TCGR-Faction: Akeer

A TCGR Faction played by Agenttine.

The Akeer Directorate live in several small villages across the continent's northern savanna, their largest concentration being a central village located to the south of a major lake. They share the lake with the Bananarama, whom they consider heretics and traitors. Their primary food source has been the various quadrupedal prey herds of the savanna, which they hunt alongside their carnivorous allies and with several specialized tools. One of the devices is an object meant to be thrown and break legs. The second is a spear crafted with a metalhead. The metal is relatively weak and scarce, only being used among the hunt's elite leaders, known as Metlar, who have become leaders in their communities. They have recently acquired an agricultural product and complex fishing techniques, mirroring the Bananarama. Their limited structures mainly compose small huts and fences that house and shelter their populations and limited food sources. They live under the rule of an authoritarian dictator, the Dictate, who rose to power following a disastrous fire and supported by the Metlar.

Arrival to the North
After the return of the Scouts, The Akeer were the second to head north, traveling through the valleys and collecting what they could until they reached the northern plains. The plains were covered in vast fields of grass and populated by quadrupedal prey and what would be the ancestors of the Caniens.

The grasses would provide little building material and give prey a decent shot of noticing the Akeer, so they adapted by developing ranged weapons, known as flurks, that would be used to disable prey before the hunters closed in. Over these hunts, the Akeer would encounter and eventually bond with the Hunters of the grasses by mimicking several social behaviors that established the Akeer as the dominate partner in the exchange. These Hunters would be the ancestors of domesticated Caniens.

The friendship of the feral man and uncivilized beast would prove to be a major upturn for Akeer, not only in the form of domestication. The ancient hunter's aggression even against each other, meant that nowhere in the grassland was safe from these ferocious predators, especially helpless newborns. The creatures adapted to these conditions by constructing primitive fortifications around their nests, which proved to quite effective protections. The Akeerians emulated these formations on a much larger scale, creating a makeup around their settlement that made it far more secure.

Seeds of Flames
As an additional effect, this created a safe environment which allowed the quasi-state to dedicate more of its resources to other matters in conjunction with an increasing population, which they weren't able to support, ultimately culminated inn the first evidence of agriculture there. Although "agriculture" should be taken lightly as the Akeerians didn't cultivate any, merely hunt them, just like their other food sources. They were a type of grass which had an edible quality. Soon, several attempts were made to tame the grass. Unfortunately, as they say "curiosity killed the cats", several bundles of dry grass were collected in an attempt to understand the plant but the dry climate of the general area caused them to burn. The entirety of Akeer was engulfed in flames, causing the infrastructure and people to burn. Following the disaster, most of the population manage to survive but the storm has yet to be weathered as food supplies were depleted and the foundation of the tribe was also shaken significantly.

Rise of the Directorate
During its darkest hour, a man noted to be young but a talented hunter rose to great prominence among the populace. Eventually, he managed to gather enough power and support to overthrow the unpopular council, taking charge as the sole ruler of the entirety of Akeer as "Direct". A notable immediate change that was associated with this event was a clear division of labour between professions in the tribe, with most of the population being assigned to specific jobs that suits their skills. Those who disagree with this new policy or failed to efficiently execute it were banished from the tribe.

Several villages were banished, even some willingly as they fear the recent developments made under the Direct. Most of these groups concentrated together into a new society known as Bananarama.

With the option of agriculture now out of the window, the dictatorship decided to persist its tradition of hunting. Now hunting groups are organized include ten men with the leader being appointed by the Direct himself. These small but efficient groups have been able to herd prey into traps, but larger teams are often too unwieldy to manage effectively. However, this new focus on hunting meant that other sectors of the economy suffered such as fishing and gathering, as such changes in the overall supply of food was quite negligible.

Besides, during the same time frame, several more Akeerians migrated to the new Bananarama state. Several hunters of both parties also had several minor dispute over local game. These factors meant that tension was growing but it was still only limited to minor verbal aggressions at the time. Possibly as a response to this, the first sign of metalworking of copper which contributed in the creation of copper spears. Also Akeer, through scouting missions, managed to emulate the neighboring bananarama's cages and boats used for fishing. This helped them in diversifying their sources of food, causing lakeside villages to expand in size and complexity.