(12-04-2013, 07:17 PM)Jomoru Wrote:(12-04-2013, 06:25 PM)C Wrote: It doesn't come out and say that they don't have tribes, but at the very least it strongly implies that they either a) don't have tribes or b) their tribes aren't very important to them.
Depends what you mean by tribe I read that as there's nothing above local clans/villages/bands while the Seekers have group equivalents to say the Cherokee or Apache
I believe you both have a point. They seem to imply that Keepers are more clan-like. And a Keeper clan is made of 2 to 3 families. I guess it could be possible to classify a few families as a tribe? I don't know. I am not familiar with the true definition of tribe.
For Keepers, it would be clan/tribe then family within the clan/tribe as their means of identification.
For example: Kiht Jakkya is part of the Jakkya family within the Shriekshroom Clan. The clan is a small two-family clan.
Also, Keeper names are said to be very old. "It is said that some of these surnames have survived since the First Astral Era." -HRPC Wiki. If this is the case then there are likely many Keepers who share the same surname, but aren't part of the same immediate family or clan. The surname would simply indicate a shared, possibly ancient, ancestry.
