ancient clans
Historic family groups
Ancient clans are family-based social groups from the distant past, typically organized around kinship, shared ancestry, and territorial loyalty.
The phrase appears in fantasy fiction, video games, and historical narratives to evoke premodern tribal societies with their own traditions, rivalries, and hierarchies: The ancient clans warred for centuries before uniting against a common enemy.
In gaming contexts, ancient clans often possess lost knowledge or magical abilities.
- tribesAncestral social groups
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- family treeChart of ancestors
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
chieftain · tribal council · tartan · coat of arms · heritage · kinship · feuds · highlands · warriors · elders · honor · loyalty · crest · stronghold · ancestral lands · heirs · gathering · sacred
- Clans
- Prehistoriccave dwellers, Flintstones, Ice Age, cave paintings, Cro-Magnon
- Pictish ScotlandPicts, serpent, boar, carved stones, matrilineal
ancient clanscorporations
Legally incorporated business entities
professional guilds · bureaucracies · civic associations · government agencies · voluntary organizations
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