Subudai - The Tribal Collective

[Samson Option 9652]

Walking with feet bare against the wholesome grasses along the untouched plains northwest of Trinskiril, Sauros gathered a few sprigs of incense and lit it rather quickly with the assistance of his torch and slipped it within his bull's reins and began to pick up pace once more. The growing trail of smoke made the tiresome men and women who trudged behind him feel calm, inspiring them to look about and notice the vast girth of the earth and appreciate another day to live amongst the nature. Sauros runs his rough fingers through the fur of his Wolf as he watches it's eyes stare off into the nighttime sky; the crescent moon casting an aura that made them feel more secure and able to spot any offenders. He scans the horizons and finds a hilly enclave to his right and begins to change his footsteps to begin walking in that direction, nearing hour by hour until they arrive.

Pitching tents with the structure sound with laminated wooden poles from the finest oak and being covered with thick leather skins from the weariest bulls and cows, the Subudai once again find rest under the many stars and the singular moon. The bustle of families securing beds and securing the reins of their livestock at a shoddy cattle post calms Sauros; to see his people frolic in the daily life. He constructs a modest fire pit to cook the gatherings of the young hunter-boys and sends dog scouts; teenage boys and girls atop their wolven mounts to swiftly survey the area. The adults sit in the presence of ever-burning incense, husbands and wives laughing and teasing each other as they eat meals. Sauros heads into his tent early this night, to sit on the pondering thought that he may gather much needed sleep.

:: Current Roleplay Situation That We Progress From ::

- The Subudai are a group of families that have collaborated under the leadership of one Sauros Alanbataar; a warrior-herder who has shown great ambition and potential to ensuring the ways of the Subudai is kept in stone and her people never to be wept of blood. With the knowledge that anyone could come our way across the blue waters of yonder, we keep vigilant that our people do not suffer from the greed of any kind. With this ambition in our hearts and our hands strumming our bowstrings with the melody of a dirge of harps, we shall succeed!

- Having sailed from Aegis as she fell, we have ascertained that we live another day, to fight another day. We are Nomadic, we will be moving from land swath to land swath and ensuring that our own families will feed and drink from the securest of sources and that no man or woman suffers from the other wayfarers who will be traversing the same continent as we!

:: More Information concerning to Roleplay Guidelines of the Subudai ::

The Subudai Code of Law

1. The Khagan: He is the Leader of the Subudai as a whole, he leads not only just his tribe, but he is leads where the rest of the tribes will travel and lead them in times that they feel they must go to war. Other than those two situations, the individual tribes will be guided by their Elder or Elderess. Where he sees fit to place camp, all other tribes must obey and plant their feet as so in or around where he so chooses. War Declaration is at his disposal and his disposal only, but he must act in the best interests of each individual Kotan (tribe).

2. The Syrmatae: This is the name of the Elders from each tribe; or Kotan. They delegate the duties of their tribes and decide how they will trade, how they will feed and quench themselves. They will decide what goods they will specifically seek and how to train their children and young men and women. A Man or a Woman can be Syrmatae, in the event in which a male Syrmatae dies, his widow will assume such position. Female Syrmataes who seek to marry must kill atleast five enemies in times of war, this is the only way to seek a remarriage; in which if she does, she will still hold the position.

3. The Culture:

- The Subudai are a very peaceful people, albeit very strong and courageous as well as skilled in both axe and bow. Despite their being able to pose a threat, they choose instead to remain tied to the foundation of their people and act as nomads; respecters of the earth. Being skilled in axe, they produce much work in lumbering and use oak as the basic material to structurally hold up their tents, covering them firmly with dried leather hides and taut wool fibre (brown and white wool) and their skill with the bow makes them good archers and hunters. Livestock is their source of food as well as fishing, farming is only known to keep their livestock fed.

Men and Women are treated equally, both genders are taught at a young age to be capable warriors and hunters, men being treated with a drill-like attitude whilst women are taught to be survival experts and are heralded for being ones who raised the nomadic Subudai from the ground up.

Incense (the 'dry bush' block found in deserts) are very sought after as bringing calming peace to the Subudai and they routinely seek deserts for the Incense as well as cacti for their healing practicalities (the needles serve for 'acupuncture' and the juices are rich in vitamins).

Wolves are also held in high esteem as hunter companions (and if mobcontrol is turned on, they will serve as our mounts, allowing the Subudai to act as 'equine archers')

-More Culture/Social Norms will be posted at a later date.

