Tribe in general:
- Has no knowledge of carts or other advanced transportation means...not counting sledges.
- Uses the least amount of clothes possible.
- Is quite conservative.
- Lives in plentiful river [Esthon] delta with some animals.
- Has little combat experience in general.
- Practices polygamy.
- Started to learn metallurgy and farming.
- Started to breed violent and bloodthirsty rabbits named after the dead.
- Hates all foreigners, din-nehru.
- Vowed never to swim into deep water.
Beliefs:
Nature of life - "Plants come from the ground, forced upward by the will of the great life spirits, and the animals are born of lightning that strikes the trees, hence their quick and skittish natures, markedly unlike the confident ways of humankind, who are born of each other."
Nature of man - "The plants are of the earth, the animals are of lightning, and the people are of one another, nourished by the plants and the animals, and given strength by the wind itself."
Handling of enemies - "Kill our enemies, then grind their bones into powder and mix it with their blood to make a warpaint so that the gods might bless you in their wisdom."
Din-nehru - "In the very beginning, there was only the far-up sky and no world, and it was dark as night, for there was nobody to drag the sun along the heavens. Over a time longer than one can imagine, the sky swirled and twisted, and from this interplay rose strife - the spirits of the sky were disunited, different, and so they clashed, and through clashing their differences grew - spirits divided into the types of wind, earth, fire, water and more, and named parts of the sky their own - through battle and disagreement, the world came to be, partitioned into the domains of the spirits that exist to this day. The strife animated all within this world, and from it rose the animals and plants of the world, brought into being as the power released from the clashes of spirits took physical shape - you can observe it to this day when mushrooms grow rapidly after the rain and animals form when lightning strikes the earth. And during one particular battle where all of the essential forces of the world met, the people of this land were created, people who are born of each other, procreating in perpetuity - these people are the First Tribe. This very tribe is that tribe - direct descendants of the first human beings, created in a titanic clash of all the forces combined. And the First Tribe did learn the secrets of ensuring their existence, even thriving from the scraps of the eternal war of the spirits, their dominion of the borders between realms undisputed by even the spirits themselves to such a degree that they only dared war where humans permit, or where they forgot to forbid in their ignorance, and this is how it is today."
"But this existence was not to last, as then came things from without, the din-nehru, the "soul-bereft" in the olden tongues, creatures from the darkness beyond the far-up sky, who sought to devour all that exists not because of hunger or need to exist, but out of simple pleasure and boredom. Their goal is to destroy all that the people need to survive, and to make the world like their place of origin, undoing the spirits, humans and everything inbetween. To do this, they take the shape of humans and adopt their ways, seeking to infiltrate and subvert where they cannot outright destroy. Though weak in mind and spirit, they were ultimately extremely numerous, and populated the world like the humans could not, pushing them far out of the heavenly lands they once inhabited, leading them here, where they must continually fight for survival and die pointless deaths where none are needed. And that brings us to this very day, when the First Tribe finds itself surrounded and sought out by din-nehru from all sides, all harboring nothing but evil intentions, even when it may seem otherwise. The First Tribe can have no lasting friendship with the din-nehru, for they have no capacity for good, as their souls are nonexistent, and can never become one with the spirits, for they have never lived in the first place. They must be enslaved, slain, ostracized even when allowed to live within the tribe, or otherwise put below the humans of the tribe, and never allowed to assume power, for they will lead the true people to their doom."
Tribe - lives in a new place while establishing trading routes with others in the vicinity. Enslaving everyone weak enough to be subdued.
(Samarkand) Arlia the Shaman - the painter, soothsayer and wise woman in general. Member of a Council. Proved herself to be a prestigeous leader - combining shaman powers with leadership role lets her effectively blame most of the things onto spiritual world. Became chief advisor and used her time to strengthen position of a shaman. Gathered a group of holy warriors to battle din-nehru, but this specialization proved to be futile - nearly every member of the tribe hates din-nehru anyway.
(monk12) Conrak the Tool-Crafter - genius crafter, famous for his inventions and slightly off-world attitude to fellow tribesmen. Member of the Council. Womanizer. Was caught into downward alcoholic spiral and was deprived of alcohol until the end of his life by his fellow tribesmen. Managed to build an intricate tripwire system. Stocked quite a lot of alcohol beverages.
(HugoLuman) Elto - wise old fisheman, who has years worthy of experience and infallible will to live. He teaches youngsters about sea life. Counts as a member of the Council. His recent fishing trip ended with disaster and nearly cost him his life. Whale his party tried to hunt turned out to be a merciless killer!
(Beirus) Tuktu - grim, scarred individual. Greatest warror and defender of the tribe. Killer of strangers. Destroyer of enemies. Terror incarnate. Also, current chief of the tribe. It is said that he is actually a murderous wind spirit wearing the skin of Tuktu. He forced a donkey to submit to him through sheer stubborn nature and rode him from this point on.
