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Timeline
Tribal Stage
Prehistoric – 0 to 500,000 (500,000 years long)
Stone Age – 500,000 to 550,000 (50,000 years long)
Copper Age – 550,000 to 555,000 (5,000 years long)
Bronze Age – 555,000 to 557,500 (2,500 years long)
Prehistoric
As you can see Prehistoric still has the Ocean tribe since all tribes started from the ocean tribe.
Hunting
Here is a Prehistoric River Tribe Naucean chasing after a leptikdillo, a small hopping insectivore who are abundant in the river basin. As you can see this is before they used clothing or ornamental items. But unlike the Ocean tribe who is also naked these guys walk on land as well as swim in the river. It turns out they can run quite fast of their "fleet" and can grab prey such as the leptikdillo with its oral tentacles quite easily since it had so much of a reach as well as their necks.
River Flowit
Here is a River Flowit. They are the pets of the Nauceans. They are from a carnivorous family known as the "tentacle tooth". Like most land creatures on the planet they all came from creature which had oral tentacles and a beak within a pseudo mandible. These tentacle teeth evolved their tentacles to act like 6 sharp teeth within the pseudo mandible and of course still have the sharp beak that leads to the real mouth.
River flowits are domesticated and originated from the ocean flowits which lived like Earth's sea otters. The Ocean tribe were first to domesticated them and they were used for getting into hard spots in coral reefs and under water rocky holes. Like the Nauceans they are amphibious. The river tribe uses them not only for the water hunting for for land hunting. They can go just as well in animal burrows and can climb trees very well. Their sense of smell is amazing due to breeding. They also have sensitive whiskers in which it can use to detect movement even in the dark and underwater.
River Flowits have also been bred for herding livestock as well as bred as house hold pets. They can herd the pig and chicken-like stock just as well in the water as on land (see food image).
Founding Glowing River City
Here is the River Tribes city "Glowing River City" before it was settled during the Stone Age. A small group from the ocean tribe migrated from the ocean. This small group hunt small game, fish, fruits and grains. Over time they developed permanent nesting sights and eventually dome houses to protect them from the weather.
Stone Age
Then in Stone Age the tribes split off thus the first River Tribe. This shows a Shaman with a staff but the warriors pretty much just had wooden clubs and threw rocks at each other.
Shaman
Here is a tribal phase of a Naucean.
Note: The patterns on him are painted on. They are not his natural skin coloring. They are suppose to add the sense of culture and mysticism to him.
Religion
This is Naucean the Creator Goddess. She is like Gaia or Mother Earth on the planet. She is all things and balances nature and the ecosystem. As you can see she is holding Au (the small dwarf star) and the Blue Super Giant in the other hand, which both warm the planet. In the other 2 tentacles she is holding the orbiting moons Sina and Sirenia. And the last 2 tentacles are out like a balance showing the balance as well as open for a hugging embrace.
Naucean Gods
Here is part of the Naucean Pantheon. In the center is of Course the creator goddess Nauceanica who is said to make everything in the Universal Sea. The top left is Au Nauceanica's Bother who is said to have existed then Nauceanica made everything, though some say she even made him, while the Desert Tribe believe that it was Au who made everything not Nauceanica. Many religious wars have been over this issue of who created who. To the to right is Aohshi is is also Nauceanica's brother and also existed during the beginning of time. But unlike Au no one believes he many the universe but they do believe he is the protector of it. Since Nauceans have more than one child (usually 2 or 3) they believe they were all born in the same cosmic clutch by an unknown egg layer. Basically which came first the Naucean or the Egg problem. Au is represented by the Red Dwarf Sun (by the same name) that the planet Nauceanica orbits around. And Aohoshi is represented by the neighboring solar system's Blue Super Giant Star (by the same name). The reason he is the protector is because the huge star divers many large objects to its solar system rather that the Naucean's one.
