Tiger Hsunchen (Zuzimi, or Hsa)
Tiger Hsunchen Cultural Keyword
Physical Skills: Attractive, Swim, Groom, Knife Attack, Lie in Wait
Mental Skills: Hsunchen Greetings, Recognize Territory, Tiger Myths, Track
Personality: Self-sufficient
Relationships: to lineage and Spirit-mother
Magic: Animist. Tiger Father and Tiger Mother are the Ancestors. Tiger Mother
is the dominant goddess. Powerful Tigers and Hsunchen become Spirits when
they die and can be worshipped.
Tiger Hsunchen Occupation Keywords
Bachelor Male
Entry requirements: Be an unmated adolescent male. Some Bachelors are chosen
by Tiger-father to become shamans. They are too useful to remain bachelors
long. Others simply become mates by attracting an adult female.
Physical Skills: Make knife, Prepare Meat, Notice Danger, Catnap
Mental Skills: Know Prey Animals, Mollify Elder
Personality: Vain
Relationships: to mother
Female Wanderer
Entry requirements: Be a territory-less female. A Wanderer is sometimes
chosen by Tiger-mother to become a shaman, and therefore to become a Spirit-mo
ther (even if she is unmated). Most found lineages. Non-shamans drive out
other females or replace infertile ones in established lineages.
Physical Skills: Find Shelter, Catnap, Prepare Meat
Mental Skills: Explore Unknown Region, Discover Weakness
Personality: Cunning
Relationships: none
Mated Female
Entry requirements: Bear children and have territory
Physical Skills: Carry children, Cook Food, Build Hut, Drive Out Male.
Mental Skills: Woman’s Secrets, Compel Obedience
Personality: Authoritative
Relationships: To Spirit-mother, children, mate.
Mated Male
Entry requirements: Father children and have territory
Physical Skills: Intimidate, Hunt Big Game, Roar, Make Tools
Mental Skills: Notice Infidelity, Judge Strength
Personality: Fierce
Relationships: To Spirit-mother, immature children, mates.
Spirit-mother or Tigerson (Advanced Occupation)
Entry requirements: Be an older woman with grandchildren or the founder of a
lineage (a Wandering Female with an awakened Fetch); or a mated male with an
awakened Fetch. Males always rank lower than females, and shamans are often
mated to the more powerful women, to keep them in line.
Physical Skills: Craft Fetish, Scratch Summoning Circle, Roar, Dance
Mental Skills: Chase off trouble, Lead Ceremony, Spirit World Travel,
Shamanic Escape, Spirit Combat, Spirit Sight
Personality: Mysterious
Relationships: to lineage, to Tiger-mother or Tiger-father.
Magic: Tradition is by sex. Interacting with the opposite sex’s spirits is at
–10 penalty.
Tiger-father Tradition
Tiger-father is Tiger-mother’s mate, and helps her bear children. They
cooperate on an irregular basis, but seldom get along unless it the right
season. Tiger-father is the patron of males. He is is always portrayed as a
handsome tiger.
Entry requirements: Must be male.
Physical Skills: Warpaint
Mental Skills: Tiger-father Secrets
Traditional Spirits:
Fertility Spirits
Hunting Spirits
Madness Spirits
Special Spirits: Tiger spirits, Firebringer
Fetch: Tiger
Fetishes: Tiger-father shamans create their fetishes from wood, bone,
feathers, sinew and fur.
Secret: Paralyze Foe
Worshippers: Males of the Tiger people, occasionally as a secondary tradition
by non-Hsunchen shamans in Teshnos and Kralorela.
Other Side: Tiger-father prowls a vast forest in the Spirit world, hunting
other spirits. From this forest, all of the other Hsunchen lands are easy
travel.
Other Connections: He is Yinkin and Basmol/Durbadath’s brother. He has held
Death.
Tiger-mother Tradition
Tiger-mother is the most powerful spirit amongst these Hsunchen. This is
because of her formidable powers, and because lineage is always traced
through the mother. She is depicted in dance ceremonies as a woman, a tiger,
or a woman with a tiger’s head.
Entry requirements: Must be female.
Physical Skills: Protect cubs
Mental Skills: Tiger-mother Secrets
Traditional Spirits:
Mothering Spirits (causes a lineage to defer to the Spirit-mother, calms
infants, licks wounds, etc.)
Evening Spirits
Forest Spirits
Fertility Spirits
Special Spirits: Tiger spirits, Evening-woman, Star-spirits
Fetch: Tiger
Fetishes: Tiger-mother shamans create their fetishes from wood, bone,
feathers, sinew and fur.
Secret: Invisibility
Worshippers: Females of the Tiger people, occasionally as a secondary
tradition by non-Hsunchen shamans in Teshnos and Kralorela.
Other Side: Tiger-mother controls a spirit-realm near a river in the same
forest as Tiger-father, where she has a cave.
Other Connections: She is the illegitimate daughter of Rausa (Evening) and
combines powers of Night and Light. Her enemies are Stasis and non-Hsunchen
Man. She is a friend of Aldrya and the Bamboo-goddess.
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #695
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