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The Five Kingdoms of Zairoo

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Journey across the lands of Zairoo, where each kingdom holds its own history, strength, and destiny. Click on a realm to step deeper into its story.

The Creeds of Zairoo

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A curated glimpse into the Creeds of Zairoo, the distinct classes that shape its heroes and legends. This slideshow captures a selection of these paths, though it represents only a portion of the Creeds you’ll encounter in the full game.

The Rulers of Zairoo

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From shadowed spies to celestial warriors, Zairoo’s rulers shape kingdoms with wisdom, courage, and mystical power across the lands.

Name Age Description Capabilities
Makalakini Itoto Lualaba

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Makalakini Itoto Lualaba, known as the Shadow Lark, rules the secretive Nkutu Enclave from its pyramidal capital, Kushimba. A master of espionage and subtlety, he is a beloved folk hero who appears incognito to solve disputes, yet his vast spy network makes him one of the continent’s most powerful, and well-informed, monarchs. His reign is a delicate balance of ancient tradition and shrewd political maneuvering, but it is under threat from within his own council. His personal life is a source of both strength and vulnerability: his eldest son trains with a martial order, his daughter’s apprenticeship to a dangerous cult is a controversial gambit, and the mysterious disappearance of his youngest child is used by his enemies to question his strength.
Silent Network​ : An intricate web of informants, coded messages, and loyal agents ensures no conspiracy moves unseen across the Nkutu Enclave.

Hidden Sovereign: He often walks among his citizens in disguise, resolving conflicts quietly while strengthening devotion to his unseen authority.

Fractured Legacy : The ambitions of his children and the mystery of a vanished heir cast fragile tension over his carefully balanced reign.
Oba Xiomara Marooncrest
25
Oba Xiomara Marooncrest, the Balladmaster is the charismatic pirate-queen of the Maravi Isles. She earned her throne through the legendary Midnight Trials, transforming from a rebel captain into a ruler who champions refuge and cultural fusion. Her reign is a calculated blend of open-hearted diplomacy and covert strategy; her famous alliance with the Shadow Tides pirates has made her archipelago a beacon of hope and a hidden naval power. Her prowess is legendary, best exemplified by the tale of how she won her winged Ethiopian Pegasus, Barka, from the Sword God of Enzi Mlimani in a feat of raw courage.
Midnight Trials : She survived legendary trials, transforming from rebel captain to pirate-queen, mastering both diplomacy and covert strategy across the Maravi Isles.

Shadow Alliance : Her alliance with Shadow Tides pirates makes the archipelago a beacon of hope and hidden naval supremacy.

Winged Conquest : She earned her Pegasus, Barka, from the Sword God, showcasing courage, daring, and unmatched legendary prowess.
Sultana Fatima Al-Hassani
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Sultana Fatima Al-Hassani, known as the Omniscient,is the visionary seer-queen of the Saharadune Sultanate. Her heterochromatic eyes are said to perceive the future, guiding her rule with prophetic wisdom. She presides over the world’s greatest center of magical learning with a light touch, fostering an age of enlightenment. However, her serene authority is challenged by powerful factions within her court: those who seek expansion, those who demand isolation, and fanatics who would appease the eldritch forces beyond the dunes.
Heterochromatic Sight : Her eyes perceive the future, guiding the Sultanate with prophetic wisdom and careful balance between factions and eldritch forces.

Arcane Enlightenment : She fosters magical learning and enlightenment, establishing the Sultanate as the world’s greatest center of mystical knowledge.

Court Intrigue : Internal factions challenge her serene authority, each plotting expansion, isolation, or appeasement of mysterious desert powers.
Nkosi Nomvula Kgosiwan

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Nkosi Nomvula Kgosiwan, known as the Pale Soul is the revered albino queen of the Ilmoran Dominion. Her condition is seen as a sacred connection to the spirit world, lending her rule profound wisdom. A pioneer of eco-conscious artifice, she mandates a year of national service for all youth to foster stewardship of the land. She is famously in tune with nature, able to commune with everything from cheetah packs to elephant herds, embodying the Dominion’s balance of groundbreaking innovation and deep reverence for the wild.
Sacred Connection : Her albino form signifies communion with spirits, granting wisdom and reverence for the Dominion’s natural and spiritual balance.

