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Clanluna

Chapter 112: Ceban’s Clan

Harry Potter is owned by JK Rowling
Earth’s Children is owned by Jean Auel

NOTE: In retrospect, I should have started a new fic when I jumped ahead to begin the Mara/Mariza storyline. And now that I’m approaching page 20, I realize that I will not be able to finish the story as one unit.
At the same time, I am being nibbled by a pair of plot bunnies: Zariz’s new Clan and Maeba’s new Clan. So I’m going to go ahead a start a new thread.

For those of you who are new. This is a continuation of Clanluna.

Here is some background information:
This story was cannon EC until the mog-urs’ ceremony. When Creb’s mind contacted Ayla’s they were both changed, turning them in the worlds first Wizard and first Witch. Creb saw in Ayla’s future memories a world without the Clan, but he saw a way for the Clan to continue. Creb had Ayla pull Luna back into the past.

Luna is from from a world that in almost the cannon Harry Potter world up to the end of book 7 with a few minor changes. She has been stuck in the past for decades.

Major Characters:

Luna - Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter series. Mated Creb and later Thonlan. She is the only one in the world who can transfigure things into future artifacts like iron cooking pots. She has created a variety of magical creatures some of which are domesticated. All Weeches (Witches) are descended matrilineally from Either Luna or Ayla.

Ayla - Ayla from EC series. All Weeches descended from her are trained as medicine women. The world’s most skilled potions Mistress

Thonlan - Thonolan from Valley of the Horses. Luna resurected him, but he is stuck at 17 years old until he dies again, or Luna dies, or she releases him.

Iga - After joining Luna’s Clan, Iga founded the religion that reveres Luna as a goddess. All Weeches are currently trained to be priestesses of Luna at the same time that are learning magic.

Zeen - Son of Luna and Creb. All Weez-urs (Wizards) are descended patrilineally from him. (and ultimately, Creb) He is more Skilled with Charms than anyone else in the world. And makes the worlds best brooms, wands and portkeys. He is currently The Mog-Ur. All Weez-urs are trained as mog-urs.

Mara - Oldest daughter of Luna and Thonlan. The World’s first Dark Lady. She is currently building an army in her guise as Gaea, Goddess of the Sungaea. The world’s most skilled at Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Wilmara - Daughter of Mara, Grandaughter of Luna and Thonlan, Is a lesbian virgin who has not taken a mate. she has a unicorn, instead.

Mariza - Daughter of Ayla and Dyondar (Jondolar) The world’s most skilled at Care of Magical (and non magical) creatures. Is a Lesbian and mated to 5 women, some of whom have male mates.

Zariz - Son of Mariza, Grandson of Luna, Creb, Ayla, and Jondolar. Is skilled in every magical art. Trained as a Medicine man.

Vezava - mated to Mariza. founder of the religion that reveres Mariza as a goddess.

Đučaviča - mated to Mariza, mother of Đoroči, sister of Đelđuma

Đelđuma - mate of Zariz, Sister of Đučaviča.

Ceban - son of Zeen. Is more Clan than any Weez-ur since Creb. Has partial Clan memories derived from Zeen and Creb. Has started a Clan of similar men with Clan mates.

Maeba - daughter of Luna and Ranec.

At the begining of Each page of the thread will be a Clan list. Story chapters will be further down the thread.


I will now go back a few years to the Maeba subplot

Chapter 112: Ceban’s Clan

Harry Potter is owned by JK Rowling
Earth’s Children is owned by Jean Auel

It was a nice Autumn day, so 13-year old Maeba had taken her basket out to gather some late growing herbs. Spotting a gurdy bush, Maeba pulled her wand from behind her ear and pointed at the planet.

“Fodere!” shouted Maeba, as a yellow ray shot out of her wand and started to push the dig away from the roots of the plant.

“Miba?” said a man’s voice.

Maeba turned to see Ceban, one of her mother’s students from another clan. He was 3/4 Clan and everyone knew that he was somehow different than any Weez-ur. It wasn’t just that he couldn’t pronounce all the sounds of the Languages of the Others. He also had partial Clan memories. More than any Other Weez-ur.

“It’s Maeba,” corrected the girl. “Ma-ee-ba”

“Maa-iiii-ba, Maaa-eee-ba” struggled Ceban. “Maaeeeba, Maeba”

“This man would like to speak with you” signed Ceban.