In Naucenica's hands he holds out good and evil, light and dark and the poloar opposites. Her task is to balance these two forces. In her lower oral tentacles she holds her 2 daughters Serina and Sina which are represented by the 2 moons that orbit the planet Nauceanica (by the same names). Serina is tall and large just like the moon and is outgoing. This is manifested though the huge tidal forces it creates. Sina is small and short just like the moon and is shy. This is manifested by how little her tidal effects are compared to Serina. Sina's pet flowit is named Po. Po eventually got separated from her and exists at the edge of the solar system. In reality the Planet Po is glorified commet that ran into Sina and then bounced off and eventually was captured at the edge of the solar system. The crater from this on sina is huge and is called "Po's Bite". This incident also moved Sina's orbit from closer to the planet than Serina to farther away than Serina. In mythology they believe she is father out because she is reach out for Po to come back.
Nesting
Naucean Nest(Video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BykPwMSeiWU
Here is a Naucean nest with 2 babies. The babies are a lighter blue than the adults and can swim after birth. But since they live on land mostly it takes them many months to learn to walk and do not leave the nest until they can walk properly. However adults do carry them around in their lower pseudo-mandible at time. They have 1 to 4 offspring at a time. The parent take care of them until they are old enough to walk. At that stage the older grandparents of the tribe take care of the young one not old enough to hunt or gather. Play is an important part of a young Naucean's life. Durring this stage the young ones play hunting games wrestle and swim. They also learn how to use their 6 tentacles. Like a baby elephant's trunk the Naucen must learn how to manipulate these strange limbs. Once mastered they can do very complex actions where each arm can do a separate task. This is important during the hunt when you need to focus on tracking prey and not worrying about your limbs.
As you can see the parent is wearing Floots (flipper boots) which protect the flippers from being cut on sharp rocks. The tail and oral tentacles have bronze rings which have tribal, religious and family symbols. Lastly they have the neck poncho with their tribes colors on it. This is important to show tribe spirit and unity within the tribe. You may also notice that the body has no clothing. This is because unlike humans they need to water down their body frequently and only wear clothing either as decorative like the rings or poncho or protection as in armor during war or the floot to walk around in. Nauceans also do not have external genitalia thus they do not feel ashamed of being naked. However they do feel modest when such organs are open for urination, defication and copulation.
Swimming
Here is a drawing showing how they swim with their "floots". As you can compare with the skeleton drawing . When they walk on land they are actually walking on their knuckles. When extended all the way out i makes a flipper. The floots work in that they have padding from the knuckle down the front. While walking its usually up like a fist. This curing the toes backward (up and back). You can see how this works by using you own hand. When in a fist its like hand cured up and then when you extent your and that is like them in flipper mode. Now imagine the floot as like a glove. Except the sole of the show is from you knuckles to the tip of your fingers on the out side of your hand.
If the floot was not on it would worth the same with both bones on either side of the foot (you pointer and pinky without any of the other fingers) and a webbing of skin in bettween thats normal curled up. The bottom side also has a hard class just like the bottom of your foot. They cannot bend it forward past that point without breaking their feet fromthe weight.
Diet
Here are diffrent animals and plants that the Nauceans eat. The large animal is like our pigs and the bird-like creature is like our chickens. the rest are wild creatures from the river whle those two are domesticated. The plants are various fruit, roots, veggies, grains, eggs, berrys and nuts. I have no names yet but i tried to keep them all look exotic while still from the same planet in the river region.
Swamp Tribe Hunter
The Swamp Tribe is one of the more primitive tribes. They live in mud homes and are dirty all the time. They only get to the bronze age before being captured and put into slavery by the River, Desert, Grasslands and Mountain Tribes during their Exploration Age. Eventually after the Anti-Slavery War the Swamp Tribe race are all but assimilated into the various other tribes as mixed bloods. It is rare to find a pure blood swamp tribe. However (especially in the river tribe) you may see Nauceans with the swamp tribes signature shovel-like pseudo-mandible or a smaller stubby tail and rounded flippers. They are about the size of a Desert tribe (2/3rd River Tribe, 1/2 Ocean Tribe size). In the picture you can see a hunter covered in mud with a Swamp flowit. These flowits have huge webbed feet so it can stand on the top of the muddy surface. Also their tails have flattened like a long beaver tail. Their snouts have also gotten longer in case they sink in the mud they can lift their heads and breathe. Over all the Swamp tribe are just a strong, stout and muddy tribe who are one of the hartyest tribes of all the Nauceans to survive for so long in an environment with no solid land and no clean water.