Eco Stewardship : Mandating national service, she instills environmental stewardship and innovation, blendin

Wild Communion : She communicates with wildlife from cheetah packs to elephant herds, embodying harmony between civilization and untamed wilderness.
Omukamo Juma Makori
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The Sword God, Omukamo Juma Makori, is the non-binary warrior-philosopher who rules Enzi Mlimani. Their divine title reflects a literal connection to the celestial, and their leadership has forged a kingdom where combat is an art and every citizen is a defender. They balance immense martial prowess with shrewd diplomacy, maintaining a complex web of powerful guilds. Their greatest test looms eternally from the blighted town of Shikari Pango, where an active eldritch portal threatens the kingdom’s hard-won prosperity and demands constant vigilance.
Celestial Blade :Their divine connection to the celestial realm makes combat both art and duty, guiding citizens as warrior-defenders.

Guild Balance : They maintain complex guild networks, blending martial prowess and shrewd diplomacy to secure the kingdom’s prosperity.

Blighted Vigil : An eldritch portal in Shikari Pango threatens the kingdom, demanding constant vigilance and heroism to protect their realm.

The Heros Of Zairoo

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Welcome to the Heroes of Zairoo. This complete collection introduces every playable character and party member you’ll encounter, each with their own story, path, and purpose.

Name Age Description Capabilities
ZAWADI RANSOME-KUTI — The Demi-God
100
Zawadi is a striking human woman of the god-blooded Kuti tribe, her white woolly hair twisted into signature knots and her body marked with scarification trophies from countless victories. As a top-tier close-quarters caster, she wraps her fists with divine energy to deliver overwhelming blows, yet she moves with grace and unshakable restraint. Bound by the Kuti Sacred Oath to never use power for conquest, she wanders Zairoo as a beacon of hope, opposing forces of Discord while searching for her long-lost twin sister Dole.

“Wherever there is a cry for help, we shall answer.”
A demigod protector whose fists carry the weight of divine a’se and whose mercy is as legendary as her strength.
NZANA — The All-Star
346
Nzana’s obsidian skin drinks the light around her, making her constellation braids burn brighter. Each strand can detach as a cosmic whip, lashing enemies with supernova energy. When she raises her hand, her extra finger spins stellar thread into patterns that conjure black holes. Yet she shields allies caught in the blast with protective starlight. Among the Yumboes, who dance in moonlight, Nzana reaches for something further: she dances with stars themselves, and the cosmos dances back.

“I weave with threads older than time. Watch closely, this pattern will only exist once.”
A Yumboes woman with obsidian skin and constellation braids that glow like starlight, her extra finger weaving spells with stellar thread that rewires reality itself.
KOLONDJA HERO-STOCK — The Radical
33
Kolondja was once captain of the Inkosi Yomsila, the royal shadow guards of the Ilmoran Dominion queen. His mentor Jhongeni De Khokwe orchestrated a conspiracy that revealed Kolondja’s fiancée Tetsi as a spy and assassin, nearly killed the queen, and ambushed the royal guard into near-extinction. “An early wedding gift,” Jhongeni said, leaving a bleeding Kolondja on the floor. Imprisoned for five years, Kolondja broke out when he learned Jhongeni still lived, and that Tetsi might not be dead. Now he hunts the Dark Wasp mercenary assassination squad across Zairoo, his shutter shades hiding eyes that have seen too much, his brass knuckles engraved with “KISS BOOM” (a gift from his sworn brother Lucc). He turns down shady jobs and hunts those who accept them, earning him the title “hypocrite” from enemies who dare not speak it aloud.

“The world broke me. I used the pieces to build something sharper.”
A tall, strapping human mercenary with locs wrapped in golden thread, whose steam spear Umusi Assegai paints battlefields red while his principles refuse coin for unjust causes.
ZAI X — The Symbol
Unknown
Zai X emerged from obscurity three years ago, already fully formed as a symbol rather than a person. Their movements are precise, deliberate, as if choreographed by someone who has lived this moment a thousand times. They speak rarely, but when they do, their words carry weight that makes councils fall silent and armies reconsider. Some say they are a former general faking their own death. Others whisper they’re a construct, a golem animated by collective will. Zai X does not confirm or deny. They simply act, and the world responds. Their armament bears no tribal markings, no regional identifiers, it is intentionally blank, waiting for history to write upon it.

