Avishraa Reloaded

The known intelligent species of Avishraa are generally loath to be grouped with each other at all, even when they are in fact not all that different. That said, some takma sages have sometimes found it useful to be able to refer to all thinking beings.

While there is in Imperial a word tharka, which approximates the English word 'person', the word is somewhat loaded as it carries a strong suggestion of 'someone who can be understood/reasoned with'; an Imperial-speaking takma with a particularly vicious grudge may not universally apply the term to all members of their own species. It would take a very broad-minded one to apply it to a member of another species entirely.

Instead, the term generally used is enenkalar (sing. enenkal); the literal meaning is 'speaking ones', but can be more freely translated as 'sophonts'. At the present time, three species of enenkalar are known to live upon Avishraa:

• Takmar
• Xtauh
• Orghysh