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{{Infobox:TwilightAgeGroup
|Type = Kin'toni clan
|Name = Ieni Kin'toni Clan
|Other Names = Unknown
|Parent Groups = Unknown
|Descended Groups = Unknown
|Demonym = Unknown
|Languages = Unknown
|Religions = Unknown
|Government Type = Unknown
|Population = Unknown
|Areas Controlled = [[Ournu Lush Tundra]]
|Allies = Unknown
|Rivals = Unknown
|Date Founded = 4E 434
|Date Disbanded = N/A
}}

==History==
One of the most prominent post-exile era characters, who was not a direct follower of Estard, was Ieni kin'toni. He was initiated in Iasul kin'toni Clan, who was the least content, and the most ambitious from Estard kin'toni’s 7 primary pupils. But interestingly Ieni kin'toni was never born into this clan. He was abducted by Iasul kin'toni’s clan members from Ight'turu kin'toni Clan as an infant. Ieni was a misfit from the beginning and struggled to adopt and understand the norms and nuances of Iasul kin'toni Clan.

He could sense that there was no escape from his suffocating reality for an exceptionally long time. He did try to run away, a few times, but was caught each time and was punished and beaten severely by his caretakers. Eventually, he was handed over to a “Zagarmatani”. His initial days with “zagarmatani” were torturous as he was put in isolation, devoid of all possible interactions. From being surrounded with living beings, to complete darkness and loneliness were tough for a small being. He would cry and shout for weeks, before going silent for a few hours.

The “Zagarmatani” taking care of Ieni was convinced that it must be the time when the little being was sleeping from getting tired of sleeping. But that assumption was far from the truth. Ieni kin'toni began lucid dreaming and was slowly getting close to being superconscious at an incredibly young age. It was hard to understand what that child was going through. Gradually, he was crying and shouting much less than when he was first put into the cave of isolation. It was normal for “zagarmatanis” to have this sort of progress, even though the crying and shouting, like how Ieni would, was a rare phenomenon.

Some members of the tribe were saddened to hear his cries and could still hear the echoes from a seething noise long after he was silent. They were intrigued by the power and magnetism of his voice. As Iasul kin'toni Clan members were instinctively curious, some of them decided to witness this “potential” zagarmatani when his time to train would come. But they knew better than to ask his caretaker, the specifics of his program, directly or indirectly.

Iasul kin’toni’s clan was great at pattern recognition. Some of the intrigued and interested ones had prepared a chart to predict this mysterious kid’s howling cycles. However, one day he stopped howling at an odd moment. This was fascinating for the caretaker “Zagarmatani” and he entered this child’s cave to check on him. Other members of the Iasul kin'toni clan gathered to witness what this child was up to. There was no sound, or movement to sense. It was the night of the full moon, a festive occasion for most of the members of the Iasul kin'toni Clan, but spectacular is often subjective to what the witness seeks.

Ieni kin'toni stepped out of the cave at midnight, calm unlike a child, with a smile. It was ruthlessly anticlimactic for the ones gathered for something more melodramatic. Ieni sat In front of the cave and stared at the glorious moon. It felt like a cryptic rendezvous between two old friends, with words unspoken and unheard. The ones who gathered were perplexed to know the whereabouts of the “zagarmatani” caretaker. One of them mustered some courage, went to this child, and politely inquired about the “zagarmatani”. The kid laughed, opened his mouth, and pointed inside.

Those who witnessed this incident were left gobsmacked and were divided about what should be the course of action, after that incident. A heated argument ensued between those in favour of killing this child and those who believed that the “zagarmatani” had it coming, and as most Iasul Kin’Toni arguments would go, quickly got violent. This ruckus was reminiscent of the beginning of the age of pandemonium, which started when Iasul kin'toni was executed publicly. All the other Iasul kin'toni tribe members, who gathered in the festive arena, fled to the cave, and the moon followed them.

Once they all gathered, even the Iasul kin'toni clan members were astounded to know the series of incidents leading up to the violent altercation between the witnesses of this incident. The supreme leader, along with his counsel, called for an immediate trial of this child, and the witnesses for not showing up for the festive occasion. All this while, Ieni was smiling and silent like a veteran “zagarmatani”. The trial started, and punishments were rendered to the witnesses of the main crime for not participating in the festive arena.

They were ordered to go inside the cave and find the remains of the missing “Zagarmatani”. They returned empty handed after thoroughly inspecting the place. This agitated other “zagarmatansi”, rather uncharacteristically, and they charged at the child. But once they got close to him, they encountered an extremely high frequency sonic resonance, from their voice within, and surrendered to the kid. This prompted the rest of the clan members to let the kid go. The kid refused to leave and went back inside the cave.

He already had a few admirers who followed him into the cave. He stopped and looked at them, as if to ask, “Are you sure?” They all nodded and became the Ieni kin'toni clan, from that moment on.

==Biology==

Their eyes have dark green irises with black sclerae and a horizontal rectangular pupils. After their integration in the Ieni Kin'toni clan, all the followers went through physiological conditioning and began mimicking mixed traits. They were all build differently, and had mostly mixed qualities, the only common aspect of their existence were their eyes, which became a marker of their shared identity and sense t belongingness, over time.

