Janto Traders / Janto Sea People
Across the length of the eastern cost the Janto Traders travel in huge linked caravans exceeding 60ft in length pulled by massive paraceratherium. These large multi-generational Janto trader clans frequently join up with their fleets in secret ports and other bases which are hidden from outsiders.
The different trader clans compete with each other, internally the families vie for high status and engage in an endless cycle of politicking and power plays.
Title to trade and clan property resides with the headman, who holds it in the name of the community, although family proprietors enjoy the use of Clan goods as long as they actively support Clan activities
The headman of each clan is a boss.
Race
Janto Trader Clans appear to be Half-elves with darker coppery skin and exotic oriental features.
Other races serve with them but are rarely part of the inner-circle.
Known Clans
Crokuz - Boss Jari
Clan Tegbotho - Boss Necan
Clan Zentarkis - Boss Tinto
In Game
The group joined a caravan after saving the life of Boss Jari and were taken south to the Keshin Sea. Part of the travels involved the group being locked in a plushly decked out lead caravan after they observed Jari in negotiations with a warlock - who seriously wounded one of the Clan. After that time space and time were stretched and 'jumping' occurred that invoked a similar feeling when the Monks of Oba shadow stepped.
The group joined the caravan after after a dispute has turned deadly when Boss Jari of Clan Crokuz refused a deal and humiliated an opponent, Boss Necan of Tegbotho by disallowing a marriage agreement after lengthy negotiations between his eldest granddaughter and the son of a rival. Boss Jari has instead chosen to marry his middle granddaughter to the new head of the Zentarkis Clan, Boss Tinto.
Boss Necan retaliated by sending an assassin to kill Jari and kidnap his eldest grandson for ransom from Jari's son who is next in line.
Necan’s son Mektith manipulated his father the hot-headed Necan doing something stupid. If the marriage was to still go ahead he would occupy a prestigious position within Clan Crokuz, and if failed and Necan was revealed he could push to step in as the new boss of Clan Tegbotho as part of a peace deal.