(Sarrak) Haphan - the only long-range scout of the tribe, who moved the tribe to the new land, helping it greatly in the first part of the journey, but got lost along the way. Was captured by Painted tribe and neared death, saved by raging Tuktu, who one-handedly burned the whole tribe. Married Pallia, daughter of Arlia, sharing his love for journeys with her. After three months, he made another long trip to the south and was captured in the pitfall of spear-wielding tribe. Caged and posed in the middle of the village.
(Nunzillor) Chan(d6*tu) - the assistant Great Thinker, Grand Inquisitor and Master of the Dance. Chief technological advisor. Interrogation specialist. Played some dangerous pranks on the tribe with his mischievous love interest, Lanku. Was nearly appointed as a chief as a result of in-joke, but stood no chance against gore-covered Tuktu. Uncovered secrets of farming and metallurgy from din-nehru and tried to make their life bearable.
(tyupo1) Akkata - Conrak's least favorite and oldest consort at 37 years. Has a daughter, Nuuta. After desperately trying to finish Conrak's addiction, she left him in favor of Apollo. She cares for rabbits and started calling them by the names of the dead.
(blazing glory) Amitola Yurok - daughter of Hatika and fierce huntress. Outhunted Kurgle and was appointed as foremost huntress by him. Traded for the white goat kids in the desert and brought them back to the tribe.
(Playergamer) Yun - a young healer, who finished apprenticeship under Kutuk just before his untimely death. Actually harbors a reborn Kutuk spirit. Saved a day on a fishing trip by hitting whale with a spear.
(Kaferian) Apollo - experienced trapper and the first animal trainer. His chosen animals, rabbits, proved themselves quite humanlike sexually and overly bloodthirsty - being raised on human blood and everything. Also, he is quite handsome and, despite avoiding people, managed to charm Akkata.
(The Froggy Ninja) Zaju - a slightly daft boy, aged twelve, who wants to become Great Thinker apprentice. Unfortunately for him, Lanku finds this prospect hilarious, people don't allow him near sharp things and his inventions were all already invented before. Has a similarly daft friend, Piktun.
Others
(Alev) Kurgle - the former foremost hunter and first ferryman of the tribe. Decent swimmer. Was the second in power and respect only to Arlia in the move to the newer lands. Built several rafts and boats, then finally attempted a sea journey with younger men to the volcanic island. Barely escaping with his life, wandered aimlessly before arriving to the other island and encountering Purple Tribe.
(Yoink) Lerka - exile from an Axe Tribe. Fearsome woman who ate brains of at least seven mighty warriors. She stalked the First Tribe, watching it from afar, but was captured and enslaved. Her body beaten and her spirit nearly broken, she forfeit a chance to escape.
(Salsacookies) Walt - spokesmen to the Three Tribes Union, he deduced where the stolen Fisher Tribe woman went and was granted with a warparty to hunt them. Returning with only a third of his men, he lead Heads to the exile, where they found a new lands to live and started building a grand shrine for the fallen.
(TCM) Gonjabet Uthon - caravan merchant leader from a faraway land. He tried to attack the tribe, but was captured and tortured. Managing to break away, he lost all his companions to deceases in the trek through the desert. Encountered Goat People and was offered a pure white goat kid. Traded his own hair for an obsidian knife and free clothes. Prepared to die in the desert, he was rescued by his fellow citizen. Unfortunately, going to the people in power proved to be a mistake. Heartbroken, he wrote his adventures on a stone tablet and jumped from the Temple roof.
(Nidilap) Bronn - young adventurer that returned to his home city, Pethyra, with an odd companion, who enamored his sister and ran off with her just as Bronn searched for a work for him. He was trained at beating people and expropriating their possessions. It was only natural that he bested his master in this regard after training ended.
(Coolrune206) Rune - a foreigner from Eldaria, who arrived to the Great Delta with his fellow farmers. Unfortunately for him, he encountered the First Tribe. Holy warriors deprived his party of freedom, then of tools and seeds, then boots, then... After nearly half his party died, they managed to break out, killing two overseers.
(SaberToothTiger) Dukud - a man of the plains and a master of the knife. Exiled from his tribe, he tried to tame horses, hunt boars (great hats!) and eventually made a lasso after a bloody battle with a donkey.
(poketwo) Oklus - one of the two remaining Fisher Tribe men, assimilated into Gulls. He was a shaman apprentice before the war and knows about agriculture from his preceder. He interested Gulls in farming and started a plot.
Lost to the time
(Nosaneinme) The Reaper - foreigner, who started to slowly adapt to the tribal ways under guidance of Tuypogina. Has strong respect to the dead and, somehow, seems to be the first stranger completely ignored by bloodthirsty tribal warriors. Was a member of an Axe Tribe. Leads a stealthy existance.
