#Lore24 – Entry #165 – Wild West Month #13 – The Red Fang Tribe
As told by Kumiko Stalks-Amongst-the-Stars, shaman of the Midnight Panther tribe of Kerra-Kerra
Shameful are the Red Fang tribe, for they bring disgrace to all Kerra-Kerra and disappointment to the Great Mother Saressh. I do not like to speak of them, for the very words taste foul upon my lips. Though they are the youngest of the many tribes of Kerra-Kerra, with the spread of the Peoples from Beyond the Great Walls to our lands in recent times, many younger Kerra-Kerra who know not what they do have flocked to their tribe, for they battle those who would seek to take over our lands with their Howling Steel Chariots and Laws.
The Red Fangs are violent and brutal warriors who strike without fear, but also without honor or mercy. They raid the places claimed by those who come from beyond the Great Walls and steal their cattle and horses and food and weapons. If the gods and spirits are merciful, they will simply slay those who oppose them. More often than not, the Red Fangs will butcher the settlers, leaving a clear message to those who would follow, often taking trophies and eating the hearts and organs of those they slay to take their power.
Their ways are a corruption of the True Way, and they revere the most powerful and dangerous of the Spirits. They do not follow the beliefs of the Great Mother Saressh, and so are lost to her embrace. They believe in the cruel, unforgiving nature of the Bitter Frontier itself, that the strong will prosper while the weak shall perish to sustain the strong. Their totem spirit is that of the great crimson wolf, and it is like a swarm of starving wolves that they sweep in against their enemies. They often ally with the Orc Peoples of the Frigid North and have taken to raiding the Howling Steel Chariots alongside them.
This has caused much trouble for the Kerra-Kerra, for those from Beyond the Great Walls do not take time to learn of our ways and the markings of our tribes. Many who come to the Bitter Frontier see one Kerra-Kerra just the same as any other, and the stories of the terrors of the Red Fangs spread much further and much more clearly than those of us who seek to live peacefully as we always have. And so it has become dangerous for us to come too close to those who come from Beyond the Great Walls without making clear our peaceful intentions, and even then, some may not recognize the Sign of Peace. More and more of our people are slain out of fear thanks to the Red Fangs, while others are taken captive and held within prisons of stone and steel or forced to labor against their will under the Peoples from Beyond the Great Walls.
Many troubling times lie ahead for our people, and the many peoples of the Broken Cage that Still Imprisons.