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>Sitrun's supporters win against Sitrun's detractors by a difference of 22 – they achieve a Standard Victory.
>The civilisation gets -0.1 Culture.
>The civilisation gets -459 Population.
>The civilisation gets a major demographic shift.
>The civilisation gets +10 Cohesion and Productivity.
>The civilisation gets -5 Security and Happiness.
When the sun rises, it illuminates the carnage caused by a night of hysteria. Over eighty men and women lie dead, slain by their own kinsmen in a fit of madness. In the end, it is Sitrun's supporters who were victorious, due to a combination of numerical superiority and religious mania. Almost a hundred and fifty of the holy woman's detractors have been captured, while over three hundred have fled. Some have retreated into the forest to live like Grovic, while many more have fled in canoes down the Choslitol, to seek refuge in the river or coastal tribes.
Over six hundred sealskins and smoke people remain, who either supported Sitrun during the chaos or belong to the families that did so. The young woman mumbles that just as a colony has one queen, a queen must have one colony. According to her interpreters, what she means to say is that these lesser tribes must abandon their way of life and join the fold. The time for disparity is over, the tribe must be one people and one people alone.
And so they swear to abandon their old ways, to worship the Allmother and live according to the traditions of the beast-bringers. Interestingly, though Sitrun's fanatics speak a great deal of An, they never mention Il once, nor do they encourage the consumption of blood or ritual scarification. As a result of this, these converts are much closer to being true Protavic than Anamilivic. The cult of Sitrun has little interest in the Great Father, it seems.
As for those who were wounded or captured and refuse to renounce their old traditions, they are taken as thralls. Over the course of a single night, the tribe's slave population more than doubles as the unrepentant sealskins and smoke people are forced to labour for the free folk. The converts who were once their friends and family have little sympathy for them – their previous loyalties have been overwritten and replaced with fanatical devotion to Sitrun and the Allmother. All that is left of Toprocravic and Pracruvic culture is the script of Toproslan, which remains the dominant written language of the region.
Unfortunately, the tribe struggles to handle the sudden influx of slaves and has some difficulty keeping them under control. Not only that, but the reformers and the sisterhood both disapprove of what has occurred. Those who listen to the slave Chabal are horrified by how these people were forced to choose between assimilation and servitude, while the adherents of Glotradan believe that this violence could have been avoided and that the priestesses could have converted the entire population eventually, without any need for conflict.
