One-Horned Tribe

**One-Horned Tribe** is one of the strongest clans in the Tower. It is ruled by Martial King Nayu who is the one of the Tower's Nine Kings and rivals Summer Queen, the leader of Red Dragon, the Tower's undisputed strongest clan.

## Background

The One-Horned Tribe finds its roots from their common progenitor ancestor who entered the Tower many millennia ago. Their Ancestor was the direct descendant of the God, Shaohao-Jintain, one of the members of Trinity Wonder who originally established and built the Tower' System. Their Ancestor God was stated to have gifted them both the mugong and martial prowess that the One-Horned Tribe is famous for. The One-Horned Tribe's clansmen are very prideful of their strength and equally devoted to their god who granted them this strength. As a result, they consider the horn growing out of their head to be sacred and a symbol of their god.

Many centuries ago, the One-Horned Tribe was a race considered on par with that of the Dragon and Giant Races within the Tower and possessed their own territory within it due to them being blessed with immense power by their patron God, **The One-Horned God**, with their Mugong Martial Arts, Psychic powers and Immense Holy Power. However, due to wanting to "forge their own path", the One-Horned Tribe chose to willingly cut ties with their Patron God and abandoned their ancestors original agreement with it.

This in turn lead them to abandon their territory within the Tower and lose their Holy Power. The Tribe then choose to willingly move to the outer areas of the Obelisk. However despite these disadvantages, the tribe still managed to create their own foothold using their remaining Mugong and Psychic abilities and successfully retained their place as a formidable force within the Tower. Earning the admiration of many of the entities within the Obelisk.

## Appearance

All One-Horned Tribe clansmen have distinct purple hair, golden eyes and a horn growing out of their templates. (Males have their horn on the right, females have them on the left)

Most clansmen were all stated have an outstanding physical appearance and all the clan members are stated to be in excellent physical shape due to their race's traditions of pursuing and studying their Mugong Martial Arts from a young age and their farming lifestyle.

## Structure

The One-Horned Tribe is headed by the King who is advised by the clan's Psychic Medium and assisted with a Council of Elders in running the day to day affairs of the Tribe. The tribe's Psychic Medium is a revered personage due to their ability to see into the happenings of the Tower and occasionally being able to glimpse into the future. The Psychic Medium's power is similar to All-For-One's Clairvoyance skill, however, it is slightly lacking.

The Council of Elders are stated to be made up of the oldest members of the One-Horned Tribe and are therefore all veteran Rankers that reached the peak of their power and development during their time as active rankers before retiring. Due to their experience, these elders are stated to frequently provide the current Martial King advise and assistance with the affairs of the clan.

The tribe is made up of 51 different families. It is the King's responsibility to marry and take at least one wife from each family and produce at least one heir for each family who has the chance of inheriting some of the King's potential. This is done in order to insure that each family has an equal shot at producing the next Martial King who will succeed their father's throne. Similarly, children with potential to be the next Psychic Medium are also trained from a young age and they also vie for the position of the next Psychic Medium.

Families and System of leadership of the TribeInheritance System
Despite being aggressive people by nature, the One-Horned Tribe has practiced the policy of neutrality which has resulted in the tribe thriving for thousands of years.

Due to the One-Horned Race not having a very large population to begin with, the one-horned tribe hardly ever imposes the death penalty to any of its members in order to avoid permanently damaging their population. Tribe members are instead usually imposed with either penalties or imprisonment for a long period of time as punishments, with the worst punishment usually being banishment from the One-Horned Tribe's village.

However, the one crime that the Death Penalty is indeed inflicted is the highest crime a Tribe member can commit, Treason and betrayal against One-Horned Tribe.

### Individualism

Due to them being technically being a entire race of Demi-Humans, the One-Horned Tribe, despite being a clan within the Tower, has multiple individuals of their race/clan not working exclusively for them and some members have left the clan to join others with no apparent backlash from the Tribe.

