Editing Setting:Unified Setting/Sergal (section)

==The Military==

There is a mandatory period of five-year service in late adolescence. Those that excel are given the option to test into officer positions. Then a period of five years is granted for either officer training, other pursuits, or the ever-popular version of the gnollish walkabout.
Every citizen has had to go through Basic Training at the very least, ensuring a formidable militia should the need arise.

The greatest symbol of the sergal way of war is the armored spearman. Wearing distinctive, angular halfplate shaped from the plates of dullettes, sergal soldiers are famed for their combination of speed, endurance, and iron discipline. Sergals have no cavalry. The Tatolian horse is raised for its meat and milk, but is unsuitable for riding even by humans, much less the sergals. Dullettes are used as beasts of burden, but they are too rare and too slow to form any real cavalry. This military deficiency is partly compensated by the speed of their infantry, and their preference to fight from ambush. The heart of the empire is mostly the cold Tatolan highlands of the northern sergals, but their borders have expanded into mountains, hills, rivers, forests, and especially the desert to the south, which they've had ample time to grow very familiar with.

The traditional sergal salute is to place one hand over the left eye. This likely stems from a gesture of vulnerability, removing binocular and peripheral vision from the lower-ranked soldier.

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