Lystrophant Hunt
A Naucean hunting party leader using his oral tentacles point in the direction the others should stalk in the high grasses. With obsidian spears in hand the group of 8 crouch low peaking up their heads down and then.
Between the hunters and the river is a huge lystrophant with its tan colored hide covered in mud and he browses on the foliage beside him. Suddenly he hears a crack and it’s frozen with eye wide looking for where the sound came from. It lets out a thundering roar, which spooks the Nauceans and they 4 jump out at once scaring the lystrophant to the water. The rest of them hurry into the water ready for the lystrophant to step in. The 4 hurtle their spears into the lystrophant making it bleed and rear up. With its 2 trunks its grabs one of the Nauceans and crush him under his huge foot. As it back up it goes into the water and starts sinking into the mud.
It is now vulnerable and the 4 Nauceans swim as fast as dolphins to the trapped lystrophant. Nauceans are amphibious creature who can hunt just as well like a pack of raptors as they can as a pod of dolphins thanks to their “floots” which is a flipper-like foot as will a fluke at the end of their muscular tails. They stab and back up and stab again waiting for the lystrophant to loose enough blood and pass out. Once dead the lystrophant has enough blubber to float on the surface and the Naucean hunters pull it down stream to their still village that stand in the middle of the stream with there spherical reed homes.
Copper Age
By the Copper age things like weaving and copper tools and weapons started. This shows a spear. They also have slings and harpoons. This is when the first domestication of animals and plants happend.
Firepit
Here is a Copper Age firepit. A Naucean is dancing its procedural dance while the other plays is Naucean horn and pushes up and down on a bellow for the firepit. They have a glowing basket like structure in which the fire pit sits in. The reeds are made of fire resistant reeds that have sticky sap that will not catch fire. Then with the bellows he pushes up and down and makes flames shoot up out of the small top. It is an amazing sight. These are used for ceremonial proposes like this one. The dance they are doing now is thehunting dance in which it tells a story about how they went into the wilderness and hunted down a large gobblehorn and brought it back. They paint their bodies and wave their oral tenticales around while singing and dancing about this. Their voices sound like a cross between a penguin and a whale when they talk and sing.
Fishing
Here is a River Tribe Fisherman. They were important for the River tribe since their homes were on the water. They use little reed boats that have holes in which their flippers and tail can fit though and the use them to propell them though the water yet still stay on the top of the surface from the buoyancy of the boat. In the boat is a basket in which they catch "nauish" or Nauceanica-Fish. They used domesticated Pucks to dive into the water and catch the nauish. There are 4 kinds of Pucks, one that are trained to catch nauish, one that lay many eggs and one that get very fat and are eatten. There also have been known to have fighting male Pucks that have razor sharp bills and fight each other to the death. Nauceans gamble on these for who will win.
Once a Puck has caught a nauish it is toped by a rope in which is around their neck so they cannot swallow it. After a day on the river the fisherman unties the rope and feed them a portion of the nauish for their good work and ride back home on little perches on either side of the small reed boat. With for pucks they can get about 100 nauish per day (average 25 per puck). The Naucean fisherman work together by making a big circle of reed boats with nets dragging so the larger nauish cannot escape and then the pucks pick them off. This allows for the younger nauish to survive and grow bigger to reproductive age, thus allowing for the population of nauish to last indefinitely with this balance of fishing. Some fishermans have been known to travel with river flowits to who swim outside of the nets and scare away water predators like swoarks and eelish.
Bronze Age
By the Bronze age they have bronze tools and weapons as well as all the other stuff i have been posting from this age.
Tribes
Here are just 4 of the many tribes that live on Nauceanica. The river tribe is the one i have shown before with their basket homes on stilts in the rivers. The ocean tribe live underwater in coral homes but must come to the surface to breathe or breathe in small bubbles trapped under the dome shaped coral homes. The mountain tribe live high on the tops of the mountains where it snows. Their bodies blend into to the snow well and they live in igloos which are also round. They love the ice and snow and tend to live near melting ice and fish in freezing cold rivers. Luckily their thick blubber protects them in the same way the ocean tribe's blubber. The cave tribe live in the deep water table caverns. They rarely come to the surface and live on the cave fish and mushrooms.