“What does Ceban want to speak of,” signed Maeba, back at him.

“Zeen has urged this man to start his own Clan,” replied Ceban. “This Clan would be a Clan for Weez-urs like this man. We would only take Clan women as mates. So that the children of our Clan would be more Clan than this man.”

“This girl has heard about this,” signed Maeba. Knowing that Ceban could not speak in languages of the Others. She was using Clan signs with him to be polite.

“The problem with Zeen’s plan is that the mates of Weez-ur’s usually only have Weez-ur children.” signed Ceban. “Any woman may have a child that is a Weez-ur. But Weeches only come from mothers who are Weeches. If we want our Clan tp have both Weez-urs and Weeches, we need a Clan woman who is a Weech. This man just finished a changing things learning with Luna. She was teaching about changing people. This man thinks that if a Weech were to be changed into a Clan woman, then our problem would be solved.”

“So you want this girl to be Transfigured into a Clan woman and mate you?” Signed Maeba, before switching to English. “Hmmm. So I would be the first Clan Weech? That would certainly make me unique. I’m getting tired of being one of the many daughters of the Luna, anyway.”

“If this girl did as you ask, would she have to behave as a proper Clan woman?” Signed Maeba.

“You do not have the memories to act like a Clan woman,” signed Ceban. “And this man”s Clan memories are derived from Zeen. We will be Clan in a new way.”

“If this girl agrees to this, this girl wants some things,” signed Maba. “This girl wants to be a woman-who-hunts. This girl want to continue to be allowed to learn and use magic, if she is able. This girl wants to be our Clan’s Clanluna and Medicine Woman. And this woman wants to right say: No to any man, especially to the Signal.”

Ceban had been nodding his ascent to all her conditions as she made them.

“I”ll tell you what,” said Maeba, switching back to English. “When I become a woman, I will ask for you to perform my 1st Rites. If I like how you treat me, I will consider joining your Clan.

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“Are you sure you want to do this?” asked Luna.
“Yes mother. I’m tired of being yet another daughter of the Luna,” replied Maeba. “It’s why I chose Ceban for my 1st rites.”

“I don’t know what may happen, you could lose your magic!” warned Luna.

“Even if I became the world’s first squib, I would still be unique.” said Maeba. “If you don’t do this for me I’ll get someone else . . . someone who doesn’t have your skill at transfiguration.”

“All right, but if you change your mind, remember: the longer you stay that way, the harder it will be to change your back.” explained Luna, before waving her wand in a silent transfiguration.

When Luna was done, Maeba’s coloration have not changed. She still had Ranec’s black hair and Luna’ gray eyes. Her skin tone was still a tan, halfway between her parents. But her shape had changed a lot. She had become a woman of the Clan.

“How do you feel?” asked Luna.

“t eels rang,” said Maeba. “el ats od. Not ben ab to pek Engi il tak som get sed to.”

“What?” asked Luna.

“This woman said it feels not-Clan.” signed Maeba. “Not being able to speak like the Others will take some getting used to.”

“This is what I foresaw,” said Luna. “Since you can’t speak spoken languages any more, you can’t say the incantations. If you don’t learn to cast silently, you’ll have lost the ability to use a wand. So let’s give it a try. I want you to hear the incantation in your mind as you try to cast a levitation charm.”

Maeba concentrated for a moment, then swished and flicked her wand. . . . nothing happened.

“It’s all right,” assured Luna. “Try again.”

Again Maeba concentrated, before swishing and flicking her wand. Luna started rising into the air.

“You did it” cried Luna, before stretching out in mid-air. “Now I think I’ll just take a little nap.”

Further testing showed that Maeba now had Clan memories . . . of Luna and her mothers before her. Anything Luna, or her Matrilineal ancestors had leaned up until the time of conception, was now easy for her to learn. She just need to be reminded. New things, however, were hard for her to learn. Maeba decided it to remain fully Clan and was mated to Groom.


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Ceban had gathered the future members of his Clan together. All of the men, like him, were 3/4 Clan. None of them could speak the languages of the Others. And they all had partial Clan memories derived from Zeen and Creb. Ceban’s mate Oga, and Groom’s mate, Maeba were fully Clan. Žorvnaž and Zorv were both Weez-urs and had just become adults. But neither of them was old enough to begin their magical training. Ceban and persuaded them to leave their Clan and move here a year early.

