| Priest Kings |
| The Priest Kings are a race of super-intelligent, insectoid beings with a highly evolved society and technology, who are rumored to reside in the rocky Sardar Mountains in the Northern hemisphere of Gor. It is their techonology which control the planet, even to its rotation and location in space. Through a millenia-long sequence of experimentation, they have slowly selected and transplanted certain species of life to the planet among the species of Homo-Sapiens, or Man. For hundreds of centuries every part of the process of evolution was carefully controlled by them, including the cultural development of the transplanted humans. These humans, as well as all other life on Gor, were presumably transplanted to the planet by the Priest Kings through use of the "silver ships", disk-shaped vehicles which could make the long trip to other worlds and stars. Thes journeys are known as "Voyages of Acquisition" and is unknown how frequently the PKs authorize them or to where. What is known is that many items of modern Earth culture periodically appears on Gor, supposedly from the "Barbarian Lands", among them modern inhabitants from Earth who are brought to Gor at the PK's whim. Many of the slaves on the auction blocks of Gor are such people, kidnapped and brought to Gor against their free will. Because of this, Earth is widely regarded as a "slave planet" by those Goreans who knows of its existance. The Flame of Death The Priest Kings maintain a fairly tight net of control over the planet Gor, and have highly developed surveilence devices which allow such control. They are know to recruit human agents to serve their often incomprehensible schemes, and can even implant such humans with mind-controlling devices when necessary. It is difficult to violate their rules and remain undetected. Those creatures that displease the PKs are occasionally subjected to "The Flame of Death" and are destroyed in an otherwordly flash of colored fire, reduced to ashes. This is a highly effective deterrant to those who would challenge the authority of the Priest Kings. |
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