Tribal and Feudalistic Tribes

The tribes just outside the Desolate used to be divided into 3 cultural groups. They tried uniting into one, but that caused political disaster and the tribes split up into about 200 cultural groups. Each tribe has a council of elders, which consults the entire tribe in order to make decisions. But the tribes have agreements to each other. To use an example, one tribe provides protection to another tribe, and in return that other tribe provides loyalty, military service, and preferred trade haggling. The tribes who offer protection can also have another tribe offer protection to them as well. This creates a tree when those on top have a few under them, and each of those have a few under them, and so on.


 * In traditional feudalism, politics are driven by personal ambitions. In this system, politics are more about the will of the people.
 * In traditional feudalism, divine right ensures that the eldest male child inherits the lands of their parent. In this system, each tribe has their own method of inheritance.
 * In traditional feudalism, you must inherit claims to lands that are not your own in order to attempt to acquire them. In this system, the method in which claims are acquired depends entirely on the specific relationship between two tribes.