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White Tigers
Faction: "The Church of the Mother"
( self-afflicted, degenerated former medieval-oriented society, native to the planet Midgard ).

Society

Whilst the ancient civilization of the orange tigers was build upon cooperation, the main focus of the white tigers was absolute individualism, coupled with the right of the stronger. As a result the white tigers lived in feudal societies. To protect themselves from this rule of brute force, the females of the aristocracy founded the Church of the Goddess, more formally the church of the mother, which idolized the individual tigress as mother and successful huntress.

After 20000 years they believe that they were spared because they alone knew what was right and wrong, and that all others were killed because they sinned against the goddess. Or that the orange tigers killed all because they were demons. Both options are accepted by the church.

Clothing

Clothing is mostly minimalistic. For most of the population, there is little more than bra and pants made from fish skin and watersnake-leather. Priestesses, the upper crust, wear white or red colored robes made from the shedded fur of the population.

Huntresses going outside the deep caverns receive a white cloak, both as camouflage as well as additional protection against the freezing cold.

With their thick fur they do not really need any clothes at all, so it is mostly a feel of modesty and status symbols they use clothing for.

Language

The white tigers use the orange tigers scripture, with only few fragments of their own native script still left which barely anybody can read. Usually only the highest priestesses understand the old script. And in general, only priestsesses learn to read and write at all. They use the language of the orange tigers for talk, but after 20000 years the language deviated so much it is barely comparable anymore, For a human, both languages will sound like a rapid succession of growls and meows and click noises.

Characteristics

Even the malnourished workers of the church are still tall killing machines. They are strong, fast and have keen senses. They would be aggressive about the food, but both the priestesses as well as their mothers beat that out of them. They have a felines curiosity and a childs naivety.

Huntresses are selected from the most social minded members of society. They receive more education and training. Able to live out their hunting insticts on the surface, they are mentally mature, but know only what the priestesses teach them - and believe it unquestioningly. They strive to rise to the heights the mother goddess set and which the priestesses are eager to repeat perpetually - although the latter are ignoring those for themselves.

Priestesses are selected usually for the willingness to crush others. Survival of the church is considered paramount. And only ruthless work toward that goal is considered a qualification for a priestess. Thus the most backhanded and mean monomaniacs have the best chances rising in the church hierarchy. Thouh the ability to tell impressive stories with fervor is a close second qualifier.

Musical Key:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmduOjIip5Q

Instruments and styles: Gongs, choir-singing, large tubular bells. The church has, in its north-polar deep-bunkers, gongs so large they are no longer heard, but felt only as a subterranean grumbling like from a light earthquake. Most musical instruments are simple and often use materials that originally were intended for totally different uses. Like spare venturi-type thrusters, that had been left from the ICBM's with which the church purged it's own world, that are reused as bells, and expended nuclear fuel rod casings that are reused as tubular bells.

Daily music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBtX8WoGFno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZVteB1QK9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZRvQaYLRLw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZRvQaYLRLw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl57NQ6GcF8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdjIEaDgEr8

Female Names

Default: Workers/Huntresses: <Name> <# in this generation>

Priestesses: <Position> <Name> Positions are: Matriarch, Pira ( Eldest ), Prelatess, Abbess, Prioress, Legatess, Prima, Deacon

Typical names ( human transscripts ): Orra, Una, Anna, Numa, Khira, Nurraven, Yeska, Vannah, Yavannah, Savannah ( Ya- was an old title of aristocracy, Sa- an old title of royalty )

Male Names

The males have no cultural or historical background to draw upon. As a result, their names are often expressing things the fosterfather saw in his adopted son.

Thus there are names such as “Strength”, “Wisdom”, “Hope”, “Sparkling Eyes”, “Wet Nose”, “Long Fur”, “Swims Well”.

Archetypes

Priestess:
7 to 8 ft tall, very strong, good reflexes, low endurance, high ( but skewed, fragmented and mostly mysticistic / mystified ) education, prejudicial, most are highly egocentric. Militantly matriarchalic, see everything not a white tiger as an abomination that has to be eradicated.