The One-Horned Tribe also possess a very liberal view on loyalty, as seen where it was stated by the Current Martial King that it was perfectly fine with them that several members of their clan was currently working under and serving Red Dragon despite their clan being aligned with their enemy clan and fighting with them against Red Dragon in open warfare. Later the Martial King again stated that there was no issue if Edora and Phante were to defect with Cain to Red Dragon's side. Once more confirming and emphasizing their stance on the importance of individualism each clan member can make.

Other instances of clan members free will is when the Spear God had left the clan together with the Sword God to help him found Cheonghwado who would later become a competitor to the One-Horned Tribe as one of the Top Ten Clans within the Tower. Another instance, is Waltz, who left the clan somewhere in her childhood and soon joined Red Dragon.

### Families

Currently there have been three identified families and 48 unspecified families that make up the One-Horned Tribe have been shown:

* **Cheonglam Family**: The Cheonglam Family is shown to be one of the most prominent family in the current generation of the One-Horned Tribe due to the family having successfully produced the current **Psychic Medium** of the Tribe and producing two of the most talented members of the clan who both have high potential in becoming the next **Martial King** and the next **Psychic Medium**. Another factor the Family's power is the fact that the Tribe's current **Head Elder** is also a member and the great uncle to the Psychic Medium and her two children. The the ones born to the Family are also stated to possess a natural affinity for element of **Lightning** and naturally born with the Skill, **Lightning Control**.

Current Members: Phante, Edora, The Current Psychic Medium & the Head Elder.

* **Baeksun Family**: The Baeksun Family is currently the most prominent family of the 51 families that constitute the One-Horned Tribe due to them having successfully produced the current Martial King, Nayu. Who was stated to be the most talented and powerful Martial King in the Tribe's entire history. Currently the Families Heir, Jang, one of the current Martial King's many son's, is one of the top contenders to inherit his father's position as the next Martial King with superior power to his younger siblings. The Beaksun family similarly possess their own specialty which seems to primarily focused on swordsmanship.

Current Members:Nayu, Jang, Jang's Mother

* **Plum Family:** Another one of the 49 Families that consists the Tribe that is noted for possessing the unique **"Plum Divine Martial Art"** Mugong that is noted for its immense power. The family itself is unique due to the fact that whenever they use their unique Mugong, the strong scent of Plums appears within the general vicinity of them when the Mugong is activated.

Current Members: Waltz (possibly)

### Headhunting

Similar to the other Top Clans in the Tower, the One-Horned Tribe also actively searches for and recruits powerful Rankers with potential to join their clan. However unlike Red Dragon who only considers rankers after they pass the 50th Floor, or Elohim that uses race as criteria, the One-Horned Tribe themselves personally scouts out any potentials regardless of their race or what Floor their in. If the Clan member is impressed enough they will then presumably invite the Player to their village and have the Martial King/Queen and the Elders of the Tribe confirmed whether they're worth recruiting.

Once accepted, the potential Ranker is allowed access to the Tribe's hidden village as guest's and allies but not true members due to needing to marry into the Clan to be a official member. And if the Martial King/Queen approves, they are allowed access into the Clan's Martial Art archives to study the Clan's thousand year techniques.

Another unique way to join the clan is by being selected by a member to be their spouse. As it was stated by the Current Martial King, that female One-Horned Women typically leave the village and enter into the Tower was also to partially find a suitable marriage prospect by picking one out from the most powerful Rankers in the Tower.

## Culture

Due to the Tribe essentially compromised of an entire race, they may also be considered something akin to a nation. Because of that, the One-Horned Tribe has its own unique culture and customs, unlike other clans, since they are more of an alliance between Rankers to acquire more power and influence in the Tower.

As shown and in general, members of the One-Horned Tribe are a generally peaceful race. This is seen where they usually enjoy a simple farm life within their village and have a policy of neutrality when it comes to large scale wars within the Obelisk, causing them to avoid entering into unwanted wars and conflicts.

However, when the Tribe does enter into a state of war, Tribe's members are notoriously known to be vicious, violent and warmongering, having been to described as bordering on psychotic when fighting. As described by Atran the Tribe members have a tendency of getting caught up in the adrenaline filled moments of war and combat and during which they become extremely crazed and greatly enjoy shedding blood.

