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=== Lmanel === | === Lmanel === | ||
- | The shaman caste is complex in function being broadly caretakers. The Lmanel oversee the relationship between the Lorath, the natural world, the Helashio, and the dead. Lmanel are most often spiritual guides and try to seek a balance in all things leading to many of the Lmanel caste to make their way into the Matriarchy' | + | The shaman caste is complex in function, being broadly caretakers. The Lmanel oversee the relationship between the Lorath, the natural world, the Helashio, and the dead. Lmanel are most often spiritual guides and try to seek a balance in all things leading to many of the Lmanel caste to make their way into the Matriarchy' |
* For more information see: [[lorath_matriarchy: | * For more information see: [[lorath_matriarchy: | ||
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===== Foreigners ===== | ===== Foreigners ===== | ||
- | Foreigners within lorath society are permitted to maintain their family habits, however, they are also encouraged to partake in civic involvement, | + | |
+ | The disposition of the lorath as a people tends to make their interactions with foreign species a politely cool one, at least officially. The most obvious side effect of this outlook is the lorath establishment of special economic exchange zones which are typically the only places in which those foreign to the matriarchy are explicitly permitted. While foreigners are not forbidden from venturing outside of these zones, those who do are not guaranteed fair treatment and any harm that comes to stray foreigners is typically of little concern to the lorath. | ||
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+ | The stance of polite disinterest in foreigners is, softened somewhat by those who choose to, and succeed in settling within the Matriarchy' | ||
Conversely foreigners who have taken steps to integrate fully within lorath culture, may earn a fondness and acceptance from the lorath as a people taking them in as 'one of their own.' This fondness includes those which have performed sufficient services to the Matriarchy to be granted a Lorath-Type body making the acceptance into the fold largely complete. | Conversely foreigners who have taken steps to integrate fully within lorath culture, may earn a fondness and acceptance from the lorath as a people taking them in as 'one of their own.' This fondness includes those which have performed sufficient services to the Matriarchy to be granted a Lorath-Type body making the acceptance into the fold largely complete. | ||
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=== Humans === | === Humans === | ||
- | The view of the Lorath on humanity is split between those who are part of the Matriarchy and those who exist outside of it. For those who live within the Matriarchy most are viewed as companions with bonds forged in mutual trials earning respect amongst the majority of the Lorath. Foreign humans however have minimal value to the Matriarchy, making them cheap commodities to be traded in, exploited, or disposed of as needed. | + | The view of the Lorath on humanity is split between those who are part of the Matriarchy and those who exist outside of it. For those who live within the Matriarchy most are viewed as companions with bonds forged in mutual trials earning respect amongst the majority of the Lorath. Foreign humans however have minimal value to the Matriarchy, |
Beyond this the Matriarchy has adopted its own flavor of slang referring to the differing human ' | Beyond this the Matriarchy has adopted its own flavor of slang referring to the differing human ' |