History Characters / HorizonZeroDawnTribes

* TheBrute: He's a big burly fighter and is shown chucking Carja solders about like sacks of flour in issue 1, demonstrating his physical might in conjunction with the chaos wrought amongst them by [[BrainsAndBrawn Dervahls' bombs]]. At the climax of the miniseries, he gets into a physical brawl with Erend and actually overpowers him in a fistfight, requiring Erend to trick him into getting hit by a Longleg's [[MakemeWannaShout sonic boom]] to stun him long enough to gain the upper hand. That said, the events of the miniseries show that whilst he's not as smart as [[EvilGenius Dervahl]], he's ''not'' dumb [[SmarterThanYouLook by any stretch]].

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: After completing his side quest in ''Burning Shores'', he reveals that there's one thing that gets him down; he's ''desperately'' lonely. Aloy tels him that while she might not always be able to be with him, she will always consider him her friend. She also gives him a Focus and introduces him to GAIA so that he'll never be without someone to talk to.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Their capital is on a series of raised platforms built on top of a satellite dish array, all of which are covered in growing plants.

* TreetopTown: Sort of. Their capital, Plainsong, is built atop an ancient satellite array rather than trees, but contains the rope bridges and trappings one would typically expect.

An agrarian tribe, living in the plains between the Carja and Tenakth lands. They were the first to be targeted by the Red Raids. Their homeland is called Plainsong.

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* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Received this and tries to give it. When he followed Zo on her guerilla campaign, the only real advantage that the group had against the Red Raiders was knowing the lay of the land, but this is all they needed for their actions to get the attention of the similarly Red Raid-beset Tenakth tribe's attention. They joined up and got some much-needed combat training from the Tenakth warriors. He tries to instill this in the Riverhymn residents to defend against Regalla's rebels.

* DropTheHammer: Oseram tend to favor using two-handed warhammers as their melee weapon of choice.

* CargoCult: While they primarily worship nature and the Earth itself, they also revere a group of 8 Plowhorn machines as "land-gods."

* ElementalMotifs: Earth and Plants. They revere 8 Land-God Plowhorns who help make their fields fertile and also revere the cycle of life and death. Their buildings are made from plants and they carry seed pouches throughout their life. They are shown to passive and generous but however won't take action against the Derangement and the Blight, feeling that it's the end of the tribe.

* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Received this and tries to give it. When he followed Zo on her guerilla campaign, the only real advantage that the group had against the Red Raiders was knowing the lay of the land, but this is all they needed for their actions to get the attention of the similarly Red Raid-beset Tenakth tribe's attention. They joined up and got some much-needed combat training from the Tenakth warriors. He tries to instill this in the Riverhymn residents to defend against the Regalla rebels.

* {{Irony}}: A snobby authority figure unwilling to tolerate violations in protocol (even pragmatic ones) is caught breaking protocol and thrown in jail.

* MirrorCharacter: He serves as a parallel to Resh. Both are men in positions of authority, with Rheng to the Fleet's End Compliance and with Resh being the interim war-chief of the Nora Tribe. They are extremely bigoted towards Aloy, are arrogant and defiant {{Hate Sink}}s, as well as putting their own weight in their positions of authority towards others.

* FailedASpotCheck: Rheng sent Rokomo to spy on Enki without notifying Gerrit first, which is normally acceptable under Quen protocol. However, as Gerrit furiously points out, this is very much not the case in the midst of a crisis.

* BadBoss: He regularly overwork and underpays his workers, and is not at all hesitant to subject them to dangerous working conditions if it means even a chance at making more Shards.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: He's refusing to allow the Embassy with the Carja to pass through unless the Bristleback issue is resolved.

Ceo's personal Overseer brought along for the Quen expedition.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He understands too well the dire straits his people are in, and has to come to rely heavily on Seyka's indomitable spirit and resourcefulness to get things done despite her maverick attitudes and clashes with [[StateSec Compliance]]. He's willing to overlook Seyka helping herself to the Focus of a fallen Diviner and also to Aloy's status as a "barbarian" in the Quen's eyes since she offers aid to their welfare.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Although biologically human, the Oseram are basically dwarves in all but name. Their defining hobbies are smithing, drinking, arguing, and hitting things with hammers. And they're the best engineers and technicians in the known world, they pepper their speech with blacksmithing terms, their preferred weapons are warhammers and big-ass cannons, they have generally stocky builds, and their entire visual style looks exactly like what you'd expect from stereotypical dwarves in a work of fantasy.

* OddNameOut: In contrast to many of the known tribes who adapted their own naming systems, the Quen are particularly unique for having a strange naming system that are considered non-tribal, with examples including Alva, Kristia, Elika, Bohai, Jomar, Kina, Otosu, Rheng and Rokomo, which were all names derived from extinct Old Ones cultures — Alva being Swedish-sounding, Bohai being Chinese-sounding, Jomar being Portuguese-sounding, Rheng being Vietnamese-sounding, and so forth.

* IronicDeath: Ourea expertly wields a Stormslinger, an electric-based weapon that can be charged that can deal more damage to enemies at the expense of being electrocuted if improperly used. She later dies [[spoiler:after [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing herself]] by purging HEPHAESTUS out and freeing CYAN, before an electrical discharge caused by the former killed her for good.]]

* BeliefMakesYouStpid: His strict adherence to Utaru tradition makes him complacent to the Utaru's looming demise as part of the natural cycle of life and death. As such, he would prefer letting his own people starve over trying to save them.

* IronicDeath: Ourea expertly wields a Stormslinger, an electric-based weapon that can be charged that can deal more damage to enemies at the expense of being electrocuted if improperly used. She later dies [[spoiler:after [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing herself]] by purging HEPHAESTUS out and freeing CYAN, before an electrical discharge caused by the former killed her for good.]]

[[center: [-[[Characters/HorizonZeroDawn Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnTheBaseTeam The Base Team]] ([[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnAloy Aloy]], [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnSylens Sylens]]) | '''Tribes''' ([[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnTheNora The Nora]], [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnTheCarja The Carja]], [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnTheTenakth The Tenakth]]) | [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnMachines Machines]] | [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnOldWorld The Old World]] ([[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnProjectZeroDawn Project Zero Dawn]], [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnTedFaro Ted Faro]], [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnFarZenith Far Zenith]])]]-]