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It's a fantasy setting, not a real world depiction. The tribes in the story don't exist, just like the "bloodthirsty Dukes of the North" or any other fictional group created to serve a theme or aesthetic. In fantasy, everything is exaggerated or idealized to fit the story's tone and worldbuilding. It's not meant to represent or comment on any real culture, but to explore an imagined one.

-basically just fetishizing indigenous men as "uncivilized and barbaric"
-mixing multiple cultural clothing
-main character is small, petite, delicate, with a small frame ..dude fuck this lmao