### Horn

The One-Horned Tribe has shown to deeply revere and hold the horns in their heads as sacred, to Tribe members, their horn symbolized their honor and pride and the notion of giving it up was the equivalent of a tribe member stating that they are vowing to lay everything on the line. This is seen where despite their usual policy of staying neutral to the large scale conflicts of the Tower, Cheonghwado was able to manipulate and coerce the Tribe to enter into an alliance with them to defeat Red Dragon by having the Spear God, the Younger Full Blooded Brother of the Martial King, vow to give up his horn.

### Marriage

The One-Horned Tribe also possess its own unique customs regarding marriage. As stated, usually if a tribe members fails to find a partner within the Tribe, they would then, typically go the Tower to find one by picking a powerful Ranker. With the females of the Tribe being known to solely travel to the Tower for the reason of finding a husband.

The One-Horned Tribe where also stated to celebrate engagements by having a feast and eating white ramen noodles as a special delicacy.

#### **Martial King/Queen**

The One-Horned Tribe is shown to possess a unique arrangement on marriage and marital status/partnership when electing their King/Queen. As seen with its current King,Nayu, the One-Horned Tribe encouraged him to have polyamorous-multi relationships with many of the Tribe's females from the 51 families of the Clan in order to have children from each of them.

This was done in order to insure that each of the 51 families had an heir that possessed outstanding talent inherited from their biological father in order to give each family an equal shot at producing the next Martial King/Queen. It is later confirmed that Nayu was required to legally marry at least one daughter from the Tribe's 51 families.

However despite having numerous wives, Nayu himself was stated to only and truly love the Psychic Medium as his one true love and his relationship with his other wives was purely out of him fulfilling the traditions of the Tribe and him dutifully insuring the Tribe's stability and fulfilling the expectations placed upon him as King. This arrangement however has caused some tensions in the Tribe, as seen where Jang, one of his sons, felt anger and resentment at the fact that the Martial King favors and loves the current Psychic Medium from the Cheonglam family the most out of his many spouses and resents the fact that he does not hold his own biological mother in the same regard, leading him to target his younger half-siblings out of spite.

Currently out of the many children of the current Martial King, only 4 heirs have been stated to have enough power and potential to become the next Martial King.

### Martial Arts

Another tradition within the Tribe is their passion for practicing, mastering, creating and expanding their "Mugong" Martial Art techniques.

The Tribe was shown to be highly revered and take immense pride in their physical martial prowess and are stated to constantly, obsessively work on further refining their skills as martial artists and have been shown to frequently have friendly bouts and official tournaments and competitions between clan members to test their skills.

So far its been shown that each of the 51 Families that make up the Tribe has their own specialty in Martial Arts or Combat, this is seen where the Plum, Cheonglam and Beaksun families have shown to have signature abilities unique to each of their families bloodlines.

#### **Skill Archive**

Due to them being one of the most ancient Clans and one of the very first races to come to the Tower, the One-Horned Tribe possess an extensive archive of all the Mugong Martial Art techniques, methods and styles, all of which are neatly and extensively recorded, archived and saved inside a vast library carefully and completely guarded by the Tribe as their most prized possessions. The Archive itself was also stated to possess books, scrolls and tomes in Magic, Alchemy and various other subjects either invented by the Tribesmen or collected over time.

The Archive itself is so large it can actually be divided up into several libraries and are arranged and ranked depending on their overall power and effectiveness from:

* **Iron Tiered Archive:** Contains the weakest/beginner level techniques.
* **Bronze Tiered Archive:**
* **Silver Tiered Archive:**
* **Gold Tiered Archive:** Contains the most powerful techniques.

### Products

The One-Horned Tribe is also known to produce its own unique items/ingredients within its village for its members usage. This is seen where the tribe has been stated to produce several unique plant based items that cannot be found anywhere else in the Tower.

