TRENOC SOCIAL ORDER

IN MODERN SOCIETY

            The old Trenoc society, that is the world of the small fighting clans before the enlightenment was extremely complex, with each clan having a whole variety of distinct and unique customs, today’s order is quite different. After the enlightenment, and the unity of the major clans, social differences began to disappear with a pretty universal system in place today, though there still remains a little diversity amongst the communities today.

            The keystone behind the Trenoc social order comes right down to their life cycle, and many speculate that many of the original basic beliefs stem directly from biological instruction in the Trenoc proto-society.

            Though in the Trenoc lifecycle, males never gain sentience, they are still respected, though are not treated with the same rights as female Trenoc, they have a status more akin to sacred animals. Occasionally a male might develop into a ‘bull’ or ‘Yannata’, these are particularly revered, being more physically impressive more than intelligent (they are generally twice as large as the adult male, and much stockier, they also reclaim their large erectile frills, and are dappled in marvelous colours).

            Although male population is relatively low to female, by biological bias, the population of males is still quite a burden to Trenoc society, and in past days excess males were sacrificed in special religious rituals, in more modern times pharmacy has helped to reduce males population again, reducing the burden, and it is still regular practice for Trenoc families to trade males, usually to secure political ties.

            Males are also worshipped religiously, though these rituals tend to be simplistic relating to fertility and the production of the land. Also although males are herbivorous grazers, a few are always kept in any particular clan house, though most are entrusted to protectorates out in the deep countryside.

            All infant stages are respected and are effectively sacrosanct, and trading in the infant forms being extremely rare, apart from this the infant form receives very little in terms of ceremony.

            Infant females are nearly always brought into a clan house prior to their transition to breeder stage, the familiarity of other adult forms helps to generate social and intelligent breeder stages, whereas leaving them to develop in the desolate protectorates leads to a more insular development. There are also a very few special communities, the Laekas, generally up in the isolated mountain valleys where some young breeders are sent, and they are raised in a special society, though the consequences of this different rearing are arguable, these secret communities have sourced many of the most important Trenoc. Selection for Laekas comes from a choice of a Laeka protector, who’s job lies in searching for the exceptional or unusually gifted. Though the Laekas provide an ancient and free service, many reared breeders later return as protectors to the Laeka they were raised.

            The female breeder is the most revered stage in Trenoc society, they represent the future of society, all female breeders are rigorously protected by the protector stage (hence the source to their name). Though protectors will by in large deal with other protectors, they also like to spend time with any female clan breeders, this form of contact provides most of the breeder’s education, as very little formal education is set to this stage.

            Sometimes a female breeder might develop a certain characteristic which then boosts them even further in the social order, such features as a red hide, or an unusual mental ability (savant behaviour). All breeders are thought to be symbols of purity and innocence, like humans treat their juveniles, though few breeders have made their mark in history, the stage is intrinsically linked to divinity.

            The female protector stage is the final step in a long lifecycle that finally gives Trenoc society its truly sentient citizens. Amongst themselves the protectors give greatest regard to their eldest, and those in high power (though these two attributes generally go hand in hand, though Trenoc society is not a gerontocracy). The greatest ceremony in this part of the lifecycle is the final emergence from the breeder stage, this celebration symbolizes the emergence of a real mind from the innocence of the breeder stage.

This period is short lasting as these new protectors are sent back and forwards receiving an extensive formal education, and eventually a placement, nearly always in one of the communities local churches (churches perform all the major roles in society from agriculture to government), exceptionally rarely young protectors will take a sabbatical after their education and join one of the few non family based clans and communities (the kinless clans), these groups are often the strongest religious components of the Trenoc churches, or in more recent society have evolved into a type of intelligencia, where the greatest minds have pooled together to form ‘false-families’ (the Valenen most famously).