Asker Tribes

In the Asker mountain chains of the near Orientavalk a people of stone toughness and simplicity eek an existence, surrounded by ruins they themselves created without regret or sorrow for what they destroyed. 

The Asker people have existed since the oldest records. Stone goliaths make the bulk of their small numbers, with lizardfolk and minotaurs being close seconds and lone aaracockras being spotted in the mountainpeaks. The average Asker is pragmatic, of few emotions and quick to take advantage of any situation or risk that offers a reward. 

Many empires have tried to control them, with the latest attempt being the one of the Anatol Empire, which only managed to subjugate a small portion of their mountains. The Asker are certain that they will fail, for they have cracked open the dwarven forts that shared the mountains with them, and turned the lords of the undermountains into dust on the pages of history.

The Asker organize themselves in tribes, more often than not being of a single race. Their lands have very few major settlements, most of which are built in partially conquered dwarven holds whose halls have never been fully unsealed or untrapped. There is no true central ruler, although the greatest city is recognized to be Astarta, an almost fully taken dwarven hold that used to have some religious purposes, now turned into a fortress, river port and slave market.