Pasomsul Kin'toni Clan

History

The Pasomsul clan was founded in 4E 62, although some have speculated that the founding of the clan was a bit earlier or later than that; however, in circa 4E 62, a kin'toni named Yerhonend Aughel-Iye decided after several centuries of torment by his former clan the Galroda Kin'toni Clan run away and start his clan, with no intention of returning to his former home. Over the next few years, he spent his nights in the Aldechough region looking for zu'aan to recruit and turn and managed quite a bit of success in the process.

Although some have speculated in centuries past that this particular location was more full of zu'aan back then as it is currently. So, over ten years, he managed to turn and recruit more than 150 zu'aan, turning them into kin'toni in the process. After close examination of his recruits, he discovered that a zu'aan to kin'toni transformation would generally take close to several weeks to finish. By the time in which the Shattering began Aughel-Iye's clan had a population of roughly eight thousand, twenty-five per cent of which were female and seventy-five per cent of which were male.

However, the Shattering affected his land vastly after a rival clan in the Huaetet Kin'toni Clan launched a surprise invasion on the Pasomsul clan, forcing them to retreat after they killed more than half of the Pasomsul clan as a result. They managed to take shelter in an undisclosed, uninhabited region near the region that was taken over by the Huaetet clan, and for that reason, Aughel-Iye decided upon landing there that he would name a successor to replace him as leader of the Pasomsul clan by hosting a jousting tournament where the two winners would face off in an open forum debate.

The eventual winner of the debate would go on to become the Pasomsul clan's reconstruction. In the end, Aughel-Iye's successor, Grazbun Cazaar'en, took over after winning the jousting tournament and prevailing in the debate, eventually calling for a campaign for everyone in the clan to turn as many zu'aan as possible within the region; and furthermore. By the year 4E 172, the Pasomsul clan's population rose significantly to more than two thousand. Cazaar'en eventually decided after the campaign was over to invade the Huaetet clan's new homeland which was once theirs.

This surprise invasion, known as the Fight of Relics and Elements, took place in their former land, with many thousands of casualties resulting from both sides; however, the Pasomsul clan eventually forced the Huaetet clan out of their clan founder's former home and took back his home in honour of him, who fought and died in the battle to take back his homeland, was honoured following the successful retaking of their original homeland, but their victory would be short-lived. A hurricane that was originally intended to hit elsewhere on Terael hit their region.

And many of the Pasomsul kin'toni died as a result; the clan, to this very day, has failed to rebound from that massive loss of life.

Psychology

In centuries past the psychology of most Pasomsul kin'toni was pretty good; however, after the hurricane hit and the clan was reduced to a population of less than 6,000, the psychology of these kin'toni became much more pessimistic. Because most kin'toni in this clan are pessimistic they claim that there is also a myriad of different reasons behind their pessimism; for instance, they are generally pessimistic because, even though there are many zu'aan in the region in which they live, they often end up dying in the middle of the transformation process.

Many of which die of infection-related issues or complications. Most of the kin'toni in this clan brush their teeth up to four times a night (and sometimes, during the day) because hygiene is important to them. Generally speaking, some of the Pasomsul kin'toni are positive, but the majority of them that are usually aren't for very long as something bad could sometimes happen to them, at which point their self-esteem would be lowering again. Pasomsul kin'toni finds little to be happy about and can't seem to find much of anything to motivate them, but some of the kin'toni in this clan are fortunate.

And manage to find even one thing to help them cope with their misfortunes; given that, they are not all there as a result of the hurricane that hit their region and nearly wiped them out, but as a new Ice Age approaches they could find the break that they are looking for. A typical Pasomsul kin'toni has a lot to look forward to in terms of future occurring events, but the event that a typical Pasomsul kin'toni looks forward to the most in the upcoming Ice Age that will impact their area and this is an event which almost everyone in the clan has prepared for constantly.

Since the hurricane from thousands of years ago. Typical Pasomsul kin'toni also has a lot on their mind, including the stress of falling to misfortune after misfortune, as well as how one handles such misfortunes in the face of adversity, and for that reason in itself most kin'toni in this clan are stressed out at times and can't seem to find ways to vent out their frustrations. When it comes to learning things, however, a Pasomsul kin'toni is not hesitant to learn how to live and succeed, going as far as to use unusual techniques in their approach; these techniques can subsequently work in their favour sometimes.