Numerically, these clerics are a minority in the theocratic society of the white tigers. Tend to be a bit overfed, and their clothes are extremely colorful. A staff with a glowing crystal a the top is their sign of office ( technically speaking it's a big LED crystal and the staff is a high voltage dynamo, but, who cares ) and they are sure of themselves to act in the best interest of the mother goddess, the great huntress. Technically they know they don't and instead violate most of her laws. But who could proof them wrong?

Rolemodel: “Oh, I define what the goddess is like, didn't you know that? And I say the goddess wants to see you slain because you didn't obey me.” Robes made of spun gold and fine linnen ( made from the groomed bellyfur in spring ), overburdened with jewellry with occult and arcane symbols. Metal claw sheats, sickly green with poison, are a common piece of jewellry. 'Evil Queen' or ' Evil Stepmother' describes most higher priestesses very well by type. They're the female versions of Emperor Palpatine.

Huntresses:
7 to 8ft tall, very strong, good reflexes, low endurance, low education ( barely bronze-age knowledge ), individualistic but with group-affinity. They assume the teachings of priestesses to be the ultimate truth, despite all the inconsistencies.

Rolemodel: “I am the image of the goddess: curious, self reliant, strong, generous, caring - and deadly when neccessary.”

They form the small middleclass of the white tigers population. Hunting dangerous beasts in the deep rivers of their mountain retreat, they always are rather scrawny, but the goddess demands that a huntress cares and supplies for hers, and so they do. Wearing a bra and loincloth made of fish skin or more often the furs of the animals they caught in the mountains to protect their soft bits againt the cold outside, they have knifes made from animal bones, spears and long bows with which to hunt the small game on their mountain-homes ranges.

Workers:
They form the majority of the white tigers population. Catching fish and crustaceans in the deep rivers of their mountain retreat, they always are rather scrawny, but they are the arms and claws of the goddess, so they obey the priesthood unquestiongly. Wearing a bra and loincloth made of fish skin to protect their soft bits in the tight passages of the caves as well as in the freezing water, they have knifes made from animal bones and use nets to catch fish and crustaceans in the caverns under the mountains.

Males:
Called “breeding beasts that once were males” by the priestesses. 7 to 8 ft tall, strong, good reflexes, medium endurance. Stoneage level. Scent of females brings them into mating-frenzy - so, if a female leaves the mountain-bunkers to kill a male for the priestesses to make artifical insemnations possible, the oldest male intercepts the female, knowing he'll turn crazy and be killed, whilst the younger scatter, flee and hide.

Rough but social, few prejudices, highly intelligent. Very accurate observers, very skilled trackers and hunters. Open society, meritocratic. They are „resupplied“ by male infants the females cast out to let them live in the wilderness, where nature is to do the selection.

Historic Background

Whilst the ancient civilization of the orange tigers was build upon cooperation, the main focus of the white tigers was absolute individualism, coupled with the right of the stronger. As a result the white tigers lived in feudal societies. To protect themselves from this rule of brute force, the females of the aristocracy founded the Church of the Goddess, more formally the church of the mother, which idolized the individual tigress as mother and successful huntress.

Throughout the ages the aristocratic elite secured it's hold on the wider populace by using the influence of the church, and the church profited from that by prestige, influence and money.

However it came the day when smaller aristocrats set sail to conquer new lands to expand, and met the orange tigers. Individually stronger than an orange tiger, the white tigers tried to grab land on the new continents shores, totally perplexed why the orange tigers banded together instead of sending their champion. No matter how good a single person might be, against a multitude..? No chance! The orange tigers used zebras for fast transportation and fennecs for hunting and guard duties. The usage of animals for anything else than food was anathema to the white tigers who preached total self reliance.

Thus considering the orange tigers as inferior, they started attack after attack, drawing more and more interest at home to the new continent. The orange tigers finally realized that these attacks wouldn't stop, and thus prepared a strike against the white tigers home land after spying the situation. Realizing that a large part of the population would actually welcome them, they went with a ferwor into researching better weapons, and so, after about 300 years of constant mosquito-bite-attacks from the white tigers, the orange tigers came with ironclads and muskets.

