Mastikigni (culture)
The Mastikigni have refined what it means to be a warrior to a knife's edge. After a brief night of celebration, where boys are betrothed, gifts exchanged between families and much mead drunk, a generation of the clans young men are exiled from society. Having to fend for themselves or work together to survive, the fledgling Mastikigni are unable to return to the place of their birth until they complete three trials, which they credit to Velos in one of their central myths. Aspiring warriors must come home with the wing of an eagle, the tooth of a bear, and the tail of a wolf. Those who cannot are forbidden from speaking or seeing their clansmen and women again, to do so would break the sacred oath each boy takes before his journey. Many who fail at this task decide to start their own clan, in hopes that their descendants will complete what they could not. For those who show the correct amount of bravery, cunning and strength required, much revelry accompanies entrance into perhaps the greatest warrior culture on Aeras.