Unala Kin'toni Clan

Psychology

It was widely known that the Ulana kin’toni clan had rejected being kin’toni. They didn't hold the belief that they needed blood to survive, and that all of this was just because of some lingering infection that caused them to stay sick. They believed that the desire to drink blood was just a side effect, and that they would feel better soon. So they would still eat regular zu’aan food, no matter how sick they would end up, and they would spend their days doing so. They refused to believe that they weren't zu’aan, and they gave up their home in search of a zu’aan village that would take them in and help them to go back to being proper zu’aan.

The Unala clan didn't understand why they were being sent, or even chased, away from the villages. They would be attacked for even asking to join the villages, and they didn't think that they deserved that. They always assumed that they should be helped by the other zu’aan because of their beliefs that they were zu’aan, and the fact that they were so loved before the Shattering, and they still didn't understand what had changed. The Unala kin’toni clan had spent so much of their lives under the impression that they were loved, and that other zu’aan villages wanted to be like them, that when the infection happened, they were left alone and confused, and all they wanted was to be taken in and nurtured.

Because they were turned away from so many villages, the members of the clan had become desperate to be accepted. They wanted so badly to be zu’aan that they made it who they were as a clan, doing nothing but wandering from village to village and begging for their help. They would avoid the other kin’toni clans, having been disgusted by them because of their choice to drink blood. While there were still members that accepted drinking blood, they had to hide this from the rest of the clan so that they weren't sent away. They wanted to use the protection of the clan to be able to break into the zu’aan villages on the hunt for blood to drink.

They had become dizzy with the excitement of playing along with the clan so that they could get more blood, but they knew that they had to be careful so that they wouldn't be caught. These members had devised plans to make sure that they weren't caught. These plans included rationing the amount of blood that they were allowed to drink at one time, and how often they were allowed to go out and get blood. They would take turns disappearing from their clan when they reached new villages so that it didn't seem suspicious, and they were always careful to continue to look malnourished so they would fit in with the rest of the clan.

Their efforts paid off, and for years this was how they were able to get the blood they wanted without being found out.

History

Before the infection, the Unala kin’toni clan had a happy village, they had everything that they could ever need, and they were doing well. They didn't want for a lot, instead they were able to get what they wanted or needed with ease. They didn't have a lot of fights, or really any issues amongst them. Many other villages looked up to them and their good moods and lack of misfortune, striving to be like them. Other villages would copy their ways in hopes to be like them, and the Unala clan liked that. They loved that other people wanted to be like them, and it made them even happier. That is, until the Shattering happened.

During the infection, the Unala clan was confused. They had no idea what was happening, and by the end of it, they managed to convince themselves that nothing had changed. For a few years everyone went about business as usual, but they noticed that they were sick when they were eating regular foods, and that they were getting skinnier, and that they didn't feel quite right. Initially they had thought that the infection was just a virus that they had fought off. They thought that the infection had just left a lasting impression on their bodies and that was why foods were making them sick.

While some of them noticed that they were craving blood, they would deny the cravings and say that they were going insane, and the craving for blood wasn't real. They carried on this way for so long that once they noticed their weight loss, and their urge to drink blood was stronger, they realized that it might mean something. So they had sent out a couple of members of the clan to go and find some blood to bring back to everyone so that they could see if that would make them feel better. Once the other members of the clan returned with the blood, they all took turns drinking some, and they found that they liked it, and that they felt better once they did.

This disgusted them. Many of the members of the clan didn't like the idea that drinking blood was what made them feel better, and they rejected it. They didn't want anything to do with it. Because of the way that they felt, some of the older members of the clan came forward and announced that they would no longer be drinking blood, and that anyone caught doing so would be sent away from the clan as they didn't want to enable them. They outlawed blood entirely, and even the mention of drinking it was forbidden. Although, this didn't stop some of the members from seeking out blood and drinking it behind the backs of the others.

Eventually, the Unala clan began travelling in search of other zu’aan clans that they could join, explaining that they had rejected being kin’toni, and that they were looking for somewhere to live so that they didn't have to be alone. They would often be sent away, and this caused them to become constant travellers, hoping that they would find the help they needed.

Biology

Because of the way that the Unala kin’toni clan had decided that they wouldn't drink any blood, their bodies had begun to suffer. They weren't in as good of shape as they didn't have the nutrients that they needed to properly function or survive. Since they had made the choice to reject being kin’toni, and had instead decided to “continue” being zu’aan, their bodies had slowly begun shutting down. They didn't have the same quality of life that they had initially, and they didn't enjoy doing nearly as many things. Some of the physical signs that the Unala kin’toni showed were severe malnutrition.

