How Nomadic Clans Work- World Building

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The world building, writing, and history of different types of nomadic groups. The culture, power, war, technology, and religion of these peoples, so it's useful to know a bit about them before writing them into anything.
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[@Stoneworks]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKLReIqwrsd6jLs Here's part 2- covering the Mongols and other tribes

[@rexanguis214]

Are you a catholic or jewish terrorist...........because you sound like one

[@WorldAnvil]

We were totally laughing our asses off at this! You've nailed the blend of education and humour and we love it! Thanks for another amazing and informative video!

[@luciachayes]

It's funny that you mention the fact that reindeer are ridable.. Snow Elves in my D&D world are nomads based off of pre-Christian Finland/Estonia who ride Dire Reindeer.

[@Stoneworks]

that sounds like a pretty cool idea. I may have to steal it........

[@luciachayes]

@@Stoneworks Go right on ahead! Finnish mythology is very interesting to learn about. The Kalevala, basically Finland's version of the Norse Edda, is a good place to start if you know nothing. There are a lot of good stories and it's a shame it's underrepresented when compared to Japanese and Norse mythology.

[@irgendwer3610]

@@luciachayes do you have more sources/books that I can read about finnish mythology? I am having a very hard time finding anything in English

[@luciachayes]

@@irgendwer3610 I'm afraid most of the stuff out there is in Finnish, and sometimes Swedish. The Kanteletar, also compiled by Elias Lönnrot, has English versions on Amazon (UK, US, unsure about other countries). It's very unfortunate because you can find full poems, songs, etc. online for free but only if you can understand Finnish. Hope this helps somewhat even if it is a little disappointing.

[@MrBoingus]

that's a beautiful idea, I love it

[@vimeokilledtheradiotzar7822]

“Next one will be a little bit shorter.” > this episode length: 10:00 > next episode length: 10:01

[@alexaltair6076]

This reminded me of my Post-Post Apocalypse world building and short stories, where I had a culture in the former Great Plains (now a giant desert) which used repurposed cargo ships-now land ships from the coast to navigate the harsh terrain.

[@theluftwaffle1]

Alex Altair that sounds awesome! Can you please go into more detail? Like what is the world like?

[@johannageisel5390]

Where can we read this?

[@alexaltair6076]

TheLuftwaffle 1942 Hey, sorry that I haven’t gotten back to you on this, but I hope this comment will answer your questions. It’s nearly a thousand years after society collapsed in the 2080s. Decades of overexploitation, with the full and rapid realization of the melting ice caps, forced world governments to more drastic measures to extend the whims of consumerism. Across the continents, over farming caused the great agricultural regions of the world to become barren, creating a second and final dust bowl throughout the globe. All nation states of our time collapsed into hundreds, even thousands, of city states, factions, etc. Over time, the masses began to see both ancient technology and technology of their time as magic or divine, with engineers and mechanics being seen as religious leaders and shamans, with no way of teaching such trades outside of direct lessons of reverence. Technology in 3,000 AD is stagnant in many cultures, in an odd mix of medieval and industrial methods, where manufactories are really only found in select cultures. In the Great Desert, the Sand-Soarer nomads make their living off of that issue, often trading salvaged tech, food, scrap, etc. to those willing to buy. They travel the wastes of their home in massive repurposed cargo ships, of which act like motherships for their entourage fleets. These nomadic land fleets are oftentimes huge, and they can be seen from miles away, mostly due to the massive amounts of red and yellow dust they kick up into behind themThey have a very strong warrior culture, and wars are often decided by a brutal duel between mighty champions, of whom wield glaive-like weapons with a Saber-like blade. However, when at war with other cultures, they do not give them the honor of the duel, instead opting to lay siege to their enemies with cannon, gun, and mortar from the decks of their ships. They do not always seek out war, however, and will often seek out peaceful relations as a primary option. Their fleets often house thousands of individuals, in which both men and women are exceptionally equal in standing. Most individuals have tattoos, especially on their faces, which depict the land and sky, with the individual’s birth stars tattooed like freckles. They wear many articles of fine clothing made of silks and linen, and jewelry, of which they prize those of gold and sapphire This coincides with their religion, which is based around a Mother Sky and Father Earth. Most Sand-Soarer activities are carried out to give praise to the Sky Mother and Earth Father, such as constantly maintaining their sacred gifts, those being the motherships, constantly praying to them for guidance, to even making offerings of blood and sacrifice, both self and material. For sacrifices and food, the nomads have hydroponic setups throughout the ships of their fleets (the water necessary coming from massive moisture collecters on the decks as well as pit stops at the Missouri River and Mississippi Bay at least once every 6 months to a year) , and may house thousands of goats, sheep, chickens, and pigs throughout those same fleets. Tradition holds that all animals butchered for consumption must be bled out on the Sky and Earth Altar, after which having that blood offering blessed by the shamaneer. I could go on and on, but I fear that I’ll overwhelm any reader with everything that I have written down.

