Nartie
Naming Traditions
Unisex names
All first names are unisex in the Nartie tradition, they can end in any consonant or vowel but must not start with vowels or the consonants M, N or Y.
Family names
Family names usually have something to do with heat or natural resources and the ancient role of the members of their family. These can include Firesage and Leafcrown.
Culture
Major language groups and dialects
The most common language spoken by the Nartie peoples is called the Common Tongue is a branch of the Draconic language spoken by the dragons. The nobility of Perite still speak Draganiac, the language of the dragons.
Shared customary codes and values
Some shared values of the Nartie people include the submission of women and the Code of Honour the peoples follow. Other values include children being submissive to parents. But these codes of submission may be broken if the partner or parent assults, or hurts in anyway, the female partner or child.
Common Etiquette rules
Nartie etiquette rules are detailed in chapter 3 of the @Code of Honour and include: bowing to nobility and kneeling to the emperor, speaking with formal language to elders and higher-ranked members of society and starting and stopping eating when the head of the house starts and stops.
Common Dress code
Women are to cover their arms and torsos, they may reveal most of their legs besides their crotch area. Males are supposed to cover their legs and reveal their arms, these rules follow the beauty standards of the Nartie people.
Art & Architecture
A lot of Nartie art is very realistic though it involves a lot of fire and dragons, this is due to the Nartie's extensive relations with dragons in the past. Their architecture has been described as sharp and dark, this stems from the fact that most Nartie buildings where built by dragons long ago and as such had to be sharp and large to accommodate them.
Coming of Age Rites
When they reach age twenty the people must choose one of the gods, usually Arae or the Daraic Gods Panaes or Katues (also known as the dragon gods), to devote their life to. They then receive a talisman to symbolize this devotion.
Funerary and Memorial customs
Nartie people are cremated after death and their ashes are spread over a mountain top or in the sea. Their coming of age talisman is then buried near a shrine to the god they devoted their life to.
Ideals
Beauty Ideals
Nartie see paler skin and darker eyes as beautiful. They also like the look of freckles, long hair and long limbs. The upper class will often have hair so long it reaches their feet as they never need to cut it for work reasons.
Gender Ideals
Female Nartie are meant to have longer hair, paler skin and longer legs. While males are supposed to have long, hit still shorter than females hair, tanner skin and longer arms. Children are not supposed be show their gender openly as it is viewed as a mature thing.
Courtship Ideals
Unlike a lot of Elven traditions parents do not need to approve of a marriage between children as it is viewed as their perogitive to choice an appropriate partner. Though they must be in a relationship for at least one year before marriage.
Relationship Ideals
Females must have at least one child within ten years of marriage. Both genders are meant to work for the first three years of marriage and the entire year of courtship.
Major organizations
The most prominent organization in Perite is the Smiths of Frio and the The Children of Odemis.
