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 Kai'a !a ku/adju gru.\\
 Ch'aa tu!a t'aa 'ikrach'a,\\
-/u tyuchyach'a kadja kru?// » -- Chikukru, poet of the Second Kingdom of Chaatai
+/u tyuchyach'a kadja kru?//((//Ice fills the world from within; the fearsome sea encircles it all. Is it so for people as well, or is there within an island of warmth?//)) » -- Chikukru, poet of the Second Kingdom of Chaatai
 **Tagra** ([[Chaatai#Language|Chaatai]]: "world") is a continent located at the South Pole of its world. Its center is covered by an icecap that grows and shrinks with the seasons, and the rest by belts of tundra and taiga that extend to the sea. A ring of storms and sea currents surround the whole continent, making the surface of the sea effectively impassable. It is peopled by black-feathered intelligent beings who call themselves //[['ikra]]//, and who have built glorious civilizations in the narrow, ever-precarious fringe between ice and seawater.
 In fact, Tagra is Antarctica, as it was 33.6 million years before the time of humans (33.6 mybth), at the very beginning of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligocene|Oligocene]] epoch. The greenhouse age of the Eocene, during which tropical rainforests rose up to the Arctic Circle and crocodiles swam over the North Pole, has just ended. For the first time since before the age of dinosaurs, permanent ice covers the poles, and it will only keep growing. The very existence of the //'ikra// may be about to find an end.
+[[https://www.deviantart.com/concavenator/gallery/73059461/tagra|See more material on DeviantArt]].
 ===== History =====
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 ===== Nations and peoples =====
+According to the historian-philosopher Kyu Taika-Graa'a, there are three natural functions of government, that tend to concentrate into three groups in tension with each other: a Red Order concerned with metaphysics, a White Order concerned with warfare, and a Black Order concerned with economic production. The supremacy of one of these groups upon the others produced the different regimes of Tagra's main powers: in Kru'u, the militaristic White Order rules as the Strategae; in Chaatai, the Black Order takes the form of the Guilds and their Parliament; in Takrakaya, the Red Order is represented by the Divine Empress, acting through the imperial bureaucracy. The different Tayaka and !Akau'a states are not included in her analysis.
   * [[Chaatai|Chaatai Republic]]
   * [[Takrakaya|Takrakaya Empire]]
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 ===== Natural features =====
+//See: [[Comparison between Tagra and Antarctica]]; [[Landscapes]]//
 ==== Geology ====
 //Source: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Present-day|(1)]]//