Tarmic
Tarmic are a faction of Tigirens inhabiting a large forest world, and fostering a massive trade culture around prized tea. They move tea-bricks and bundles almost akin to as much as they trade in Ro'ar. Its actually incredibly rare that they even possess the higher valued 'blue' or 'home mint' Ro'ar currency, because they've filtered through so much tea and standard minerals. This sect is competitive and a little proud around their foreign tigiren peers, and even somewhat internally conflicted with a few rivalrous companies and farms, but very peaceful and diplomatic with aliens, and always willing to trade first. However, old customs and enduring their rugged forest home have ensured they are not easy to put down if a fight or hostile force gets entangled with them.
Some of their inner trade group names (and disputing sides) include:
- Guild of Scarben - Former union, homogenized older companies into one.
- Juiisa's Delights - Trade company
- Spice Wind Company - Trade company
- P'row Pharmacy - Trade, mostly in heavy bio-chemistry
- Guild of Ringdust - Guild union, struggling for unity conditions.
Culture
Common Dress code
Despite hosting some high technology, they sometimes use smart-gear for (or even abandoned it for true on/off fitting) for floral and rustic wear. Tweed materials, dense bamboo-like wood matted layers, and hide gear, and hemp or grass garbs are very common. Serious armed forces and PMCs may still be seen in steel and power-protection gear, but in casual nature, lots of hemp vests, open fur, and straw hats abound, with a few more rural and backwater places even going around publicly in just their fur. Accessories often include wooden beads, spiced plants worn from string or between ears, and even a style of fashion some wealthy have where they hang a special burning oil lantern from their neck that goes down to their belly like a small worn jar that puts out a heavy fragrance.
Funerary and Memorial customs
Cremation is very common, often burned with spices where the wealthier are often memorialized with richer fragrances burning with the body.
Ideals
Beauty Ideals
A rustic sense of strength is expected across male and females, and while one can still be favored lean or plush, to be tough and durable is an ideal feature above all else with a common standard to have good shoulder or leg strength. Posturing plays an important part in expression and standards. Males with mild scarring are considered more attractive, and in some rare rituals there is even a deliberate practice of peers carefully marking another. Females more often kept bigger strides in traditional raw-hunting, and attraction is often found close with 'good' legs with some superstitions as to the number of stripes a lucky female should have along them. When impressing their own peers, business friends, or potential mates, fragrances have played a huge role in Tarmic culture. Masculine customs are suggested to be more spice and wood-forward scents, and females more fruit, with flowers being neutral, but in practice all smells are used across to adjust the moods and needs of social impact or even occasional fads. This even carries over to meeting with other races, and tigirens of this sect are often regarded as "musky" for how often they're described to use different natural odors, though a few professionals have started subduing this practice to let the tea that's traded speak for itself.
Gender Ideals
Males more traditionally built their standards in picking the spices, but this often meant steep elevations and 'tree expeditions' in the tall and dense jungles. They became known more as pioneers, and drivers of adventure. Females kept more to homesteads and recreation, but in the process came to forge their own reputation of great strength. Its more popular with the females that they held more aggressive stances against the wilderness, carried out tigiren traditions of hunting and eating raw prey, and then came back to clean up and take care of the houses afterwards. In the end, males are left more with regal, business, and rustic scouting standards, while females doctor up houses, keep defenses, and evaluate traditions and sports. Cubs are always taken care of by the mother at their youngest, but intimate upbringing and teaching is done by a cub's gender basis. Fathers take their suns up into their business meetings, or hiking up trees, and its actually common that in a daughter's adolescence, a mother breaks ties with her husband to start another relationship where she'll turn herself into an example of raising kittens with her older daughter's help. Females tend to go through this phase about three-to-four times, sometimes with a male doing what he can to make her repeat the cycle with him instead, while others expect their relationship to 'expire' at any point with hopes they find a new female.
Courtship Ideals
Notarized relations often vary with bigger communities often not holding much of a care unless the individuals are either important, or involve an 'outsider' tigiren or other. In smaller villages, more flare and ritualistic meetings and parties are done. In actual practice as with gendered standards and traditions, many female actually don't even stay to one partner, and often start new relationships with their latest daughter(s) in tow, rearing new young alongside the old until they themselves are ready to court their first male. In other species studies, they sometimes refer to the Tarmic types as polygamous, but in truth only very few males deal with such circumstances. Males only involve a new female when the old one has left them, and females demand concentrated attention and don't often move in with an occupied male. "Cheating" is still considered a relevant taboo that occurs when a male or female tries to be actively involved with two partners at once, rather than moving on. This is considered Rotating-partners, and can actually be found in some tigiren instances outside of Tarmic sects, but is most commonly seen among them.
Long-lasting relations are often crudely named 'Kagir-couple', after the local Kagir tree that has drug-like properties when the bark is peeled, burned, and fumes inhaled. Kagir smoke is infamous for making some species - including tigirens - very amorous, and the term of a bond comes from the crass idea that the two are stuck against their will from said fumes. In true practice though, the drug is more often used to actually break up a relationship by causing trouble as to who is courting who, and is illegal to possess or sell across most of Tarmic and even some parts of the omniverse familiar with it. Though the truth of some stuck relations aren't much better, as some males re-impregnate their spouses a bit quicker after one liter to feel assurance they always have a family to raise with them before leaving, and some instances of drugging does rarely occur to produce this result.
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