The Ackairon

Two units of the Pillars of Horns are the 1st and 2nd Ackarion Squads.  They are the ship's light flying infantry, the outer screen for a enormous ship described as ponderous and slow-turning.  The Pillar is a battleship of the skies, built like a floating castle.  Some would say it is foolish to take a battleship out with escorts, but Rax did it anyway. 

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Talon, of 2nd Ackarion Squad

Ackairon, is the collective name for the bird-like humanoids of Moredhel. They have been living in this valley since the God Era.  After the Covenant victory in the Demon Spawn War ended, the Ackairon on and other mortals of that fought in the ranks of the angels and gods were left to make their own way in the world.

Over the next two eras, the Lith-Crillion Era and they God Era, Moredhel's Ackairon tended to favor their avian side over their humanoid one. This meant that a pair of them would take a large territory and try to keep it as animals would. This behavior, or what some might call cultural regression, kept their population low.

In the First Epoch, they were forced to band together. They took a unified front against the refugees created by the Great Minotaur Revolt. Having gained their freedom from the First Khazarkar Empire, the minotaurs sought unclaimed lands east, they figured that central Moredhel was for the taking being that it had no settlements. This humanoid incursion was nothing new. The Ackairon were already dealing with Gatiranda encroachment from the south. The minotaur crisis would end up with more mouths to feed, so the Ackairon decided it was to be for their mouths, so they encouraged, forcibly when necessary, the minotaurs to continue west.

In 1696, forces led by the Ba'lith Emperor Raxcvillibus conquered them in what some call the Ackairon Subjugation. Up until this time, they had resisted all that came against them. There was never a real concerted effort to push them out, since most feared Moredhel's closeness to the Broken Lands. Raxcvillibus took this area because he wanted them as soldiers. At first, they resisted, but when their fledglings were taken from them, sent to military schools, they joined the empire as reluctant citizens. In Ba'lith's military crèches where after a decade of military schooling they became soldiers. For many, this life as a soldier is all they know. After nine years of military service, they are free to go back to Moredhel. Most stay with Ba'lith's air force, where they serve as fast scouts or in the light flying infantry.