I just stumbled into making a tribe by 1333! (Long game.)
Here's how it worked:
- In 1331 Sacred Time, I was told that I needed to do a HeroQuest. I
pumped two points of Clan Magic into Quest and one into Mysteries. I
then sacrificed and got a piece of "Making of the Storm Tribe".
- Did the heroquest (surprised at that)--but the Orlanthi I sent was
fairly young and good at Magic.
- Blind prophet shows up and starts doing his schtick. One of the
options (that I had never seen before) was "make peace with an enemy" or
something like that. I picked it, since I'd never tried that before.
- One of the options on talking to that feuding clan was "propose a
tribe". I picked it--figuring I'd be turned down. WRONG! I was taken
up on the offer.
- A few seasons and negotiations later, I've got a tribe (but I didn't
go for king first time around).
Now I've got to get my clan up to the point of being survivable as a
clan--kind of the reverse of what I'm used to...