Totorenians
The Totorenians are very prideful people who are very mystical and their dark practice of magic is even feared by the other magi from the other kingdoms. They are known to eat their own as a delicacy and sacrifice their wives to apease the wrath of their war god....-Yosar's encyclopedia of Threa.
Culture
Culture and cultural heritage
They valued fishing and sealife, they even worshipped gods that were made in the image of sealife. they were also male supremacists and did not allow females to be rulers or soldiers nor own property nor had rights to their children. However females did have certain rights that they held which were uphold by laws. They believed in certain rights that all beings had whether they were sentient or not.
Average technological level
They were able to use the strong ice of the continent and made them into weapons and armor that was even stronger than steel. and in some cases almost out performed aetherium but of course since they were made of an ice base material they would melt in large quantities of heat which caused them to be occupied by the Fhronans for a brief period of time.
Common Dress code
Due to the colder environment they lived in both males and females wore clothing that covered their entire bodies.
Art & Architecture
They built architecture that was made of stone and ice and designed them to be very warm throughout the year and to trap heat when they made fires.
Foods & Cuisine
They were mostly fish eaters due their fisherman style culture.
Common Customs, traditions and rituals
once every season when it began they would held a festival to that god of that season and gave sacrifices to them on their altars and they would kiss the idol's heads. They had a custom that the first batch of fish they caught on the first and last day of the week would be thrown back no matter what.
Coming of Age Rites
When a male reached their 22nd birthday they would be sent to go out to sea by themselves and bring back a large bounty of fish by themselves and if they were able to do so then they would be honored by their family and treated as an official adult.
Funerary and Memorial customs
They would wrap their dead in cloths and then go out to sea and tie their feet to a small anchor and then dump them into the ocean and become food for the fish and other sealife that lived there which was considered as a good deed to the fish.
Common Taboos
killing any sealife in the improper manner or with the wrong emotion was considered not righteous nor classy.
Common Myths and Legends
They believed in a great beast that lived somewhere in the oceans that ate many great vessels that were lost at sea.
Ideals
Beauty Ideals
Totorenians who were tall and had equal sized tendrils were generally attractive. now for males they wore long robes and dyed the tips of their tendrils a variety of colors and even would color their tusks with different patterns to come off as wealthy or stylish. Females would wear very revealing clothing but they did not show their gills and they covered their faces as to not be seen as whorish females and of higher class.
Courtship Ideals
Males who desired a wife would wear long jewelery and would put a bone tattoo on their horns of the pattern of seeking a wife and then when they get married they would finish the tattoo to show that they were married. now for a Totorenian male to ask a woman for a hand in marriage he must first provide a dowery for her with a large bounty of fish or the skins of animals equal to the weight of herself or in some cases the weight of her and her mother and her sisters combined.
Relationship Ideals
They were monogamous and did not remarry except females could remarry if their husbands had died but they could only marry a male that belonged to their first husband's clan. ironic as males would eventually sacrifice their wives after they begat them their first set of children.
Major organizations
The Totorenian Kingdom
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