Mujagh Gravelhide was the third Menghurka, and is often regarded as the first truly non-monstrous Ogre king. Fallowing the chaos of Chike's war with the Lake Federation, Mujagh's actions focused on the internal sphere after consolidation of the lands ruled by centaurs to Magharma's realm. Focus of the regime was threefold: 1st, was development of ogre culture and an economic backbone from which the forgotten plains could be tamed. This was twofold itself, with a focus of the economic plenty of magharma trickling down into economic power placed into the forgotten plains and the recently subjugated Valrodhodi federation in the southwestern Lake Federation. As well as as settlement of ogres within the plains and around the Blue Sea. The latter development being to build influence of ogrish naval professionalism, the prior to stabilize the internal sphere by means of exiling would-be miscreants into foreign settlements away from the eyes of the state. 2nd was the development of a true colonial apparatus like that seen in Cannor. Unlike cannorians these weren't colonial ventures designed to extract wealth through crops or mining, they instead where a way to further put down the hegemonic influence of the centaur peoples in the central forgotten plains and counter increasing succession issues due to the ogre population boon in the 1500s caused by unified farming apparatus and advancements in cultivation. 3rd, and finally, was the constant within all these situations: The increasing view of ogres as a civilized and heroic people no different to that of elves, halflings, gnomes, and humans. This idea comes from Mujagh's personal writings taken from his palace in the wine city of Agrnkhles: "We ogres are the strange countermeasure of humankind. Humans exist in balance, but we ogres do not exist within balanced structures. To grant a wish upon an ogre, is to have them ask for three. We ogres want for everything, but unlike dwarves we pride ourselves in our accomplishments and worship the ancestors as a was not an emulation of the now. Must one remember, we ate our own gods?" Mujagh's efforts to modernize the realm came with two great problems: Debt, and increasing cruelty to the centaur peoples unseen since Chike's rule. In the case of debt, the economic wealth of the regime was increasingly tied to oligarchs who using the modernization as a springboard began to further influence the royalty with a surprisingly large amount of them being the Shamans themselves. The second was an increasingly faucet of the state, wherein as the state modernized it increasingly othered the rarer and rarer centaur peoples of the Forgotten plains who the state increasingly viewed as backward cattle no better then to feed the bellies of the population. The term for the treatment of the centaurs is genocide, and even beastbane would be surprised at the cruelty established.
Mujagh Gravelhide was the third Menghurka, and is often regarded as the first truly non-monstrous Ogre king. Fallowing the chaos of Chike's war with the Lake Federation, Mujagh's actions focused on the internal sphere after consolidation of the lands ruled by centaurs to Magharma's realm. Focus of the regime was threefold:
1st, was development of ogre culture and an economic backbone from which the forgotten plains could be tamed. This was twofold itself, with a focus of the economic plenty of magharma trickling down into economic power placed into the forgotten plains and the recently subjugated Valrodhodi federation in the southwestern Lake Federation. As well as as settlement of ogres within the plains and around the Blue Sea. The latter development being to build influence of ogrish naval professionalism, the prior to stabilize the internal sphere by means of exiling would-be miscreants into foreign settlements away from the eyes of the state.
2nd was the development of a true colonial apparatus like that seen in Cannor. Unlike cannorians these weren't colonial ventures designed to extract wealth through crops or mining, they instead where a way to further put down the hegemonic influence of the centaur peoples in the central forgotten plains and counter increasing succession issues due to the ogre population boon in the 1500s caused by unified farming apparatus and advancements in cultivation.
3rd, and finally, was the constant within all these situations: The increasing view of ogres as a civilized and heroic people no different to that of elves, halflings, gnomes, and humans. This idea comes from Mujagh's personal writings taken from his palace in the wine city of Agrnkhles: "We ogres are the strange countermeasure of humankind. Humans exist in balance, but we ogres do not exist within balanced structures. To grant a wish upon an ogre, is to have them ask for three. We ogres want for everything, but unlike dwarves we pride ourselves in our accomplishments and worship the ancestors as a was not an emulation of the now. Must one remember, we ate our own gods?"
Mujagh's efforts to modernize the realm came with two great problems: Debt, and increasing cruelty to the centaur peoples unseen since Chike's rule. In the case of debt, the economic wealth of the regime was increasingly tied to oligarchs who using the modernization as a springboard began to further influence the royalty with a surprisingly large amount of them being the Shamans themselves. The second was an increasingly faucet of the state, wherein as the state modernized it increasingly othered the rarer and rarer centaur peoples of the Forgotten plains who the state increasingly viewed as backward cattle no better then to feed the bellies of the population.
The term for the treatment of the centaurs is genocide, and even beastbane would be surprised at the cruelty established.
@@kyokyodisaster4842 beastbane would only be appalled because he's a coward and wasn't hungry. Great writing as always