Each tribe have diffrent features. The ocean tribe are the largest and are too big to walk on land. The Mountain Tribe are the smallest and have compact features for working on the icy slopes. Even their 4 eye have become slanted to reduce the glare. However the cave tribe's eye have grown huge to see in the darkness of the caverns. There are some glowing lichen that live within the caves so its is not always dark. They also have some of the beast hearing of all the tribes and the brightest tentacles that not only can change colors but glow.
All tribe originally came from the ocean tribe then all land tribe came from the river tribe. Besides these tribes there are the desert tribe, jungle tribe, forest tribe, swamp tribe and grassland tribe. All tribes are just separate races like human races. Each although separated still can reproduce with each other. It has been known to happen now and then but is not common during the bronze age. It is only until the later more modern eras that mixed races become more common.
Here are 4 more Naucean tribes, grasslands, jungle, swamp and desert. The Grassland Tribe lives on a tall Savannah and have long legs and long necks to look over the grasses. They have very elongated features due to this environment. Also because of being exposed to the sun so much they have darker skin. They must live around the rivers and lakes of the grassland to survive otherwise the heat would dry out their skin.
The Jungle Tribe live in the dense jungles. They are small like Earth's human Pygmies. They are about half the size of a river tribe. They also make their homes in spherical homes high in the canopy of the trees away from any land predators. They also catch rain water in pools high above to stay moist.
The Swamp Tribe are closely related to the river tribe except for their shovel-like snout. Thy use this to dig and shape mud dwellings. These to are spherical upon 4 stilts like the basket homes. Except rather than reeds they use clay and mud. They also have been known to make dams.
The Desert Tribe are the most extreme of all the tribes. Not only are they an indigo color to fight the harmful UV rays of the desert but they have a shortend snout and scaly skin for water conservation, a tall nostril crest with a thin membrane for easy heatloss. And a smaller body for burrowing in the sand. They make dune homes and tend to come out at night more than the day. This is why they have larger eyes. Although not officially nocturnal they do tend to spend a lot of time at night rather than the midday hot sun. They also live next to rivers, oasises and underground springs. In which they will dig down to to get to the water. These have main similar traits to the other tribes. Fir instance they dig like the Cave Tribe but save water like the grassland tribe but at a more extreme. They also have leathery tentacles that are bland and made for desert use. Their body can use water more efficiently than any other Naucean.
River Tribe Basket House
The Naucean River Tribe live in basket dwellings on the shallows of the rivers. They stand on 4 stilts and a wooden step ladder. On the top is a huge spherical basket supported in the middle by the cental stilts. It has one door an can have windows (none shown here) out of the top is a chimey hole for the cooking fire. The cicular floor is made of wooden planks with fire resistant wood. This structure can also be taken down and floated to a new location. All parts of the structure itself can float. Each house can support 4 to 6 Nauceans.
River Tribe Village
Here is a typical river tribe village. It has a cental meeting hall type building in the middle. Then family dwellings around it and then on the sides are water wheel mills for griding up rice-like grains which grow in the waters under the city. In later developments they gain walls and so on.
Dwellings
Here are 3 examples of the homes of he Naucean tribes. I have shown the basket home before which is the river tribes style of home. I have also changed the mountain tribe's home from an igloo to a yurt style home. Except it is also a sphere like all the others. The bottom half is made of stone while the top half is made of animal skins and wood like an earth yurt. Except this is more spherical. The Ocean tribes bobble home is kelp afloat under the water with the swim bladders of sea creatures that live on their planet. It is also tethered to the floor with very strong kelp fibers. The skin of the bubble is made of the skin of the same sea creature that the swim bladder is from and sewn together with bone toothed needs and kelp fibers.Or thew top it allows fresh air in. However they rarely use fire because it uses up the air and makes it unbreatheable it inside. Thus they must come to the surface to use fire on floating rafts.
As you can see no matter what style all have a thme of a sphere as their house. This is because of the tradtion of the first bubble kelp homes. Sicne the ocean tribe is the first tribe.
Here are 3 Naucean dwellings, swamp, jungle and desert tribe.
The swamp tribe is made from mud and reed bricks and stones. Then dried in the sun and put together. Also branch frame keeps the shape due to such a wet environment. Due to the mud structure they have to be constantly repaired. Luckily the bricks are dipped in tree sap and it drys into a resin. This meas it will be more waterproof this the mud can stay together longer and not just wash way when it rains.