:: To Join The Subudai And Learn Of Our Current Encampment ::

Send me a Profile Comment or Status Update Response (not a forum message please) with the following:

1. Minecraft ID:

2. Desired Roleplay Name:

3. If given a preference of 'Orient' (Such as Arabesque, Japanese, Mongol, Turkish, or any you think of) cultures to base your tribe from, which would you prefer?

4. Character's Beginning Age:

5. What are your Top Three Highest Stats?

Please Note: For every '4-5' players, there will be a new tribe under the Subudai in which I pick who I want to found such tribe and it will be of a 'different' Orient Culture in terms of preferred Architecture (so if you are belonging to the tribe that is based from Mongols, you will build 'Yurts'.) I will top off the number of tribes to around 3-4 maximum.

- Now I Shall Take All Questions to Answer, they may just help me in my furthering of this Roleplay.

As of 1-25-2012 at 11:24 AM EST, I am currently speaking with SerenityOnyx on acquiring a region as her and I had spoken about the high possibility, if in the case that is rejected somehow, I will enter a Charter with a Nation to acquire a Nomad Camp and release the information for us to gather at the time. Thank You.

[Vanus 62]

(( Hmm.. Is the subudai, now apart of hanseti. ? ))

[firespirit44 1323]

((They are the founding tribes of Hanseti, Gaius wrote the lore for it in the Hanseti roleplay forums.))

[Samson Option 9652]

[Taking any and all questions below!]

[Samson Option 9652]

Feel Free to ask questions and inquire about joining, I am going about the formation of the Subudai diligently.

[Thrym 188]

((Can other races join?))

[Samson Option 9652]

(All races are eligible to join, I am unfortunately wanting to postpone this at the moment, I am pretty busy with college so I pop in every so often, I would not mind if someone would be a 'patron' and if they want, start up the Subudai as one of the other tribes within the Subudai (Subudai is the collective term to describe us as nomads and a confederacy of tribes. What I am intending to do is after every 3 or 4 members who join, start a new tribe within the Subudai and max out at atleast 3 or 4.)

[Jorgen Reimer 74]

((HIDE YOUR GUILDS!))

[Religious_Pie 127]

((We should have weekly tournaments, for; "Who can kill the most Guilds" . ))

[Thrym 188]

((This interests me quite a bit. I would love to see some lore for how the different cultures of tribes live, especially the Arabesque culture.))

[Samson Option 9652]

[see, as the Subudai forms (unfortunately I am not going to initiate it ICly till May) I want to give those who will lead each individual tribe under the Subudai to ultimately write the Lore from the 'springboard' I will provide them with and to take some attributes and research and discover these Orient cultures while implementing them within their Lore. It will be a very 'revealing' process for everyone involved! :D I am still taking questions by the way, do not shy away from ANY QUESTIONS!]

[Manathar 4]

Would there be a sort of central hub for the nomadic tribes to meet at to confer, say for example a patch of sacred ground? After all, throughout history in times of meeting, nomadic tribes have been notoriously hard to find, and trade was basically only done with their agriculture-based neighbors, who had permanent homes. If your plan is to have many different tribes each with their own backgrounds based on real-life historical nomadic cultures, would not at least one of them have to make or maintain relations with a town/city of some sort, a mutual ground where they can all meet? Sorry if what I write above doesn't make sense, I have a bit of a headache right now.

P.S. I think I have Sauros Alanbaatar's passport.

[Samson Option 9652]

[What will be happening in terms of 'settling' is that there will be a 'town' in which we can all gather at firstly during the gathering of the first Subudai members, but also on occasion throughout our nomadic life. We will be moving from nation to nation, settling and making in-game caravans to trade and participate with the other nations in which we are currently 'traveling through']

[Thrym 188]

((I'm HIGHLY interested in possible joining/starting an Arabesque tribe. I was wondering if you had a location picked out for the tribes and, if you did, if part of it was desert since a desert would fit an Arabesque culture very well IMO))

[Samson Option 9652]

[i apologize greatly, but I do not feel it is best that I start the Subudai before I am finished with my Spring Semester of my Freshman Year in College. I will keep your name on a database to let you know when it will be started in beginning of May. I apologize for this and I hope I am not disappointing anyone, I just want more time to invest which will be abundant after Spring Semester.]