But in the past, these unusual methods have proved to hurt them more than it has helped them. In general, most of the kin'toni in this clan like to learn things on their own and try new methods in the hopes that they might succeed in their efforts, which is not half bad considering the run of bad luck the Pasomsul clan, in general, have been on as of late.

Biology

The Pasomsul are adapted to the warm, wet, stagnant-watered, muddy Tembrae Marsh. They are wide and rather flat of build, with legs that are long and muscular (able to make large jumps). This makes them good at moving though water and dense mud, but slow on dry, uneven grond. Their skin is dark muddy greens and browns, velvety, and extremely porous. It has an thin layer of slippery mucus, making it slimy and aiding cutaneous oxygen absorption in water. This mucus has an faint, unique clan scent to allow clan members to identify each other by smell alone.

It also makes trying to hide their clan harder as other kin'toni can pick up this smell. They also have an compound that actively inhibits the growth of bacteria and fungi. This allows them to be immune to common marsh-borne pathogens and rot. They are highly susceptible to abrasion and dehydration if they go into dry air for too long. They only have very fine, very sparse hairs on the back of their neck and spine. These act as vibrational dampeners to reduce sound propagation during submerged movement.

The eyes are small and high set to allow them to remain submerged but still have vision. The nose has an a tight, circular sphincter that can close completely. This allows them to avoid getting water in their noses but also means they cannot scent track underwater. They lack outer ears, in replacement, the tympanic membranes and inner ear structure are adapted to deal with vibrations traveling through both air and water. This hearing is much sharper underwater then in air, leading to poor hearing in air.

Along with the mechanoreceptors in their skin, this allows them to detect and interpret the extremely subtle pressure waves made by movement in the stagnant water. This allows them to find and identify prey. This sense can be blinded by heavy rainfall. The fangs are slender and slightly flexible. These fangs are adapted to go between the gaps in scales and shells of marsh fauna, but tend to break on thicker hides. The mouth and throat have a set of feathery filaments for filtering out fine mud and particulates from ingested water.

This allows them to drink the muddy marsh water. The fingers and toes are long and webbed, with small non retractable claws. These claws are adapted for digging in mud, and are not good for climbing. The powerful arm and leg muscles allow them to dig swiftly into the mud to hide themselves for ambush or defense. They also have padding in the bones and joints to hide their mechanical vibrations. This means they can move silently though the dense mud without prey knowing. The heels have a glad that can excrete a unique pheromone.

This pheromone allows them to leave a strong, directional chemical trail in the water. With this and their sense of smell, they can retrace paths taken or communicate with clan members. They also have an hepatic system that is highly evolved for neutralizing the neurotoxins and venoms of local lifeforms, to allow them resistance to native poisons, but not those that are not native to their region.

Culture

The Pasomsul clan have a strange culture in terms of how they live their lives, and their culture has a stranglehold on their beliefs and their religious activities. The typical Pasomsul kin'toni has a lot of time on its hands during the night to scavenge things and look for important things, such as blood, fruits, and so on. When the typical Pasomsul kin'toni looks for important things to scavenge they usually travel quite a ways, yet they always try to stay in their region as much as possible; for example, a typical Pasomsul kin'toni generally looks for trees.

Which are primarily found in a few places across the marshland, and it is often suggested that the Pasomsul kin'toni climbs up the tree to get some fruit, then climbs back down to eat it. In addition to the fact that most Pasomsul kin'toni looks for fruit trees when scavenging, most of them will also look for large creatures, such as the fazul. The fazul, which generally weighs close to 300 pounds and stands at around 2 feet taller than a typical kin'toni, are usually very easygoing with its Pasomsul counterparts, often letting the Pasomsul kin'toni get blood from them via their fangs.

They don't have to dig in for long as keeping their fangs in the Fazul's legs for even just a few minutes is enough of a dig to get them through the night; however, although the fazul's bite marks heal up remarkably fast. Another part of this clan's culture is very unique in its own right, but it also has something to do with the fact that the Pasomsul clan are active in their religious beliefs. Every few days a typical Pasomsul kin'toni will normally try to express his or her religious beliefs while, at the same time, looking for relics in one of the seven caves within the marshland.

