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{{Ethnicity
| image     = Hordelands tribal map.jpg
| caption   = A map of Hordelands tribal territories, showing that of the Pazruki.
| name      = Pazruki
| race      = [[Human]]
| regions   = [[Northern Wastes]], [[Kara-Tur]]
| language  = [[Pazruki language]]<ref name="RC-p87"/><ref name="tH-VI-p17"/><ref name="tH-C"/><ref name="D.SiT-p26"/><ref name="KTI-p93"/>
| deities   = [[Tabit]]<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92" />, nature spirits
| classes   = 
| build     = Small and thin
| skincolor = 
| haircolor = Black
| eyecolor  = 
}}
The '''Pazruki''' was one of three major groupings of the [[human]]s that lived in the [[Ama Basin]],<ref name="KT-p89">{{Cite book/Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms/Volume I|89}}</ref><ref name="Dr349-p48">{{Cite dragon/349/The Horde: Barbarians of the Endless Waste|48}}</ref> in particular the northern part of the [[Koryaz Mountains]].<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92">{{Cite book/Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms/Volume I|92}}</ref> They were among the tribes mistakenly called "[[Tuigan]]" by outsiders following the [[Horde Wars]].<ref name="Dr349-p48" />

==Territory==
The territory of the Pazruki bordered the lands of the [[Fankiang]] and  the [[Issacortae]].<ref name="tH-Map">{{Cite book/The Horde/Map: The Horde}}</ref>

==Description==
The members of these tribes were usually slight and thin. They had straight black hair, but they usually sheared their natural hair off. Instead, the women usually wore wigs, and the men fake beards. The origin of this custom was unknown, but some speculated that it was to deal with infections of [[lice]].<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92" />

==Society==
The Pazruki highlanders were skilled in agriculture, animal-handling, bowyery, carpentry, chanting, dancing, fishing, horsemanship, pottery, singing, survival, tanning, tracking, weaponsmithing, and weaving.<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92" />

Most Pazruki tribe members were shepherds, who grazed [[horse]]s and [[sheep]]. Horses were used for transportation as well as food. Sheep were used for wool and meat, being the major food source for the tribes. Common yaks and goats were also raised and eaten, as were a variety of birds.<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92" />

Shepherds of these tribes were not nomads, as the hills were fertile and filled with lush grass for livestock. Usually, even in winter, these lands remained untouched by snow.<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92" />

The Pazruki had only simple agricultural practices.<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92" />

The Pazruki tribes had a patriarchal society, where inheritances were passed from father to youngest son. It was said that this practice had begun when the goddess [[Tabit]] granted Pazruk, the youngest son of the Father of All Tribes, her blessing and gifted him a sacred [[torque]] of gold.<ref group="note">While this is never explicitly stated, due to Pazruk's involvement in a myth concerning the origin of the Pazruki's patriarchal structure and his sharing a name with the ethnicity to which he belonged, it can be safely assumed that he was an eponymous ancestor of the Pazruki.</ref> Each tribe was divided into clans, where each family was managed by a father who controlled his own territory. Clans enacted mutually beneficial alliances and trade deals. In times of disaster all the clans might unite under one leader referred to as the Great Father, but after the danger had passed the tribe would once again be divided into independent families. Polygamy was a common practice for the survival of each clan.<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92" />

They spoke the [[Pazruki language]].<ref name="RC-p87">{{Cite book/Ronin Challenge|87}}</ref><ref name="tH-VI-p17">{{Cite book/The Horde/Volume I|17}}</ref><ref name="tH-C">{{Cite book/The Horde/Cards|9a}}</ref><ref name="D.SiT-p26">{{Cite dragon/Speaking in Tongues|26}}</ref><ref name="KTI-p93">{{Cite book/Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms/Volume I|93}}</ref>

Pazruki would never knowingly accept items that came from the [[Maraloi]] ruins as either gifts or payment.<ref name="KT-p89"/> The Maraloi figured most prominently in their legends, as their ruins and relics were often found in valleys of the Koryaz Mountains. Children of exceptionally light complexion, or with even more unusual fair hair, were said to have the mark of the Maraloi, a portent of high aptitude for magical ability.<ref>{{Cite book/Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms/Volume I|91}}</ref>

===Religion===
The Pazruki practiced [[wikipedia:en:Animism|animism]] and did not have [[priest]]s or [[shaman]]s. Any religious ceremonies would be performed by the father of a wealthy family. Occasionally, however, one would feel the call of magic and go into the wilderness to become an [[wu jen]].<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92" />

They also held the monastery of [[Palevash]] in high regard.<ref name="KT-p89"/>

One of the deities worshiped by the Pazruki was [[Tabit]], the goddess of the hearth.<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92" />

===Combat=== 
The preferred weapons of the Pazruki [[barbarian]]s were horsebow, [[axe]], [[spear]], and [[sword]].<ref name="K-T.TERI-p92" />

==Appendix==
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===Notes===
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===References===
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===Further Reading===
* {{Cite book/Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms/Volume I|89, 90, 91-92, 93, 94, 95, 96}}

===Connections===
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[[Category:Organizations in the Ama Basin]]
[[Category:Organizations in the Northern Wastes]]
[[Category:Organizations in Kara-Tur]]
[[Category:Organizations on Toril]]
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