What’s Your Clan? – Wolf Brother

First, we need to know your name. It can be your real name, or the name you'd like to be known by.

Your name:

WHAT MOON WERE YOU BORN UNDER?

First we need to know your Birth Moon.

Moons in Torak’s time aren’t fixed to specific dates, the way our calendar months are; they change with the moon. Pick your own Birth Moon from the list below:

Jan – Sun-Wake Moon
Feb – Willow Grouse Moon/ Moon of Green Snow (*)
Mar – Moon of Roaring Rivers
Apr – Birchblood Moon
May – Moon of the Salmon Run
Jun – Moon of No Dark
Jul – Cloudberry Moon
Aug – Moon of Green Ashseed
Sep – Moon of Roaring Stags
Oct – Blackthorn Moon
Nov – Moon of Red Willow
Dec – Moon of Long Dark

(*) NB - If you are born in the first half of February you’re born under the Willow Grouse Moon. If you are born in the second half of February you are born under the Moon of Green Snow. However, if you are born in the middle you can take your pick!

Now choose your Birth Moon...

Sun-Wake Moon

Willow Grouse Moon

Moon of Green Snow

Moon of Roaring Rivers

Birchblood Moon

Moon of the Salmon Run

Moon of No Dark

Cloudberry Moon

Moon of Green Ashseed

Moon of Roaring Stags

Blackthorn Moon

Moon of Red Willow

Moon of Long Dark

Question 1 of 8

SHELTER

It is a cold, crisp morning. Members from each clan have started arriving at the mouth of the Elk River. Everyone knows that the first rule of camping is never to leave it too late to build a shelter. It’s time to build yours. What does your shelter look like? Click one...

An open-fronted shelter with a reindeer-hide roof sloping down to the ground. A cross-beam across the top deflects smoke from the fire in front of the shelter, and traps the warmth inside.

Built on a forest of log stilts over water, with wooden platforms on top bearing squat, domed reed shelters.

Humped grey seal hides over a whale-rib frame.

One large shelter of reindeer hide stained green. Everyone in your clan sleeps inside.

One large humped shelter of black and white seal hide; everyone in your clan sleeps inside. This is your clan’s summer/autumn shelter; the winter one is made of snow, but Elk River isn’t far enough north.

Several sleds propped together and draped with reindeer hides which are weighted with stones. This is only a temporary shelter as you’re too tired to make a more lasting one.

Question 2 of 8

TRADING

Now the shelters are made, people begin to lay out items to trade. You walk through the camp marvelling at the different treasures. You have an old knife to trade, what do you swap it for?

Necklace of reindeer teeth.

Beaver tooth knife.

Blue flint knife with kelp handle.

Soap made of ash mixed with burnt green bracken.

A small swansfoot pouch made from scaly feet skin, with the claws still attached.

Amulet of smoky crystal.

Question 3 of 8

FOOD

As you walk around your stomach starts to rumble. There are so many new smells from foods that you have never tasted before. What will you decide to eat?

Auroch-gut sausage with a delicious mix of marrow fat, blood and crushed hazelnut.

Reed-pollen cakes with stewed trout and bog mushrooms.

Baked marshmallow roots, grey seal stew and chewy dried cod.

Roast wood pigeons with flatcakes of crushed hazelnuts and pine pollen, covered in honey.

Sweet mash of seal fat and cloudberries with whale skin and frozen seal.

Stewed willow grouse with reindeer marrow and tongues, mashed cloudberries and heather tea.

Question 4 of 8

SKILLS

You are surrounded by so many new people from different clans, each of them skilled in different things according to their way of life. You see them exchanging tips and advice and want to join in. What skills do you have to share?

Hunting and tracking with stealth and respect.

Weaving reeds to create beautiful mats, clothes and boats.

Building the best skinboats that skim the waves perfectly.

An unsurpassed knowledge and affinity with your surroundings enabling you to forage for the best materials to make tools and clothes.

Driving dogsleds faster and more skilfully than any other clan.

Scaling rock faces with speed and agility.

Question 5 of 8

BOATS

You have built a shelter, traded, shared your skills and sampled some amazing new food. Now it’s time to play. Someone calls, ‘first to the other edge of the riverbank wins some forest horse meat!’. Everyone runs to their boats, hopping in and paddling frantically. Quick - choose a boat and join the fun:

A deer-hide canoe over a willow frame, lashed together with spruce root.

A reed boat curved at the prow and stern, like a waterbird.

A long, slender, very light skinboat made of grey seal hide, covered at prow and stern.

A light canoe of reindeer rawhide.

A big sturdy skinboat of dehaired seal hide over a whalebone frame.

Smaller, rounded reindeer hide craft.

Question 6 of 8

CLAN-TATTOOS

Your day has been exciting but dusk is now falling. As the moon starts to rise, it is time for you to prepare for the night-time gathering of the clans. You look at your name-soul in a puddle. What clan-tattoos do you see?

Three fine blue-black bars on your cheekbones.

Undulating blue-green waves up your throat.

Wavy blue tattoos on your calves if you’re a girl; on your arms if you’re a boy.

A small black cloven hoof on your forehead.

A broad black band across your nose.

Thirteen small red dots in a ring on your forehead.

Question 7 of 8

CLOTHES

Having checked your clan-tattoos, you check your clothes. After a long day spent exploring and trading, you need to dust them off and repair any holes. You are ready! Now as you check your name-soul in a puddle, what clothes are you wearing?

A deer-hide parka and leggings with beaver-hide boots.

A silvery fishskin jerkin and leggings, fringed at neck, hem and sleeves to look like reeds. Your earlobes are pierced by tiny carved bone fish hooks.

Grey seal-hide clothes with a light see-through gutskin parka on top; your long hair is beaded with tiny shells and fishbones.

A roe deer buckskin jerkin and leggings lined with hare fur; elk-hide boots; a supple cape of woven nettlestem.

A silver sealskin parka and leggings, boots of dehaired seal hide criss-crossed with braided sinew.

A reindeer-hide parka and leggings, lined with felted musk-ox wool. White feathers tied to the tip of your hood.

Question 8 of 8