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Praxian Kinship Groups

Posted on May 8, 2025

Praxian tribes are divided into smaller kinship groups or clans, with their herds. This is the basic unit for nomadic migration, although if resources permit, multiple clans might travel together, sharing grasslands. The size of the clan and their herds depend on the tribe:

The Bison Tribe travel in large groups and their clans are large, up to 1000 members or more, and travel with herds of 2500 to 3000 or more bison.

The High Llama travel in small groups of 20 to 40 people, gathering in larger groups only for reasons of religion or war. A clan may consist of 10 to 20 bands. A typical High Llama band has 60 to 140 high llamas.

The Sable Tribe clans typically number around 500 with 1500 to 2000 sable antelope.

The Impala Tribe travel in small groups of 50 to 100 and their clans often consist of 10 or so groups. Their bands are accompanied by some 250 to 600 impala.

The Morokanth travel in clans of 100 to 500 morokanth. They are accompanied by 120 to 900 herd-men.

I imagine that to an outsider the morokanth camps are particular disconcerting to non-Praxians. Imagine that Morokanth camp outside of the Bilos Gap during the Borderlands campaign. Some 200+ morokanth and 250 or more herd-men, and the camp looked more like a slaver encampment than a nomad camp. Herd-men would be watched by morokanth “herders”. For the Sartarites, this has got to be deeply offensive. Although the Lunar rulers tolerated the morokanth, I suspect most Lunar settlers viewed the morokanth about as warmly as the Sartarites.

And of course remember that the morokanth get some of their herd-men by raiding human communities and using Waha’s magic to turn them into herd-men. This could be as many as several thousand a year, taken from tribes, agricultural communities, or purchased.

Just to make it even more disturbing, there are likely more herd-men among the morokanth herds than there are humans in Civilised Prax.

Now something else that really sucks about Morokanth – they will usually keep skilled captives (crafters, scribes, etc.) as slaves rather than free them for a ransom. This doesn’t affect the Praxians as few of them are considered “skilled” in the skills the morokanth desire.

One last thing – the Orlanthi of New Pavis or the Guardian Hills generally view the Morokanth with intense moral outrage, deep fear, cultural disdain, and strained pragmatic tolerance, significantly worsened by any Morokanth raids on their communities for slaves or to transform captives into herd-men.


Jeff Richard

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