Sai

Lizard people from the Southern Ride, the Sai are adroit soldiers and craftspeople, and their skill with a bow is unmatched. Their secret formulas yield tempered steel stronger than thought possible, and their scholars have unlocked many secrets of the mechanical workings of clocks.

Physical Description
Skinny lizard people, with broad faces and narrow eyes. point cylindrical hats that can be either made of reeds or metal.

Culture
Society governed by the guilds. rejection of magic and religion, devotion to science/craftsmanship. Superior Clocksmanship even than the reach. Vega center of sai culture (conservative sai reject reach), dullhost premeir intellectual hub of the reach, best sai/reach working together.

story of the ant and the grasshopper, vs the roki version of the tale.

Rural Sai tend to celebrate big events like weddings and advancements with anvil firing, where one anvil is set upon the base of another whose concave base is filled with gunpowder, and when the fuse is lit, the anvil is launched far into the air. Sometimes there are competitions for height or weight. Occasionally rural Sai die from freak explosions or falling anvils. City Sai and guild leaders find the tradition ridiculous but have failed in numerous attempts to eradicate it.

History
Sai have been part of the Reach Empire for time immemorial.

Wootz S'lof was a legendary Sai craftsman born in Vega in the earliest days of the Reach Kingdom. He apprenticed in the mechanical arts from a young age, though when he was thirteen he lost the use of his legs in a freak accident caused by a traveling Dos runesmith. Wootz and his master constructed a special workbench called the Jokkmokk above the heartforge to accommodate his disability, which today is contained within halls of the elder guilds. Eventually Wootz became renowned throughout the Reach for his expert craft, and it became popular for the highest ranking Reach leaders and generals to carry original Wootz regalia. Extensively studying Reach clockwork technology, he constructed powerful mechanical legs for himself. He also fashioned the Master Hammer which is still passed down as the scepter of Vega's Grandmaster Smithy.

Gobonnos K'Zoo was a Sai philosopher in residing in the Dullhost university. Sai are generally contemptuous of religion, and many scoff at the idea of a demiurge as being silly make-believe. But Gobonnos reasoned that for anything to exist, there must have been a first cause, and Boon-Soppo is the name he gave to this deistic force.