Latikanns

The Latikanns are a small culture group based around the southern Sunrise Mountains and the Forbidden Valley. Being surrounded by mountains, and stuck between two major powers, the Latikanns are quite isolated and distrustful of outsiders. They are unindustrialised, and mostly live in mountainside villages.
The Latikanns are renowned for their shamanic rituals involving the hunting of powerful creatures, and using their blood and bones to empower rituals and personal magic. They revere an aspect of the Spirit of Hir, but their interpretation is quite different from other Hirokiri cultures.
The Latikanns are technically subjects of the Zulaca Cities, though they are mostly left alone.
During the Spice Wars, the Zulaca Cities recruited Latikann militias, due to their proximity to the conflict.