Shemite

Summary
Shemitish archers, blue-bearded expert bowmen who wearlight mail shirts and cylindrical helmets, are probably the best in the world. It is as if they are born with their deadly bows in their hands. They are good horsemen but can also ﬁght as infantry if need be. Most Shemites roam the uncharted deserts in the eastern half of Shem and beyond as far as the kingdom of Turan, though the typical Hyborian is far more likely to meet a more settled Shemitah from one of the many pastoral settlements to the west of that land. These latter people are of the variant race, the Meadow Shemite.

Culture
The desert-dwelling Shemites are predominantly nomadic, with individual tribes often ranging over truly vast areas. Perhaps the widest-travelled tribe is the Zuagir, who can be found from Zamboula to Zamora and the eastern edge of the Hyborian kingdoms. Tribal quarrels are common, though the tribes share a common hatred for their more civilised cousins, the Meadow Shemites.Shem is looked on without much favour by the Hyborian nations, perhaps because of its years as a satellite of Stygia,though it seems unlikely that the Stygians ever made any inroads into the vast eastern deserts where the nomadic Shemite tribes live.

Names
Shemite names are Middle Eastern or Biblicalin form.

Male
Bît-Yakin, Gebal, Gilzan, Zargheba; Abaddon, Arvad, Baruch, Eban, Gabai, Hyam

Female
Alumit, Daya, Idra, Jamila, Talitha, Yael.

Religion
Ishtar, Anu and Bel seem to be the main gods of the Shemites, though it seems possible that some members of the larger Meadow Shemite pantheon might also be worshipped among the desert-dwellers.One Shemite belief, also common to all the variant races,is that evil men are imprisoned in the bodies of apes, as a just punishment for their fell crimes.

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