First Thread: https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5691682/Second Thread: https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5735953/However, there are a few vassal tribes who are subservient to the Protavic, who have been allowed to retain their culture, as long as they live apart from the beast-bringers.
The <span class="mu-s">Toprocravic</span>, or the <span class="mu-i">sealskins</span>, are a tribe that relies heavily on its boats for plying the great lake for sustenance and commerce. They are a clever and independent people with a culture of scrimshaw, seal-clubbing and water worship.
The <span class="mu-s">Procruvic</span>, or the <span class="mu-i">smoke people</span>, are a minor clan that our tribe liberated from the yoke of the sealskins. Given territory in the forest away from the shoreline, they have grown hardy and retain their old tradition of inhaling the smoke of burning flowers.
The <span class="mu-s">Scagravic</span>, or the <span class="mu-i">tree-dwellers</span>, are a primitive society who live in the towering blackwood trees of the Grascan. Most of the tribe is hostile to the Protavic people, but several colonies north of the Croglatol have agreed to serve the beast-bringers.
Finally, there is one other tribe that exists along the shore of the Croglatol and does not serve the Protavic. They are the <span class="mu-s">Rodac</span>, the <span class="mu-i">stone men</span>. To begin with, they came from the rocky slopes of the <span class="mu-s">Sharoc</span>, a mountain range that stands tall south-east of the great lake. There, they discovered the secrets of smelting copper, which they have since shared with our tribe. The stone men have used their mastery of metal to conquer the neighbouring <span class="mu-s">Drocravic</span> and <span class="mu-s">Bodravic</span> clans, whose people are now enslaved.
The Protavic have cooperated with the Rodac for many generations now and consider them their greatest trading partners. Enterprising beast-bringers often row around the Croglatol with plenty of honey, dried pork and cultural curios, only to return from the land of the stone men with boats full of copper ore and <span class="mu-s">topran</span>, a viscous black substance that repels water. However, some of the more conservative Protavic are worried by the recent conquests of the Rodac and see the stone men as a rival in their bid for regional supremacy.
Of course, there is more to the Grascan than this great lake. There is the <span class="mu-s">Choslitol</span>, the long and winding river that leads from the Croglatol to the distant ocean, with many tribes who live along its length. There are also three other rivers of significant size that are home to other tribes, though it takes weeks of travelling through the tangled and dangerous forest for Protavic caravans to reach them, if they do not lose their way in the undergrowth. The depths of the Grascan are a dangerous place, where humanity does not thrive.
