Dthænny
Naming Traditions
Family names
Culture
Major language groups and dialects
Shared customary codes and values
The Dthænny venerate the Markarey gods, along with Kiseswa (whom they name Cisesua).
Common Etiquette rules
Visitors' Gifts
It is considered good manners to bring one or more acorns from a bvynybvu when you visit another's home for the first time. There is then an extended conversation regarding where the acorns can and should be planted around the host's home.
The Wine of Fellowship
It is customary to drink cloudberry wine on the veranda outside a home with guests when they visit. In winter, the cloudberry wine may be substituted with mulled crabapple wine, instead.
Art & Architecture
Art
The Dthænny enjoy literature, including theater; music; interpretive dance; and painting as artforms.Literature
Dthænny literature generally falls into two categories - epic storytelling, and prose fiction.
In terms of epic storytelling, their poetry and theater (also poetic in nature) recount the deeds of gods and heroes, focusing on clever rhythms and wordplay. Rhyming is crucial, as is alliteration, and the best examples of Dthænny literature of this type feature intricate patterns of meter and rhyme that are not frequently duplicated elsewhere.
The prose ficition of the Dthænny usually features romance. Where other romance fiction becomes formulaic and trite, that of the Dthænny retains deep artistic merit.
Music and Dance
Dthænny music may be simple, unaccompanied songs about simple subjects, like a gentle rain. On the other hand, it can also range to complex musical dramas many hours in length, accompanied by stringed instruments, drums, and cymbals. These long-form dramas often also feature choreographed stylized dances that are performed in a way that subtly showcases the dancer's virtuosity while primarily focusing the viewer/listener's attention to the dramatic elements of the music.
Painting
Dthænny painting is done with herb-based pigments suspended in the oil of certain plants that grow in Ræjæmnu. Their works are usually vast murals painted on both interior and exterior walls of wood-plank structures (sometimes stone structures will have long wood-plank walls simply to accommodate paintings).
The thematic material is varied. Historical events are aften recorded in paintings, as are the likenesses of important political figures. Additionally, naturescapes are a popular subject. In other cases, the subject is a single wolf, or the full moon, are a solitary dewdrop on a blade of grass.
Architecture
Dthænny architecture features stone and wood prominently. Smaller communities will have a few outbuildings made from branches and reeds covered with bark and mud, but these are usually reserved for toolsheds, barns, outdoor workshops, and the like. Their primary homes, businesses, and public buildings are either timber and plank or stone. The most important structures feature red-veined marble façade.
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