| LiShen | Created on Monday, 10 May 2010 22:07 |
| Tabar-nak Family |
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The Tabar'nak Family. There once was a tribe that lived on a plateau high upon a mountain side, they were a simple tribe but simple minded they were not. For such a distant tribe in the lands they were very fond of history and the events going on around them, although they never had a urge to participate in on the drama of the lands but rather observe. It was the Elder that brought this tribe together, centuries ago from their very own drama. That is why they say this tribe learns from others battles of ignorance or even pure brilliance. The tribe made up of scholars, hunters, even mere gatherers of parts from all over. They never judged people by the marks on their skin for they knew too much of being judged by the marks on their own skin. So they welcomed any who was pure in heart to their tribe. Long ago, before the world is what is and what it was. There was a rain fall that seemed to never stop, the people all around these lands didn't think much of it for the first few days but as the weather grew heavier and the puddles grew into rivers, and those rivers seemed to grow into lakes. The people all around decided it was about time to move to higher ground, until this flood would retreat itself back to the sea. But as they wandered up the steep hills where the mountain goats roam, they encountered a royal that had been washed out of his very own palace. Standing there with his brigade of less than cheerful soldiers, he told the people that they must leave - For there apparently wasn't enough food around for his soldiers and the people to eat. "Besides" he said with his belly jiggling "What do I need with a bunch of lazy peasants, look at your hands covered in sut and dirt, Dispicable" His army than joined him in a roar of laughter. The nerve of this man, ordering people off land that was not his own. To tell people in need to leave for his own benefit, it infuriated the people, the people thought about fighting but they decided they could travel on east of the mountain. These people were from all around, some were scholars, some were hunters, some were simple farmers. People you need to build a community, before long they forgot about the flood because they had started their very own community. It had been a few months now and the weather was getting mighty cold, especially at the heights they were at. It wasn't long until they saw this man again, the royal who had run them off the western side of the mountain. The man looked thin, he didn't look well, his eyes sunken in and his skin so pale. He pleaded for them to let him into their village, the people not being mean or evil let him in and soon the calvary followed. These people they had gathered for the winter months but not enough for the soldiers. The soldiers were rude, mean they were hostile towards the men and vulgar towards the woman, The hunters of the people were furious. They all gathered and were discussing a plan to flush them out before they all starved for the winter, they could possibly trap a few goat here and there but it still wouldn't be enough to feed them all. There was a man, a scholar who caught wind of the plans of the hunters, he pleaded with them to let him talk to the calvary before they took any action. This was all to avail because the royal had no intention of leaving and the calvary had no intention of leaving his side. The hunters were furious they gathered their supplies and divised a plan. It was at midnight when they lit the calvary's tents on fire, the men screamed and moaned as the tents fell from the intense heat - they ran with their tails between their legs with the royal soon tumbling after. But this wasn't the end they still had almost no rations to keep them alive for the rest of the winter, It was the Scholar once again that asked for the hunter's ear. The Scholar had noticed while walking by the near by pond upon the plateau that even though the pond was very much frozen, the fish under the ice were very much alive. The Hunter's decided fish was good as any game in the forest, they cut a hole in the ice the size of a shield and they dropped a thin fishing line down the hole, waiting in anticipation. It didn't take long before the fish began biting and the tribe that had been brought together as a family could eat and survive the rest of the winter. That scholar is now the Eldest of the tribe, and the tribe still fishes for their food during the winter to this day. Even though the people in the family came from very different and very distant lands at one point, they came together like a family and they stayed together like a family. Through thick and thin and they will forever be together, they decided returning to those lands full of the royals very much like the one they ran out of their own tribe was not an option. This family was named after the very way they survived that long winter, they named it after the Scholar who helped invent it - Tabar'naking. The family of the Tabar'nak will never judge a book by its cover and will forever remember that even when you give kindness its not always returned. - Neith Tabar'nak |
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