The first thing that should be discussed with regard to the hunter-pastoralists of the eastern lowland savannahs of Shorrag is their gender system. Unlike other ansu cultures, including other Shorragite cultures, where only two genders - male and female - are recognized, the hunter-pastoralists recognize a third gender. This, we will refer to as kmo, which is the gender prefix used for this third gender in the savannah dialects of Nahakhontl. Nobody is born as kmo. The status of kmo is offered to girls between the ages of 13 to 15, when children are traditionally initiated into a formal age-grade. However, this status is not offered to just any girl. The girls are watched closely by their mothers, and only those who exhibit more aggression and charisma than their peers are offered to become kmo. While they are allowed to decline, that typically does not happen, as the status of kmo comes with prestige and certain unique freedoms. These freedoms come from how kmo is described as being at once both male and female, and neither. The addition of the male onto the female comes from the kmo's usage of the spear in hunting. In other ansu cultures, the spear is a male weapon. However, in the savannah cultures the spear became relegated to being primarily a hunting weapon. Compare the status of the spear as a basic military weapon in western upland Shorrag. But the spear as both a male weapon and a hunting weapon presents a problem in the savannah cultures, since the women are the hunters. Men do not hunt; they manage their herds of pigs. As such, the spear transitioned to being used by women hunters, but since it still had the old male connotations, these women were also seen as men. This eventually led to the formation of the kmo. Female by birth; male by initiation; neither by their uniqueness. They are chosen for their aggression, since the spear is a melee weapon. They are chosen for their charisma, since they are to lead hunting expeditions. Women are restricted to ranged weaponry, such as the bow and arrow, or throwing weapons. In a typical kmo-led hunting expedition, the women will fire at the animal, and if does not die quickly enough, the kmo will charge and finish it off.

Division of labour in the Shorragite savannah societies is along age and gender lines. Women and kmo hunt; men herd and build; girls gather and watch their mothers; boys help their fathers. Food is not prepared by only one age/gender. Women, girls, and kmo prepare game. Girls also prepare what they forage, and sometimes women do as well, mostly for instructional purposes. Men and boys prepare food from their pigs. This means that most of the food is animal products: milk, blood, and meat. Berries and such that the girls gather are only a supplement.

Marriage in Shorragite savannah societies is based on wealth. For women and kmo, wealth is based on how many and what kinds of animals they have killed in a period of time which can vary from culture to culture but is typically some number of months. For men, it is based on their pig herds. While these are seperate wealth systems, there are ways to compare them. These are important, because a man and woman can typically only get married if they have comparable wealth. Men can and will typically take multiple wives, who will then hunt together. A man will rely on his sons to help with the herding. Women do not take multiple husbands. For the purposes of marriage, a kmo is considered both a man and a woman. Therefore, a kmo can marry both men and women, and have multiple spouses of both of those genders. In addition, a kmo can marry less wealthy people, within a certain range. This means that a kmo can have influence over multiple men's households, in addition to having their own hunting party of wives. This is where the prestige of being kmo comes from, since they can be the centres of large networks of people, and are thus socially important as leaders not just of hunting parties, but of people in general. However, a kmo cannot marry a man or woman who is wealthier than them, nor can they marry another kmo. This serves to curtail the influence of a kmo from becoming too great. But why would a man or woman want to marry a kmo? It does not take much thought to see why men and women would want to marry eachother - men want sons to help them with their pig herds, and the meat from the women's hunting means less need to slaughter their pigs; women want food such as blood and milk that only men can give them; and both want daughters to gather other foods. For men, a kmo spouse is still perfectly able to bear him a son which the kmo has no use for. For women, they would have access to all of their kmo spouse's husbands's households for resources, as well as a hunting party in the kmo and their other wives.