The Delgon

 – From the writings of NuraGan Largos, High Priest and Personal Attendant to Garabon

Delgon culture follows a strict structure, dominated by the leadership of the Enarii and the priests who serve them. All Delgon are born owing a debt to their nation and only through service can they hope to repay that debt. Young Delgon are taken from their parents and raised in large crèches. The jenta are likely to remain within that crèche family throughout their lives. Each crèche family determines the role that the young jenta will fill within society, be that as a worker, a soldier or a priest. The Delgon military is directly governed by the priesthood, and a specific branch of the priesthood, the Nura, is responsible for this. Young NuraLehn acolytes serve on the front line, with more senior priests providing strategic and tactical guidance. The bulk of the military is made up of soldiers who are trained from an early age to obey priests with unswerving loyalty. Those soldiers who show unusual levels of initiative are generally promoted to carry out specialist roles such as wielding the experimental deraks or serving as part of the KalJoran. Under the guidance of NuraSen Plutom, who has the patronage of several of the Enarii council, the mechanised forces of the Delgon have grown immensely in recent years. While many may argue the extravagance and wastefulness of many of the projects, it has hard to question their effectiveness in the first few months of the Retribution attacks.

The Delgon are a hardy race of fubarnii. They are generally slightly shorter than their southern cousins and have a distinctive grey skin tone. The Delgon have many physical similarities to the Dhogu that also live within the Setir Mountains. Whereas most fubarnii of the Empire live in extended family homes most Delgon live in much larger structures, with entire communities housed within a single set of interconnected buildings. The Delgon tend to dress in plain but warm clothing and wear very uniform armour and carry identical factory-produced equipment which is in direct contrast to the haphazard armament of the Empire’s forces. The first attacks by the Delgon against the small villages of the Empire were unexpected and devastating. NuraSen Plutom’s mechanical creations wreaked havoc and the mighty belderaks laid waste to entire villages, destroying the surface structures and causing many tunnels to collapse.

The Delgon are the clan of fubarnii from the region of Delgona. They were the first of the fubarnii clans to encounter the Enarii. They have since grown significantly in power, and are the base of power for the Enarii. Delgon has also become the name of the offshoot of the main fubarnii religion that embraces the Belog as the Enarii.

The Delgon live almost exclusively within their large city structures - as with the empire these buildings initially grew over their underground tunnels, but with the Delgon approach to grand projects they set about building the huge cores, rather than having them grow organically. The Delgon grow their food inside the cities, in vast fungal farms, but will supplement via trade. It is supposed that the cities are heated geothermally. As the Delgon live mostly within the cities they are happy for the Dhogu to roam freely on the surface, and make use of them for trade and passing of messages.