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4 years ago ::
Dec 01, 2008 - 9:12AM
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25. Clothes are for those who've earned them. Until you take up a profession that aids the camp/tribe/delicious people somehow, you must remain in underwear.
Delicious people!? You a cannibal or are they? So far there hasn't been any about eating people one way or the other.
31. You must eat part of a fallen ally so that they may continue to fight through you.
32. You must eat part of a fallen enemy so that you can gain some of their power.
33. You must never knowingly eat other people. (For those who disagree with the top two)
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4 years ago ::
Dec 01, 2008 - 10:26AM
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(There was this elf druid in our party once. After every fight he'd cut the hearts out of our dead opponents and eat them raw. My Heironean cleric was horrified.)
34. In order to be considered an adult by the tribe, you have to spend a period of time (a day, a month, a year, etc.) as a member of the opposite gender. You are required to wear their clothing and perform their duties (within reason, obviously men lack the ability to breastfeed). This is to promote understanding between you and your future spouse, and to show that no job in the tribe is unimportant. (Inspired by Heracles' slavery to Queen Omphale, where he was required to wear a dress and do ladies work while she wore his lion skin.)
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4 years ago ::
Dec 01, 2008 - 9:04PM
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(as long as we're doing the cannibalistic thing...)
35. Before a battle, a warband should share each other's blood, to bond their fates and honor together and combine their strength. Depending on the specific tribe/faction, there are a couple ways to do this:
--direct consumption of fresh blood, as from a wound. Most tribes consider this a bit extreme, and at least rude if not downright offensive. There's also the similarity to actual vampires which causes some suspicion...
--mixing blood into the communal meal, or into a communal drinking gourd/keg/sack. Thus both the blood and the sustaining meal are mixed and shared, enhancing the meaning of both.
--piercing one's own skin, then injecting the fresh blood into a similar wound on your war-brother. About as extreme as direct consumption, though many view the demonstration of bravery and self-inflicted pain to make it less unacceptable (in the eyes of other barbarian tribes).
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4 years ago ::
Dec 01, 2008 - 9:33PM
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36. When you come of age, you recieve an amulet that represents your "spirit animal", the animal the elders believe your soul most resembles. You are expected to never part with this amulet, even in death. If you do, you are effectively excommunicated from the tribe and your name is struck from all tribal memory, as if you never existed.
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4 years ago ::
Dec 01, 2008 - 9:43PM
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(to stray away from the cannibalism thing...)
36. Before battle, one must abstain from eating animals that possess less than desirable qualities (chickens, eggs, food that has been scavenged). Instead, only brave, strong and/or intelligent animals should be eaten, in order to take on their power and bring it to the battlefield.
37. Any warrior who calls upon a spirit and sings the spirit's "warsong" for an entire battle honours the spirit and will gain their favour.
38. Matrilineal Surnames: because let's face it, it's easier to figure out who the kids mother is than who the kid's father is....
39. The dead are not buried or burned but left out to elements. Only the vilest of creatures are not fit for the "consumption of the earth."
40. Children are given a personal name upon birth; after a certain amount of time, they are given their "soul name," the name of an ancestor they share the most in common with, either by resemblance, mannerisms, dreams, likes, etc. Tests are given and questions are asked of the child in order to further determine the origins of the spark within. The child is recognized as being the reincarnation of the ancestor and is allowed to share the personal name of the family member. If a child bears no resemblance to anyone in the tribe, one of several things may have happened:
-the child is the reincarnation of a person from another tribe
-the child is a reincarnation of something that is not human
-the child is an "original soul," one of auspicious birth whose existence signals a significant event, a major change in the world around them.
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4 years ago ::
Dec 01, 2008 - 9:59PM
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May 26, 2007
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40. Children are given a personal name upon birth; after a certain amount of time, they are given their "soul name," the name of an ancestor they share the most in common with, either by resemblance, mannerisms, dreams, likes, etc. Tests are given and questions are asked of the child in order to further determine the origins of the spark within. The child is recognized as being the reincarnation of the ancestor and is allowed to share the personal name of the family member. If a child bears no resemblance to anyone in the tribe, one of several things may have happened:
-the child is the reincarnation of a person from another tribe
-the child is a reincarnation of something that is not human
-the child is an "original soul," one of auspicious birth whose existence signals a significant event, a major change in the world around them.
I like that. Total plot point if say, somewhere in the tribes past were a set of two people who were alike, but one brought destruction and the other brought happiness. Identified as one, and thus trusted by the tribe, when it turns out you're the other, and bring it to its knees/death.
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4 years ago ::
Dec 02, 2008 - 8:52AM
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Thanks :D
41: The higher up on the totem pole you are, the less clothes you wear. You can afford the firewood, the blankets and the servants to keep you warm and comfortable. Perfect for a tribe that lives in a cold environment.
Inversely, hot weather leaders can wear many clothes, ordering servants to get them cold drinks, ice from the highest mountain tops, etc.
42. it is considered bad luck to keep what one has made to oneself. One must share the work of one's hands in order to gain benefit from it. Otherwise, arrows will snap in the quiver, food will turn in your belly, etc.
43. Dreams that are remembered must be shared.
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4 years ago ::
Dec 02, 2008 - 9:32AM
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Jun 11, 2007
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44. Circumcision.
45. (For bestial races such as gnolls and shifters) Warriors should take the claws of their enemies as trophies. If they lack claws, teeth will do. These are the weapons the gods gave your foes and by seizing them, they are symbolically emasculated. The accumulation of a tribe's trophies show it's strength.
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4 years ago ::
Dec 02, 2008 - 9:58AM
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46) [blank] is the color/material of gods and not to be worn by men, not even preists and paladins.
47) do not touch the cold flesh of the dead nor disturb a fallen foe for trophies. If you have slain them, then their arms were not good enough for your might.
48) wear not the armors of metal that cover a joint, for its weight and slowness will make you weaker like the turtle. (no heavy armor)
49)wear only what you have made, but use only the tools of others.
50) cut not your hair but once each moon, to cut any other time is to invite foulness upon yourself.
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Dec 02, 2008 - 1:36PM
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Apr 20, 2007
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51. Your tribe requires all people to shave their heads, the children don't wear clothes, and polygamy is the rule, so that the women can bear as many children as they can for when civilization falls and your tribe survives. Also, all the women carry knives in their hands for no apparent reason, and your tribe makes its living by stealing.
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