“This man wishes to express regret that you two were unable to find mates this summer,” signed Ceban. “Groom and I have discussed you with our mates and have agreed that you don’t need to ask permission if you want to Relieve your Needs with one of our mates.”

The men all nodded at this. Their memories of how a good mate should act were strongest of Zeen’s mates, especially Griga.

“The clanlunae will still be available if you need them also,” signed Maeba. “This woman will begin her Clanluna training this year, so this woman can be our Clan’s clanluna.”

“You will also be our Medicine Woman unless we can get someone better,” mused Ceban. “When looking for mates next summer, you two should try to either get a daughter of Ayla to agree to be transformed like Maeba, or we should try to get a Clan woman from the line of Ayla’s Clan sister, Uba.”

“Until then, this man and Ceban will be sharing a hearth,” signed Groom. “And we invite you to join with us. Oga and Maeba will perform your women’s tasks that you can’t remember how to do for yourself.”

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The next Winter, Maeba had her first child, a daughter.
At the next Summer Gathering, Žorvnaž and Zorv found mates. But there was a third Clan woman who needed a mate. Ceban took her as his 2nd mate. Now that they had enough women, Maeba was given the Signal much less often by the other men besides her mate, Groom. Maeba was missing the attention. She had found that she actually liked it when there were fewer women, and the men had to share her and Oga.

A year later, Broogran and his mate, Oda joined their proto-clan. This was also the year that Maeba finished her training, both as a Weech and a Clanluna. She was Broogran’s redfoot before he was mated. Maeba had found it difficult to learn things that Luna or her ancestors didn’t know. So she had been able to learn more than most Weeches, but she had not been able to handle the advanced potions. Ayla rejected her as a potential Medicine woman. Maeba was disapointed. She’d tried so hard to learn potions. But she kept getting flashes of Luna trying to make potions while a greasy haired man screamed in her face. And if Maeba pushed herself too hard to learn potions, she have flashbacks to the time when Luna had been Forced before 1st Rites by a man wearing a skull mask. Still, Maeba knew as much as Luna did about Herbalogy.
Clanluna training had been a challenge too. Some parts of it were Easy, especially techiques to enhance the Sharing of Pleasures. Apparently, at least one of Luna’s ancestors had been some sort of Priestess that was similar to a clanluna. The hard part was learning the rules of being a clanluna. Some of them came easy. Many of Luna’s ancestors had prohibitions against Sharing Pleasures with your parents, children, siblings or yourself. But other things were hard to remember. The idea that Relieving your own Needs was selfish, was not something Maeba had the memories for.

The next winter brought Maeba’s second child, a son.
At the end of the next Summer Gathering, a new couple joined them. Doon and Doova were mated and joined them.

“Many (3) new clans are forming,” signed Ceban. “This man thinks that it is time that we left too.”

“But what about our magic training?” signed Broogran, who had just started learning Astronomy this summer.

“This man has now finished his magical training, and Maeba finished a year ago.” signed Ceban. “The two of us can train you both. And this man has learned how to make wands and brooms.”

“The methods used to train people of the Clan in Magic are different, anyway,” signed Maeba. “The Others do not have the memories for magic. They have to put their memories in books. With us, we just need to be reminded. Ceban and this Weech can teach you.”

“Where will we go?” signed Doon.

“This man has seen a memory,” signed Ceban. “A memory of a cave that an ancestral Clan lived in, A cave with an overhanging rock. We will journey there to make our home.

“This man has also seen that memory,” signed Zorv. “It would make our journey shorter if we left the Summer Gathering with Mariza’s clan.”

After riding the portkey back with Mariza’s Hufflepuff clan, Mariza offered to hold a Mother festival for the visiting clan, but Ceban declined. He didn’t want to delay their journey and was afraid the men of the Others totems would defeat the women’s of his Clan.

And so, they set out on their voyage. Before they left, Esathonia had recited the most basic Zelandonii words and their meanings to them so that if they met any, they would understand. One recitation was enough for the Clan women, and the 3/4 Clan men would retain quite a bit of what they had heard.

