The Emerald Sword clan of the Dinacoli is an old foe. You have fought with them many times and you are feuding with them now — they have killed kinfolk and you have not been
paid in blood or cows for those deaths.
The Dinacoli betrayed Sartar when the Lunar Empire invaded. They embraced the rule of the Empire and grew fat and rich. They prospered whilst you suffered from Imperial rule. Many in the clan say that you should make the Emerald Sword pay for your sufferings and take back from them what you lost.
There are around 1500 people in the Emerald Sword clan.
The Emerald Sword Lands are north of the Creek, running along the border of the Red Cow Lands and to their east Wulfsland. To the northeast, they are bounded by Lake Aroka. The land here is flat and the soil fertile, good for raising crops and fine horses.
The Emerald Sword descends from people who came south to Tarsh, from the Kynnelfing Alliance fleeing the expanding Lunar Empire. As such their customs differ from many of their southern neighbors, and they do not speak the Southern Theyalan of the Kingdom of Sartar. Although living in Sartar has meant the Dinacoli can speak Sartarite, their speech is heavily accented and sometimes lacks idiomatic understanding. This only adds to the conflict between the Dinacoli and their southern neighbors.
The clan chieftain is Duruvan the Fat.
The Emerald Sword
Made of iron, an emerald flashes from this sword’s pommel — home to the clan wyter, Andrin Rich-Horses. Andrin was one of the royal tribe of the Vingkotlings, the Kodigvari. He held firm to the belief that a man could never have enough land, enough cattle, or enough horses. He fought for seven days at the Battle of High Jumps Ford, to ensure that the great bull of Darworth was his. He rode his horse at the head of the Sunflower Charge. His sons inherited vast land, and lost it all in the Helm and Sword war. When the chieftain carries the Emerald Sword against the clan’s enemies the cry is still “More land, more cattle, more horses!”