Tredicim

The Tredicim are the 13th Tribe of the Ontarian species. 95% of their population are currently imprisoned under the Shield Dome, sealed there by Edeps Swift and his team.

## Origin

The Tredicim are unique of all the Ontarian tribes in that they were created by Intelligen scientists.

When Ontarian's first discovered the existence of Humanity during the 1800s it sparked a debate amongst the tribes. The laws of the Patriarchs specified the roles and functions of the tribes within Ontarian society, however no tribe had responsibility for communicating with a new alien species.

No tribe wanted to give that responsibility to another as it would give that tribe exclusive access to humanity, which was deemed an unequal role.

The debate raged, until the Astral tribe, after studying and debating the Patriarch's words and teachings broke the dead lock by referencing a obscure theological aspect of their scripture.

The Patriarchs had created Twilight, a place for Tribal Ontarians to operate with agreement from the Tribal Council. The Twilight laws were perhaps a loophole for new Ontarians to be created, a new Tribe. this new tribe would be the bridge between humanity and Ontarians and crucially their members would be drawn from all the current tribes.

Volunteers were brought forward and Ontarian scientists slowly altered their genome and after three generations, modern day Tredicim were a stable functioning Tribe.

The experiments were a success and Ontarians that could represent every tribe member of Ontaria were born.

## History

After becoming a fully fledged tribe the Tribal Council integrated them into the wider Ontarian society.

Tredicim would move between the various tribes learning how to use their powers.

They then became head of Twilight, sitting side by side with the council. Their responsibility was make plans for first contact with Humanity and then plan ahead to interaction between the two species possibly cooperation. They also became a go between for Sanctuary City and the Tribal Council.

In the late 1900s The fifth generation of Tredicim were born, the generation most likely to begin first contact with humanity. This generation was much beloved by the tribes, more than the council these 13th tribe members strengthened the tribes and spent more time amongst them. These Tredicim became community leaders supplanting the Swift or Frayan born leaders.

This situation was not disallowed by the Twilight Laws of the Patriarchs. Since they had the power of each tribe they were allowed to perform these functions.

Some tribes did not allow this such as the Pura, Shifter and Stimuli tribes. Eventually the integration of the Tredicim into community leader positions led to them also taking Tribal Council positions. In the 1990s five of the tribal council positions were occupied by Tredicim representing a tribe they technically did not belong to.

The remaining six (the Tomb Tribe member almost never appearing at tribe council meetings) were the only traditional influence on the council with the Tredicim. They were also young, newly elected representatives expected to remain on the council for decades.

The one of their members was killed in a freak accident and replacing them was a Tredicim. The council was now six Tredicim and five Tribal members.

Upon her inauguration to the council the new Tredicim announced an expansion of the Twilight Laws. With the Tredicim majority on the council these measures passed.