Khufkey people

The ancestors of the Khufkey people were the same as those of Telehe people. The split happened around 150 BGS, when some Telehe tribes decided to move away from the others.

Tribe conflicts forced certain tribes to be on the move constantly over many generations and have lesser power than other tribes. Migration got tied with the religion of the tribes. Myths about a "promised land" where they could settle for eternity began to develop. The tribes grew a bit distinct from other tribes. The religious leaders noticed that they could gain power by enforcing these ideas about the promised land. Some of these lesser tribes developed alliances with each other. Their language was completely intelligible with the other tribes, though. After one of the largest conflicts in a few generations, some of these allied tribes got onto the run and started running in a random direction away from other telehe people. The tribe leaders supported this heavily, as it allowed them to use the idea of promised land and gain a lot of power. The tribes had to change their location anyway. At the beginning, the people had strong faith in the predictions of the religious tribe leaders. Eventually they ended up in the desert, and the conditions made the life of the people in the tribes horrible. Faith in the leaders dropped, and an uprising removed most of the old leaders from their positions or forced them to comply. With the old power stucture gone, escape from the desert was almost impossible, as it required coordinated effort, which wasnt possible anymore. It was also an unpopular idea, as the last time the migrations had ended terribly. These telehe tribes decided to settle down in the bare desert.

They settled in the desert in the year 120 BGS. At first, there were many famines and child mortality was high. The main religion set by the new leaders of the tribes directly opposed earlier ideas that the now overthrown old tribe leaders had held. The existance of the ”promised land” was denied and traveling was deemed evil. The old religion was focused on order, while the new religion focused on chaos. However, not all of the old leaders were killed, but some were only forced to comply. These leaders grew old religion movements in secret. This eventually allowed the old religion to gain a foothold in some of the tribes, and conflicts between the tribes increased. The conflicts were easily justified with religious reasons, but were more clearly linked to fighting over food. A big conflict started in 95 BGS, but slowly faded out.Eventually a peace was agreed upon. New types of meetings between the two religions were made, which tried to reach agreements on different issues. The first meeting with representatives from all of the tribes was held in 65 BGS. The conflicts decreased and the coordination increased. In 100 BGS-20BGS all tribes adopted at least some farming of cacti for food. The tribes that started early gained more power. This lead to the gradual weakening of the cross-religion meetings. A lot of tribes dropped out of them. The tribe relations reached a stable situation for now.

The Meetings were held at a small temple located in the desert. It was built with a combination of orderly and chaotic architecture Green fog was sometimes seen eminating from the temple. This was actually a swarm of Khyekys, but it was called ”divine cloud”. Only a few of the tribes participated in the meetings anymore. A small raid on the temple occurred in 2 BGS. Some of the priests died, but the raiders were defeated. This was the first time purple fog (Khyekys) were seen in the temple. Several priests noticed this, and it passed as a folk story. Nothing special happened on 0BGS.