TRIBES of the AMAZON

"Information regarding the tribes of the Amazon."

WAKAHO TRIBE

Scattered in groups of 100 in both North and Southern corners about 100 miles in the Amazon Forest are the Wakaho Tribe, uniquely and strangely diverse. Generally, the Wakaho natives are an extremely hostile tribe, but remain hidden unless their territory is crossed or hunting for food. Why? The Wakaho tribe are a family of inbred cannibals. Only when a male or female captured; rather than eaten, is within the tribe will there be a difference in bloodlines.

Men: Primarily headhunters; tribal members who seek out living and breathing human beings for cannibal consumption, sent to track unwilling victims with poison darted blow guns from snake or spider venom and nurotoxin darts, to decapitate their head clean from shoulders and return the body to tribal members.

Women: Primarily the defenders and warriors of their tribes homestead within the Amazon. Capable of birthing children, and very much encouraged to, but not required. Women not of the Wakaho's original tribe, but favored for existance rather than food, are given a choice to either remain loyal in their tribe as a female warrior and birth their children, or be eaten.

Children: In tribal eyes, every child is born a Wakaho, with no fear or degradation, shame and purity. In their own words, "they play with their waste like they play with their toys." Still fed off the breasts of their mother's, but will normally have a weaker immune system from such a fixation of the raw meat diet. Some infants and children don't even live beyond the age of 6 months. Beyond the age of 6, they're pressured by moral obligations and societal taboos to become someone who fears everything in life. However, children who come across their tribe are forbidden to consume, and are coaxed within the tribe with open arms. Wakaho children are extremely valued, even praised.

Belief's and Superstitions: The Wakaho are an extremely superstitious tribe, much in common like the Witoto, though their belief's are driven in a more darker sense. They give praise and human corpses as offerings to their Yucatec deity, Hunhau. Wakaho will degrade themselves in the ritual process and perform the complete opposite of what others consider to be moral and right, cleansing. After beheading their meal, the heads are placed like trophies upon spears, which are then stuck into earth's soil surrounding the tribe's territory for sacrificial and defensive purposes. These 'memento's' are wards, hailing warning to caution trespassers in staying far away or returning from which they had came. There is a belief that the shrunken heads or bone skulls of their past victims are said to withold dark magical properties (still, in this world there is no such thing as 'magic') used for voodoo shaman liturgy. These heads are not only wards, but the direct connection to their spiritual contact with ill spirited dead. It's also rumored that as the heads naturally mummify over time, spirits walk ancestral grounds.

Landscape: Vastly expanding forestry, waterfalls of rapid nature and historic ruin settlements supply the Wakaho Tribes domicile. The stone build windows and establishments make for confined shadow dwelling spaces and tunnels; it's maze-like architecture built into many of the surrounding mountains and hills. It leaves them concealed for the majority of their lifespan, hidden away and seen only when wanting to be seen, alas making proficient patrol routes without risking the element of surprise. Approximately a mile from these ruins are bone graveyards, where their dead rest in peace-- surrounding that graveyard and the outskirts of their claimed territory are the piked decapitated heads of their captives, warding intruders, adventurers and even nocturnal animals who pose meaningful threats to turn away now or advance at your own risk.

Just realize that you may in fact be risking your own life; though that goes for any tribe in the unpredictable Amazon.