Mafenga

Isolated on the southern end of Bannikel Bay, the Mafenga people of the bay's namesake city of Bannikel are distinct from their fellow natives, both racially and linguistically. While the Xumuxl may claim to be racially unrelated to their kindred, the Mafenga — found only in Bannikel - may actually be able to back up their own claims to uniqueness. Relatively tall, with straight dark hair, green eyes, and skin tones ranging from olive to dark tan, they don't appear physically similar to any of the other tribes of the Sabo Jungles. What's more, their dialect includes words and phrases that lack parallels in the dialects of their neighbors, and as a result most scholars and some of their neighboring cultures don't consider them native at all.
Of uncertain origin, the Mafenga might be the last remaining pocket of some obscure, ancient ethnic group of a stock no longer extant elsewhere, or remnants of the original stock that the Kasima people mixed with in antiquity. Their own founding mythology for Bannikel as a city claims that they arrived from a distant land, seeking wealth and trade, and as a result of natural or man-made reasons, lost contact with their place of origin, slowly diverged from it culturally, and finally lost the desire and need to return.
Category:Tribes
Category:Tribes of the Sabo Jungles