Verniniac tribes

The Verniniac basin tribes are semi cosmopolitan civilizations that live on the shores of floodplains in Anhaendra. The Verniac basin is constantly flooded with fertile soil and objects the mud brings with it from other civilizations upstream, which are dug up by the verniniac peasantry. These objects and treasures are a large part of the tribes' culture and technology. The Verniniac tribes as a result have a very strong archaeological culture.
== Settlements ==
Verniniac tribes live in small communities of shacks and hovels, none made to last due to the constant flooding of the area forcing them into a nomadic lifestyle.
The area is largely self governed by warbands and dig gangs who fight over the treasure they find in the plains. The larger tribes are numerous enough to count as small cities, but too large numbers inevitably leads to separations by culture such as gold diggers and grave robbers fighting each other for their discoveries.
== Culture ==
Verniniacs are heavy drinkers, hoard jewelry and shiny objects. They are also fond of sports and bathing, they play town ball with shovels, bathe in rain filled trenches and are expert mud bathers.
== Government ==
Despite lacking formalized hierarchies, leaders of tribes are usually necromantic generals of skeleton armies, archeology gangsters who command minions and have disturbing knowledge of good places to hide bodies, or charismatic mudrackers who are good at organizing troops.
== Warfare ==
Verniniac tribals have unusual weapons, but lack mounted units, preferring to use infantry and magicians. 
Infantry troops use whips as their traditional weapons, and use trowels as knives.
Verniniac magicians are almost exclusively necromancers, who have wizard staves, carry skulls aloft while reciting incantations, can raise the dead and are sometimes possessed by the anima of the dig site where they are. On dig sites magicians are also used to break or learn of curses from inscriptions.
Verniniac magical rituals include licking bones and collecting hand bones in bags.
=== Laborers ===
Digging is the main occupation of the verniniac, and are as a result is a melting pot of mining traditions from all over Welt. The laborers call themselves the labor army. They sing dwarven mining songs while using pickaxes, have a very strong shared feeling of pride and mutual loyalty for being laborers. Their pride leads to incidents such as kicking interlopers into their trenches, or worse.
=== Priests ===
Priests are common in Verniniac, most hoping to convert the labor army to their beliefs. Some local priests are attuned to nature in the swamplands. When these priests get bitten by insects, it grants them powers or luck. Priests often receive flashbacks of wars they were never in. Some of the more sinister rituals include virgin and blood sacrifices, and spill drinks as libations to the swamp gods.
Category:Cosmopolitan civilizations
Category:Anhaendra