Atun is a member of the Karakhergit minor clan. Her first and so far only appearance is in the "Travels in Calradia" segment of the Bannerlord Digital Companion.
Biography[]
Atun is a young woman that belongs to the Karakhergit nomad tribe and, like all her people, she is proud of her heritage. She spends her days herding cattle between pastures. Due to the declining numbers of Karakhergit and the increasing difficulty in preventing the cattle from wandering into the ever-expanding farmland, she often has to engage in quarrels with settled farmers.
It is unknown when, how, or why she became Istiana's informant but it apparently happened some time during of after the late Emperor Arenicos' reign. The imperial scribe Asaios met her during his tour around Calradia, contacting various informants on Istiana's behalf. He joined Atun's party during their journey between Baltakhand and Odokh. The two developed a good relationship, with Atun telling Asaios about her people's culture.
Some time after they parted ways, Khan Monchug declared war on the Southern Empire and the Karakhergit decided to join the Khuzait war effort, seeking to obtain glory and loot. After the Khuzait besieged and captured the imperial city of Vostrum, Atun met Asaios, who was stuck in the city during the siege, again and the two did some catching up. Asaios proposed to her and, before parting ways yet again, she said she would consider it.
Personality[]
Atun is a proud but kind individual. She cares for her people and the old ways, and is saddened that the already difficult nomadic lifestyle is becoming even more so due to the steppe peoples settling down. She claims that, in the old days when many more clans were nomadic, it was a lot easier for the Karakhergit to find spouses while, nowadays, few settled steppe peoples are willing to send their children to live the hard life on the grasslands. Likewise back in the day, a Karakhergit maiden would not even look at a man until he had slain his first enemy, but she herself nowadays would be willing to settle for a man who has at least injured someone, even though she expects such a marriage to be rocky because, having slain two Khuzait soldiers herself, her potential husband would probably feel inadequate by comparison and would therefore be quarrelsome and engage in excessive drinking.
When asked why the Karakhergit would not settle down like the other tribes, she drew the comparison with an eagle that flies across the skies freely and a rabbit that burrows in the ground, implying her people prefer freedom to farming. She also claims Karakhergit pride is insufferable to other Khuzait clans, bringing up an example of how many proud noyans would return from Monchug's wars, laden with expensive loot, only to face the disappointed and pitying looks of skin-clad Karakhergit.
When Asaios met her the second time, her people had temporarily joined the Khuzait Khanate's war effort against the Southern Empire. When he asked Atun if the eagles developed a taste for burrowing, she replied that the eagles got tired of other clans boasting about their imperial loot and decided to get some of their own.