Hadakin

'The hadakin, the landless people,' that's how they call us. We may not have a delimited amount of land, like most peoples on the world, but that's not true. We, hadakin, are everywhere. The world is our land.

— excerpt from A life on the road

Naming Traditions

Feminine names

Laia, Kashta, Mica, Tara

Masculine names

Boldo, Dimash, Fatim, Salo

Family names

Asidai, Kolish, Magdaa, Sikam

Culture

Major language groups and dialects

The hadakin language has a common base, but each of the 13 clans have their own dialects, formed by the contact with the many peoples around the world.
The clans, however, can still talk normally to each other during their gatherings, and may even share some words.

Culture and cultural heritage

In some places the hadakin are welcome and well-accepted, specially in small settlements. However, the hadakin are seen with bad eyes in many countries.
Usually the reason for that is their good trading skills, summed up with their good deeds to the poorest people in general (be it to keep balance or to create unbalance in their favor).
Some places may even forbid the hadakin to roam around their land or trade inside their borders, and in several cases that lead to armed conflicts.

Shared customary codes and values

The most important value in the hadakin society is the balance. For them, everything in nature must be balanced, and nature will look for that.
For that reason, everything considered "unbalanced" is treated carefully. That goes specially for trading, in which the zealous hadakin will always keep fair prices and balance weights.
For them, unbalances are common in life, and if someone got something without paying the "fair" price, it may be paid in future or the person will suffer somehow. That is true for the other side: great misfortunes, no matter how bad they are, bring the hope of a good future.

Funerary and Memorial customs

The last trade is the common funerary rite for the hadakin people. In short, it is caracterized by giving away all that the dead person may have earned without paying the "right price".

Ideals

Relationship Ideals

The hadakin are a people that love to travel. For that reason, they prefer partners who share the same interests in that matter.
Some may also prefer to marry people with the same wealth level. Since the couples tend to put all their goods together after marriage, the wealth "unbalance" between the couple is believed to bring some kind of payback to the poorest one. Infertility and bad luck in business are many times considered as caused by the unbalance.