The Serami

The Tribes

The Serami are a group of human tribes living in the shadow of Mountain Sunpeack. They are mostly hunters although much of their income comes from trade with southern towns. These tribes where exceptional hunters and where providing delicacies for the southern of the mountain towns during spring. During the summer and autumn they stored food and provisions for the winter and gathered plants and roots they knew they would need. During the winters they would stay low and dry herbs and tinker with bones and hardwood.

Lifestyle

They are very kind and peaceful people but their lifestyle makes them a war capable people. Young members of the tribes usually leave for a journey after the come of age and some of them choose the life away from the forest. Ex-Serami members are excellent trackers, spies, mercenaries and guides. That is if they manage to adapt to the cunning ways of the rest of the world. They don't make good storytellers since their people are mostly quiet.

Culture

Shared customary codes and values

Seramis have great respect for women and especially pregnant ones. A pregnant woman will not only be given special treatment but it has been reported of traveling merchants of the Serami to get into arguments with other men accompanying pregnant women when they do not treat them as they would consider proper.

Common Etiquette rules

Besides the respect they present to specific important members of their tribes, Serami usually don't use names rather than words such as brother, sister, wise man, mother(to old women of the tribes). Ex-Seramis also refer to the people of their circle with such terms and they almost never reveal their names to outsiders.

Common Dress code

Men

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The Serami men tend to avoid clothing on their upper half in order to keep their hearts close to the Sun. Every man is however supposed wear a necklace from which their Family can be identified. These necklaces are inherited from the mothers family. When a man is bonded with a woman he enters her family and therefore changes pendant. Ex-Serami still some times hold on to those pendants.

Women

There is no specific dress code for women. However they are expected to be make sure that their clothing protects them from the weather either its heat or the cold. They are also not expected to wear their Family pendants in visible spots. Most of them nevertheless tie them with a whiff of their hair.

Serami Merchants

Seramis in late spring visit the cities in the base of the mountain to trade. Such cities are Kuatsa, Naradea, Dorthmouth and Redwall. They have presented the same products or centuries and they always ask for exactly the same price. Some times changes in the prices of the cities bring troubles but usually they agree to get paid in kind and that ends all disputes. Depending on what kind of population each city has they bring different products. Humans always appreciate clothes made from good leather. Elves on the other hand are mostly interested in alive plants and roots they can reproduce and Dwarfs are very eager to pay for the detailed work the Serami can do over precision tools on different materials. The Serami caravans in late spring are always the first to appear and many travelers or other merchants tag along. Their protection also brings them some income which they use to but bore rare for the mountain products such as herd animals and sewing supplies. Since they are each year the first to travel their caravans are often attacked by bandits but the Serami where always capable of copping with that.

Related Locations

• Mountain Sunpeak