Tattered Ear Tribe



The Tattered Ear Tribe is the largest of the Nezumi tribes and one of the three tribes to have split off from the Forever-Racing-Tomorrow Tribe. Their main warren, M-atikf'chtr-foo, known as the Great Home, lies within the Shinomen Mori.

History
One of the more notable incidents in the Tattered Ear history was an ill-fated diplomatic encounter with the Sparrow Clan, where the Nezumi present committed a blasphemous breach of etiquette by presenting the clan with a fetish crafted from the thighbone of the Sparrow daimyo's deceased brother. Needless to say, the Tattered Ear representatives had to flee for their lives, and the Sparrow became intense enemies of all Nezumi.

Relations
The Tattered Ear is the tribe that interacts most often with humans, and as such often come into an ideological conflict with other tribes, particularily the Green-Green-White Tribe. Like almost all Nezumi, they have ties to the Crab Clan, but the Tattered Ear also have developed contacts among the Scorpion Clan and the Hare Clan. They also had contacts with the Falcon Clan prior to that clan's dissolution.

Because the Tattered Ear often protect peasants from bandits and Shadowlands beasts, many heimin have come to see them as benevolent creatures and leave offerings to them.