This fellow is a common Gosho Warrior from the Southwestern Continent's Grasslands in 37 IA. For most of his life he's a herder tending about forty llamas along with his wife, father, younger brother, six year old son, three year old daughter and a captive man. Said Llamas and a Ground Sloth and Terror Bird carry all their possessions in saddle bags and on wheeled travois, moving from region with the rest of their host. From their herd they get meat, hide, sinew, bones for tools and a steady supply of wool which he and his wife can both weave into cloth. Since his group is mobile, they also did some trading, ferrying items about on their beasts and exchanging them at the various villages they meet and Gosho Trade Forts. Some of these items were acquired through fairly honest dealings, others were extorted and others were taken by force. For the Gosho a man is not considered a man unless he supports his family and host through both the sweat of toil and blood on the battlefield (preferably that of the Host's foes). When the time for battle comes, he puts on his leather and iron helmet and grass stuffed llama wool vest, takes up his mace and shield (adorned with symbols inspired by Raptor glyphs), joins up with his Party and sallies forth to war.







He was taught how to fight by his father and his uncles as child, just as he teaches his son how to fight as the Host's law demands. His family does own a Terror Bird and he can fight mounted, but he mostly fights on foot. It is much more valuable to his family as a herding mount to be casually risked. His party serves it's Host as shock infantry. He is a decent shot with a sling or a bow and he is decent with a spear, but in close quarters an iron star headed mace is his weapon of choice as he can batter through the ranks of villagers with spearmen. He has not yet earned the right to a Nahpojek . For the most part, Gosho Raids are interested in taking loot and captives but to those which praticularly earn the ire of a Host raids for goods become raids of destruction in which dwellings and fields are burned, animals slaughtered and the population is scattered, killed or taken as slaves with looting being a secondary concern at best.





As a general rule the Gosho find extortion to be easier than raiding. Many farming tribes clustered along the waterways and lakes will offer gifts to passing hosts rather than incur their wrath. Sometimes simply to placate them, others will try for more than the minimum with certain hosts. Winning the support of a Gosho Host can be a boon for a farming tribe, especially if you have local rivals of your own. The problem with this is A: is that while Gosho Hosts are mobile and will rarely stay in an area for too long before moving on to greener pastures and it can be years before they return and B: the Gosho are divided and often fight among themselves. This can mean that if another Host raids the favored tribe of another Host it runs the risk of being attacked by said Host, but if an inter-host conflict already rages it can also make the collaborating tribe a target.







He was a fortunate one in a fairly substantial raid in the spring of 37 IA. His Host sent out seven Parties on foot and five Parties on Terror Birds, nearly 250 Men against a new village which apparently had come from the sea on boats similar to stories which have happened to the North. They'd hoped to take exotic plunder. Instead they faced what they presumed was strange magics: wood and metal things which barked fire and could hit a man with a lead bullet from nearly 250 Paces with terrible force. The same applied to a beastly thing which cracked like thunder and mangled half a party with a hailstorm of bullets. He was lucky that his party was in the rear as the riders in the front were almost all cut down, as were a fair number of men on foot. Less than a hundred men returned from that attack with nothing to show for it than their lives and word of said things.

