The Vorrashi River People

Government

Matrilineal chiefdom with hereditary river-keepers. The Great Mother (eldest daughter of the founding line) presided over seasonal councils at river confluences. Decisions required unanimity of the twelve clan mothers.

Economy

Subsistence agriculture supplemented by extensive freshwater pearl harvesting. Barter economy with pearl-shell as proto-currency. River trade routes connected highland obsidian sources to coastal salt flats. No evidence of long-distance trade beyond the basin.

Technology

Sophisticated rivercraft — double-hulled reed boats capable of navigating rapids. Early copper working (hammered, not smelted). Expert pearl divers using weighted stone anchors. Pottery with distinctive river-clay slip. No evidence of writing.

Religion & Belief

pantheon

Animistic river spirits — each tributary has a guardian spirit. The Ashenmere confluence is considered the meeting place of all spirits.

practices

Daily offerings of flowers and seed placed on leaf-boats set adrift. Burial in river clay urns placed in submerged stone cairns.

sacred sites

["The Three Rivers Confluence","The Singing Caves (tidal caves)","The Pearl Beds of Ashenmere"]

Family

Typology

Word Order

SVO

Script

Direction

Phonemes