[@Dragons_Armory]

Thanks for covering this! I find the lives of the nomads very fascinating. 😊👍

[@AtunSheiFilms]

Your videos just keep getting better and better. Keep it up!

[@demsterclippy4252]

Not every day I see a channel with less than 50k subs showing this much confidence in its humor and quality presentation. Well done! Definitely subbing and not just for the world building part

[@royriley6282]

Pretty decent. Would like to hear you discuss the interplay between sedentary and nomadic in your next one. HG Wells makes the claim in his history book that nomadic cultures actually advance civilization over the long term by undermining decadent states and disseminating knowledge. Despite all the carnage this actually seems likely.

[@Joe27248]

Carnage = OPPORTUNITY BABY

[@ruben7801]

Ibn Khaldun had a very similar view

[@oxanalim8819]

The content is great but the editing is hilarious😂😂😂

[@SuperSupper2]

Stoneworks: Gneurshk Me: *passes rock from over here*

[@johannageisel5390]

That's awesome. I need that for one of my writing projects. There is a non-human people who lives off the fruit of a special plant and once they have eaten all the fruit in the area they need to go somewhere else until the plants make new fruit. Please don't apologize for "long" videos. This is not even 10 minutes! The people who watch this are here because they want to learn stuff. For us, it can barely be long enough.

[@Alice-gr1kb]

The *R O M A N I*

[@jlinus7251]

Great work! I enjoy all your worldbuilding videos. It helps me plan concepts for my stories❤

[@MiG1989Carsten]

great work! sorry to be picky but, when you said yak you showed a highland cow. But than again when a googled pictures of yaks, many cows showed up that to me, looked like highland cattle. So it may be me who is in the wrong...

[@calvin311222913]

1:44 THAT'S A HUMAN PERSON!

[@johnleach8553]

Great job! Very informative, well taught. Thanks (from a former History teacher)

[@corki9930]

I saw this in my recommended and was immediately excited! I don't know why but nomadic pastoral groups are extremely fascinating to me.

[@56_fewbats]

I saw that morrowind screenshot

[@NoctugasArts]

This is so great :D Also Light Up The Forge! I love WorldAnvil.

[@RenanL.S.]

3999 likes, I had the honor of turning this into 4000.

[@ViridianForests]

BEST. AD. EVER.

[@The_Solar_Duck]

Where it started cheers to you stony 🥂

[@vigilantsycamore8750]

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness books are a good example of writing/worldbuilding nomadic societies because... well, they're set in the Mesolithic. Everyone is a hunter-gatherer, and almost everyone is nomadic (island-based clans like the Seal Clan are sedentary because there aren't that many potential campsites on islands of that size)

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video

[@benlaliberte7519]

Video long enough to cover my walk to time square thank you.

[@Stoneworks]

WE LOVE YOU BEN!!!

[@maverickwilliams1937]

This into seriously freaked me out 😂 this is the first of his videos I've ever watched

[@danielwallace1759]

Wow the end of the intro was prophetic

[@squiggles5640]

jared from 3rd period algebra was a scary fucker and he definitely deserved his nickname

[@jamiestrode9276]

0:34 the more things change, the more they stay the same...

[@scvnthorpe__]

Love this, will consider when writing nomads That being said, where did you find a lot of this stuff out? It's riveting

[@dustingrenko5390]

Good stuff. Can’t wait until part 2

[@jman22734]

Hey thanks so much for these videos! Is there any way you can do one on world building within a show like X-Files or a show that is more episodic and features different characters?

