The Icemn

The Icemn (who call themselves the Sacrici) are a people who live in the tundras of Sacrice who migrated, along with the ancestors of the Belsari, from Eaus. They hunt mainly Icecats, and suplament their diets with herbs grown in heated rooms, which are only found in Eaus, and whose ancestors were brought by the original migrants to Sacrice.

Social Structure

Each Icemn tribe has a number of Icecat-skin tents, the outsides of which are smeared with Icecat fat, held up with Icecat bones, and decorated with a combination of various natural ingrediants, the recipes of which are constantly improved. Also there is a storeroom containing the materials colected from hunting trips, and materials created from them. Population is supprisingly constant, because of the harsh climate. The corpses are used for materials. Each person takes as necesary, and hunts five hours a day. When a child is born, a knife is used to notch the arm one inch in. This happens every year on their birthday, marking how old they are. when somonee commits an offense, they are exiled for a certain time from the tribe, which is decided by a vote, from people 30 years old, and up. Any two people may have (censored).

Religon

The Icemn believe that at first, there was just an endless ocean, with no top, or bottom, and that a great turtle drank up enough water for there to be a top. it then swam up to the top, and died, it's corpse floating in the water, shell in the water, soon taken up by maggots, eating holes in the shell, which filled up with blood. The final breath of the great turtle breathed divinity into the world. The Maggots became humans and animals, while the pools of blood became seas, and the great ocean the air, with us looking downward, hidden from the light above, until death, where our consciousnesses all murge, like two puddles, in absolute knowligee.