Aleorma Tribal Zu'aan

History

The Aleorma is a tribe marked by a fighting history birthed from a rebellion that split them from the Aleor tribe. It all began in the year of 4E 186, where the rebellion's leader, Harielishul Valaren, began organizing and training many younger groups in secret for a future rebellion that would free them from the Aleor tribe's iron rasp, a monarchy responsible for a kingdom which relied fundamentally on slave labor to function. After 5 years of organizing and continuous training, it was about time for the rebellion's forces to strike, they first began during the regulatory lunch break.

Allowing them all to unite without raising suspicion, first, knives were passed out from under a wooden table, allowing them all to be armed, second, many of them were handed incendiary tools, which were for later use, and third, their leader actually scheduled a meeting with the then leader of Aleor, Shulash Krorror, which was supposed to be responsible for organizing the guards in case of invasion. In the moment that lunch break was over, the slaves took the fact they were herded back in large masses of people to stab many of the guards without being themselves identified.

Which not only killed a few who were cut by the neck, but incapacitated the other guards who only suffered a couple of injuries; afterwards, a small group took to a small settlement within the very walls of Krorror (name given to the city built by the Aleor) and set fire to it. That evening, smoke filled the air as the guards who were still available began trying to water it down (their action was so disorganized that by the end, the fire took the life of about 150 civilians).

And, their final act was to take advantage of the guards diverted attention to open up the front gates, which finally allowed all of the rebellion members, along with a few others who simply took to the opportunity to flee from the city, to run off. When Harielishul and Shulash were about to finish their meeting, soldiers rushed into the room and warned Shulash of the outcome of the rebellion, and Shulash, without any doubt in his mind, ordered the same guards to execute Harielishul on the spot.

The rebellion waited until morning in a spot that was just far enough from the city to not be spotted by guards to see if Harielishul had come, and when the time was met and he didn't show up, the members knew they would have to keep moving without their beloved leader. Still mourning, the group moved towards their agreed destination, the Issran Shield, an area heavily monitored by diverse sorts of kin'toni, which was an extremely dangerous move, however, it was one of the few areas the Aleor tribe had no formal connections to, thus, lessening the risks of an attack.

The dangers should not be understated though, many members of the rebellion, which by now began calling themselves the Aleorma tribe, died on their path to the Shield (which actually led to a select group fleeing the planned path to another area, which had less kin'toni activity but heavier Aleor monitoring, calling themselves the Enr tribe), but at last, they made it there, and their 5 years of harsh training along with their endurance gathered from suffering under enslaved labor allowed them to persist as an independent tribe.

Psychology

The baseline psychological condition that defines the Aleorma tribe is, on average, divided into pretty neutral neurological conditions, however, a few things still deserve a certain degree of highlight; due to their fighting history and experience with constant kin'toni threats, many of the individuals of the tribe don't struggle a lot with anxiety, instead developing a level of alertness which is sort of common depending on a tribe's geographical position. They're often able to feel comfort despite undeniable pressure that may come from instabilities of threats to their very lives.

Lacking panic-like reactions towards violence and danger, which is something cognitively categorized as a sort of routine at this point. This was very present especially in older generations, which were the first responsible for establishing the tribe's presence in the Issran Shield. Fear oftentimes is naturalized into society as a very important base for information gathering; when an individual is afraid of something, they don't tend to freeze in place, instead taking that fear as the quickest route to a root for problems.

Which all shows how the kin'toni presence in the region trains a certain degree of emotional calibration that is individual to the Aleorma tribe. Their collective identity is one that builds itself around strength, a core concept often understood internally in each individual's individuality as well, though that same strength built itself silently instead of pridefully, which creates a certain disdain for displays of excess force or unnecessary struggles, creating a mindset where competence is valued over authority.

Along with this, many individuals tend to be very restrained and quite lonely, all complementing their freeing nature into participating in the goods and ills of living in society or not, though one thing is highly agreed on, and that is to respect the individuality of each individual, as long as that individuality doesn't mess with another's individuality. As mentioned before, the Aleorma tribe has a very free-minded set of individuals within it. They are taught since early to take slavery as something entirely intolerable in any degree.

And the thought of another zu'aan being seen as property is one of the most disgusting things that can ever be even conceptualized; liberation is the special plate of the menu every single day, it is not a theater, it is a historical reflection that is written in every bit of their history, their respect, and their individuality, shaping them to be quite a carefree tribe despite their constant meddling with life-threatening situations proportioned by the kin'toni. This also contributes to when slaves are brought to the tribe and liberated.

Their reintegration and teachings are immediate and unconditional, regardless of who they were in the tribe they were rescued from. However, there is one tribe which they look at with heavy disdain, some more mature individuals challenging more so the elites and the monarchs of the tribe, but members with less political and sociological studies tend to frame every member of that tribe (that isn't a slave) as an enemy. That tribe being, obviously, the Aleor tribe, which shapes their popular support to the repeated aggression done against the Aleor.

Seeing it all as simple historical retaliation, and that there is no set of values or arguments that could ever take away the Aleorma tribe's right to harass the Aleor's.

