Shamans
Shamans (呪術師) are a type of class or clan or occupation for sergals.
It's mainly used for one of classification of three type of clan in Shigu in the early stages but also used for a type of common occupation which sergals can become.
Common features of shamans
A shaman sergal is going to the last small shrine for pilgrimage. He or she is maybe a mixed-breed person who comes from the Northeast.
Shaman is one of the suitable occupations for sergals as well as occupations which use their physical ability like combatants or hunters. All sergals are suitable to work surroundings of supernatural culture like shamans due to their deeply religious nature and superior sixth sense. They have a strong ability for shamanism as racial nature, especially more primitive sergals like uncivilized Northern sergals were having a higher thing of those.
They do a shrine rituals such as ceremonies, a praying for rain, a praying for sunny, and an exercising. Also, some of them perform magic rituals such as an incantation, a curse, a fortunetelling, and other miscellaneous praying. They do a pilgrimage to dozens of small shrines in each place of planet Tal, to get the super spiritual powers that they believe that it can make them be able to do both of shrine rituals and magic rituals. But there are some small shrines on dangerous Talyxian biome areas also. Especially, pilgrimage to a small shrine of Magoe Forest has high risk due to much dangerous wildlife and so on.
Shaman clan in pre-war Shigu
Concept sketch of a sergal who belongs to Shaman Caln.
It is a clan who has the "wolf stamp seal" that is the proof of spiritual practice, centering on shamans and mages who can manipulate names.
They have a rich knowledge of wildlife and forest. Also, they show the highest aptitude for fluent speaking and having a higher vocabulary in three clans in pre-war Shigu. Because handling words is an essential ability for them, they can use some civilized words to some extent. However, due to the few numbers of words in the situation of previous Northern land, even their ways were still not too fluent.
Comprehensively, they were the most civilized group in the Northern sergals before Northern land got civilized.
Lifestyle
They also shared the worship of the Talyxian-Wolves as same as Brave Clan.
They were generally staying in certain areas and rarely traveled from their village or group.
Most of the Northern agudners were often living with their group and shaman sergals were able to trade with them in most of the cases. Thanks to this, they were able to get comparatively neat clothes and weapons, and their houses and villages were larger than other clans.
Ability
While using their biological knowledge and their special technique "The Art of Naming", they can elucidate the true nature of things without getting the miasma's influence.
They use special items like an imagoi liquid as a traditional religious, and they will induce a state of unified senses with the Talyxian forest where is filled with miasma. This behavior is said that they get the more super mysterious power.
Due to their mysterious and spiritual power and capability, they are believed as a powerful and dependable member by the people who have a mate of shamans. However, if they still have no a stamp seal and unrefined ability to use words, they will always be recognized as "The Wordless" by mature, refined shamans. As such, the wordless will not be considered objectively capable individuals, because of their unstable ability and immature nature may potentially cause unexpected incidents and/or threats, rather than yield good results in their practice.
Diet
The type of foods Shaman clan sergals can enjoy eating.
They are excellent in handling danger, entering without fear into a resource-rich forest, and harvesting the meat plants with ease. They live mainly on bringing back seeds, hunting small animals, and domesticating others. This provides a wide variety of food selection:
- Meaty wood - A common flesh tree that grows in the forest areas of Tal. Although many trees near the entrance of the forest are hard-skinned, making them hard to eat, the deep forest trees have softer wood and plenty of nourishment available to eat just by cutting chunks out of them. They are the “forest’s viscera and sinew”. Although they are considered staple foods, harvesting these woods requires journeying deep into the dangerous forest.
- Blood beans - A type of vegetation found in Tal. Although it is called a bean, it grows in the ground of the forest to nearly the size of a potato. Wild species grow in large clusters, but because wild blood beans are dangerous to harvest, many are brought home and grown in round gardens for easier collection. Blood beans have a taste similar to that of internal organs. In addition, several blood bean varieties have been cultivated in Gold Ring.
- Small Dondokos - A small dondoko. In addition to capturing them wild with a hidden trap, it is also possible to catch groups of infant dondokos in their bulb state and raise them as livestock for easier harvesting. This lead to husbandry methods to raise Dondokos. Pigs and cattle are also kept as livestock in this way.
- Ascidian Shelves heads - A body part from Ascidian shelves. This creature is often used for shelving, desk tops and other uses after separating the lower half from the rest, applying salt and other treatments. This is an important export for Reono but people in the north use the upper half as a soft food. Since it is slightly hard, Sergals cut it and swallow the pieces whole. With their fondness for chewing food, Agudners tend to pickle these for later eating.
- Blood pipe - Found in the wilderness and shallow forests, this is a pipe-like organism that forms a fungal bed-like colony. Although not very nutritious, it is easy to grab and cut and then eaten by swallowing or chewing.
- Toad - Although not shown on the chart, it is a large toad-shaped Talyxian living mainly in the main Magoe Forest. The toads of Magoe will grow considerably larger than others found elsewhere. The toad is basically a trap-like creature that does not venture out of the forest and any attempts to capture without using a shaman are almost always unsuccessful.
- Imagoi - While not pictured here and not be food strictly, they tend to drink a liquid which can be intake from this substance on a daily basis as an intoxicating drink. Distilled versions of this are used in traditional religious ceremonies.
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