Changeling - Players Guide.pdf

sworn to by noble friends who have claimed fiefdoms partly
won through Nunnehi support.
Naturally, nothing is without price. The conflicting loyalties
engendered by the Accordance Wars have caused old
enmities among various tribes of Nunnehi to erupt. Most tribes
refuse to engage in warfare against their own kind, but those
whose tribes were enemies or competitors again spoil for battle
to prove themselves better. The new emphasis on pride among
Native Americans has had a heady effect upon the Nations.
Where they all might once have been content to ally in the face
of certain eventual destruction, the renewal of native culture
has made them proud and unwilling to forgive old wrongs.
Nunnehi from competing tribes might forswear fighting among
themselves long enough to battle non-natives, but they seldom
choose to ally tor longer periods or even go their separate,
peaceful ways. If no fight ensues between the momentary allies,
they back away from confrontation, with each expecting treachery
from the other until miles are put between them. Thus, even
as the Nunnehi again become strong, they weaken themselves
from within by intertribal bickering.
Tribes
All Nunnehi belong to a tribe. Differences in Nunnehi
can be attributed to the variant dreams and expectations
among the Native American tribes. For this reason, it is
difficult for Nunnehi to be born into non-natives or those
who are not members of their tribe. Doing so almost guarantees
that they will not remember who and what they are until
they become elders and reach the perspective and wisdom
that age brings.
For the most part, many tribes from the same region have
similar backgrounds, such as the buffalo hunters of the Great
Plains. To that extent, Nunnehi may be associated with
particular areas, being identified, for example, as Southwestern
or Northeastern. Within those regions, however, the
individual tribes shape the form, dress, practices and customs
that the Nunnehi Nations follow. Nunnehi are never born
into tribes who once were or are still considered rivals or
enemies to their own.