Zamaon

Zamaon are a multi ethnic culture that have established city states on various islands and continents, generally in mountainous regions by the coasts. They are notorious for being involved in piracy, but also for being incredibly wealthy. The indigenous nations of the land they occupy often attack the city states as pirate dens, but also form trade agreements, or form alliances to employ them against rival nations.

For any Zamaon city state, the center of the social structure is the child cavalry; children, almost entirely girls, who were adopted into the unit and trained from infancy to mount young wyverns and dragons in battle. Parents often travel from great distances to offer their newborn girls to be taken in, with hopes that their daughter will return wealthy and eductated in commerce, or a well trained fighter to serve in their own nation's army. Once taken in, they are assigned a former member of the cavalry to raise and train them. Generally, a Zamaon wyvern jockey will serve as such from as young as 4 until her mid teens, or whenever she is deemed too big to be an effective jockey. After that she can head to her biological or buy a wyvern egg and fo on to train other jockeys. Upon getting pregnant, women are generally encouraged to sell any wyverns or eggs they may own and return to their parents

Wyvern jockeys use their mounts to glide, not fight, as the wyvnern they ride are usually rather young. Since wyvern become uncontrollable upon reaching adolescence (between 100 and 200 years of age), they are released. This means there is a steady demand for wyvern eggs, making trade essential to the Zamaon way of life. They use the wyvern's natural inclination to collect bright and shiny things to pilfer valueables they can sell. Whoever owns a wyvern egg at the time of it's hatching is recognized as it's owner. If she is too old to be a jockey, she will typically adopts children to train as a jockey for her wyverns and take a portion of their findings in exchange. The girl regularly riding a wyvern at the time of the owners death usually inherits it unless an heir is specified in a will.

Since a lot of the goods they aquire and trade are books or have inscriptions, literacy is pretty high.

They have close ties with the Agargrean, a seafaring people who track dragons. It is probably by traveling with them that the Zamaon have managed to spread to so many different lands.