Culture

Culture for the Aleorma means something practical and lived, not expressed throughout an excessive amount of ritualistic ceremonies. Day-to-day life is often shaped by the environment, survival, and a shared memory that is itself shared by small tales, history books, or by the schools. Oftentimes, these oral teachings were the baseline for the liberty-focused nature of the Aleorma. Customs themselves are seen as a simple network of manners whose objective is to support the resilient coexistence that they have to struggle for every day.

Instead of an identity-based notion; their culture is, to put it simply, quiet and continuous, kept by the same people who tell that culture, instead of it being used as a spectacle. Now, when there are rituals, they are often tied to the environment and quite open to the very landscape of the Issran Shield, but never are those rituals overloaded with mysticism. Small recurring practices would happen around the rough terrain and weather of the Issran Shield, be it through games kids did with rocks, or a trip organized by a set of teachers.

Oftentimes, these same simple rituals would be complemented by a certain level of training and communal conscience, which allowed that same notion of oral telling to take an important action in reinforcing the Aleorma mentality instead of it simply presenting an absolute set of beliefs. Many authors say this natural style complements the Aleorma's freedom-based ideology quite well without being in itself dogmatic. Interpersonal conduct, as before mentioned, is a tad restrained.

Individuals of the Aleorma tribe are quite economical when it comes to their emotional expression, especially with the newer generations, where violence and kin'toni threats are more and more normalized as something not intrusive. Respect is, other than something they respect a lot, shown through competence and reliability instead of prideful boasting; the most respected individuals were those who were able to serve the needs of the community properly instead of those with abstract status.

Conflict resolution was, more often than not, informal; people tend to avoid each other and meditate over their actions individually, which contributes to the tiny levels of public humiliation or excessive authority. As mentioned, the notion of freedom is one of the biggest highlights of their culture. It is protected not only culturally but legally, being quite libertarian in each individual's set of wished characteristics, allowing for a tame yet still diverse plurality of creative freedoms.

Often shown by arts on or with sand, or by simple pages that were displayed along the tribe's houses that allowed for poems that presented reflexiveness and meditation tips. The only sort of unspoken rule about freedom was how it is allowed to exist to the extent that it does not disrupt another's autonomy and/or safety. The slave revolt which split the tribe from the Aleor has got to be the biggest example of anything that the Aleorma romanticize. It is often drawn, displayed in various art styles, told as though a set of epic stories to kids, written and rewritten about.

The only part of the year where they have truly boastful and loud festivals are the days which celebrate both the successful revolt which allowed the members to flee from Krorror (along with a mourning session for the revolt's leader) and the establishment of the tribe in the Issran Shield.

Government

The core political functioning of the Aleorma shapes itself around the usual concept observed from social liberal democracies. They believe political power should be something that allows for the betterment of the society that such power has influence over, as a means to try to represent the voices of those who live in said society, since they'll be responsible for appointing the leaders which will be allowed to partake in the decision making; authority here is temporary and conditional, chosen by those who live in the tribe, which is a fundamental negation of inherent sacred authority that is passed down via a surname.

Leadership is chosen via elections, where every individual who is considered an adult has the right to have a vote that is equivalent to 1 point towards the basket of a candidate, and every four years this cycle repeats itself, which makes it so leadership is, to some degree, chosen by the very people who live and work for the building and maintaining of that tribe, which allows for not only rotation of individuals based on issues with their past candidature, but some leaders may also be removed from their role if the population votes and it scores over 70% of approval.

The most common thing that may lead to this removal vote are individuals who mimic any sort of power accumulation, as it was similarly seen back in Aleor. Laws are created publicly, and the decision of their interpretation is done via public debate, where many positions may flourish to try and discuss and present an accessible discussion, all as a means to guarantee that the laws as applied follow a set of strict rule-sets set by society and the leaders they choose to vote in, this also extends to conflict limitation and labor coordination.

Enforcement in this tribe doesn't follow torturous moral systems, praising rehabilitation to a certain degree, where jailed zu'aan would, depending on their crime, be allowed to work for years to pay back society for what they did wrong; if their crime is too grave, however, they are jailed for indeterminate amounts of time. Basic freedoms such as the ones of religion, of speech, and of expression are fully guaranteed to individuals, though not in an unlimited means. Things such as the promotion of concepts seen as backwards, such as the implementation and justification of slave-based labor.

Are often mitigated from public debate, and, due to the education of this tribe, tend to be booed by most even without the justice system's actions. Many individuals have to pay tributes back to the chosen leadership so that the income made is invested back into society, failure to comply with this also leads to jailing; and to add another note, the relation between individual and state is often translated by the regulation of labor, land, and property. The majority of the Aleorma actually sees their government as quite imperfect.

Which is something expected, since the law itself claims to be open for self-critiquing, as long as that is necessary to better society. The mechanisms for doing that are not only the universal right to public debate and the notions that power legitimacy should be shaped around consent, but also how individuals are brought together once a year as a means to listen to various representatives of individual communities within the tribe, and for a week, discussions continue to decide what to change about the current style of governance.

