Ygtaani — the duchy whose borders walk

Grounded on the western-cluster canon entities (countries_and_continents.continents.silgolt.nations.kokit.duchy_of_kokit, ...nasun.nasun_ground, ...hihn.hihn_confluence, canon_json) for cluster voice, adjacency conventions and the Nasun archiving/truce-calendar mechanism. Spatial grounding from map/spatial: Ygtaani provinces Lareth, Marauthazma; adjacency to Aalhotikyn, Hihn, Kokit, Namuzdus, Nasun, Ohynso, Revakgol, Siltuz, Súzyngol, Tovo, Tuzraag, Maduwez. Seasonal-pastoral framing consistent with Silgolt biome data (savanna and tropical seasonal forest) in countries_and_continents.continents.silgolt.

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The Duchy of Ygtaani (country entity)update

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# Ask

Ygtaani appears throughout the western cluster's spatial adjacency and in no canon text. This package writes it as a cluster sibling built on the one geographic fact the cluster hasn't yet used: **Silgolt's savanna runs on a wet and dry season**, and somebody in this landscape must be moving herds.

## The thesis

Ygtaani is a transhumant duchy, and its institution is **the Drove-right** — a set of grazing corridors that cross other countries' sovereign territory by ancient right. Ygtaani law travels with the herds. Inside a drove corridor, on the move, in season, a Ygtaani herd is under Ygtaani jurisdiction even when it is standing in Aalhotikyn.

That makes Ygtaani the one country in the cluster whose borders are not a line but a calendar, and it makes the duchy a permanent low-grade legal problem for everyone it walks through. It also gives the cluster something it currently lacks: a member whose sovereignty is contested not because it is weak, but because its claim is genuinely strange.

The Drove-right is written to hang off Nasun's existing truce calendar — the fair-months during which regional hostilities are suspended by common custom — which is canon, and which the droves depend on absolutely.

## Items

1. **`country` entity — The Duchy of Ygtaani.** The Drove-right, the Horn-Court that rides with the herds, the winter parliament, and the standing friction of a jurisdiction that moves through other people's fields.

## Open questions for the human reviewer

- **Naming — resolved, and it turned up something else.** An earlier version of this package flagged `Kaetijul` vs `Kaetijulhel` as a canon inconsistency. It is not one: `-jul` is simply the short form of `-julhel`, so both are correct and the country files just use the long form. This package uses the long form to match its siblings. The real gap the investigation surfaced is that **Yukejulhel has no species entity at all** — unlike Medesjul, Kaetijul, Jaajul, and Aedhelirjul, it is a Julhel branch named across four canon country files with nothing behind it. That deserves its own package.
- The Drove-right implies the other cluster states have conceded extraterritorial jurisdiction, which is a significant thing to have written into their character retroactively. If that's too strong, the fallback is a weaker version — corridors as easement only, with disputes going to Nasun rather than to Ygtaani's own court.
- I've tied the droves to Nasun's canon truce calendar. If the fair-months were meant to be purely a market/oath device rather than a movement season, this connection should be cut.
- Ygtaani's adjacency includes Revakgol. I've written the eastern droves as having been abandoned within living memory rather than giving the duchy an active imperial frontier, since Ohynso and Tovo already carry that role.

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