Dohash
Geographical Location: The Dry Sea (Aram Mur Desert)
Government Type: Tribal Confederation
Government Name: Dohash Tribes
Current Ruler: All-Chief Mulum Yalg
Capital City: Sahisu
Additional Large Cities: 0
Additional Small Cities: 1
Economic Basis: Mineral Resources
Economic Standing: Poor
Major Imports: Food, Cloth, Wine
Major Exports: Iron, Salt, Incense
Profitable Transit Goods: None
Population: 740,000
Demographics: 94% Dohash Humans, 6% Slave Population (Mixed Racial & Ethnic Composition)
Coinage: Live Animals - Goats, Camels
Religions: Duality of Sun God & Death God
Technological Advancements: Astronomy, Land Navigation, Metalworking (Mining and Blacksmithing), Desert Architecture
Neighboring Civilizations & Relations: Tesseti (Hostile), Paraxi (Neutral, Trading), (What lies to the west?)
The Dohash live in the arid and unforgiving desert known as The Dry Sea, or Aram Mur in the Dohash tongue. The vast majority of the population lives in mobile, nomadic tent villages with low populations that tend to move along the coasts and the internal mountain range where food and water are available. The city of Sahisu stands in stark contrast to most Dohash society, and literally translates to "True Water". It is built a few miles inland from the coast within and around a canyon that straddles an underground river. Dohash politics are deeply entrenched in the power and wealth of the tribes. In times of peace, an All-Chief is chosen for life from among the chiefs of the most influential tribes. Defying the All-Chief is an act of war. Defeating the All-Chief and the ruling tribe bestows the winner carte blanche to act as the new All-Chief. Losing has seen entire tribes be eradicated and forgotten from the memory of the Dohash tribes. One other small city skirts the edge of the northern mountains and serves as a heavily populated mining center more than a true "city". The Dohash tribes make use of slave population and labor to extract ore from the mountains for trade, and the city amounts to little more than the Dohash tribes' collective slaves and the warriors that drive their labor. The Dohash are a warlike people prone to inter-tribal conflict who have long coveted the more hospitable lands to the east and north, but lack the power or the numbers to defeat their neighbors in outright warfare. And their neighbors have little interest in conquering the Dohash wasteland. For now, the status quo remains.
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