CHAPTER SIX: THE SARASARIC

---

---

_Introduction

-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-~*~-

Imagine that you are part of a tribe who has been following great herds and flocks of animals for as long as you can remember. Suddenly, you see a messenger from your aging chief who points to a great cliff face and proclaims that under order of your leader, you and your people are to move on top and settle the plateau above. How do you feel about giving up the way of your father and his father before him? What are the new advantages and disadvantages of becoming a settled people? Keep these questions in mind as you read the following chapter.

Of the myriad of groups of hunter gatherers, nomads and tribes, the Sarasaric (s-are-sas-ri-ick) are perhaps the most notable of them. They were a unique mix of hunter gathers and nomadic herders, the Hyden Boar being their animal of choice supplemented by a number of flocks of Ryzic Sheep. Between the boars and the sheep, the Sarasaric had plentiful amounts of meats, milk and tough hides along with seasonal amounts of wool. The unique diet of the Hyden Boar, consisting of mostly fungus and wild forest plants meant that the Sarasaric was never far from forests or wood lands; the Ryzic Sheep which they had picked up during their migration had to managed with what they had, a likely cause for their low population compared to the boars.

These animals would provide instrumental not only during the Sarasaric's time nomads but also once they would settle down possibly hundreds of generations after their enigmatic birth. However, it would not be until King Dahoris which they would settle down but even then it would have late in his life as the popular theory with historians say. The true task of leading not a tribe but a village would be left to his son, Trusis. As with his father, not much is known about the King Trusis the Settler other than he died much earlier than as modern tests have shown, likely due to a clash with neighboring towns or tribes.

What is known is the ideal terrain which Dahoris, and by extension Trusis, choice for the city was an ideal position, the Anolian Plateau. The Anolian Plateau was both large and resided overlooking a forested river and delta that lead into what was known to them at the time as the "Blue Horizon". With both accessibility to the sea as well as a source of water for crops upon their rich farm land, as well as the natural defenses of the landscape, one could say that it was the Sarasaric tribe's destiny to become great.