Ximeen Kin'toni Clan

History

This clan was founded in 4E 384. They took part in many battles with the zu’aan, raiding their cities and meeting them on battlefields for war over time. They were very warlike, battling and fighting for decades before they eventually settled in the Cleshyusk Snowy Evergreen. Prior to their settlement, they simply travelled from place to place, battling and raiding the zu’aan, drinking their blood, feeding from them, and taking their belongings.

They become feared across most of the continent, a whispered fear that the zu’aan hoped would never descend down upon them. When the Ximeen did finally settle in the Cleshyusk forest, it was not to stay at home and live a peaceful life. It was so that they had a secure base from where they could attack and defend, and where they could gather their food and resources for the easiest distribution. Despite their extremely violent tendencies and anger issues, they have always been remarkably intelligent, using advanced tactics and planning to defeat their enemies and ensure they achieve victory.

This intelligence coupled with their fearsome strength and honed battle skill has made them a great and terrible threat to all they choose as an enemy. After they had chosen the Cleshyusk forest as their territory, they needed to claim it as their own. A small group of kin’toni had already gathered there, and soon the Ximeen had destroyed or driven them off, staking their claim and forcefully proving that this forest was theirs now. They did not take long to fortify their new territory, building homes and various protections. They erected walls and created traps.

They even managed to build a massive stone fort, which, though primitive, was secure and strong. Once they had spent a few years fortifying their position and solidifying their territory, they once again continued their raids and attacks. They started sending out raiding parties and groups to various zu’aan cities, and kin’toni clans, stealing any resources they needed and taking anything else that they wanted. The clan was attacked only once. Eventually, multiple kin’toni clans who had fallen victim to the Ximeen banded together in an attempt to attack and take their revenge, in a rare display of inter clan cooperation.

They attacked the clan’s main position, throwing their forces against the walls and traps of the Ximeen settlement to no avail. The Ximeen knew what they were doing, and had built their home well. The clan rebuffed the attack, chasing away the enemies, proving their dominance, and cementing their reputation as the most fearsome clan of the area. After this, the clan was never again attacked, though they did take extra precautions against it, posting more guards and creating more defences and fortifications. Over time, their attacks became more and more sophisticated.

They did these attacks for stealing specific resources that the clan needed, like foods or metals.

Biology

All of the adaptations of the Ximeen clan are towards combat, helping the clan fight and win in any battle they take part in. They are immensely strong, and faster than most other kin’toni. They have massive hands and feet, with sharp, strong talons perfectly designed to slash and cut through flesh and armour. The arms and legs of the Ximeen kin’toni are extremely thick and muscular, providing immense power and strength. The talons are black in colour, and the kin’toni take great pride in maintaining the sharpness of their claws. They are taller and broader than most other kin’toni.

With wide shoulders, bunched and corded with muscles. They are visually strong and powerful, with an intimidating presence that strikes fear into the hearts of their enemies at the mere sight of them. Their faces are long and bony, with high cheekbones and long chins. The ears are long and pointed, and highly sensitive to sound, giving them a strong sense of hearing. Their eyes have orange irises, with white sclera, and vertically beaded pupils. They have excellent vision, and can see far distances, as well as having decent night vision allowing them to hunt at night.

They have hair of various colours, but they keep it short and barely visible, finding it a distraction to have long hair which could get in their way. The Ximeen kin’toni are remarkably intelligent. They learn very quickly, efficiently gathering knowledge and using it to adapt and create new tactics on the battlefield. This, coupled with their fearsome strength, only makes them an even more terrible foe, as they are fully capable of using their great strength to strong effect. They do not care about much but violence, and though they are definitely intelligent.

And capable enough to achieve great things, they only use it for battle and warfare. The Ximeen are the best example of what the original zu’aan experiments attempted to create. The Ximeen kin’toni are strong, fast, intelligent, and crafty enough to learn and change to fit the battlefield and their situation. Despite their massive size and muscular build, these kin’toni are remarkably stealthy and quiet. They have learnt to move silently through territory, a biological adaptation allowing them to compress their musculature to decrease their size temporarily and allow them to move completely silently and not be seen.

Their feet are also remarkably soft, and have a thin layer of soft hair, which helps to mask the sound of their footsteps and keep their approach quiet. The large, muscled appearance of the Ximeen has become very distinctive over the years, and has become a symbol of fear. Many across the land know that if you see a massive, muscular figure with glowing orange eyes, the Ximeen have come for you, and it is time to accept your fate.

Culture

The entirety of the Ximeen clan culture surrounds combat and warfare, and on spreading the reputation and strength of the clan. It has become tradition and practice that every kin’toni practice and train in battle whenever they are not busy with something else. They do not care about family or relationships, and live alone in singular homes, ensuring they cannot be distracted from more important matters like battle and combat. The only thing the members of the clan care about is ensuring they improve and grow in strength, and do every possible thing they can to win any battle.