(darkpaladin109) Marglabeshstius - tribe's engraver and historian who was lost in drinking. Perhaps, is still with the tribe.
(Lyeos) Zurik - ordinary gatherer, might be still with the tribe.
NPC
Lanku - fisherman daughter, Chan(d6*tu) consort, former Clangbunk apprentice, a second jester of the tribe and the Great Thinker. She is much more practical than her partner and loves setting fire to the things.
Nuuta - daughter of Akkata, she was infatuated with Plok, who never returned back to the tribe. Quite wise and observant woman.
Jutta, [Matikira and Akkata] - Conrak consorts.
Abbik, Hanita and Raffin - Matikira children.
Nikkut, Hiphi, Gettran, Kalphan, Efrun and Trull - Kurgle's crew.
Tivla - gatherer woman, slightly slow on uptake.
Verta - overly enthusiastic aspiring huntress.
Pallia - slightly morbid daughter of Arlia and wife of Haphan. While initially leading a boring life in the tribe, the trip turned into honeymoon allowed them to get to know each other better. Resulting in pregnancy, of course. Arlia's rituals and following trip to northern woods allowed their love to bloom even further.
Piktun - daft friend of Zaju.
Dead
Gatorfang - stange fellow with an alligator skull. Was killed with a single close-combat arrow by Kurgle for pretending to be a god.
Christoph - power-hungry stranger that opted to introduce central government and voting system to the tribe, improving its social conditions. His throat was mercilessly slit by Tuktu, who then proceed to make warpaint from his fingerbones. Was a brother to the Fisher Tribe chief.
Vukko - token evil member, mastermind for Irk. Was shot in ambush laid by Plok.
Irk - local henchperson, thug and an old pal of Vukko. Was shot by Plok from an ambush.
Plok - hardened scout, fancied by gatherer woman Nuuta. After ambushing Irk and Vukko, he tried to raft onto newer lands, but crushed on rocks and drowned to be eaten by fish.
Nth - he was hunter that envied Kurgle and dreamed about beating him in a hunt. Devoted member of a tribe, he searched for its lost members, greatly helping Clangbunk, his apprentice Tuypogina and Meshok, but losing his own way back in the desert. There, he lost his sanity and, eventually, his life.
Hy - a youngest wife of a member of Fisher Tribe, she didn't survive the events that followed.
Tuypogina - was a female apprentice thinker under Clangbunk and a small-scale inventor. Infatuated with a foreigner [The Reaper], she teached him tribal language. Later, then a group of trades was captured, she tried to torture information from them and was bludgeoned with deadly precision when they escaped at night.
Meshok Fish-Eyed - was a lonely philosopher who lived in a cave and loved to ponder about the meaning of existence. He deduced that all life and accomplishments - and even this knowledge - is absolutely pointless. Deciding to share this knowledge, he found the tribe moving into eastern lands, joined it and discovered alcohol beverages along the way, passing the tribe into days of pointless festives and feasts. He was shot by an arrow, but Kutuk healed him. In some time after recuperation, he was abducted by last of the painted hunters and, unable to persuade them with alcohol, was left in the desert with sawed off legs. Knowing that death is but an endless, dreamless sleep, he ceased to exist.
Hatika - overly generous warrior with obsidian spear, the finder of a river delta and first tribesmen to raise his tent there. After the burning of painted tribe by Tuktu, he was ambushed by its last scouts, murdered and made into survival supplies.
[Nameless] - newest leader of the Fisher Tribe, son of the previous long-gone leader. Was favored by people and waterspirits. Sending a warparty to the north, he started a fight with the Coalition, which, after raid, counter-raid, destruction of the Tribe, stealing woman back and renewing the Tribe, fighting the third Union warparty to a standstill, killing one third of them in the night attack... Ended with his death in the confusion of the last attack.
Kutuk - old, wizened healer, he lived his life to a fullest: saving fellow tribesmen, teaching them and guiding them. He was a member of the Council and a teacher of Yun. He was poisoned by Matikira with datura and had an ignoble death.
Matikira - youngest of Conrak's consorts, gatherer of both food and herbs. Had three children: Abbik, Hanita and Raffin. Friends with Jutta. Accidentally killed Kutuk with hallucinogenic datura. After trying to relay her mistake on the dead healer, was ritually separated into seven parts. Her head was mounted atop the chief's tent, a look of agony frozen on the face, attracting a massive amount of flies.
Tlaxa - a teenage girl from a Spear Tribe, she was possessed by a violent spirit and tried to kill her fellow tribesmen. Caught, she somehow succeeded in making her wooden cage a funeral pyre.
Clangbunk - a self-called Great Thinker, he taught agriculture to the tribe and was a member of the Council. He dedicated a whole island to the idea of strife, burnt it with Lanku and planted berry bushes there. Feeling that it was the best achievement in his live, he lost the will to live and soon passed away.
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