The jungle tribe live mostly in the trees of the jungle they make their homes from branches, leaves and vines. They build them high in the canopy of the trees above most deadly predators. They also collect water in the leaves as it rained for drinking and keeping their skin wet.Thus they do not need to go to the ground hardly at all.
The desert tribe also make mud bricks but they stay together much easier due to the arid environment of the desert. They must also stay by the rivers for the water and typically stay indoors or in the water during the day and then come out at night to work. Thy put it on the cliffs both for dense but for quick access to the water all the time. But due to flooding they do not build on the banks. The cliffs are high enough not to get washed away.
Quillswordsman
Here is a Naucean Bronze Age warrior from the River Tribe. All warriors are females since they are larger and stronger than the males. Their blue wave pattern represent the waves of the river and the green stripe represent the land on either side.
The armor is padded armor from the wool of their domesticated animals (yet to be created). And the leather from hunted creatures (also yet to be created). The plumes on the helm are actually leave from the tree that grow on the banks of the river in which they live.
The Quill Blade is a unique blade in which it can be thrust like a spear or slashed like a sword. It can also be turned over and used like a club since the end is very hard. It also has inbeded at the end a blue Sapphire which is their tribe's sacred gemstone.
Weapons
Quill Blade - Light blade that works like a scimitar or a Katana. It can also be trust like a saber or a spear. On the bottom is a wooden knob that can be used as a club.
Double Bladed Longbow - It works like a typical British Longbow but at the ends it has 2 blades. In which can be used like a double bladed scimitar. Also near the handle are two spikes in which can be trust forward like a quarterstaff.
Oral Tentacle Punching Daggers - Like a punching tagger or knife this is put on the 4 other tentacles without fingers. It is strapped on like a glove. Went all 4 are in action no one can get near the head of the Naucean. They can also jump out at the attacker like squid this stabbing or stashing a foe.
Duel Bladed Snout Axe - Attached to the upper pseudo-mandible this has 2 places on an ax on eather side. They are connected by support to make sure the pseudo-mandible is not crushed upon impact. The throw their heads side to side in a cutting action to slide the sides of an opponent. these are also used for cutting down trees for wood.
Tail Fluke War Flail - Since their tails are extremely powerful for swimming the Nausicans have attached a spiked ball on a rope to make a deadly weapon. They can not only flick it side to side like an ankylosaurus but can flick it over their heads like a scorpions tail. Sadly this is also dangerous to the wearer since it is easy to miss. Only the most trained warrior use these.
Flat Bottomed Potter Bomb - These Flat bottomed pots are fillled with explosive chemicals that explode upon impact. They are flat on the bottom so that can toss with their tails. But they can also sling the around by throwing them like a shotput with their oral tentacles.
Note these are not the most efficient designs for weaponry but they are very exotic and diffrent.
Warriors
Here are just 3 warriors from 3 different tribes, River Tribe, Jungle Tribe and Grassland Tribe. I have already explained the River tribe warrior so i will not go over it again.
Jungle tribe are very small and live in the jungle canopy. These are blowgunner warriors who peak out of the leaves and ambush enemy's. They also double as hunters. They live in the stone age still. They wear green headdresses which also blend into the leaves as well as tradition. They may be small but they can swing fast though the trees by their tentacles to either ambush with poison darts from their blow guns or will jump on the back of the larger Naucean tribes warriors back.
The Grassland tribe are one of the most land based tribes. They do not swim in battle if they can help it. This is because they are heavily armored with bronze plating with spiked horns. They also have punching daggers like the ones described before.Their tactinc is to get close enough to puncture and are armored enough to protect themselves. Their punching daggers are no match for the River tribes padded armor or the Jungle tribes lack of armor. Sadly this make them slow when walking. Which is a shame since without armor their speed is much faster with their long legs. They also tower over all but the ocean Nauceans. And even then the ocean Nauceans do not come on land. Thus are not really a threat. Like the River tribe they also wear "leather floots" except they have the clawed spikes on the front for kicking action. One kick to a Jungle tribe warrior with this weapon and they are dead.
The other major players on land would be the swamp tribe, desert tribe and mountain tribe (since the ocean tribe will not travel on land and the cave tribe are almost never seen above ground.
