Instead individual clans continued to act on their own.

Gurn had suggested a new meeting area outside of any individual clan's village.

Several dozen clans were active at the peak, since its release more than one hundred individual clans have been founded.

There were several such zupa containing the territorial confines of individual clans, which together formed the known tribes.

At first the kabane were administered by individual clans, but eventually they came to be controlled by the Yamato court.

There are also some community based holy places which have unique importance for an individual clan.

The association of particular patterns with individual clans and families can be traced back perhaps one or two centuries.

There were thieves among gypsies, but they were an individual clan and they strictly avoided local criminals.

The devices of the individual clans that made up the Great Clans would have fluttered gaily.

From henceforth, the interests of individual clans would have to take second place to the protection of the Plainfolk.