The Rovers
The rovers are a nomadic people who traverse the eastern world, free of borders and living in the free toxic air of the waste. One might think most nations would object to such travelers especially as they are heavily armed, but they possess something which allows them to more or less as they please: knowledge and the guns to back it up of course. They drive from town to town plying their scavenged goods, and reliquaries and often knowledge they have learned about the old tech. They are however very meticulous about whom they trade, and setting up connections with them is hard. This stems from their distrust of outsiders, which reveals their somewhat strange nature, as they are generally very curious about outsiders, but they also consider them dangerous and as such keep a healthy distance.
They refer to themselves as the Ask’har(True Sons/Daughter/Child), and while they do not take affront to the term rover, they do much prefer when people call them what they are, after all they call you by your names, could you not do the same? Although when out of earshot they refer to most nations as Dru’har(False Sons/Daughter/Child – used in connotation as upstart or traitor).
The Rovers are divided into clans, though they all strive to emulate the honored ancestors and their empire. The rovers are often seen as rambling technocrats who loot and steal the relics of other countries. The Clans have their own arc fleets, massive vehicles that house hundreds and sometimes thousands of clan members. Each clan holds widely different believes and traditions on how to act with others and how to venerate the ancients.
Naming Traditions
Feminine names
Agrippa, Anechka,Elena, Ebraska, Taneya, Rakurscha, Natascha, Nadyenka, Ovdotia, Zinaida.
Masculine names
Akrus, Arn,Arsenin, Dirn, Daras,Jash, Isaak , Saran,Simarn, Pashenka,Nazar.
Family names
Rovers take personal names at birth and hold a fleet name/clan name as a surname. Those who choose to roam who leave the arks are called named, thus name Nó, for they are bound to no fleet. Thus a typical name would be a personal name, followed by a fleet name. e.g. Dirn'Val'No or Sasta'Val'Asur.
Val in their tongue meaning of, or bound to.
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