Endengu Tribal Zu'aan

History

The history of the Endengu Tribal zu'aan begins in the year of 4E 340, when a series of individuals that held onto the Endengu surname, which was known as a family of highly well-trained military officials that held prestige in different tribes throughout the years, were tasked with guarding a secret research vault from a series of incoming kin'toni. Though, this group of kin'toni did not make it easy for the Endengu, since they besieged those few members of the family and some of their troops for about six years.

This series of events confused the Endengu profoundly, due to the fact that the tribe they were currently a part of promised them backup ever since the year of 4E 345, and as the Endengu held out continuously for many years on end, they saw no signal of help. When the year of 4E 347 came, something finally snapped for the Endengu, when a letter was sent back to them by the last remaining members of that tribe. The letter carried a very simple and short array of characters, that was just enough to make the remaining Endengu crash out:

“We thought you guys were dead.”

After such message was received, the Endengu abandoned the settlement that was being sieged, seeing no more purpose in defending the constructions of the tribe which abandoned them. The remaining members set off to find the last of the tribe's holdouts; discussion remained as to either punish them for the abandonment, or to join forces once again due to the ever-so-raising kin'toni threat. In the year of 4E 349, they found, during travels, a flag which seemed to be the exact same one from the tribe that abandoned them near a large pike wall.

Though the flag seemed ripped, and its corners showed signs of burning. When they went inside the wall, they saw the members being slaughtered in real time, as a series of kin'toni were busy rounding up the last remaining children of the tribe for a true feast. Even though the tribe had abandoned them, the Endengu did not tolerate that sort of barbarity being done to the last remaining children of the tribe, and quickly descended onto the remaining kin'toni, their restless rage allowing them to utilize an almost surely suicidal charge into one powerful strike able to get rid of the remaining kin'toni, which would only manage to devour four children.

After such events, the Endengu members forced themselves into exile. They wanted no reminder of the tribe which abandoned them; the resentment created from those twenty-two rough years was translated into the most pure and suitable description of what can represent wrath, allowing the Endengu to develop into the restless and blindly hateful tribe they evolved into today. By the time they arrived at their new home, the Shyrisi Glacier Caves, they had already racked up and stockpiled the bodies of dozens of kin'toni.

Some of which were kept forcefully alive to be routinely tortured outside the entrances of the caves; the ones which died had their heads sliced off and put on pikes outside those same caves, all as a display of force.

Psychology

The organization of the mind which shapes the psyche of the Endengu tribal zu'aan is one that is anchored deeply within their origin story and shaped around their abandonment. The very existential threat of the historical message where the warriors' lives were declared to have ended regardless of their actual well-being shapes a sort of mentality where the idea of existence is conditional on the fact of someone actually remembering you, which makes it so their biggest fear and its practical expression is not the concept of death.

But plain indifference in the face of existence and, of course, being forgotten, beginning a series of thought processes shaped around memory. Furthermore, their behaviour around the notions of emotion is one which follows their ideal of hateful resentment; they see it as something to be contained and never forgotten, actually incentivizing the individuals of the tribe to do what is often referred to as “bottling up emotions”, instead of expressing them at any level. This influences most of the tribe's members to take rage, grief, and things like fear as a series of volatile substances which shape their behaviour thoroughly.

Making it so their overall focus in emotional development is that of containment and still refusing to break. Any sort of cracks, be them crying, be them begging, are all seen as signs of what collapse can be, which allows for a tribe where silence becomes the law, psychologically speaking. Hatred, as well, is used almost as one of the core resources that can be taken and drawn from the land which the tribe inhabits. Though, just like any matter which is drawn and extracted from the land, it is often refined into other expressions of plain wrath.

They see this, psychologically, as one of the pillars of their emotional density which allows for hatred to become a tool, one which is aged, layered, and thoroughly sharpened. They believe that it can act as the most primordial fuel for the rage that serves an extremely powerful purpose, something that is often nearly comparable to a tectonic force that extends itself to serve the very important role of preserving their existence through their inherent memories. When it comes to the treatment of kin'toni, they see them not only as the enemies they most clearly act as by destroying the zu'aan race wherever they go.

But as actors that are plainly acting within the interest of being anti-existence; their very core is seen as something that only serves to destroy, to consume, and to erase memories, regardless of how important those are deemed. To the Endengu, those are walking examples of deniers of history that must be eliminated whenever a chance pops up, which makes it so, for most of the tribe's psyche, the act of killing them is seen as a fundamental action to preserve meaning. There rests no mercy in the mind of the Endengu for killing one whose existence erases memory.