Music
Here is a Naucean River Tribe Musician. He is playing some sortt of brass Naucean horn. It has valves, keys, holes, sacs and pipes that pop up. I have no idea if this would acually wortk but it sure looks neat. Hope you enjoy this.
Naucean Tribal Music
"Dance-for-Sirenia-Dance-for-Sina" by Luminar
http://media.putfile.com/Dance-for-Sirenia-Dance-for-Sina
"Serendae of Sina" by gec05
http://media.putfile.com/SerenadeOfSina-15
Instruments
Here are some Naucean Instruments. The Naucean Horn may be familiar but the rest may be new to you. The Naucean harp is a combination of a harp and string base. It can change its pitch greatly by tightening or loosening the strings and is amplified by the hollow inside. The Fluke Drum is played by hitting it with their tail flukes. They come in many sizes and are some times filled with water and make much diffrent sounds when that happends. The Rain Shaker is made from a spike gourd plant. It is filled with sand or seeds and is shaken like a maraca or rain stick. Lastly the Wind Whip is actually an instrument. It is used by swinging it around. The swinging of the balls on the rope make diffrent pitch sounds based on the rope length. Also the balls on the end have holes in them which also make nose because each has a diffrent size ball. These whistle while the rope hums. It can also be used like a whip and make a cracking sound. These are all instruments mainly used by the River Tribe.
Religion
Here is the High Priest of the Goddess Nauceanica. She is the creator of all things and is why the planet is named after her. She holds out her 6 oral tentacles. Top right holds the home Red Dwarf Star, Au and in the other is the huge Super Giant Star in the neighboring soloar system. Both give their solar rays and give warms to the soloar system and the strange seasons. In each lower oral tentacles she hold s the 2 moon Serina and Sina. And in the middle oral tentacles she hold on the right darkness and all things evil and on the left light and all things good. She holds them out to separate them and keep the balance. Also on the headdress is the holy blue saphire stone with a blue feather which represent the air.
The High Priest is holding red olivenuts which are used for healing, a dead leptikdillo which is an offering to the goddess, incense in a teapot-like object, and is adorned with many tentacles rings. On the neck poncho it has the holy symbol of the goddess which looks like a stream, as opposed to the River tribes poncho which looks lore like waves of the river. On the robe it has swirls which represent the stars and galaxies seen in the sky as well as the swirlling water. They believe that outer space is one big vast black ocean. And when they die they go to these stars in the afterlife ocean.
Naucean temples are separate from the villages or cities and are usually in very rural areas which have a natural beauty about them. They all have complex ponds, fountains and waterways in which reperesent the goddess Nauceanica. There are many fresco paintings about the holy stories as well as many sculptures made of clay which is thought to be special in that it need water to create. The Swamp Tribe infact have an entire clay temple in honoring this magical property of clay.
The high priests also believe they can look into the future my scrying into water. This method is known as "hydromancy" and works like an Oracle. Only the high priest can get visons and they believe these visions are from the goddess herself. Durring the Renaissance the river tribe built a gigantic hydromancy pool in which became one of the 8 wonders of the world.
The Mountain tribe have ice temples and ices sculptures in which they use to depict the stories and they too believe that ice is a holy material just like mud and water and even steam. Also you can imagine hot springs are very holy places and usually become places for temples because of its special nature.
Blood Priest
Here is a Desert Tribe Blood Priest. The Desert Tribe do not worship Nauceanica and the Hydromancy religion, but Worship "Au" the Sun god. He is represented as the red Dwarf in which the planet Nauceanica revolves around. The Desert Tribe believes that Au made all things, even Nauceanica and is more powerful than she is. They have taken the traditional hydromancy traditions of water and altered it to their own ideas. Since water is precious in the desert it cannot be waisted in such ceremonies so they developed a system of Nacuean sacrifices and use the blood of their enemies for ritual sacrifice. As you can see the Blood Priest is holding up the skull of a killed River Tribe Naucean and is pouring its own blood out of a tea pot so it can be given as tribute to the sun God Au. He also has in his tentacle a rain shaker (shown in the instrument drawing). This shaking of the rain shaker make sure that the rains come bring water back to the desert to drink. On the body of the Blood priest are many piercings. He has some on this nostril frill, on his tail fluke and even down the spine. As the priest gain higher and higher rank they add more piercings. The more pain and suffering you go though for Au the more holy you become. On the size is a tattoo of the inner soloar system and you can see he has braided his lower oral tentacles to resemble an Egyptian goatee. Lastly the red neck poncho and boots are soaked in enemy Naucean blood after each ceremony. Thus they get bloodier and bloodier each time they perform a ceremony. These sacrifices must be done often, especially during the dry season or Au may get mad and never bring the rain back. In short to maintain this tradition the Desert tribe are constantly at war with the River, Grassland, Mountain and Jungle Tribes.
