The Dyss

Naming Traditions

Masculine names

Prince Consort Guillelmus
Admiral Tetbald
Bishop Hervi
Count Gerboud
Lord Davy
Monk Arnaut
Prince Godefridus
Squire Godefroi
Lord Gilebertus
Cardinal Clerenbald

Culture

Major language groups and dialects

Major language dialect present is Dyan being a variation on common.
Other luanguage groups:

• Norse
• Lothren

Culture and cultural heritage

Their society a social hierarchy seperated into:

• The peasentry
• The craftsmen and guildmen
• The Soldiers
• The Kinghts
• The Monarch

Suprisingly the dyan culture lacks the presence of nobility, being replaced by knights who have gained considerable prestige through amazing feats.
The first three social positions are allowed a limited amount of privelage most notably they can have only one partner for their whole life and any deveation from this rule can lead to banishment or death. Their reasoning is that the genes of the knights and lords are robust and worth spreading.

Shared customary codes and values

Chivalry as in the the subordonation of a kinght to the absolute rule of their monarch or lord is a customary code of Dyan people by being want holds their warmongering society stable.
Kinghting:
The act of endowing someone with the title of a knight(can be performed by other knights or the lords/monarchs)

Average technological level

Amazing amrourers and swordsmiths.
They have invented the ability to imbue spirit essence into armour.

Art & Architecture

Huge foretres like castles made in a gothic style. Its most prominent features included the use of the rib vault and the flying buttress, which allowed the weight of the roof to be counterbalanced by buttresses outside the building, giving greater height and more space for windows. Another important feature was the extensive use of stained glass, and the rose window, to bring light and color to the interior. Another feature was the use of realistic statuary on the exterior, particularly over the portals, to illustrate heroic stories for the largely illiterate parishioners. Some key architectural features, such as the pointed arch and a decorative kind of rib vault, existed earlier outside Europe, and may have been derived from Southern architecture. These features had both existed in Ancient architecture, but they were used more extensively and in more innovative ways to make Gothic castles higher, stronger, and filled with light.

Common Taboos

Any deveation from the code of chivalry is a condemnation to death.

Ideals

Courtship Ideals

Dyan people hold a strong belive to the teachings of chivalry both as an authority and as a courtship ideal.

Encompassed species

• Humanity

Related Organizations

• The Dyss Hegemony

Related Locations

• The Dyss Citadel