Why does Arroyo use tribal motifs and rituals if it was founded by vault dwellers?

[SnapSlav]

That's not a stretch at all, really. Have you ever seen poor Russians that lived in the USSR? They may be 25 but they look twice that age. If a woman who has to scavenge the wastes with her scant tribe to survive, basically like a feral animal, ends up looking like a withered and scarred husk by 54 I'm not the least bit surprised. That, combined with any number of wasteland hazards, including the magical mutating radiation, could cover the rest of the bases as far as appearance goes. Plus talking heads have always been more artistic/stylish than strictly realistic.

My point wasn't that it wasn't realistic, my point was that it was the MOST unrealistic aspect of Arroyo. Meaning, if one thing that one such as yourself can clearly rationalize is the worst thing, then the rest is clearly perfectly fine. And yet it's the rest that people seem to hang onto, for some strange reason.

Makes me wonder why y'all don't go to such lengths to cover Beth's shit writing

Ignoring the "all" half of the "you all" slang you used... that's assuming I alone haven't torn it apart, just to pass the time. Ultimately, we all reach a point where something is such an easy target, we just don't bother aiming for it anymore. Breathing is enough to hit it, so going about our business, and paying attention to what actually matters, tends to be MORE than sufficient to shit all over their..... efforts. XD

 

[zegh8578]

Actually, VERY few tribal communities on earth use trial-temples anymore. Or any, ever :0

 

[Oppen]

Actually, VERY few tribal communities on earth use trial-temples anymore. Or any, ever :0

Well, that's obviously because of the current shortage on giant ants and scorpions.

 

[PossibleCabbage]

Actually, VERY few tribal communities on earth use trial-temples anymore. Or any, ever :0

The inhabitants of Arroyo probably based the idea on some oral tradition of relaying the stories of holovids some of their ancestors watched in Vault 13.

 

[zegh8578]

Actually, VERY few tribal communities on earth use trial-temples anymore. Or any, ever :0

The inhabitants of Arroyo probably based the idea on some oral tradition of relaying the stories of holovids some of their ancestors watched in Vault 13.

I don't have a problem with it, I was just poking fun at the presumption that everything about Arroyo is so deeply tribal, OP specifically included "temple of trials" as a tribalistic detail, while I am pointing out that although we might associate it with tribalism through Indiana Jones movies and such, there are no real tribes that construct these kinds of over-complex monuments... One would wonder, how often do they even use it?

 

[Magnus]

Actually, VERY few tribal communities on earth use trial-temples anymore. Or any, ever :0

The inhabitants of Arroyo probably based the idea on some oral tradition of relaying the stories of holovids some of their ancestors watched in Vault 13.

I don't have a problem with it, I was just poking fun at the presumption that everything about Arroyo is so deeply tribal, OP specifically included "temple of trials" as a tribalistic detail, while I am pointing out that although we might associate it with tribalism through Indiana Jones movies and such, there are no real tribes that construct these kinds of over-complex monuments... One would wonder, how often do they even use it?

Well, there's the Ggantija (not a typo) temple in Malta, which was built at a time when humans didn't even have agriculture. Bet you anything they filled it with scorpions and snakes and used it as a temple of trials.