clan
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Main character Kliff is a member of the Greymanes, a warrior clan whose members are dispersed around the continent by the rival Black Bears.
From BBC
“You go around looking like one of the Tarbox clan,” Tansy said.
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It was how he’d always lived: alone with Fa, away from the clans.
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But what separates it from the crowd of such domestic dramas are the dynamics of the clan.
In one screen narrating the Battle of Yashima, Minamoto clan cavalry descend through a narrow pass to storm a Taira clan fortress.
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