Their bodies slender and showing their bones, slower walking, as they didn't have the energy to walk any faster than they had to, and loss of their hair as they didn't have enough nutrition in their system to maintain their hair. Since they wouldn't drink blood, the Unala clan didn't have a lot of the nutrients that they needed to sustain their bodies. Over the years, the clan had gotten skinnier and skinnier, their bones poking out of their skin, and their energy dwindling. They would continue to try to eat zu’aan food, and they would become more and more sick because of it.

This making it harder and harder for them to continue on their travels, as well as causing many of them to pass away. If one of the members did pass away as they were walking, they would just leave the body as they didn't have the strength to take it anywhere, and so they would surround the body in flowers and walk away. While they were a travelling clan, the Unala kin’toni walked very slowly. They didn't have the energy to walk any faster than a slow shuffle. Walking slowly would still get them where they were going, but it caused them to have to take more breaks.

And they believed that in doing so, they would be saving their energy to plead with the zu’aan to let them in, hoping that they would take pity on them for how sickly they were looking. Finally, while the clan had beautiful dark blue eyes, their eyes looked almost dead. They were sunken into their heads and they barely looked like they were there. This was accompanied with hair loss as their frail bodies didn't have enough nutrients to keep the hair on their heads. Many of them had varying bald patches, while some of them were almost completely bald.

They looked like a sad group of kin’toni as their sunken eyes, lack of hair, and frail boney bodies made them look like they were the walking dead. Even the kin’toni of their clan that decided to continue drinking blood when they could still looked like they could drop dead at any moment. While they looked this way, the zu’aan still wouldn't take pity on them, and would use the Unala clans small size to drive them away to hunt them down to keep themselves safe.

Culture

Culturally, the Unala kin’toni clan held their beliefs that they were still zu’aan. They would spend their days going around acting as though they had never been changed into kin’toni in the first place, and that nothing had changed in their lives. They had given up their initial village so that they could go to other zu’aan villages and ask them for solace there, and this quickly became their routine. The clan had genuinely begun to believe that they would eventually find a “cure” for their sickness, and until then, they would spend their time travelling until they found the help that they were looking for.

And over time, they would accept any help that they could get in general. Since they had spent so much time being such happy zu’aan, they weren't able to accept that they had changed and would need to adjust their lives minutely, to remain happy. The Unala clan didn't want to believe that blood was the food that they needed to survive. To them, needing blood made them even more weak, and so they decided to simply reject it in hopes that they would be able to find a cure and go back to living the lives that they had initially wanted to have. Many of the members of the clan followed in the belief that they didn't need blood to survive.

And they would work with the others to figure out which villages they would go to so that they could find help. This is how they would spend their days, and that was all they would do. The other kin’toni from the clan knew that they needed blood to survive, and they would do anything that they could to get it so that they could continue living. They hid what they were doing from the other members of the clan because it was law for them to be sent away from the clan if it was found out that they liked blood and/or that they were drinking it. They had devised a way to ensure that they would have just enough blood to survive.

While still looking like they were malnourished so that they wouldn't be found out. In doing so, they planned to take over the clan once there weren't too many other members left, and they were easy to overpower. They didn't think it was smart to starve to death in search of a cure for being kin’toni when they could’ve just accepted that they needed blood to survive, and go back to living their lives happily as they were before. For the longest time, these kin’toni followed the lead of the others as they knew they were outnumbered.

Bbut they knew that soon they would be able to take over the clan and hopefully be able to build it up strong enough that they would once again be happy, but that they would have to do it while relying on blood to survive.

Government

Because of their beliefs, the Unala clan were a stubborn clan. Once they were set in their ways, they wouldn't be swayed into thinking something different. Because of this, they had set laws that they vowed to never break, and for the most part, they never did. They were obedient and wanted nothing more than to remain compliant and happy. In light of their choice to no longer drink blood after the first time that they tried it, they decided to rule the consumption of blood a punishable offence. Anyone that was caught drinking blood, talking about drinking blood, or in the process to go and get any would be banished from the clan.

The self proclaimed leaders of the Unala clan would see to the banishment themselves so that they knew who the offenders were and make sure that they would not be able to gain access back into the clan. Since there were members of the clan that did want to drink blood to live, they knew that they would have to be careful about how they went about it. They would meet in secret, while they were taking their breaks from walking, and they would carefully formulate their plans so that the other members of the clan would remain unaware.

Each time the Unala clan would visit and new zu’aan village, the members that drank blood would send one or two of their own into the village and they would secure some blood for themselves, it being just enough for them to survive, and then they would come back and slip into the rest of the clan unnoticed and act as though they hated blood so that they wouldn't be found out. Of course, their plans were not always fool proof, and occasionally, there would be members of the clan that would be caught going to hunt for blood, and they would be publically banished from the clan.

