Population

Les Chevaliers thayen

Bien que lés Magiciens Rouges soient enclins à briser le corps de leurs adversaires avec des sorts mortels ou à déchiqueter leurs esprits par une sombre magie, il y a des occasions où même eux ont besoin de protecteurs maîtrisant l'art de l'escrime. Ils font alors appel aux Chevaliers thayens, habitués à la magie et loyaux jusqu'à la mort aux mages tatoués.
Les Chevaliers thayens servent de gardes du corps et d'intermédiaires pour les Magiciens Rouges et sont comme une extension de leur autorité. Ils commandent les soldats ordinaires à la bataille et aident à la garde des enclaves. Bien qu'ils soient appelés des chevaliers, ils n'ont aucun code de conduite et la seule règle qui les lie est que leur vie n'a aucune valeur comparée à la sécurité des Magiciens Rouges.

Nobles

Most of Thay is owned by ancient noble families of Mulan descent. The dividing line between a well-off Mulan commoner and an impoverished Mulan lord is starkly defined by ancestry. Certain Mulan families are noble, and others aren't. The nobles of Thay are content to be governed by the Red Wizards (after all, the most influential mages in that order are nobles themselves), but they jealously maintain control over the elevation of commoners, even heroic ones, to noble status. Nobles enjoy two paths to comfort, power, and wealth: land and service. Wealthy nobles often own vast tracts of land and make money by leasing it to those who reside upon it, whether they are farmers, ranchers, or miners. Land ownership is not restricted to the noble classes, but in practice, most land in Thay is already owned by a noble, so it is difficult for a commoner to acquire land of his own.

Landless nobles (or those who simply wish to make something of themselves) often take up service in Thay's army, bureaucracy, or clergy. While any free Thayan can become a soldier, official, or priest, leaders are most often drawn from the ranks of well-off nobles who purchase their rank or title. For example, in a typical Thayan garrison, the captain is minor landed Mulan noble, his officers are landless Mulan nobles, and his sergeants are Rashemi veterans. The troops, of course, are mostly Rashemi. A noble who buys a good post can enrich himself just as easily as one who owns a great estate It is expected that a powerful official or highly-placed officer will divert a certain amount of "taxes" for his own use.

Armies

This land is defined by the prevalence of undead within its borders.
Undead servants are everywhere, and many of the commanders in Thay’s armies are the free-thinking undead soldiers.

The various legions include a motley conglomeration of races and even monsters in their numbers. Goblin slaves, orc and half-orc mercenaries, and human cavalry are the most popular troops. Gnolls are common, but due to their cowardly natures, they are most often deployed as skirmishers and raiders rather than as front-line troops. Companies of hill giants, ogres, and trolls make terrifying foes on the field of battle.
Cavalry units use many different kinds of mounts, including creatures not ridden anywhere else in Faerûn. Centaurs, manticores, leucrotas, griffons, hippogriffs, giant beetles, and even dragons serve Thay's elite troops, although horses are much more common. The most notorious units feature female riders mounted on the feared black unicorns bred by the Red Wizards. The best-known army of Thay is the Griffon Legion, a group of some four hundred Red Wizards commanded by the tharchion of Pyarados - currently Tharchion Nymia Focar - soaring through the skies on the backs of griffons. The most successful soldier breeding program in recent years has been the blooded ones, or blood orcs. Fierce, loyal, and physically powerful, the blooded ones make excellent shock troops. It's now rare to find a legion that doesn't have at least one unit of blood orcs in it. The Red Wizards are experimenting on other races with the techniques used to create blooded ones, too, so it may be only a matter of time before even more "blood" races are seen in the armies of Thay.

Commoners

As a whole, commoners do not have much better lives than slaves do. However, they are citizens, not property, which means they can't be indiscriminately tortured or killed. The Red Wizards can usually get away with such behavior, but they usually have to invent some sort of pretext for their actions.

Commoners have a far better life expectancy than slaves and better prospects overall. The worst jobs go to slaves, so by default, the commoners are a slight step up. Some have even managed to claw their way to the top of the heap, usually by becoming successful adventurers or wealthy merchants. A few are actually wealthier than most of the nobles and, even some Red Wizards. Most commoners are Rashemi, although there are a few members of this class from more distant lands.

Esclavagiste Thayen

Les esclavagistes thayens sont des malfrats cruels qui usent de leurs abjects pouvoirs pour enlever des créatures avant de briser leur volonté. Ils sont passés maîtres dans l'art de produire des esclaves dociles qui obéissent à leurs maîtres sans sourciller
On trouve des esclavagistes thayens à travers tout Faerûn, en particulier là où s'échangent les esclaves. Ils travaillent et voyagent incognito, surtout dans les régions où l'esclavage est interdit par la loi. II va sans dire que Thay regorge de toutes sortes d'esclavagistes thayens, dont beaucoup se rassemblent dans les grands marchés aux esclaves de Bézantur, Tyraturos et Eltabbar.

Slaves

The lowest level of Thayan society is, of course, the slave. The economy of Thay is built upon slave labor, and without it the country would quickly collapse. The current trade in magic items has changed this only a little, and it has not improved the lives of slaves one whit.

Slaves are not considered citizens and have no rights. They are chattels, like livestock. Killing or harming a slave is not murder or mayhem. It is merely damaging someone's property. A slave's owner can do with his own slave as he wishes, but if he harms someone else's property, he is expected to make reparations.

Slaves are costly (a young human field slave sells for about 50 gp in the markets at Eltabbar), so few commoners have the means to own them. Since slaves represent a significant investment for a small farmer or artisan, common Thayans take good care of them. Slaves consigned to the broad estates of noble Thayans face a harder existence, and those unfortunate souls sold off to the vast state-run fields or mines are treated as nothing more than beasts of burden.

Thay imports slaves from all over Faerûn, and just about every race is represented among the servile population. Those who survive the trip are usually the hardiest, but most do not last long in their job. House slaves live in relative comfort, caring directly for the needs of their Mulan masters. Those consigned to the mines rarely survive a year of scratching metals from the unforgiving Underdark.