The seven caves, which are located in various locations within the Pasomsul-owned Aldechough region, have a strange entranceway that leads to several different paths, one of which contains various relics. These relics often have an ancient proverb etched into them, proverbs of which were given by the Pasomsul clan's founder, Aughel'Iye. Given that most of the kin'toni in this clan end up getting bored a lot during the day they usually sleep in such a way where they, according to the clan's archives, can sleep as comfortably as possible.

A majority of the clan chooses to sleep in the fetal position to try and get acquainted with sleeping during the day; however, they sleep underground by going into underground bunkers through one of the seven caves. However, the typical underground bunkers, which can be found by going into any of the seven cave's entranceways, are very large and serve as a foundation for the modern Pasomsul clan's ancestors, some of which whose skeletons have been buried here. They sleep in these bunkers each day in preparation for the night ahead.

To almost all of those belonging to the Pasomsul clan, working on the wall is a way of life for them and is also very therapeutic. Another thing that is not considered when one studies this particular kind of kin'toni clan is that all of them will typically go in a single-file line into their caves, but not at the same time. Given that, some of the kin'toni generally wait until an hour before dawn to go back to their caves, and even less tend to wait just thirty minutes before dawn. In any case, though, some of the kin'toni in this clan were initially exiled from the Kuvesim clan and forced to live in this region.

At which point they were accepted with open arms. Furthermore, when it comes to being a member of the Pasomsul clan, all you need to be successful is a lot of strength, common sense, wisdom, spirituality, and intelligence. Some kin'toni from other clans don't believe that this is necessarily true, but others speculate that something else is needed to thrive as a member of the Pasomsul clan and that something else is honesty and plenty of it, no less. In the past, many of the kin'toni in this clan have worked their hearts out trying to finish construction and repair on the Wall of Wisdom.

But with a new Ice Age approaching, the final stages are in order as far as the construction and repairs of the Wall of Wisdom are concerned and considering it is one of the longest walls in Terael and one that has taken the most time to try completely. As far as how soon, however, nobody knows for sure as it is only a matter of time before the Ice Age inevitably takes place. According to the kin'toni of various clans, the beginning of the Ice Age could take place as soon as a few years from now, which is just about enough time for the Pasomsul clan to try and finish the wall that took ten thousand years to build. All they need now is the luck of time itself.

Government

Back in an age when the Pasomsul clan was just starting its founder, Yerhonend Aughel-Iye, founded a government structure that consisted of his marshland region being divided up into seven different local areas, each of which would be governed by a sole leader. These seven leaders of the seven local regions would be appointed by the clan leader himself and the clan leader would appoint this local governor and the two would take part in a gubernatorial oath, at which point the appointed will be asked to repeat after the clan leader. The appointed will be given the responsibility to protect and uphold.

This part of the region as efficiently as possible to make that local section safe and secure. Typically, governors to be appointed to a local section within the marshland region are chosen by the clan leader and are appointed based on three categories: loyalty, which requires a significant amount of experience in the military, intelligence, which requires a lot of common sense and maturity, and strength, which requires a lot of physical endurance and stamina. Being sufficient in all three of these will more than get a kin'toni a job. There are many jobs a kin'toni in this clan can have.

Some might even be able to become a religious advisor for the Pasomsul clan, where you will be able to give sermons and lead in meditation and prayer, although it is also feasible to be a scribe on the side in addition to being a governor of a local sector within the Aldechough region. How laws are made and put into effect is not a simple process, although some would tend to disagree with the general assumption. It starts when local governors meet with the clan leader to discuss their suggestions for what pieces of legislation should be put into effect and initiation.

Each of the local governors gets an equal and fair opportunity to offer up a legislative suggestion. A poll between the other six local governors to determine whether or not the legislative suggestion given will be passed into law, and the majority vote would have to be at least a four-to-two decision. If the clan leader doesn't like it, he or she will come up with a suggestion for a revision to the local governor's suggestion and if the local governor likes it, the law will then be voted on between the other six governors. There has to be at least a four-to-two decision and the revised law will decide on.

It will either be struck down or passed into law as a result of the majority decision. The local governors are chosen as every fifty years the clan leader will hold seven jousting tournaments that will take place in each of the seven local areas of the Aldechough region. The winner of each of the local tournaments will then be allowed to lead their local sector and be given leadership over their local sector. At which point they will also be given a lot of responsibility that they must use very wisely.

