This Is For My Worldbuilding Class

tw: discussion of rape While physical conflict is encouraged between Xan tribesmen as a method of rooting out the weakness in one another, this controlled violence as much an act of brotherly love as it is an expression of bitterness and hatred, such skirmishes are only permitted under strict regulations and do not usually end in death. To deliberately single out your comrade and undermine them through cowardly means is unacceptable. Xan prize courage and strength first, not sneaky backstabbing, especially for avarice's sake. An insatiable need to dominate others is meant to be directed to the outside world, against rival tribes, not turned inward. Betrayal, indolence and selfishness - theft, rape, and murder. If you murder someone, you have ultimately allowed your petty squabbles with that individual to overwhelm your obligations to the survival of your clan. You have not only betrayed your tribe-sibling but the tribe at large. Theft, rape, and murder are the three cri

Xan are the people of Deos -- spindly, scaly, crimson. They live in colonies scattered throughout Deos's underground. These colonies are based in a horticultural tribal structure and reside within the few pockets of sustainable life that riddle the subterranean wasteland; while situated in these springs, the denizens of the colonies devise instruments to capitalize on the resources inherent to their claim. Sustenance is extracted from water springs, mushroom gardens, and burrowing prey. Once a claim is established, the tribe as a whole remains rooted there until they are ousted by an invading force. However, raiding parties will be dispatched into the outer reaches of that territory in search of other resources. Though Xan have made significant technological advancement (particularly in mining and construction) they still retain a combative, warlike edge. Tribes are often hostile towards one another. If a tribe is sitting on a spring, then a Xan's first inclination is to fi

Deos sluggishly drifts in a small and desolate solar system, surrounded by a sparse smattering of stars, an asteroid belt which aimlessly circles the outer periphery of its galactical claim, and its solitary neighbors, a pair of suns which bombard it with constant heat and fire. Its outer appearance leads one to assume that it is a gas giant such as Jupiter, but beneath the turbulent storms of noxious crimson fumes stretches a vacant landscape every bit as inhospitable as its exterior. No life exists on its surface; only crags and mountains of red stone. But then you look beneath. Deos's people, a resilient and warlike society of aliens referred to as the Xan, live in the subterranean networks winding through the bowels of the planet. Food and water can't withstand the perpetual glare of the sun, therefore, it thrives in the shade. Light is provided through the wealth of bioluminescent organisms that have adapted to Deos's terrain, food is collected from the insectoid c