Statification Part 1

The people of Yankari had slowly become more and more advanced, with the budding city of Mbingu growing and growing and the creation of Orisi forges across the land. People from all walks of life in Mbingu begun to pick up the use of Orisi in a very peculiar way, they would sharpen the metal into a stick that could be used to do very primitive etchings onto clay tablets. These clay tablets started off being used by traders who were trying to record how many goods or owned livestock they have. They were initially clay tags that could be wrapped around livestock so that all know who it belongs too. The tablets had crude etchings on them that represented different numbers, names, or even animals. Not only were these pictograms used by the traders and merchants, but also warriors who wished to depict grand battles or how many slain enemies they had. The etchings became common place and were incredibly primitive, but the pictogram nature of them helped communication improve.

The benefits of improved communication not only helps connect the city in more ways than one, but also has helped create a caste of proto-scribes that clearly understood the pictograms. These proto-scribes were almost exclusively made up of the Mburai caste, for who controlled the knowledge controlled the world. With the Mburai being the only ones able to write the pictograms, it's clear that all business and traders would have to go through them to conduct any form of trade. As everyone has to go through the Mburai their power only increased, giving them more control over the lives of who they considered to be inferior. As the administration gets more and more centralised, more of life in Mbingu and to a lesser degree in Yankari became increasingly more directed by the Mburai and the gap between master and slave only grew further.