Military

The Pasomsul clan's military was not always a military; back in the days of the Shattering, the Pasomsul clan's military was referred to as a tribe rather than an army or a navy. After the Shattering, though, the new clan leader at the time, one Fazala Xar, officially formed a military and called for many of the kin'toni in the clan to join it. However, after the hurricanes struck their homeland their military was reduced to half of what it was before the strike, and their wall, which had been in construction for thousands of years before the hurricane.

This was very damaged from significant flooding and the ground underneath was washed away. Given that, many of the kin'toni in this clan devote their allegiance to their military and their religion. A great majority of the kin'toni in this particular clan that are turned are allowed to participate in the Pasomsul Order, a military that dedicates their time to the Wall of Wisdom as their ancestors once did thousands of years ago. It's important to them as it takes up a lot of time, but they spend two hours of their night working on it, fixing damage and many hours guarding the wall.

While some of the other remaining hours are dedicated to scavenging items and blood. However, they also believe in protecting their borders, so some also watch from atop the remains of their wall in search of potential invaders while a Guardian stands in front of the entranceway that leads into the marshland region; if it is proven that the suspected invader is an ally to the clan. Then the accused will be granted access to the marshland and participate in a fire ritual with a local. What makes the Pasomsul clan's Order stand out above many other clan militias across Terael is real simple.

There are no supreme leaders in the Pasomsul Order because everyone that is a part of the Pasomsul Order is their leader and being your leader comes with a lot of responsibility and a lot of patience over time, which means that everyone is of equal worthiness in the Pasomsul Order. nd furthermore, to be initiated into the clan one would have to participate in a series of tests, each one more daunting than the last. These tests, which are moderated by the leader of one's local section are what determines the number of qualities.

This is including perseverance, loyalty, willingness, honour, strength, and endurance, to name six. After one can complete all of these tests, he or she will prove to the local governor. From there one can learn how to cooperate and work together with others, as well as how to protect the Wall of Wisdom from being invaded upon. Learning these three things is all that is required of a member of the Pasomsul Order, but he or she must also be allegiant and devoted to the reconstruction of the wall and the clan's religion of choice. Also, keep in mind that it is hard to get kicked out of the Pasomsul Order.

But getting kicked out of the Order is like getting exiled from the clan. If you get kicked out of the Pasomsul Order, you cannot come within a dozen yards of the wall and you cannot participate in the building of the wall.

Religion

In the first few millennia in the Pasomsul clan's existence, most of them were generally agnostic and had no legitimate reason to believe in a religion of some kind; however, it was during the Shattering and after their failed battle against the Kuvesim clan that they came up with a religion of their own, and this religion was referred to as and named after their spirit god Beezul. It came to be known as Beezulism. Beezu is thought to be a spirit god that constantly protects the Wall of Wisdom, a wall that took thousands upon thousands of years to construct. Most of the kin'toni in this clan are also part of the clan's Pasomsul Order, which focuses primarily on the finishing of the Wall of Wisdom.

Every week, just before sunset, the governors of each of the seven local sectors of the Aldechough region will hold a mass to pay tribute to their spirit god, Beezul; they strangely do this, however, singing in a secret language that only they know and hearing from their local governor of their sector serve as a preacher as he gives a sermon on the folklore that makes up this clan's religion, and that generally lasts around an hour. At around the end of every sermon, an offering will be made to the kin'toni of this clan by their local leader, where anyone can come up and kneel before the local governor and pray to their spirit god Beezul; sometimes a great deal of them will come up and pray to Beezul.

Asking him for his forgiveness for whatever wrongs they had committed that day, and as day turns into night, everyone leaves their caves to scavenge things. Sometimes when they build they can be heard singing songs of praise to their spirit god Beezul, a spirit god who protects their region, and especially their wall; however, building on this wall is not easy, for this wall was made using stone blocks and wet clay and each of the stone blocks represents a different part of Beezul's life, which is counted by the number of days in which was believed he lived. At some point during a certain night, a kin'toni has been known to hunt for a larger animal to tame and take care of in the name of Beezul.

But sometimes when they take in the larger animals the task of raising them can prove to be quite a challenge. It takes a lot of patience to raise a larger animal in the name of Beezul, for raising such animals requires that both the kin'toni and the larger animal are fed well. And that is why a kin'toni in the Pasomsul clan needs to be religious and aware of the existence of the spirit god Beezul, especially when one considers that most of the creatures in this region are large and willing to learn things if they are taught. Even so, most of the kin'toni in this clan are firm believers.

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