“A symbol does not need a name. A symbol needs meaning. Let my actions provide it.”
A 3-foot tall Abatwa shrouded in mystery, their true name known only to a select few they have giant dragonfly wings shaped like an X, their armor woven from desert thorns, their dragon-shield humming with locust spirits.
KWAME “EARTHSONG” JOFURA — The Ally
137
Kwame does not fight for glory. He fights so others can stand. His thunderous stomps create stone totems that pulse with healing energy, while seismic waves knock enemies back. Among the Alokozay, who build monuments that outlast civilizations, Kwame builds something more precious: moments where the small can stand beside the giant and not fall. He carries the memory of his ancestors in every step, and when he fights, the earth itself remembers why it should protect the brave.

“The mountain does not move. It holds. Let me hold for you.”
A 12-foot Alokozay giant whose stomps crack the earth and whose war cry grants allies stonehide armor, because true strength is sharing it.
GADDAFFI AL-NUR — The Exiled
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Gaddafi was once the treasured disciple of the Eupe Sufi Order, chosen as a hatchling for his pure astral soul. But his free-spirited nature as an Ataikin rebelled against their rigid doctrines of purification. Excommunicated, his astral gates sealed, he now wanders the obscure regions casting out dark spirits, in exchange for wine and meat, the very indulgences his order forbids. His cheerful persona masks a loneliness only understood by those who’ve been cast out by family. Yet when he defended a woman from three tribal heirs and barely escaped, the next morning revealed three smoldering craters where those tribes once stood, a silent reminder that even an exile has protectors watching from shadows.

“They say purity requires denial. I say joy requires presence. Let the spirits judge which path bears better fruit.”
An outcast Ataikin Sufi mystic whose iridescent owl feathers hide a soul torn between divine duty and worldly pleasure, and whose wooden scimitar can cut through the astral layer to strike the soul itself.
LILY WATAH — The Lovely
29
Lily’s very existence defies Marid tradition. Her father was a berserker of the Hatsari clan, powerful, violent, sadistic. Her mother was a psychic of the Siren clan, manipulative, proud, superior. These bloodlines should have destroyed each other. Instead, they merged into devastating equilibrium. Abandoned as a baby, she was raised by the former Divine Priestess, and when the sacred Pearl chose this mixed-blood heir over generations of pure-blooded Agbejo clan candidates, the Marid Council found themselves in an impossible predicament. Her voice carries hypnotic resonance. Her enchanted brine forges unbreakable agreements, and those who break their word suffer coral growths that sap strength until they comply. She is beauty and terror, balance and chaos, the living answer to a question no one dared ask.

“The ocean does not ask your bloodline before it drowns you. Neither do I.”
A stunning Marid woman with bioluminescent seaweed-like afro curls and golden glass eyes that see through lies, born of two warring clans and chosen by the Divine Pearl itself.
FICTITIOUS POE — The Father
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Poe is one of the Five Fingers of Death, chief enforcers contracted to Asiria, the goddess of death itself. His Mukhala flintlock, crafted from death-forest wood and shadow serpent bone, sees through all planes of existence. For a millennium, he has reaped the most wretched souls from Zairoo’s surface. Yet on his wrist hangs a tattered wooden charm bracelet—the only memory of the daughter whose face time has eroded from his mind. Within his hollow consciousness, a faint whisper lingers: “baba.” He serves Death itself, but his undeath is sustained by a single question: was his contract worth the cost of forgetting her smile?