The “issue” was swiftly resolved.

But the church was now without its main supporters, the aristocracy, and thus lost power and influence. It growled helplessly. For centuries peace ensured, but the church moved back into its ancestral realm in the high mountainranges of the polar regions, and there digged itself in, sponging up what it could, teaching the doctrine of the goddess to the masses with some good results.

When the combined tigers society stood at the last step before going to the stars, they asked themselves:

“Will we be able to live in peace together with others when we meet them between the stars?”

So they started a research program to first create sapient beings with whom to live together. They found, searching in their own genome, that some long time ago their own species had been subjected to genetic modifications, as their genome showed patterns that were contrary to everything what they found elsewhere. They took great pains and reverse engineered what had been done to them, realizing that , maybe, they themselves where the experiment of a species to see if they would be able to find their way to the stars , and back to their creators.

The Church considered this as an intrusion into their domain and started to boycot and sabotage the space program, why the personnel was drastically reduced and instead computers and robots were used to build the moonbases automatically that were to become the launching pad for the coming age stellar of exploration. The scientists used zebras and fennecs as the first species to be uplifted, as both had been since ages the faithful servants of the orange tigers.

When these news came out, the church ran amok. Sapient life can't be created, only the goddess can give birth to sapient life!

Tampering with an old prototype of a transfer-virus, the church believed to have a tool to kill the orange tigers. They released it.

However, instead of killing, it had different effects… and on all tigers. The virus effect wasn't very big.. a mild cold, and then for weeks nothing, yet it was highly infectious at this time. after about a month time then…. Females went into heat. Traditionally there had been only one time in the year where the females had gone into heat, and durign that time males had used sedating drugs to remain at ease. Now, over night half a year from the normal time, without prior warning, most of the females all over the planet went into an intense heat. Chaos broke out.

When the church in their deep bunker under the polar mountain ranges mockingly called the moonbase, the scientists on the moonbase understood the call wrongly, thinking it a call for help, admitting that a solution is close at hand and that it's just a few weeks until they can get the situation under control. This made the churchs superiors go mad and fall back onto a spare plan: Using rockets mass produced for the moon project and equipped with nuclear bombs jury rigged from material stolen from commercial nuclear power plants to eradicate all cities where the orange tigers are. Meaning a 75% surface burning. And the fools did it, not knowing about fallout, radiation poisening and such.

The rich jungles of the orange tigers home continent burnt for months, whilst the plains of the white tigers home continent died under the dust darkening the skies and the radiation sterilizing the surface. The moonbase build a few nukes itself, and destroyed and sealed up the exits of the polar mountain ranges bunkers of the church, condemning them to eons under the mountains, and destroying all their surface assets such as vehicles.

The Church, the sole major group of survivors on the planet was sealed up in its bunkers, the few males by now infected, turning into raving madmen, whilst the primarily female clergy of the church had no real idea what to do , not having any idea about technology or biology. After decades they managed to tunnel out of the mountins, finding the world dead, cold and silent. Except for a small bay near the mountains feet , where volcanic activity had formed a heat pocket in which since centuries a small jungle existed above the polar circle. There they exiled the males, and all male children born, which started to turn raving as they became of age. And ever since, once a year, one of the workers of the church, nowadays glorified as huntresses, in the image of the goddess, but still deprived of most anything, has to go out and catch a male, returning with the frozen bits for artifical insemnation of all “eligible”, i.e. forcable, females.

After 20000 years they believe that they were spared because they alone knew what was right and wrong, and that all others were killed because they sinned against the goddess. Or that the orange tigers killed all because they were demons. Both options are accepted by the church.

However, one day one of the huntresses spies a strange bird, which flies without flapping its wings, has no real wings or body actually, and has a smoking ass.
Well, and then the “bird” of wood and metal crashes…
And the rest is going to become history.