Bowlander

The Bowlander peoples once had a vast empire that covered the majority of the east of Amolia. But after years of countless raiding from the seas of the southeast, and a terrifying plague, The Bowlanders returned back to their tribal ways, returning to their ancestral homelands, and taking a back seat in Amolias politics.
The Bowlander homelands take up a majority of the East Coast of the continent of Amolia. Many scholars believe that the Bowlanders were the original Amolian People. Their culture is predominately tribalistic. They live in small nomadic communities, who travel on horse back along the mega fauna hunting paths of their ancestors. They live inside of Yurts made of Brownback Colossus hides that hold on average a family of 5 members, as this is the average size of a family unit.
While they are less technologically advanced than the nations of Amolia, like the empire, they have made treaties to keep over 87 percent of their homeland. These treaties were made entirely diplomatically, as the Tribal leaders knew their people would not be able to fight the military might of Emperius Dominus.
It is generally agreed that the first bows were created in the Bowland homelands, and where than spread militarily by their empire before the great collapse. This is where they have taken their modern name from. The Tribes of the Bowlands gernerally refer to themselves as the people, or the "Ramtel" meaning people of the great land. Modern scholars suggest that the original name for the kingdom might have been either "Redjoulses" or "Dominantum Daemonica".
Most of the coastal tribes have not yet developed the technology for large scale sailing yet, and tend to use either small wind powered or rowed boats for fishing of the coasts. Overall, Most of the tribes seem to be just preparing to leave the stone age. In order to best preserve their ways, neighboring nations like Tekysril have suggested to let them be, as to not push them into the technological and cultural ways of any modern nation.
The number of Bowlanders in both their native homeland and the empire is calculated to range from 500,000 to 1 and a half million. A widely popular theory suugest that the Karthlyen people were once members of the fallen kingdom, and would therefore be genetically related to modern Bowlanders. If this would be true, the number of Bowlanders would nearly double.
In the far west of Amolia, on the Tribal Coast, the tribes are known to be unrelated to the empire of the Bowlanders. Based on their history, we know that these tribes did not yet live in Amolia. However, their founding myth mentions a great red tribe who gave birth to their people. While unclear, some believe this to be a reference to the Bowlanders, as they are known for their elaborate red outfits. The Bowlanders also have stories of a tribe very reminiscent to the Tribal Coast people. How these 2 tribal nations are connected is widely speculated on. Neither group is obviously genetically or culuturally related, so their true connections remain a great mystery even to this day.

Conflict with Emperius Dominus:

While 87 percent of the homeland is ruled by the band of tribes, the other 13 percent of it now lies in Emperius Dominus. As part of the peace treaty between the 2 nations, the empire would get possession of the top parts of the tribal lands. While the Tribal leaders thought it a reasonable trade, the Emperor Franze specifically wanted the treaty to fall this way so that he would have sole access to the veins of precious metals that existed in this land.
Soon after the deal was struck, the Brownback Colossus's were eradicated from the land, decimating the ways of the Painted Horse, the tribe that was now ruled over by the empire. In a short period of time it would become evident that this was not going to be the only time the empire would screw over the natives to the land. Once the Band of Tribes had assured the land was in safe keeping, a wall was built on the border in order to keep new tribes from entering, or the now emperial tribe from leaving. The warriors of the Painted Horse were now forced to each serve a 5 year term in the emperial military in the newly founded Bowlus Legion. The Bowlus Legion was ran by a notoriously brutal command squad. This unfair treatment would lead to the short uprising known as the Emperius Bowlus Conflict. While the majority of the conflict was short lived, some sources still report that parts of it still rage on, with emperial settlements on the fringe of tribal territory being raided from time to time. A majority of the Painted Horse report a major disapproval of the empire, with many even going as far to say they would join in on a second uprising.
In modern times, the Painted Horse tribe has requested the aid from the empire in order to stop the yearly raids from the south ocean. The empire has utterly refuesed to aid in the protection of the natives, a direct violation of the peace treaty that gave them this land. Tekysrilian Scholars suggest this to be a way to fully eliminate the tribe from their land, so that the empire may build a new settlement their. While the empire has yet to make any acts of aggression against the Bowlanders in the nation, many suggest in the next few years they may attempt a genocide of all Bowlanders, very similar to how they did with the Ice tribe of Tutomo.

The Tribal Spirituality: Truthfully not much is known about the religion of the Bowlanders. No outsider is allowed to partake in, or even watch any festival or ceremony. What is known is that their spirituality, is that it is highly animistic and primal. Very little, if any, "gods" exist, rather the man focus of their ways is around the spirits of their ancestors and the world around them. As tribes move around, they tend to leave behind small altars with bone carvings of the primary animals that they hunted during their stay. The altar is made of a stone, which is usually stained in the blood of sacrifices to the land spirits. The tribe also leaves behind offerings of meat and berries on this stone altar, presumably to appease the spirits for if the tribe must ever return to this location.
Other common religious items left behind include small carvings of a tree with a face, rocks with natural holes in them, bowls with the tribes language carved into it, or the carving of a man stabbing the sun with a spear.
Scholars suggest that at one point the Bowlanders had gods, as in the remains of their fallen kingdom, full temples have been found, with large statues depicting god like figures in them. Some suggest that the modern image of the man stabbing the sun is a decedent of one of the gods, and possibly his related myth of bringing the sun to the tribes. Other suggest that this may simply be the spirit of an ancestors warding some evil off whose symbol is wrongly assumed as the sun.

The Last Mega Fauna Hunters of Amolia:

As done by their ancestors, Bowlanders follow the migration paths of Amolia's last remaining Mega Fauna. As the Mega Fauna's range has slowly decreased, so to does the range of Bowlanders. Of the modern land owned by the nation, only a little more than half of it is habited. The main source of food and supplies for the Bowlanders come from the Brownback Colossus. Many believe that not only do the Bowlanders need the Brownback, but the Brownback need the Bowlanders. 
For the Tribes who live on the coast, they primarily fish the Big Finned Blue Fish, a large fish who only exist off the bottom of the east coast of Amolia. As part of their resoration efforts, Tekysril have claimed the Big Finned Blue Fish as culturally needed, allowing for the Bowlanders to be the only nation who can harvest these oceanic Mega Fauna. Tekysril has tried to do the same with the Brownback Colossus, however the empire has blocked all attempts of this.
The Bowlanders are the last true Mega Fauna Hunters in Amolia. While Mega Fauna exists outside Amolia, In Amolia the few species that remain exist solely in the land of the Bowlanders.