Culture

When it comes to the state of cultural development within the Endengu tribe, we often observe a couple of things which might not be strictly unique to the Endengu tribe, but definitely serve their specific order in a unique way in comparison to cultural expressions in other zu'aan tribes. One of the key examples of this is their silent etiquette, which extends to almost a doctrine within the members of the tribe that is often seen as the most core and basic step towards being a truly disciplined member of the Endengu.

This is often observed in some key moments of interzu'aan social interaction, like how things such as small talk are seen as a sort of leaking from the emotional density often required by the members, or how speech is sort of seen as a ceremony for wherever it is deemed necessary. This praising towards the notion of silence and quietness actually makes room for very unique artistic expressions that are seen as deeply needed in everyday lives, that being through the usage of sign languages, developed and taught in school since early days, or perhaps the usage of carved symbols into ice and writing on slates.

Also taught since the early days in educational units across the entire tribe; this necessity makes it so the Endengu actually learn arts and crafts as an almost fundamental part of their technical formation within their tribe, normalizing it from a very different angle and initiative. Another interesting point that can be analyzed when it comes to the culture of the Endengu tribal zu'aan is their usage and utilization of memory, which is something often not only architectured around, but is also given a lot of room which lets the structures around the tribe gain life as a sort of living archive.

Where names and dates are carved into ice, but, since emotional and personal data is often registered, this also extends to things such as important traits which are attributes to an individual. So this developed a culture in the Endengu tribe where regions are separated for each person's name within the ice, and next to that name are registered all the actions of the individual which are deemed important, be that their birthday, their family name, or even the crimes they have committed.

When it comes to the education system and its expression within the Endengu tribe, it acts in an undeniably favorable nature for nurturing the kids' critical sense around things such as the reality around them but not as much for their inner self and emotional clarity around expressions. This is seen most clearly in how the first lessons given to the individuals when young are those around history, the geography of the Shyrisi Glacier Caves, and things such as philosophy as to insert critical thought.

But while still being limited, classes on philosophy which might lead the individual to question the morality of keeping in emotions and the consequences of bottling up thoughts are often erased from curriculums regardless of age; while this level of censorship happens to some degree, things such as history are taught thoroughly, documents are often replicated exactly as to the original to even allow students to do their own research and to draw conclusions since an early age.

Government

The framing utilized for the overall shaping of the government follows the general social laws that have been established amongst the tribe's functioning so far, be it from drawing from their extensive history or from the cores of their psyche. The purpose of government at its core, for the Endengu, is more so about custodian matters instead of the plain development of a leadership by itself, since the tribe sees that most of its actions should be directed towards the maintenance and preservation of both order and historical or existential memory.

This, in turn, creates a structure where political power is seen as a burden tied to purpose and to a task instead of a privilege, which develops what is a usual notion amongst the zu'aan, but still unique to Endengu's traits, where no single figure of power exists within the tribe, existing to prevent the act of forgetting instead of to innovate. Now, when it comes to the accumulation of political power and the structure of the sociological body responsible for decision-making, this is expressed thoroughly by a ruling body composed of a series of elders that are given the title of “Archivists”.

Each responsible for representing a different sector of the recorded history of the Endengu, be it about the wars they've clashed against kin'toni, be it the migration processes which led them to the Shyrisi Glacier Caves, or be it about extinct tribes which the Endengu stayed alive to see the rise and fall of. Not only that, but they engage in various debates as to make decisions based on that which is more favorable to the zu'aan in the tribe, just like any politician is supposed to, of course, however, they negate any sort of emotional expression within a debate or any official discussion.

Those sort of expressions are deemed to be as bad democratically as practicing nepotism, the focus of discussion is to allow for consensus to rise as for the betterment of the tribe. When it comes to law, they follow such orders that can be seen in classical examples of a republic, being those basic laws around the determination and the solving of issues around and regarding territory, laws which determine the civil liberties of each individual within the tribe and how those should be kept up, or things such as the condemnation of murder and theft; the difference in their justice system comes from the aftermath and the consequences of committing violations to it.

First of all being how any sort of criminal activity is framed as an act which ruptures continuity more than a simple moral failure, and even punishments are public to a high extent, and of course, never abandon their mnemonic nature: names are carved into corridors designed for those individuals deemed as criminal, and those same names are also often erased from public or communal archives so as to punish the individual by removing their right to memory and, by extent, their right to exist within the Endengu Tribal Zu'aan.

