Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170916002926

Venandi are a old race that has long traveled the stars doing what they both love and do best: hunting. They are renown for their great feats of strength, tracking, marksmen ship, and the universe wide hunts they host are almost always filled with both the hunters of many other races and the rich and noble of the universe.

The Empire itself has long been in contact with the Venandi long ago sparring their people in return for their services whenever the state saw it necessary. This has lead to the Venandi having a degree of protection and autonomy as well as being able to expand and hunt as they see fit.

Venandi lived upon their homeworld as hunter gatherers within nomadic encampments and having few cities. The cities they did have where populated with the shamans, weak, and outcasts of society and generally deemed with holy or untouchable thus the cities where very rarely besieged. All of this changed when a massive freighter crashed upon their world. From it's smouldering ruins the Venandi where able to get their first glimpse of tech and their society greatly advanced. After hundreds of years yet another ship crashed upon their world and with it was brought the technology of space flight with which one warlord, known as 'Kuras the Bloody' united their people into one Empire. To cement his legacy in history he hosted the largest games to date havign his beast hunters go far and wide to find the most exotic or dangerous beasts they could find.

Long story short he did so and was eventually killed by one of his fellow warlords and the Venandi descended into chaos and anarchy reverting back to the clans (a system which they are still stuck in) although Kuras left one legacy, the 'Grand Hunts' which all the warlords participate in seeking to best the others in semi-fair hunts across the stars.

When the warlords are not participating in the Grand Hunts they generally host lesser hunts for either practice, profit, or a mix of both which has lead to the Venandi being both hunters and merchants (although they tend to just find middle men to do the trading for them, Ex: Gretch). They are also known to serve as mercenaries at times finding hunting beasts of more intelligent nature a even greater task.

They are also one of the few societies that practice 'Human Sacrifice' the Rin tolerate as the massive profits they produce and the gifts they give to the nobles of the Empire. The Venandi form of Human sacrifice is consuming select parts of the animals they have slayed (generally the heart and the lungs) with each organ being ritually blessed by the priests to both fulfill the warrior's hunger and the God's need for blood.

The equipment the Venandi use are generally of rather unique and scavenged nature with each hunter's rifle and blade being their most prized possessions. The armor they wear is also of scavenged nature with the Venandi gaining armor as they go or as payment/equipment gifted from a customer or mercenary lord. 