“The fleeting finger of Death never misses. But the hand that pulls the trigger… sometimes wishes it could forget.”
A skeletal Gidim whose runic-inscribed rifle never misses, and whose bullets send souls straight to the underworld, escorted by the zip of their own demise.
FIRST THE UNBOUND — The Scholar
3000+
First is an old, reclusive Pymera woman frequently spotted wearing a runic mask, with cigar smoke coiling around her jeweled fingers. She appears only once every decade, rewarding the first to find her with ancient knowledge, each interaction revealing a different personality. She is one of the Ijeli, an ancient group of one hundred guardians who recorded the last traces of the receding hum from Zyramu’s Dance. After an ancient betrayal by one of their own nearly wiped them out, the eight survivors destroyed the traitor—but the act fractured their souls. Now they exist in perpetual slumber, one awakening each decade to stand guardian while the rest dream. From her cigar smoke manifest Shadow Archivists—skeletal librarians with ink-dripping claws who steal and consume spells and memories, immune to physical attacks. Should an Ijeli succumb to Discord and devour the slumbering souls, the Devourer of the Ancients would rise—a being of pure madness seeking to consume all magic in existence.

“We watched empires rise and fall. We remember what you have forgotten.”
An ancient Pymera archivist whose runic mask and coiling cigar smoke hide a being who existed before time.
NO SHOUT PATRICE — The Sun Nomad
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No Shout carries the Seven Deaths Semblance Poison—a once-in-a-century condition that strikes the unlucky bearer at conception. His mother traded her life essence to nourish him in utero. He survived the First Death (week-long coma at birth), the Second Death (six-day coma at age one), the Third Death (five-day coma at age eleven), and the Fourth Death. Now, every three years, a death strikes—each coma one day shorter, each survival one step closer to the final sleep. Yet he wanders without destination, his potions bag slung across his shoulders, his crutch supporting a limp from his condition. He invented the concoction that made childbearing easier and increased mother survival rates, earning public acknowledgment from the Sultana of Saharadune and the queen of Ilmoran. He seeks fragments of a cure while giving away the time he doesn’t have.

“I cannot cure myself. But I can cure you. That is enough. That is everything.”
A small-statured Zinariya boy whose moss-green skin and “+”-shaped herbalist mask hide a legendary healer walking toward his own death—saving everyone he meets along the way.
LUCC SKA-DANCER — The Brave
25
Lucc was expected to join his batch mates in the Intolu tradition of crafting, hunched over tables piled with trinkets. But the spirit of adventure burned too bright. He often snuck out to play, and one day a sly adventurer followed him home, bringing bandits who sought Intolu organs for their regenerative properties. The village survived but had to relocate. Lucc was banished. Now he glides across any surface: water, lava, ceilings, tornadoes, his danscio polearm doubling as a climbing hook while he plants sonic glyphs that explode in rhythmic bursts. Sworn brother to the legendary mercenary Kolondja, Lucc funnels his spoils to the impoverished, on a self-proclaimed pilgrimage to find the god of Dance while adding color to his “big brother’s” grey life.

“The universe has a rhythm. Most people can’t hear it. Me? I just move to the beat…and pick a few pockets along the way.”
A lithe Intolu with emerald scales, flexible joints, and a prehensile tail, who dances through life to a rhythm only he can hear, and whose victims only realize they’ve been robbed minutes later, too mesmerized by his moves.
JULIUS SUPREME — The Dapper
57
Julius is an artist who happens to wage war. Every movement is deliberate, every creation intentional, every outfit curated. He fights with the precision of a master craftsman and the flair of a runway model. On the battlefield, he sculpts victory from chaos, and looks impeccable doing it with his lava-cracked skin glowing with inner fire. As Supreme Ogun of the Ifrit artificers, Julius carries the Ndiza Kwenza (Craft Staff), he is recognized as one of the foremost craftsmen of his generation. His creations are sought by collectors and warriors across all five kingdoms. Despite his fame, he is known to take on apprentices from unlikely backgrounds, believing that true artistry cannot be predicted by bloodline alone.

