![[calradia banner 2 1.png]] # Forest People ## [[Vakken]] Peoples - A Free Nomadic Tribe - "the Sons of the Forest" ### Tier 3 Nomadic Outlaws The tribes known as the Forest People practice slash-and-burn farming in the deep woods, outside the grasp of the [[Sturgian]] boyars. They burn down tracts of trees, grow crops on the virgin soil fertilized by ash for a few years until the land is exhausted, and move on. It is an inefficient use of land but a very efficient use of labor, suitable for a numerically small population in a large area. Also, because the plots are hard to measure and tax, it's a very good strategy for people who don't care to be governed. This clan is [[Vakken]] but they inhabit the lands of [[Principality-of-Sturgia]]. [[Asaios]] on the people of [[Principality-of-Sturgia]] and the [[Vakken]]. (See page [[10]].) > From time to time I caught a glimpse of fires burning in the woods off the trail. Villagers told me these were 'the [[Forest-People]]', who call themselves the [[Vakken]], burning down a swathe of woods and sowing their crops. They say that the cleared land gives great yields at first, and a [[Vakken]] must work less than a [[Sturgian]] to feed himself and his family. But it is quickly exhausted, and so the [[Vakken]] must move about from place to place. [[Istiana]]'s man [[Arto]] in [[Sibir]], himself half-[[Vakken]], told me a bit about his people. **No one could say whether they came to this land first, or the Sturgians.** For as long as anyone could remember, he says, the two people have intermingled. Sometimes they trade, sometimes they fight, much in the same way the [[Aserai-Sultanate]] live side-by-side with the Bedouin of the desert. # Game Files / Developer Diaries "[...] The Finnic tribes meanwhile are represented by the Sons of the Forest (Forest People in the current release), a semi- nomadic clan that practices swidden slash-and-burn agriculture in the depths of the woods." | Source(s) | Text | | ---- | ---- | | comment_strings.XML | tring id="str_comment_special_clan_intro_forest_people.default" text="{=NeUilOqh}We welcome strangers into our lands. The woods are wide, and there is game to be hunted and food to be gathered, enough for all. But there are some who come here to steal from us, to enslave us, or to tax us. Every spring, the bodies of those thieves are discovered in the thaw."> |