Uurish
The people of the Al Murasa Territory of the Holy Qhaganate of Zalja. The Uurish are generally seen as the descendants of the Uur Ai, who originally settled along the area near modern-day Bariat Uur as the Yenai first moved south along the Great Bariad River.
The Uurish are themselves divided into four subgroups: the Alqai hill folk, the Barians of the river and fields, the Qalans of the northeastern hills, and the residents of Bariat Uur itself: the Uurs.
Ideals
Gender Ideals
For several centuries, the Uurish have been leading an ostensible commitment to gender-parity. As with most Zaljan ethnicities, this parity is seen as strictly binary, and often seen to have been already achieved. Men and women, on the surface, have equal access to most employments and offices and are seen as equally capable in the most privileged of vocations: leadership, warfare, and trade. There is, however, an unspoken assumption that women are more adept with numbers, while men are more gifted in spiritual insight. A woman wizard will often be viewed as more reliable and detail-oriented, but a man wizard will be assumed to hold special understandings of the metaphysical world that defy conventional wisdom. Most Uurish arbiters are women, and most Uurish beacons are men.
Courtship Ideals
The Uurish see property as a reflection of blood and legacy, with their own bodies as the prime arbiters of that legacy. As such, enormous importance is placed on the exchange of minor and major property before marriage. Minor entities (poorer families, or latter-born children) may even offer extremely valuable property to someone they court as a show of trust. Should a courtship fail, however, it is considered proper for the recipient of said gift to return it (this is in sharp contrast to many southern and southeastern Zaljan customs).
Because of the especially complicated nature of goods-exchange in Uurish courtship, it is extremely rare to see polyamorous relationships outside of the lowest/poorest rungs of society. One famous exception was the Istrasad Amarty, a group of five highborn lovers who eventually made all of their property common to one another. Great conflict was born from their children, however, resulting in several deaths and more bankruptcies. The Istrasad Amarty is generally seen as the exception that proves the rule.
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