Iziakoh

Body

Their sheds are slow and ceremonial, one region of the body at a time over a whole year, so an Iziakoh is never entirely new and never entirely old. The noble houses have built a calendar on it: the year is divided by which part of the lord is shedding, and the reading of a lord's back is a court occasion with seating.

Their gold is worn on the throat because the throat scale is thinnest, and the throat scale is thinnest because they have spent three thousand years not carrying loads. Their own people read the gold as an admission. Their neighbours read it as wealth.

Country

The desert realms, in houses rather than in clutch-ground villages. An Iziakoh noble house keeps an incubation hall indoors, tended by Iziakubu servants who taste the sand for poison every morning, and a noble Iziakoh clutch is watched by more guards than a treasury.

They travel because they grow bored, which is a reason no other Iziakan strain would offer out loud, and it makes them the strain most likely to be met abroad with money in hand rather than wages owing.

Society

Nobility exists in the Iziakoh and the scale law is not suspended for it. A noble house with a soft-scaled heir has a problem the law will not solve and the money cannot buy out, and the machinery of the Second Reading exists partly because houses like these have so much to lose and have so often been suspected of arranging what the reader finds.

They are judged from outside on the gold and from inside on the back, and both readings are done at noon in a sun-court open to the sky, because the strain reads scale in direct light and will not do it at any other hour.

Faith

Hyton in his gold face, Hy'tokh the Gold Overhead, the star-father as the noon sun, whose light is said to gild the scale of the deserving. The noble houses keep sun-courts open to the sky and read scale only at noon, which is doctrine and is also the most flattering light there is.