Hayclyonites

Halcyonites are a group of people with lingering mutations from either being a victim of a Mutation spell or a descendant of one. They originate from many backgrounds taking in anyone with the same affliction. Having a reliable social group without worry of discrimination is a major draw for prospective members. They can cominally assist with finding work and housing in a places where people like them are shunned as dangerous.
Halcyonite lifestyle varies from place to place many times they will choose to form enclaves and communes even when the local community is welcoming to with those with that type of chronic disease. Their culture focuses on a blending of their culture of origin and the invocation of local protection spirits and an almost unconscious shunning of modern magical professions making them superficially resemble anti technological social and religious groups.
The name of the group was derived from a legend about a couple turned into birds by either petty or protective greater spirits depending on the translation. The founder of the Halcyonites was Alabaster Griffin who after being outcast from her town and family, stole the inheritance that was now being denied to her and purchased a large parcel of land employing those that had be unjustly shunned like she had.


Her main philosophies developed later in life, while her earlier letters generally had a dour and defeatist tone. Her later letters after meeting a pair of siblings, that while having fled their town, had not been shunned by everyone they knew gave Alabaster a ray of hope for the future in her twilight days. This change in perspective shows lasting effects in Halcyonite groups. They encourage members to embrace aspects of their culture of origin, celebrate the arts, and study intellectual hobbies like chess.

Uniting Culture

Halcyonites often keep familiar cultural aspects from their childhoods reclaiming their lost old community via sharing with their new one. Additionally they take hold of practices born of hardship and grow them into loving and artistic traditions.

Fashion

Halcyonite dress is influenced by their varied backgrounds as well as the financial constraints they are usually under. Their dress and decorative tastes reflect an emphasis in mending clothes and passing things down when you have no more use for them. The mending culture has recently encouraged a bright and dramatic patchwork aesthetic especially liked by the younger generations who run fashion clubs sharing skills like dying fabric and embroidery.

Cuisine

Their food culture is influenced by many peoples diets being effected by internal mutations and focuses on a plain base with many side dishes containing wildly different ingredients so everyone can find something to their tastes.