Proud Warrior Race
The Proud Warrior Race is a fairly common archetype in speculative fiction for various civilizations and cultures, both sci-fi and fantasy. The basic idea is based (and this must be stressed, very loosely) on a variety of IRL cultures like the Vikings, Sengoku era Japan, medieval Knights, Spartans, Mongols and certain Native American tribes such as the Apaches. In any case what they have in common is this...
- Placing extreme value on marshal prowess and master of combat techniques. One should dedicate one's life towards mastering combat.
- A veneration of heroic figures, often by oral record.
- Position in this society is generally dictated by being the best fighter one way or another.
- A strong and strict code of honour outlines the life of a Warrior, especially in combat.
- An attitude towards death that's at the very least accepting and usually glorifies dying in Honorable combat. Often to the point that it's disgraceful to simply fade away in a hospital bed.
- A decentralized society with power divided over small tightly knit sub-groups (often familial) which often fight with each other for position.
- A societal reverence towards war at the expense of other aspects of their society (economic, commercial, scientific, cultural, etc).
- A tendency to tie shoehorn these warrior attitudes into every aspect of their culture.
Problems
The biggest problem with this outlook is that
Examples
- Green Martians in John Carter of Mars
- Klingons in Star Trek: probably the most well known incarnation.
- Sangheili in Halo
- The Clans in BattleTech
- Orcs often fall into this trope.
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