Kalithar

Real-world touchstone: South Asian and East African confederacies — elected elders, matrilineal names, oath-tokens.

Kalithar is a vast and fertile nation of tall, dark-haired people with skin in every shade of brown and eyes that sometimes catch the light red or black. Long ago they arrived as refugees from some forgotten disaster, and they've thrived ever since, ruled not by kings but by the Circle — elected elders drawn from each region, chosen for age and wisdom rather than birth. Kalithari value alliance and hospitality above almost everything else, sealing friendships and contracts with tokens worn as jewelry — a Kalithari who shows you their tokens is showing you their whole web of debts and loyalties.

A Kalithari legionnaire likely carries at least one such token still, a small reminder of home and of promises made. They tend to take kinship seriously, even kinship formed on campaign, and are quick to extend the same hospitality abroad that they were raised on.

Naming a Kalithari Character

Kalithari use a given name followed by a family name — always inherited from the mother, regardless of the child's parentage.

#	First Name	Family Name (matrilineal)
1	Amareth	Solenya
2	Bhaskar	Ithrandi
3	Chandrima	Velakash
4	Devarath	Anjulei
5	Esharani	Corvathi
6	Farhaan	Suneshka
7	Ishtavi	Malandri
8	Jaravel	Oshanti
9	Kavindra	Ruvashi
10	Lohitash	Damyeri
11	Mirashi	Kolvandi
12	Nirjhar	Vaseshni