The Cheatham are not great fighters, not very powerful with energy and don’t defend against mental abilities all that well. They do, however, have complete control over different types of magic. Because of the curses that course through their blood, they have the ability to manipulating magic on different levels than most races. 
A handful of the Cheatham can control the Curses that course through their system and as such can adjust them to help in their creations, architecture, etc. They don’t have basic societies like most races, they are more nomadic, but there are two cities that are solely Cheatham in race. Due to the fact that Cheatham are immune to transferring Curses to one another, touching one another within the city doesn’t cause issues.

These two cities are very powerful and extremely well defended. They are constantly barraged by surrounding cities but have never been breeched in the entire history of civilizations. 

The first city, known as Baroka. The city is on Rikinia and is in constant attack from the human city of Sabnik.  The humans believe that Baroka is a threat to them and as such continuously wage “Holy Wars” on the Cheatham city in the hopes of driving them out. The Cheatham, in response, allow the humans to attack their walls, and rarely having casualties, they will collect the weapons, armors, etc. from the armies as they leave and sell these things on the black market. Many of the most powerful black market crime bosses are stationed or have headquarters in Baroka and thus the humans will always fail at getting through the walls since the
High King of Baroka will always know when they are attacking. 

The second city in the land of Colemania, is far harder to get to and is in the barrens of Colemania, outside the laws of the land. There are nearly two hundred miles of land that Warnag controls at the Southern most tip of Colemania. No other nation comes into the area to try and “root” them out, but the area is filled with “evil” creatures that keep most tourism from being an option. Those that go to Warnag are there for a particular purpose and for a very powerful reason. 

The city is filled with thieves and the assassin’s guilds are said to headquarter there, but no one can prove this. It is also rumored that the Koltu was originally created within the great walls of that city. Today, it is the hub of much of the darker transactions throughout the probe and where much of the stolen wealth goes to be traded back into other societies. Rarely does anything happen of any scale that can’t be learned about within the city.