When this happened, they would be nice enough to not expose any other members of their pact so that they could live out their plans. The idea was that the banished members would stick around the outskirts of their old clan and follow them where they were going so that they could still supply blood to their old clan members, and that way they wouldn't risk being caught and banished as well. They would stick to their plans as much as they could, waiting for more and more of the other kin’toni to pass away so that they would be able to overtake them eventually and change the laws.

They planned to require the members of the clan to drink blood or they would have to be banished themselves. While they knew it would be a long process, they were hopeful that they would be able to outlive the other members and would be able to eventually take over the Unala clan for themselves, making it as strong as it could be.

Military

Since the Unala clan had decided to forsake blood and continue to believe that they were zu’aan, the leaders had decided that they didn't need much of a military. While they were travelling to new villages, they would always remain hopeful that this would be the village that would help them. That this time they would be successful and they would be able to finally rest and be able to find their cure. But each and every time they visited a new zu’aan village, they would be chased away and some would end up dead. The Unala clan didn't turn down the idea of death, in fact, they rather embraced it.

Wanting to be killed so that they knew they took their last breath believing that they were still zu’aan and not kin’toni. Because of their desire to die instead of giving in and admitting to being kin’toni, many of the members of the Unala clan would readily engage in battles with zu’aan or even other kin’toni. They would actively enter into battle without having any of the proper equipment or even any training, so that their clan mates would be able to say that they died defending what they believed in, and that was something many of them strived for.

And so, they would start or simply instigate fights in hopes that they would be killed. Since they were so malnourished, they would not be able to last long in any fight, and they wouldn't be able to put up much resistance against any sort of attacks against them. They knew that they were going to die, and instead they would still fight others so that they could be killed. There were times that other members of the Unala clan would refrain from fighting, as they wished to have enough members to be able to continue travelling and searching for their cure.

If a member knew that they were close to death, and they had made it known that they didn't want to die simply by just starving to death, they would be allowed to instigate a battle where they would hope to be killed, and that way they would have a more valiant passing. The members of the clan that did still think that blood was a good thing, and that it was necessary, would intentionally refrain from entering into any of the battles, simply stating that they would like to continue on in search of the cure. This would ensure that many of them weren't killed.

And that they would end up with enough members to over take the clan and make it into what they wanted it to be. They were glad that they weren't found out, as they would go to other kin’toni clans and would instigate fights on behalf of their clan, stating that they were sent to deliver a message, and that they expected the other clans to come and attack their clans members in hopes that they would kill enough to put a dent in their numbers.

Religion

The Unala kin’toni clan was not at all a very religious clan. They didn't think that they had enough time to sit down and pray, unless it was to beg for mercy on their deathbed, asking that they would be reincarnated as zu’aan as they wanted to be. There were times when members of the clan would get down on their knees and beg to any of the gods or goddesses that would listen. They would beg and plead to be turned back into zu’aan, and they would ask why they had been punished when they had done nothing wrong. There were members of the clan that scoffed at the members that would do this.

But eventually they would succumb to the urge and they would pray as well, hoping that if they added another voice or two, that they would hopefully be heard and be allowed to return to being zu’aan. Most of the praying done by the Unala clan was done either on the death bed of one of their clan members, or it was done when they were resting and had a free minute to themselves. While they didn't believe that there was anyone truly listening to them, that wouldn't stop them from continuing to pray and plead with the gods to take mercy on their souls.

Initially, the kin’toni of the Unala clan that believed they were better as kin’toni scoffed at the others for kneeling and praying to be turned back into zu’aan. They thought that it made their clan mates look weak, and that they didn't truly believe that they would find a cure. They laughed at how hard they would pray in their groups, snickering amongst themselves. Eventually, they realized that they could play along with the other kin’toni, and make the believe that they were in fact praying with them, but instead, they would get down on their knees and thank any god or goddess that was listening or turning them into kin’toni.

They knew that the other members of the clan would think that they were praying with them, but instead they were counteracting every prayer that was said. None of the kin’toni knew that they had members that would be essentially praying against them, and so they continued to believe that maybe their prayers had finally worked. When they sat down to eat regular zu’aan food, they would pray inwardly that they would be able to keep the food down and that they wouldn't get sick from it this time. While this didn usually work, it was something that they would continue to do until they were able to keep the food down.

It would become a never ending cycle, but they never gave up. This all caused them to be strong religiously, even though they didn't have a set religion that they would stick to, instead praying for help when they wanted to, and never fully picking up that maybe that was the reason why none of the gods or goddesses would help them.

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