The Silver Fins original founding began after the initial breakaway of tribals, tired of the struggling tribe as it began to increasingly become overburdened by the influx of Water Tribals either willingly or unwillingly merging with the tribe, from the already-large River Men tribe around 2147. These tribals, wanting to differentiate themselves from their River Men former-brethren, garnered their tribe's name from their liberal use of silver-like body paints on their gills and fins - though this paint was naturally in rather short supply as the tribe grew from Water Tribals either unwilling or unable to join the River Men's own march across Louisiana or former River Men ousted from the tribe. The two tribes naturally had a great grudge; skirmishes and hit-and-run attacks on both sides wer