Sphere Graves
River Nauceans worship Nauceanica the Nature Goddess and water is accosted with her. Since they believe the planet itsself is made of Nauceans they bury their dead in burrial mounds. The casket is a sphere shape. This represent the perfect shape, which they believe is water droplets, planets, etc. Also it represents them passing to the next life. Since they are born in eggs these caskets are the eggs for their next life. So when put inside they are put in the same postion that babies are born in. On the out side is the symbol of Nauceanica which like shown has the 2 moons spheres on the bottom, on top are the 2 suns and in the middle the balance off good and evil. This is how Nauceanica is viewed normally (like Jesus is genrally viewed on a cross). Also on the outside of the spherical casket is the name of the individual in gold, as well as spirals representing the vortexes of water and galaxy. In short they believe they pass on to space and live in a heavenly ocean in the stars. Once buried they bless the site with holy water, place the symbol of Nauceanica on top and leave Red Olivenuts.
Other Stuff
This picture is in response to peoples questions.
The left picture is to the question if Nauceans can climb ladders. As you can see the desert tribe can climb just fine and keep many tentacles on each rung as well as the main weight on the 2 "fleet". Also the desert Nauceans are smaller. Not as small as the jungle but around the size as the mountain and cave Nacueans and still smaller than the River, Swamp, Ocean and Grassland.
The right picture is showing how well the small Jungle Nauceans can swing through the treetops of the jungle. They use the 2 main tentacles to hold most of the weight then use 2 smaller to support the more developed ones and then the other 2 move to the next spot so the more developed knows where to go next. It's very cool to see as well as how fast they go.
The bottom is a Ocean Tribe Fire Pit. So many asked how they use fire. They float this on the surface while still attaching it to the bottom.These floating fire pits are used for cooking, ceremony and some metallurgy (though not very much since they have to swim with it).
Enjoy and i hope this gives you a better visual than anything that i could describe.
Sports
Here is a picture of Naucean Turnabegga Ball. They throw the root of the turnabegga plant like a football then run around with it trying to get it into a vertical hoop. However they can only toss the turnabegga ball with their tails. It is a very full contact sport and they have huge competions between tribes. This picture however is showing kids of the river tribe playing. You can tell the teams by the color on the bronze tail rings. In this game it is red vs green.
Numbers
Here are the symbols for Naucean numbers. They have base 8 system (Octal). Which means they only count up to 8 rather than like us going up to 10. The reason for this is they only have a total of 8 digits on their hands (2 thumbs and 2 fingers on each of the 2 hands). The symbols also represent body parts. the "S" like symbol represents their oral tentacles. They have 3 on each side of the head. Thus this is why the pattern only goes up to 3. the 4 symbol is a V with 2 notches on it. This represents their hands. The 2 big pars of the V represent their 2 fingers and the 2 notches on either side represent their thumbs. Then the first pattern repeats and combined with the 4 until you reach 8. The * symbol represents each of the main arms on the side of the pseudo-mandible. In bump in the center represent the pseudo-mandible. Thus it looks like a Naucean from the top with both handed oral tentacles sicking out.
Once you get past the first 8 you get to add a place holder. an underline at the bottom represents the one (and repeats once you get to hundreds place and so on). Meanwhile the entire number has a line over to top so you can tell that that is a complete number. so you would have a number like ...
Thousands place (symbol with no underline), Hundreds place (symbol with an underline), Tens place (symbol with no underline), Ones place (symbol with underline) and all 4 of those symbols with an overtop line. And you read from Left to right.
Also like the Romans they have not quite discovered zero.
