The First Tribe - Original player group, it grew in the plentiful river delta. Din-nehru work on its fields and other tribes pay respect to their power.
Goat People - Several groups of goat herders, they swore fealty to the First Tribe after initial conflict.
Farming village - Descendants of a Rune party of farmers, they live a decent life under protection of the First Tribe, paying tithe in exchange.
Desert Civilization - Advanced bronze-age civ. Pethyra city is a part of it. Ruled by Despot supported by a Council. Due to political instability and corruption, has difficult times ahead.
Purple Tribe - kind, nice people inhabiting the island chain in the sea close to the coast. They paint their things with purple dye and peacefully assimilate foreigners into their ranks. Last known civ to have knowledge of metalworking.
Two Tribe Union - Gulls, Spears and assimilated Fishers, who learned various agriculture techniques to appease Grithclock. Faces a decline of coastal recourses.
Union of the River - Heads and Ochre tribes, living in a river valley, close to the great Shrine. For them, uncertain times lie ahead now.
Unknown state
Forest People, Axe Tribe
Tribe in general:
- Lives in plentiful river [Esthon] delta.
- Practices polygamy.
- Breeds violent bloodthirsty rabbits named after the dead. As well as other animals.
- Enslaves foreigners, din-nehru, considering them "darker reflections" of true people.
- Knows farming, metalworking (bronze) and plenty of other technologically advanced concepts.
- Has a deep knowledge of surrounding lands.
- Vowed never to swim into deep water.
Legend of creation:
"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."
First Tribe - spread in the river delta, with main village numbering close to three hundred, it has trading routes with other tribes in the vicinity. Several of them swore fealty and plenty of others were turned into working slaves.
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Dead
The year is still young.
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Topic: History: the Minimalist RTD (Read 124772 times)