They're there to serve the community geoff, people were a bit more even back then and royality in that way is a more modern concept, careful not to put modern ways of thinking into ancient worlds, tribal leaders were different to royality in as much as you'd have the best warrior, the person who communes with the ancesters, the person who deals with other tribes the best, all these people would be as important as the other, there was once lots of special people in each tribe not just one like now, you may have even been one in a past life : > }