Ivr̂ai
Naming Traditions
Feminine names
Female names end in -a. Often, not always, they are descriptive of things from nature or of qualities that are seen as positive. Thus you have examples like these:
- Wiluma ("Faith")
- Owouma ("Harmony")
- Cadamuga ("Hope")
- Suma ("Charity")
- R̂ensulpa ("Rose")
- Ucca ("River")
- Ava ("Moon")
- R̂ontiaba ("Cherry")
- Ar̂wana ("Bee")
Masculine names
Masculine names end in -us or -os. They may be random collections of phonemes or have other meaning. There is no pattern.
Family names
The Ivr̂ai don't follow the naming conventions of the Calpii, the way the Dacci and Biati do. Instead, each person bears a matronym followed by a patronym. For example Calspius, whose mother was Olivia and whos father was Ortexus would bear the name Calspius Olivius Ortexus.
Note the matronym and patronym genders morph according to the gender of the person to whom they are appended. A second example, which illustrates this morphology, would be Eccora, whose mother was Aniba and whose father was Motus. She would be called Eccora Aniba Mota.
Culture
Major language groups and dialects
The Ivr̂ai speak Calpian, though in their dialect, the -us and -um gender affixes are often -os and -om, respectively. Also, the /χ/ phoneme is often silent at the end of a word. Finally, the /v/ phoneme is often pronounced /f/.
Art & Architecture
Architecture
Building Materials
The Ivr̂ai build nearly everything from baked mud brick, which they plaster. Shingles are made from terracotta tiles.
Structure
Buildings are rarely more than a single story, and feature peaked attic roofs.
Common Customs, traditions and rituals
The Ivr̂ai worship the following gods (Calpian names in parentheses when different), primarily:
- Seasons: Seled
- Death: Rigilists (Rigelia)
- Fate: Slens, Ded, and Fli (Silena, Dea, and Bilia)
- Nature: Turstay (Tursteius)
- Fertility: Fermed (Bermedicus)
Ideals
Gender Ideals
The Ivr̂ai have an egalitarian view of the genders. Women bear children, of course, but rearing them might equally fall to the mother or the father. There are no lines of work that are reserved for one sex or the other.
