Kindaru

The Kindaru were a small human tribe living on the Lamatath Plain, which they referred to as "Lama Teth Andath". Their numbers were reduced to that of a single clan, whose camp only consisted of a half-dozen tipis. 
They had sun-burnished faces with eyes nestled in wind-stretched epicanthic folds. Their hair was midnight-black, kept in loosely bound manes threaded with white blossoms. They wore tanned hides and skins which were beautifully sewn with red-dyed gut thread and studded with bronze rivets. They carried long, narrow-bladed curved knives made of blackened iron in their beaded belts.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.229-230
The Kindaru referred to themselves as the "keepers of the horses-of-the-rock", which were a herd of small, stocky g'athend steppe-horses who were also the last of their kind. The Kindaru worshipped them and did not attempt to ride them. The meat of the g'athend was highly prized by city dwellers, so the Kindaru were constantly on the alert for murderous ambushes of The Captain's Skathandi raiders who sought to steal the horses for profit.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.229/230/231 The Kindaru also possessed dogs that did not bark.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.229/230
The Kindaru knew their days as a people were limited and awaited the day when themselves, their ways, and their memories died. At that time the g'athend would run free once more until their own dwindling numbers disappeared.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.230
They believed all food had memory, so everything was cooked in a plant-based substance known as miska milk to remove the bitterness of death.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.231-233 Miska was also used to draw out the natural poison of the region's tunneling turtles so they could be eaten. The milk itself was not consumed as it could cause loss of mind or agonising death. The Kindaru also ate horse meat, although not that of the g'athend. They did not consume horse milk, finding the very idea amusing. Food was cooked in iron pots and served in gourds.
The Kindaru were poorly used by their neighbours and so developed a ritualistic greeting that outlined the behaviours they expected strangers to follow to come among them. The greeting was expanded every time a stranger disappointed them.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.231-233
They were expert wood carvers, decorating their limited furniture with highly detailed images of horses. They also wove rainbows of coloured threads into zigzag patterns.
They spoke an archaic version of the Daru language.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.230
Like the Sinbarl, they were cousins to the not quite human Gandaru people.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.396
==In Toll the Hounds==
Traveller came across the last clan of the Kindaru while crossing the Lamatath Plain on his way to Darujhistan. He was ritualistically greeted by a Kindaru man and his son who worried he meant them harm. When Traveller accepted their terms of welcome, they cheerfully invited him to their camp for a meal of turtle meat and miska milk. While sleeping in one of their tipis, he was visited in the night by a young woman who fed him a drug mixed in her own saliva and slept with him.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.229-233
The next morning, the Kindaru father brought him to a nearby scene of slaughter where thirty Skathandi serving The Captain had been slain by what the Kindaru referred to as a Demon. The father let Traveller take one of the Skathandi horses and its tack for his own before another stranger on horseback appeared on the ridgeline. The Kindaru were overjoyed to recognise the horse as a Jhag'athend, claiming its presence blessed them. Traveller apporached the newcomer, learning it was Samar Dev riding Havok in pursuit of the "demon" known as Karsa Orlong.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.233-234
The Kindaru were pleased to host both newcomers, spending half the night recounting old legends and adding Traveller and Samar Dev to new ones.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 8, US SFBC p.282
Karsa Orlong later confronted the Captain and his army. When it was over, the Captain was dead, his palace was in flames, and his slaves, which included Kindaru among them, were freed. Karsa ordered the Captain's soldiers to divide up the kingdom's loot between themselves and the slaves. Then he advised the Kindaru and the others to return to their homes, but warned that he would one day return as a destroyer.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 8, US SFBC p.335-338
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