Legend of the First Clan | Star Frontiers

In the
beginning there were two hunting packs and there were
not yet any clans. The world was a paradise for these hunters and
game was plenty. One pack was favored with golden brown fur and the other
tended toward reddish brown fur. The creators smiled upon them and
provided for their every need. Then the hunters became greedy and
wasteful. They began to hunt excessively and to kill for pleasure
alone. When they ate they only favored the sweetest meats and left
the rest to rot. They became such vicious hunters that all the game
in their home forests were killed. And thus they were forced to
leave their home forests by the creators, who cursed them to compete
with great wild beasts for game in the forests beyond their homes.
The creators decreed that they could not return to their home forests
until they mastered the savage within and rose above the great wild
beasts of the forests. The hunters wandered many years in the
wild forests and game was difficult to gain. The wild beasts were
more powerful and more skilled and the hunters learned hunger. Some
of the most savage of the hunters even became prey to the great wild
beasts. The longer they wandered the wild forests they became less
savage. To stave their hunger, the creators eventually gave the
hunters the lask beast to follow and hunt.

Then one night as the packs were
hunting lask the two speakers of these hunting packs happened to be
tracking the same lask. Each threw his zamra at the same time and
the lask was struck by both and died in the cleft of a great tree's
branches. The two speakers lept to their kill, eager to claim the
meat and feed their hunting packs. There on a branch of the great
tree the speakers met. A great fight commenced between them over
the kill. Speaker fought speaker tooth and nail. The battle lasted
the entire night until both collapsed with fatigue. In the morning
light both saw that during their fight the lask had been devoured by
a pack of forvurs. The two speakers collected their zamras and
parted with great contempt and hatred toward each other.

That same night the youngest gliders of
each of the hunting packs had also been out hunting mekal. Neither
found any spore to track and by chance ended up climbing twin trees
to sit watch. During the watch they each became aware of the other
and each, thinking the other was a blooded pack mate, began to
challenge the other in games of skill. When they started throwing
their zamras they discovered they were not pack mates. The two young
gliders became quick friends and challenged each other all night
long. Shortly before dawn they caught the scent of a pair of bogah
returning from their nightly foraging. The two quickly schemed an
snaring hunt and captured both bogah. At sunrise they parted, each
vowing to tell their families about the other. They traded zamras
and headed for home each with a bogah.

When the young gliders each returned
home they found that the speakers had returned first. The speakers
were cursing the creators and angry. They each declared the other
hunting pack an enemy, demons created by the creators to torment
them. Each speaker declared that hunting the forest around the great
tree was forbidden. The two young gliders held their speech and hid
their zamras.

For the next three months, one pack
hunted near the river, the other hunted near the cliffs, and lask
were scarce. The lask feared the river because of the great wild
beasts. And, the lask seldom foraged along the cliffs for there are
few fruits they eat growing along the cliffs. The hunting packs
suffered for food during these months due to the lack of lasks. The
two young gliders continued to secretly visit each other during these
months and their friendship became true. They became very skilled at
snaring bogah together. Their hunts became even more prosperous and
the meat they each brought to their hunting packs began to be
celebrated. The two young gliders became embolden by the accolades
of their hunting packs and decided to hunt lask together. To keep
their secret friendship hidden they agreed to hunt two lask so that
each could bring one home. After many nights of hunting together
they happened upon a pair of lask. They schemed their kills and
tracked the beasts deep into the forest. Then together as they had
learned to hunt bogah they threw their zamras and killed both lask.
The blood of the two young hunters was filled filled with jubilation and primal
joy. They ceremonially embedded their zamras into the skulls of the
lasks and rushed for home.

Each young glider was greeted a hero
when they brought their lask home. The beasts were placed upon the
central poll and the wizened howled for all to gather and celebrate
their blooding.. Ceremonially each young glider pulled their zamra
from the lask's skull and cut the speaker's choicest cut of meat.
Then presented the meat upon the zamra for the speaker to consume.
The speaker's each recognized the markings on the zamras as those of
the other demon pack and so the two young gliders had their secret
revealed.

The speaker's each declared war upon
the other hunting pack. The young gliders each argued valiantly that
the other pack were not demons. The young gliders courageously stood
for each other and told the stories of how they had learned to hunt
together. They pressed that the many bogah they had snared were
snared together, that they had always divided the hunt equally, even
consuming the odd one together as litter mates do. By their
persuasion they succeeded to get the speakers to agree meet again at
the great tree and show each others lask and zamra to the two hunting
packs. Then to demonstrate that they could hunt together as a team,
as a team.

The two hunting packs gathered that
night at the great tree. The speakers each sat with their zamras
ready on opposing branches, their hunting packs in the branches about
them, ready to fight. The two young gliders went gliding through the
forest hunting bogah, lopah, peegat, dropah, sorga, and plaat. One
blooded from hunting pack followed them to confirm the snares and
kills were made as a team. All the meat was brought back and laid
before their speakers. Finally near dawn the two young gliders
caught the scent of a lask. They took their well practiced positions
in opposing trees and threw their zamras. They brought the lask to
the speakers at the great tree and divided it in half. Placing the
lask before each speaker, the speakers were overcome with hunger for
the meat and impressed by the friendship of the young gliders. That
morning the two hunting packs feasted together a great feast of lask,
plaat, sorga, dropah, peegat, lopah, and bogah. The speakers became
friends. The hunting packs became one.

That evening the first clan was formed
and the creators were pleased. The creators blessed the clan and
they became many clans and filled all the forests.