The Ximeen live simple lives, not wanting to be distracted or pulled away from their training. Their homes are simple wooden structures, with no personal belongings or furniture beyond the bare necessities needed for survival in a structure. The only time spent in these homes is the time needed for sleeping or eating, any other time is spent training or benefitting the clan through work and labour. In Ximeen culture, the more battles you survive, the more respected you are. Your age or strength do not matter, the only way to win power or respect is to win a large number of battles.

And prove your battle and prowess, and show your worth to the clan. It is customary that in any battle, the kin’toni present with the most battles won is the one who takes charge and commands all other members of the clan present. Because of this, many kin’toni are driven to seek more and more combat, often alone, in an attempt to build their standing and respect in the eyes of the clan. It is important to the clan that every warrior is experienced in multiple weapons. It is customary that every kin’toni has one weapon they specialise in, but must also train in various others.

These weapons can range from spears, to swords, to knives or hatchets. Within the clan, hatchets and swords are the most encouraged, as the clan believes that they are the best weapons for getting up and close with an enemy, to see their face whilst you kill them. Although the clan do not care about honour or fairness, they find honesty very important. They believe that kin’toni must be truthful about their ability, or they risk leaving the clan open and vulnerable to attack by betraying the trust of their clan mates. They also believe that if they cannot trust one another.

The clan will fail, as an army or battle can only be victorious when every member of the battle knows they can trust and follow the rest of the people around them. Gender does not matter in the slightest to this clan, as they understand that males and females are equally powerful and ferocious. The gender, age, or past of a kin’toni does not matter to the Ximeen, their strength and reputation is all that is important, and all that is considered.

Government

The leadership and rule of the Ximeen clan is entirely centred on strength and the winning of battles. The strongest kin’toni, and those who have won the most battles, are the ones who get to make the choices of the clan and lead them in all things. Of the strongest and most prestigious kin’toni, at least one must remain at the settlement at all times to lead the clan, and ensure it is secure and safe, whilst the others may lead raids and battles on other clans and tribes. There is no defined way of identifying who these strongest kin’toni are.

It is rather more based on the clan’s perception of these kin’toni. Any kin’toni who wish to lead may make an attempt to give orders and take leadership, and if they have a strong enough sense of purpose and a high enough reputation in the clan, their decisions may be followed and they will resume a position of leadership in the clan. The clan do not have many defined laws, but rather a series of basic guidelines all the kin’toni must follow. They are more disordered than almost many other kin’toni clans, but are not totally anarchic or destructive.

Most of their rules and guidelines are based around maintaining or improving the strength of the clan, and punishments will be handed out for doing anything that may weaken the clan. The main rule the clan must follow is that no member of the clan may kill or permanently injure another member of the Ximeen clan. It is seen as a waste to lose even a single soldier, and so the killing of a member of the clan needlessly is seen as the greatest crime any of the clan can commit. Thievery, manipulation, and other actions that are usually seen as a crime are largely ignored.

These are seen as simply proof of your strength and using your strength to take what you deserve, and so is not a crime. So long as your actions do not harm the clan, it largely does not matter. Punishments are rare, but severe. Often any murderers or killers who acted against the clan are usually killed, executed immediately, unless there is a particular use or need for that specific member of the clan. If there is any reason why a member is needed and cannot be killed, various punishments can be handed out. This includes things like imprisonment with a severe lack of food for months at a time.

Or severely rationing food and water to the individual until they have earned their position back in the clan. They would also lose any position or acclaim they hold within the clan, being reverted to essentially a new recruit of the clan. The only other rule or law that the clan enforces is the turning of zu’aan. No zu’aan may be turned without the explicit command of a high ranking member of the clan. A zu’aan may only be turned if they have faced the clan on the battlefield and proven their strength, and the clan approves, then they may be abducted and turned to strengthen the clan.

This is a rare occasion, but does happen when a particular zu’aan proves formidable enough.

Military

The military aspect of the Ximeen clan is their most important and powerful faction. All their time and energy is spent on improving their strength and dominating all others they meet, and ensuring they have constant victory in battle. Any kin’toni who are not directly involved in battle spend all their time developing new weaponry and armour to assist the clan in battle and give them an extra edge. Over time, they have developed iron weapons and basic leather and iron armour. These iron weapons consist of multiple different types of weaponry, such as the hatchets and swords favoured by the clan.

As well as the less used spears and knives of various types. Armour is made of leather with iron studs or strengthening, such as leather caps with iron rims, or leather jerkins with iron studs to support the strength of it. It is not particularly common, but some kin’toni also make use of shields. These shields are round and wooden, with a sturdy iron rim to strengthen and improve it. These shield carrying kin’toni are usually also the most heavily armoured, and serve as the vanguard of attacks, soaking up blows and attacks to protect the rest of the warriors behind them.

