Scars of Scale and Tooth

Scars of Scale and Tooth is the ruling body of Xarzith Kitril based in the the Roots of the city and led by six members who represent wide variety of city-state factions.

Description
Emerging after the fall of Draconia, leaders of the council of Scars of Scale and Tooth have conflicting goals for the future of their country and represent different factions of opinions, some seeing the future where Xarzith Kitril rises in prominence and respect among Wildemount nations, others wishing to keep the city isolated, the desputes said to "place Xarzith Kitril settlement in peril" and sometimes caused a bloodshed in the city.

Xarzith Kitril has no standing military, limited to a loose militia of hunters and trappers. This leaderless force is stretched to its limits, barely keeping the monstrosities of the Xhorhasian wastes and loosing more hunters with every day. Xarzith Kitril lacks reasonable resources to fight the monstrosity threats and is in need outside aid, but the bickering councilors of the Scars can't agree on whose aid they should request.

History
Following the fall of the flying city of Draconia at the Dreemoth Ravine caused by a conclave of dragons, the city's wealthy class of dragonborn draconbloods lost their wealth and influnce, and during this chaos surviving members of the enslaved class of dragonborn ravenites managed to break free from their servitude to thebn ruling houses of Draconia, outnumbering them. In the uprising, many draconbloods were executed for their crimes, and others fled to the empire for shelter. After the death of Vorugal at the hands of Vox Machina, ravenites were finally free to built a new society of Xarzith Kitril, a new city adjacent to the ruins of the old nation of Draconia.

Between late 810 PD and 835 PD, the ravenites formed the Scars of Scale and Tooth to govern the emerging society. However its intitial rule was tenios, sabotaged by a number of faction disagreements with the system, wishing to claim the prestige of leading their people, which subsequently has turned to bloodshed. This has slowed down the construction of Xarzith Kitril. Ravenites stayed divided thereafter, each seeking ways to establish a better future for the ravenites, while others, disapointed by the Scars's politic, fled to the empire hoping to find fortunes away from the conflict in their homeland. The the flow of emigrants ended with the empire closing their border pass into Western Wynandir as the War of Ash and Light has started with their neighbor country in 835 PD.

Relationships
The Scars have their representatives in Talonstadt to help protect the interests of ravenite refugees in the camp. Some Kitrilians oppose a massive relocation of ravenite and draconblood refugees to this shantytown with unfair and inhumane treatment of their kin. They also outraged by close proximity of the town to the empire/Kryn Dynasty border, which makes it the first potencial target of a Kryn invasion. Rumors of mistreated dragonborn ravenites drove a wedge between the Scars and King Dwendal. With the start of the War of Ash and Light, both the empire and the dynasty has sent emissaries asking an alliance against their enemy, with the Kryn also offering to aid the dragonborn in their efforts to rebuild. The Scars didn't come to a consensus on the side they choose or if they even can afford to aid one of them.

In "recent years" around 835 PD, Clovis Concord was eager to resume trade with Kitrilian people. Marquis Zhafe Uludan of Nicodranas send a few emissaries to Xarzith Kitril "to keep an eye on the developing city-state" and stated that he is ready to help the dragonborn nation in "whatever limited extent they can".

Members

 * Druvis Koothalok: Once a trained combatant in draconblood gladiatorial games, after Draconia's fall, he became widely respected for his courage and sense of morality, and has hesitantly become a champion for the downtrodden people of  Xarzith Kitril.
 * Troka, the Scoundrel King: A dragonborn infiltrating the Dwendalian Empire and appraising the situation in Talonstadt. Frustrated by the meager living conditions and demeaning treatment of his people, Troka has retaliated by sowing chaos throughout the surrounding Dwendalian territories.
 * Vemosi Runek: A zealous priest of the Stormlord. In the aftermath of the Draconia's fall, her blistering sermons made her a popular voice of the people and a powerful figure within the Scars.