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This page provides access to information about Horadir, the tribal range of the Hodiri. The Hodiri are one of the tribal nations detailed in HarnMaster Barbarians.

Horadir lies to the south of Chybisa, and west of Melderyn & Solora. Horadir falls within Melderyn's Dyriamarch, but it is the home of the Hodiri, a nomadic horse-people. (For more information on Dyriamarch see Edward Dewe's site.)

The total Hodiri population of Horadir is 25,204. There are 82 Hodiri tribes, with between 60 and 300 male members per tribe (120 - 600 people all told)¹. These tribes have roughly the following distribution (in terms of size):

• tribes with around 120 persons - 15 tribes; the Katchi-hodiri.
• tribes with around 240 persons - 27 tribes; the Jagunsagrai-hodiri.
• tribes with around 360 persons - 24 tribes; also considered Jagunsagrai-hodiri.
• tribes with around 480 persons - 11 tribes; the Uge-hodiri.
• the largest tribes, with around 600 persons - 5 tribes; the Kitu-hodiri.

The Hodiri range covers nearly 90 hexes, or over 12,000 sq. miles. Each tribe has both a summer (northern) and winter (southern) range, with migrations in spring & autumn.The Solori share the Hodiri ranges in the southeast, although they have traditionally moved back across the Soleno river in winter, when the Hodiri return from their summer ranges. The Chymak also maintain seasonal fishing camps on the southern coast, and trade with the Hodiri.

Jherdela's confederation of three tribes (the Kituguri, Qaraeni, and Boratan) have their summer range in the fertile lands of hexes 42 & 43, and their winter range on the coast in hexes 80, 89 & 90. Their fierce rivals, the Urtiguri, have their summer range in hex 32, and winter just north of Patrel in hex 66.

The Dugeai horseclan (summer range hex 2) engage in annual trade with the Chybisans, trading horses for a variety of goods, particularly steel weapons. Their rivals in this trade are the Temuhi, who have an arrangement with the Miners' Guild who operate an iron mine in their summer range (hex 7).

1. The Hodiri article in HarnMaster Barbarians states that there are 82 tribes, with between 30 and 300 members, but it also states that there are over 25,000 Hodiri. Even if every tribe had 300 members, this would still be less than 25,000. The solution proposed here is that the canon statement refers only to the male members of the tribe, thus doubling the range for the size of the tribes to between 120 and 600 members each.

This map indicates the northern summer ranges of the tribes that have been identified so far. Intrepid travelers amongst the Hodiri continue to provide us with reports - but this is by no means an entirely safe proposition...

Even more recent reports indicate the following are the general locations of the horseclans' winter ranges. Note the close proximity of Jherdela's Confederation's summer range to the Straights of Indatha, and the overlapping of the winter ranges of the eastern-most tribes with the lands of the Solori.

References & Sources:

HarnMaster Barbarians - Hodiri (Columbia Games)
Warriors of the Steppe (Hildinger, De Capo, 1997)
 

Settlement models for steppe confederacies (http://talgar.sbc.edu/settlement.html)
Pastoral nomadism (http://drlee.org/mongol/r45.html)
Present day herd size in Mongolia (see http://www.economics.ucr.edu/papers/02-02.pdf)

Period Mongolian Names (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/baras-aghur/mongolian.html)
Hunnic-Bulgar words (http://www.geocities.com/kutriguri/body_language.html)