Reed Ship
Nauceans may be able to swim but they can only carry so much. Thus ships are still needed. They use these reed cargo ships to transport items they normally could not transport from swimming. Trade routes of the River tribe spread to the swamp tribe, ocean tribe and desert tribe (at the delta). They would travel south to the jungle tribe but they do not have a seaport on the coast.
The ship is self is made of woven reed sails similar to the weave used by Earths Hawaiians. The hull itself is also reeds muchlike Earth's Egyptian reedboats. The back is a typical Naucean Basket house converted into a sleeping quarter. Under the wooden deck is a small amount of room for cargo so most must be strapped down on the deck or kept in the sleeping quarters. he masts and bow are made of strong kelp like stalks that the ocean tribe uses on their homes. Its is prefect for masts in that is strong flexible and water proof.
Lystrophant
I have been thinking of this for a long time. What creature would a Naucean need sicne they are built like a raptor or ostrich. I did not want them to ride a creature that looked to much like them. Then i thought what would i need a mount for if they could run preaty fast. Ah they need something for construction. Thus i got the idea of an elephant-like creature i call the lystrophant. "Lystro" means "shovel" in Latin, thus this could shovel dirt and move it as well as carry large loads of lumber in the duel trunks.
These creatures are larger than Earth's elephants. They live on the grasslands of the planet and were first domesticated by the Grassland Tribe. But have spread to other regions like the River tribe. As you can see they eat alot so only a small herd is needed per village. They are mainly used for constriction but have been known to use for war.
Lystrophants are actually quite smart and can learn many commands. A Lystrophant rider i bonded to a calf when just a child and raised together for the rest of their lives. A Naucean family is lucky to have a child bonded to their families lystrophant.
As you can see they have 6 tentacles just like a Nauceans except two of them have formed tusks. These tusk can be used to hold lumber on or uproot trees and dirt or even used in warfare. Lystrophants like water too to cool off but are not used by the ocean tribe because they must have land. The swamp tribe have yet to get Lystrophants because no ship can hold them yet. And cave Nauceans do not have them because it is too small for them to fit.
Mountain Nauceans have tried to raise them but do to the lack of food for them they cannot support them. Desert and jungle tribe however do use them alot. Especially in making their homes atop jungle trees and desert cliffs.
Woolly Gobblehorn
Here is the a Mountain Tribe Woolly Gobblehorn Rider. Since Lystrophants eat to much and hate cold weather the Mountain tribe domesticated the woolly gobblehorn. Common gobblehorns have seen seen in the river tribe area as deer like creatures, this is more like a big moose, caribou or yak. They use these mostly for transporting ore from the abundant mines (as seen in the picture). They fill up the sled with precious ore and bring it back to their spherical yurts where they have forges. This particular picture is during he Bronze Age as seen with the Bronze harpoon-like spear. They use these to hunt other mountain creatures who live atop the snowy peaks. The mountains are the only place on the planet that has snow. The planet is too hot for polar icecaps. But the mountains are highenough to be cold enough for snow. You might also notice the Mountain tribe's flag and design, their colors are white and light blue (as opposed to the river tribe that is blue and green). The river tribes design is an up and down zig zag while the mountain tribe has a similar pattern but with a normal zig zag then a small one half the size, representing the mountains, rather than the river like the river tribe has it. They are very similar because the mountain tribe river tribe and grassland tribe were once the same tribe. On a side note the cave tribe have the reverse version which represent the stalactites and stalagmites. Their colors are black and white.
Dune Gobblehorn
Here is a Desert Tribe Dune Gobblehorn Rider. Like the Mountain tribe the Desert tribe ride gobblehorns too. Except rather than a large woolly version they ride a thin and hairless desert variety. They tried lystrophants but found they are too much for the arid environment. The Dune Gobblehorn have curled horns like a ram and have HUGE waddles in which store fat in the same way an Earth's camel stores fat for the desert. They use these for their caravans in which stretch as far South as the Jungle Tribe, as far north as the Mountain tribe, as far West as the Grassland Tribe and as Far East as the River Tribe.
See Also
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Naucean: Basic Info, Geography, Creature Stage, Tribal Stage, City Stage, Civilization Stage, Solar System Stage, Galactic Stage, Universal Stage Overview, Naucean Civilization Video, Time Sphere |
