The cult of Calari is a noted as being the police of Afadjann. The cults members come in two groupings, the first are the Jann secret police, individuals who are intergrated into all levels of Fonritan society, so well intergrated in fact that none apart from the Jann knows their true identity. The other group are the Black Guard, these burly warriors can be found throughout the city domains. They are highly paid mercenaries, often gifted with horses at huge expense and equipped with the finest weaponry. It is common practice for this police force to use animals to hunt down criminals, especially fearsome black baboons and leopards, both animals are trained to follow criminals were ever they go, even over roof tops. Despite the small size of the apes they are fearsome and easily have the strength to rend a mans arm from his socket or tear through chainmail with their fangs. In fact most thieves and criminals fear the baboons more than their masters or the leopards.
On the day of compulsion, when the Jann casts the great spell of Darleester the Noose all Afadjanns are bound by law and pain of death to wear about their necks a noose of black rope or cloth, which acts as the focus of the spell. The nature of the spell means that all those of Afadjann nature who do not wear the noose are open to psychic assault from the spirits of Ikadz and Ompalam that are summoned during the ritual. However few Afadjanni refuse have ever refused to participate in the ritual, in fact the noose has become somewhat of a fashion statement amongst the Massarin houses who pay extortionate rates to have the most ornate and intricate nooses made, these works of art are inlaid with jet, black pearls and black coral and are often made of rare timinit silk from Kumanku.
Money in Afadjann is a rare thing. Only the Massarin use it openly, most people are paid in either slaves or more commonly millet seed. A complex system of barter has been established and each market has an overseer from the Jann's granaries who establishes the value of all items in terms of millet seed or other barterable commodities. The millet is weighed using a special weight known as a Jar, a copper Jar is the smallest weight and a lead is the greatest. There are seventeen Jars used in this system. The coinage used by the Massarin is called a Jann Jar and like the weights used by the over seer is shaped like a small jar, they are produced from silver, aluminium, coral, electrum, gold and platinum. The size varies with the value. The smallest denomination is the silver Jann Jar which is worth the equivelant of a thousand silver pieces in Genertela.
Cheers Simon.
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