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| *Evolved along similar human lines to being opportunistic omnivores. | *Evolved along similar human lines to being opportunistic omnivores. | ||
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| + | === Notable Drinks === | ||
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| + | ***<fs medium>Ospun Nectar</fs>**\\ The Ospun beetle was semi-domesticated by Ancient Erbians for their nectar nests. The nests are made of a hard wax and half-filled with a sweet honey, and partly filled with brood pockets filled with eggs. In the wild, Ospun beetles will make dozens of small nests over the summer and fall. The adults die over the winter, and then the new beetles will hatch in the brood pockets. The larvae in the brood pockets eat each other, dig through the wax, eat the honey until they develop into adults, and repeat the cycle. Ospun Nectar could be fermented. It has the necessary sugar content. Might be like Tequila though, in that there's a traditional expectation of a 'worm' at the bottom, really just a beetle larva, which would only be present in the sloppy moonshine version of the mead. | ||
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| + | ***<fs medium>Abie Tea</fs>**\\ The old leaves of this near-polar bush are harvested just after the first freeze after the summer months, just before the bush would naturally shed them. The leaves are mashed and the mash frozen in small pucks to be melted into tea. The tea is aromatic and slightly salty, and traditionally served with preserved meat or fish and fresh fruit. | ||
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| + | ***<fs medium>Shieldtop Tea</fs>**\\ This rhizomal herb is harvested, the leaves dried or gently roasted, and the results brewed. The leaves produce a molecule which with the application of heat, bonds with water molecules to produce a mild depressant. While the depressant has no effect on humans or Shil'vati, Erbians and Rakiri experience a high, and a diuretic effect. | ||
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| + | ***<fs medium>Eppaleaf Tea</fs>**\\ This fruiting tree produces a hard fruit with a thin peelable rind and a large pit. The wood of the tree is soft but hardens and darkens to a gray patina with age and exposure to oxygen. The blossoms can also be brewed into an aromatic tea, and were traditionally brewed, sweetened with Eppafruit preserves, and served to children and the infirm as a treatment for sore throats and colds. The tea itself has no properties which make it any more suitable for illness than any other warmed and sweetened beverage. | ||
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| ==== Environmental Preferences ==== | ==== Environmental Preferences ==== | ||
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| *Adaptable to most climates but most comfortable in warm temperate environments. | *Adaptable to most climates but most comfortable in warm temperate environments. | ||
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| ==== Life Cycle ==== | ==== Life Cycle ==== | ||
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| ==== Courtship and Family ==== | ==== Courtship and Family ==== | ||
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| *Familial inheritances and family association are negotiated and agreed upon prior to the finalization of a marriage. Which family name is taken by the couple/polycule, and whether they live alone or reside in Warren provided housing is not dictated by sex.\\ \\ | *Familial inheritances and family association are negotiated and agreed upon prior to the finalization of a marriage. Which family name is taken by the couple/polycule, and whether they live alone or reside in Warren provided housing is not dictated by sex.\\ \\ | ||
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| ===== Culture ===== | ===== Culture ===== | ||
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| ==== Language ==== | ==== Language ==== | ||
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| ==== Clothing ==== | ==== Clothing ==== | ||
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| *In fashion design and production, Myr Warrens regulate fabric and dyes to be natural in origin and decomposition. \\ \\ | *In fashion design and production, Myr Warrens regulate fabric and dyes to be natural in origin and decomposition. \\ \\ | ||
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| ==== Body Modification ==== | ==== Body Modification ==== | ||
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| - | a | + | *Human levels of variety. For tattoos of particular note, see the Religion section below. |
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| ==== Naming Trends ==== | ==== Naming Trends ==== | ||
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| - | a | + | *Given names follow a generational theme that cycles through a well known cultural pattern, allowing people to estimate relationships within a Warren.\\ \\ |
| + | *Erbian nobility is Academy based and social and political rank is tied to degrees and certifications. An Erbian is introduced by the following formula Title, Given Name, Surname, Academic Recognition. Political and Social title is not hereditary, but children of titled persons are more likely to have opportunities to pursue their educational titles from an early age. The Shil’vati recognition of hereditary titles does complicate the matter, although generally an untitled Erbian with a Shil’vati title but no Erbian educational title would be politely addressed by other Erbians without their Shil’vati title. | ||
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| ==== Religion ==== | ==== Religion ==== | ||