“One should never go into battle looking less than one’s best. Watch me create.”
A well dressed molten Ifrit whose golden prosthetics don’t outshine his style.
DJAMILA BEAU MANE — The Matron
42
Djamila was stolen as a cub, sold to underground gladiatorial pits, and bathed in blood before she was old enough to understand why. She slaughtered her way free and returned home, her glossy black fur concealing muscles honed by survival, her golden eyes smoldering with the spark of destruction. Now she commands the Revivalist faction of the Ait Ahar sacred order, seeding spies into the opposing Conformist side while training her Blood Mane guards, ten warriors who survived her hellish regime. On the battlefield, she moves like an avatar of carnage; in strategy, she plays games her enemies don’t even know they’ve entered. But within her lurks a blood-crazed spirit, the manifestation of her deepest guilt: drugged and manipulated, she killed her own brother in the pits, and his ghost rides her fury still.

“They call me Bloody Mane. I carry my brother’s spirit into every battle. He deserves to see me win.
The youngest Bumbasti general to sit on the Ait Ahar council—and the only one whose phantom lion companion’s roar summons an entire pride from sand.

The Kin of Zairoo

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Discover the Kin of Zairoo, the distinct peoples that populate its kingdoms and shape its conflicts. This complete collection introduces every Kin you’ll encounter, from the familiar to the fantastical.

Name Description
HUMANS (First Kin)
The First Kin of Zairoo are the continent’s most widespread and adaptable people, serving as the bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds. From the Dune Wanderers of Saharadune to the River Guardians of Nkutu and the Island Traders of Maravi, humans reflect the vast diversity of their environments through resilient communities, ancestral traditions, and an unbreakable bond with the land. Their strength lies in unity, cultural versatility, and the guidance of ancestors who watch over every endeavor.

“We are many faces, one people—shaped by the land, guided by those who came before.”
ABATWA (Fairy Kin)
The Fairy Children stand barely 2-3 feet tall, their delicate insect wings shimmering as they flit through hidden communities across Zairoo. These fey beings share a magical bond with the insect world, summoning swarms for protection or gathering secrets on the wind. Dream messengers guided by their deity Uhili Ebhulohweni-Amaphupho, Abatwa cultivate rare plants in hidden oases like Tala Tizdayin and send prophetic visions to those facing life’s great transitions. Whether as Locustcallers of the desert or Veld Dwellers of the grasslands, they prove that the smallest kin often carry the deepest wisdom.

“Listen to the whispers between worlds—they carry omens of what’s to come.”
ZINARIYA (Mystery Kin)
The Masked Alchemists of the Nkutu Enclave blend reverence for nature with mastery of herbalism and sustainable magic. Stout and earthy, their skin patterned like bark or moss, Zinariya are rarely seen without their distinctive masks, crafted during the sacred Herbalist Trial and attuned to their unique remedies. Within communal Herb Houses, they perfect elixirs, healing vapors, and perception-altering mists that serve communities across Zairoo. Part scientist, part shaman, the Zinariya remind all that nature’s deepest secrets reward those who tend her with patience and respect.

“From root to remedy, from leaf to vision, nature provides for those who listen.”
YUMBOES (Elf Kin)
The Moon Children descended from Qamar-Tafo herself, Yumboes are ethereal beings of true black skin that shimmers with lunar light. Long-eared and graceful, they thrive on creativity, mystery, and the hidden magic of night, celebrating life’s cycles through grand festivals where unseen servants serve under the moon’s glow. Their innovative moonstone technology, floating platforms and enchanted instruments—blends ancient artistry with magical innovation. From the Lunar Dancers of Maravi to the jungle guardians of Nkutu and the sun-adapted nomads of Ilmoran, Yumboes embody the truth that some lights shine brightest in darkness.

“We are woven from moonlight and mystery, dance with us, and remember.”
ALOKOZAY (Giant Kin)
The Mountain Builders stand 10 to 15 feet tall, their stone-textured skin bearing witness to centuries of crafting Zairoo’s most enduring structures. Legends say Alokozay constructed the ancient dungeons themselves, their knowledge passed through ancestral memory and oral tradition. Living in cliff-carved homes, they spend days fishing, herding, and building, their thunderous roars echoing across peaks while their mighty hands shape stone with impossible precision. Plains, forest, and desert clans alike share communal feasts and ale-brewing traditions, embodying strength tempered by gentle wisdom.