When Ceban started leading his Clan, the Clan women, quickly fell into place behind Maeba. She and the men had been walking all together in a group. But the Clan women had memories that provided a definite protocol about their order of travel. Seeing them act like this, reactivated some memories in the men and soon the group was walking in a line by rank, with the men is front and the women behind Maeba. The Cave Bears, one for each man, ambled along behind the group at their own pace, foraging as they went. Sometimes one or more of the bears would fall behind, then race to catch up. An Owl, rested on Maeba’s shoulder. It would hunt tonight, unless someone used it to send a message.

The group was able to travel much lighter because all their possessions had been shrunk down. Even before they’d left, everyone in the Clan wore Clan-style wraps when the weather was warmer. Maeba was dressed that way now, with a fur tied around her hip and her upper half bare. She’d tried hunting that way once after she had been transformed into a woman of the Clan. But even that young, she had developed enough that she found running uncomfortable. So, when hunting in the warm weather, Maeba wore a summer-dress that offered her support. With the owl digging its’ claws into her, Maeba was thinking she’d need to wear it for traveling too. She needed some kind of protection for her shoulder. Perhaps she’d modifiy the carrying sling she was using to hold her son in. Maeba, and everyone else had winter leggings, tunics and parkas packed away. But, Maeba knew she was the only one with the memories to make more of them. When their current ones wore out, they would be wearing Clan-style wraps in the winter too, unless Maeba made them something.

All of the women except Maeba and Grega had come from either Durc’s Flamel Clan or its’ daughter clan, Myrdyn. So they were already used to a more Clan lifestyle than Maeba was. But without people of the Others around, the women were pushing them more and more to act Clan. It surprised Maeba how quickly they were changing to a real Clan. More like, going back to being Clan. The memories of the women were stronger than their current life experiences. The Clan women didn’t quite know what to make of Maeba. She didn’t have the same memories as them. Their memories didn’t know what to do with a female religious figure or a female using magic or a woman-who-hunts. Their current life experiences made it a little easier to deal with. And they could deal with Maeba being the Medicine Woman. But mostly, they treated Maeba like one of the men. They did what she commanded them to, waited on her, sometimes they even tried to anticipate her needs. Maeba wondered what would happen if she gave one of them the Signal. They’d probably submit and try to Relieve her Need. Maeba enjoyed Pleasures with women. Gaining Clan memories of her mother, Luna, who was as mated to Ayla as she was to Thonlan, had opened her mind to the possibility. And her several months long relationship with Wilmara, which had begun when the girl asked her help in using Pleasures to charge a Rune, had confirmed that Maeb did, indeed, enjoy Pleasures with both men and women. But she wouldn’t want to command a Clan woman who felt she was compelled to obey to Relieve her Needs. That would be too much like Forcing a woman. So at Summer Gatherings, she’d go “hunting” with various women.

This summer, Ceban had confronted her about it. Let her know in no uncertain terms that she was not to allow a woman of the Others to defeat her totem. That if ANY woman of his clan had a baby that was not Clan enough, that baby would NOT be accepted. Maeba almost left his clan right then! . . . But it was too late . . . She had been Clan too long to be changed back. Maeba remembered how people had stared at her when she was first transformed . . . how members of other clans STILL stared at her. So she stayed where she was. Mariza had promised her a stork once they were trained. But Maeba knew it would break her heart to give up one of her children. If she ever wanted a woman to “hunt” with outside of the Summer Gatherings, she’d have to find someone like her: a woman of the Others who had been transfigured into a woman of the Clan. Thus far, she had not talked anyone into it. None of Ayla’s daughters wanted to give up magic for her. But she knew Groom would be open to the idea. Although the men only had partial Clan memories, their memories were derived from Zeen. And it was his memories that guided them in how to treat their mates and how their mates should act. While the other women pushed Maeba and the men to be more properly Clan, the men pushed the women to act more like Zeen’s mates. This is why the men had been so willing to give each other permanent permission to Signal their mates when there were not enough Clan women for everyone to have a mate, and why it continued now that there were enough women. Usually men did stick with their own mates. But if their mate were not available, they would use another mates mate to Relieve their Needs. And Maeba, the clanluna with Clan memories of the Others, fit their preconceptions about how a woman should act. By now, Maeba was well aware that all of the men considered her the most attractive of all the women.

