Re: How many clans in a tribe?

From: David Dunham <dunham_at_pensee.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 23:06:41 -0700

> I've wanted to know this for a long time, but think its probably too
> deep for the main list and not esoteric enough for the GD.

Things don't have to be esoteric for the Glorantha Digest! Besides, I get to quote out-of-print references in the reply. How much more GD can you get?

> There are 24(ish) tribes of Sartar
> How many clans does each tribe have?

The population is 180,000 [Genertela Book p.54]. If each tribe is equal sized, then each has 7500 people. If each clan is the nominal 1200 [King of Sartar; Thunder Rebels p.29], then they'd have 6.25 clans each.

> And what are the names of all the clans?

I don't have space to list all 150 here... You can start by culling the beginning of Barbarian Adventures, then King of Sartar. Orlanth is Dead has a bunch of names (without any tribal associations).

Graham

> The answer is hard to find in a hurry, but the samples we have (Culbrea, > Colymar, and Lismelder) would suggest that around eight is normal.

IIRC, the Colymar are one of the larger tribes.

Viktor

> That fields a fyrd of about 57,000 armed militia, with about > 2,400 people in each tribe's fyrd.

About 20% of the total population can muster [Thunder Rebels p.44], so a tribe would have 1500 fyrdmen (and women).

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