#setsé peoples

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The Qot-Qítiō culture area encompasses the peoples descended from the Qot colony, founded around three centuries ago by the Senq Ha Empire, situated overseas. The Qot colony was one of several colonies founded on Uanlikri with the intention to conquer and settle the famed Land of the Moon. The Senq Ha's colonization efforts resulted in mass death and displacement on the western peninsula and beyond.

The Qot colony was the only colony to successfully rebel and secede while the Senq Ha Empire was still strong. Decades later, the Senq Ha, weakened by prolonged war on the homeland, would abandon all their colonies. This would put a stop to the colonies' expansion, as infighting inside and between the colonies diverted resources from conquest. The Qot, already independent, fared better than the others for a time.

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Qot was one of the colonies founded by the Senq Ha Empire in their effort to conquer Uanlikri. It was settled by voluntary colonists of the majority ethnicity of the Empire, the Setsé, and by forcibly resettled Qítiō, torn from their families on the mainland. Feeling disfavored by the Empire and inspired by the Gichan rebellions in the South, the Setsé allied themselves with the Qítiō and expelled Senq Ha rule. The secession was violent and resulted in loss of crops, livestock and people, loyalists and rebels alike.

In their efforts to rebuild and remain independent from the other colonies, the rebelling Setsé and the displaced Qítiō borrowed many practices and customs from eachother. The Setsé independentists took on the name of their colony and became the Qot. Some Qítiō remained with them, while others returned to the nomadic lifestyle that had been theirs on the mainland.

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The Setsé Script is the writing system of the Setsé people, who arrived on Uanlikri as colonists and invaders for the powerful Senq Ha Empire overseas. In the centuries that followed, the power or the desire of the Senq Ha waned and the colonies were abandonned, leaving behind splintered nations of conquerors trying to make the best of the strange lands whose peoples they had murdered and displaced.

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When the Setsé landed on Uanlikri more than four centuries ago, they brought with them war, conquest and misery. They also brought the Setsé script, a unique script which is assembled, almost like a puzzle, to describe the phonetical qualities of an utterance.

The Setsé peoples have long ago been cut off from the imperial powers that fed their conquest of the Western Peninsula, Northern Kantishian Moutains, and Spice Islands. Since then, they have splintered. diversified and syncretized into a great many cultures. Despites this, the setsé script endures where litteracy survives. It remains the script of choice for setsé langages, whose tones are hard to transcribe the scripts of Uanlikri's mostly atonal native languages.

The setsé script divides a word into many parts: a central "thought line", read from top to bottom, tone bars traversing the thought line, and symbols indicating consonants on the left and vowels on the right.

Zàtzèpaqóí Glyph shapes are often modified to fit the available space. In this word, the horn of dz is detached to leave more space to the previous consonnant. A linked-style consonnant is always used with a vowel glyph which connects to the thought line. Modifications emphasize this connection: the e's new shape fully attaches to the dz glyph. Conversely, the use of an open-style glyph for q helps identify the associated vowel as a o rather than an e.

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