Veteran Gargun: The Gargun who survived the swarming are now hardened and scar covered veterans with high skills (for Hyeka standards) and good equipment. They enjoy a privileged position in the tribe. Twenty of them serve as captains, each leading a group of roughly a dozen younger Gargun. The rest form the king's guard.

They usually wear a plate or ring helmet in addition to a mail hauberk and leather boots.

Most of the veteran Hyeka warriors wear a leather cap reinforced with iron strips, a studded leather tunic (both counts as ring armor) and leather calf boots. The ruling elite of the Cindra tribe wear better armor, usually a plate helmet and a mail shirt over a leather tunic.