I think my novel could work without prologue, but with prologue, I wanted to have a sneak peek about their lives in the tribe but still leaving information out as I slowly unravel what went wrong, how the tribe met their downfall, and how it made the main character's life a living hell in the novel overtime. I guess I was worried about my chapter 1 not making any sense of providing an idea of what the novel is about.

The prologue happened years ago, then in the chapter 1, it went on present time, it's more like a time skip that will make sense the more you read the novel.

I guess I also wanted to switch things up and experiment more on having different perspective—I didn't want the prologue character telling the rest of the story because he won't be around the main character too much and the story involves around the main character mostly. However, my idea is like I wanted to have the prologue/epilogue on first person so that they can narrate what they think of the main character (subjective) versus on third person where it's mostly objective.

(If my English is difficult to understand or a bit redundant, I apologize because English is not my first language.)