The Tribe of Diira

Last updated Aug 24, 2025

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The Diira were a late neolithic tribe of semi-nomadic minikin native to the mediterranean regions of southern Tseireph in the 2nd realm, belonging to the Nethic culture. They had light brown skin and lacked much hair, with an eye colour of hazel. They lived in matriarchal communities and spoke a language reconstructed as Proto-Nethic.

The Diira lived in familial, migratory comunities led by a matriarchal elder woman who would command, judge, represent, and aid the group in survival and diplomacy. Eunuch shamans would also lead each group in worship, following a form of polytheistic animism.

Diiran society saw people categorised into 3 genders; men, women, and a third non-binary gender termed as Eunuchs¹. Women often assumed roles as flock keepers, guardians of children, and leaders; while men often wove clothing, sowed wild seeds, and performed hard labour. Eunuchs were seen as being in-between the two other genders, bridging the gap between them, and took on roles as philosophers, strategists, innovators, and spiritual leaders.

The Diira were semi-nomadic pastoralist hunter-gatherers, travelling and settling in and across the various areas of southern Tseireph. They lived in huts made of sticks and animal hide, where the families would sleep and rest, and would settle in an area if it proved to have an advantageous amount of food, such as fruit, vegetables, cereals, and small prey animals.

Some Diiran groups would settle in a certain area, find a good amount of plants, and leave not once they and their flocks had exhausted the area; rather they would leave some left, so the ecosystem could regrow. This developed into a form of proto-farming that eventually involved the spreading of seeds, annual harvests, and agriculture. This practice would go on to influence many Bronze-Age agricultural civilisations such as Neth and Sarvara.