Guardians

These are serious risk takers. If found by tribesmen, guardians will face summary execution. Clandestinely, they run the emporia that facilitate trade – and pilfering – of goods from tribal lands. So long as guardians stay out of tribal reach, they reap rewards of wonder.

Managing commerce in a most curious fashion, guardians often have first dibs on choice items. Too, they can request that traders bring esoterica, such as obsidian, or sulfur, or some such.

Similar in garb to traders, guardians too communicate with a small set of gestures. Unlike traders, guardians do not have patterns to identify them or the exchanges they run.

Since Since numerals do not exist, money is impossible. Though this locale sporadically produces both shells and amber, and these go back and forth in barter, neither serves as quantified currency. They are swapped qualitatively, as are all items.