Editing Horizon Zero Dawn (section)

===Banuk===
Tundra barbarians who live in nomadic groups known as "weraks". They know how to pacify machines by imitating their sounds, and unlike most tribes live ''alongside'' machines, which they revere as spirits of the natural world.

Culturally, the Banuk are very artistic (in the areas of cliff painting and music) and spiritual. Weraks are led by a typical tribal chieftain and the group's best shaman, who uses the "Blue Light" (a metaphor for life itself) to command machines. Banuk are very socially-Darwinist: if you can't survive the ice, it's ''your'' fault and no one should respect you. Even their leadership is based around proving who's the toughest, regardless of ethnicity or leadership ability. They choose to live in arctic regions because they think hypothermia makes them stronger.

For some reason, the Banuk also have better bows and armor than anyone else. Not because it makes sense in lore, but because the game's only DLC pack revolved around them, and offering gamers powerful loot is the best way of making them buy stuff.