| Welcome to the land
of the Tuchuks!! The Tuchuks are known as the "Wily Ones" and their Ubar is Krimsonhwk. It is said that it is hard to outwit a Tuchuk in a bargain. They hate to be fooled or made the butt of a joke. They are very proud and generally regard city dwellers as vermin living in holes. It is said the Wagon People are killers and that they slay strangers. This is mostly true. A few merchants are permitted to trade with them but for that priviliege they must receive a tiny brand on their forearm. The brand is in the form of spreading bosk horns. This guarantees safe passage for the merchant but only during certain seasons. Some entertainers can also receive the brand. But, to acquire the brand, you must first present yourself to the Peoples. If they do not like your merchandise or are not pleased with your entertaining, they will deny you a brand and simply slay you. The brand does carries some shame as it suggests that you are a slave. They are the only Gorean culture to have a group of professional torturers. The torturers are very well trained in the arts of detaining life, detection and persuasion. They can be effective interrogators. They always wears hoods unless their victim has received a sentence of death. Only the victim will then see their face. The Peoples use domesticated prairie sleen, as shepherds and sentinels. They herd the bosk and also help to protect their camps and track down errant slaves. These sleen move raidly and silently. They will attack any trespassers without provocation. They will respond only to the voice of its master. When the master dies, the sleen is then slain and eaten. |
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| 10's of thousands of Bosk guarded by
100's of Outriders and prairie sleen block your way to the main encampment, as you
approach the outriders surround you and force you at lance point to dismount and disarm
yourself or fight to the death. you are then taken to the camp where at the whim of a commander or the Ubar himself you may be kolared or killed or accepted as a guest. The choice is yours turn back now or enter the plains of Turia. |
A thousand years ago, united Wagon Peoples carried their devastation to the walls of Ar and Ko-ro-ba. Luckily, both cities were able to stop and push back the Peoples. During the events of Nomads of Gor, the Tuchuks conquer the city of Turia that had never been conquered before. But, Kamchak, Ubar of the Tuchuks, decides to return to its Home Stone to the Turians. This is done obstensibly so the Wagon Peoples would always have an enemy but may also have been done in part because Kamchak's mother was Turian. Nowadays though, after the reunification of the Tuchuks under Krimsonhwk, some matters have changed. The Wagon Peoples rarely enslave their own anymore. They raid others for slaves and have allegedly travelled as far north as Venna and even the Sardar. It is said that a woman is not safe within a thousand pasangs of the wagons. A strike against the cities of Ar and Koroba could occur again one day. You have been Warned ! if you still wish to tread the Lands of the Tuchuks then |
