Ti'eians
T'wolic: Tihók /thɪːhoukh/ (formal) , T'wol /tʼwɔːl~tʼwɔːl̥/ (informal)
Njóþic: T'warak ju Tihei /tʼwaːrakh ju thɪhaiː/ (formal) , Tiheipin /thɪhaiːphɪːn/ (informal)
Ti'eians1 is the general term for Dwarves inhabiting Ti'ei in central Ytvía in southern Jælondis, who until recently were relatively isolated from the surrounding dwarven communities along the coast to the south, in Ójom to the east and the Highland Dwarves to the north, due to frequent clashes with both sedentary and especially nomadic Humans in the region.
Their ancestors settled in central Ytvía as part of an early wave of neolithic dwarves migrating from the Qug Mountains to the north millennia ago, where they founded fortified villages by carving homes into the many rock spires peculiar to the region and using the leftover materials to build walls around them. Unlike their brethren along the Þargolid coast to the south, the ti'eians had an uneasy relationship with the neighbouring human populations, particularly as the latter's numbers increased as pastoral nomads arrived from the Maralon Steppe to the northwest, which forced them to go almost entirely underground. Their only connection to the outside world were tunnels leading to the ójomic dwarves living on the eastern edge of Ytvía, with whom the ti'eians sold jewelry, llama cheese and incense in exchange for timber, grains and dyes.
Over the course of the last one and a half century, various treaties with the countries of Ninnirt Zö, Nof and Keqallía as well as the nomadic lútlans have resulted ti'eian territory now being recognized as the country of Ti'ei. While small communities of ti'eians have emerged throughout Ytvía, coastal Ninnirt Zö and even as far as Tos Q'eillen in the Southlands, the vast majority still make their home in Ti'ei.
Hearths are traditionally heated using magic rather than fires to avoid filling the tunnels with smoke.
Njóþic: T'warak ju Tihei /tʼwaːrakh ju thɪhaiː/ (formal) , Tiheipin /thɪhaiːphɪːn/ (informal)
Ti'eians1 is the general term for Dwarves inhabiting Ti'ei in central Ytvía in southern Jælondis, who until recently were relatively isolated from the surrounding dwarven communities along the coast to the south, in Ójom to the east and the Highland Dwarves to the north, due to frequent clashes with both sedentary and especially nomadic Humans in the region.
Their ancestors settled in central Ytvía as part of an early wave of neolithic dwarves migrating from the Qug Mountains to the north millennia ago, where they founded fortified villages by carving homes into the many rock spires peculiar to the region and using the leftover materials to build walls around them. Unlike their brethren along the Þargolid coast to the south, the ti'eians had an uneasy relationship with the neighbouring human populations, particularly as the latter's numbers increased as pastoral nomads arrived from the Maralon Steppe to the northwest, which forced them to go almost entirely underground. Their only connection to the outside world were tunnels leading to the ójomic dwarves living on the eastern edge of Ytvía, with whom the ti'eians sold jewelry, llama cheese and incense in exchange for timber, grains and dyes.
Over the course of the last one and a half century, various treaties with the countries of Ninnirt Zö, Nof and Keqallía as well as the nomadic lútlans have resulted ti'eian territory now being recognized as the country of Ti'ei. While small communities of ti'eians have emerged throughout Ytvía, coastal Ninnirt Zö and even as far as Tos Q'eillen in the Southlands, the vast majority still make their home in Ti'ei.
Culture
Art
Architecture
Instead of roads, the settlements are connected to each other and the outside world via network of tunnels, and the fortified areas on the surface are dedicated to growing crops and raising pigeons, with the spires serving as a combination of watchtowers and dovecotes. The uppermost level of each town and city is traditionally used to house livestock, particularly llamas, while the lower floors are used for housing, granaries, breweries, markets, shrines, workshops and such.Cuisine
Traditional ti'eian cuisine is based on llama meat- and cheese, squab, beans, asparagus and diluted wine or llama milk. Bread has historically been restricted to the eastern settlements in the form of simple unleavened flatbreads, made from grains imported from Ójom and mostly served during special occasions or public festivals. In other places, bean pastes are common.Hearths are traditionally heated using magic rather than fires to avoid filling the tunnels with smoke.
Religion
Ti'eian religion, while influenced somewhat by that of the ójomic dwarves, is quite different from most other dwarven faiths due to being more akin to pantheism rather than the usual poly- or henotheistic traditions, though some outsiders consider it a divergent branch of qallism due to the ti'eian divinity -known as Jöf- sharing vague similarities with Qall, god of light and shadows.1Original icelandic: Tiverjar, singular: Tiverji.
Ti'eian woman by Lappalingur
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