#bumidae

surissesh is the royal advisor for king iunekitann of annoshik, and part of the story i mentioned here. currently hes... kind of a one-note character, just some megalomaniac who wants power for power's sake and double-crosses everyone he works with in order to ascend to the throne. i will probably add more Meat to him character-wise later on though, since he is the main villain.

however he is not the only new character here as you can see. on the left scene in the second pic we have keyopha, the leader of iuraph. she recruited surissesh to assassinate king iunekitann, then manipulate his son kontekitann into giving control of gnemmia to iuraph. gnemmia has a lot of fertile land and a mountain range with a LOT of magic crystals growing inside it, so the three major powers of sumakha (annoshik, iuraph, and janggok) all want control over it. she gave surissesh the magic weapon he's brandishing in the first pic in order to kill the king and threaten the rest of the royal family/staff into compliance, while also having one of her own men follow surissesh to make sure that if he used the weapon for his own gain, he would be killed on the spot. unfortunately for her, surissesh isn't an idiot, and by the time he Does start using the weapon for himself, keyopha's men are already dealt with.

gnemmia is a highly sought-after territory... with people already living there, who don't like being occupied. the rebel group (whose individual members don't have names yet bc these are even OLDER ocs that i rebooted so they need to be reworked) were mostly dedicated to taking out annoshiki outposts in gnemmia one-by-one until they started working with surisessh. their plan was to have surisessh help them get into the palace to assassinate the king, then kill him immediately and occupy the palace themselves as part of freeing gnemmia. right when their assassin (the ketvidae in the pic) has finished killing the king, he turns his blade on surissesh, but surissesh reveals keyopha's weapon and completely blasts his head off. while the rebels did plan for surissesh fighting back, they hadn't planned for him having a weapon of this caliber, leaving them scrambling for a new strategy.

while surissesh could have likely risen to power just through intimidation, he justifies his uprising by claiming to be an agent of kennemikannosh, the patron deity of annoshik. i will probably make a different lore post about kennemikannosh in the future, but for now, all you need to know is that it looks like this ⬇️ and that annoshik is a divine monarchy, so surissesh's claim of being a prophet is taken seriously.

OKAY that's all the lore i really want to write out today. after finals (or as a break from studying for them LOL) i will finally do a bullet point outline of this story so its not all in my brain. and i'll see if i can actually figure out a name for it. also shoutout to my flight rising dragon ghirahim (and also the original ghirahim from loz skyward sword) he was a big inspiration for surissesh's design :-)

ketvidae: elf-adjacent lanky cat dudes. tribal system of government. carnivores. live in any forests with large thick trees, like sequoias. they hunt big game and distribute the meat among the entire tribe before using the rest of the animal to make weapons, clothes, toys, etc. tend to keep to themselves and dont get into wars or other feuds. hunting is mainly done by men but those men drink respect women juice every day and love their wives even if theyre behind on the times. pregnant women and children get double servings at dinner. other info in the pics

pemadae: deer/horse dudes. rule by divine monarchy. omnivores. practice animal and plant agriculture for their food source. currently the dominant war power in sumakha after defeating the bumidae. extremely prissy and like to look down on non-pemadae as if they didnt just come into power in the last 300 years. the most magic-proficient race of sumakha, use mostly enchanted weapons in battle. other info in the pics

bumidae: orc-adjacent bull/sheep/elephant dudes. used to be a powerful kingdom until being decimated by the pemadae, now the little that are still left have shifted to pacifism and live in small towns centered around communal farms. omnivorous. live in a great plains-esque area. have a subspecies/variation called northern bumidae who are mainly carnivorous, since theres not many ways to farm in the snowy mountains. general consensus on bumidae farms is that anyone who can work will work. other info in the pics

seradae: salamander/frog guys. pretty isolated from the rest of sumakha, only living in small tribes in swamps. carnivorous. use traps laced w their own venom to catch and kill small animals, while swimming through swamp waters w/ spears to fish. will occasionally eat insects but not often. this is the race i have the least info on but i can develop them later. other info in the pics

atridae: vulture/archeopteryx guys. lack an organized form of government, mostly solitary families spread across all of sumakha. detritivores. attracted to areas of extreme carnage for their food, so the pemadae/bumidae conflicts (as well as the current pemadae/homidae conflicts) are incredible for them. pemadae looking down on them for their supposed brutality is deeply ironic. their short arms are very close to nonfunctional, it doesnt make sense evolutionarily but i thought them having tiny little arms would be funny. other info in the pics

genzhe is currently a guard on the janggok mountain border (they have a great wall there), but used to be an archer for the janggok military (as seen in the second pic). a few years into his military time, a small skirmish with annoshiki invaders led to him getting hit with the eye with a magic arrow. the arrow had a body magic crystal attached to it that was designed to explode on impact, with bits and pieces lodging into different parts of his eye and turning it into a multi-eyed tumor (and it was honestly quite lucky that it hit his eye, as a hit to somewhere like the heart would've been fatal).

the tumor completely fucked up his depth perception, so he was forced to stop being an archer. healing magic does enough so that he can live with the tumor (mostly by replenishing any nutrients that the tumor might be stealing from other tissues + making sure it doesn't get infected somehow), but getting rid of it outright is impossible, as trying to remove any of the crystal shrapnel still stuck there could make things a whole lot worse. now that he can't be an archer, he mostly does small jobs for the other border guards, like fixing armor and weapons. janggok culture holds great reverence for those who were injured/scarred in battle, so despite not being able to fight anymore, he's still well-respected as part of the guard.

the bumidae in the second picture is unnagk-am, one of genzhe's fellow soldiers. after genzhe's injury, unnagk, despite still being in peak fighting condition, quit the military and followed genzhe to the border wall as another guard. the two have a sort of homosexual WARRIORS BOND thing going on, but tbh everyone in the border guard fucks around with each other bc there's not exactly a lot to do there. just guys being dudes.

PHEW okay that was a lot of lore. ill end this post on a funny thing i noticed after drawing these, which is that i accidentally switched the side that his tumor is on for all of these drawings. like in all of my other art of him it's on his right eye (right from his perspective i mean). but honestly i'm glad i accidentally changed it LOL it looks better this way