(Fic) A Day in the Life of the Five Trees Clan

[stormwreath]

It's been a while since I wrote it, but Hiywan's Story is still one of my favourite pieces of work. During the course of writing the fic (which is about the First Slayer's childhood before she was a Slayer, for those of you who've not read it), I put a lot of thought into developing the background. Trying to work out how a tribe of stone age hunter

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[stormwreath]

Well, I've got to cover myself. I'd hate to be responsible for any unforeseen incidents...

Thanks!

[lavastar]

Oooooooh, interesting! And perfect timing for me having just finished Hiywan's Story. :D

I loved just seeing all your ideas in one place - they all seemed pretty cool and sense-making to me, although I'm no prehistoric culture expert.

And the bits about the different kinds of sex and gay girls were hysterical - and the male ritual that we can't know about. Cause someone was too lazy to think it up, hmmm? (Just kidding - not sure I really would want to know.)

[lavastar]

Also I somehow missed the part where Hiywan says how people get pregnant...?

[deird1]

Right here:

There's the divine act of creation, when a man's seed passes into a woman's body and makes her fertile, okay? Go too long without it, and your insides dry up and shrivel, and your body stops creating new babies, and you even start bleeding from the inside and so on.

[lavastar]

Oh, haha, I totally did see that and loved it and didn't make the mental connection. Thanks!

[deird1]

Fascinating.

(I squeed so loudly when I saw the story banner!)

[stormwreath]

:-)

[petzipellepingo]

It's been a while since I wrote it, but Hiywan's Story is still one of my favourite pieces of work.

Me too, I love that story. And this is just... neat.

[stormwreath]

Glad you enjoyed it. :-)

[beer_good_foamy]

Yay, more of Hiywan's story!

Fantastically detailed and pretty plausible, and as always, I love the little bits of mythological and cultural roots you sneak in. Oh, and I really liked the bit about the guy who got permanently ostracized - man creating his own monsters, nothing that disappears into the shadows ever truly disappears, etc.

[stormwreath]

Thanks!

We know that there were vampires around in those times, because after all that's why they created a Vampire Slayer. But with such small groups of people, where everybody knows everybody else, how did vampires work? How did they find food?

So I picture them lurking in the wilderness outside the human encampments, living in caves or burying themselves in the ground during the day, mostly living off the blood of animals - but also waiting to pick off any stragglers or exiles who go too far from the camp. Such individuals would almost inevitably be turned (eventually) which is how the vampires replenish their numbers. So yes, by exiling people who break their laws the clans are actually feeding the numbers of their worst enemies...

But what else can they do? Killing a clan member is fratricide, a horrible crime, even if the clan member is himself a criminal. So they kick him out of the clan instead, and have nothing more to do with him, and behave as if he has died.

[soapygirl]

Exile makes sense for really serious crimes. (and it was de rigeur in clan of the cave bear ) But what about some kind of public shaming? or would that be considered a reward for some if shaming meant not having to work that day?

It makes sense that vampires mostly hunted animals. Even with their superior strength/speed it would still be a challenge. I wonder what sort of interaction they have with other vampires, if they are a family like Angelus/Darla/Spike/Dru or more of the master and his underlings. Or not a lot of association with one another becuase there is less safe space to coexist.

Thanks for this story. I look forward to more stories about Hiywan. Her life is fascinating

[stormwreath]

I do admit to having read all of Jean Auel's books when I was younger