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Taker Tribe

Tribute-takers and hoard-builders, the Taker Tribes are ruled by Kraken-eater mega-gargants with a magpie's eye and a king's sense of entitlement. Settlements in their territory pay whatever the tribe demands — livestock, ale, glittering trinkets — because the alternative is watching a mega-gargant redecorate the coastline. Every Taker's net bulges with the proceeds of a hundred such arrangements.

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The Taker Tribes are the tax-collectors of the gargant world, ruled by Kraken-eater mega-gargants who marry a magpie's eye for anything that glitters to a king's conviction that all of it was always theirs. They stake out a stretch of coastline as their domain and settle into the comfortable business of extortion, and the folk who live there swiftly grasp the arithmetic: pay whatever the giant demands, or watch a mega-gargant rearrange the harbour with its bare hands.

A Taker's greed is total but, in its way, curiously fair. Render the tribute and the giant may loom over your fishing village for years as a ruinous but predictable landlord, wading out to wrestle sea-monsters and hanging its ever-growing plunder from a vast net slung across one shoulder. Refuse, or fall short, and the arrangement ends the only way a gargant knows how.

What the Takers build, in the end, is hoard — sacks and slung nets bulging with the proceeds of a hundred such shakedowns, treasures jumbled together with the utterly worthless by a logic only a gargant follows. To a Taker the hoard is the whole point of being alive: proof of dominion, measure of worth, and a monument to the truth that when something big enough decides it owns you, ownership is a settled question.

Sons of Behemat

Order of battle

The Taker Tribe field the units of the Sons of Behemat — a detachment from the roster:

Kindred formations

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