The Nonist Cult/Nine Tribes of White
The Nonists were the descendants of the Lowbreeds, a slave cast among the bottom ranks of the Cast Mutants who lived secluded in their habitation structures out in the Dome Fields. When rogue artificial intelligence collapsed the Cast Mutants' society from the inside out shortly after Dridi Mindele fled the Dome Fields, the Lowbreeds were spared a fate of retaliation by the ma y intelligent machines their masters built and were cast out into the Great Pashtar desert to roam endlessly until they could find a homeland said to be filled with their brethren. The Lowbreeds, who later became known as the Nine Tribes or Nonists, settled just northeast of the Gost region, taking residence on the edges of the expansive jungles south of the Great Pashtar desert and in the deserts just east of the Pryas range. The Nonists were lead for a time by the machines they serviced and even backed during the android uprising at the DOme Fields, being taught and guided on how to survive in the outside world, the world that the Cast Mutants struggled to keep out for so long. But when those greatly intelligent and seemingly benevolent machines eventually fell silent into ruin, the Nonists became reclusive in their homelands. Nine machines had lead nine original expeditions into the habitable lands of southern Mua. And nine machines had become like gods to the Nonists who saw any attempt to reach the heights of technological advance that bred such a cruel power structure like that of the Dome Lands as blasphemy and doom incarnate. So the Nonists adopted a moderate primitivist belief system, remaining in their own self-perpetuating pre-industrial ages for thousands of years. Even when firearms had become commonplace in the lands of Gost, the Nonists moved their goalposts just far enough that only the elite warrior classes of their various cultures were permitted by their theocracy to wield handcrafted single-shot rifles made of tempered iron and lumber. At their latest stage of limited development, the Nonists had moved into an age of tactical, minimalist black powder usage, making javelin-launching mortars, pipe rifles, and smoke bombs to name just a few of the rare advanced technologies the cult allowed their members to wield.
Because of the Jew-Esque theocratic heritage-based cultural ties that bound the Nonists to their tribes, it was rare that one could call themselves a tribesman of the nin but not a Nonist and vice-versa. The label of Nonist became for a time much like that of Muslim. It was an at time clunky and politically fueled label for anyone descended from the Lowbreeds.
Commonly noted for their lighter hair colors and skin tones, some mistakenly roped the Nonists in with the descendants of Doruk who carried some semblance of a recessive gene which gave them as well a pale completion. But in late ages, the descendants of Doruk had long since lost such a genetic trait, their ancestry only showing in the odd child born with Doruk's extremely mild lip cleft. And soon the connection between Doruk and the misnomers surrounding the Nonists began to fade as the people who'd once been known as RInglanders and Pale Savages became revealed as their own nation apart from the likes of the new mankind that called Mua home.
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