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>The civilisation gets +5 Equality.
>The civilisation gets -5 Prosperity.
The Procruvic people shall be given new land, provided that they are able to claim it. They shall be given axes and set to work felling the trees to the south of the Toprocravic territory that they once inhabited, and any land that they clear shall be theirs to claim. Not only will this grant the smoke people the independence from the sealskins that they seek, but it will limit the Toprocravic clan to expand inland and accumulate enough power to question our tribe's rule.
The leaders of the sealskins are perturbed by this decision, yet they do not dare to question it. They have no desire to earn the ire of their overlords just yet. As for the smoke people, the first few years of freedom are difficult for them – they are not used to the hard frontier life of cutting down trees, fending off beasts and establishing new territory. They struggle to even subsist and it will take some time before they are self-sufficient, but at least they managed to escape the dilution of their culture.
A generation passes.
The smoke people are not the only ones who are worried about their culture being eroded. The “true” Protavic people are starting to grow concerned, for the beast-bringers who have adopted blood-drinker traditions have begun to outnumber them. Not only that, but this Protavic-Vuvovic group has developed its own identity, distinct from either of its parents.
They call themselves the <span class="mu-s">Anamilivic</span>, the <span class="mu-i">children</span> of An and Il. The Protavic people are familiar with An, the Allmother who embodies the world itself, the source of all life and the precious Drocrom that flows within all living beings. As for <span class="mu-s">Il</span>, that is their name for Gladravil, the Great Father of the Vuvovic faith. He is the son and lover of An according to the children, the first human whose seed is the source of all others.
While An represents life, femininity and wisdom, Il represents death, masculinity and strength. The mythology surrounding the Great Father is almost identical to the tales that the Vuvovic tell – he was eventually slain by his children who feared and envied his strength, who drank his blood so that they might steal it. Disappointed by humanity, An entered a deep slumber and left her children to fend for themselves on the world that is her body. Through the accumulation of Drocrom, the Anamilivic hope to awaken her and earn her forgiveness, so that the world may become paradise once more.
Unlike the Vuvovic, the children are conservative regarding the tradition of blood-drinking. When a man dies, his family only takes a ceremonial sip from his body before they bury him – draining him of all of his Drocrom would be sacrilegious. No, the majority of his essence must be allowed to return to the land and feed the sacred cycle of consumption.
