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>The civilisation gets +0.05 Culture.
>The civilisation gets +5 Education and Equality.
>The civilisation gets -5 Productivity and Security.
Against the advice of the cult and the sisterhood, slaves shall be re-educated and given the chance to serve the tribe as free folk. With every cycle of the moon, slave shall be given a few days during which they are allowed to rest. During this period, they must listen to the wisdom of the vibruc – elders of the tribe who bear the responsibility of preserving tradition and teaching children what it means to serve the tribe. Now, these old thinkers must teach the clan's thralls as well.
After a few seasons pass, the first rehabilitated slaves are released as free folk, to join the rest of the tribe as free folk. They are accepted by the family that once owned them and they are given the opportunity to start a new life, as one of them. Though many freed thralls embrace this opportunity, others are not so appreciative of the second chance that they have been given. Any remorse that they exhibit was an act, as these scoundrels embrace the Grovic lifestyle at the first opportunity and flee into the wilderness, to steal and rape once more.
Yet with the passage of time, it would seem that the tribe has earned the favour of An, for it has been an unusually good year. There has been enough rain, warmth and sunshine to allow the land around the Croglatol to truly flourish. The swine are plentiful, the air is full of the buzzing of bees and flowers carpet the earth. Glotradan declares that it has been such a good year that during the harvest feast, our tribe shall invite the leaders of its closest allies – namely, the stone men.
This is a good opportunity to explore Rodac society in greater detail.
Due to their greater access to copper, the stone men have enjoyed great progress when it comes to the development of new technology. They have superior metallurgy and as a result, the tools that they produce are better than anything that our tribe creates. They have developed systems of shaft mining and quarrying in order to gain access to evermore copper, and they live in mudbrick houses rather than the wattle and daub huts of the Protavic people.
As a great deal of their land is not suitable for growing trees and most of their wood is used as fuel for their forges, they do not have anywhere near as many boats as our tribe possesses. However, those that they do have last for a long time, thanks to the protective properties of topran, a viscous black liquid that seeps from the earth in their southernmost territory. This substance naturally repels water and though it is very difficult to set aflame, it is almost impossible to douse once it has begun to burn.
