Jogo

The Jogo are a people found chiefly in Koumbasi, Tessere, and the Gilded Plain of western and central Idiri. Although presumably they or their ancestors once had a homeland of their own, the Jogo have for long centuries made up the hereditary slave caste of both the Bissenke and Tessouare peoples. In the desert they often live in their own small villages beside oases or other permanent water sources, where they grow crops or tend livestock for their Tessouare masters -- a semi-feudal lifestyle not far different from that of peasants in central Ruvera. Among the Bissenke they tend to function more as domestic servants or to perform various tasks considered menial or spiritually dangerous. Domestic servants usually live with their masters, while other Jogo live and work in their own enclaves within large cities such as Koumbasat.

The Jogo are generally accounted a somber and joyless people, a temperament unnatural for free people but well suited to unstinting labor and servitude. Few pause to think that perhaps their temperament in fact resulted from their servitude, or that perhaps they might behave differently when out from the under the eye of their masters.

Appearance

The Jogo tend to be shorter and slighter than the people they serve, with a middle range of skin tones from dark chestnut to lighter copper and caramel. They have kinky to nubby hair, softly wooly to coarse wiry. Their eyes are mostly darker shades of brown, though very occasionally deep jewel-like shades appear as well. Despite their build they possess a tough wiry strength and the capacity to endure great hardship.