[@LordDany]

One of the empires on My world have moving / living houses and stroctures they walk around the empire and have 2 tipes of setlement The moveble setlement And the fixed agricolture setlements that Stay on the place because of the plantations but if Need they can walk their houses away

[@cameoshadowness7757]

Funnily enough I was gonna have a nomadic tribe forced down when a country taking over their continent BUT was gonna rework it so that they still carry some of their nomadic ways in certain ways. I need to dive into their stuff.

[@kevinleroi6136]

Stoneworks World Building; Boy... You need to use chap stick or something. XD

[@Ratchet4647]

Do you plan on mentioning/ referencing fictional nomads in the next video? I wonder what your take is on GRRM's Dothraki or Jhogos Nhai.

[@Stoneworks]

Yeeeeaaaa boiiiiiiii

[@pokeninja777]

Awesome video! And a Morrowind video would be fantastic.

[@theblancmange1265]

Don't feel bad about using gypsy. The ones who live in my area don't seem to know it's supposed to be a slur. And always call themselves that. This means I'll probably get into trouble if I meet some sensitive people, since I call the what they call themselces.

[@steakdriven]

I like to think about how Nomads deal with orcish and Goblin armies

[@realmless4193]

Honestly I didn't know the Gypsies were an actual ethnicity until I heard that they were also called Romani so I would call the term "Gypsie" the opposite of informative.

[@Jackb290]

Haven't watched this yet but I hope there's an unless you're the Mongols reference. Also I'm first comment, like and according to my phone view. Edit : Just realized it's a reupload I feel silly now. Also I saw the Mongol clip and Emperor Tiger Stars map. This was great.

[@Stoneworks]

first

[@Jackb290]

@@Stoneworks LMAO

[@state_song_xprt]

I want you to know that the cold open alone got you a subscribe

[@AeronPrince]

That intro, oddly appropriate LOL

[@ShahjahanMasood]

Amazing editing

[@genericthakid4013]

Do you think you could do a world building on a Western world? Lawmen and Outlaws and what not. I think that would be super cool

[@ihavenomouthandimusttype9729]

I’m leaving a comment because I want the next video

[@jeantrapuzzano4281]

Bro I love your videos 😂never change

[@unthoughtwords]

2:24: *golf clap* Well handled

[@imafish3215]

Love the videos keep it up

[@ACPritchard]

Clan = group of families. If each family has a father and a son of age, that’s upwards of 50-100 warriors Tribe = group of clans

[@thefunky751]

Before I knew that people on earth rode reindeer, one race in my worldbuilding project traditionally ride on reindeer like animals. There are even some nomadic societies on their planet.

[@mulethedonkey2579]

*"it'll be a little bit shorter"* *Makes it two seconds longer*

[@TanielaKaufusi]

Mongols were very smart. One khan invaded china and came across a fortress known to have never been taken in battle. Although the mongol khan outnumbered the chinese garrison, they had no ladders or siege towers to scale the walls. So the Khan made a deal with the chinese garrison commander. "GIVE ME ONE THOUSAND CATS AND I WILL LEAVE THE VACINITY." Thinking this deal was good the commander got one thousand cats in cages and gave them to the mongols. The khan ordered the cats be soaked in oil and set on fire. And you know what cats do when they're in danger? They run back home. The fortress, mostly made of wood was set on fire by the cats and many opening in the wall was made. Although this was cruel and evil, but it did the job.

[@janboreczek3045]

With this relative gender equality among the nomads there have been some notable exceptions - proto-indo-europeans and semites, who were extremely patriarchal

[@user-ip3mm6pr7o]

Did you seriously quote the phineas and ferb movie tho

[@user-ip3mm6pr7o]

I'd feel bad for knowing that, but you used a picture. Plausible deniability

[@golgarisoul]

Why the re-up tho?

[@LlamaKing9000]

There was an audio issue about 8 minutes into the last video

[@Stoneworks]

Doctor Freud ^

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

@@LlamaKing9000 when was it uploaded?

[@Stoneworks]

parshnipz57 it was just the same day, the original was up for like half an hour and got ~1.5k views before I replaced it

[@syedtaha5222]

3 nickels Don't forget Tamurlame Never forget Tamurlame........

