In vadral, life is a commodity. Value is determined by the worth you've put into society. What you do, how you do it, and so on. It is all a factor. Low value individuals can be bought cheaply. Noble Families are even subject to these rules - it isn't unheard of to be a noble family one day and reduced to being on the very market they enjoyed, due to a misachievement.

This lends to a “if you're great, you can become great” mentality with the people of Vadral. The only ones exempt from these laws of value are the royal family, but even then it's governed internally by the head of the family and ruler. The best case scenario for anybody is to marry into the royal family.

Individually,

What's their aesthetic? What's the general impression left on the viewer? How do they go about doing this?

Ribbons and frills are the name of the fashionable game in Vadral fashion. In vadral, nobody wears full length pants and instead opt for skirts and other types of free flowing fabrics for the legs. Tops are generally close-fitting. Due to the prevalence of magic, ruffles and scrollwork in fabrics are much more common. Petticoats are not common, but do show up more in higher echelons in vadral society. Footwear is mostly boots, with heeled boots replacing any instance or indication of high-heels. High lacing on boots is very popular on wealthier citizens.

How do they construct things? What do they construct them like?

Vadral, 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 of their own soultec systems.

Vadral's primary focus is SoulTec, a proprietary technology that allows souls to be harvested for various purposes (including, in some delicious cases, consumption). SoulTec captures souls in a metal-crystalline cube and allows them to be repurposed for society's needs. As Hekate's Denarius does most of the heavy lifting, so SoulTec is primarily reserved for enchantment powering.

Vadral heavily focuses on magic. Like the other Balance socieities, Vadral has a magical talent that they pride themselves on beyond any other - the ability to summon a being formed from one's soul called a Force, tethered to one's physical body by an ethereal tether. Forces vary wildly in shape and form due to the differences in inherent in individuals.

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

Given their location, set across many mountain valleys, the farms that Vadral runs are all tiered farms the way rice paddies are.

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.

This section is used for showing some of the varieties of subcultures, subfactions, or subgroups present within a culture that one might encounter, or that the designers may desire for the setting.