Red Tooth Clan
The Red Tooth are the largest clan of the Olona Orcs. They are spread throughout the Greenlands and some beyond but primarily live in and around Coffee Town. The Red Tooth are seen by the Empire as the de facto leaders of their kind, a fact that has caused resentment among the other clans. Red Tooth are the primary source of coffee and tea for the entire continent and jealously guard their agricultural secrets.
Structure
The Red Tooth, like most Olona clans, treat their massive clan as one extended family. However, due to the sheer size of the clan and the number of villages under their banner, there is a much more decentralized form of leadership than the other clans. Each village might have as many as four elders, and cities like Coffee Town may choose up to twenty. When issues that affect the entire clan come up, the elders gather together in a Red Council that more often than not ends in victory for a faction when they win the (nearly inevitable) fist fight. This structure has led Red Tooth families to elect their strongest as elders, rather than their oldest. An elder only rules by the consensus of their family, and the Red Council can vote to strip an elder of their privileges. In times of war, the Red Tooth designate a Red General to lead them, historically this is the strongest Orc they can find and in recent years Legion service has become an informal requirement. It is traditional but not required for Red Tooth leaders to have exceptionally strong tusks.
Culture
The Red Tooth are fanatics about their crops and have worked their fragrant harvests into every aspect of their lives. Coffee and tea might be made into perfumes or scented paints, conversations are always had over hot drinks, and most Red Tooth recipes involve some part of the plants or another. As a whole, the Red Tooth are far less traditionalist than the other clans. Most villages do not keep a designated storyteller, and Olona games that are meant to teach virtues are treated only as sports. The Red Tooth love the Empire and are known to frequently adopt Skaldoran fashions, foods, and music. The Red Tooth also practice decorating their tusks, something seen as ostentatious or even obscene by other clans. Tusk decoration is commonly paint, but it is not unheard of for richer families to decorate themselves with tusk rings set with precious gemstones or even made of gold.
Public Agenda
The Red Tooth work actively to maintain their perceived supremacy over all other Olona, and often send gifts to the Imperial Family or the Seven Lords in order to keep their good will.
Assets
The Red Tooth are the largest clan with the most farming land, and grow particularly expensive crops. They have carefully controlled the flow of their goods for centuries to keep prices at exactly a specific rate. The Red Tooth sit on a hoard of money so large that they are sometimes referred to as "green dragons" by jealous rivals.
History
The Red Tooth predate most other clans of Olona. Even though this is primarily oral tradition, no other clans dispute this. They settled the region known as the Greenlands several thousand years before the founding of Ichtaca according to Elvish records, and University archaeologists have found old Orcish carvings with depictions of Olona with red tusks. Since the founding of the Empire, the Red Tooth by their sheer numbers have made up a sizeable portion of the Legion, and have worked tirelessly to keep their privileged position as the sole growers of coffee and tea on the continent. The Red Tooth were also instrumental in founding the Council of Orcs within the Imperial Senate, and have donated millions of gold pieces worth of goods to what they perceive as "Orcish causes". Currently, Red Tooth representatives mercilessly campaign the Senate to turn over even more land in The Greenlands to exclusive Olona control.
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