Military

The Aleorma's military forces are one of the strongest institutions present in the tribe, and that is often justified by the very necessity of their existence and how they were able to translate that necessity into political protagonism, though nothing while creating a society that is commanded by military tutelage. In terms of its role as a survival structure, it exceeds in quite a competent manner, preferring focusing its funding much more towards training and armaments than the accumulation of power.

One of the reasons for this is how, in the Issran Shield, kin'toni presence is extremely strong, so the army requires activity at each moment to guarantee the well-being of the citizens, which makes it so this armed defense is something permanent and necessary. Their training is also extremely adapted to the Issran Shield's geography, making it so they are extremely familiar with terrain, ambushes, nightly movement, and the existence of routes amongst the large oppressive rocks, oftentimes not only being able to combat the kin'toni in effective manners, but also outsmarting them with quick maneuvers.

That constant exposure to kin'toni threats leads to waves upon waves of informal training, where soldiers, on their day-to-day, learn how to combat the kin'toni. A few more battle-hardened troops began to see them more as critters than actual threats; though they did recognize the need of kin'toni around the Shield as a prevention method from other zu'aan advances, which prevented the Aleorma military leadership from seeking any sort of annihilation. To guarantee safety, many of the troops are put into day-night cycling of patrols, exhaustion is managed in a healthy manner instead of being enforced.

Such as they claim to have been back in Aleor, which makes it so regardless of time of day the Aleorma troops are ready to fight and defend. In critical situations even, the other troops are also awakened just as a matter to ensure proper defending, and, even if it's amidst their resting shift, they still perform superbly. This army is also responsible for a practice that annoys the Aleor a lot, which is constant and rapid raids and withdrawals to the walls of their city, which allows them to plunder many of their resources, be it as a means for survival or plain historical retaliation.

This marks the most aggressive and dominating regard of the Aleorma by their indomitable skill of attacking one of the largest armies of the region and still being able to retreat back into their Shield. Also, in many of these raids, when they are able to properly dismantle the Aleor's internal control for some time, not only do they take supplies and trading goods, but they also bring many slaves with them in freeing missions, since they see such action as their historical responsibility as a tribe formed from a slave revolt.

Those same individuals are always reintegrated as freed individuals without any sort of caste or status loss applied to them, and they were, most often than not, pardoned from whatever crime they might have committed according to Aleor's law, which contributes not only to combating the status-quo within the walls of the Aleor tribe, but also to shaping the military's self-image as an institution who bathes in strength and liberty.

Religion

The Aleorma tribe, after their rebellion against the Aleor Zu'aan tribe, still clings to their Emaaos belief system, because this was the only thing that they carried away with them from the land which they left behind as a result of their escape. Although they did not follow the previous system to a pulp, this was one area that was a very integral part of the Aleorma tribe itself; therefore, they could not let this go. However, there was a very huge difference this time that transformed their former absolute belief system into a living faith.

Because it enabled the former belief system of the group to remain flexible and relaxed, thus offering this faith a chance to be aired or talked about instead of it being imposed under compulsion, which means that this faith was not as rigid or authoritative as the former after all, because faiths were not imposed here as before. The key which made it possible to distinguish the religious practice in such a way was that the religious texts were now read in groups or individually, because it provided an opportunity to come up with various forms of interpretations.

Which were in many cases less ontologically sad than those related to the form in which the religion was observed in the Aleor, because in this way neither an individual nor an organization could ever be granted final interpretation authority regarding the religious texts, even in the religious institutions. This is because disagreements and debates were the prevailing activities in units, rather than being told on what to believe, because an individual now had the freedom to remain silent and meditate on the interpretation related to the lessons they would be seeking from the information being relayed.

In fact, because of the reinterpretations, the existence of Aldilia, as it existed in experience itself, underwent a radical change. She was, however, a caring mother who gave her life to her beloved sons, who are all of the zu'aan and are today the roots that sustain. Thus, the attention was shifted from the repayment of a labor debt to a deep sorrowing to be done in rituals throughout the year, in the dates which most agreed to be closest to the date of her death (which was mostly at the start of a year in most instances).

In this manner, the sorrow could be acknowledged and addressed, so as not to be celebrated or made necessary in any form. In local realities, these practices had become less grandiose, less violent, and people had decentralized these practices. People were going to pray either in their homes or outside in a social gathering before going into a military campaign, and this marked a sort of temporary space for these rituals. Consequently, this meant that grand institutions and rigid timing were being replaced with simplified versions of rituals based on grieving, traveling, or ties that you may have made.

And thus religion would remain part of their lives in a manner in which religion is not a grand and forceful instrument. The role that religion took up within the boundaries of Aleorma differs greatly from what was found in the Aleor tribe, because the latter was the place of origins of the former religion. The matter of lacking a political protagonist and social command constitutes a social fact that helped the religious relationship between all the members of Aleorma turn out healthy.

Emauous was sort of a common tongue, which was commonly employed as a means of denoting the resilience of the people against the oppression that the world seemed to hold for them. Thus, it enabled, as has already been noted many times, belief to become the companion of life instead of ruling it with an iron fist topped with a crown.

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