Just a bit of a side doodle for fun as I've been doing a lot of diving into Livestock herding, pastoralism and what it can actually look like. Been reading about cultures in Afghanistan and Iran namely, with a revisiting to Reindeer herding amongst the Sami as well as the lost practices of the people of the Taimyr. And my mind wound up wandering a bit to the ol Logáu and a few concepts I wanted to do.

so without getting into too big of a concept dump

1) These folks are known as Javaso of central Logáu. Far enough North of the heart, Cedunla, to only know them as a vague concept but not so far north as to be in the tropics. They live in the Central spine, a great and complex mountain range that cuts the climate of Logáu into two distinct halves.

Here is the map for those curious: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52521004/

Western Logáu is dry, Eastern Logáu is far more wet, and these guys sit right on the mountain range that cuts through Logáu.
That mountain range itself is both very craggy, high peaks and elevations with stark valleys cutting through it. But it is also Very volcanic which makes it a wealth of minerals and verdant wildlife. There are many places where lava flows are known to ooze down the volcanic peaks.
and often explode when they hit unlucky mana pools

2) As for the Javasoáun, they are a seminomadic pastoralist people, with about 1100 of them wandering up and down the mountains. Their livestock of choice is a herd bird of the mountains that they refer to as Laúmpader or literally "Jump Mountainers" or better said, Mountain Jumpers.
These Laúmpader birds have been tamed and somewhat domesticated over the 100+ years that the sivilão descendant drekir have spent living on this mountain and are essentially their path to feeding their dens. Laúmpader are herbivores with a tendency towards stubborn, woody shrubs they can and do get herded across a lot of environments cycle to cycle. They won't eat anything but they will eat anything ranging from a woody shrub to small tree branches. It works for em. The Laúmpader also provide most of the things their herders would want. Their feathers are not built for flying and, with some labor to remove and twist the feather fibers together, they can and do weave a well insulative cloth that can be a bit stubborn to dye, its something similar to Jute if not more insulative. Of course also food, with the Laúmpader providing their meat from time to time, though most of the food they provide is in the form of their eggs and their blood. The blood is often gathered by puncturing a small hole in their neck near an artery, collecting some blood, plugging that hole up and giving the animal some water (Similar to Massai practices in the real world). Lastly while their beaks and bones aren't useful for tools, they are often used in the making of small pieces of portable art, small musical instruments, or small pins.

The rest of Javaso subsistence is mostly through opportunistic hunting and gathering, with their foraging focusing mostly on fruits, vegetables, and fungi, as well as with trading with ormer communities in some of the mountainous valleys as well as along the foothills of the great mountain range for vegetables and pseudograins, most commonly a western Logáu succulent that produces a lot of seeds. They also tend to trade with some more sedentary insecultural groups in the mountain valleys known as the Põga whom they share a language with... though their relationships sometimes do get complicated
Their material culture tends to focus on obsidian and basalt bifacial technologies, due to the ease of finding fine grained basalt and obsidian in the area they tend to focus on small, though hafted bifacial knives, axes, adzes, and projectile points of obsidian and basalt. Additionally as Bronze and Copper move in slowly from the Northern mountain tribes, they too would start adopting metal tools and metallurgical techniques around the 40sPA (or 33 logáun cycles). Bronze and copper would slowly replace stone as the material namely for their woodworking tools, with obsidian still being prized for skinning animals and cutting plants for many centuries.

They do also make small, needlelike obsidian bifaces for puncturing the necks of their birds, almost like very fine drillbits, for getting a bit of blood from their birds in as safe a way as possible.

Now while they do hunt, they aren't particularly dedicated hunters, their hunting is opportunistic more than dedicated and so they don't have particularly specialized hunting weapons. Rather most of the things they kill are things that are various predators, tirndar sprinting gators. large roving spiders and other animals causing problems for their livestock. So the weapons they tend to employ for those purposes are one of two types of staff slings, one is the classical example of a sling on a stick, the sling would be usually woven of the same feathers they get from their birds of course. They also do make specialized fletched darts with a loop on the back end, particularly heavy up front, that can also be flung with respectable accuracy from their staves that are more for killing larger animals. Usually the staff slings are tools of herding above all, though as I said they do sometimes use them to hunt opportunistically
And of course when easy to anger Põga and Javaso fights turn into brawls into skirmishes once ceremonial conflict resolution breaks down, they are known to lob some big rocks

They are also an aceramic people, they know of and trade for ceramics namely for cookware, but don't make it themselves. Usually they tend to rely on woven cloth bags for most of their work, with the occasional baskets and chitin containers employed as needed, often traded from the Põga (when things are going well with them)
As expected, they do practice a lot of cloth weaving, often using stakes in the ground at their seasonal campsites to construct various sizes of loom to weave everything from their small clan demarking trora that they wear over their head and on their ears, to thick mats that they use to build their shelters
their shelters are of a sort of wigwam dome shelter, with layers of mats and blankets piled on top and fixed into place on a wooden frame

3) Javasoáun culture and social organization is a bit distinct as they go out of their way to construct multibreed dens. Thanks to the ranges of their herding taking them up and down the East and West halves of the Spine, they often get exposed to distinctly alpine, arid, and temperate biomes.

Usually the Extremely arid and scraggly high desert mountainous foothills of the west, and the extremely wet temperate rainforest of the east, with alpine batholiths between.

Most clans have communal hatcheries, generally located in mountain caves that can be reliably kept warm. These communal hatcheries are a bit more than just hatcheries, they are places for people of a whole clan to meet, socialize, organize, conduct political and social business, etc. but of course its where they bring their eggs that were most certainly laid from all over, where they often mix and organize eggs according to the climates they were laid in, ensuring to the best of their ability that different generations of drekir hatch with as mixed a set of denmates as possible.

A lot of this goes into their perspectives of animism, having a fairly dracocentric™️ view of the world, seeing themselves and the breeds they appear as to be manifestations of will from the inanimate earth.

They associate arid drekir with the wind and heat, Temperate with the water and earth, and Alpine with the sun and cold.

They can all give you heat or take it away, but amongst each den each collection of each breed is seen as the authority on trying to work with the animistic world around them through a variety of songs that are barked and howled by those packs of 'breedmates'
As for the hatchlings that become those dens, with each hot and cold year (Logáu has 220 odd days of hot and cold "years"), the clan agrees on one or more dens to care for the hatchery whilst the rest get to continue along herding. With those herding drekir having an obligation to help supply the hatchery with supplies.

with those one or more dens being given around 220 days worth of working to clean, feed, and raise the younglings and impart on them a bit of wisdom before mercifully being allowed back on the trails. This cycle of course helps keep the kids on the up and up, but it also helps by taking herders out of their pastoral routes which gives time for areas to recover
Lastly of course, the Javasoáun drekir do interact with their neighbors, namely the Põga which again,

Some years the relationships are good and friendly and trade is plentiful, sometimes things are tense and sometimes things are violent. It's a bit inconsistent.

though more consistently they maintain good relations with a variety of orm communities farming around the mountain range, trading meat, bird eggs and feathercloth for things like cactus seed flour, fruits, vegetables, and sometimes a hand getting a large lizard to break open a basalt boulder for some nice obsidian nodules hidden within

Regardless, enjoy the bird herd and the bird herd herders!