Stories are all anyone is in the end. But even then it's not really the end is it? Especially not back home... enough people know a story, enough people believe, and that story lives again.

[Unfortunately said stories tend to cause all sorts of trouble when they end up with Primals, but that's definitely not the part to talk about here.]

Xaela don't have a written language. All our histories and legends, everything is passed in song and spoken stories. You can tell what tribe someone learned a story from based on how they tell it. The details focused on, if it's a happy tale or a sad one.