[Alexanderfalkor]

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The Holdfast of An Buioch

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  Please introduce your Holdfast down below:

The An Buioch Tribal Holdfast is the long home of the An Buioch people, a group of Caer Sidian Wolven natives, who were once elves but changed due to a ritual in the past. The An Buioch is a peaceful place where nature is abundant, but they are no strangers to conflict, they move out to beat back the forces of chaos when they present too much of a threat to Nature , which the An Buioch people consider their duty and honor given all nature gives them, they remain ever watchful for threats to the natural order and new opportunities to learn new skills and get good trade deals to benefit the tribe.
 

 

Please give a description as to how your Holdfast is governed:

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An Buioch is a Chiefdom The Chief shares power with the Shamans who are the knowledge keepers and ritual keepers. The Chief is the leader of the armies and Chief administrator of the Holdfast, he has other high ranking soldiers and administrators under him to help him keep up to date with anything.

The Chief is also the Head Diplomat of the Tribe hes the one that greets any foreign diplomats or traders, he shares this role with the Head Shaman who leads the Shamans much the same way the Chief leads the tribe.

There is a Head Hunter as well who is nominally in charge of the Hunters the soldiers of the tribe when not at war, they roam the lands around the holdfast hunting food and keeping nature in balance.

They pay tribute to the City and the Chief by sending meat and leather from the hunts they do. The Hunters also go out into the world as Mercs when the Chief tells them they gather knowledge and learn from those that hire them rather than take gold 

 

 

⠀ Do you have any custom races you want to introduce? If so, describe them briefly down below:

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The An Buioch or The Thankful are a small tribe of elves turned anthropomorphic wolf due to ritual sacrifice in the past leaving them only able to use ritual and religious magic but making them stronger faster smarter and longer lived. An Buioch live on average 400 years but the longest lived was around 600 years old, they are master archers owing to their hunter lifestyle. They are also excellent traders and knowledge keepers who have master the art and science of ritual and religious magic again due to the fact they can use nothing else. They send out traders and hunters every 6 months to seek out prospective trade partners and to keep up to date on the flow of trade.

The Hunters often leave in groups of 1000 rotating each time to work as mercenaries gathering fighting experience and keeping up to date the unique the form of martial arts they use in place of iron weapons, they work for new knowledge and skills in place of gold when they must take gold they often use it to buy the knowledge and skills instead. An Buioch are a deeply communal people working together to make the whole stronger to them the tribe is everything and they must all work together or die alone this is due to the stable but small number of the race, they don't have children very often so each one is cherished by all An Buioch and the tribe pulls together as one to raise them.

An Buioch owing to the leather they receive from the hunters live in yurts which are built in such a way as to house multiple families comfortably, they are also master leather workers making richly decorated leather armor that is then inscribed with ritual runes to further increase the natural abilities of the race by at least double making them formidable foes and reliable allies. In the center of Yurt City standing tall and proud on a hill is Íobairt na Sinsear or The Ancestor Sacrifice a Elwydium tree that produces magical fruits that the An Buioch make into magical reagents to trade for fruit and other needs of the tribe they keep a small part of each harvest to use in rituals or other tribe magical needs. At the base of Íobairt na Sinsear grows the incense which make up the ritual and religious reagents the tribe uses.

An Buioch come in mostly two colors gray and brown fur covers their body and they do have hair which matches the fur of the wolf most often but not always. They often style and groom together as a sign of trust and intimacy putting beads and feathers in them as symbols of various life achievements and actions. An Buioch have many names for themselves a Birth name or Soul name thats given to them by their parents chief and shaman, this they only share with loved ones or very trusted friends. They have the Skill name which shows off the skill they are best at then they have the Honor name which denotes an action they have done which honors them and their tribe such as saving a fellow hunter from death during a hunt or figuring out a new way to treat wounds that kind of thing this is the name given to everyone else. An Buioch craftsman and other skilled people give the Skill name in front of the Honor name, An Buioch hunters and warriors give the Honor name first then the Skill name showing which group finds most important.

(if you have further questions please ask me in the discord or my subforum when i get it otherwise ill be here all day)

 

 

 

 
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The population of [An Buioch] is: 30,132

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• [An Buioch] = [30,132]
  

Total Population= [30,132] [/table]
 
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Military numbers

peacetime numbers: 2,000
wartime numbers when fighting regular wars: 3,000
wartime numbers when fighting Chaos: 4,500

The Peacetime Army of An Buioch of 2,000 wears heavily runed ritual armor providing various benefits aimed at protecting them from harm and enhancing their power on and off the field of battle while the rest wear regular decorated leather armor.

The 4,500 shamans of An Buioch each sacrificed 200 years of lifespan to create the various enhancements and benefits the armor and bows provide the army of An Buioch.

An Buioch has a runed bow which provides increased range and increased aim they are also runed to be very hard to break and to prevent damage from the ravages of time each bow is made from wood taken from Íobairt na Sinsear given to the permanent peacetime army of 2,000 while the rest are given bows of lesser wood.

The armor is as strong as iron and lets them move with very little restriction in regards to flexibility and dexterity.

Each of the parts below helps in some way empower them.

The gauntlets and arm guards grant them a boost to speed and power.

The helmets they wear let them see things from far away and with clear vision.

The leg armor and greaves makes sure they have perfect balance and move as quiet as a shadow.

Every month the shamans gather to keep the enhancements strong by doing a ritual of maintenance. [/table]
 
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The Natural and Processed goods of [An Buioch] are:

 

[Total points available: 8]

[Total points used: 8]

 

[Elwydium Fruit] = 1 point
[Incense] = 1 point

[Leatherworks] = 2 points
[Magical Reagents] = 2 points
[Religious Reagents] = 2 points

 
An Buioch believe in using the entire animal after they hunt leaving nothing to waste they leave the entrails to the predators of the forest. They use the leather they make for clothes and armor and maintaining the yurts they call home. They smoke the meat and store it for when needed and use the bones for medicine and jewelry as well as fuel for fires. They burn the heart to send the spirit of the beast back into the arms of nature the magical and religious reagents are stored after processing until traded or use in a ritual. An Buioch lack grown foods they trade for them what few trees and bushes in the forest are left alone for the various prey animals the An Buioch hunt they rotate between prey animals when they need food to keep the animals populations in good condition. They also lack iron for arrows so often use stone head arrows but trade quite often for iron headed arrows [/table]

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 An Buioch is a city of Yurts and families living in the shadows of hills and trees with a lake and river beside them they keep walls in the shadows of the four twins in the front of the holdfast made of ritually empowered wood with four forts to crown them made of the same wood. Towards the north-west between the back-hill and the forth twin rests the lake Linn na Sinsear which takes the shape of a large oval and fits perfectly between the hills acting as both source of fresh water and fish but also a natural defense barrier Linn na Sinsear sits behind Baile An Buioch which is the name of the whimsically titled Yurt City.

 

Further protecting the heart of the An Buioch running beside and underneath Baile An Buioch and cresting just around the First twin acting as a wall of water protecting Baile An Buioch is the river Deora na Sinsear standing at 3/4 Mile wide and 200 feet deep with the deepest part being dead center of the river with the river getting progressively shallower the closer to the riverbank. Íobairt na Sinsear stands tall and proud on a hill in the center of Holdfast An Buioch with Baile An Buioch built around it in a crescant moon moving outwards towards the Four Twins with room for more as needed.