Ahrotahntee

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The D'ni and Terahnee referred to people who were not of Ronay descent as ahrotahntee (arotantE^[?], "outsiders"), meaning natives of the Ages they visited.

In Terahnee ahrotahntee came to be seen as inferior beings, unable to Write. Aside from the P'aarli overseers they were used as relyimah, unseen slaves. After the devastating plague that caused Terahnee society to collapse, former relyimah far outweighed Terahnee in numbers and influence.

[edit] D'ni Attitudes

D'ni was founded with the high ideals of Ri'neref, who believed that the D'ni people were to serve the Ages. Strict rules were in place on trade and travel between inhabited Ages before being relaxed in the reign of King Hinash, who went as far to marry an ahrotahn woman. When King Lemashal did the same and fathered two mixed-race children, there was debate over whether they should receive the throne. Finally it was decreed that only those with pure D'ni blood could be king.

In 4103 DE ^{(3553 BC)} King Ishek's wife was kidnapped by the Yimas people, but it was soon discovered that the motivating force behind the abduction was a radical faction of D'ni. In response there was a push to increase regulation on D'ni-ahrotahntee relations, in order to protect the ahrotahntee from possible corruption by the D'ni, and a number of strict laws were put into place during the reigns of Loshemanesh and Dimath. Several centuries later the prophet Gish proclaimed that Yahvo commanded the D'ni to have no interaction with outsiders, a view that was dominant by the end of the age of kings and was only reinforced by the Mee-Dis invasion.

By the 9000s D'ni attitudes towards ahrotahntee had changed significantly. It was now seen as the D'ni's responsibility to "civilize" the inhabitants of their Ages. The arrival of Anna from the surface portended another shift, as she became the first D'ni citizen without Ronay blood.