The Blue Hyena Tribe

The Blue Hyena tribe is an isolated, unbothered collection of a few dozen Anthropomorphic Hyenas, equally spread between males and females, following a traditional Hunter & Gatherer lifestyle. Many teenage - adult male hyenas wear a bone mask, usually made from the skull of their late grandfather, though there are other animal-skull bone masks that can be worn for different reasons. Capable adult men of this tribe are classified as "Warriors". When a Hyena has a bone mask worn on their face, the eye sockets are shrouded with darkness, but their bright yellow pupils pierce the darkness and convey where their eyes are pointed.

The women are docile and sociable, usually cleaning after the men and their more barbaric means of living, being hyenas after all. Though the Hyenas aren't unnecessarily evil or cruel most of the time, they are actually quite welcoming to (harmless) visitors. Often enough, the Male Hyenas are incredibly welcoming and eagerly provides "red carpet treatments" for particularly pretty, "angelic" looking outlanders, such as fluffy soft huskies, vividly colored dragons, etc.

The tribe also has young cubs crawling around, children running around and playing, and accompanying the women in chores. Once boys are 7 year old, they are trained to hunt and are not spared from bloody visuals or the reality of hunting, quartering and preparing animals for consumption and utilizing their skins.

There are a few outstanding hyenas, such as particularly muscular and big ones, lanky and agile ones, but most notably is the Tribe Shaman, of which there is one male (named Agassou) and one female (named Mawu).

Agassou was once a Warrior of this tribe, but as he grew older, he leaned into the dark arts of Vodoun, incorporating it into healing and other rituals for the tribe. Agassou is notable tall, though he's smaller looking while he's hunched and relying on a walking cane fashioned from a simple thick stick. Though it's unnecessary, Agassou uses it for comfort. Agassou can easily stand himself upright and reach 6'8 in height with some bone-popping sounds when his spine stretches straight. Though Agassou is imposing, he's quite polite and arguably the most articulable Blue Hyena in the tribe, fluent in multiple languages, he often handles passthroughs who intend to sell something.

Mawu, the female Shaman, lives in a separate hut from Agassou and the tribe, alone with two unnamed, identical looking male Hyenas who have foregone their bone masks for shrouding burlap hoods. These males are Mawu's servants, the silent Left and Right hands of Mawu, so to speak. Mawu is also welcoming and hospitable, with a thick African accent, Mawu is often inclined to get something from passthroughs, happy to exchange goods or services. Mawu's right eyeball appears to be blind, or at least grayed out and colorless.