Chapter 2 A Simple Perception of the 'World'
Time passed, and the little troll grew up.
Among the trolls, the bonds of small families do not seem to be very strong. I'm not sure how much time has passed since I can remember, but it's certainly not a short time. The little troll never saw his so-called "father" once, and his mother gradually turned into impatience from the initial care, and disappeared completely from his life not long after weaning.
After the initial inexplicability, the little troll soon found out that everyone was like this. So, I sighed again, 'Is this okay?' After that, he immediately accepted this setting happily. After all, he doesn't really want to be someone else's son again, and his parents only need to have the pair in their previous life.
Of course, the biological mother of this life, he also has to remember his feelings. No matter how you say it, you can suppress your nature, raise yourself to natural weaning, and remember to be grateful in the future. Biological father.... It's better to be a stranger, ah no, a strange troll, after all, I don't know each other.
The topic returns to the troll society, the trolls' care for children is naturally not resigned to fate after weaning, and the little trolls can't withstand this no matter how solid they are.
The children here are raised by the tribe after weaning.
In terms of food alone, when the warriors of the tribe returned from the hunt, they would divide a portion of the harvest and distribute it to children of different ages by the witch doctors until they were old enough to be as tall as the chest of a troll in their prime. During this period, the witch doctors will be responsible for the children's knowledge, and the content of the teaching is not very complicated, from language to common sense, and the teaching is rough and ineffective.
In addition, the food is sufficient. Sometimes, even if the harvest is not very good, in addition to ensuring the rations of the middle-aged soldiers, they will give priority to the children's well-being. As a result, the little trolls who eat meat are extremely energetic, and they have a lot of time to play and play every day when there are almost no learning tasks, which can be called a high-quality childhood.
After extensive study, the little troll understands a lot of things and finds a lot of problems.
First, the place where you live is called the Black Forest. It's a big place, and there is no precedent for the ancestors of the tribe to go out. Of course, it could also be that you went out and didn't come back... The possibilities are many, but the Black Forest is really big.
Second, their own tribe calls itself the 'Tooth Tribe', believing that their fangs are sharper and more beautiful than other troll tribes; It's hard to say whether it's true or not, but it's not surprising that trolls, who generally use fangs as one of the most important indicators of beauty, can boast about themselves.
Third, there are many troll tribes in the vast Black Forest, and there is no solid diplomacy with each other, and it can even be said that there is no such concept as diplomacy. In addition, among the many tribes, the 'Tooth Tribe' is said to be the most powerful, and the warlike chieftains often engage in inter-tribal gladiatorial battles to show their bravery. Of course, this is meaningless in the eyes of the little trolls, everyone gathers and hunts for a living, because they can't afford to raise it, so they can't take the population to strengthen themselves, and there is no food to rob, and every time they win a lot of rags that can only be used to decorate the fangs, what good is it?
Of course, maybe the tribe has its own intentions in doing this, but the little trolls who grew up in modern society don't understand it?
Fourth, the development of tribes is relatively primitive.
This primitive embodiment is: 1. Living in simple wooden houses and using wood, bone, and stone weapons; 2. The stone processing methods are rough, and grinding a spearhead and a small axe is a big project; 3. Gathering and hunting for a living, without the concept of animal husbandry and planting; 4. The use of metal stays in the stage of 'processing' of natural soft metals (vigorously produces miracles, all by kneading to change its shape), and is mainly used as jewelry; 5. There is no means of making fire, and eating raw food.
When it comes to raw food, especially raw meat, the little trolls in particular can't accept it, not physiologically, and it turns out that trolls have no problem eating raw meat at all. It is a psychological inability to receive, and the concepts that have been cultivated in the past life for nearly thirty years are particularly stubborn in this regard.
He had thought of a solution, such as drilling wood to make a fire, which was the only method of making a fire he had heard of other than modern means of making fire.....
However, the wood was almost broken and there was not the slightest flame... I had no choice but to try my best to adjust myself to the environment.
Sixth, the troll tribes, at least the nearby tribes, do not have a systematic script.
When witch doctors teach them, they generally adopt physical teaching. Even if there are occasional things like 'textbooks', the reason is that the corresponding physical objects are not easy to obtain, and can only be drawn into drawings for the convenience of teaching.
He had carefully observed the witch doctors' 'teaching materials', and from time to time there were indeed special symbols.
At first, he thought it was text, but after careful questioning, he found that it was just a simple icon made by the maker to facilitate his memory, and it was not universal and had no communication attributes.
The little troll secretly took note of this and decided to try to develop a writing system when he was older. As for why not bring it up now? There's no complicated reason for it, but I just think that if I ask this question now, I'm likely to get out of my control and evolve a completely unfamiliar and primitive set of things, which is a bit cumbersome to learn.
He was still counting on being able to reproduce a set of Chinese characters, as for how to combine Chinese characters with troll language, he didn't think about it, if it really didn't match, it was not impossible to use Latin alphabet to make a set of phonetic characters.
Anyway, let's talk about it when I get older.
Seventh, the troll tribe does not have a complete concept of the calendar, and the judgment of the time of day is very rudimentary, relying on the experience of the witch doctors for the big seasons, and dividing the small times according to custom.
In the big season, according to the difficulty of obtaining prey, it is divided into 'big hunting' and 'small hunting'. However, there are no rules that can be known consistently, and there is also a concept of direction mixed in, which is not fully used to indicate the season.
For example, before hunting, witch doctors will first perform a set of inexplicable operations, such as smelling the soil, tasting the wind, and observing the lines of leaves. After that, after a period of chattering with the gods, they would come to the conclusion that a certain direction was 'Daikari'. And the warriors of the Horde will go hunting according to this conclusion.
There is a concept of 'day', a cycle of light and darkness is a day, which is called 'day and night'. It's just that the tribe is located in the dense forest and is not very sensitive to sunrise and sunset; And there is no need to be precise.
Therefore, the concept of the cycle of day and night is also quite broad, and it is good to feel it....
As for the concept of 'year, quarter, month, hour, minute, second', it is in a blank state, and basically uses the broad and non-uniform 'units' such as 'a long, long time ago, a little while, a little longer, a little longer, from here to there'.....
There is no calendar, and naturally there is no concept of age.
The growth of the little trolls is narrated in terms of 'calf height, thigh height, lower abdomen height, chest height, shoulder height...' and so on;
Trolls with high calves wean and begin co-parenting; Troll-high trolls who begin to learn warfare or witch doctors; Trolls with a high lower abdomen can start a tough workout; those with high chests learn to hunt with hunting teams; Trolls with high shoulders are barely a full-fledged warrior.
As for the measure, it is usually the modern chieftain, the strongest warrior of the tribe of the same period.
In addition, the gestation period of a female troll is equivalent to the time it takes for a baby troll to grow to the height of a calf.
In a word....
In this series of problems, the little troll overcame many difficulties such as eating raw food and becoming more and more vague about the day, and finally grew to the height of his thighs by relying on the natural skin of the race, and ushered in the tribe's investigation of the qualifications of witch doctors.
It is said that the little trolls who pass through the investigation will have a completely different way of growing.
Although the witch doctors are a little inexplicable, they feel that their social status is not lower than that of the chiefs, and the number is very small... Anyway, the little troll decided to give it a try..... But the little troll who doesn't understand how to test the method doesn't seem to have a clear direction of effort, so he can only wait.