The Jelidiba - Rhythmic Shamans

Jelidiba Silverbells and Duck Bone Pearl used for Decoration and Musical impressions during dance

An old saying of the Ganathor Swamps go as this "If you want trouble then trifle with a Jelidiba, but if you have trouble that needs to go away the Jelidiba can play, sing and dance for you a better tomorrow"

There are a few types of Jelidiba, of which most belong to the Bennieh caste. A Jelidiba uses the rhythm of dance, song and music to expel, rebuke, enforce, unleash, undo and redo spells of any kind, not bound to the spiritual, ancestral, magical, or clerical the Jelidiba can bring great change or great doom to those they perform their mystical music numbers for. 

A Jelidiba can perform alone or more often in a Troop of Jelidiba, one of the troop is then The Lead-Jelidiba, which always is a true Jelidiba of the Bennieh caste, and the others are referred to as Jelidiba Minor. A Jelidiba Minor may or may not be of the Bennieh caste, and sometimes the members of the troop performing as a Jelidiba Minor is not even a true Jelidiba at all but a Lay-Jelidiba that perform roles of the Troop as warrior dancers, clerical chanters, musical instrument players, full dancers or singers. 

Performers that are not of a artistic class like the warrior dancers count as half a Jelidiba minor when counting for combined troop magic, while full artistic performers count as a full Jelidiba minor regardless of their caste rank. Nevertheless if the Lead-Jelidiba is interrupted there is a high change of the spell to fizzle before the rest of the Troop complete it.

Example of a Typical Jelidiba Troop of Nine, with 4 counting as half the spell counter is as for a group of 7 Jelidiba is performing.  The Spells used is always governed by the level of the Lead-Jelidiba, if the Lead-Jelidiba is cut down, paralyzed or stunned, then one of the lesser Jelidiba take over, with a 25% chance of spell fizzle for each level difference between the lesser Jelidiba and the previous Lead-Jelidiba, if the Lead and lesser Jelidiba is of the same level then there is no chance of spell fizzle.  

Typical Nine Troop Jelidiba. 

Lead-Jelidiba Spell-singing, musical instrument/dance. Bennieh caste 1
Jelidiba Minor clerical chanter Bennieh caste (singing) 1 

Jelidiba Minor lesser Jelidiba Bennieh caste (drums/singing) 1 

Jelidiba Minor lesser Jelidiba Bennieh caste (drums/singing) 1 

Jelidiba Minor lesser Jelidiba Bennieh caste (dance/singing) 1 

Jelidiba Minor Dancing Warrior Messieh caste (Sword Dance) 1/2 

Jelidiba Minor Dancing Warrior Messieh caste (Fire Dance) 1/2 

Jelidiba Minor Dancing Warrior Messieh caste (Spear Dance) 1/2 

Jelidiba Minor Dancing Warrior Messieh caste (Kick Dance) 1/2

The Jelidiba wear an outfit of pearls, shells, small duck bones, white and colorful duck feathers, and numerous metal bells, where the Messieh wear 50 bronze bells and 100 duck bones, the Bennieh wear 200 duck bones combined with 50 silver bells and in the few cases of Treskeh Jelidiba troop members which wear no bones only 50 bells of silver and 100 shells. All troop members of a Jelidiba wear the feathers, and a headband made with numerous colorful pearls. The bones and bells are placed on the Jelidiba Troop members legs, and arms. (10 bells each arm, + 15 each leg, and all bones/shells placed in one double band around legs and hip.)