The Sahpan are nomadic performers, storytellers, and cultural keepers, preserving Rouktu’s heritage through music, poetry, and the magic of oral tradition.
Music, storytelling, and cultural preservation.
Song, poetry, performance-based magic.
The Sahpan Ballads – Ancient songs that carry fragments of lost history and magical resonance.
Singers – Voices of the troupe, weaving story and spell alike.
Musicians – Instrumentalists whose playing preserves ancient forms.
Ballad-Keepers – Loremasters who guard the oldest songs and histories.
Troupe Leaders – Organizers of caravans and guides on the road.
Apprentices – Young Sahpan learning the oral traditions.
Beloved for their artistry, distrusted for their secrets.
Seen as both entertainers and agitators — depending on who hears their songs.
Virgalas – Dislike the Sahpan for spreading knowledge outside their control.
Niibi Family – Occasionally clash when troupes wander into criminal territories.
Beana – Trade goods and services along caravan routes.
The Sahpan are Rouktu’s wandering bards and performers, a nomadic people who live through song, story, and trade. Their caravans travel from settlement to settlement, bringing music, color, and news from afar. Though welcomed for their artistry, they are also regarded with suspicion, for their independence defies caste order and their songs sometimes carry hidden truths.
Central to their tradition are the Sahpan Ballads, an ancient collection of songs believed to preserve lost histories of Rouktu. To the Sahpan, performance is more than entertainment — it is a sacred duty, keeping alive the voices of ancestors and lessons of the past. Many also weave subtle magic into their performances, moving hearts and shaping moods through art alone.
For players, the Sahpan provide the role of cultural preservers, magical performers, and wandering diplomats, capable of turning story and song into influence and power.