The Inhabitants

The Ancient Tribes, the People and the Folk: the inhabitants are just that- they are the beings that inhabit the Shadowlands. Not possessed of any great supernatural powers in the universe of the story, the live and get by as they can. The mechanical beings known as the Songsmiths are inhabitants of the Foglands only, but are frequently better known by the derisive nickname: Toasters. Unique to the City of Glass are the Nobility, those people- exclusively the descendants of the Free Tribes- who joined the Locust King willingly and profited on the death of the other peoples of the Shadowlands.

Last of course, are the Ghostfolk, people who walk through the Bonelands in a stupor and live their lives sleepwalking through the Ghostlands.

  • Learn more about the Tribes
  • Learn more about the Wild Folk
  • Learn more about the Green People
  • Learn more about the Songsmiths
  • Learn more about the Nobility
  • Learn more about the City Folk
  • Learn more about the GhostFolk
  • Learn more about the Freepath Tribes

The Question of the Treaty

The tribes and clans of wild folk and the green peoples will nearly all speak of the treaty if question about law by a psychonaut. Any one of these folk or people may give the treaty and the Psychonaut’s lack of adherence to it as a reason for not speaking with or assisting the psychonaut. A member of the treaty peoples might explain it briefly if pressed. Such an explanation would likely point out that the wild folk contains both predator and prey and that even those amongst the wild Folk who are prey themselves do in fact prey upon the green peoples. The treaty is the agreement whereby the tribes and clans of green peoples and wild folk might deal honorably with one another while still allowing room for natural predation. A fox will hunt a grouse. A goat will feed upon the bushes of many species. But despite this, through adherence to the treaty, goat folk may trade with fox folk and berry persons. The Psychonauts will naturally wonder; may they sign the treaty? And Yes, they may, if they have passed the initiation and endeared the rites of passage and earned the right to call themselves warriors under the Freepath. And foremost Psychonauts fresh to the foglands, is the primary goal.

Notable Figures

  • The Chiefs of the Last Tribes
  • The Chiefs of the Ancient Tribes
  • The Paintbrush Band
  • The 11 Outlaws of Justice!
  • The Vicious Dog Gang
  • The Cinder Scales
  • The Forgotten Dead