“We carve mountains into homes and memory into stone, watch, and learn what endures.”
INTOLU (Lizard Kin)
The Master Inventors of Ilmoran Dominion are slender, agile beings whose regenerative abilities once made them targets of persecution. Forced into guerrilla warfare, they turned their genius toward survival, crafting ingenious traps and devices that outsmarted larger foes. Today, these scars of history fuel innovation, their workshops hum with new technologies, their nimble fingers transforming scrap into marvels. With climbing speed matching their walking pace and frills that shift color with emotion or camouflage, Intolu prove that intelligence, not size, determines survival. The Agwo Intolu of Maravi add venomous cunning to this legacy of resilience.

“We were hunted. We adapted. We built. What breaks others becomes our foundation.”
MARID (Aqua Kin)
The Water Spirits of Maravi Isles blur the line between myth and reality, their sinuous forms gliding through bioluminescent coral cities. Born from moonlight on water or the living demigod Mami Wata, Marids command the elements with haunting songs that calm seas or stir storms. Five clans reflect the ocean’s complexity: the balanced Androgynou, the enchanting Sirens, the fierce warriors of Toussaint Bay, the memory-keepers of Girin Maru, and the rare Oasis Marids of Saharadune who create life-giving springs in desert wastes. All share luminous beauty, ancient traditions, and the knowledge that still waters run deep—and dangerous.

“Our songs echo across your seas. Listen, but beware, the ocean remembers everything.”
IFRIT (Flame Kin)
The Flame-Kin of Saharadune’s subterranean cities are beings of inner fire, their lava-textured skin glowing with cracks of heat that never fully fade. Master blacksmiths descended from the legendary mage Lalla Setsut, Ifrit infuse their creations with elemental power, their bodies serving as living forges. Without formal rulers, their society orbits the Eternal Flame and the high priest Alkahin Sama’an, celebrating fire as both cleanser and creator through pilgrimages and sacred craft. From the Unity-Forged of Enzi Mlimani to the Healing Flames of Maravi, Ifrit burn brightly in all they do, turning destruction into art, ash into treasure.

“We do not fear the fire, we are the fire. Watch us burn, and watch us build.”
BUMBASTI (Feline Kin)
The Desert Prides of Saharadune move through bustling medinas and ancient temples with feline grace and predatory intelligence. Sandy fur marked with spots or stripes, eyes gleaming gold or green, Bumbasti are master traders, warriors, and spiritual guides whose society revolves around sun, moon, and star legends. The Ait Ahar enforce sacred law; the Sun’s Mane Clan blazes with radiant beauty; the Moon’s Reflection moves in shadow; and the Whispering Sands gather secrets on desert winds. From Oran Medina’s markets to Saharalane’s outposts, Bumbasti remind all that independence and community are not opposites, they are balance.

“The sun warms our fur, the moon sharpens our claws—we walk the edge between.”
GIDIM (Ghost Kin)
The Twice-Given are undead beings of darkwood and memory, granted second existence by the deity Asiria. Their skeletal forms bear intricate carvings, religious symbols, natural motifs, echoes of former lives, that shift and glow with spectral emotion. Dressed in elegant traditional clothing, Gidim navigate existence between worlds, communicating through silent sign language and telepathic whispers. As Ancestor Wraiths of Nkutu’s jungles or Seadog Spirits of Maravi’s coasts, they guard sacred spaces, pilot ghostly ships, and remind the living that death is not an ending—only transformation.

“We died once. Now we remember for you. Honor the past, or walk blindly into it.”
PYMERA (Glimmerkin)
The Winged Face Administrators stand 3 to 4 feet tall, their most striking feature the delicate, semi-transparent wings framing their faces, mobile membranes that betray unspoken thoughts with every flutter. These master organizers serve as Zairoo’s scribes, treasurers, and diplomats, their keen minds tracking trade agreements, historical archives, and complex negotiations with near-perfect recall. Jungle stewards of Nkutu, coastal coordinators of Maravi, Pymera bring order to chaos, proving that true power lies not in strength but in knowing where everything belongs.

