The Shipmen of Shipworks

The people of Shipworks build ships all day every day, and they are one of the Core Islands most diligent working groups. They rarely travel for anything other than business trips and deliveries. They live to the north of the Golden Lies Desert, just by the sea.

Naming Traditions

Feminine names

Kassandra, Libra, Manganese, Teshi, Singer, Sally, Maeve are just some of the female names that can be heard in Shipworks.

Masculine names

Some male Shipworker names are Kass, Leon, Margan, Homer, Jason, Tensh, Yeller, Sammy, Mander.

Family names

Bulwark, Whalos, Orca, Sanjay, Anchor, Pengus, Fisher, Shipworker are all common last names in the great docks of the Shipworks.

Culture

Major language groups and dialects

There is a secret language only known among the shipmen as the 'Oarcracker's Code'. One is only taught it if they have oficially joined the Shipworkers' ranks.

Average technological level

The shipworkers can build very advanced models of wooden boats, whether it be a sturdy ship built for the hardest of naval warfare, or a small and nimble boat built for the most meaningless of fishing trips.

Funerary and Memorial customs

When a Shipworker dies, their corpse is put in a wooden coffin, and they are set adrift into the wide sea. The shipworkers believe that the Great Rift, the portal that leads from Coreth to Ravgin Fort, home of the muto and the dead, pulls the sea in its direction. This would mean that eventually, the coffin would end up at the Great Rift and travel to the after life.

Common Taboos

In Shipworks, all citizens are forbidden to allow Darakians entry, as the men there long ago believed that they were much bigger than what they actually are, and that they would accidentally destroy all the ships. Nowadays, the men know that it was a myth, but keep the taboo as a sort of preservation of the past.

Ideals

Gender Ideals

Men are usually known to do the heavylifting in Shipworks, though it is not against the law or rules for a woman to lend in her strength.