The Maqeti people are a human ethnic group found in northeastern Sarhal, around the west end of the Gulf of Rahen.
The ancestors of the Maqeti were Zanites and Brasannis enslaved by gnolls in Bulwar. In 916 AA, a slave named Maqet led an uprising against the oppressors. Although Maqet was initially successful, the gnolls were far greater in strength, and the rebellion began to lose as more resources were committed against it. In 926, Maqet had a vision about a safe land to the southeast. He ordered his son Dasma to lead the ex-slaves there, while Maqet and his fiercest warriors distracted the gnolls.
The ex-slaves fled southeast across the Salahad Desert. They received help from the local Mašnsih nomads, who hated the gnolls for their many aggressions. But even with this guidance, hundreds died on the perilous journey across the sands.
When the ex-slaves finally reached the more hospitable land around the Gulf of Rahen, they massacred the gnolls living there and freed the local slaves. These people, both locals and desert-crossers, banded together to found the Akalate of Dasmazar. They renamed themselves the Maqeti, after their former leader Maqet, who was commemorated as "Maqet the Free". Over the centuries, the Maqeti would bond together into a cohesive cultural and ethnic group. (However, some of the ex-slaves joined the Mašnsih out of gratitude and returned to the desert, eventually forming their own tribe named szal-Yazkur after one of the original joiners).
Religiously, the Maqeti follow an insular sect of the Old Sun Cult.