Humanity

Humanity ''A sombre folk, possessing great reverence for the feats of their people in life, and the passage to the thereafter. Diplomatic planners with long-term vision, ceremonial and stout folk.''

Origin: Selvin - The Forests

Progenitor: Aeyandite

Capital/original settlement: Erethonia

other settlements: n/a

natural lifespan: 45-50 years

Traits:

Bronze-age metalworking; ''Humans have discovered the alloying of bronze from simple metals of tin and copper. Although they possess some knowledges of iron ore and its uses in malleable toolmaking, stone is still stronger and less brittle than the crude pig-irons that Human smiths can work for use in the forge and general tool-smithing.''

This relative mastery over the alloy has allowed Human master-smiths to construct weapons and armour of relatively sound and complicated design for the notable and upper-class members of their society.

Long-term planners; ''With definite focus on intergenerational design and workings, Humanity culminates its tendencies to form herds into clans or extended familial holds that support extended family relations and place social importance over the power of achievement, achievements that can be preserved through blood. This practice has resulted in early forays into architecture and crop rotation, the former signifying the formation of physical holds like great halls.''

Concerned about their legacy; ''Humans have a somewhat ego-centric trait in their need to ensure they live on after their immediate physical demise. This pragmatic necessity has lead to their subconscious obsession with death, and preserving themselves in some form after it. This obsession with social immortality has lead humanity to construct familial cairns, where their loved ones are crudely embalmed and preserved to rest for all time. This practice has formed nascent ancestral worship through the communing with ones ancestors, a ceremonial practice undertaken on the precipice of great change or progress, particularly in periods of ceremonial significance like harvest festivals. This rigorous attention to the deeds and feats of ones ancestors has also lead to the segregation and recording of ones bloodlines, and the perception that one of a great timeline is of significance by proximal implication.''

Society:

''To escape the rigors of a primitive life, Humans spend their free and lone time in worship of their ancestors - the creation of a rigid ceremonial practice has already begun. Outside of this veneration, diplomatic practice has begun to emerge as a result of inter-clan politicking becoming increasingly common as the population increases. In order to prevent dishonour to ones ancestors and preventing large scale conflict precursoral conflicts to honour-duels have emerged in order to solve major disputes. As pre-emptive steps to prevent constant duelling, the art of the spoken word is maintained as a means of dealing and conjuring cooperation between different clans, and thus the societal analogue to diplomats have emerged amongst humans.''

Advancements:

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Sects:

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