Drowseuessiriwquessiri

Ervenian Era, 1051 AB
Drowseuessiriwquessiri, or in singular Wquessiri, are dark elves living within the Underdark, where they live in Magocracy or accordancy, in accordance with the Brokering of Peace in The Drow Pantheon.   Their society lives on the way of Parley or Power, where their kingdoms or city states, lean either to treaty-craft or arcane supremacy. Unlike Drowseuessiri, their society is non-matriarchal and office and status, derive from merit, oath and proof.  

History

In the beginning of the 11th century AB, after a joint offensive by several Elven and Dwarven hosts threatened multiple drow vaults. In answer, the Dark Seldarine declared a rare Truce of the Web: priesthoods ceased internecine feuds, pooled miracles and wards, and, briefly, fought as one. The alliance held long enough to repel the incursion and left a lasting imprint, where there are many shared feast-fast calendars and inter-temple safe halls during sieges and secular accordancies rose, and magistracies that arbitrate guild wars, merchant feuds and blood debts with oaths and hostage-surety. Strict Lolthite enclaves still perform drider-rites on the condemned, but most Wquessiri polities treat that as sectarian extremism rather than baseline law.

Culture

Culture and cultural heritage

No house inherits office by gender. Sponsorship triads, three elders from different crafts, present a candidate to trials. Status flows from:
  • Proof of work - examples include when someone had a defense lattice, a solved famine or a warded road.
  • Keystone Oath - binding service for a term.
  • Witness, where an enemy-sword testimony counts as double

Shared customary codes and values

The Generational Concord

Wquessiri divide life not by age alone but by role-cohorts called the Concord:
Gossamer (0–40)
Learners; eyes acclimate to the deep; taught silent-sign and sonar-listening.  
Warp (41–120)
Apprentices who set the long strands: mapping, law-reading, ward-setting.  
Weft (121–240)
Mid-career binders: they interlace crafts and treaties; expected to sponsor one Gossamer.  
Knot (241–400)
Crisis-binders; arbiters and warmasters who “tie the city against the storm”.  
Selvedge (401+)
Elders who keep the edge from fraying; they step back from office to give margin for the next weave.
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