Zarajoveni Tribes

The Zarajoveni Tribes are an ethnic group of the Djimya who emerged in western central Asdauria possibly as early as 1500 AS based upon archeological evidence. Sometime after the Fall of the Yophenthean Empire, the Zarajoveni tribes adopted skycraft and migrated through the Danzercouphtan Desert to the southern Adamantine Mountains around 1130 AS where they displaced the Adamantine Geddamin Giants and drove them into the northern Adamantine Mountains and into Thabda-Rhathor.

In the second half of the fourteenth century (ca 1350 to 1390), Imzaami missionaries converted many of the Zarajoveni chieftains and also some of the Geddamin Giants to the flourishing Imzaha faith. They Zarajoveni tribes continued to grow in numbers. Pressure from tribes further in the interior, threats from the Geddamin Giants, and need for more crops and herds to sustain them compelled the Zarajoveni to seek new lands. Their religious leaders also wished to escape the influences of rising chaos cults in the Pallathantic. The Zarajoveni migrated by skycraft across Weshif into southeeastern Danona, in the Ummahdi-Lah Wastes and what later became Oliblish in the early fifteenth century (ca 1400 to 1430). The presence of Jykki orcs and the dryness of the land compelled the chieftains to migrate into Denzahmia around 1515. For another century and a half, the tribes dwelt with independent chieftains until around 1670 when Tasmagut united the tribes through war and diplomacy and became the first Sultan of a united Zarajove.

The first ruling house of the Sultanate of Beph-Themesh was descended from the Zarajoveni Tribes.

Today the Zarajoveni Tribes are almost exclusively Imzaami. Their pre-Imzaami accounts of the gods are thought to be preserved as legends about their ancient princes in Asdauria.

See Also

• Danona
• Denzahmia
• Zarajove