Military

In terms of the military doctrine which shapes the Endengu zu'aan tribe's actions and policies, we often observe the fact that their biggest purpose when it comes to combat and self-defense is to properly preserve what is held closest to the heart of the members of the tribe, the concept of memory; they often anchor their fears of losses and erasure to moments of war and destruction, which are often, if not always, responsible for the obliteration of important records on walls and slates.

It is an interruption of the order which allows for existence. When campaigns do happen, their main focus is to ensure that no kin'toni even has the opportunity to be able to cause erasure towards any zu'aan within the Endengu tribe, and, not only that, to make sure no kin'toni action ever has its history forgotten or unrecorded, which makes it so the most important core logic within the military is to make sure that if destruction does happen, it at least isn't unwitnessed, which would loop around to their notion around the concept of collapse.

The command structure works around a collection of units and formations under the control of a single officer, that is often someone with high government rankings or perhaps high regard in the historical field; given the purpose of commanding attacks around kin'toni bases or to halt advances from the same group's various attempted invasions, it follows a very generic form; however, their fighting style is where things really get interesting. The procedures taken within the battlefield follow many of the psychology of the Endengu and their overall viewpoints around the kin'toni.

The Endengu armed forces are absolutely restless and ruthless; they often throw themselves in suicidal charges that are able to intimidate lines and lines of kin'toni before even reaching their first soldier. We see this as not only a reflection of their history, but also quite an important representation of their overall culture of explosive wrath, this time being expressed in its purest form: bloodshed. Not only that, they also use tactics which have the objective of making it impossible for the advancing kin'toni to make much progress within the insides of the Shyrisi Glacier Caves.

Instead of normal ranged weapons or creating walls within the darkened yet known parts of the cave, the Endengu take to another historical practice of them that exploits the kin'toni's dependency on sound; the Endengu tribal zu'aan's military forces often takes to torturing live captured kin'toni within their settlements, so that the cries and moans from such hurt creatures are able to echo off the walls of the biome, oftentimes attempting to cause intimidation of such degree to the kin'toni that they wouldn't be able to make minimal progress.

Psychological experts within the Endengu tribal zu'aan argue that such tactic makes the kin'toni aware of what would happen to them if they dare step another meter into the Shyrisi Glacier Caves.

Religion

When it comes to the theological shaping that was developed by the Endengu tribe, we often observe a set of characteristics where divinity and the very concept of God doesn't follow the premise of a caring entity that is revered by their creations and empathetical thinking towards the world; it begins instead from the thought process that declares existence as a conditional fact which remains alive only through remembrance; what is seen as sacred then, instead of a being, becomes a functional concept: the one of continuity.

They, therefore, have open rejections towards any conventional means of worship or conceptualization of divinity, no moral obligations being drawn from their beliefs. They see memory itself as the force which lets something remain real after it's gone, complementing the concept of an afterlife into something that can be kept and maintained by the individuals of the very tribe, which actually allows for the creation of two concepts that are treated such as art: biological death, which is when a line is erased but their blur still remains on the page.

And erasure, when it's fully removed; the second is the true annihilation which happens when an individual is fully forgotten. When it comes to religious figures, we observe these being integrated into various functions that can be done by the very members of the Endengu tribal zu'aan, which will be described as below: The first is the witness, following a dictional description of the one that is able to observe an atrocity and survive through it; we have the keeper, the one responsible for recording and preserving what was seen.

Many times seen as the task of historians and artists; the last voice, which is the one which remains to speak when the other functions are gone; and last but not least, the engraver, the individual which gives suffering form, the one responsible for the suffering; while in terms of morality, all these four don't present the same standard, they are seen as a live expression in the zu'aan's biological world of the forces which give nature shape and which give continuity its importance.

Furthermore, the things that are the most comparable to demons, or just any expression of anti-sacred forces, are the very kin'toni which, by what is argued by the Endengu, challenge the order of memory just by existing; they are ontologically treated as threats. Many of the religion's rituals are around the cyclical torture of kin'toni, of dancings around the pikes which still hold up kin'toni heads to these days, and oftentimes, is used to justify huntings for more members of the kin'toni that shall be used for further torturing.

All of this barbaric manner of treating the kin'toni is seen as fully justified due to their clear intent to also kill if given the chance, but their purpose of being the erasers of history, responsible for the true deletion of life from individuals from not only the Endengu tribe, but any zu'aan tribal society.

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