Šåġř culture

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The Šåġř (/shau-gh'rh/) are a people of the water. The first of the Šåġř bloomed on the northern shore of the Æhġ V'hāř (/e-gh v'haarh/) and founded Šåġř Æhġ (/shau-gh'rh e-gh/), which would then grow to be the capital city of what is now the Šåġř culture.

History
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The day Šåġř Æhġ was founded would later be considered the first of Šåġř history, marked by the written accounts of Maeġ Š'håř, which began to be kept on that day. While most of the Šåġř were a messy unorganised group of people struggling for survival in the wild, the eldest was not, and, seemingly resigned, was the first to get to work on building a tent on the shore of the river that would later be known as the Water of Dawn: the Æhġ V'hāř.

A few decades after the founding of Šåġř Æhġ, weakened by his old age, that same first Šåġř Šaht (/shau-gh'rh shah-t/) gave the rule to the eldest of his four sons, who, afraid that his brothers may decide to dethrone him, sent all three of them to look for new fertile lands on which to expand. His brothers, unaware of his fears, took each his family and went to look for lands, each one hundred kilometres away, in the direction he had designated - north-east, north-west and south.

This was the founding of the cities of Šåġř Kašāř (/shau-gh'r ka-shaarh/), Šåġř Lahāř (/shau-gh'r la-haarh/) and Ḋašāř Æhġ (/dha-shaarh e-gh/). Ḋašāř Æhġ, however, was not founded near water; and soon enough it was abandoned. Ever since, the Šåġř (rightfully) understood water to be the essence of life (a notion that had become somewhat forgotten) and began to deify it. Šåġř settlements would only be founded on the shores of water points since then.

The Šåġř belief in the importance of water and its godly nature was such that the people founded a city, Šåġř B'dåř (/shau-gh'r b'dau-rh/), even though it was relatively unneeded, on the shores of lake T'hāř (/t-haarh/), which everyone would henceforth go to every once in a while, to celebrate Water in its Water Temple.

The next few generations of Šåġř gave so much importance to water that, convinced that it was the essence of life, began to see it as an insult to water not to procreate abundantly. The (immediate) next generation saw such an exponential increase in population, what with the healthy habits of drinking nothing but water or milk reducing the risks of death at young age, that it required four new cities to be founded by its adolescence: Šåġř Ġřd'āř (/shau-gh-rh gh-rhd'aarh/), Šåġř Š’vāř (/shau-gh-rh sh'vaarh/), Šåġř M’åd (/shau-gh-rh m'aud/) and Šåġř Ġředt (/shau-gh-rh gh-rhedd/), which was the first Šåġř city to be founded on the shores of the ocean ("V’hāř Ġředt" /v'haarh gh-rhedd/).

When the sixth Šåġř Šaht was exhiled by the burgeoning bourgeoisie (the "Nāvhåř"), in the year 196 ŠA, he took his wife and children towards the west until they found the ocean, and there, they put up some tents in which to wait, strategise and retake the power. That night, however, he disappeared, never to be seen again. When questioned, his wife said that he had spent most of the night outside their tent, standing on the shore of the ocean and muttering in prayer.

His two youngest son and daughter went to Šåġř B’dåř to pray for his soul, but when they reached and told the priests (the F'hānn) what had happened, they took it as a sign that the divine had taken him to elevate him after the Nāvhåř had taken his throne away - after all, his was the blood of the first Šåġř Šaht. They raised public opinion against the Nāvhåř and the people rioted against them, hunted them down when they ran, and killed them. Then the F'hānn went to the disappeared Šåġř Šaht's wife bringing her royal gifts and made her eldest son Šåġř Šaht. The most fervent followers of the F'hānn then built a castle on the shore, at the place the sixth Šåġř Šaht had last been seen, and the Šåġř then had the greatest exodus they had even seen as people flocked from all the Šåġř cities, and mainly Šåġř Æhġ, to build themselves houses around the new castle and king. That was the founding of Šåġř Æhġāř.

When it happened that the Šåġř needed even more living space, and especially after they realised how good it could be to live on an ocean shore, the eight Šåġř Šaht ordered the founding of Šåġř Amādt, around 100 Km south of Šåġř Æhġāř.

Language
The Šåġř mainly communicate in various dialects of Šihåġř (/shi-hau-gh'r/).

Dating system
The Šåġř keep time in function of the day the first Šåġř landed on K'åbř. They refer to the time of that incident as "Šåġř Aġæm Æhġ" ("the Dawn of the Days of the Šåġř") and count all dates starting that point in time. They call this dating system the Šåġř Aġæm, abbreviated ŠA.