The God of the Sun. Helios is a cheerful but aggressive God that brings light to the crops of the tribes. The tribe that has many crops took his name and named themselves Suno Tribe. For that Suno is their main God, they wake up each sunrise and greet him in a kneeling ceremony.
The Suno tribe has annual human sacrifices for their God. But the tribe members consider it a privilege to be sacrificed for their God so families prepare their daughters for it.
There are some qualifications the girl should have:
- female
- virgin
- 12 - 18 years old
- member of plebs
People would think Suno is a good God, but he is described as the revengeful, bad tempered God, who when get's mad lets the sun shine too long which destroys the crops and makes a drought.
MUNNA
The Goddess of the Moon. Munna is a cruel and vicious God. The night is under her control and she often covers the moon with a cloud taking away the only light the tribes have on nights. Night is also dangerous because of all the creatures that hunt - at night - people are the praise and animals the hunters. The Moon Tribe learned to hunt during the night and it's hunters usually sleep during the day.
Munna requires human sacrifices every full moon which is causing a lack of people in the tribe. Being sacrificed in the Moon Tribe is not considered a privilege. It is painful and happens too often to consider it a decent ceremony so the plebs lives in fear of dying on the next full moon.
But the choice of sacrifices isn't as organised as in the Sun Tribe since they can't afford to lose female who can mate and produce heirs:
- male or female
- above 25 years old ( they are not that fertile anymore )
- member of the plebs
AKVAS
The God of the River. Akvas is a good God that cares about his tribe. He provides them food in the River named by himself, only during winter the tribe has to live on it's crops and food they gathered during the year.
Akvas does not require any sacrifices, he was honoured enough when the river got his name , he only requires the ceremony of Burning the dead. After death there is a raft built on which they burn the body as it floats on the river.
FORTO
The God of the Forest. Forto is a hunter God. He is courageous and brave. He respects loyalty and honesty above all. The Forest Tribe has experienced warriors and hunters who hunt various creatures in the forest and the people of this tribe never lie and their promises must be fulfilled. If someone breaks his promise he is banished from the tribe and for each lie a person gets whipping.
Forto does not require sacrifices but he requires his tribe to always tell the truth and keep it's promises. He also requires the hunters to never hunt animals that are carrying a baby, baby animals or mother animals. It is a huge disgrace for a hunter to kill such creatures and is punished by whipping which sometimes leads even to death.
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LEADER - the leading person of the tribe, he makes all decisions for the tribe and each leader is chosen by the previous leader -if that isn't the case the next leader is the one next in the previous leader's bloodline.
HEALER - the one that knows how to use herbs, the healer is traditionally always female, the healers task is to help the wounded, from their own or an opposite tribe, they have the obligation to help all in need.
SHAMAN - the only person in the tribe that can use magic; the shaman has the gift and curse of seeing the future. They lead all of the ceremonies - such as sacrifices, greetings of seasons and so on... They obtained their powers by giving out their ability to talk , so the shivering silence near them is usual, but who needs words when they can talk with their thoughts?
WARRIORS - the warriors or hunters are the strength of the tribe, they provide shelter and food. They are mostly male but some strong women are able to join if they are good enough - but those women cannot become mothers (at that point they are not warriors anymore) The warriors that do not have a family live all together (male and female)
MESSENGER - the messengers are allowed to pass the territories of other tribes, they usually look fragile and are chosen because of their charisma, they are not allowed to take anything that isn't from their territory. They are used for asking permissions and sending messages through tribes. The tribes are not allowed to kill them - it's a direct insult to the tribe he/she represented.
TRAINEE/APPRENTICE - a trainee is a person who is training to become a warrior, a healer, a shaman, a messenger or a warrior. There are rare cases a leader takes his own trainee. Healers and shamans have only one trainee, as for the warriors - they can have more, usually each warrior takes one to two(in rare cases) trainees.
PLEBS - the people of the tribe. The tasks of the plebs are the care for domestic animals, the care for crops, the cleanliness of the homes and clothes. They also chop woods and gather berries and mushrooms and etc. They do not hunt for that is the warriors task , but the plebs cooks the food the warriors bring to eat. All the food is brought to a pile where everyone takes what he needs and not more, theft of the food is a true disgrace and the punishment is very painful.