Absalom

Absalom Station is a melting pot. Though many see the Station as the hereditary home of all Golarion's races (particularly of humanity) today its corridors are choked with natives of many planets, and its status as the primary waypoint in and out of the Pact Worlds means even the rarest spacefaring species can sometimes be found in its docks.

Culture

Culture and cultural heritage

For all the station’s multiculturalism, humans are by far the most numerous. In the wake of the Gap, while elves retreated to Castrovel and dwarves constructed their massive Star Citadels, humanity clung to the Station as a key piece of their cultural identity, finding comfort in its tangible (if mysterious) sense of history and continuity.

Even today, many humans look to the station’s extensive records of pre-Gap Golarion, seeking a source of pride and a sense of significance, adopting the names of bygone ethnic groups whose DNA they don’t necessarily share, practicing ancient religions, or attempting to revive archaic organisations from scraps of information. Such traditionalists are often at odds with those called Second Age philosophers, who believe the Gap gave human culture a chance to start afresh and build a utopia. Of course, the majority of human are far more concerned with their own families and livelihoods than metaphysical questions about culture.

Common Customs, traditions and rituals

Still, humans being what they are, most of those on Absalom Station view the Station as inherently theirs, with vague exceptions made for other races once native to Golarion, and treat all others as encroaching immigrants or foreign nationals. This naturally raises some hackles with the other common species on the Station, many of which have been residents for just as long (as far as anyone can tell).