Bidee forest customs

During the human years, while the city born foliad welcomed the humans with open hearts and vacant brains; while diplomacy was the buzz word and great atrocities were done in secret, there was a group of foliad who retreated to the deep forests.   From this time of separation has come several style moments in Bidee cultural fashion. From clay effigies, entreating protection from the wild stream spirits and sprites of the deep forest, to whirl makeup over the eyelids to mimic being awake (with markings over the cheekbones and upper jaw). These forest styles all stem from the urge to keep the living forest satiated.   Tattoos also join this cultural touchstone, though tattoos from this region are less the dye stained tattoos of the city and coast and more a raised scarification, often filled with a gel-like balm that encourages growth of a hard 'crust' under the top dermal layer. These tattoos mimic bark patterns and shapes of burls and knots on trees, artificially taking the outwards appearance of these Bidee closer to that of the bent and lanky trees of the deep forests of Levis.   Scholars of the Academy of Natare suggest that it is these customs that shape the old depictions of the wild version of Dellidae, though whether the goddess or the customs came first, who can say, for some of the older generation still believe the goddess is real.