==Culture==

Being one of the new age kin’toni clan, Ieni kin'toni clan was a little different from their parent clan – The Iasel kin'toni Clan. They shared the crescent worldview with their parent clan, but there was a significant difference in its interpretation. They weren’t enthusiastic or enamoured by the presence of the moon on full moon nights but were rather mysteriously mellow in their gazing period. This behaviour was reminiscent of how the Ieni kin'toni Clan would look at each other and greet them.

They had utmost respect for all life forms and were mostly non-violent in their conduct. They were welcoming of all kinds of life forms, even members from other clans in their rituals and traditions. But they were not overly expressive or assertive of their fascination with the others. Those who would spend some time with the clan would get used to their ways easily. It was not a challenging environment to be in. Everyone was encouraging the other person to be the best versions of themselves.

The only problem with the clan, unlike the Iasul kin'toni clan and several other original clans of the Estard kin'toni empire, was that they lacked a purpose or common cause. Or that is what some of their critics believed. Ieni kin'toni was not someone who was aggressive or ambitious in his early years, an aspect that made him instantly popular amongst his pupils and helped him garner new followers from not just Iasul kin'toni’s clan, but also other kin’toni clans. However, this changed significantly when Ieni kin’toni had a vision of the future during one of his lucid dreaming sessions.

He instructed all his clan members to spend more time alone, meditating and dreaming, to see if they also have an image or vision of the future. This started a new sort of tradition when Ieni kin'toni members would take turns to meditate and seek answers about the prospective future based on the initial assumptions they had. They invented the concept of drawing and writing their dreams for the rest of the world to know in case something would happen to them.

Some of the writing and documents that the Ieni kin'toni clan members came up with were mesmerising and vivid. Soon these sorts of images brought interest of other clans and even they started to scribble what was their own version of those iterations. Ieni kin'toni Clan members were mighty pleased to see that these kinds of iterations were getting popular with other clans. It was, they believed, their legacy. Iasul kin'toni clan was not too pleased about this new trend.

They felt this kind of activity would eventually kill oral tradition, and confidence it takes for a being to speak their minds. But they also believed that these kinds of innovations will die out if they do not serve any significant purpose in the larger scheme of things. Unfortunately, for Iasul kin'toni’s clan, this “scribbling” trend was here to stay.

Scribbling became the central topic of discussion between different clans, and some of them started to smuggle them in exchange of food and other resources. Soon there were legal and illegal marketplaces all over the neo-Estard kin’toni empire. The illegal marketplaces were attacked and looted, but they would come up faster than the legal ones due to the scope of corruptions and availability of rare scribblings.Ieni Kint’toni was displeased to know that what started as an exercise to civilise life forms, is creating more damage than good to the larger balance of righteous balance.

This was reminiscent of the first ever scribbling, which was an image of a scribbling done with blood and fire, under the bright moonlit night. This resulted in a major paradigm shift in the existing worldview of peace and harmony that the Ieni kin'toni clan had, and they could see what made Iasul kin'toni Clan, their parent tribe, so ruthless and forgiving. As a result, Ieni wondered, “Do we go back to Iasul kin'toni’s clan?”

==Government==

There was no concept of supreme leadership by selection or election in Ieni kin'toni’s clan. They were by design led by Ieni kin'toni, an abducted child, who grew up to be the fiercest “zagarmatani” of all time. The structure of governance was autocratic, but there was no force applied to prove to people who their leader was. People of the clan readily accepted Ieni kin'toni as their leader and they did not have much to contest as the clan was built on faith in their leader, and his implied competence.

There were no topplers of the king of the next in line leaders. There was also no discussion around the leadership pipleline or how could Ieni kin'toni improve his leadership style. It was vastly different from how Iasul kin'toni Clan members operated, but after following Ieni, much like members from other clans, they quickly overcame their need to be powerful by a role. No one was carrying out orders or reporting the progress or development of the ongoing project. Everything kept going along like clockwork.

Many believed that it was Ieni kin'toni who was pulling the strings due to his hypnotic powers, while other – more rational members of the clan – believed that he was just an inspiring figure for like minded beings. There were very few cases of conflicts between the tribe, and when such situations did occur, the resolution was carried out by Ieni kin'toni himself, as he would take the disputing parties to the cave of isolation and bring them back with their grievances settled, once and for all.

There was no concept of punishment or penalty, although the Ieni kin'toni clan was living in some of the most dreadful and impoverished places, and mistakes could have fatal consequences on the lives of the rest of the members of the clan. The clan members believed in the concept of internal abundance and it always helped them look over the issues that could separate people, and rather focus on ways to bring people together for causes and situations much more rewarding than retrospective analyses.

After the invention of scribbling, the governance got a little more complicated as there was an option of taking polls and feedback, to engage all members of the clan. The concept of feedback was rubbished in the initial days, but seeing how it affected the surroundings, propelled more and more people to express their opinions. As a lot of people were new to the concept of feedback a lot of members would leave banters and obscene feedback, which would make a fascinating recreational activity, but it affected the efficiency, rather adversely.

