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Clan Bralor
Warrior-Artisans
Keepers of Tradition
Overview
Clan Bralor is one of the many extended family units that make up the Mandalorian culture. The Clan's formation is a long forgotten element of Mandalorian history. What is known that the Clan came to prominence under the reign of Mandalore the Preserver, with a Field Marshal only known as 'Bralor' becoming the Solyc Al'akaan.
Since then, while Clan Bralor has always been a clan who's fortunes have waxed and waned over the millennia since the Taung's pilgrimage to Mandalore, they have remained stalwart supporters of Mandalores in the past, a sturdy pillar of strength that the reigning Mand'alor could always rely upon. But the Clan itself has always been internally brittle due to it's low population compared to larger clans such as Ordo or Fett. This, however, did not stop the Clan from being hired en masse to wage war in the name of an employer, a practice that persisted even to the Clan's declining years when they could muster no more than a few hundred warriors.
Bralor has always boasted able shock troops and combat engineers among it's ranks, with many of it's warriors taking up artisan skills, such as gunsmith, on top of their skill at arms. While like any Mandalorian Clan in that it's members are scattered far and wide across the breadth of Mandalorian space, the Clan has been oddly centralised in the last few hundred years, with the Clan's fortunes seeing a resurgence after the opening of two new beskar mines in 786ABY and 823ABY respectively, seeing a rebuilding effort for the Clan's ancestral abode, Norg Bral.
Recent History [ 600ABY to 1011ABY ]
The Clan's recent history has been relatively demure, with the Clan staying out of much of the external and internal politics of the Mandalorian people. The Clan's size has shrunk since 856ABY, numbering only a few hundred warriors among it's holdings by 919ABY. As of sixty years before the current date of 1,011ABY, the Clan was a shadow of it's former self from centuries past, with the fortified city of Norg Bral holding very few residents.
When the Sith evicted the Mandalorian Clans from Mandalore, Clan Bralor had scattered and dispersed like leaves in the wind. With the death of Tiral Bralor, the influential Aliit'alor who had held the small clan together throughout his long life, and the few holdings the Clan owned outside of local Mandalore space being raided by lawless pirates, Bralor had fallen to the wayside, it's few members and holdings being abosrbed by the then rising Clan Vencu.
In recent months, with the selection of a new Aliit'alor, Bralor has seen something of a resurgence, letting them stand apart from Clan Vencu's protective shadow. Steadfast and loyal, Bralor stands ready to aid their people find a brighter future.
Clan culture
Clan Bralor has always held true to the classical ideals of Mandalorian culture. Courage, strength through challenge and battle, self improvement through strife and honourable conduct as set down in the Resol'nare and Supercommando Codex, the modernised version of the original Canons of Honour written by the Taung millennia ago.
Ontop of this, under the reign of the last few Aliit'alor's, the Clan had begun to gather the collective history of their culture into one place. Norg Bral became not only a fortified city, but a museum and shrine to the ages past. Relics such as Fenn Shysa's helmet, a mythosaur skull and copies of the Canons of Honour, Dha Werda Verda and the Supercommando Codex were among the collected artifacts. Another 'relic' that the Clan holds onto is the practice of using simple colours to denote rank during battle, with the Clan having adopted the Neo-Crusader practice from ages past. Bralor warriors are highly visible on the battlefield, but this only spurs them on to greater glories.
The Clan also, slowly ( for Mandalorians are ever a stubborn people ) came to adopt the view of the ancient Mandalorian Crusaders, merging it seamlessly with more modern aspects of Mandalorian culture. The Clan came to see war as the ultimate test, the ultimate way to prove yourself to your Aliit and your peers, which coupled with the Clan's habitual mercenary wars, led to a very strong, self confident people who held to strong convictions of self sufficiency and honourable conduct in the field of battle.
Bralor's are universally gregarious, welcoming to all fellow Mandalorians. Their males are reknowned for being honest and level headed, and the females for being equally, if not more, so. The Clan has a wild mix of species in it's ranks, ranging from Humans, to the insectile Verpine and reptillian Trandoshans, to Zabraks and Rodians, the blend of species being more pronounced simply due to the clan's small size.
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