Some of its Products are;

* **Lunar Seeds:** A potent plant grown by the One-Horned tribe that can be used as an ingredient to make powerful elixirs or used to enhance the powers of a Mythical Beast Familiar by feeding it to them as Eggs.
* **Skin Masks:** A item, implied to be plant like, manufactured or grown by the One-Horned Tribe. Skin Masks themselves can be worn in a persons face in order to alter or completely change their facial features and hide their identities due to the fact that the mask itself is indistinguishable from actual skin.

Lunar SeedSkin Mask used by Phante
### Psychics

Another important cultural vocal point to the Tribe, is their apparent ability and affinity in some Tribe members to develop psychic based abilities and skills that gives them a powerful edge over the Tower.

The **Psychic Medium** is the most powerful psychic of the entire tribe. It's been stated that the Psychic Medium is the prophet of the Tribe that possess the ability to communicate and receive messages of the Tribe's Patron Horned God and communicates his messages to the other tribesmen. The Medium also acts as the Tribe's oracle, having been stated to possess immense divination abilities that are stated to almost rival the abilities of the strongest Ranker in the Tower, All-For-One.

As explained by the current Psychic Medium, the necessary psychic abilities and potential to become the Tribe's Psychic Medium is extremely rare, even for the naturally gifted One-Horned Tribe. Because of this, there have been long periods of time where there wasn't a Psychic Medium. During the rare cases where there was a Tribe member with the necessary qualifications to become the Psychic Medium, the One-Horned Tribe was said to have prospered greatly. Because of that, the Tribe's takes immense care and effort in identifying and developing anyone that is born with even with the smallest hint of psychic potential.

### Faith

The One-Horned Tribe are stated to be devoted followers and worshipers to the "One-Horned God" that their original progenitor had owed his loyalty to. As a result, this God gave their original ancestor immense Holy Power, the Mugong Martial Arts and the Psychic abilities all relied upon by the clan today. With the Clan's Psychic Medium being stated to primarily serve as the Clan's priestess/priest to the One-Horned God and was stated to receive vision from the God to assist the Clan.

Due to these gifts the One-Horned Tribe were once said be equal in power and standing to the Dragon and Giant species and hailed as one of the greatest "Superior Species" of the Obelisk and was stated to have been given a set of duties by their patron God within the Tower. However sometime later, the One-Horned Tribe chose to abandon the immense holy power given to them and voluntarily leave the Tower and move to its outskirts due to desiring to forge their own destiny free of the obligations set by their ancestor. And although they lost a great deal of their original strength, the One-Horned Tribe still succeeded in setting up their own territory and established powerful footing within the Tower's Hierarchy even without their Holy Power.

Later it would be stated by Tarneck, one of the 12 Zodiacs and a Demon King that the One-Horned Tribe are descendants to the God, Shaojao Jintian, who is a member of Trinity Wonder, the three Transcendent subordinates of the Heavenly Demon responsible for designing and creating the system of the Obelisk. Their current exact relationship with the "One-Horned God" Unknown, but a few tribe members have shown to still worship Shaojao Jintian.

## Trivia

* Even though the One-Horned Tribe is an indisputable part of the Tower's top 9 clans (previously top 10 clans prior to Arthia's destruction), it is very different from the other clans. Unlike other clans which recruit humans and demi-humans (elves, dwarves etc) alike, all clansmen of the One-Horned Tribe are part of a single lineage. In fact, the One-Horned Tribe is closer to a village than the traditional clans inside the Tower. Although the One-Horned Tribe occasionally accepts famous players as guests, one must marry into the tribe to become a true clansman.
* Nayu, the Current Martial King, was originally from the Baeksun Family and his children to the other Clan's families can also technically be considered from the family due to them being their paternal family.
* The One-Horned Tribe was the only one of the Top 10 Clans of the Tower not to join the Grand Alliance to destroy Arthia. The reason is unknown, but its been implied that the Martial King himself bared no interest at the time of neither helping the other clans or helping Arthia.
* To date the One-Horned Tribe is the only race to have successfully confirmed to have produced two absurdly powerful beings with the strength equal or surpassing Transcendent Beings despite still being within the range of a mere mortal. Greatly shocking many of the Transcendent races within the 98th Floor of the Obelisk.