Dhani

Culture

Major language groups and dialects

Musical Communication

Dhani make use of the echoy effect across the silver basin to extend messages, emotions, and ideas between communities. They also possess a form of throat singing meant to convey simple, but specific, information. In addition, the Dhani have:

Pan pipes utilize a natural simple tone system capable of sharp dissonant harmonies, beats and unstable tones.

Drums play metallic harmonics.

Masterfully crafted clay whistles, often sculpted as animals, produce double tones.

Culture and cultural heritage

Dhani Lines

The dhani lines are a group of giant glowing geoglyphs drawn in the soil of the Silver Desert during the Munay Manqus Pacha; mostly in the eastern part of the Dhani homeland.
The immense scale and intricate designs of the geoglyphic art mark sacred pathways for religious rituals and processions. They are overseen by the priestly 'Lady of the Lines' as a common leader among the different mountain settlements.

Shared customary codes and values

Pregnancy Worship

Much like the rest of the highland cultures, the Dhani have a unique interpretation of huaca as it relates to couples. Expectant mothers are revered. They take pride in their maternal forms and bare their bellies with a special mark painted on, until the day they give birth.
A pregnant woman becomes so important that her status becomes equal to or surpasses that of their warriors on the battlefield.

Average technological level

Yawarmanta

Yawarmanta is a specialized form of old spellcasting that taps into the power of blood.
Practitioners channel their own blood, and that of others, to tap into a primal energy and infusing it into spells, rituals, or even their own bodies to obtain unique advantages.

Common Dress code

The elites don elegant and sophisticated clothing. Their attire typically includes flowing capes made of rich, dark fabrics, intricately embroidered with ancient symbols and motifs. They may also be adorned with ornate jewelry, such as silver necklaces and rings embedded with precious gemstones.

Art & Architecture

Effigy Pots

Dhani pottery are known for their colourful brilliance, intricate design and sculptural qualities. Skills for such talent are unrestricted across Dhani society. Ceramics have both ceremonial and everyday use.

Textiles

The Dhani are also renowned for their textiles made on a backstrap loom using cotton and camelid wool. They are pioneering in their warping, wefting and needle knitting techniques. Although, most everyday textiles are made in the home, there are also specializations for exquisite designs, colour and iconography.
Many depict geometric designs while others bare animals and people decorated with natural dyes.

Foods & Cuisine

Meat Based Diet

Mama, Qucha, Kawallu, Lamar and Quchapi are the more major mountainside towns where, by tradition, males ate only meat and milk from age 14 to 28, when they are in their warrior years.
This is unique in the Four Corners, as their grainy soil yields meager crops for human consumption, yet vicuña and guinea pigs are able to thrive on miniscule shrubs.

With the advent of innoit practices, however, their population grown accustomed to maize, manioc, beans, peanuts, peppers, squash and sweet potatoes. As well as fruits like lucumas, apples, guava, guavaraba and cansa boca.

Coming of Age Rites

Head Hunting

Young warriors collected the defeated heads of other young warriors as tokens of success to be mummified, their mouths sewn and a rope pushed through their forehead so they could be carried. These trophy heads are used in a variety of rituals that promote agricultural fertility and rejuvenation.

Funerary and Memorial customs

Burial Mounds

Dozens of adobe-topped natural hills, so modified to take a smoother shape, act as cemeteries to different settlements. They house a very small permanent population to maintain its usefulness as a ceremonial and pilgrim site. Burials of a decapitated person utilize ceramic "head jars" to replace a head that was lost in battle.

Common Taboos

Low People

The mountain people, with their terraces and vantages against floods, are less burdened with needing to move every generation.
However, many groups tell tales of lowlanders invading as literal monsters and besieging holdouts and non-strategic towns in the mountains.

Common Myths and Legends

Dry Pachakuti

A pachakuti is a cataclysmic overturning of the 'old way of thinking'.
For hundreds of years, the physical environment surrounding the silver mountains became increasingly desertified; leading to a much more aggressive and extortionist martial culture.

Ideals

Relationship Ideals

Enemy Creation

Depending on the level of prodigiousness associated with your chosen ayllu (i.e. Great, Major or Minor) will have 3, 2 and 1 equivalent enemies respectively.
The following tables aid establishing how strong the rivalry goes and for what reason.

Roll	Level Of Aversion
1 - 5	Dislike
6 - 10	Rival
11 - 15	Loathing
15 - 20	Vitriol

Roll	Reason
1 - 2	Competition
3 - 4	Insult
5 - 6	Debt
7 - 8	Old Feud
9 - 10	Morality
11 - 12	Servitude
13 - 14	Familial Ties
15 - 16	Theft
17 - 18	Jealousy
19 - 20	No Justification

Major organizations

Dhani majority settlements ring around the silver mountains leading to them being administratively split between the First and Fourth Quadrant. As a result, Dhani are not officially recognized as being Dhani in their own lands. They are instead denoted by the village or mountain on which they live.
This arbitrary divide by the capital has corespondedly lead to friction among the mountain groups as part of the Innoit's 'divide and conquer' strategy.

First Quadrant

The river city of Diu has acted as the quadrant's capital by default since Tawantinsuyu's founding. Subsequent conquests into the silver mountains have troubled administrators in overseeing these towns.

Aconcagua

An icy mountain and the tallest of the silver mountains.

Licancabur

A holy volcano capped with a crater lake.

Chuscha

A snow-capped hill covered in vineyards, fruit trees, family orchards and forage species.

Fourth Quadrant

Until comparatively recently, the Dhani's Mama was the unofficial capital of the unrealized quadrant. Though Canna has left much to be desired as an administrative center.

Toro

An easternmost mountain overlooking the silver trench.

Quehuar

A dormant volcano covered in seasonal snow much of the year and containing a small glacier in its crater.

Q'umir Umiña

A mountain named for its emerald mines.

Parent ethnicities

• Mud Men

Encompassed species

• Viscacha

Related Organizations

• Chaskikuna

Related Items

• Blood Wine
• Ch'arki
• Chancaca
• Chuño
• Cuya
• Finger Strings
• Herbal Medicine
• Rock Gong
• Whistling Jars

Related Myths

• Talking Llamas
• Web Step
• Yaku Muyuriy

Related Locations

• Tolas

STR	(Choose the lowest roll as modifier)
CON
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INT
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Armour	2d6
HP	3d6+6 ([min+max]/2)
Speed	2d10+10 ft