Okwilu

The Okwilu range over southern Pemba, from the Okawala River down to Okalo and west to the ocean; none of them dare enter Awalawa to the east. They are taller than average, light brown, with very curly black or dark brown hair, and the men often redden their hair and beards with ochre. They dress in drab skirts and capes and wear hideous masks of woven straw and beads.

Their ancestors were the Pembans who led the first revolt against Hesperia when its empire was already weakened by strife, and the memory of that victory shapes everything: they remember the Amazons as enemies to be despised. Their hunter-gatherer society is the mirror image of the Avakuli, with men as warrior-hunters and women as chattel slaves. They follow the druidic cult of Og, which arrived long before the Hesperians and was forced underground under Amazon rule for its stress on male virtues. They trade busily with Okalo, which supplies metal weapons in return for ivory and to keep them in their jungles, though raids still happen now and then.