culture:oddbody

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Oddbodies are a bit of a cultural conundrum. They are their own culture, and yet they are not. They are a hodge-podge of other cultures, and yet they have no unified one of their own. They are effectively the “everybody else”, but bind their own meanings.

For anybody that falls into the category of “oddbody” there's really one pervading moral to be taken: Your body is your business. This is apparent in many self-identifying Oddbody communities that heavily gene-mod or cyberneticize themselves to extremes.

When Oddbody communities are set apart from others, they fall into aesthetics that simply suit their designers. When it comes from interhuman or interspecies couples, their communities blend together their aesthetics. This includes both fashion and architecture. In terms of fashion, more gung-ho self-modifiers will seek to show off their modifications.

Oddbodies, true to their name, have the highest investments into cybernetic and genetic modification technologies. Otherwise, their focus and development is really based on a societal/situational need.

Magic & Psionics

Magic traditions are based on whatever groups fall in with Oddbodies. From Greaseheart revmages to Hagblood witchcraft to even Rolaan geomancy, Oddbodies take their pick from their lives. The same follows suit for psionics.

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

Horticulture

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

Fauna

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

Cooking

What are common cooking traditions? What is a likely flavour profile?
What is the commonly shared belief system through the species?

Core Tenets

The main focus of the religion.

Ceremony

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.

Birth and Death

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.

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