[@dutragalapenos4721]

Hey my friend, could you write to me the name of the last animal of the list of animals raised by nomads? I'm not a English speaker and couldn't understand what you said and I don't know that animal. I would like to search more about it but I can't understand the word. Thanks!

[@Stoneworks]

Louis Eugênio I said “and then some” but used a photoshopped picture of a turkeys head on a goat? I think. Sorry, I wish it were real cause it looks kinda cool.

[@dutragalapenos4721]

@@Stoneworks HAHAHAHA IT LOOKS AWESOME! Sad that isn't real. You wasted some minutes of my life because I was on Google searching for "animals raised by nomads" and not founding what you said. But I forgive you. I'm anxiously waiting the videos about the Mongols! Hahaha

[@severussin]

2:31 an example of not being able to talk for fear of loss of earnings

[@marcusanark2541]

Nomads are much more interesting than most sedentary civilizations.

[@nemeanlyan7918]

#SpicyBoiNamedGhengis

[@MrBoingus]

FINALLY, THE FACE REVEAL!!! WE NOW KNOW THAT OUR WORLD BUILDING KING IS NOT JUST OUR KING,,, HE IS ALSO OUR DADDY 😍😍😍😍

[@Stoneworks]

The Goodest Boy is this legal?

[@MrBoingus]

@@Stoneworks perhaps not! but what more would you expect from the alphahomo

[@Stoneworks]

The Goodest Boy these are some very convincing points..

[@MrBoingus]

@@Stoneworks oh also, great fucking video thank you so much

[@kevinleroi6136]

@@Stoneworks You do remind me of a sexy nerd. Just saying.

[@United_Georgia]

მადლობა

[@arandompig3997]

Well the radio guy dying of a cough surely is funny now!

[@HladgerdKissinger]

I like this video but I'm a little annoyed that the actual information starts around the 3-minute mark. Today's media means content creators should get out as much info out as possible in as little time as possible.

[@tv9mpeti]

5:44 - Hajrá magyarok!!!

[@asz1029]

Ezt kerestem. "Várjunk csak, azok épp vérszerződést kötnek... és heten vannak? Hmmm"

[@joshscott7401]

G P R. Love it.

[@purplemosasaurus5987]

I haven't watched this video yet and if he doesn't mention the Dothraki, I'll punch myself in the face.

[@lucykwiatek5159]

Boy, that opening aged poorly.

[@cardenasr.2898]

You gonna cry? Piss your pants maybe

[@josephnarvaez9507]

Ramón Cárdenas what? Lol what a strange response

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

"Oh god is that tear gas!" ... Well it is now

[@rattheninja2877]

I’m mad now. I hate cliffhangers

[@meomeo-ue7qd]

2:25 I live in the us and yes I know all about them Edit yay 169th comment

[@PureNeptune]

Tinker's a slur in certain circles too.

[@aikou2886]

I might not be an American but I didn't know there was an alternative word to refer to gypsies since "gypsy" was supposed to be a racial slur.

[@carsonianthegreat4672]

Gypsy is not a racial slur

[@thnkng]

I've seen people here in the UK get ripped on by teachers for saying it at school, so it kind of is. We usually just refer to them as Travellers if they aren't Romanis, and Romanis if they are (obviously)

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

@@thnkng most people still say gypsy with no pejorative intent though

[@Rhygenix]

@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 exactly

[@conradovillegasalvarado6392]

*HUNNIC THROAT SINGING INTENSIFIES*

[@aaronmyers6686]

Reupload?

[@Stoneworks]

yessir

[@trinstonmichaels7062]

Trinston was here

[@docibal4684]

Since when saying Gypsie is illegal or banned ?

[@Stoneworks]

I'm gonna guess you're also an American

[@matthiaskonold6976]

I'm from France and here everybody say gypsie , or " gitan " in french

[@matthewedon]

It's not illegal or banned, it's just shitty.

[@royriley6282]

@@Stoneworks So you respond by turning the word 'American' into a slur of its own?

[@royriley6282]

Roma or Romani is preferred but OP is incorrect. A slur is defined by context and I have heard the word gypsie used in a non disparaging context in the states more than as a slur. In fact most antiRoma sentiment lies in Europe since racism is a result of history and the Roma have more history there.

