Ceratothar Clan

The Ceratothar Clan is a Dwarven clan dedicated to the breeding and exploitation of rhinoceroses for horns, hides, and meat.

Culture
Ceratothar tribes are always 50 strong or smaller, due to the permanence of the rhinoceros enclosures they build. Each tribe is led by a Deg, and is divided into nuclear families that live in a single house.

Ceratothar tribes are founded once an existing tribe is too large and must lower its population. Three nuclear families are selected, and they have two years to prepare a site for their tribe to be. The three families each nominate an elder, and the three in combination select the new Deg. Under the leadership of the Deg of their new tribe, the three families begin building a Ceratothar complex - a large enclosure with twenty-foot earthen walls supported by logs with clay bricks on the inside. This is where the rhinoceroses are kept. The families then build several sheds - for rhinoceros mothers and children, for equipment, horn carving, and butchery. They then construct their own homes and bring to their complex four young rhinoceroses from their previous tribe, to allow breeding of their rhinoceroses and growing their population. As the children of the three tribes have children of their own, the new families construct their own homes around the complex.

Ceratothar culture is dominated by the daily work of keeping rhinoceroses - watering them, as most enclosures don't contain water sources; making sure there are no fights; butchering the most aggressive males; breeding the rhinoceroses to grow their populations; and assisting pregnant females in birthing young rhinoceroses.

Every half-year, a wagon caravan travels to the nearest large city to sell the hides, horns, and bushmeat, and purchase for the tribe tranquilizers and equipment. The tranquilizers are used to pacify the rhinoceroses as their horns are carefully cut.

Ceratothar food inevitably revolves around savannah animals. Jultoush is served with chunks of rhinoceros meat.