Steel Wing Tribe

This is one of the three largest Qasoinae tribes in the Endless Expanse they have just over 100 people in the tribe mostly adults of fighting age and skill they tend to stick to the trade routes between Carthorka and Zilcan preying on the caravans travelling the Expanse relying on the resources this provides to supplement that which the desert provides. They keep their numbers down so as to remain mobile and avoid attempts by Carthokian and Zilcan forces to try and eradicate them.

There is a smaller clan called the Gifted Wing which moves around a lot more than the steel wing but the two tribes have an agreement that as women from the Steel Wing become pregnant they move to the Gifted Wing to have the child and for them and the child to be looked after, until they return to the Steel Wing. In return the Steel Wing supply the Gifted Wing and ensures that they have as much protection as the Steel wing can provide.

The tribe believe that they greatest evil is in the world is slavery and that to free people from it or to over throw those who oppress others with it should be the goal of all sentient life. The problem is that people to the north and south don't seem to agree with the tribe, its too profitable too empowering, the tribe believe that the only way the Carthorkians or Zilcanians will learn is through force. They have to make it more of a painful to continue than it is profitable as is, the tribe, even all of the tribes together don't have anywhere near the capacity to do any real damage in Carthoka and those of Zilcan would recover form any loses and just return angrier. The tribe take all of the slaves they can from caravans and occasionally by raiding out of the Expanse, nearly always this is done by force, but in the last few years the tribe has grown more and more cautious only attacking less well guarded caravans and refusing to leave the Expanse. This is possibly due to a large attack which went poorly loosing the tribe a few people but resulting in a retaliation from Carthorka that then caused many more casualties amongst the tribe including Arlayna Zallamin the wife of the Folmar Zallamin the head of the Steel Wings, some of the tribes men say that this broke his spirit, while other have been complain for a while about his cautious nature and the futility of fighting their battle, as no matter how many slaves they free there seem to always be more and even stopping the caravans has limited effects as he tribe have to watch airships flying overhead almost defiantly transporting or at least operated by slaves they can't possibly save.