Zupi Culture

The Zupi Culture was a Post-Collapse human and orc society that lived in Yakiwana in south-eastern Orana.

History
By 1000 3E, Zupi clans had spread all across Yakiwana. In 1364 3E, a great tsunami caused by an earthquake in the South Sea ravaged Zupi territory and killed many.

Art
Early Zupi art consisted of wood and bone carvings. By 1500 3E, their art had shifted into pottery, and they had begun making ceramic idols. They also crafted artifacts out of stone, jade and obsidian.

Dress
Zupi men and women generally wore simple loincloths and sandals. Higher status individuals wore capes, headdresses, tunics or long dresses.

Language
The Zupi spoke the Zupi Language.

Naming Conventions
Most Zupi were known simply by a single given name, differentiated by a father's name or a village's name if needs be. Zupi chieftains often had long, complicated formal names used in ceremony, in addition to a first name.

Religion
The Zupi worshiped the Old Spirits, who appeared to them in the forms of local animals.

Society
Zupi culture was highly disorganised. Every village was completely autonomous, and alliances between villages rarely lasted. Every village was ruled by a chief, almost always male. Orcs and humans rarely lived in the same clans, and they often enslaved each other.

War
The Zupi warred regularly among themselves. Warriors were almost always male, and represented the top social tier.

Technology
The Zupi Culture used stone tools. They were also expert canoe-builders. By 1500 3E, they had begun creating pottery artifacts.

Agriculture
Early Zupi people were hunter-gatherers. By about 2500 3E, they had begun to grow maize and squash; a tradition that spread south from the Totexla Culture.

Weapons
The Zupi used bows, spears (often thrown by spear-throwers), axes, clubs, slings and bolas.