Oh; sorry !Serena wrote:What's the next question?
Next: What major contemporary real-world city would someone from your conculture feel most comfortable in?
Oh; sorry !Serena wrote:What's the next question?
Well, since Hanilians are a fictional people largely based on Ancient Greek People and the fictional Athene saves most of the real-life Athene, they would certainly be comfortable there :)Yačay256 wrote:Next: What major contemporary real-world city would someone from your conculture feel most comfortable in?
I've never posted in this part of the forum before.Serena wrote:Next: Tell a fairy tale / short story that is typical of your conpeople.
The Mej people revere lions, but otherwise have little interaction with cats in their present setting, only coming into contact with smaller wildcats or lynxes when travelling in Maxna territories, where they're well regarded for their ferocity (I am debating adding a kind of animism/totemism to the Maxna culture, but for now, there's nothing spiritual going on here).DesEsseintes wrote:Next: Do your conpeople like or dislike cats? Is there any symbolism or superstition surrounding cats in your conculture?
The primary deity of the Tè Jĕhnò is the sky goddess Ká, and it is believed that malign spirits can't long endure her gaze under the open sky. They are believed, therefore, to lurk in caves, disused shelters, and other out-of-the-way covered places, and that to enter such a place runs the risk of incurring a curse or illness. Those who willingly enter or explore such places are considered suspect, as they may be witches seeking the power to curse their enemies.Ànradh wrote:Next: What are some of the common superstitions held by typical members of your concultures?
Keyali society doesn't revolve much around money, it rather revolves around classes. For example the knights, who are one of the higher rank classes, are propertyless and yet are worthier of respect than merchant, who are barely one step above farmers and yet are fairly richer, even richer than politicians and guardians.CatDoom wrote:Next: How is the accumulation of wealth regarded in your conculture? Are the wealthy and those who pursue material success particularly respected or resented?
This is a recipe for a revolution. Power and prestige and wealth typically all correlate (whether or not they should correlate, I leave aside for now); when they don't, trouble is likely to ensue, and usually does if the disconnect is big enough and lasts long enough.Serena wrote:... the knights, who are one of the higher rank classes, are propertyless and yet are worthier of respect than merchant, who are barely one step above farmers and yet are fairly richer, even richer than politicians and guardians...
Generally, in the place where the Proto-Amutetikam people live, the people is divided into tribes, mainly nomadic, with many horses. Effectively, a delegation made up of traders and merchants ride out to the rendezvous point (usually a sacred place, such as a religious temple or a place where a vexillum has been planted) and both delegations would set up camp. All trading would go on for a week, when each group would depart with the leaders performing a special 'handshake', called an akεlas.Serena wrote:Keyali society doesn't revolve much around money, it rather revolves around classes. For example the knights, who are one of the higher rank classes, are propertyless and yet are worthier of respect than merchant, who are barely one step above farmers and yet are fairly richer, even richer than politicians and guardians.CatDoom wrote:Next: How is the accumulation of wealth regarded in your conculture? Are the wealthy and those who pursue material success particularly respected or resented?
Next: How does your conpeople trade?
The people of the Alliance mainly live on Orbitals. The most common way to travel is through the "Overside", a series of tubes found under the surface of an Orbital (and thus on the outer side of the Orbital). They transport trains and private pods in a vacuum at high speeds to various parts of the Orbital.Felbah wrote:Next: How do your conpeople travel?
Sometimes, in the forests of the Proto-Amutetikam, people pick every type of fruit they can find. Once that happens, they bring the fruits to a shrine where they pray over them. Then they wrap them in leaves and put them back into the shrine.cntrational wrote:The people of the Alliance mainly live on Orbitals. The most common way to travel is through the "Overside", a series of tubes found under the surface of an Orbital (and thus on the outer side of the Orbital). They transport trains and private pods in a vacuum at high speeds to various parts of the Orbital.Felbah wrote:Next: How do your conpeople travel?
Due to the sheer size of the Orbital, even the fastest Overside tube would take a week to take you to the other side. Thus rapid transport between distant sections of Orbitals is done by small spaceships, launched from the rimwalls.
Orbitals contain more standard forms of transport for pleasure and sightseeing, of course, like trains, planes, or volants (flying cars).
Interstellar and interplanetary travel can be done on small spaceships, but most Alliance travellers use Ships, kilometers long spaceships. Travel between the sections of the Ship is done through an elaborate tube system which takes you to different sections of the Ship.
Since Ships can't dock to planets, being too big, they send smaller shuttles to handle matters.
Next question: what is the favored drink of your conculture, other than water?
Felbah wrote:Next: Your conpeople's favourite activity.
There is no legal concept of the freedom of speech among the Madenak, so one must carefully weigh how important what one has to say is against how likely it is to anger those with power. Mostly the concern would be local, and whether the matriarch of your House would decide to punish you, and her decision may be effected by the other heads of houses in your town or village, so unless you're from a powerful family, it's best not to speak too boldly.Serena wrote: Νεχτ: How is freedom of speech handled in your conpeople?
Quite large. Given that safir reach adulthood at 16 and live for 450 years, it's not uncommon for multiple generations of descendants to live together.FeralJay wrote:Next: What is the typical family structure for your conpeople?
The most visible ethnical conflict across the Hanilian Empire is not racial but rather religious/philosophical. Rejecting Vis metaphysics and promoting blasfemous concepts such as creationism and monotheism is largely regarded as a good reason to burn down your village and have sex with your sister.Carl Miller wrote:Next: What's the largest/most visible racial conflict in your conculture?
I bet this was already covered earlier. If so: resurrectio nekuia! If not - just have at it, then.next: How closely related do you have to be to someone in your conworld for it to be incest?
Ok, then.Ahzoh wrote:Clearly; Lam mentions something about ressurection.Serena wrote:Is that in the quote the next question? :/
Incest is forbidden only between a female and a male and if the female is a generatrix. Otherwise it's perfectly safe and practised, because non-generatrix females (eg warriors and merchants) are not allowed to reproduce and usually don't have sex with males at all. In Keyali small villages, most of the population comes from a short number of generatrices and a large number of different fathers, it's not extremely rare to have a sibling / first cousin lover. Siblings don't grow up with the awareness of being siblings, anyway: having the same generatrix is like having the same hair color to them (sometimes they don't even know which woman of the village is their actual generatrix), and this is why romance between biological siblings is not seen as weird or perverted.Next: How closely related do you have to be to someone in your conworld for it to be incest?
Maxna clans are headed by a chief, who is elected from the clan’s elite class, formed from the politically powerful or rich, those with military achievement or those with a strong magical bloodline. The position is held until death or until the chief chooses to step down, and it may only be held by men. The chief is styled as ‘The <clan name>’ so the chief of ‘Clan Black’ would be entitled to be addressed as ‘The Black’.next: How closely related do you have to be to someone in your conworld for it to be incest?