“We remember what others forget. We organize what others scatter. Ask us, we have the answer.”
ATAIKIN (Bird Kin)
The Sky Watchers soar above Zairoo’s kingdoms, each adapting to their region’s most populous birds, regal eagles of Saharadune, colorful parrots of Maravi, silent owls of Nkutu. With keen vision and unmatched mobility, Ataikin serve as journalists, scholars, sky pirates, and propagandists, providing a “bird’s eye view” of the continent’s most critical stories. From masked investigators exposing corruption to controversial voices swaying public opinion, they embody the power of perception and the responsibility of those who shape what others see. The scholarly Djehut-Ataikin preserve ancient wisdom; the Ruth/Furst hunt conspiracies in shadows. All share one truth: those who control the story, control the sky.

“We see everything. We tell everything. The question is, what story will you give us?”
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    Enzi Mlimani
    (Based on East Africa)

    A mountain kingdom defined by an unyielding spirit, where warriors and mystics guard a land rich in magical ores and technological marvels. Ruled by the non-binary Sword God, Omukamo Juma Makori, its society is a complex web of powerful guilds governing everything from arcane arts to commerce, centered in the balanced capital of Nkonge. Though currently thriving from the wealth of mines like Marashiya, the kingdom lives under the constant shadow of an active eldritch portal in Shikari Pango, a blight that threatens its hard-won prosperity. Native Kin are Humans, Alokozay, and Ataikin. Motto: “here lies unyielding spirit.”

    Omukamo Juma Makori the Sword God

    Ilmoran Dominion (Based on Southern Africa)

    A land of boundless savannahs and grasslands, where rangers, artificers, and adventurers prioritize hands-on experience and exploration. Ruled by the albino queen Nkosi Nomvula Kgosiwan, the Pale Soul, the kingdom is a beacon of innovation, famed for its advanced steam-tech, airships, and environmentally conscious craftsmanship centered in the wheel-shaped capital of Zephyrhold. Its culture celebrates boundless horizons, balancing a deep reverence for nature with groundbreaking technological progress that some fear may upset the very balance they cherish. Native Kin are Humans, Intolu, and Abatwa. Motto: “Bold Hearts, Boundless Horizons”

    Nkosi Nomvula Kgosiwan, the Pale Soul

    Saharadune Sultanate (Based on North Africa)

    A realm of vast deserts and fertile deltas, renowned as the birthplace of casters and magicians due to its proximity to divine realms. Ruled by the visionary Sultana Fatma Al-Hassani, the Omniscient, the kingdom is a center of magical learning and ancient wisdom, governed through a complex system of tribal alliances (the Bledsiba) and direct royal authority (the Makhzen). Its society is defined by a deep pursuit of knowledge and spiritual balance, though it is internally divided among factions debating between expansion, preservation, and fanatical appeasement of the very Eldritch forces that threaten the continent. Native Kin are Humans, Ifrit, and Bumbasti. Motto: “Whispers of wisdom find their rhythm”

    Sultana Fatma Al-Hassani the Omniscient

    Maravi Isles (Based on West Africa & Black Diaspora)

    A vibrant archipelago where clerics, mystics, and traders thrive under the guidance of ancestral Orishas. Ruled by the storyteller pirate-queen Oba Xiomara, the Isles are a cultural crossroads, famous for their magical artisans, the Midnight Crafters, and a network of principled pirates called the Shadow Tides. Leadership is uniquely decided through the spectacular Midnight Trials, a tournament that reinforces a legacy of freedom…and ensures that no ruler grows too comfortable on the throne. Native Kin are Humans, Yumboes, and Marid. Motto: “Tales be shapin’ the hearts of Maravi’s children.”

    Oba Xiomara Marooncrest, the Balladmaster

    Nkutu Enclave
    (Based on Central Africa)

    A secretive jungle kingdom, ruled from the pyramidal capital of Kushimba. As healers and masters of espionage, its people guard ancient mysteries and a lucrative trade in rare medicines and resources. The charismatic “Shadow Lark,” Makalakini Itoto, maintains stability through a vast spy network, but faces clandestine plots from his own council, the Sikalords, who are manipulating a violent cult splinter group to undermine his rule. Native Kin are Humans, Zinariya, Gidim and Pymera. Motto: “sweat and sacrifice birth possibility”

    Makalakini Itoto Lualaba the Shadow Lark