Editing Primordial Evolution Game/Nad'lun (section)

==Technology==
[[Image:Nad'lun Hut.jpg|thumb|left| A Nad'lun Hut]]

They are almost constantly moving, and because of this, they travel lightly. Most equipment is simple to carry and replace using the materials provided by the herd or the environment around them. When the herd stops for rest, the Nad'lun send out hunters and gatherers to seek out additional resources. Even though the herd might have moved out before these scavengers return, they can usually locate it by its signature scent.

Although the hoppas communicate mostly with pheromones that are capable of transferring surprisingly complex information, they also utilize secondary and tertiary forms of communication. They rely heavily on body language to convey messages. While their pheromones transfer the base information about their intent, motivation, and so on, they use their movement to weave this raw date into a coherent story. Their phosphorescent patches on their snouts are also used to alter the tone of the message.

They do utilize vocalization, but in a limited fashion, usually in the form of war cries and warning shrieks. If voice is added to their silent dance, it usually means that the message the hoppa is trying to tell is extremely urgent.

Hoppas are somewhat artistic. They utilize body-paints, but music is a foreign concept to them. Their hearing is quite poor, as their ancestors evolved to sense vibrations trough the ground rather than the air. The small hairs in their toes still serve this purpose.

They lack any sort of written language, and are unlikely to develop one easily, as their language is extremely complex, carrying hundreds of different tones for the same concepts, which can significantly alter the meaning of their dance. Because they innately understand the basics of their language, they are unlikely to see the necessity to write or teach it. Although curious, the tribal hoppa society and nomadic lifestyle doesn't encourage innovation, thus they are quite technologically stagnant.

As a people, the tribal hoppas love pouches and strings. Easy to attach to their tentacles and legs. Easy to carry stuff around. Apart from these pouches, the tribal hoppas have yet to develop much more advanced clothing.

Nad'lun huts are simple shelters that are easy to transport on the backs of the Mega Hoppas. They are made from leather and supported by either bones or wooden poles. The Nad'lun build these shelters when the herd occasionally stops.

One day, a young Nad'lun child got too close to the river and was almost washed away. Luckily for the child, he was saved by an ingenious older hoppa, who used a large piece of Yantar bark to float in the water, so that he could reach the child. This gave the the tribe an idea of further developing these floating crafts, so that they might traverse the river easier. Nad'Lun discovered Simple Boats! They now can travel along the river and the coast. That old Hoppa sparked some interesting ideas, and soon the Nad'Lun tied up Frila barks and made them waterproof using burnt Hrass paste. The Nad'lun use their boats to explore both the downstream and the upstream of the great river. They also try to use the boats for fishing.

===Nad’lun tools===
[[Image:Nad'lun Tools.jpg|thumb|right| Nad'lun Tools]]
The scent staffs are used by the herders. They are mostly ritualistic, as the dried up pheromone bladders of the other hoppas serve mainly as religious symbols, although freshly taken, they still emit the base pheromones of the hoppa breed it belongs to, allowing the user to mask his own scent with them.

As the herders become more experienced, their staffs are made more elaborate. The staffs used by the shamans were originally scent staffs too.

The various bladed tools of the Nad'lun are made mostly from wood and the beaks of the other hoppas, or stones. Some of them are used for hunting and fishing, others are mainly weapons and some are all purpose tools.

The Nad'lun use slings and bolas to fight and hunt from a distance. They are quite accurate and the killing power of their rocks is spectacular.

The dried scent bladders of other hoppas are religiously important objects for the Nad'lun. They are often used in rituals and carried around tied to their arms or in bracelets.

The bright colored orbs are harvested from the eyes of the other hoppas. They are the hard translucent shells that both protect the sensitive sight organs inside of them and focus the light waves to them. Over these orbs is the topmost hard lens, that collect the light and bend the light to the innermost orbs.

The orbs are also religious totems, that are thought to bring luck.