Lynval are an inherently secretive people. Their civilization revolves around maintaining the hidden locations of their undercities. This, combined with their ruling council's mindlink style of government results in a very dedicated if eerily united people.

Lynval that go aboveground tend to be unified in their dress to confuse onlookers, but in the undercities styles range wildly. Stonework is the name of the game aboveground, but their whole mystique is due to the fact that very few outsiders have been to the undercities.

There's two distinct lines of fashion for Lynval. The first belongs to those that work the fields aboveground for half the year, that maintain trade lines for Lynval. The unified fashion, as mentioned above, is meant to confuse onlookers and make it harder to track daily patterns. Shawls, masks, skirts, and bodywraps are the name of the game - anything to keep the body covered.

Underground, Lynvali dress more freely. Asymmetry is very popular among the peoples, especially in wrapped skirts and capes. Kneelength, patterned loincloths are another popular piece of apparel. Zigzag and net patterns are common attributes.

Aboveground domiciles are constructed simply and of stone and clay, to last the winter with little to no maintenance while they are uninhabited. The residents bring what they need to make the places liveable during the farming months.

Lynval, like the other Balance societies, blends technology and magic as much as possible for useful results. This is particularly apparent in their licensing of Hekate products and tunneling and teleportation network.

Lynval invests heavily into tunneling technologies and have a relay-based magitek teleportation system called Litebolt. Litebolt is much shorter-ranged than the lightlock teleportation enchantments, but thanks to their regular placement through the undercities they network together to provide speedy, reliable transport throughout Lynval spaces. The Litebolt system relies on paired entry pads with a nearby monolith to dump people out without something like splicing occurring.

Lynval heavily focuses on magic. Like the other Balance socieities, Lynval has a magical talent that they pride themselves on beyond any other - Lucemancy, otherwise known as the ability to cast spells based on light, In particular, Lynvali make it a practice of bringing light into solid, lasting forms. The solid light construction plays a huge role in their architecture, and a key component of the lightlock transportation spell. They can also make arcane marks of a permanent or semipermanent later, which can be enchanted themselves.

Lucemancy, by and large, is used in Lynval to create bricks and beams, plates and platforms, that glow ambiently. This both aids in warding of Sothali interlopers and bathing their cities in a golden hue. Lightlocks are composed of six sides (with a removable piece for a door) forming a cube of no shadow. With this, a lynval can jump to any other lightlock - provided they aren't in use.

Additionally, their system of government relies on a form of mental connections. This is achieved through branding each decision-making official with an arcane mark on their forehead, which is linked to the others. Ones on the council meld minds to effectively hivemind and make decisions at a rapid pace, and they then mentally pass along the decisions to lower officials. A similar type of magic is used to give each lynvali their own method of ranged communication, through an arcane brand on their forefinger that, when pressed to the forehead, activates the ranged telepathy.

Lynval, like all Balance Societies, focused so hard on magic during its history it quite simply forgot psionics existed.

Do they farm? What do they farm? How do they farm?

Do they have any sort of gardening/landscaping habits? Terraforming?

Do they keep animals? For food? For play? What kind?

What are common cooking traditions? What is a likely flavour profile?

What is the commonly shared belief system through the species?

The main focus of the religion.

Are there any sort of rituals the culture goes through to celebrate the advancement of one through life and religion?

What are common traditions the culture holds? Is it annual, or based on some celestial alignment, or based on weather conditions, and so on.

How do they celebrate birth? Do they mourn the dead? Etc.

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