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| *There is a closed order of Erbian nuns who practice tattooing in the shell of the ear as a means of identification. The tattoos themselves are geometric and abstract in nature, but do correspond to general information other nuns can understand. Seniority, specialised skills, participation in major events, that sort of thing. A little like rank pins, a little like chest ribbons, a little like maori and inuit facial tattooing. \\ \\ The order pre-dates extra-planetary contact, and pre-dates the growth and establishment of widespread peace on the planet. Their monastic vows include a dedication to the site of their monastery, and thus they are by their vows forbidden from leaving. Information between the monasteries originally relied on the travel of novitiates who have not yet chosen their avowed home, and thus freely travel between the monasteries. Since the advent of wireless video calls, the monasteries have become more connected, as with the support of nearby settlements they can arrange video calls between monasteries.\\ \\ What is not generally known is that the tattoos are not limited to the ears, but in fact are also made in other places on the body. Those, however are usually places covered by their traditional uniforms. \\ \\ When the Shil’vati Imperium annexed Myr, this order of monastics struggled to comply with Shil’vati governance. Some monasteries were lost in the transition, as efforts to integrate and educate Erbians on Shil’vati law, taxes, and custom forced nuns to violate their vows and leave their dedicated areas. Those monasteries which survived largely did so either through a particularly compassionate Shil governess making concessions and accommodations for the nuns vows, or through the intercession of their Erbian communities in finding ways to comply with Shil edicts in unexpected ways that protected the nuns, their work, and their vows. | *There is a closed order of Erbian nuns who practice tattooing in the shell of the ear as a means of identification. The tattoos themselves are geometric and abstract in nature, but do correspond to general information other nuns can understand. Seniority, specialised skills, participation in major events, that sort of thing. A little like rank pins, a little like chest ribbons, a little like maori and inuit facial tattooing. \\ \\ The order pre-dates extra-planetary contact, and pre-dates the growth and establishment of widespread peace on the planet. Their monastic vows include a dedication to the site of their monastery, and thus they are by their vows forbidden from leaving. Information between the monasteries originally relied on the travel of novitiates who have not yet chosen their avowed home, and thus freely travel between the monasteries. Since the advent of wireless video calls, the monasteries have become more connected, as with the support of nearby settlements they can arrange video calls between monasteries.\\ \\ What is not generally known is that the tattoos are not limited to the ears, but in fact are also made in other places on the body. Those, however are usually places covered by their traditional uniforms. \\ \\ When the Shil’vati Imperium annexed Myr, this order of monastics struggled to comply with Shil’vati governance. Some monasteries were lost in the transition, as efforts to integrate and educate Erbians on Shil’vati law, taxes, and custom forced nuns to violate their vows and leave their dedicated areas. Those monasteries which survived largely did so either through a particularly compassionate Shil governess making concessions and accommodations for the nuns vows, or through the intercession of their Erbian communities in finding ways to comply with Shil edicts in unexpected ways that protected the nuns, their work, and their vows. | ||
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| ==== Sports ==== | ==== Sports ==== | ||
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| *<fs large>**Orienteering**</fs>\\ Called Footfinding by Erbians, this navigational sport is practiced in both solo and team formats. Pre-pubescent Erbians will play the sport on a flat open field, but adolescent and adult leagues will play in more challenging terrain. | *<fs large>**Orienteering**</fs>\\ Called Footfinding by Erbians, this navigational sport is practiced in both solo and team formats. Pre-pubescent Erbians will play the sport on a flat open field, but adolescent and adult leagues will play in more challenging terrain. | ||
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| ==== Prejudices, Bigotry, and Bias ==== | ==== Prejudices, Bigotry, and Bias ==== | ||
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| *Erbians come in every color morph found in earth rabbits, which includes a Ruby-Eyed White variant, which can commonly be mistaken for albinism. Which means that between blue-eyed-white linked deafness, and the light sensitivity of true albinos, white Erbians were more commonly disabled by a small but noticeable margin in the warring period the choice to support or abandon disabled Erbians was one of general strife. With some strong gendered implications: a disabled female, particularly with a disability like deafness where a clear genetic and inheritable trait was present, would find it incredibly difficult to join a marriage. Some city states had laws discouraging, penalizing, or outright barring marriage for disabled does. In some states an undisclosed inheritable disability was grounds for divorcing a wife from a marriage, though the marriage. | *Erbians come in every color morph found in earth rabbits, which includes a Ruby-Eyed White variant, which can commonly be mistaken for albinism. Which means that between blue-eyed-white linked deafness, and the light sensitivity of true albinos, white Erbians were more commonly disabled by a small but noticeable margin in the warring period the choice to support or abandon disabled Erbians was one of general strife. With some strong gendered implications: a disabled female, particularly with a disability like deafness where a clear genetic and inheritable trait was present, would find it incredibly difficult to join a marriage. Some city states had laws discouraging, penalizing, or outright barring marriage for disabled does. In some states an undisclosed inheritable disability was grounds for divorcing a wife from a marriage, though the marriage. | ||
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