To say that the Urapi were concerned with matters of faith would be a laughable understatement. To the Urapi, faith was utterly inseperable from ethnicity, from identity and even, to a not insigificant extent, to personhood.

So it was important that the faiths of others were understood. Were they misguided, grappling at Shar's light and Palkh's path but clouded in their judgement by centuries of The Black Sun's machinations? Were they of the vilest sort, active disciples of their father the Foul One? Or were they simply adrift, participating neither on the right or wrong side of the great cosmic and temporal war, the Yuddsvarga?

The Sukutrawyín faith was not entirely unknown to the Urapi. It was not an uncommon faith among their new Nizarite and Arabian clients, and some of its adherents had found their way to various Urapi settlements by virtue of this relationship. Yet those were just practitioners, illiterate and ill-equipped to discuss matters of theology in earnest.

The Urapi had as yet no formal relationship with either the Hejazi, one time allies of Palkh, or the nascent state of Kanaram, both of whom they understood to adhere to the Sukutrawyín faith. This was of concern, as their Arab and Nizarite clients bordered both. They would certainly come into contact... and it was wise to determine what form that contact would take sooner rather than later.

Envoys were thus dispatched to both states. The caravans sent had a cross section of the Urapi state - Urapi dignitaries and Inductee theologians, Branded Rimanites as guards and tradesmen, and both Nizarite and Arab cameleers, guards and translators.

The envoys sought to establish trade relations and, more importantly, to invite Sukutrawyín theologians to Turkum to discuss matters of faith with the Erda Tupar, the theological ruling council of the Urapi people.