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Utz'ap bakel men

The Utz'ap bakel, meaning They who plant the bones, is a subgroup of Tuluran White Pilgrims that live in its majority in isolated communities deep in the Tuluran countryside, as opposed to the other followers of the White Paths that predominantly live in coastal urban settlements. They are the descendents of White Pilgrims armed militias that settled in secluded areas of Tulura during the Thousand Leagues War as a way to avoid persecution. There are currently XXXXX Utz'ap bakel registered by the census, who work predominantly as cattle herders and coffee farmers. They are especially famed for their poultry, including chickens, ducks, but also Terror Birds, Ostriches and even Moa from Onekawa-Nukanoa.

Because of their role in the Thousand League War, the Utz'ap bakel were reputed to be violent, bloodthirsty, communautarists. They have an history of opposition to the State, notably on the matter of conscription, but also of conflicts with neighboring communities, even if their secluded settlements limit the number of confrontations.

Etymology

They owe their name to their practice of keeping the bones and skins of every prey they hunt, so they can deposit them at hunting shrines and thus restore them to their supernatural Owners for regeneration. Similarily, rather than incinerate the bodies of their deceased, they boil their bodies and keep their bones in large wooden images kept in family shrines.

A popular story for their name's origin is that it came from their militias' habits, during the Thousand Leagues War, to plant the bones of opposing combattants they killed, both to delimit their territories and as a signal to other factions. Modern day Utz'ap bakel deny these allegations, but their legend as profanators remain.