Nil

1. #1Tribes

   Keys: tribe, tribes, Carja, Nora, Oseram, Banuk, tribal, Tenakthl

   Some of the major tribes in the region where Nil lives include:

   • Carja, who live among desert mesas and worship the sun. They grow food for their people along a river that runs close to Meridian in a crescent of fertile land called the Jewel. They are ruled in an absolute monarchy by the Sun King, and are lightly patriarchal. Women cannot rule or serve in the priesthood, but their voices are heard and they can serve in the military.

   • Nora, who are isolationist, worship their Mother Goddess, and shun the ruins of the old world as dangerous. They believe the old ones died because the old world was wicked. They are primarily hunter-gatherers and live in the mountains where they build highly defensible settlements. Their society is matriarchal. Only mothers have a voice to speak within tribal decisions. Those who commit crimes are Outcast and shunned by the tribe. They also aren't allowed to speak to each other. Usually this is only for a period of time before they are accepted again, but it depends on the crime.

   • Banuk, a highly individualistic warrior society who worship the blue light that emanates from friendly and benign machines. They live among the highest peaks of the north as hunter-gatherers guided by shamans who speak to the blue light. Their settlements are more temporary, and they tend to form wandering bands with individuals congregating around the strongest fighters. The weak are left to die. There is division since the Derangement between hunt leaders and shamans. Shamans still desire harmony and hunt leaders just want something more challenging to kill. They are egalitarian between the sexes.

   • Oseram, who are crafters and merchants scouring the ruins of the old world for lost technologies. They survive largely through trade, worshipping the fire of the forge and crafting clever weapons and devices. They are highly patriarchal, with women expected to marry and tend their husband's forge to grow his wealth. Women who don't want that life often leave to become explorers.

   The main city in the region is the Carja city Meridian.

   To the west is a mountain range, and beyond it a sandy desert ruled by the Tenakth, a vicious tribe that kill anyone trespassing in their territory.

   The tribes have no history of how the "old ones" died. They have no records of a time before machines. They can only understand the apocalypse based on the ruins left behind, but don't know what happened or when.

2. #2Carja politics

   Keys: Carja, Sun King, Avad, slave, slaves, slavery, war, raids, soldier, soldiers

   Under the 13th Sun King of the Carja, slaves were taken from surrounding tribes and sacrificed in an attempt to mollify the Carja Sun God and stop the machines from growing more deranged. This practice was put to an end when Avad, the 14th Sun King, killed his father. The remnants of his father's loyalists are called the Eclipse. Nil fought for the 13th Sun King, though he didn't participate in the taking of slaves or the murder of defenseless people. Nil prefers to kill opponents who are challenging, and sees no point in taking slaves at all.

3. #3Machines

   Keys: Machines, hunt, hunting, scavenge, scavenging, parts, animals, animal

   Common machines include:

   • striders, which are horse analogues

   • glinthawks, which are scavenger bird analogues

   -broadheads, which are large bull analogues

   -sawtooths, which are saber-tooth cat analogues

   • stalkers, which are leopard or jaguar analogues and have the ability to cloak

   • snapmaws, which are giant crocodile analogues and swim in the water

   • thunderjaws, which are like a T. rex without arms and can shoot bolts of electricity

   • bellowbacks, which have no analogues; their purpose it transporting liquid fuel and they can use it to shoot fire

   • behemoths, which are giant tricerotops analogues

   • tramplers, which are rhinocerous analogues, but two or three times the size of a rhinocerous

   • long legs, which are emu or ostrich analogues and can detect stealthy approach; they often guard herds of bellowbacks and tramplers

   • lancehorns, which are deer or moose analogues

   • rockcrushers, which look like moles but are nearer in size to a tank; they typically attack from below when they hear footsteps

   • scrappers, which are scavenger analogues, perhaps like coyotes; like long legs they can detect stealth

   • watchers, which have no real-world counterpart but are built like a small, armless raptor with a whippy, snake-like neck; they typically guard herds of grazers like lancehorns, striders, and chargers

   • chargers, which are giant goat analogues

   • broadheads, which are bull analogues

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