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===Caoi=== | ===Caoi=== | ||
The '''Caoi''' are a mysterious people of the Gypsum Plains of the Kiravian Southwest. They live in six communal settlements, most of which are semi-subterranean. These six "colonies" (''axerkî''), as the literature typically calls them, are autarkic collectives that subsist on artisanally irrigrated agriculture, exhaustion hunting, and {{wp|bush food}}s such as endemic insect grubs. In the late 19th century, 18 Caoi colonies existed, but half were destroyed by Coscivian encrocheurs, lost as {{wp|collateral damage}} in the [[Kiravian Civil War]], or abanoned by 1935 AD. Two more colonies were unintentionally destroyed as a result of [[Kiravian Union]] development efforts, and one more died out in 1995 AD, prompting the federal government to shut down all access to their remaining territory by unauthorised personnel, enforced by the [[Federal Police]]. | |||
Only six photographs of Caoi people are known to the public, all of which are low-quality and make it difficult to discern any common phenotypical or racial attributes of the subjects. Anthropologists and government agents who have worked with the Caoi say that they refuse to be photographed, [[xolkriśgir|even in black-and-white]]. Anecdotal reports from the pre-restriction era and notes from authorised agents since then reveal little about the origins or appearance of the Caoi, other than that they look "unlike any other people of Great Kirav, perhaps even any other people of the world", and that their language (which is actually quite well-documented) appears to bear no discernible relation to any other. The Caoi language exhibits many features that are highly unusual for a Kiravite languages, including a large tone inventory. | |||
Due to the secrecy surrounding the Caoi, many conspiracies about them circulate in Coscivian-Kiravian society, variously alleging that they are a counterintelligence {{wp|red herring}} or made up as a {{wp|cover}} for secret and nefarious government activities in the area, that they are actually secret government slaves or detainees, or that they are stranded {{wp|Basques|extraterrestrials}}. The Caoi were largely unknown outside of Kiravia until 2006 AD, when the Ænglish-language documentary ''Access Prohibited: The Secret People of Kirav'' was released. | |||
===Demarești=== | ===Demarești=== | ||
{{Infobox KirGroup | {{Infobox KirGroup | ||