This is when the concept of signatures was introduced. And the feedback without any signature was tossed out. Scavenger clans would pick these discarded scribblings and sell them as top-secret security information. Some of these playful scribblings became critical points of conflict between clans who were divided by their interpretations.

==Military==

Philosophy: Ieni kin'toni clan was mostly non-violent and nonaligned to any philosophical differences with any other clan. They had a troubled past with Iasul kin'toni clan’s “zagarmatanis” but after the trial of the broken child – Ieni, things were at large peaceful. There was no need for the tribe to fight any kind of wars for an awfully long time. Was the Ieni kin'toni clan getting stronger or weaker? It was a conundrum no one wanted to resolve by testing, especially, only out of curiosity and not some kind of imminent necessity.

Everyone knew that Ieni kin'toni devoured his “zagarmatani” caretaker and formed his own clan as a child. He was no more a child, at least physically.

Absolute strength: Just like the Iasul kin'toni clan every member of the tribe was well versed with how to spot, trick and hunt their prey. They too had a mentorship and enablement program. All warriors had more than one mentor and enabler. Unlike their parent clan there were no intra-clan bouts to demonstrate power and superiority. Everyone respected each other's powers and did not feel too inclined to test them. Each member had the “zagarmatani” approach, which meant in case of conflict, they would fight without any weapons or shields, but by the end of the altercation had everything that their opposition possessed.

Style: Like their parent clan, they too believed in “Sophisticated savagery”, as they carried the mysticism of wolves in their pre-encounter idiosyncrasies, and at the very instance of such collisions, they were fluid and feline. They would fight naked, and eventually strip their opponent of their clothes and weapons, and would end up consuming their nemesis completely, like true “zagarmatanis”.

War strategies, and tactics: As true “zagarmatanis” they went into a deep meditative state before their fights. But unlike their parent clan, the Iasul kin'toni Clan, Ieni kin'toni clan members were also impeccable lucid dreamers. They could predict various outcomes of their moves, and of their opponents, and would eliminate all prospects of being killed, by dying frequently in their mental simulations of those encounters.

==Religion==

Cycles of the moon have critical implications on the courses and choices of the Ieni kin'toni clan members, just like their parent clan. Each member of the clan was a preacher and a healer and could interpret the phases of the moon to determine the gravitational implications of their divine celestron on their vegetation, creative powers and moods. They would heal each other without establishing any physical contact, and only unlocking the tensed trauma centers troubling the being, by caressing their hands over the affected area, repeatedly.

They did not believe in the concept of lie, as to Ieni kin'toni and his clan, life is too precious and limited, to deter with doubt. They believed in the concept of a predisposed narrative governing and controlling all anomalies and uncertainties, no matter how random they appeared. Ieni kin'toni’s clan didn’t believe the concept of curses or boons, as such things could only affect the ones who seek victimhood or superiority for a tragically short period of validation.

Like their parent clan, Ieni Kintoni’s clan would have intense training sessions, as part of their religious belief system, in which all the members would thrash their egos, but unlike the Iasuls they would focus on forgiving those surrounding them, to be one with super-consciousness. They challenged the concept of missed opportunities and claimed that anyone could be a “zagarmatani”, even if they had a comfortable childhood. Ieni kin'toni’s clan believed that being a “zagarmatani” exclusively about sharing and exploring different ways of living a dignified and peaceful life had nothing to do with becoming fierce or ruthless.

One of their most interesting rituals was to gather on the full moon and express their gratitude to their closest celestron for guiding and inspiring them. They would not bring in any sacrifices or tributes, as for them life itself was a gift to be taken utmost care of, and to be grateful for. None of these rituals were passed on as oral commands, and were brough into practice, as the clan members began to imitate Ieni kin'toni. The true impact of this approach and that incident of “devoured zagarmatani caretaker” was such that they never had to fight another war or prove their strength to anyone.

==Miscellany==

Ieni kin'toni clan never had to kidnap or abduct a being from another clan. Neither did they ever have the need to synthesise life from bloodroots and animals. The most beautiful thing to have happened to the Ieni kin'toni clan was that they never faced any kind of retaliation from Iasul kin'toni’s tribe after what happened to the Zagarmatani caretaker assigned to abducted Ieni. Scribbling trade and their misinterpretation was the only thing that troubled Ieni kin'toni, and eventually to defend the honour of divine, they had to initiate a dialogue with Iasul kin'toni’s clan to share their concern.

Ight’turu kin'toni Clan were the primaries forgers and smugglers for the scribblings, and after learning from Iasul kintoni’s clan that he was abducted from the former, Ieni Kintoni had a peculiar moral conundrum. Was he to still believe his vision of the future, soaked in blood under moonlit night, or somehow forgive his native clan for their vices, and witness the events to unravel an absolute mayhem of greed and evil? Was the way to stop this evil from happening more vicious than the evil itself, Ieni kin'toni wondered.

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Ieni Kin'toni Clan - Revision history

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