THE TUNT
5/8/20
TUNT
The Tunt were designed to thrive on worlds where living under ground and be able to handle the rigors of mining. They go about 4’ tall (8 hands) and stocky, 160 to 200 pounds (stones) with wide round shoulders and hips, sprouting stocky legs. Tunts have thick necks and are strong beyond belief, usually able to lift twice their weight. They have tough claw-like fingers with nails tough as steel. Most have black or near black hair and eyes. The hair is very thick individually and as a mass, almost fur like with bushy eyebrows and thick beards. Tunt eyes have very large pupils, filling 80% of their eye. Tunts have thick lips and dull, square, blunt teeth. They have strong, massive hands and flat five toed, hoof like feet. Tunts move deliberately, plodding for the most part but can move very quick when necessary.
The Tunt tribes live in clan societies. Whenever possible they live in chambers carved out of the rock. If they have to live above ground, they will build strong boulder and rock houses and shops. They have become well known for their masonry and metal craft. The family structure is very loose, having the entire community do the rearing of children. The children do know their parents but it is understood the clan is their family. Marriages are proclaimed at annual choosing festivals and couples remain together for life long relationships. Children come of age and will choose their adult quarters on reaching 34 seasons (17 years). The clan tests and trains their children based on skills exhibited, clan need, and intelligence. Tunts live to be 240 or so seasons (120 years). Their given and sir names are blended together with the first letters of each capitalized.
Tunts use nuggets, weighed to ounce sized chunks. The lowest form of currency is bread, each loaf of bread is worth 1/3 of a copper, it takes 50 coppers to equal a silver, five for an iron, 10 silver equals a gold, 2 gold equal a platinum. Barter is still popular in this society as is trading jewelry, livestock, clothes, weapons and food. There are customary tithes or accompanying gifts with marriages, births, graduations, and deaths.
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