Ravagers

Other Names
Steppechildren, Spoilers

Cultures
Mixed antisocial outcasts from various cultures.

Beliefs & Goals
Radical freedom, “might makes right”, “winning is everything and there’s no winner without a loser”. They tend to glorify a particularly vicious aspect of Voitto.

Resources
Mounts, cattle, indiscriminate belligerence.

History
The first “tribes” of Ravagers were born during the cultural upheaval the Kullas brought to the Aureates. The ones who had based their existence on greed and the exploitation of others we pushed to the margins and came to wander the First Steppes as warlike bands, thereafter threatening all civilized peoples of the area.

The Ravager obsession with “winning” and exploitation has kept them backward and poor. They try to compensate for this by raiding nearby settlements. This lifestyle has made almost every Ravager a capable combatant. Most infrastructure duties have been relegated to slaves, but no true aristocracy has formed due to the high turnover of the cruelly treated labor pool. Ravager society is thoroughly unstable, and that’s the way they like it.

Status is gained and maintained by the public domination and humiliation of others. You literally can’t climb the Ravager social ladder without pulling someone down.

Notable Members
Charnel Skullhelm