Taluna roleplay is tricky: Everyone compares us with Panthers, applies Panther rules, Panther roleplay to Sa Jerag Talunas in the jungles of Gor. I USE our full name frequently to remind us: Sa Jerag Talunas in the Jungles of Gor!
The books describe a brief interaction of Tarl with Talunas, and it is also briefly described that Talunas capture people by luring them to the river bank, that they enslaved the Pygmies.
However we know that not even Tarl was safe of the black Ubar and was enslaved by Bila Huruma, the mighty Ubar of tropical Gor. However even Bila Huruma does not have full control of the jungles.Bila Huruma allows the Ukungu region to remain free and not under his hegemony. His realm is not really governable and he may not have cared much about primitive Taluna, Mamba or Pygmie tribes. Even less is known about interactions of Mambas and Talunas.
The term 'by the books' therefore leaves plenty of room for interpretations and might for that reason be misleading. However Bila Huruma, Mambas, Pygmies and Talunas were all hostile towards the northern gorean raiding party. Any gorean entering the jungles would not be prey for all of them. Talunas would try to capture and sell them, Bila Huruma or the Mfalmes ((jungle tribe chiefs)) would capture and enslave them, Mambas would capture and eat them.
http://sa-jerag.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-is-non-and-can-be-deducted-talunas.html
The only safe assumption we can make is that all three kinds of tribes hunted in these jungles: An intruding party of raiders is therefore NOT safe with ANY of them. We can assume they did not form alliances, but we know they all battled any gorean who is not from the jungles. If you are attacked by a half naked male while rading a Taluna tribe, don't come to ME to complain!
Larrrrrrrrrrrrahhhh!!
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