Dumaka

Order of the Triad Town

umaka, “The City of War,” was founded many hundreds of years ago by an ancient warrior tribe, and is home to some of the some of the fiercest and most bloodthirsty fighters in the entire Realm.

When the Great Spell brought about the World Change, marking the end of the Third Era, the darkness of the Serpent Riders swept across the land like a fierce wind. Some two hundred years later, when Eidolon summoned the Horseman War, Dumaka was the ideal target for His first conquest; both from a strategic viewpoint, and for recruitment -- or rather enslavement -- reasons.

The Dumaki were never followers of any religion, due to their deep-rooted sense of superiority over the other peoples of the Realm, and therefore posed fierce resistance to the onslaught of War against their home. However, it was for this very reason – and the hardened, warlike nature of the Dumaki – that the Horseman War picked Dumaka as his centre of operations.

At the time of the Siege of Dumaka, the town’s only defenses were palisades of wooden stakes, wicker-made outposts and sturdy wooden gates. For many days they held off the attacks from the Minions of War through sheer ferocity, but their lack of defensive experience and structure meant that they were merely postponing their inevitable defeat.

The Dumaki ultimately fell under the evil power of the Riders -- their bodies transformed, their flesh tainted by the Darkness, and their wills bent to that of War. Only Dumak A’T’mir, overlord of Dumaka, resisted to the last. In a gruesome battle to the death, A’T’mir fought War Himself, and despite his formidable skill and his efforts to rally his men with the Warcry of Dumak, A’T’mir was slain, and Dumaka was lost. His body was flung onto a heap, and burnt unceremoniously with those of his slaughtered kin.

War now reigns supreme over Dumaka, and from within the mighty stone walls and barricades that He has built, He sends forth His armies to march across the plains, annihilating everything in their path. Only the major settlements of Steppe still stand in their defiance.