Taipan People

Taipan people refers to the indigenous tribes of the rainforests of the Taipan peninsula.

The rainforest dwellers have preserved their traditional culture due to relative isolation. Attempts by the Long kingdom to subjugate the Taipan people have been rare and met with very limited success due to the difficulty outsiders' have penetrating and navigating the wilderness.

In modern times the main contact between native Taipan and outsiders are with those looking to exploit the regions resources such as timber. As a result most tribes are distrusting and hostile towards outsiders.

The peninsula is home to the most diverse flora in the two kingdoms and the indigenous people have knowledge of plants with various medicinal and psychosomatic qualities.

Given the hot, humid client traditional dress is light--using of dried plant materials and animal skins--and covering no more than is necessary to protect the body from the environment and observe the culture's standard of modesty. Rather than clothes, people use natural dyes to adorn and decorate themselves.

Taipan culture has a rich spiritual and mystical tradition which makes use of elaborate masks and ceremonial costumes and various plant-derived substances including psychotropics. In addition to masks, Taipan produce sculptures that are highly admired and prized.

Little is known about Taipan culture by outsiders: one noted characteristic is the widespread existence of female warriors and warrior queens.

The Taipan language (or closely-related set of languages spoken by different tribes) is in the same broad language family as Long but they differ so greatly that they are wholly mutually unintelligible and non-philologists may not recognize many similarities.