Maeba had, by now, gotten to know them well enough to realize that the men had slightly different memories derived from Zeen telling them how an idea mate should act. Ceban’s and Zorv’s memories of Jukičva were strongest. Groom’s were of Đišič, and Žorvnaž’ were of Griga. Maeba wasn’t certain who the other two mem remembered best. But it was clear from their behavior that they thought Maeba was the sexiest woman in their clan.

And so the women treated Maeba as an outsider because she wasn’t a proper Clan woman. And the men treated Maeba as an outsider because they were more interested in “hunting” with her than actual hunting with her.

As the afternoon waned, Ceban signaled a halt to set up camp for the night. Maeba was the only woman with a tipi, the other women had Clan-style lean-to’s with hide covers. Ceban, Maeba and Groom enlarged all the women’s shrunken possessions, and women started setting up camp, while the men tried to hunt up some fresh meat. Maeba silently waved her wand as the tipi poles danced into formation tied themselves together and the cover levitated in to place and pinned itself. She them went inside and began organizing their bedding and possessions. Although she wasn’t good enough in potions to take the last two years and officially become a Medicine Woman, Maeba had been taught healing as part of her clanluna training. Some clanlunae, like Maeba, were the only healers in their clan. Ceban and Groom knew potions as well as Maeba. But she had two more years of Herbalogy training than them. And before she left, Ayla had given her a supply of potions that were too complex for Maeba to make for herself.

Maeba had just finished feeding her son, Greeb, again when her mate, Groom entered the tipi with a pair of rabbits he’s stunned with his wand before breaking their necks. Maeba used a silent flesh cutting charm to skin and dress the rabbits before adding them to vegetable stew she had boiling in a wooden bowl. She cast another heating charm on the contents of the bowl to help it continue to simmer. Her daughter, Mooba had gathered most of the vegetables used in the stew during the day as they walked. At three years old, the Clan Weech was more like a 6-year-old girl of the Others.

Once she’d fed her family and put them to bed. (The owl was out hunting and Groom’s Cave bear was sleeping just outside the tipi entrance hole) Maeba and Grooms crawled into the furs together for a good night’s sleep. . . . . After Relieving each others Needs . . .








Ravenclaw Clan of the Clanluna list

Ceban Fmr (17) – ¾ Clan son of Eba, Weez-Ur, N: C,T,D,R, Cr,
---Oga Fmr (15) – Clan daughter of Bona, Ceban’s mate
------fMeb fMr (6) – ¾ Clan Oga’s son, Weez-ur
------ fmr (3) - Clan, Oga’s son, Weez-ur
------ fmr (0) - Clan, Oga’s son, Weez-ur
---Gregra Ar (10) – Clan, daughter of Grooga, Ceban’s 2nd mate
------ Ar (1) - Clan, Gregra’s son, Weez-ur

Groom Fr (16) – ¾ Clan, Grooga’s son, Weez-ur
---Maeba Ar (18) – Clan, (former Other), (Black hair, gray eyes) Luna’s Daughter, Weech, Groom’s mate, N:C,T,D,H,R,Cr,Div
------Mooba Ar (3) - Clan, Maeba’s daughter, Weech
------Greeb Ar (0) - Clan, Maeba’s son, Weez-ur

Žorvnaž Fr (14) – ¾ Clan son of Borvna, Weez-ur
---Grorvma Fmr (11) – Clan, Cruma’s daughter
------ fmr (4) - Clan, Grorvma’s son, Weez-ur
------ fmr (1) - Clan, Grorvma’s son, Weez-ur


Zorv Fmr (14) ¾ Clan, Cruma’s Son, Weez-Ur
---Bora fr (10) – Clan daughter of Borvna, Zorv’s mate
------ fr (1) - Clan, Bora’s son, Weez-ur


Broogran Ar (11) – ¾ Clan, Grooga’s son, Weez-Ur
---Oda Fr (8) – Clan, Groogra’s daughter
------ fr (0) - Clan, Oda’s son, Weez-Ur

Doon Fr (10) – ¾ Clan, son of Oova, Weez-Ur
---Doova Fr (7) – Clan, Oova’s daughter, Doon’s mate


---------various Cave bears
---------Owl