The Return to The Origin Shore

It was a few years since the death of the First King, Pine. Most of the first warriors were dead as well, and their children forgot of the vow to seek revenge on Starla and the First Village. In a beautiful place besides the sea they settled. The ocean breeze was blowing over the camp, and they could easily catch fish in order to sustain themselves. Nearby on the cliffed shore there were a bunch of caves that were easily accessible most of the time and they could use for cover, but not permanently because the entrance was underwater for eight days every month due to high tides. It was a great place to settle in. They spent a few years there, almost half a lifetime for a grifix, time in which they got used to the nature cycles and built customs upon them. All was great until Yantarka lost herself and her father made them leave to seek for the First Village. But those customs they built back then had not been thrown away. The cycles of the ocean shore will forever guide their journey.

There is a turtle species that visits that shore once every seven years in order to lay eggs. That marks the beginning of the seven-year-calendar for the Lost Tribe. This is a calendar they use to organize their travels, having a couple key-points which mark when and where they should be. Despite the Tribe trying to find something, and therefore trying to cover new places, they still have a couple places they always return to. One of them is the shore they set off from.
The calendar has a year for each of the seven warriors - or so the legend used to say, but every grifix nowadays knows that there are only six First Warriors, so there is one more year in the cycle. That’s why the years are labeled like this, in this order: The Bear Year, The Lizard Year, The Scorpion Year, The Salmon Year, The Owl Year, The Butterfly Year and The Warrior Year.

At the end of the cycle they head back to the Origin Shores, in order to begin the next cycle in the place they started from. Yantarka enters the caves in the cliff right before they are sealed by the tide, and spends eight days there without food or water in order to reconnect with the First Warriors. Most of the times she’s too weakened to get out at the end, so she must be helped by her personal maids from the Starfell Clan, those being the only other grifix allowed to enter the caves, due to their pure blood.

During those eight days, the beach is covered in turtles that come to lay their eggs. The grifix catch each one and engrave tattoos on their shells and paint them with their personal patterns, mostly the same pattern as on their sphirix or their mask. Then they set the turtles free into the ocean. Each grifix hope that they will find their turtle when they return next cycle and that the patterns haven’t faded away. The young grifix often fight over who’s turtle will definitely come back next cycle.
Once the eight days are over and Yantarka returns with a prophecy, the grifix set off once again.

The prophecy Yantarka receives in the cave is gonna determine which way they must travel this time.