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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gardens &amp; Goblins" data-source="post: 6879624" data-attributes="member: 6846794">I think survive, secure and attempting to ensure peaceful life relations with as many other tribes would be a perfectly humane goal, with skirmish style conflicts occurring over age old grudges and disputes.I was reading an interesting text about tribal societies and from what I understood, most of the conflict was a result of either labelling one group as rivals, due to either their proximity (territorial disputes, as much as for pride as for resources). Meeting a stranger outside of your territory would result in a challenge, an attempt to find common ground (simply having a relation with the same name could suffice). If no common ground could be found, it was assumed that either party was up to no good (raiding/theft/spying) and attacked.For the main, life was lived on a day to day basis. Long term, settling grudges (often the result of misunderstandings, accidents and genuine crimes that could have happened a generation ago) were one driving goal, be it though brutal raids, skirmishes or inviting folks over for a friendly feast and gift exchange. The idea being that often its more cost efficient to settle a dispute amicably, especially if wives and gifts could be gained.Interestingly, the fatalities from conflict were of a much, much higher order than modern conflicts, simply due to the smaller population base, the higher proportion of fighters and the tendency to utterly massacre women and children should a village be caught without its defenders.So, long term goals:- Get revenge- Build or rebuild relations- Securing borders, resources through spying/raiding and what not, which would obviously lead to 'Get Revenge' and 'Rebuild relations. Rinse and repeat and you have a relatively simple and perfectly workable loop for long term goals of a tribal society.</blockquote>

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