Rihat Family

The Rihat family are a historically important Krona family from the Golpur region of Gunurash III, who can trace their lineage back at least 10000 years. The family founded both the village of Uryet and the village of Shulyet, and remain the owners of one of the most long-running and successful corporate giants in the insectoid livestock industry, Rihat Farming, founded by brothers Non and Kima Rihat in around 7500 B.E.

Non and Kima Rihat

Non Rihat specialised in Rapasu Worm farming, with his estate surrounding Rapa'rak Hall situated to the North-West of Agog spanning the westernmost edge of the Golpur desert to the southern coast of the Gatza Sea. His older brother Kima, meanwhile, established a huge Tarak Beetle farm on its north coast, where he built his own manor house, Tara'rak Hall. The estates eventually becoming the villages of Uryet and Shulyet, respectively.

Shulyet vs Uryet

As is so often the case in Krona culture, this split in the family sparked some initially hearty competition between the Shulyet Rihats and the Uryet Rihats, escalating into a conflict of near-warlike proportions over several millennia until in 423 A.E. the village of Uryet was almost trampled by a herd of rampaging Tarak beetles.

Nas Rihat was the heir to the estate at that point, his father at this point house-bound and in the final stages of his five-century life, and led a successful defense with the rest of the village, slaughtering every one of the errant livestock.

The Shulyet Rihats of course insisted that the stampede was accidental, despite the vast distance the insects must have traveled, and the people of Uryet quite understandably didn't believe it for a moment. Against Nas' requests for a peaceful inquest, the villagers charged to Shulyet to make their disquiet known to their northern neighbors. However, before they could get there, Nas rushed ahead on his speeder to intercept the charge, only to find a similar band of villagers striding the other way, led by the Sulyet Rihats who had been roused by cries of outrage and accusation posted on the comms by the villagers of Uryet.

Standing between the two crowds, Nas negotiated with his northern cousins, returning the dead livestock and striking a peace treaty that was to last until shortly after his death in 612 A.E.

The Drukula split

After Nas' death, his son and only offspring Nesa inherited the Rapa'rak estate, and the Shulyet Rihats saw it as their opening to try and claim the land for their own. They waged a spurious legal assault on Nesa, who had until then lived peacefully with his partner Lusha Drukula and their three small children.

Nesa was renowned in the village for being a kind but formidable eccentric, but his strong moral compass and approachability made him popular with the people of Uryet, in fact he even opened most of the Hall for public use as a museum and meeting place for community matters. So when it seemed a shadow had fallen over him, and this hub of community was threatened, the people became concerned. They banded together to hire one of Agog's most brilliant legal minds to come up with a solution before Nesa's family were to suffer.

After months of court appearances and lengthy meetings, Nesa made a change that was to alter the village of Uryet for good, and which would prove to settle the argument once and for all: he officially emancipated himself and his family from any ties to the Rihat name. He ensured that his will was watertight and it was legally mandated that the deeds to Rapa'ruk Hall and its surrounding land was never to belong to anyone bearing the Rihat name again. He sold much of the surrounding land to the government, and the livestock to local independent farmers, removing himself from all ties to his quarrelsome relatives.

Nesa Drukula died at the age of 413 in 893 A.E. still loved by the people of Uryet and surrounded by his family. Lusha Drukula died shortly after her husband at the age of 426 in 894 A.E. Rapa'rak Hall itself now belongs to his son, Nizu Drukula.