Jhevahan Mansab infantryman (Naga Rajs) By Imperator-Zor Watch

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The military forces of the Naga Rajs are lead by Naga commanders with the bulk of the force composed of human soldiers which are mostly drawn from the Warrior Class. Outside of town militias and Discarded shock troops soldiers not born or adopted into the warrior class are rare. A deeply set Religious ideal of the Naga Rajs is a fairly sharp Division of Labor: some toil in the fields, others work in workshops, some buy and sell, some fight and so forth. The Warrior Class makes up about 4 to 6% of the population of the Naga Rajs (varying from Raj to Raj) and is often thought of as being roughly similar to chivalry by western visitors, though this comparison misses a lot of complications. The elite of the warrior class typically serve as heavy cavalry or (along with their naga masters) elephant riders and are trained from childhood. However this overlooks the fact that the Warrior Class is not landed. Rather they are either retained by the various Zamindar households (with each force being referred to as a Mansab) or by the reigning Raj, though some serve as mercenaries. Inside the warrior class there is considerable stratification between the elite and the low end, which is based around personal accomplishment, aptitude in training, lineage, relationship with those made into Naga, peacetime employment, the wealth of their patrons and other such factors. In peace time warriors would usually drill, patrol and (for the most experienced) work as drillmasters. However they would also work as tax collectors, enforcers, surveyors, priests for their fellow warriors, jailers, slave handlers, lumber jacks, stevedores, farm hands, brick layers, road repairers and other such tasks that are usually of a physical outdoors nature. Alongside the high ranking warriors there are middling and lesser warriors. This fellow is one of the latter in service of a Zamindar of the Raj of Jhevah as of 37 IA.



Low ranking Mansab soldiers (such as this fellow) serve as militarized farmers in times of peace and light infantry in times of war. Some of them have fallen in prominance in the warrior class or are their children, others are peasants which are inducted into the warrior class or adopted orphans, some are those of the Discarded who prove themselves on the battlefield. They are generally quite lightly armored, often with only a helmet and a torso disc as they have to provide most of their gear out of their own pocket. Uniforms come down to wearing clothes in the rough colors of their Raj, which are usually quite light given the fact that 40-50 degree temperatures is common in that area of the world. Despite this they are generally skilled fighters and capable combatants, though the Mansab system means that the armies of the various Rajs are at the battalion to regiment level in the hands of individual lords. In times past they served as archers, swordsmen and spearmen, which over the last three centuries have seen musketeers added to their ranks. In the last ten years the presence of musketeers in their ranks has grown from about 25-30% (varying from Raj to Raj) to about 40 to 50% as foreign traders have delivered flintlock and caplock rifles and screw breechloaders and local gunsmiths have begun replicating them. Many of them have also been employed as artillerymen from time to time manning cannons and rockets. Previously rockets had been fairly basic affairs of paper, wood and ceramic, though starting in 40 BIA the Raj of Jhevah these have been supplemented with sturdier cast iron rockets which (after some refinement) could fly up to a kilometer. While innacurate said weapons are easy to transport and deploy in large numbers. After the battle of Daagsgrad Dark Elvish merchants have taken an interest in these weapons based on their experience with Infrastructrual Rockets and have begun to import these.

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