Most kin’toni wear simpler, mostly leather armour, and stay behind the heavily armoured, shield carrying kin’toni. These kin’toni usually carry spears and weapons with more reach, whilst behind them are the majority of the warriors with their swords and hatchets. The clan has many tacticians and intelligent kin’toni who carefully plan attacks and battles in order to strategically placed their forces and ensure their victory cannot be denied. These leaders act as what would be named generals in zu’aan armies, and are very highly regarded by the clan as a whole.

They take part in battles themselves, fighting on the front lines with the rest of their forces, proving their bravery and keeping their place in the clan secure. The kin’toni who serve as these tacticians are identified through a series of tests and methods to identify how they could potentially best help the clan in combat. The clan are very well trained and seasoned warriors. They spend all their free time practicing and training for battle, honing their skills and waiting for the next attack. Specific members of the clan are assigned as trainers, experts in various methods of combat and in the use of various weapons.

These trainers do not take part in combat, but spend their time training the clan and teaching them to use all types of weaponry and how to counter various types of combat. These trainers are some of the most highly regarded members of the clan, as their expertise in weaponry and combat makes them extremely valuable to the clan, as they are able to improve any kin’toni’s ability to fight and serve the clan. Because of this, they are not allowed to partake in combat themselves, as they are too valuable to risk, and are kept in the fortified settlement at all times to ensure their safety and security.

Religion

The Ximeen kin’toni clan are not particularly religious, but do have a series of beliefs and ideas which they follow. These beliefs all connect to violence and their warlike nature, but are rather personal to the individual. They do not have any preachers or religious teachers, and new kin’toni are simply taught upon their arrival, and after that, they must maintain their following and beliefs beyond that. The Ximeen believe that the only way to earn a position in paradise beyond death is to prove your strength to the world, and show your worthiness of a place in paradise.

They do not believe there is any god or spirit charging them with this, but rather believe that the very spirit of the earth itself will choose their final resting place. They believe that by serving the clan, winning battles and wars, they will show their clan’s dominance and win their right to rest in peace and paradise. Each kin’toni has their own methods of proving their strength and right to paradise. These can vary greatly from individual to individual, but all follow the basic tenet of proving your strength and prowess in battle to prove yourself.

Some do this by throwing themselves into every battle they possibly can, seeking to win every clash, every conflict they can. They believe that the best way to increase their strength is by winning battles and earning victory. Others train far more than the rest, believing that by honing their abilities and skills, they will show their strength, rather than forcing battle, they can earn it in a more honourable method. Though honour is not important to the clan as a whole, there are still some individuals who believe they must act with honour and honesty to truly win their right to paradise.

Their beliefs and religious ideas are strong, but they keep them to themselves. If an enemy can challenge them, and prove their strength and skill, the clan will potentially respect them enough to leave them alive, though they do not explain to their foes why exactly they have left them enough. They believe that by respecting the strength of their enemies, they earn themselves more opportunities to test their might and skill. As this is the most important aspect of their lives, it is important to them to continue to push themselves and their enemies to greater heights.

They continue to push ever higher to force their strength to new heights. Everything they do is in pursuit of earning a position in paradise, and proving why they deserve the respect of the clan.

Miscellany

The Ximeen have their own language which is spoken only by their clan. They do not teach it to outsiders, or learn the languages of any others. If they need to communicate at all, they do it through basic gestures, getting the basics of their meaning across to their enemies, though this is rare. It is not often that they need to communicate at all, so it is rare to see this attempted.In terms of clothing, the Ximeen are not very sophisticated. If the clothing does not in some way benefit their ability in combat, they do not care about it. They will wear any mismatched arrangement of clothing gathered from their raids.

This is just to ensure they are covered up and not nude. They continually wear armour, even when home at the settlement, and do not care about the clothes that are under the armour. Their buildings vary in type and makeup. Most of the homes are constructed of wood, basic buildings consisting of a single room, with four basic rectangular walls and thatched roofs, just barely enough to keep the beds warm and dry, and allow the kin’toni to sleep properly and regain their strength during the day. They spend the nights training, and the days sleeping.

They have also multiple stone buildings. The largest of these buildings is the clan meeting place, where the clan gathers to discuss new targets and plan attacks. This building is constructed of stone, a sturdy, large building with a single main hall and a few small side rooms. There are multiple other large stone buildings that are used for training during the day. Not all of the clan require sleep for the whole day, and when they are awake during the deadly daylight hours, most of the clan can be found in one of the multiple large stone buildings, filled with weapons and armour.

This is where they can hone their skills and practice. These buildings are where the trainers and teachers of the clan live, so that they are readily available to teach members of the clan at all hours of the day. These buildings are fully equipped for training and practice, and are the perfect place for the clan to prepare for battle.

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