Averlinites
Averlinites are a newer ethnicity. Their founding inciting incident was a forced magical removal from their home lands to the strange world of Gorel. While on their home, they come from several different ethnicities, their foreignness to the world of Gorel caused them to band together.
Naming Traditions
Family names
Almost all pulled from cultures standardized on a Given one or two names followed by a family name. While these vary some and have taken on differences of spelling and pronunciation with local languages the tradition remains.
Other names
In addition to the given names and family names, there is often added a cultural name referring to their home world culture. This isn't fixed and is used more as a nickname, and the culture around giving nicknames based on shared events, homeworld traits or "in" group jokes has become fairly common. A single Averlinite might respond to half a dozen of these nicknames depending on context. For example: Jek Strangeyes's full name is Jek Arex Strangeyes but goes by Rangemaster to some family and friends, Basalt or Steppe those of his homeworld ethnicity, and Wook by some of the recovorist groups.
Culture
Major language groups and dialects
While their origin languages differ, they have worked to standardize on the most common dialect of the Minam Empires language known as Gumknish and it is the most widespread across Gorel. Though as the RRR have been slowly collecting Averlinites together many have also learned other languages to survive where they appeared in the world. So it is common to have single word or phrase interjections from other Averlinite specific languages or Gorel specific languages that creap in quite frequently
Shared customary codes and values
Due to their diverse initial heritage individualism is a shared value, as is directness, and functionality over theories. Spiritual practices have been strengthened due to their estrangement from their homeland and desire to maintain emotional ties to that place. They vary culturally but as a local culture they set aside one out of seven days for religious and community events.
Funerary and Memorial customs
Unlike many communities in Gorel they bury their dead instead of entomb them in mausoleums or cremate them.
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