[@josephleebob3828]

i have a problem, tho, the religion of mongols and turks, isnt a "nomad steppe religion" i think it has been influenced by a chinese religion as xiongnu and started to become its own thing after the abolition of xiongnu, and also no, they arnet likely to turn to muslims and buddhists, that happened in our world because they intreacted with muslims and buddhisms

[@the_MrFloof]

That intro didn't age well 😳😅

[@juanestebangonzalez6973]

Mentions Yaks. Immediately shows a acottish highland cow

[@VisiblyPinkUnicorn]

The mongols built the largest empire on Earth because they were no mads.

[@etizone-real]

1:38 nice flag of libya

[@wintersking4290]

Just ran headfirst into the problems of doing this.

[@morwon]

ok

[@glass-yuzu]

says "yak" shows picture of scottish highland cow

[@sizanogreen9900]

yeah, india...

[@antoniescargo1529]

Hunter gatherers are not nomads. They are no herders of animals like horses, cattle..

[@yiyi3926]

this time the mongols aren't the exception

[@powerup3005]

Says "Yaks" Shows "Highland Cow"

[@TheLordUrban]

Psst that looks more like a Scottish highland cow than a yak.

[@Call_Me_TUA]

Yo, wtf is the thing at 4:33? It looks like some sort of Chernobyl turkey goat dog.

[@Stoneworks]

yep, that's exactly it

[@yvngboul]

wtf is the g word? ppl are so weird nowadays

[@roses2122]

I call them travelers

[@JohnAmanar]

Hm.. I've seen this before.

[@Stoneworks]

my b, fucked up the audio at like 8:30 on the first upload.

[@taily89]

Fuck yeah reindeer herders are badass!

[@LibertyOfDoom]

At 1:50 you say "usually the men would do the hunting and women would do the foraging" in respect to hunter-gatherers. This is INCORRECT, and is directly caused by existing biases in our culture. There is a lot of evidence saying that stone-age humans were very egalitarian, and that the "man-the-hunter" hypothesis is actually really incorrect. theconversation.com/did-prehistoric-women-hunt-new-research-suggests-so-149477

[@tvboxmimic7887]

Ah, 10:01 the perfect video length for telling people what your priorities are.

[@DirkLasermaster]

If this was less than 10 minutes, the KZbin algorithm would probably not have even shown this video to me.

[@tvboxmimic7887]

Colonel Cuddles (Going to go on a little rant if that’s ok) I know if a video is ten minutes or more, youtube promotes it more. But a video being exactly ten minutes (the minimum length a video has to be to get multiple ads on it) leaves a sour taste in my mouth, especially if there is an in-video sponsor. It just feels like the youtuber is putting in as little effort as possible for as much profit they can get. That goes double because they cut the video early and called it “long”. It just makes me think they did it so they could make a second and maybe third video. (Both would probably be ten minutes, so they can put multiple ads on each, in addition to any in-video sponsorships) Or maybe all the 15, 20, and 30 minute videos I watch are actually super long and I have been spoiled rotten. (Nobody mention how there are people who upload hours long videos)

[@DirkLasermaster]

@@tvboxmimic7887 Yeah I understand where you're coming from. It is a little shady. The "Let's see you do better punk" left on another comment pointing that out was a big yikes to me too lmao

[@Stoneworks]

TVBoxMimic I actually split it in two based on a deadline for the video. If I want money, youtube is not the place to get it making videos. I make these bc I love world building and the world. And I love the people that appreciate what I’m trying to give for what it is. Most comments are positive, so I’m going to say it did an alright job at teaching.

[@KevinWarburton-tv2iy]

Who said Gypsy is a slur? I know several people who consider themselves Gypsies and if you say Gypsy is a bad word it means you think Gypsies are bad.

[@Stoneworks]

I’d say Kevin Warburton is a slur

[@KevinWarburton-tv2iy]

@@Stoneworks No need to be a douche. So do you think Gypsies are bad or not? ...coz you kind of imply you think Gypsies are a bad by saying the word is a Slur. Gypsy is a misnomer for the Lom, Rom, Dom ...Romani ...but it's not a slur. In common usage here in my country it just means someone who travels a lot/lives in a van or bus & moves around the country ...just another way of saying Nomad, Vagabond. If you think those words are slurs it says more about you than anything.